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[worrywort]

Albums listened to 16. Portishead - Third 15. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark 14. Mitch Hedberg - Do You Believe in Gosh? 13. Jamie Lidell - Jim 12. Neon Neon - Stainless Style 11. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular 10. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals 09. Blitzen Trapper - Furr 08. Santogold - Santogold 07. M83 - Saturdays=Youth 06. Rhymefest - Man in the Mirror Mixtape 05. Lykke Li - Youth Novels 04. Weezer 03. Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster 02. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight 01. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours

[Slackmo]

THE HAVOC THAT I'M GONNA WREAK:
A HANDFUL OF GREAT ALBUMS FROM '08:



1 weezer - the red album
2 the broken west - now or heaven
3 mates of state - rearrange us
4 aimee mann - @#%&*! Smilers
5 the submarines - honeysuckle weeks
6 los campesinos - hold on now, youngster
7 the little ones - morning tide
8 atmosphere - when life gives you lemons, you paint that shit gold
9 the stills - oceans will rise
10 bon iver - for emma, forever ago

11 pete and the pirates - little death
12 frightened rabbit - the midnight organ flight
13 erykah badu - new amerykah part one
14 tv on the radio - dear science
15 kanye west - 808s and heartbreak
16 elbow - the seldom-seen kid
17 coldplay - viva la vida
18 the week that was - the week that was
19 the rosebuds - life like
20 little jackie - the stoop

21 cloud cult - feel good ghosts
22 elvis costello - momofuku
23 american princes - other people
24 someone still loves you boris yeltsin - pershing
25 ben folds - way to normal
26 of montreal - skeletal lamping
27 royal bangs - we breed champions
28 girl talk - feed the animals
29 blood red shoes - box of secrets
30 phantom planet - raise the dead

[Insane]

It might be late but I'm still eligible on my time zone. 1. Portishead - Third 2. Beck - Modern Guilt 3. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive 4. Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing 5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 6. Blitzen Trapper - Furr I hardly listened to any new albums this year, mostly old stuff, but those are my favorites.

[Bobzilla]

This never gets any easier. Not only listening to everything I want to, but managing what I have and getting it into lists. There was a LOT of good music this year, and I'm sure that I'll hear a lot more as I eventually get caught up on things that I have not listened to (TVOTR, Blitzen Trapper, No Age, Broken West. Sun Kil Moon are the obvious omissions).

01. Portishead - Third
02. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
03. The Week That Was - The Week That Was
04. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
05. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
06. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
07. The Duke Spirit - Neptune
08. The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow
09. Booka Shade – The Sun & The Neon Light
10. Luomo – Convivial
11. Sam Phillips - Don't Do Anything
12. Deerhunter – Microcastle
13. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
14. Veronica Maggio - Och Vinnaren Är
15. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
16. Firefox AK – If I Were A Melody
17. The Kills - Midnight Boom
18. Sad Day For Puppets - Unknown Colours
19. Jim Noir - Jim Noir
20. Calexico – Carried To Ruin
21. Pop Levi - Never Never Love
22. Bubblegum Lemonade - Doubleplusgood
23. The Futureheads – This Is Not The World
24. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
25. D. Lissvik - 7 Trx + Intermission
26. Pop Archeology Transmission - It Is What It Is
27. Kleerup - Kleerup
28. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
29. Dodos - Visiter
30. The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of The Understatement
31. Fredrik – Na Na Ni
32. Psapp - The Camel's Back
33. Bound Stems - The Family Afloat
34. The High Dials - Moon Country
35. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
36. Earlimart - Hymn And Her
37. The Long Blondes – Couples
38. Benoit Pioulard – Temper
39. Allá – Es Tiempo
40. Ladytron – Velocifero
41. The Young Knives - Superabundance
42. Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
43. Lindsey Buckingham – Gift Of Screws
44. The Lucksmiths – First Frost
45. Pete & the Pirates – Little Death
46. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
47. The Rosebuds – Life Like
48. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
49. Sons and Daughters - This Gift
50. The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me

And these are the also-rans that I liked enough and considered worthy enough of mention in rough descending order. It seems like the next 25-30 should have found a place on my list-that-counts, but alas!

Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Sambassadeur – Migration
Sad Day For Puppets - Just Like A Ghost EP
Cut/Copy - In Ghost Colours
Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It
Loquat – Secrets Of the Sea
Amadou and Mariam - Welcome To Mali
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
FemBots - Calling Out
Air France – No Way Down EP
Juana Molina - Un Diá
American Princes – Other People
The Shaky Hands – Lunglight
Those Dancing Days - In Our Space Hero Suits
Blood Red Shoes – Box Of Secrets
Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple
Glasvegas – Glasvegas
Stereolab – Chemical Chords
Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs
Clinic – Do It!
The Black Angels - Black Angel Exit EP
The Black Keys - Attack and Release
Headlights – Some Racing, Some Stopping
The Stills – Oceans Will Rise
Celestial – Crystal Heights
Eleanoora Rosenholm - Vainajan muotokuva
Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
Beach House - Devotion
Department of Eagles – In Ear Park
Wire – Object 47
The Wedding Present - El Rey
Johnny Flynn - A Larum
Winona – Rosebud
Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes
Beck - Modern Guilt
Brendan Canning – Something For All Of Us
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
American Music Club – The Golden Age
Pit Er Pat – High Time
Juvelen - Juvelen1
Plus/Minus (+/-) – X's On Your Eyes
Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
PopUp – A Time And A Place
Lindstrom - Wherever You Go, I Go Too
Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Momofuku
Skyphone - Avellaneda
Eleanoora Rosenholm - Älä Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoivat
The Aliens – Luna
Robert Forster – The Evangelist
The Tough Alliance – A New Chance
Jamie Lidell – Jim
Ten Kens – Ten Kens
Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - Not Animal
The Nits – Doing The Dishes
School Of Language – Sea From Shore
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Real Emotional Trash
Slagsmaalsklubben – Boss For Leader
Times New Viking – Rip It Off
Under Byen & The Danish Radio Sinfonietta – Siamesisk EP
Local H – Twelve Angry Months
Destroyer – Trouble In Dreams
Neil Halstead - Oh Mighty Engine
Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
Alphabeat – This Is Alphabeat
High Places - High Places
Mates Of State – Re-arrange Us
Moscow Olympics – Cut The World
The Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride
Sloan – Parallel Play
Moby – Last Night
Teenagers - Reality Check
Mystery Jets – Twenty One
The Mae Shi – HLLLYH
The Evangelicals – The Evening Descends
Walter Meego - Voyager
Lau Nau - Nuu Nuu
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Subtle – ExitingARM
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Monade – Monstre Cosmic
Veda Hille – This Riot Life
The Quarter After – Changes Near
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night
Jukebox The Ghost – Let Live & Let Ghosts
Noah and the Whale – Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
Jolie Holland – The Living And The Dead
Anna Ternheim – Leaving On A Mayday

[Bleep Blop]

Not going to happen.

Tio Bitar barely made the 100 last year, and this one had even less exposure.

That's real a shame, too, because all Dungen has done since the trendy Ta Det Lugnt is become an even better band with each subsequent release. 4 is #11 on my list.

This is very true. 4 is one of those albums I found myself listening to three or four times through without getting sick of it for a moment.

Good stuff.

It kinda blew me away the first time I heard it, mainly because the song playing at Reckless("Det Tar Tid") had absolutely perfect keyboards. I didn't expect that they would evolve this much since Ta Det Lugnt. One of my nice surprises of the year, I would say.

[Pavement Ist Rad]

01. Portishead - Third
02. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
03. The Week That Was - The Week That Was
04. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
05. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
06. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
07. The Duke Spirit - Neptune
08. The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow
09. Booka Shade – The Sun & The Neon Light
10. Luomo – Convivial

This is a very cool top ten.

Shit, I just want to see the final results already.

[Bleep Blop]

I like that Convival keeps showing up relatively high(at least on the lists I'm looking at). I'm interested to see where that guy will place.

[raumschwein]

1) Lair of the Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master 2) The Sword - Gods of the Earth 3) Harvey Milk - Life. . . the Best Game in Town 4) Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God 5) Tyr - Land 6) Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark 7) Colour Haze - All 8) Toxic Holocaust - An Overdose of Death. . . 9) Black Mountain - In the Future 10) Coffins - Buried Death 11) Akimbo - Jersey Shores 12) Indian - Sycophant 13) Torche - Meanderthal 14) Enslaved - Vetebrae 15) Metallica - Death Magnetic 16) Jucifer - L'autrichienne 17) Samothrace - Life's Trade 18) Paul Cebar - Tomorrow Sound Now for Yes Music People 19) Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life 20) Winterfylleth - The Ghost of Heritage 21) Soilent Green - The Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction 22) Origin - Antithesis 23) Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty is Raw and Wild 24) The Roots - Rising Down 25) Hot Chip - Made in the Dark 26) Sahg - Sahg II 27) AC/DC - Black Ice 28) Valient Thorr - Immortalizer 29) Melvins - Nude with Boots 30) Opeth - Watershed

[Duff.]

A list.

• Laura Marling. Alas I Cannot Swim.
• Deerhoof. Offend Maggie.
• Portishead. Third.
• Van Hunt. Popular.
• Love Is All. A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night.
• Hercules and the Love Affair.
• Q-Tip. Renaissance.
• TI. Paper Trails.
• Those Dancing Days. In Our Space Hero Suits.
• Ida Maria. Fortress Around My Heart.
• TV On the Radio. Dear Science,
• Sybris. In the Trees.
• Kanye West. 808's and Heartbreak.
• The Walkmen. You & Me.
• Jenny Lewis. Acid Tongue.
• Mates of State. Rearrange Us.
• Wolf Parade. At Mt. Zoomer.
• Coldplay. Viva La Vida.
• Scarface. Emeritus.
• Duffy. Rockferry.
• Johnny Flynn. A larum.
• Ladytron. Velocifero.
• Nine Inch Nails. The Slip.
• Black Milk. Tronic.
• Smoking Popes. Stay Down.

[worrywort]

4 That Was The Week - That Was The Week

not to get too aspie...
but i'm googling the albums i am unfamiliar with, and it looks like you've got this title all gnarled up

[Kicker Of Elves]

1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science 2. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles 3. Hercules & Love Affair - S/T 4. Why? - Alopecia 5. Royal Bangs - We Breed Champions 6. Santogold - Santogold 7. Fleet Foxes - S/T 8. Shearwater - Rook 9. Portishead - Third 10. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 11. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours 12. M83 - Saturdays=Youth 13. Blitzen Trapper - Furr 14. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular 15. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges 16. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer 17. Dr. Dog - Fate 18. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight 19. Stereolab - Chemical Chords 20. Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords 21. Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs 22. Beck - Modern Guilt 23. Lykke Li - Youth Novels 24. Foals - Antidotes 25. Mystery Jets - Twenty-One 26. The Kills - Midnight Boom 27. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago 28. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? 29. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals 30. Apes & Androids - Blood Moon 31. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. 32. The Black Ghosts - The Black Ghosts 33. Beach House - Devotion 34. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple 35. The Dodos - Visiter 36. Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke 37. The Black Keys - Attack & Release 38. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park 39. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark 40. Neon Neon - Stainless Style 41. She & Him - Volume One

[Simakos]

amazing lists on this page

34. Parka Bruthaz UK - Parkas Full of Posey

aw man, i think i forgot this one...

25 Albums on this list, please divide points equally

how awesome is that?

2 the broken west - now or heaven
12 frightened rabbit - the midnight organ flight
23 american princes - other people
27 royal bangs - we breed champions

XOXO

[Midnite_Vulture]

1. Los Campesinos!-Hold On Now Youngster... 2. Solange-Sol-Angel and The Hadley Street Dreams 3. Portishead-Third 4. Dungen-4 5. The Plastic Constellations-We Appreciate You 6. Little Jackie-The Stoop 7. M83-Saturdays=Youth 8. J*Davey-The Beauty In Distortion / The Land Of The Lost 9. Yelle-Pop-Up 10. The Gaslight Anthem-The '59 Sound 11. Duffy-Rockferry 12. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War 13. Goldfrapp-Seventh Tree 14. Raphael Saadiq-The Way I See It 15. De Novo Dahl-Move Every Muscle, Make Every Sound 16. Coldplay-Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends 17. Q-Tip-The Renaissance 18. Al Green-Lay It Down 19. Laura Marling-Alas, I Cannot Swim 20. Lucinda Williams-Little Honey 21. Hercules & Love Affair-Hercules & Love Affair 22. Kanye West-808's & Heartbreak 23. Lykke Li - Youth Novels 24. Los Campesinos-We Are Beautiful. We Are Doomed 25. Pas/Cal-I was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura 26. Juana Molina-Un Dia 27. Esperanza Spalding-Esperanza 28. The Knux-Remind Me in 3 Days... 29. Adele-19 30. Shugo Tokumaru-Exit 31. Karina-First Love 32. Lil' Wayne-The Carter III 33. Butch Walker-Sycamore Meadows 34. Estelle-Shine 35. Yo Majesty-Futuristically Speaking...Never Be Afraid 36. Ludo-You're Awful, I Love You 37. Beck-Modern Guilt 38. Dengue Fever-Venus On Earth 39. Ladytron-Velocifero 40. I'm From Barcelona-Who Killed Harry Houdini? 41. Weezer-Weezer (The Red Album) 42. Jim Noir-Jim Noir 43. Nikka Costa-Pebble To A Pearl 44. Inara George with Van Dyke Parks-An Invitation 45. Tilly & The Wall-o 46. Sons and Daughters-This Gift 47. Cordero-De Donde Eres 48. 88-Keys-The Death Of Adam 49. The Ruby Suns-Sea Lion

[Simakos]

i like how my signature is blocking your top 3.

[killerparties]

i like how my signature is blocking your top 3.

yeah, get the fuck rid of that, please.

[Simakos]

okay... sorry. did you watch it at least?

[Chronodiggity]

Safari just cuts part of the YouTube off

a superior browser

[killerparties]

okay... sorry. did you watch it at least?

i'm sorry dude. i didn't mean to yell.

it's just this damned economy.

edited to add: it wouldn't play, i'm sorry.

[UselessRocker]

Some things that have surprised me:

*I defended the album as being "solid" myself but I've been shocked to see the new Beck album on a bunch of lists. I'd have to consider myself someone who's still a biased fan of the man, but it didn't even crack my top 50. I was surprised to see it on many lists at all, let alone see it ranked in peoples' top 5.

*Chinese Democracy has two #1 votes and has appeared on several lists.

God, don't let TV on the Radio or Fleet Foxes be #1. Go Portishead!

[The Good Dr Bill]

The Two Classic Albums I Heard from 2008 and 13 Others With a Couple Good Songs:

15. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
14. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
13. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
12. Guns n Roses - Chinese Democracy
11. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
10. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
9. Times New Viking - Rip it Off
8. Rhymefest - Man in the Mirror Mix
7. Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
6. Air France - No Way Out EP
5. The Bug - London Zoo
4. The-Dream - Love/Hate
3. The Breeders - Mountain Battles


2. Portishead - Third
1. Weezer - The Red Album