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[arkin]

arkin I <3 your list. I might agree with it even more than my own. Good call on Crying and Out There On The Ice. And I love that someone else put Cover Me (Slowly) on the best openers... and Miner almost made my list.

thanks!
I think this year had a lot of really great non-single album tracks. Though closers were surprisingly hard to come up with...

[Heretix]

arkin I <3 your list. I might agree with it even more than my own. Good call on Crying and Out There On The Ice. And I love that someone else put Cover Me (Slowly) on the best openers... and Miner almost made my list.

thanks!
I think this year had a lot of really great non-single album tracks. Though closers were surprisingly hard to come up with...

Yeah I had the same thought... A lot of my favourite albums this year had average, so-so closers.. Cut Copy had that pathetic little outro, M83 had the (admittedly beautiful) 11 minute ambient drone outro that doesn't really fit on the album, Deerhunter had Twilight at Carbon Lake which I think is the worst song on the album (but by no means bad)...

[Northern Voice]

Best Album Tracks

1. Plants and Animals - New Kind of Love
2. Constantines - I Will Not Sing a Hateful Song
3. The Hold Steady - Joke About Jamaica
4. Raconteurs - Carolina Drama
5. TV on the Radio - Family Tree
6. Guns N' Roses - I.R.S.
7. Phantom Planet - Leader
8. Wolf Parade - California Dreamer
9. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Lie Down Here (and be my girl)
10. Frightened Rabbit - Good Arms vs. Bad Arms

Best Album Openers

1. MGMT - Time to Pretend
2. Kathleen Edwards - Buffalo
3. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
4. Elbow - Starlings
5. Plants and Animals - Bye Bye Bye
6. The Hold Steady - Constructive Summer
7. Laura Marling - Ghosts
8. R.E.M. - Living Well Is the Best Revenge
9. The Killers - Losing Touch
10. Kings of Leon - Closer

Best Album Closers

1. The Hold Steady - Slapped Actress
2. Raconteurs - Carolina Drama
3. The Streets - The Escapist
4. The Week That Was - Scratch The Surface
5. Wolf Parade - Kissing the Beehive
6. Coldplay - Death and All His Friends
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - More News From Nowhere
8. AC/DC - Black Ice
9. Sam Roberts - Detroit '67
10. Miley Cyrus - Goodbye

Biggest Letdowns

Tokyo Police Club
Of Montreal
The Breeders
Sloan
Guillemots

WTF Song

1. Drive By Truckers - Bob
2. My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
3. Guns N' Roses - Madagascar
4. Dr. Dog - From
5. The Dodos - Park Song
6. Weezer - The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived
7. Glasvegas - Stabbed
8. The Streets - The Way of the Dodo
9. Miley Cyrus - Wake Up America
10. Snow Patrol - The Lightning Strike

Worst Single

1. Kid Rock - All Summer Long
2. Soulja Boy - YAAHH
3. John Mayer - Say
4. Madonna - 4 Minutes
5. B-52's - Funplex
6. Def Leppard - Nine Lives (f/Tim McGraw)
7. Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl

[SonicAlligator]

WTF Song

5. The Dodos - Park Song

Very interesting selection and I know exactly what you mean.

[Campaigner]

Best Album Tracks

1) 'Butterfly' - Supergrass
2) 'I Hate My Friends' - Sebastien Grainger
3) 'Unforgettable Season' - Cut Copy
4) 'Staying in Love' - Raphael Saadiq
5) 'Nowhere's High' - Parts & Labor
6) 'Godspeed' - Jenny Lewis
7) 'Life is Long' - David Byrne and Brian Eno
8) 'Gratitude (For Curt Flood)' - The Baseball Project
9) 'Stay Free' - Black Mountain
10) 'Colour Television' - Eddy Current Supression Ring

Best Album Openers

1) 'Black Sand' - Jenny Lewis from Acid Tongue
2) 'Forever' - The Explorers Club from Freedom Wind
3) 'Take Me Away' - Pugwash from Eleven Modern Antiquities
4) 'Underneath the Stars' - The Cure from 4:13 Dream
5) 'Another Day' - Jamie Lidell from Jim

That'll do for now - will probably change though.

[Ben Thayer]

Best Album Tracks - The soundslikeanouttakefromkick "Elm City" from "Now Or Heaven" by The Broken West, The beautiful "Echo/Always On/Easy Con" off of "Furr", "The Color Of A Broken Heart Is Blue" from "Blame It On Gravity"

Best Album Openers - There Is No Hiding Place, Momofuku, Sleepytime In The Western World, Furr, "The Rat Patrol And DJ's" Dual Hawks, "Dragonfly Pie", Emotional Trash

Best Album Closers - "Volcano" from Modern Guilt The old fashioned gatefold?

Artists of the Year - Paul Westerberg, Fucking up his second act almost as much as his first act (not referring to his wal*mart guitar)

Video of the Year - I saw one by the Black Keys that was pretty funny.

Best Music-Related Movies - I have not seen "Christmas On Mars" yet, but I'm sure that's it.

Best Music-Related Books - "All Over But The Shouting" written last year, read this year.

Best Live Acts - Wilco and The White Stripes

Biggest Letdown - The Breeders

Best Music-Related Pop Culture Moments - When Pres. Elect Obama won the nom for the Dems and started singing "I'm Your Man" by Lennie Cohen. That was pretty cool.

Best Album Cover - Furr - Blitzen Trapper

Biggest WTF Song - Highly Suspicious by MMJ

Best New Artist of 2008 - Fleet Foxes

Best Cover Song - "You Really Got A Hold On Me" She And Him, you can never go wrong with Smokey

Worst Album Cover - Breeders Mountain Battles, Paul's 49:00, Ryan's Cardinology, all pretty lame.

[caley]

Best Openers 1. Sun Kil Moon - Lost Verses 2. m83 - You, Appearing 3. Coldplay - Life in Technicolor 4. Johann Johannsson - Fordlandia 5. Kathleen Edwards - Buffalo 6. Fennesz - The Black Sea 7. Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook 8. TV on the Radio - Halfway Home 9. Wolf Parade - Soldier’s Grin 10. Dr Manhattan - Big Chomper, Big Chomper Best Closers 1. m83 - Midnight Souls Still Remain 2. Fennesz - Saffron Revolution 3. The Rural Alberta Advantage - In the Summertime 4. Coldplay - Death and All His Friends 5. Kathleen Edwards - Leaving California 6. Johann Johannsson - How We Left Fordlandia 7. The Streets - The Escapist 8. Miley Cyrus - See You Again (Rock Mafia Remix) 9. Constatines - Do What You Can Do 10. Boris - You Were Holding an Umbrella Part 2 Best Album Tracks 1. The Rural Alberta Advantage - In the Summertime 2. The Constantines - Trans-Canada 3. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Four Night Rider 4. m83 - Too Late 5. Kanye West - Street Lights 6. Sun Kil Moon - Lost Verses 7. Kathleen Edwards - Buffalo 8. Johann Johannsson - Fordlandia 9. Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Loud 10. Flight of the Conchords - Leggy Blonde Letdown Albums 1. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges 2. A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues For 13 Moons 3. The Guillemots - Red 4. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs 5. Jamie Lidell - Jim 6. Erlend Oye - Unrest WTF Songs 1. Soulja Boy - YAAHHH! 2. N.E.R.D. - Everybody Nose 3. Fall Out Boy featuring John Mayer - Beat It 4. Bloc Party - Mercury 5. Kid Rock - All Summer Long 6. My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious 7. will.i.am - I Got It From My Mama 8. The Constantines and Feist - Islands in the Stream 9. Beyonce - If I Were A Boy 10. The Killers - Human Worst Singles 1. Mariah Carey - I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time 2. Kid Rock - All Summer Long 3. will.i.am - I Got It From My Mama 4. Vaness Hudgens - Sneakernight 5. Mariah Carey - Touch My Body 6. Bloc Party - Mercury

[Montana]

-Best Album Tracks 1. G N R - Catcher In the Rye 2. M83 - Too Late 3. G N R - Better 4. The Hold Steady - Joke About Jamaica 5. G N R - IRS 6. The Hold Steady - Slapped Actress 7. G N R - Prostitute 8. Drive By Truckers - The Righteous Path 9. Drive By Truckers - I'm Sorry Houston 10.Drive By Truckers - A Ghost To Most 11. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood 12.Fleet Foxes - Your Protector 13.The Felice Brothers - Wonderful Life 14..Gary Louris - Vagabonds 15. M83 - Midnight Souls Still Remain 16. MGMT - Kids -Best Album Openers 1. M83 - You Appearing 2. Felice Brothers - Little Ann 3. GNR - Chinese Democracy -Best Album Closers 1. M83 - Midnight Souls Still Remain 2. G N R - Prostitute 3. The Hold Steady - Slapped Actress -Artists of the Year 1.M83 2.G N R 3.The Drive By Truckers 4.The Hold Steady 5.Fleet Foxes 6.Felice Brothers -Best Live Acts 1.Roger Waters 2.Hold Steady 3.Drive By Truckers

[Hewletts Daughter]

Montana, your grasp on the music world is limited and lacks diversity. I now understand why people do not take you seriously. I'm sorry. We'll always have Grandaddy, at least.

[Montana]

Montana, your grasp on the music world is limited and lacks diversity.

I now understand why people do not take you seriously.

I'm sorry.



We'll always have Grandaddy, at least.

Sorry dude but this year my top five obliterated the rest. Best straight up rock year in a long time, and when that happens, those songs will dominate any possible list I can come up with.


And let's not even get into our album year end lists. My list is far more diverse and unique than yours(which will no doubt have high placements for REM, The Killers, Of Montreal and Okervill River).

[Paul]

No "Biggest disappointments" list, Montana?

[Montana]

No "Biggest disappointments" list, Montana?

No not really. I def have a "worst albums" list though, but that's not part of the poll.

[Campaigner]

-Artists of the Year

1.M83
2.G N R
3.The Drive By Truckers
4.The Hold Steady
5.Fleet Foxes
6.Felice Brothers

Dude, everyone know that this is bullshit. You can't go on about GNR all the fuckin' time and tell people how wrong they are, rank the album #1 for the year, give 341 songs of theirs as the year's best, with one of the best openers and one of the best closers (which is wtf worthy in itself. The title track is the biggest piece of shit in that pile of turds) and then NOT name them as your artist of the year.

Flip your one and two. Do it mate, you know you want to.

[Mitchell]

If your lists are so diverse why only 7 acts on your entire misc poll?

[Montana]

Mitch, my explanation is that I love my top 5 albums considerably more than the rest, and that the songs on those albums are better than the rest of the stuff on my list. Any time people are making good rock records they are going to dominate any other lists I make.

[Northern Voice]

I don't understand why Montana likes Fleet Foxes. They seem like the ball-less, boring, generic, same as 100 other bands style band he should despise.

[Hewletts Daughter]

And let's not even get into our album year end lists. My list is far more diverse and unique than yours(which will no doubt have high placements for REM, The Killers, Of Montreal and Okervill River).

there will be decent placement for both REM and the Killers, yes.

I hate the new of montreal and i don't know what an Overkill River is.

Sorry.



My list will trump yours in sheer diversity. It's just a fact.


I like arguing with you. It's fun.

[thresholdofrevelation]

-Best Album Openers 1. The Killers - Losing Touch 2. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Easy Does It 3. Laura Marling - Ghosts 4. Anoraak - Night Drive With You 5. Envelopes - Party 6. The Steeldrivers- Blue Side of the Mountain 7. Alphabeat - 10.000 Nights of Thunder 8. Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook 9. Kat Flint - Go Faster Stripes 10. The Explorers Club - Forever -Best Album Closers 1. Bon Iver - Re: Stacks 2. The Steeldrivers - Heaven Sent -Videos of the Year 1. Chris Dane Owens - Shine 2. Beyonce - Single Ladies -Worst Single of 2008 (this is the place for songs that are exclusively horrible) 1. Flobots - Handlebars 2. Kid Rock - All Summer Long

[SonicAlligator]

-Worst Single of 2008 (this is the place for songs that are exclusively horrible)
2. Kid Rock - All Summer Long

Forgot about this one. Good call.

[Paul]

Hey, there's less than a week left to vote! Don't forget about this poll.