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[no magnets]

Album Openers 1. The Sword – “The Sundering” 2. M83 – “You, Appearing” 3. Shugo Tokumaru – “Parachute” 4. Raphael Saadiq – “Sure Hope You Mean It” 5. Drive-By Truckers – “Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife” Album Closers 1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – “More News From Nowhere” 2. Fleet Foxes – “Oliver James” 3. Sleepercar – “Stumble In” 4. T.I. – “Dead and Gone” 5. Max Tundra – “Until We Die” Best Live Acts 1. Monotonix 2. Kraftwerk 3. Night Marchers 4. Magnetic Fields 5. Drive-By Truckers 6. M83 7. King Khan & the Shrines 8. Kanye West 9. The Sword 10. Booka Shade New Artist of 2008 1. Hercules & Love Affair 2. Obits 3. Fleet Foxes 4. Soft Pack (née Muslims) 5. Vivian Girls Biggest Letdowns 1. Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs 2. Beck - Modern Guilt 3. Times New Viking - Rip It Off 4. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cardinology 5. Boris - Smile Cover Song 1. Cheap Time – “People Talk” 2. New Pornographers – “Don't Bring Me Down” (Live) 3. Menahan Street Band – “Going the Distance” 4. Primal Scream - “Urban Guerrilla” 5. Glen Campbell – “Sing”

[Meldrick Lewis]

I don't have the attention span to fill all this stuff out so I'll just post a pic of my favorite album cover of the year.

[Montana]

-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.

Thanks for the reminder:

Worst Single:

1. Kid Rock - All Summer Long

[surlacarte]

Alright, here goes - everything but Best Album Track, which I'll post separately when I figure out what's a single and what isn't.

Best Album Openers

1) TV on the Radio - Halfway Home
2) Portishead - Silence
3) Lil Wayne - 3 Peat
4) The Notwist - Good Lies
5) Shearwater - On the Death of the Waters
6) Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
7) Sun Kil Moon - Lost Verses
8) The Walkmen - Donde Esta La Play?
9) MGMT - Time To Pretend
10) Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Buriedfed
11) Throw Me The Statue - Young Sensualists
12) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
13) {{{ Sunset }}} - Dear Broken Friend
14) Wolf Parade - Soldier's Grin
15) White Denim - Let's Talk About It
16) School of Seven Bells - Iamundernodisguise
17) Chicha Libre - Sonido Amazonico
18) Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
19) {{{ Sunset }}} - Zombies
20) Beck - Orphans

(EDITED 12/17/08: Added Shearwater)

Best Album Closers

1) Portishead - Threads
2) Fleet Foxes - Oliver James
3) Wolf Parade - Kissing the Behive
4) Kanye West - Coldest Winter
5) TV on the Radio - Lover's Day
6) M83 - Midnight Souls Still Remain

Artists of the Year

1) Lil Wayne
2) Kanye West
3) Portishead
4) Deerhunter

Best Music-Related Movies

1) The Visitor

Best Live Acts

1) Portishead @ Coachella
2) King Khan & The Shrines @ Bottom Lounge
3) Prince @ Coachella
4) Kanye West @ Lollapalooza
5) Girl Talk @ Lollapalooza
6) Wolf Parade @ House of Blues
7) Neko Case @ Hideout Block Party
8) Aphex Twin @ Coachella
9) Radiohead @ Lollapalooza
10) Wilco @ Lollapalooza
11) Animal Collective @ Pitchfork
12) Gogol Bordello @ Coachella & Lollapalooza
13) Yeasayer @ Lollapalooza

Biggest Letdowns

1) Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
2) Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
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3) Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
4) Tapes 'N Tapes - Walk It Off
5) Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
6) Magnetic Fields - Distortion
7) Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
8) Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
9) The Decemberists - Always the Bridesmaid

Best Album Cover

1) Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
2) Shearwater - Rooks
3) Last Shadow Puppets - Age of Understatement
4) m83 - Saturdays = Youth
5) Sun Kil Moon - April

Biggest WTF Song

1) Chris Brown - Forever ("double your pleasure, double your fun")
2) Guns N' Roses - T.W.A.T.
3) Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (whole album)
4) N.E.R.D. - Everybody Nose
5) Grovesnor - Night Moves (not sure this is 2008)

Worst Single of 2008

1) Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (whole album)

Did I mention I don't like this album?

Best New Artist of 2008

1) Fleet Foxes
2) Santogold
3) Vivian Girls
4) MGMT

New artists are underrepresented on my lists this year compared to previous years. I can't say with much certainty that even any of the above artists will make it past their second album. Either it was a good year for vets and a weak year for new artists, or my listening habits have changed.

Best Cover Song

1) Prince - Creep @ Coachella
2) New Pornographers - Don't Bring Me Down @ Hideout Block Party
3) Robbie Fulks & Rhymefest - Thriller @ Hideout Block Party (complete with zombies from the audience)
4) Wilco w/ Fleet Foxes - I Shall Be Released
5) MGMT - Closer
6) Jens Lekman - Water Runs Dry

Worst Album Cover

1) Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
2) Madonna - Hard Candy
3) Santogold - Santogold
4) My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

[Montana]

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.

I'm posting a video shortly as to why I like them. Stay tuned (and bored).

[Blue Straggler]

-Best Album Tracks

(Not a 100% these are all album tracks and not singles so apologies)
Women - Black Rice
The Night Marchers - You've Got Nerve

-Best Album Openers


Why? - "The Vowels Pt. 2"
Envelopes - Party
Blood on the Wall - Hibernation

-Best Album Closers

The Night Marchers - We're Goin' Down
Cheap Time - Trip to the Zoo

-Artists of the Year


Jay Reatard
Shugo Tokumaru

-Best Live Acts


Caribou (supported by Born Ruffians in Coventry,U.K.)
Man Man (Primavera, Spain)
Its Not, Not (Primavera, Spain)

-Biggest Letdowns

of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping


-Best Record Label
Bcore Records (Barcelona Label)


-Biggest WTF Song

My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
Blood on the Wall - Acid Fight


-Best New Artist of 2008

Air France
Born Ruffians
Vivian Girls


-Best Cover Song

Cheap Time - People Talk
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-Worst Album Cover


Santogold - s/t
Beyonce - I Am...
Portishead - Third

[Paul]

You don't need to vote for every category in the miscellaneous polls. If there are only a few that interest you, you should still put up a couple of lists.

[thresholdofrevelation]

At the very least go watch the Chris Dane Owens video so you can vote that #1 in its category.

[w. josh]

-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.

Thanks for the reminder:

Worst Single:

1. Kid Rock - All Summer Long

Seriously. I forgot how much I hated this song. Now I gotta go think of four others to be a distant second through fifth.

[elcorazon]

are singles not considered album tracks? It's the best song on the album.

Yeah, the album track poll is basically for non-singles. Of course, things slip through like last year when I let a Ted Leo single place on the album tracks poll. I blame everyone that voted for it, though.

I disagree with this ruling. there is no reason an album track can't also be eligible as a single. (recall the controversy last year over "Girls in Their Summer Clothes"). Are Album tracks eligible as Album openers or closers? I would assume so. maybe I'm wrong though.

Best Album Openers

1. Sam Phillips - No Expectaions
2. Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones
3. Martha Wainwright -Bleeding All Over You
4. Ray Davies - Vietnam Cowboys

Best Album Tracks

1. Ray Davies - Morphine Song
2. Ray Davies - Hymn for a New Age
3. Sam Phillips - Shake it Down

Best Album Closers

1. Rodney Crowell - Closer to Heaven
2. Alejandro Escovedo - Slow Down

[Pavement Ist Rad]

there is no reason an album track can't also be eligible as a single.

The reason is that they are not singles.

[UselessRocker]

EDITED

Best Album Tracks
1. "The Big Gloom" Have a Nice Life
2. "I Don't Love" Have a Nice Life
3. "Black Albino Bones" Fucked Up
4. ""Motown" Harvey Milk
5. "My Neighbor Satan" Boris
6. "Fatalist Palmistry" Why?
7. "My Purple Past" Deerhoof
8. "Robocop" Kanye West
9. "God & Suicide" Blitzen Trapper
10. "The Blue Room" Evangelista
10. "Wedding in a Wasteland" Parts & Labor
12. "Stay Positive" The Hold Steady

Best Album Openers
1."Death Goes to the Winner" Harvey Milk
2. "Constructive Summer" The Hold Steady
3. "The Tears of Music and Love" Deerhoof
4. "3 Peat" Lil Wayne
5. "Troublemaker" Weezer
6. "Son the Father" Fucked Up
7. "You Appearing" M83
8. "Everything Is Borrowed" The Streets
9. "Walking" The Dodos
10. "The Cipher" Rhymefest & Michael Jackson

Best Album Closers
1. "Slapped Actresses" The Hold Steady
2. "Threads" Portishead
3. "The Angel and the One" Weezer
4. "Earthmover" Have a Nice Life
5. "Jagged Fruit" Deerhoof
6. "Twilight at Carbon Lake" Deerhunter

Videos of the Year
1. "Chandelier Searchlight" Deerhoof
2. "The Rip" Portishead
3. "Pork and Beans" Weezer
4. "Oxford Comma" Vampire Weekend
5. "Feedback in the Field" Plants and Animals
6. "Ready For the Floor" Hot Chip
7. "Eraser" No Age
8. "Jizz In My Pants" The Lonely Island

Best Live Acts
1. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
2. My Bloody Valentine
3. Prince
4. The Hold Steady
5. Kanye West
6. Deerhoof
7. Drive-By Truckers
8. Portishead

Biggest Letdown
1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
2. Montana defending Chinese Democracy

Best Music-Related TV Performance
1. Kanye West performs "Love Lockdown" at the MTV VMAs
2. Wilco performs new song on The Colbert Report

Best Music-Related Pop Culture Moment
1. Sting is referred to as "Stong" on the SOMB.
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Best Album Cover
1. Deerhunter Microcastle
2. Evangelista Hello, Voyager
3. The Last Shadow Puppets The Age of the Understatement
4. Lil Wayne Tha Carter III
5. Weezer Weezer

Biggest WTF Song
1. Weezer "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived"
2. Lil Wayne "Phone Home"
3. Third Eye Blind "Non Dairy Creamer"

Worst Singles of 2008
1. "All Summer Long" Kid Rock
2. "Feels Like Tonight" Daughtry
3. "What About Now" Daughtry
4. "Gotta Be Somebody" Nickelback
5. "Light On" David Cook

Artist of the Year
1. Portishead
2. Kanye West
3. Weezer
4. Bradford Cox/Deerhunter
5. The Hold Steady


Best New Artist of 2008
1. Have a Nice Life
2. Krallice

Best Cover Song
1. Radiohead "The Rip" (Portishead)
2. Tay Zonday "Pork and Beans" (Weezer)
3. Weezer "Are Friends Electric" (Tubeway Army)
4. Alexis Taylor "Coming Up" (Paul McCartney)
5. Jay Reatard "Gamma Ray" (Beck)
6. Weezer "The Weight" (The Band)
7. Weezer "Love My Way" (Psychedelic Furs)
8. Weezer "Oddfellows Local 151" (R.E.M)
9. Weezer "Life Is What You Make It" (Talk Talk)
10. (tie) Weezer "Meri Kuri" (BoA)/The Hold Steady/Drive-By Truckers "Burnin' For You" (Blue Oyster Cult)

Worst Album Cover
1. Madonna Hard Candy
2. Clear Tigers Brutal
3. The Peth Golden Mile
4. Dragonforce Ultra Beatdown
5. Empire of the Sun Walking on a Dream

[Paul]

there is no reason an album track can't also be eligible as a single.

The reason is that they are not singles.

Yeah, it is basically a way to vote for your favorite songs that aren't singles. Sorry.


And feel free to vote for openers/closers as album tracks as well. Some people just like having as many individual songs repped as possible.

[elcorazon]

there is no reason an album track can't also be eligible as a single.

The reason is that they are not singles.

except when they are. example. I have no idea which tracks on Ray Davies' record (or any of my favorite records) were released as singles. I voted for them in the album tracks poll. If I happened to vote for one that actually was a single, so what, it's still an album track, too, no?

[Paul]

except when they are. example. I have no idea which tracks on Ray Davies' record (or any of my favorite records) were released as singles. I voted for them in the album tracks poll. If I happened to vote for one that actually was a single, so what, it's still an album track, too, no?

Yeah, it is basically a way to vote for your favorite songs that aren't singles. Sorry.

I treat the "eligibility" for these the same as I do in the albums/singles polls: I check over the ones that are actually going to be posted (in this case, the top ten) and cut out any that don't fit. Assuming I'm doing my job right. But vote for whatever you want. Doesn't really change what I do.

[Mike Schank]

Artist of the Year- Guns N Roses Best Live Act- Hold Steady and Drive By Truckers Biggest Letdown- Kings of Leon- Only By The Night Secret Machines- Secret Machines My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges Best Music Related Pop Culture Moment- Stephen Colbert: “Operation Humble Kanye” Best Album Cover- Bltzen Trapper- Furr Worst Single- 1. Kanye West- Love Lockdown 2. Katy Perry- I Kissed A Girl 3. Vaness Hudgens – Sneakernight 4. Weezer- Pork and Beans 5. Nickleback- Gotta Be Somebody

[Ned Braden]

Some things: -Best Album Tracks 1. Jonathan Richman - When We Refuse To Suffer 2. Paavoharju - Italialaisella Laivalla 3. The Hold Steady - Joke About Jamaica 4. Bruce Springsteen – Living in the Future 5. El Guincho - Cuando Maavilla Fui 6. Evangelicals - Midnight Vignette 7. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Colour Television 8. Quiet Village – Circus of Horror 9. Kanye West – Paranoid -Best Album Openers 1. The Hold Steady – Constructive Summer 2. The Explorer’s Club – Forever 3. El Guincho – Palamitos Park 4. Sun Kil Moon – Lost Verses 5. Harvey Milk – Death Goes To The Winner 6. Weezer – Troublemaker 7. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig Lazarrus Dig 8. The Last Shadow Puppets – The Age of the Understatement 9. Islands – The Arm 10. M83 – You, Appearing 11. Drive-By Truckers - Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife -Best Album Closers 1. Portishead – Threads 2. Johann Johannsson - How We Left Fordlandia 3. The Hold Steady – Slapped Actress 4. Fennesz - Saffron Revolution 5. Gentleman Jessie and His Men – Put Your Hands Together 6. Q-Tip – Shaka -Artists of the Year 1. Portishead 2. Paul Westerberg 3. Jonathan Richman 4. The Hold Steady -Best Album Cover 1. The Last Shadow Puppets – Age of the Understatement 2. Weezer – Weezer 3. RZA – Digi Snacks 4. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III -Biggest WTF Song 1. The Flowbots – I Can Ride My Bike With No Handlebars 2. Kid Rock – All Summer Long 3. Of Montreal - St. Exquisite's Confessions -Worst Album Cover Santogold – s/t

[Mitchell]

The phrase album track means non-single. If you ask someone what their favourite Beatles' album track is the answer you are expecting is "A Day In The Life" or "Tomorrow Never Knows" and so on, not "A Hard Day's Night."

[undo]

Best video: 1. Portishead - The Rip 2. Chris Dane Owens - Shine 3. Radiohead - House of Cards 4. M83 - Graveyard Girl 5. Brighton Port Authority - Toe Jam Best album cover: 1. This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You (LP edition) 2. Monade - Monstre Cosmic 3. Fennesz - Black Sea 4. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too 5. Matmos - Supreme Balloon 6. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill 7. Sumner McKane - What a Great Place to Be 8. Mrs Jynx - The Standoffish Cat Worst album cover: 1. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping 2. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive 3. Guns n Roses - Chinese Democracy 4. Madonna - Hard Candy 5. Megapuss - Surfing 6. Moby - Last Night 7. Nerf Herder - IV 8. Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns SOMB mixes: 1. SOMB Meltdown 2. SOMB Sounds Volume 3 3. 2008 Quarter Mix: Vol. 1 4. 2008 Quarter Mix: Vol. 2 5. 2008 Quarter Mix: Vol. 3 6. Summer in Michigan (Mrs. Loblaw: volume 2) will do the other categories later

[Pavement Ist Rad]

This is actually a pretty shitty album cover, now that I think about it: