spiritualized - songs in a & e
paul weller - 22 dreams
oasis - dig out your soul
the bug - london zoo
mogwai - the hawk is howling
M83 - saturdays = youth
futureheads - this is not the world

Great Britain is a simple airplane ride away, y'know.

good call....

M83 - Saturdays = Youth
The Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Black Mountain - In The Future
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher
Durutti Column - Sunlight to Blue, Blue to Blackness
The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
Colour Haze - All

my current top ten

01. Sun Kil Moon, April
02. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
03. Johnny Flynn, A Larum
04. The Aliens, Luna
05. No Age, Nouns
06. Paul Westerberg, 49:00
07. Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours
08. The Hold Steady, Stay Positive
09. Spiritualized, Songs in A&E
10. Earth, The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull

Malkmus
MGMT
Blitzen Trapper

BSP?

i was never that into it.

i'm not so into music this year.

i know:) nice to have you back though

15 Albums I like all the way through:

Baby Charles - ST
Backyard Tire Fire - The Places We Lived
Beck - Modern Guilt
Black Angels - Directions To Seek A Ghost
Black Keys - Attack and Release
Dub Trio - Another Sound Is Dying
Firewater - Golden Hour
Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
The Heavy - Great Vengeance and the Furious Fire
John Zorn - The Dreamers
Joseph Arthur - Could We Survive (EP)
King Khan and the Shrines - The Supreme Genius Of
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
This Will Destroy You - ST
Vampire Weekend - ST

i forgot Black Mountain.

awsome record.

But you included Oasis.

Ouch.

you just started a Flaming Lips thread.

ouch.

Not British enough?

Definetly Maybe >>>>>>>>>>>The Soft Bulletin

Wait, there was a new Firewater record this year? Well now I have to get a listen of that in soon...

LOL

Burst - LAZARUS BIRD is in my top 3 now. I love the melodies and watery guitar tones they used on this. The melodies are tasteful as hell.

For those not recognizing the vital piece of art (yeah I said it) that is Portishead's Third: your ears are dicks.

History will vindicate me on this. Just you watch.

i guess my second tier would include Beck, Black Keys & Goldfrapp.

Best things I've heard all year.

Boris--Smile
M83--Saturdays=Youth
Genghis Tron--Board Up The House
The Roots--Rising Down
Melvins--Nude With Boots
Gnarls Barkley--The Odd Couple
Lambchop--OH (Ohio)
Al Green--Lay it Down
Brian Eno/David Byrne--Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Tv on the radio--Dear Science
Portishead--Third
Beck--Modern Guilt
Clinic--Do It!
Sigur Ros--Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Wire--Object 47
Jesu--Why Are We Not Perfect

my top ten currently
1. m83 - saturdays = youth
autechre - quaristice
cut copy - in ghost colours
deerhoof - offend maggie
squarepusher - just a souvenir
hilotrons - happymatic
fleet foxes - s/t
portishead - third
john zorn - the dreamers
mother mother - o my heart

Damn - The Fall releases one of the best albums of their entire career and not a single mention here.

I don't have it yet.

Here's 15, felt the quality dropped from 15-20 too much to do a twenty.

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
Late of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
Metronomy - Nights Out
Mystery Jets - 21
Portishead - Third
That Was The Week - That Was The Week
The Bug - London Zoo
The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
TV on The Radio - Dear Science,

I'd give these all over 8.0

Check out the Squarepusher.

I need to listen to that Johnny Foreigner record more. Spun it once or twice a while ago.

This is good. More people should check it out. It's called "The Week That Was" though (unless there's another new band I don't know about with a very similar name). I didn't even notice the slight miswording until I read through your post a couple times.

Couldn't find a link for it.

Not too surprising, considering there are all of 3 Fall fans on the board, and at least one of them thinks it's second-tier Fall at best

Yep this record is excellent. Finding links for it seems to be very hard though so i'll be glad to upload it if anyone wants me to. People really need to hear this.

I've been looking at some of the lists posted here and I just freaked out when I realised there was so much stuff I loved that I almost forgot was released this year. I'll need to update my list.

I keep doing that, I'm obviously always thinking of the 1960's show That Was The Week That Was.

My Rough Top 10

01. Earth - Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
02. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
03. Sun Kil Moon - April
04. No Age - Nouns
05. El Guincho - Alegranza!
06. Times New Viking - Rip it Off
07. The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
08. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
09. Boris - Smile
10. Deerhunter - Microcastle

runners-up:
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Animal Collective - Water Curses EP

I'm game.

There you go



http://www.mediafire.com/?1ysdzt2fi45

Nifty. I'll check it out.

http://www.divshare.com/download/5326936-132

Ears and Eyes - Trying to Capture Fire

Only eight tracks? Excited to listen because the airport line track is quality

32 mins.

http://drownedinsound.com/releases/13542

Listened to that earlier. I really dug the percussion element, sounded awesome.

Right now I just started this new Blitzen Trapper record as well. I think I listened to their first one maybe once, but right now the first song on Furr is blowing me away.

4/11 of a listen in and I'm going to completely agree. This is incredible. Didn't bother to listen upon release because, well, it seemed so obvious that'd it be good. Sorta also why I haven't read Ulysses yet.

That's how I feel about this album. It's just so good, every song a gem, but seems to have just floated by.

Lie Down in the Light is Clearly one of the runaway best albums of 2008.

fwiw, this is BT's fourth album, i'd imagine you heard Wild Mountain Nation from last year

Ah, I see. Yeah, that'd be it then.

Yeah, that Bonnie Prince Billy got almost no real press or love here.
Yet it is probably one of his best discs. Shame when quality music gets no play, yet we had a huge thread on MGMT.

Another vote for how great the new Billy Prince Bonnie album is.

Stellar stuff, really some of his best work in my opinion.

Easily in my top 10.

Okay, good. Glad to see some appreciation for Will Oldham. I didn't think anything could bump Sun Kil Moon out of the position as my favorite of the year, but this one is doing it. I mean, c'mon, who else could and would put out a song like 'So Everyone'? It's this great mixture of cynicism, sincerity and longing for acceptance and praise. And I'm not a big lyrics guy, but 'You Want That Picture' captures the inner thoughts/drama of a break-up better than anything since... I don't know, the Afghan Whigs 'My Curse' comes to mind.

"So Everyone" is one of my favorite songs of the year.