Favorite/Best Albums of '08

alpitt
alpitt Posts: 91
edited December 2008 in Other Music
Well the year is coming to a close, and it has been quite a good one as far as new music goes. Here's my list (in no order):

Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
Hold Steady- Stay Positive
She & Him- Volume 1
MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
Wolf Parade- At Mount Zoomer
MMJ- Evil Urges
Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue
Sigur Ros- *not even going to attempt

Hard to say which is the favorite here, and there are quite a few I haven't come acroos yet including KOL and Oasis. What are yours?
"I'm an ideas man Michael, I think I proved that with F*ck Mountain" -GOB
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    Brighter Than Creation's Dark~Drive-by Truckers
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • Django
    Django Posts: 152
    MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
    The Vinny Club - Rocky IV reckyrd
    Fight like apes - and the mystery of the golden medallion
    Crystal Castles - Crystal castles
    The Urges - Psych Ward
    The Futureheads - This is not the world
  • TallGuyCM
    TallGuyCM Posts: 328
    Portishead - Third
    The Black Keys – Attack & Release
    Beck - Modern Guilt
    The Black Crowes - Warpaint
    MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
    Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs
    Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
    Steve Winwood - Nine Lives
    The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath

    in that order. That's cool how much some of our taste in music varies, I really didn't care for Crystal Castles, The Hold Steady, or She & Him at all this year.
  • Lanegan7
    Lanegan7 Posts: 124
    The Gutter Twins- Saturnalia
  • soclose
    soclose Posts: 629
    The one's that come to mind at the moment . . .

    Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
    Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes and Sun Giant EP
    Sun Kil Moon - April
    Blitzen Trapper - Furr
    Calexico - Carried to Dust
    Sigur Rós - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust

    I'm in the midst of going through all the 2008 releases I've purchased, and I know I need to spend some more time if I want to get my list right. This one will do for now.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Sigur Ros - Run, Nudist, Run!
    Down - Over the Under
    Meshuggah - ObZen
    Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
    Seasick Steve - I Started Out with Nothing and I Still Got Most of it Left
    Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • meme
    meme Posts: 4,695
    Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • fall by the wayside
    fall by the wayside Jericho, VT Posts: 759
    My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges
    Death Cab For Cutie- Narrow Stairs
    Metallica- Death Magnetic
    Gojira- The Way Of All Flesh
    Blind Melon- For My Friends
    H2O- Nothing To Prove
    Kataklysm- Prevail
    9/13/98, 10/4/00, 4/29/03, 6/29/03, 7/2/03, 9/28/04, 9/29/04, 9/15/05, 9/16/05, 5/12/06, 5/13/06, 6/27/08, 6/28/08, 6/30/08, 10/30/09, 10/31/09, 5/15/10, 9/11/11, 9/12/11, 10/19/13, 10/21/13, 10/22/13, 10/25/13, 10/27/13, 9/26/15, 4/28/16, 4/29/16, 8/5/16, 8/7/16, 8/13/18, 9/2/18, 9/4/18, 9/26/21, 9/1/22, 9/2/22, 9/14/22, 9/18/23, 9/19/23, 9/7/24, 9/9/24, 9/12/24, 9/15/24, 9/17/24, 5/16/25, 5/18/25
  • FatalFootsteps
    FatalFootsteps Posts: 46
    Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
    Things were different then. All is different now.
    I tried to explain. Somehow.

    Hamilton 05
    Halifax 05
  • PlantPage55
    PlantPage55 Posts: 136
    These are ALL (roughly) ranked by me. I have listened to more than this, but these are the ones I actually liked and would listen to more than once.

    The Upper Echelon (every song is great):
    1. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
    2. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
    3. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
    4. Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngsters
    5. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
    6. Liam Finn - I’ll Be Lightning
    7. Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
    8. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
    9. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
    10. Vampire Weekend - s/t
    11. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
    12. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
    13. What Made Milwaukee Famous - What Doesn’t Kill Us
    14. Sun Kil Moon - April

    The Really Good 'uns:
    15. The Killers - Day & Age
    16. The Rosebuds - Life Like
    17. Beach House - Devotion
    18. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
    19. Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
    20. Conor Oberst - s/t
    21. Bound Stems - The Family Afloat
    22. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
    23. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
    24. The Broken West - Now or Heaven

    The Rest that I have liked:
    Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
    Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
    Kelley Polar - I Need You to Hold on While the Sky is Falling
    Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
    Death Vessel - Nothing is Precious Enough for Us
    Madrugada - Madrugada
    My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
    Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
    Flogging Molly - Float
    Albert Hammond Jr. - Como te Llama
    Islands - Arm’s Way
    The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
    Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
    Frida Hyvonen - Silence is Wild
    Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
    Glasvegas - Glasvegas
    Blitzen Trapper - Furr
    Crystal Castles - s/t
    She & Him - Volume One
    Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
    Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
    Okkervil River - The Stand-ins
    Bloc Party - Intimacy
    Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
    The Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event
    Mystery Jets - Twenty One
    Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
    Deerhunter - Microcastle
    Fleet Foxes - s/t
    Spiritualized - Songs in A & E
    Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
    Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
    Shugo Tokumaru - Exit
    JayMay - Autumn Fallin’
    Less Than Jake - GVL FLA
    Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
    The Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
    Peter Bjorn and John - Seaside Rock
    Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Will Happen Will Happen Today
    Kate Nash - Made of Bricks
    The Academy Is… - Fast Times at Barrington High
    Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
    Monkey - Journey to the West
    Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
    Does It Offend You? - You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into
    Anthony Green - Avalon
    The Matches - A Band in Hope
    The Charlatans - You Cross My Path
    Shearwater - Rook
    Elvis Costello & the Imposters - Momofuku
    Portishead - Third
    Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
    Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
    Sophie Koh - All Shook Up
    Beck - Modern Guilt
    The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
    Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll
    Thrice - The Alchemy Index: Vols. III & IV
    The Futureheads - This is Not the World
    The Dodos - Visitor
    The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves
    The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
    Hello, Blue Roses - The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty
    Hayden - In Field and Town
    Slaraffenland - Private Cinema
    M83 - Saturdays=Youth
    Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
    Tapes n’ Tapes - Walk it Off
    Nada Surf - Lucky
    The Kills - Midnight Boom
    Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP
    R.E.M. - Accelerate
    Are we getting something out of this all-encompassing trip?
  • pearlzepfan
    pearlzepfan Posts: 456
    Chinese Democracy gets my vote. The more I listen to it the more i enjoy it. It's got a lot of great stuff in there.
    "I'm a thief, and I dig it"
  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    my top 10 (+ one!) of 2008 in random order...

    Nice Cave & The Bad Seeds--Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!
    Jenny Lewis--Acid Tongue
    Beck--Modern Guilt
    The Raconteurs--Consolers of the Lonely
    Conor Oberst--Conor Oberst
    Duke Spirit--Neptune
    The Black Keys--Attack & Release
    My Morning Jacket--Evil Urges
    Kings of Leon--Only By The Night
    Radiohead--In Rainbows
    Liam Finn--Live from the Wiltern
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  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    Ben Folds- Way to Normal
    Death Cab for Cutie- Narrow Stairs
    Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
    Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
    The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
    Thrice - The Alchemy Index: Vols. III & IV
    Rise Against- Appeal to Reason
    Vampire Weekend- S/T
    Flogging Molly- Float
    Conor Oberst - s/t


    Still need to listen to the latest from Scott Weiland, G 'n' R, and Metallica.
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    I'm still behind on a lot, but here are some so far:

    Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
    Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
    Gutter Twins - Saturnalia/Adorata
    Vampire Weekend - s/t
    REM - Accelerate
    Radar Bros. - Auditorium
    The National - Virginia EP
    Murder By Death - Read of Tooth and Claw
    Death Cab - Narrow Stairs
    Dar Williams - Promised Land

    Favorite Leaked Album That I Love More than Any 2008 Album: Mark Olson & Gary Louris - Ready for the Flood. OMG! The Jayhawks (basically)!
  • LukinFan
    LukinFan Florida Posts: 29,128
    Kings of Leon--Only By The Night
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    in no order:

    Harvey Milk-Life... The Best Game In Town
    Clouds-We Are Above You
    The Killers-Day & Age
    Clutch-Full Fathom Five
    5ive-Hesperus
    Pelican/These Arms Are Snakes split EP
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    In order

    Kings Of Leon- Only By Night
    My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges
    Guns and Roses- Chinese Democracy
    Metallica- Death Magnetic

    Still gotta get the new Blind Melon one.
    5/28/06, 6/27/08, 10/28/09, 5/18/10, 5/21/10
    8/7/08, 6/9/09
  • TallGuyCM
    TallGuyCM Posts: 328
    mfc2006 wrote:
    my top 10 (+ one!) of 2008 in random order...

    Nice Cave & The Bad Seeds--Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!
    Jenny Lewis--Acid Tongue
    Beck--Modern Guilt
    The Raconteurs--Consolers of the Lonely
    Conor Oberst--Conor Oberst
    Duke Spirit--Neptune
    The Black Keys--Attack & Release
    My Morning Jacket--Evil Urges
    Kings of Leon--Only By The Night
    Radiohead--In Rainbows
    Liam Finn--Live from the Wiltern

    Yeah, "In Rainbows" was available at your local record store as of 1/1/08.

    But who really doesn't consider 10/10/07 the most appropriate release date, as that's when the digital download became available where the vast, vast majority of us got a hold of it?
  • pirljamgirl
    pirljamgirl Posts: 259
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  • AlBorland
    AlBorland Posts: 117
    lralle wrote:
    I'm still behind on a lot, but here are some so far:

    Murder By Death - Read of Tooth and Claw
    Skeletons ain't got nowhere to stick their money.

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