The Best 5 albums of 2008

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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dharma69 wrote:
    Not for me it didn't. Came out the first Tuesday in January 08.
    I understand vinyl enthusiasts and their distaste for CDs but seriously, anti-mp3, pro-CD snobbery is just pointless.

    Fact is, In Rainbows was released in 2007, on CD or not.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • dharma69
    dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    I understand vinyl enthusiasts and their distaste for CDs but seriously, anti-mp3, pro-CD snobbery is just pointless.

    Fact is, In Rainbows was released in 2007, on CD or not.
    As you have no idea what I am or am not an enthusiast for your assumption is also pointless.
    "I'm here to see Pearl Jam."- Bono

    ...signed...the token black Pearl Jam fan.

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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    "Brighter than Creation's Dark"~Drive-by Truckers....all else pales in comparison. :D
    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.
  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon Posts: 911
    Death Cab for Cutie - "Narrow Stairs"
    Devotchka - "A Mad and Faithful Telling"
    Ours - "Mercy... Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginary Enemy"
    Moby - "Last Night"
    Gnarls Barkley - "The Odd Couple"
    If I could, think I would give in.
  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    Black Crowes - Warpaint
    North Mississippi Allstars - Hernando
    Black Keys - Attack and Release
    Drive-by Truckers - Brighter than Creation's Dark
    Black Mountain - In the Future

    Wow, what's up with all the 'Black' bands?

    ...Evil Urges will be there once it is released
    ...Accelerate gets honorable mention
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dharma69 wrote:
    As you have no idea what I am or am not an enthusiast for your assumption is also pointless.
    Christ, you're touchy. All I was seeking to do here is the same as you did, correcting someone about the release year of an album.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • soclose
    soclose Posts: 629
    1. Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
    2. Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark
    3. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant (EP)
    4. She & Him - Volume One
    5. R.E.M. - Accelerate

    This is bound to change as #'s 4 and 5 are enjoyable but probably won't stay in my top 5 once I've made a few more purchases.
  • Tek Money
    Tek Money Posts: 642
    Born Ruffians - Red Yellow Blue
    Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams
    Islands - Arms Way
    Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground
    Cat Power - Juke Box

    I have a feeling I will love the new Coldplay. Just a feeling.
    Cock Fight.
  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    Hot Chip
    We Are Scientists
    Johnny Foreigner
    Cage the Elephant
    Radiohead

    All in all nice fun music that makes me smile.
    Paul
    '06 - London, Dublin, Reading
    '07 - Katowice, Wembley, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
    '09 - London, Manchester, London
    '12 - Manchester, Manchester, Berlin, Stockholm, Copenhagen
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    I understand vinyl enthusiasts and their distaste for CDs but seriously, anti-mp3, pro-CD snobbery is just pointless.

    Fact is, In Rainbows was released in 2007, on CD or not.

    for a lot of us unable to download in rainbows it came out when we were able to go into a store and buy it in hardcopy.

    for me its not about being an anti-mp3 snob. but i am pro CD and as i don't actually own an mp3 player and the fact that my computer is shite, if i were to take a stand, it certainly wouldn't be pointless. however your ability to differentiate between vinyl 'enthusiasts' and supposed CD snobs is somewhat contradictory.
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  • righteousbabe
    righteousbabe Posts: 662
    The raconteurs. That is all. Best album of the last few years IMO.
  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    The Raconteurs - Consolers of The Lonely
    REM - Accelerate
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    catefrances wrote:
    however your ability to differentiate between vinyl 'enthusiasts' and supposed CD snobs is somewhat contradictory.
    No it's not. Vinyl records are an analogue format, CDs are digital. So are MP3s. My point is, I can see the attachment to vinyl because of the charm, the big sleeves, the warmer sound, the big hefty chunk of plastic that feel like value for money. As much as I like to have a physical copy of an album on CD for the art, liner notes etc, I don't consider MP3s to be an inferior format for the actual music, unlike a great deal of people, and I don't mean you obviously. Maybe it's just because I listen to a lot of lo-fi music but, though I can perhaps notice the difference between a lossless recording and a really low quality mp3, commercial releases on MP3 such as In Rainbows are fine and I don't really care that much about any apparent loss of fidelity. The music is still there.

    As for the fact that you didn't get hold of In Rainbows until this year, I didn't get my copy of A Love Supreme by John Coltrane until last year. I assure you it was released in 1965, not 2007 :)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    No it's not. Vinyl records are an analogue format, CDs are digital. So are MP3s. My point is, I can see the attachment to vinyl because of the charm, the big sleeves, the warmer sound, the big hefty chunk of plastic that feel like value for money. As much as I like to have a physical copy of an album on CD for the art, liner notes etc, I don't consider MP3s to be an inferior format for the actual music, unlike a great deal of people, and I don't mean you obviously. Maybe it's just because I listen to a lot of lo-fi music but, though I can perhaps notice the difference between a lossless recording and a really low quality mp3, commercial releases on MP3 such as In Rainbows are fine and I don't really care that much about any apparent loss of fidelity. The music is still there.

    As for the fact that you didn't get hold of In Rainbows until this year, I didn't get my copy of A Love Supreme by John Coltrane until last year. I assure you it was released in 1965, not 2007 :)

    yes but had you been alive and capable in 1965 you could have walked into a store, somewhere and bought it, yeah?

    anyhoo this is of no consequence cause i will always maintain that in rainbows is MY album of 2008. :p:D
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    catefrances wrote:
    yes but had you been alive and capable in 1965 you could have walked into a store, somewhere and bought it, yeah?

    anyhoo this is of no consequence cause i will always maintain that in rainbows is MY album of 2008. :p:D
    I see what you are saying BUT, I was incapable of buying it until last year when I finally got a job and could afford to buy stuff so really, it only came to be as a potential acquisition in 2007 and therefore, is in my opinion and by your reckoning, easily the best album of 2007 ;)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    I see what you are saying BUT, I was incapable of buying it until last year when I finally got a job and could afford to buy stuff so really, it only came to be as a potential acquisition in 2007 and therefore, is in my opinion and by your reckoning, easily the best album of 2007 ;)

    no buts. youre splitting too fine a hair. and that reckoning is your own not mine. my point in this little 'argument' is A Love Supreme was available in stores, in rainbows was not. :p
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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    catefrances wrote:
    no buts. youre splitting too fine a hair. and that reckoning is your own not mine. my point in this little 'argument' is A Love Supreme was available in stores, in rainbows was not. :p
    Yeah but In Rainbows was available to you in 2007 if you had the means (the ability to download) is what I'm saying :) Splitting hairs or not, I'm right :D
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Yeah but In Rainbows was available to you in 2007 if you had the means (the ability to download) is what I'm saying : ) Splitting hairs or not, I'm right : D

    sure you are. ;):p:D


    did i mention in rainbows is MY album of 2008? :D
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  • dharma69
    dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Christ, you're touchy. All I was seeking to do here is the same as you did, correcting someone about the release year of an album.
    I don't mind the "correction"; I do mind the ill-founded assumption of my "snobery".
    "I'm here to see Pearl Jam."- Bono

    ...signed...the token black Pearl Jam fan.

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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dharma69 wrote:
    I don't mind the "correction"; I do mind the ill-founded assumption of my "snobery".
    Please accept my apologies, and also see the conversation with Cate. My argument is meant in a good-natured way, not to be an asshole :)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"

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