Best albums of 2008 revisited

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  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    soclose wrote:
    I'm going to add Bonnie "Prince" Billy's Lie Down in the Light as an honorable mention. I just bought this one a week ago, but I have the feeling it's going to turn out to be a favorite.

    Me too. After that New Yorker article, I've really gotten into Will Oldham.
    Mine: 1. Bon Iver - For Emma
    2. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
    3. Sigur Ros
    4. Gutter Twins - Saturnalia/Adorata
    5. The National - Virginia EP
    6. Death Cab - Narrow Stairs
    7. Vampire Weekend
    8. Kris Delmhorst - Horses Swimming
    9. Murder by Death - Red of Tooth & Claw
    10. Dar Williams - Promised Land
  • soclose
    soclose Posts: 629
    lralle wrote:
    Me too. After that New Yorker article, I've really gotten into Will Oldham.

    Thanks for mentioning the article. I just looked it up - should be interesting reading.

    I'm looking forwarding to getting more of his albums, but it's a daunting task to look through all his projects and try to pick something out. I'm leaning toward some Palace Music for my next purchase.
  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    soclose wrote:
    lralle wrote:
    Me too. After that New Yorker article, I've really gotten into Will Oldham.

    Thanks for mentioning the article. I just looked it up - should be interesting reading.

    I'm looking forwarding to getting more of his albums, but it's a daunting task to look through all his projects and try to pick something out. I'm leaning toward some Palace Music for my next purchase.

    This site might help.
    http://stupidd.blogspot.com/2008/08/wil ... ities.html
  • soclose
    soclose Posts: 629
    lralle wrote:

    This site might help.
    http://stupidd.blogspot.com/2008/08/wil ... ities.html

    THAT is impressive. Thanks again!
  • Roeghmann
    Roeghmann Posts: 969
    The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
    KOL - Only by the Night
    Bon Iver - For Emma....
    Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
    Metallica - DM
    Run away my son. See it all. Oh see the world.
  • jamie uk
    jamie uk Posts: 3,812
    Ray Lamontagne.Gossip In the Grain
    Raconteurs. Consolers of the Lonely
    AC/DC.Black Ice
    KOL. Only by the Night
    Metallica. Death Magnetic
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • smithnic
    smithnic Posts: 1,565
    soclose wrote:
    intodeep wrote:
    soclose wrote:
    Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
    Blitzen Trapper - Furr


    I liked Blitzen Trapper but for some reason it has not blown me away.. i know a lot of other folks are big fans of the album.



    And regarding Blitzen Trapper, I wasn't terribly impressed at first myself, but I think it's a fun, catchy take on rootsy music. It doesn't quite compare with the albums I placed above it, but it's a strong record that grew on me after a few listens.

    Going to see them on 2-28. Love their previous album "wild mountain nation", but this one is much better. Loved it!
    Go Get 'Em Tigers!
  • nutmeg81
    nutmeg81 Posts: 627
    fuckin hell has no one heard WHITE DENIM's AWESOME fuckin debut Workout Holiday?!!

    its a mixture of umpteen different styles...sum times MC5 then onto summit different one song starts like Antony & the Johnsons!!

    Fleet Foxes
    Vampire Weekend
    Bon Ivor
    Hold Steady

    were great too!
    26/10/96 dublin
    01/06/00 dublin
    23/08/06 dublin
    11/09/06 paris
    18/06/07 london
    17/08/09 manchester
    18/08/09 london
  • Surf Rider
    Surf Rider Posts: 813
    Tone by Jeff Ament
  • redmosquito10
    redmosquito10 Posts: 568
    in no particular order, a top 7

    MMJ - Evil Urges
    Q-Tip - The Renaissance
    Beck - Modern Guilt
    The Roots - Rising Down
    Sigur Ros - not typing that
    Black Crowes - Warpaint
    Black Keys - Attack and Release

    Honorable Mention:
    N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds
    The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
    Ray LaMontagne - Gossip in the Grain
    "Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH..."
  • TallGuyCM
    TallGuyCM Posts: 328
    1. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
    2. Portishead - Third
    3. Beck - Modern Guilt
    4. The Black Crowes - Warpaint
    5. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath

    I made a thorough Top 25 list on amazon, with explanations and details: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listma ... lm_title_1
  • paul_jam
    paul_jam Posts: 20
    1. Gaslight Anthem - '59 Sound
    2. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
    3. The Whigs - Mission Control
    4. Dead Confederate - Wrecking Ball
    5. The Shys - You'll Never Understand This Band The Way That I Do

    Honorable Mention:
    My Morning Jacket
    British Sea Power
    REM
    Oasis
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    TallGuyCM wrote:
    1. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
    2. Portishead - Third
    3. Beck - Modern Guilt
    4. The Black Crowes - Warpaint
    5. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath

    I made a thorough Top 25 list on amazon, with explanations and details: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listma ... lm_title_1

    You really hate some of those albums on your top 25... kinda weird.
  • kenny olav
    kenny olav Posts: 3,319
    Evil Urges is easily one of the best albums of last year. I love every song it, however, I consider it MMJ's 4th best album. I usually don't like ranking albums but with theirs, it's fairly easy to me, and it'd go like this: #1 - It Still Moves, #2 - Z, a very close #3 - At Dawn, #4 Evil Urges, #5 The Tennessee Fire. Shit, I think I'd have to rank their Chocolate and Ice EP above Evil Urges.

    But I like the newness and the energy of Evil Urges, and I'm really happy with it and with what the band is doing. It just doesn't stun me the way the older albums do.

    Anyway, I've been busy catching up on music from 2000-2007, so I don't know much about 2008. I'll get to the other 4 albums when I reply to this thread in 2013.

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