Favorite/Best Albums of '08

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  • pretext
    pretext Posts: 1,294
    keeponrockin wrote:
    REM - Consolers of The Lonely

    Did you remix Accelerate and The Raconteurs? :)
  • Back_Pedal
    Back_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    Chinese Democracy - Guns N' Roses
    In Rainbows - Radiohead (Got the physical version this year, with was available only starting 2008 so I'll count it)
    Weezer - Red Album (Deluxe Edition)
    Bumblefoot - Abnormal


    I actually haven't heard a lot of stuff from this year. This is mostly just the only 2008 albums I've purchased this year.
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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    lralle wrote:
    Did you remix Accelerate and The Raconteurs? :)
    Haha, I was listening to REM at the time!
    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
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    pearlzepfan wrote:
    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 really want to but the first listen bored me to tears. I bought it yesterday. I'll give it another try tomorrow, but it was a bad first impression.
  • gnr+pj=2bestever
    gnr+pj=2bestever Posts: 358
    gabers wrote:
    I really want to but the first listen bored me to tears. I bought it yesterday. I'll give it another try tomorrow, but it was a bad first impression.


    I hated a lot of the songs upon the first few listens, however it is BY FAR the most played album in my collection (since the beginning of all the leaks, not the release).

    It is like a bad car accident, it's terrible, but you can't look away. This isn't the GNR I grew up loving, but I can't stop listening...so i guess i like it :)
    Whats got the whole world faking?
  • unifiedscene
    unifiedscene Posts: 462
    gabers wrote:
    I really want to but the first listen bored me to tears. I bought it yesterday. I'll give it another try tomorrow, but it was a bad first impression.

    Do listen to it again. I dug it the first time around, but wasn't exactly blown away. But it is one album that sounds better and better every time you hear it. It's definitely not the bluesy, hard rock GnR. But nobody does epic like Axl, and those songs really grow and benefit from his obsessive devotion to every detail.

    My list:

    Beck- Modern Guilt
    Black Crowes- Warpaint
    GnR- Chinese Democracy
    Gutter Twins- Saturnalia
    GZA- Pro Tools
    Hold Steady- Stay Positive
    Kings of Leon- Only by the Night
    Local H- 12 Angry Months
    My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges
    REM- Accelerate
    TV on the Radio- Dear Science

    Other albums I enjoyed, but wouldn't rate as highly as the above:

    Black Keys- Attack & Release
    Cool Kids- Bake Sale
    Conor Oberst- s/t
    Foo Fighters
    Nas- untitled
    Oasis- Dig Out Your Soul
    Roots- Rising Down
    Sigur Ros
    Verve- Forth
    she was underwhelmed, if that's a word
  • Sian-of-the-dead
    Sian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    MMJ - Evil Urges
    REM - Accelerate
    The Levellers - Letters From The Underground
    Metallica - Death Magnetic
    KoL - Only By The Night
    Been to this many PJ shows: Reading 2006 London 2007 Manchester & London 2009 Dublin, Belfast, London, Nijmegen & Berlin 2010 Manchester 1 & Manchester 2 2012...

    ... and I still think Drive-By Truckers are better.
  • Dismantle The Sun
    Dismantle The Sun Posts: 139
    I went for the Fleet Foxes purely by recommendation. I never heard anything by them and after reading reviews I thought what the heck...give it a try. I'm glad I did. The album is incredible. So much like 60's west coast music in Beach Boy harmonies. I love it and play it often.

    So after VK's Patriarch's Blues (a definite #1) has to be Fleet Foxes at #2.
    Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun - W.H. Auden
  • The_Fixer
    The_Fixer Posts: 255
    meme wrote:
    Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs

    +1
    Montreal 08/20/98 | New York 09/11/98 | Wantagh 08/24/00 | Montreal 10/04/00 | Montreal 06/29/03 | Montreal 09/15/05
    Toronto 05/10/06 | Vancouver 04/02//08 (Ed) | Manchester 06/14/08 | Montreal 08/09/08 (Ed) | Montreal 08/10/08 (Ed) 
    Albany 06/08/09 (Ed) | Philadelphia 10/31/09 | Montreal 09/07/11 | Ottawa 05/08/16 | Brooklyn 04/07/17 (RRHOF)
    Dana Point 09/09/17 (Ed) | Rome 06/26/18
  • RVM1978
    RVM1978 Leesburg, FL Posts: 320
    All year the one album I haven't been able to stop listening to is "Real Emotional Trash" by Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. I would have to say that is my pick for the year.
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  • Vedderman51
    Vedderman51 Posts: 606
    Kings of Leon- Only by the Night
    Ryan Adams- Cardinology
    Oasis- Dig Out Your Soul
    Metallica- Death Magnetic
  • Zeitgeist475
    Zeitgeist475 Posts: 1
    1. Metallica- Death Magnetic
    2. the "new" Guns N' Roses- Chinese Deomcracy
    3. Coldplay- Viva La' Vida
    4. Foo Fighters- Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace.
    5. Motley Crue- Saints of Los Angeles
    6. Radiohead- In Rainbows
    7. Sixx A.M.- Heroine Diaries Soundtrack
  • Strangest Tribe
    Strangest Tribe Posts: 2,502
    I'll give MMJ the best album of the year, but The Whigs- -Mission Control has the most listens on my iPod.

    I must also give props to
    NIN---Ghosts I-IV

    and I'm not a huge NIN fanboy
    the Minions
  • chitty
    chitty Posts: 610
    Top 5 in order
    Ashes Divide-Keep telling me it's alright (if you haven't heard it you should)
    G & R - Chinese Democracy
    Snow Patrol-Hundred Million Suns
    Killers-day and age
    Coldplay-Viva La Vida

    Very HM to Seether-Beauty in negative spaces


    Lots of other good ones. I'd say this was a good year for music, finally!
  • telemark
    telemark Posts: 16
    The Gaslight Anthem - the '59 sound.. I think.
    all hopes abandoned...
  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    1. Rise Against- Appeal to Reason. If you haven't heard this yet you should
    2. Ashes Divide- Keep Telling Myself its Alright- great album
    3. Alkaline Trio- forget what its called.
  • nooram
    nooram Posts: 392
    Supersuckers - Get it Together
    Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell - Sunday at Devil Dirt
    Seattle 8/91, MPLS 3/92, St Paul 8/92, Denver 6/95, Missoula 6/98, MPLS 6/98, Albuquerque 10/00, Seattle 12/02, St Paul 6/03, Thunder Bay 9/05, DC 5/06, St Paul x2 6/06, Vancouver (EV) 4/08, DC 6/08, Chicago x2 8/09, KC 5/10, MPLS (EV) 7/11, Chicago 7/13, St Paul 10/14, Santiago 11/15, Missoula 8/18, Denver 9/22, Saint Paul 8/23, Saint Paul 9/23, Auckland, NZ x2 11/24
  • pearljam_addiction
    pearljam_addiction Posts: 668
    1- Kings of Leon: Only By the Night
    2- My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
    3- Dead Confederate: Wrecking Ball
    4- Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
    5- Death Cab For Cutie:Narrow Stairs
    6- Cat Power: Jukebox
    7- Vampire weekend: Vampire Weekend
    8- Jack Johnson: Sleep through the Static
    9- Ray La Montagne; Gossip in the Grain
    10- ColdPlay: Viva La Vida
    11- The Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely
    12- Counting Crows: Saturday Nights Sunday Mornings
    13- Weezer: the red album
    14- The Cure: 4:13 Dream
    15- The Kooks: konk
    "I Will Scream my Lungs out 'til it fills this Room "

    " I Will Feel Alive as Long as I am Free"

    "Are We Getting SomeThing Out Of this All Encompassing Trip? Makes Much More Sense To Live In The Present Tense"

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  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    Only had two favorites:

    The Black Crowes - Warpaint
    Metallica - Death Magnetic
    DAL-7/5/98,10/17/00,6/9/03,11/15/13
    BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
    MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
    CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
    HTFD-6/27/08
    ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
    KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
    Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
    PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
    OKC-11/16/13
    SEA-12/6/13
    TUL-10/8/14
  • red mos
    red mos Posts: 4,953
    Toadies- No deliverance
    Black crowes- warpaint
    MMJ- evil urges
    KOL- Only by the night
    PJ: 10/14/00 06/09/03 10/4/09 11/15/13 11/16/13 10/08/14
    EV Solo: 7/11/11 11/12/12 11/13/12

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