Best Albums of 2008

[eltee]

Impressive...you all are mentioning albums/artist I haven't seen discussed here...(Where's the Que Escuchando thread?)

Others have already been mentioned....
Steve Reynolds - The Carnival Papers
Old 97s - Blame It On Gravity
Nada Surf - Lucky

[Relaxer]

Yeah, I haven't played MF's Distortion in a couple months, but I was all over that for the first six months of the year. Was kind of surprised to see it tagged as 2008 in iTunes because that feels like so long ago.

I would've loved to see Fab Diamonds in that kind of setting, but alas, I didn't. I really love that album and play it constantly.

Others that didn't make the cut but came damn close:
Parts & Labor ? Receivers
GZA ? Pro Tools
NaS - The N Tape
Santogold ? Santogold
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Meshuggah ? obZen
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
Black Mountain ? In the Future
School of Seven Bells ? Alpinisms

[Driveway]

based on my Last.fm, I've listened to these the most:

1) Nada Surf - Lucky
2) Fleet Foxes - S/T
3) The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
4) +/- - Xs On Your Eyes
5) The Gutter Twins - Adorata
6) Bon Iver ? For Emma, Forever Ago
7) David Bazan - DVD Bonus Material
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
9) The Cassettes - Countach
10) Nada Surf ? Vinyl Box Set 1994-2008 Bonus Download

Tons of stuff in between, but released from before 2008.  Lots of 2007 still creeping around.  Lots of 1993 creeping around too.

I'm not sure how Bon Iver placed so well.  I only really like the first 2 songs on the album.  Lump Sum is excellent.  I guess I kept giving it 'another chance.'  His clangy over use of the e-bow on acoustic guitars wears thin on me.

[JohnnyBaconbitz]

Off the top of my head...........

1) Blitzen Trapper - Furr
2) Malkmus/Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
3) Beck - Modern Guilt
4) Pas/cal - We Were Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Laura
5) Vampire Weekend - s/t
6) EofDM - Heart On

[edbert]

Foxboro Hot Tubs

[Giles]

- Charlatans: You Cross My Path
- Boys Noize - Bugged Out Suck My Deck
- Soulwax: Live at Fabric
- Friendly Fires: S/T
- The Whip: X-Marks Destination
- Digitalism: Kitsuné Tabloid
- Late of the Pier: Fantasy Black Channel
- The Last Shadow Puppets: Age of the Understatement
- Justice: A Cross the Universe
- Hot Chip: Made in the Dark
- The Delays - Everything's the Rush

best one-off album from the UK magazine Mixmag is Riton's mix album: The Warehouse Project

[miss pretentious]

She & Him - Vol. 1

hands down.


other notables: tv on the radio, vampire weekend, the kills, hot chip, flight of the conchords

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

That's my wife's favorite, too. Must be a chick thing.

She & Him - Vol. 1

hands down.


other notables: tv on the radio, vampire weekend, the kills, hot chip, flight of the conchords

[Giles]

That's my wife's favorite, too. Must be a chick thing.

She & Him - Vol. 1

hands down.


other notables: tv on the radio, vampire weekend, the kills, hot chip, flight of the conchords

I think so too, PASTE magazine lists it as their number 1 album of the year as well.

[MonkeyPants]

meh.  I can't stand Zooey's voice!  it makes me want to commit ear violence on myself.  I don't get it.  But whatever, people don't like the music I like...

I think it was an awful year for music and I have very few faves (but I haven't heard a lot of things that people rave about)

Nada Surf's Lucky is my favorite by far.  Neptune by The Duke Spirit is second on my list.  I think I only have two on my list.  Honorable mentions go to Hercules & Love Affair, Spiritualized and Ani Difranco.  Everything else was...alright I guess...even bands that I like put out only so-so albums.  meh.

[azaghal1981]

I was just about to start the "bands I like that disappointed me this year" thread.

TVOTR
Boris (Japanese version of Smile got many listens from me but the American version was a watered down piece of crap)
Man Man
Wooden Wand aka James Jackson Toth (although he's been on the road to Jeff Tweedy wannabe land for a while now)

[Vas Deferens]

Bon Iver's voice bugs the hell out of me.

Incredibly overrated albums I'm tired of hearing about:
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes

[walkonby]

anything devendra did in 2008, whether it walking/talking/writing his bike.

me like me some of of that blitzen trapper disk.

but best of the best, is that four disk box set that the dead roy orbison put out.  awesome.  damn good awesome.

[njproc]

Actually a pretty weak music year all around.  My faves:

M83- Saturdays= Youth
Herbie Hancock- River
Goldfrapp- Seventh Tree
Killers- Day and Age
And OK I relent, Coldplay and TV on the Radio (which although good and I don't get the hype)

And the Cure 4:13 Dream, b/c they are the Cure.

Really dissapointed by the new Bloc Party, and very weak hip-hop offerings this year...

[azaghal1981]

Hip-hop has pretty much been flatlined for all of '07 and '08, sadly.