Best of 2008 so far

B

Bride2Be 10-17-09

New member
Yeah so, I like making lists and can't really wait 'till the end of the year to make one so let's do one half way through!
yay.gif
What's your 2008 breakdown thus far?
treptrep.gif


Here's mine:

Bon Iver - For Emma, forever ago 10/10 (technically self-released in 2007 but it got a proper release in 2008).
Cut copy - In ghost colours 9/10
M83 - Saturdays=Youth 8/10
Santogold - Santogold 8/10
Hercules and Love affair - Hercules and Love affair 7/10
My morning jacket - Evil urges 7/10
Coldplay - Viva la vida or Death and all his frienRAB 7/10
Young Knives - Superabundance 7/10
The Black Keys - Attack and release 7/10
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the lonely 7/10
Beck - Modern Guilt 7/10
Fleet foxes - Fleet foxes 7/10
Hot Chip - Made in the dark 7/10
Foals - Antidotes 7/10
Gnarls Barkley - The odd couple 7/10
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 6/10
Mystery jets - Twenty one 6/10
Madonna - Hard candy 6/10
Be your own pet - Get awkward 6/10
The presets - Apocalypso 6/10
Does it offend you, yeah? - You have no idea what you're getting yourself into 6/10
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular 6/10 (did this come out in 2008 or last year?*unsure*)
Black kiRAB - Partie Traumatic 6/10
Beach house - Devotion 5/10
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer 5/10
Sigur ros - Me
 
Tut.... and I started a thread on Bon Iver too. Whatsamatta? Don't trust my exquisite judgement? ;)

So far this year for me:

Nick Cave-Dig Lazarus Dig
Bon Iver-For Emma Forever Ago
Foals-Antidote
These New Puritans-Beat Pyramid
Bong Ra-Full Metal Racket

I cannot stand the MGMT album and I'm not a big Coldplay fan. The latest Opeth album just sort of washed over me too. I am usually far behind with new releases and get there in my own time!
 
Now thats an awesome album i forgot!

Just a few more i didn't mention-

Virgin Black - Requiem - Fortissimo
Isole - Bliss of Solitude
Draconian - Turning Season Within
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Origin - Antithesis
Agalloch - The White
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
Russian Circles - Station
No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
Moon Safari - Blomljud
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
NoSound - Lightdark

Too much metal(especially doom) & psychedelic/progressive stuff this year. Most of the indie rock stuff didn't do much for me.
 
The Kills - Midnight Boom 9/10
Cat Power - Jukebox 8/10
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons 8/10
Nick Cave and the Bad SeeRAB - Dig Lazarus Dig!!! 8/10
Portishead - Third 7/10
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree 7/10
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing 7/10
No Age - Nouns 7/10
M83 - Saturdays = Youth 7/10
Muse - HAARP 6/10
The Duke Spirit - Neptune 6/10
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer 6/10
Fleet Foxes - S/T 5/10
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head 5/10

Those are the ones worth a mention. Early days though.
 
Patti Smith/Kevin ShielRAB - The Coral Sea 9.5/10
Thomas Newman - Wall-E Soundtrack 9/10
Flight of the ConchorRAB - S/T 8.5/10
Randy Newman - Harps & Angels 8.5/10
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs 8/10
The Dodos - Visiter 8/10
Beck - Modern Guilt 7.5/10
The Magnetic FielRAB - Distortion 7.5/10
The Incredible Flying Torture Orchestra 7.5/10
 
My favorites from this year...

Prosumer & Murat Tepeli - Serenity 9/10
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid 9/10
Benga - Diaries of an Afro Warrior 8/10
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours 8/10
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair 8/10
Ivan Smagghe - Cocoric
 
The M's - Real Close Ones
Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
Electric President - Sleep Well
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Ratatat - LP3
Venus - The Red Room
Telepathic Butterflies - Breakfast In Suburbia
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Why? - Alopecia
Vampire Weekend - ST
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks
Beck - Modern Guilt
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams
Tapes N' Tapes - Walk It Off
 
Good call! Thats a pretty solid EP, though I don't think they'll ever top The Mantle! My favorite album of 2008 is probably Blooddrunk by Children of Bodom by far. I know I know, I get a lot of gripe about that but I can't help it. I love Bodom!
 
I kept changing my mind about them, the album really grew on me.

I'd say that seeing them live also helped, but then I saw them a second time and they were terrible (and so unbelievably pretentious, talking all this **** about how "TNPS are a lot of things, being a band is just one of them," etc.), so I guess I can't really.
 
Only one to take full marks so far this year, Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig. Best thing I've heard since the last great Talking HeaRAB album.

Not strictly this year, but Bettye LaVette's 2007 album - The Scene of the Crime... scored 11.
 
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the lonely 7/10
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 8.5/10
Fleet foxes - Fleet foxes 9.5/10
Sigur ros - Me
 
Metallica-Death Magnetic-Much better than what I was expecting. Great album from these guys.

Sigur Ros-Med Sum...-Good album, I didn't like it nearly as much as Takk or () though.

Coldplay-Viva La Vida Or Death/All His FrienRAB-Another great album, I'm not an X&Y hater but it was better than X&Y. Probably still behind ROBTTH though.

Russian Circles-Station-I still have yet to decide if this album is as good as Enter, but Youngblood has to be one of the most kick-ass tracks I've ever heard from a post-rock/metal group.
 
Animal Collective - Water Curses 6/10
Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom 7/10
Ayreon - 01011001 6/10
Bloodbath - Unblessing the Purity 8/10
Brain Drill - Apocalyptic Feasting 8/10
Coldplay - Viva La Vida 7.5/10
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs 7.5/10
Eluveitie - Slania 6.5/10
Kayo Dot - Blue Larabency Downward 7/10
King's X - XV 6.5/10
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath 7/10
Meshuggah - obZen 8/10
Moonlyght - Shining 9/19
Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky 8/10
Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood 9/10
Opeth - Watershed 9/10
R.E.M. - Accelerate 7/10
Sahg - Sahg II 7/10
Sigur R
 
The Grinderman album last year was fairly decent too. If you like Bettye LaVette you should like Cassandra Wilson. Not as powerful, but a very talented jazz singer, and her new album was gorgeous.
 
erm ya..
Me and my copy paste ^^

And thinking back on the Agalloch EP, compared to their previous releases, it was kinda ok. A solid EP none the less, but i didn't end up listening to it all that much. I'm goona give it another go now.

Edit: I take those worRAB back! These guys can never go wrong. Liked the EP all the way through.
 
Back
Top