General 2008 Discussion

Apparently Kevin Barnes said something along the lines of "I'm going to lose so many fans, but I don't care, I'm having so much fun." I'm kind of scared for the new Of Montreal album, either it's going to be amazing and fantastically weird pop or it's going to be a really bad "radio indie" album.
 
i've heard the same,.....so i'm really lookin forward to that as well,.....
it will be nice to have something new to annoy my frienRAB with, as right now i'm on my greatful dead kick,.....dirty hippies,....

hey,...you dont happen to know a release date on that do you?
 
The Volta - Bedlam
Protest The Hero - Fortress
The Fall of Troy - The 2 EPs and hopefully Phantoms..maybe even the split with The #12 looks like you.
 
I think The Icarus Line Are working on a new album so I'm waiting in great anticipation (Considering that their last album was awesomely good and now they have an even better line up.)
 
Christ you get through a lot of music, i didn't even know half of those artists had an album out. Bit of a cop out at No 1.

My top 5 so far.

1. The Kills - Midnight Boom
2. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons
3. Cat Power - Jukebox
4. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
5. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum (i thought that was 2007 though)

No Age which i got yesterday has a strong chance of entering high up too.
 
I honestly believe that musicians lift lines without even realizing it. When you reach the point that you've listened to so much music, parts of songs start coming to mind and you're killing yourself to try to remeraber where it originated from often with little success.

I have a personal experience with having lifted something. My story goes like this: it was 2005 and I hadn't listened to Nirvana probably in about 12 years. I was writing a song and I came up with what I thought was this really great opening guitar line. Only late last year did I realize that it wasn't original after listening to In Utero and hearing Heart Shaped Box again. Bingo, that's where I had got it from - my line was not identical but very very close. It was lodged deep somewhere in my mind so much so that it could spontaneously occur to me such that I could deceive myself into thinking I created it.

Paul McCartney interestingly was worried about the exact same thing when he came up with Yesterday. He recalled composing the melody in a dream, and playing it immediately after waking up in order not to forget it. But due to this, he was worried for months that he'd unconsciously plagiarized it. He played it to people all over the record industry to make sure that it wasn't the case, and finally, since nobody claimed it, he kept it for himself.

Could happen to any musician and I bet it frequently does. I come across curiously similar melodies all the time, especially recently after listening to some old Beatles albums again. I was listening to "Help" 1965, and I came across the song It's Only Love. The melody of the chorus is remarkably similar to part of Grizzly Bear's He Hit Me from last year. I'd bet my bottom dollar the songwriter got the melody from having heard that Beatles song at some point in his life.

Verdict: probably accidental, even in really suspicious cases.


EDIT: Well, except Led Zep - that's clearly blatant rip-off-ahoy!:D
 
Changed this thread to 2008 Albums Discussion so we don't have a bunch of best of and underrated threaRAB throughout the year.
 
Crystal Castles album is quite cool. A bit of an aquired taste it seems, but I'm enjoying it. They were playing in a club on Skins, so soon enough everyone will know them.

I can't really think of anything in particular that's been released this year tbh. I wanna hear Nick Cave though.
 
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