Post your best albums of 2008 lists here

[mvd]

The only requirement is that the albums were released this year. You can always change your lists later. Mine is preliminary. I was going to put Veronica's Hook Me Up in, but that was released last year.

Here's my list:

Taylor Swift - Fearless
The Weepies - Hideaway
James McMurtry - Just Us Kids
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Eliza Gilkyson - Beautiful World
Karmina - Backwards Into Beauty
She & Him - Volume One
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Tilly & The Wall - o
B-52s - Funplex
Sugarland - Love On The Inside
Kay Hanley - Weaponize
Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows
The Killers - Day & Age
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Looking At It
Cara Luft - The Light Fantastic
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - Not Animal
Stacie Rose - Shotgun Daisy
Rosi Golan - The Drifter And The Gypsy

Honorable mentions (it was hard to put some of these albums out of the top list, but choices had to be made - best have an asterick)

*Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
*Marie Digby - Unfold
Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead
Duffy - Rockferry
*TV On The Radio - Dear Science
*Cyndi Lauper - Bring Ya To The Brink
Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
Jewel - Perfectly Clear
*Sheryl Crow - Detours
The Whigs - Mission Control
*Pink - Funhouse
Julianna Cole - A Little More Of Me
*Leona Naess - Thirteens
Katy Petty - One Of The Boys
Uh Huh Her - Common Reaction
*Amy Ray - Didn't It Feel Kinder
Meiko - self-titled
Lauren Harris - Calm Before The Storm
The Bridges - Limits Of The Sky
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
*Maggie Walters - Midwestern Hurricane
*Lenka - self-titled
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing (best songs earned it an HM)
Sonya Kitchell - This Storm
Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be

[alarimer]

1. Mine

In no particular order

Dr. Dog- Fate (actually I think this is my number 1)
The Raconteurs- Consolers of the lonely.
REM- Accelerate
The Hold Steady- Stay Positive
Flogging Molly- Float
Calexico- Carried to dust
Cento-matic/South San Gabriel- Dual Hawks
The Iguanas- If you should ever fall on hard times
Lucinda Williams- Little Honey
Blue Mountain- Midnight in Mississippi
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals- Cardinology
Mudcrutch- Mudcrutch
The Low Anthem- Oh my god charlie Darwin
Okkervil River- The Stand Ins
Two Cow Garage- Speaking in Cursive
Jim White- Transnormal Skipperoo

[mvd]

2. I still have to hear the Lucinda Williams CD and more

That's why my list is preliminary. :hi:

[alarimer]

3. It's really good.

A real return to form.

[mvd]

6. Cool - I can get it soon

Thanks for the reminder. :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

8. I like your list.

I am a big Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel fan. Okkervil River, too.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

4. Here ya go...mostly archive, live or reissue stuff released in 2008.

The Smithereens - Live In Concert -Greatest Hits And More!



Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun



Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue & Bambu - 2 CD Deluxe Legacy Edition (Bonus Tracks)



Little Feat & Friends - Join The Band



AC/DC - Black Ice



Motorhead - Motorizer



Buddy Guy - Skin Deep



Rolling Stones - Shine A Light



Grateful Dead - Rocking The Cradle - Egypt 1978



:toast:

[flvegan]

5. Rise Against - Appeal to Reason

and AC/DC's Black Ice are all I really cared about this year.

[LeftyMom]

16. That was going to be my answer.

:thumbsup:

[harmonicon]

7. I haven't even bought that many albums in the last year

let alone, ones that were released within the last year. I'll go with "Arbor Vitae" by Quotuor Bozzini though - a 2 cd set of the string quartets and quintets of James Tenney, played by my favourite string quartet + friends (including the amazing Eve Egoyan).

[jeff30997]

9. Best albums released this year?

OK:













I can't name a single recent band/artist that I like.:cry:

[insanity]

10. A few:

The Submarines- Honeysuckle Weeks

Slightly Not Stoned Enough to Eat Breakfast Yet Stoopid- Slightly Stoopid

Ratatat- LP3

The Kooks- Konk

Devotchka- A Mad and Faithful Telling

[mvd]

11. I like your pick of The Submarines

The samples sound right up my alley. :hi:

[insanity]

12. I caught them live back in March

and really liked them.

[Parche]

13. alanis morrisette of course

:rofl: :puke: :puke:

:hi:

[mvd]

14. Actually, I bought her CD Flavors Of Entanglement

It just wasn't my fave from her. Still worth buying for fans. :hi:

[Forkboy]

15. Haven't picked them yet.

One of my goals this week is to go through all of my CDs and pick out just the ones from this year (which is a freakin' lot) and then start widdling a list down out of those. My top 3 is pretty much set barring any last minute surprises (there's a couple of CDs by bands I like that are out that I just haven't gotten yet), but after that it's wide open.

It's been an odd year for music. There hasn't been half as many clear standouts as last year, but there's been even more CDs that are just solid releases by solid bands/artists.

Here's a handful that will most likely end up in the top 10. As I say, the top three seem set in place, and have been for months.

Woe - A Spell For The Death Of Man
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Made Out Of Babies - The Ruiner
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5ive - Hesperus
Firewater - The Golden Hour
Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game In Town

[mvd]

17. Hi, Forkboy

Even with my taste, it was a little easier picking the best albums this year. But since I like a wide variety of music, I felt there were more standouts. :hi:

[Forkboy]

18. I think my trouble is that last year was one of the best years for music in awhile.

My top 10 last year could have been totally interchangeable because they were all standouts. For some reason this year has been lower key. I suppose partly because so many of the bands I love released CDs just last year. :silly:

:hi:

[Initech]

19. Here is my list:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig!!!!
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Opeth - Watershed
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
The Roots - Rising Down
Beck - Modern Guilt
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
The Racontuers - Consolers Of The Lonely
NIN - The Slip
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
No Man - Schoolyard Ghosts

[mvd]

20. Giving another chance for more lists

If there are still a lot of lists yet to be made, I'll create a new topic in January.

[Arugula Latte]

21. I'm going to make up a bunch of names and then pretend I'm cooler than all of you

because I heard of them and you have not.

:P

Okay -- here is my list:

The Hand Grenades -- Shrapnel Shards
My Friend Lulu -- Pretty Things, Pretty Rings
Scuzzpuppets -- Smackdown
Clean Windows -- Wipe
Snookums -- Self titled
Floyd Lloyd -- Nose Pickens


What? You've never heard of them? Jeez, I guess you guys are behind the curve. :eyes: