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You’ll see our top 10 soon enough, but what are your current top 10 albums of 2008 (the proper year, not our mismatched one)?
I think you’ve got to have the likes of Last Shadow Puppets, Elbow, Duffy (sorry!) and maybe Metallica in there, but I’d love to know what everyone else thinks. Bit of Vampire Weekend, maybe? Or possibly Ra Ra Riot?
Take That’s isn’t out yet, so sadly cannot be included.
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This is a question that can’t be answered lightly but here’s a few of my fave’s in no particular order…
MGMT
Late of the Pier
Mystery Jets
Neon Neon
Santogold
The Teenagers
Radiohead
The Black Kids
Johny Flynn
Vampire Weekend
Bloc Party
Tokyo Police club
Friendly Fires
2008 Top 50…
# The Hawk Is Howling - Mogwai
# Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails
# I Want You To Know That There Is Always Hope - I Was A Cub Scout
# Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust - Sigur Rós
# Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down - Noah And The Whale
# The Rhumb Line - Ra Ra Riot
# Death Magnetic - Metallica
# Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
# Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp
# Third - Portishead
# Save The World, Get The Girl - The King Blues
# Mountain Meadows - Elliott Brood
# Accelerate - R.E.M.
# We Started Nothing - The Ting Tings
# Church Bell Blues - Catherine MacLellan
# The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
# Gossip In The Grain - Ray LaMontagne
# Arther - Arther
# Poor Man’s Heaven - Seth Lakeman
# The Age Of The Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
# Glasvegas - Glasvegas
# Consolers Of The Lonely - The Raconteurs
# Do You Like Rock Music - British Sea Power
# Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings - Counting Crows
# Seven Months And A Fire Blanket - Proceed
# Silent Cry - Feeder
# Liejacker - Thea Gilmore
# Narrow Stairs - Death Cab For Cutie
# In Rainbows - Radiohead
# Alas, I Cannot Swim - Laura Marling
# This Is A Fix - The Automatic
# Friday Night Lights - Attic Lights
# Welcome To Goon Island - XX Teens
# Attack & Release - The Black Keys
# I Am Undone - My Epic
# Rosie And The Goldbug - Rosie And The Goldbug
# Songs In A&E - Spiritualized
# You Cross My Path - The Charlatans
# @#%&*! Smilers - Aimee Mann
# Under Summer Sun - Matt Wertz
# The Slip - Nine Inch Nails
# Toy Tugboats - Sunfold
# The Hollow Of Morning - Gemma Hayes
# Little Voice - Sara Bareilles
# When The Night Time Comes - Jenny Lindfors
# The Well - Sarah Perrotta
# Those We Leave Behind - I Am Ghost
# Elliot Minor - Elliot Minor
# Saturnalia - The Gutter Twins
# Neptune - The Duke Spirit
Elliot Minor - Elliot Minor
Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?! lol.
I missed that one. You’ve got some explaining to do now mister…
glad yous two saw that too. That may well be the reason its kept to a top 10
Elliot Minor, honestly….
whaaaat the hell????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
you seriously need to get out more…………………………
ps. do you actually have a girlfriend??
Ok in my defence this is a top 50 and it gets a bit weird towards the end….It is an album that justifies it’s 48th place
I knew i’d jumped the gun with my suggestions. Would have to have portishead, nick cave and british sea power in there. I do like the Last Shadow Puppets record but does anyone else feel it gets a bit monotonous by the end? Black Keys, Ra Ra Riot, Glasvegas and Noah and The Whale get definite mentions from me also
I’m way too embarrassed to reveal my top 10 album list of this year because it involves a certain band that I really shouldn’t like but I really *really* do… Wouldn’t want my credibility to go out the window over something like this…
I know what you’re thinking. ‘What credibility?’ Fair point!!
In no particular order:
. Das Pop - Das Pop
. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
. Funeral for a Friend - Memory and Humanity
. Def Leppard - Songs from the Sparkle Lounge
. Jonas Brothers - A Little Bit Longer (……..*hangs head in shame*……)
. McFly - RadioACTIVE (I can’t apologise for this, it’s flippin’ brilliant!)
. The Script - The Script
. Feeder - Silent Cry
. Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
. Nathan Persad - Since 1978 (buy it, it was out on Monday, it’s fabulous. I wrote the sleevenotes!!)
surely you meant “certain bands that I shouldn’t like” Heather?
Hey I’m a girl, I’m allowed to worship musicians with long hair and tight trousers, it’s part of the deal…!!!!!
Erm. I mean. Ahem. It’s aaaallllll about the music……
Good Lord. Good Lord indeed. You’ve saved yourself with VW, LSP, and FFAF, but let yourself down horribly on everything else.
It’s all opinion though, but as I’m in charge you all have to obey mine.
My record-buying budget has been taken up by older releases this year, but among the newer things I managed to get, two stand out:
Max Tundra: Parallax Error Beheads You.
Extremely tuneful and inventive, life-affirming but oddly melancholy, this is one to keep going back to- I’m still discovering new things in it after more than a month (and countless listens).
Men Diamler: Sea Shanties For The Far Inland.
I reckon he’s one of the best lyricists we’ve got at the moment, these songs are so sad, but funny too. They feel like they should have been around for centuries.
- Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
- Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
- The Fireman, Electric Arguments
- TV on the Radio, Dear Science
- Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
- Los Campesinos!, Hold on Now, Youngster
- AC/DC, Black Ice
- Blitzen Trapper, Furr
- Okkervil River, The Stand Ins
- Apollo Sunshine, Shall Noise Upon
1 Glasvegas
2 Elbow
3 Los Campesinos!
4 Death Cab
5 Blood Red Shoes
6 Kings of Leon
7 Mystery Jets
8 The Research
9 Scarlett Johansson
10 Black Kids
Bosh!