Music Forum / 2008 Albums

End of the year so why not...

Top albums of the year... read like a book...






And the biggest letdowns...

1. The End Of An Error - Houston Calls
2. Folie a Deux - Fall Out Boy
3. On The Run - 1997
4. Sleep Through The Static - Jack Johnson
5. Razia's Shadow - Forgive Durden
6. The Alchemy Index 1-4 - Thrice
7. Lost In The Sound Of Seperation - Underoath
8. Life Is Not A Waiting Room - Senses Fail
9. Adventure, Nostalgia, Robbery - Fireworks
10. Fragile Future - Hawthorn Heights
11. Initial EP - Person L

Shit...I dont even know how to start ranking these

Apocalyptica-Worlds Collide
Arsis-We Are the Nightmare
Bloodbath-The Fathomless Mastery
Bonded By Blood-Feed the Beast
Cult of Luna-Eternal Kingdom
Cynic-Traced in Air
Daylight Dies-Lost to the Living
Disturbed-Indestructible
The Faceless-Planetary Duality
Firewind-The Premonition
The Haunted-Versus
Meshuggah-obZen
Metallica-Death Magnetic
Neuraxis-The Thin Line Between
Opeth-Watershed
Swallow the Sun-Plague of Butterflys
Testament-The Formation of Damnation

Hard to believe these were the only new CDs from 2008 I got, but I suppose a lot of them were from other years.

My personal Top 10 for 2008:

The Dodos - Visiter
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Portishead - Third
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
Santogold - Santogold
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Brent, great choice on the Finch, and i agree, Razia's Shadow was a letdown.

for me:

1. Censored Colors- Portugal. the Man
2. Radiohead- In Rainbows
3. Avalon- Anthony Green
4. Bloc Party- Intimacy
5. Copeland- You Are My Sunshine
6. Good Old War- Only Way to be Alone
7. Coldplay- Viva La Vida
8. Dear and the Headlights- Drunk Like Bible Times
9. Fleet Foxes- s/t
10. The Killers- Day & Age
11. Emarosa- Relativity
12. Death Cab for Cutie- Narrow Stairs
13. Kings of Lean- Only by the Night
14. Lydia- Illuminate
15. The Sound of Animals Fighting- The Ocean and the Sun

Holy Blood - The Patriot


Kevin Enns Ist Krieg

This year there were five new albums by bands I really like.

Cool shit:
-Ayreon - 01011001 (best of 2008)
-Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge
-Metallica - Death Magnetic

Disappointments:
-Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus
-Pain - Cynic Paradise

Funny. There are a good number of bands listed that I've never heard of...

But, oh well. Here's my top 3 (aka: The only three '08 albums I purchased this year).

Chinese Republic - Guns 'N Roses
Death Magnetic - Metallica
Indestructible - Disturbed

Xin, isn't it Chinese Democracy? I don't even listen to that kind of music, and I saw it was Democracy in the store. Whatever.

01) Day & Age - The Killers

02) Intimacy - Bloc Party

03) Viva la Vida - Coldplay

04) Narrow Stairs - Death Cab for Cutie

05) Only By the Night - Kings of Leon



p.s., In Rainbows came out in 2007.

In no particular order




thats about it from what i can remember

i liked:
rotation-ciswaf
pretty. odd.-patd
skip school start fights-htl
want-3OH!3
cant stop wont stop-the maine

awhh shit, just about everyone brent posted i liked

but he forgot
hold on tight-hey monday

Edited by Nokia, 04 January 2009 - 08:02 PM.

I really didn't get into much new stuff this last year. First time since 05' I can say that. Back then it was because I was fucking ignorant. Now it's because I'm really busy and the bands and releases I was interested in mostly failed to meet my exceptions. In many cases YouTube helped me avoid wasting my money. Really the two albums released 2008 that I've listened to and enjoyed the most both came from local bands (B&G sides by The Hard Lessons, Olly Oxen Free by Mason Proper) that I saw live and picked up the album there.

Besides that I've discovered the National, The Stone Roses, the Minutemen, and countless others, while my appreciation of artists like Okkervil River, Modest Mouse, and Radiohead has only continued to deepen. 2009 certainly has the potential to be a milestone year in music. The Strokes, The Flaming Lips, The Von Bondies, the Appleseed Cast, U2, Pearl Jam, Muse and Wilco are all rumored to be working on new material that *could* be released in '09. If half of those manage satisfying releases in this year or the next I will be relieved. Right now I've lost faith in a lot of bands (*cough* Bloc Party *cough*).

Ride6

1. You Are My Sunshine - Copeland
2. We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things - Jason Mraz
2. Pretty. Odd. - Panic at the Disco

period.

1 Verse En Coma | Rialto
2 Halo Fauna | Durak
3 O Pioneers!!! | Neon Creeps
4 Algernon Cadwallader | Some Kind of Cadwallader
5 Bon Iver | For Emma, Forever Ago
6 Sinaloa | Oceans of Islands
7 The Gaslight Anthem | The '59 Sound
8 My Morning Jacket | Evil Urges
9 The Mars Volta | The Bedlam in Goliath
10 Wolf Parade | At Mount Zoomer
11 Ratatat | LP3
12 Envy/Jesu | split
13 Transistor Transistor | Ruined Lives
14 Jaguar Love | Take Me to the Sea
15 Les Savy Fav | After the Balls Drop
16 Sigur Rós | Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
17 Genghis Tron | Board Up the House
18 Portugal. The Man | Censored Colors
19 The Black Keys | Attack & Release
20 Minus the Bear | Acoustics


Mother fuckers need better taste in music god damn

Tracid, you listen to some great music.

Tracid your musical taste has gotten a lot more agreeable than I remember.

Uh yeah it's a little thing called I don't go to high school anymore. And subsequently have a lot more time to download a shitload of music.

This year was p good I'd say.

flying lotus-los angeles
juana molina-un dia
land of talk-some are lake
bon iver-for emma forever ago
mt eerie with julie dioron and fred squire-lost wisdom
the sight below-no place for us ep
school of seven bells-alpinisms
lee jones-electronic frank
kanye west-808s and heartbreak
clark-turning dragon

1. Coldplay- Viva la Vida
2. Good Old War- Only Way To Be Alone
3. The Killers- Day & Age
4. MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
5. Dear and the Headlights- Drunk Like Bible Times
6. Oasis- Dig Out Your Soul
7. Copeland- You Are My Sunshine
8. Anthony Green- Avalon