agh, lindstrom was deleted from my list too!!
― lex pretend, Friday, 31 October 2008 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
This is what I've got at the moment (apologies for the formatting, I pasted this from RYM):
1 Fleet FoxesFleet Foxes (2008) 2 Vampire WeekendVampire Weekend (2008) 3 Thao With The Get Down Stay DownWe Brave Bee Stings and All (2008) 4 Stephen MalkmusReal Emotional Trash (2008) 5 SantogoldSantogold (2008) 6 OpethWatershed (2008) 7 Pete & the PiratesLittle Death (2008) 8 Jenny ScheinmanCrossing the Field (2008) 9 DestroyerTrouble in Dreams (2008) 10 Jenny ScheinmanJenny Scheinman (2008)
If I could include Kevin Ayers Unfairground, which I didn't hear until this year, then that would probably be around #3.
― o. nate, Friday, 31 October 2008 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link
devotchka, july skies, mogil, auburn lull, ruby suns, gareth s brown, moto boy, cocoanut groove, library tapes, lodger, regina, motifs, randomnumber, moscow olympics, rockettothesky, soda fountain rag, sound of arrows ep, stereolab, still corners ep, vapnet
― keythkeyth, Saturday, 1 November 2008 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
As with my singles, this is extremely, extremely provisional:
1. Ne-Yo, Year of the Gentleman (Def Jam) 2. Poplife Sucks (N.E.W.S.) 3. Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part 1: 4th World War (Motown) 4. Spoon, Daytrotter Session (http://www.daytrotter.com/article/1322/spoon) 5. Raphael Saadiq, The Way I See It (Columbia) 6. Hercules and Love Affair (DFA/Mute) 7. Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life (Matador) 8. Portishead, Third (Mercury) 9. Lil’ Wayne, Tha Carter III (Cash Money) 10. Flying Lotus, Los Angeles (Warp)
― Matos W.K., Sunday, 2 November 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Second ten: Etran Finatawa, Benga, Dave Aju, Tape, the Hold Steady, Bob Dylan, Gang Gang Dance, caUSE co-MOTION!, Girl Talk, the Muslims.
― Matos W.K., Sunday, 2 November 2008 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
1. The-Dream - Love/Hate2. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster/We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed3. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt 1: 4th World War4. Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07/Singles 085. Jerusalem and the Starbaskets - The Howling6. Kelley Pollar - I Need You to Hold on While the Sky is Falling 7. Kleerup - s/t8. Mariah Carey - E=MC29. Mahjongg - Kontpab10. Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
― Tape Store, Sunday, 2 November 2008 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I should point out that my top five artists were all slated to release two albums this year.
― Tape Store, Sunday, 2 November 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Extremely tentative Top 25 snapshot of this random point in time, including a number of releases (asterisked) that might conceivably make more sense on a reissues ballot, if there is one, and if I made the more-or-less aribitrary decision to put them there:
1 - 10:Jamey Johnson – That Lonesome Song (Mercury)Rose Tattoo – Blood Brothers (Wacken)Ross Johnson – Make It Stop! The Most Of Ross Johnson (Goner)*The Knux – Remind Me In 3 Days… (Interscope)Rick Springfield – Venus In Overdrive (New Door/Universal Music Enterprises)The Tonic Rays – The Tonic Rays (thetonicrays.com ’07)Woodbox Gang – Drunk As Dragons (Alternative Tentacles)Carter’s Chord – Carter’s Chord (Show Dog Nashville)Teacher’s Pet – Teacher’s Pet (Smog Veil)*Prisonshake – Dirty Moons (Scat)
11 - 20Morel – The Death Of The Paperboy (Outsider Music)The Lizards – är-chē-ol’-ō-gy (Hypserspace)Banastre Tarleton Band – Huzzah! Greatest Hits (Green Horse)*(Various) – 1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground (Subliminal Frequencies)*Steinski – What Does It All Mean?: 1983-2006 Retrospective (Illegal Art)*New Bloods – The Secret Life (K EP)Girlschool – Legacy (Steamhammer/SPV/Wacken)Trace Adkins – X (EMI)Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colours (Goner)Toby Keith – That Don’t Make Me A Bad Guy (Show Dog Nashville)
21 - 25Black Diamond Heavies – A Touch Of Someone Else’s Class (Alive)Sonny Rollins – Road Shows Vol. 1 (Doxy)*Final Solutions – Songs By Solutions (Goner EP ’07)Ashlee Simpson – Bittersweet World (Geffen)Fotheringay – 2 (Fledgling)*
― xhuxk, Sunday, 2 November 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
― Tape Store, Sunday, November 2, 2008 4:09 PM (1 hour ago)
jerusalem and the starbaskets put out a full-length? i can't find it anywhere. i really like their song "i cannot radiato without you"
― Kevin Keller, Sunday, 2 November 2008 17:37 (fifteen years ago) link
pretty close to the tracks list...
1. The Drones - Havilah2. Made Out of Babies - The Ruiner3. Shearwater - Rook4. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid5. Parts and Labor - Receivers6. Wolf Parade - At Mt Zoomer7. Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark8. Hilotrons - Happymatic9. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark10. Jaguar Love - Take Me to the Sea
― Simon H., Sunday, 2 November 2008 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Portishead, The Cure, Badu, Santogold, Mountain Goats
― Black Seinfeld (HI DERE), Sunday, 2 November 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i ordered mine from their myspace a month or so ago, so they might still have some, and they also seem to have copies here:
http://www.goner-records.com/cart/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=3379
there's also another LP coming out on great pop supplement early next year
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Sunday, 2 November 2008 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link
add au revoir borealis to my list, it is absolutely beautiful.
― keythkeyth, Monday, 3 November 2008 02:31 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll talk to jeremy this week...i only have the lp, not a cd.
― Tape Store, Monday, 3 November 2008 03:01 (fifteen years ago) link
the usual disclaimers apply.
1. Hercules and Love Affair - s/t2. Erykah Badu - the long-ass title of that record3. Ital Tek - Cyclical4. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles5. Luomo - Convivial6. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple7. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today8. TV On the Radio - Dear Science9. Autechre - Quaristice10. The Sea and Cake - Car Alarm
― Mozarella sticks. Think about it. (kenan), Monday, 3 November 2008 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
not that it matters, as i don't/won't vote in the vv poll, but here goes my top 25, not necessarily in order. remember it is only november 2.
erykah badu, nuamerykah vol. 1: fourth world wardub colossus, a town called addisgipsy.cz, reprezentlila downs, shake awaygilfema, gilfema +2lil mama, voice of the young peoplea.r. rahman, jodhaa-akbar soundtrackplastilina mosh, all u need is moshxx teens, welcome to goon islandesperanza spalding, esperanzavarious artists but mainly stew, passing strange soundtrackeddie floyd, eddie loves you soakoya afrobeat, p.d.p.cuong vu, vu-tett.i., paper trailgeorge clinton and the gangsters of love, s/tsolange, sol-angel and the hadley st. dreamstv on the radio, dear sciencegoldfrapp, seventh treekasai all-stars, in the 7th moon...fuck the facts, disgorge mexicoof montreal, skeletal lampinggym class heroes, the quilt
― Dimension 5ive, Monday, 3 November 2008 03:28 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a lot I haven't heard that I want to hear (not necessarily on the lists above), but these are my favorites so far (a list which has hardly changed since the spring):
Boris - Smile [Japanese version]Nejo & Dalmata - Broke and Famous [realy late 2007]Soneros All Stars, Featuring Cesar "Pupy" Pedroso - La Timba So YoHenry Fiol - De Cachete
Also, Cesar Pedroso has a solo album out which I'm pretty sure will be one of my favorites once I hear the rest (two tracks I haven't heard yet).
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 21:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I just got Dungen 4, which will probably bump something off my list above.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 21:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Right now I'm feeling like:
The-Dream - Love/HateLuomo - ConvivialGang Gang Dance - Saint DymphnaAir France - No Way Down EPV/A: Wighnomy Brothers - MetawuffmischfelgeYoung Jeezy - The RecessionLindstrom - Where You Go I Go TooShy Child - Noise Won't StopV/A: Fred Deakin - Presents Nu-BalearicaEl Guincho - Allegranza
The albums I haven't heard that I suspect are most likely to smash this list are Taylor Swift and Ne-Yo. School of Seven Bells is just on the outside and might end up overtaking stuff in the lower stretches, too.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link
good list. i forgot guincho
― deej, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
100% agree on dream and jeezy. whats that nu-balearica comp about?
― deej, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:22 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a bit of a 'NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL NU-BALEARIC' cash-in - lots of stuff like Reverso 68, Aeroplane, A Mountain of One, Prins Thomas, Todd Terje etc. etc.
Predictable and objectively rather samey at times (subjectively this stuff is catnip for me so I don't really notice), but there's an astonishingly high number of amazing tracks. In some ways it's more of a chance to collectively big-up a whole bunch of stuff I loved last year than a life-changing statement in and of itself.
The best track I hadn't heard before is Wallis Bird's "Counting To Sleep (Reverso 68 Remix)" (and the best track I HAD heard is probably Reverso 68's "Piece Together Part 2" - god I love them).
Re El Guincho - I'm kind of hoping it falls outside of my top ten by the end of the year. I love it but I'd be even happier if it was, say, only the thirteenth best album I had in 2008.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Let's see. Not sure it's ten yet and in no particular order but...
No Age - NounsQuiet Village - Silent MovieLindstrom - Where you go I go tooMelchior Productions - No Disco FutureDeerhunter - MicrocastleWalkmen - You and MeAir France - No Way DownThe Breeders - Mountain BattlesHigh Places - High Places
― Treblekicker, Tuesday, 4 November 2008 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Prisonshake – Dirty Moons (Scat)
You just made my day Chuck. I had no idea they had a new one.
― steampig67, Wednesday, 5 November 2008 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link
1. Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago2. Erykah Badu-New Amerkyah, Pt. 1: 4th World War3. Antony & The Johnsons-Another World EP4. Tape-Luminarium5. Portishead-Third6. Hercules And Love Affair-S/T7. Bird Show-Untitled8. Four Tet-Ringer9. Autechre-Quaristice10.Lucky Dragons-Dream Island Laughing Language
― Craig D., Wednesday, 5 November 2008 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't even know if I could make a top 10 out of things I heard this year, but...
people need to quit sleeping on the bug CD
I couldn't get into a mountain of one until the other day when I had a massive hangover and it was the only thing in the pile that made any sense. how is it not on any of these lists? also liked:
landed - how little will it take?naked on the vague - blood pressure sessionsteeth mountainsome of that destroyer album
things I need to spend more time with: endless boogie, prurient
things I still haven't heard: the ex & getatchew mekurya, indian jewelry, made in mexico, usaisamonster, growing, no age, cut copy
things I tried to listen to but stopped because it felt like homework: marnie stern, ponytail, portishead, times new viking, guns n roses, vampire weekend
― Edward III, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
If it makes you feel any better it is actually the 2nd top album on metacritic:
http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2008.shtml
― Moka, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
As of today...although I feel like I'm forgetting something
1 Erykah Badu2 Solange3 The Foreign Exchange4 Portishead5 The-Dream6 Robin Thicke7 Kelley Polar8 Nappy Roots9 Calle 1310 Hercules & Love Affair11 The Bug12 Matmos13 Vampire Weekend14 T.I.15 Labelle16 Lil Wayne17 Ne-Yo18 T-Pain19 Sebastien Tellier20 Jazmine Sullivan21 J*Davey22 TV on the Radio23 Lupe Fiasco24 Lindstrom25 Janet Jackson
― I took my geoduck to Puyallup (The Reverend), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
1. Made Out of Babies – The Ruiner2. Secret Chiefs 3 – Xaphan: Book of Angels3. Asva – What You Don’t Know is Frontier4. Meshuggah – obZen5. Harvey Milk – Life...the Best Game in Town6. Mike Patton – A Perfect Place7. Marnie Stern – This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That 8. DeSalvo – Mood Poisoner9. Melvins – Nude with Boots10. Koenjihyakkei – Hundred Sights of Koenji
― m the g, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I forgot Santogold, which would be about #20 or so.
― I took my geoduck to Puyallup (The Reverend), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 06:41 (fifteen years ago) link
you didnt forget anything rev
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 07:22 (fifteen years ago) link
here's a rough version of the top 50 I will continue to tinker with over the next month:
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: 4th World War Young Jeezy - The Recession Parts & Labor - Receivers Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea Robin Thicke - Something Else Evangelista - Hello, Voyager Pink - Funhouse A.B.N. - It Is What It Is Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III Raheem DeVaughn - Love Behind The Melody Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild Sloan - Parallel Play My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth Prodigy - Product Of The 80s Sheek Louch - Silverback Gorilla T.I. - Paper Trail Walter Becker - Circus Money
The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely Rich Boy - Bigger Than The Mayor Q-Tip - The Renaissance John Legend - Evolver David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today T-Pain - Thr33 Ringz Termanology - Politics As Usual Ne-Yo - Year Of The Gentleman Grand Buffet - King Vision Blake Leyh - X-Ray Yankee Zulu Tango
The B-52s - Funplex Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV R.E.M. - Accelerate Dan Friel - Ghost Town Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless Nas - Untitled Statik Selektah - Stick 2 The Script Dwele - Sketches Of A Man Prodigy - H.N.I.C. 2 Mike Doughty - Golden Delicious
various artists - The Wire: " … and all the pieces matter" Firewater - The Golden Hour Foxboro Hottubs - Stop Drop And Roll!! Slim - Love's Crazy The Roots - Rising Down AZ - Undeniable Apollo Sunshine - Shall Noise Upon The Pretenders - Break Up The Concrete Little Feat - Join The Band The Alchemist - The Cutting Room Floor Vol. II
― dumb pseud (some dude), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Top 20 I submitted in a couple of places
1 Be Your Own Pet ‘Get Awkward’ (XL)2 The Doubtful Guest ‘Acid Sauna’ (Planet Mu)3 Blood Ceremony ‘Blood Ceremony’ (Rise Above)4 Silver Jews ‘Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea’ (Drag City)5 Billy Bao ‘Dialectics Of Shit’ (Parts Unknown)6 Hercules & Love Affair ‘Hercules & Love Affair’ (DFA)7 Geoffrey Oi!Cott ‘The Good, The Bad & The Googly’ (Boss Tuneage)8 RTX ‘JJ Got LIve RATX’ (Drag City)9 Jex Thoth ‘Jex Thoth’ (I Hate)10 Fucked Up ‘The Chemistry Of Common Life’ (Matador)11 Gnaw Their Tongues 'An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood' (Crucial Blast)12 Half Man Half Biscuit 'CSI: Ambleside' (Probe Plu)13 Volcano! 'Paperwork' (Leaf)14 Krallice ‘Krallice’ (Profound Lore)15 Harvey Milk 'Life... The Best Game In Town' (Hydra Head)16 Lords ‘Everyone Is People’ (Gringo)17 Racebannon 'Acid Or Blood' (Southern)18 Koushik ‘Outside My Window’ (Stones Throw)19 Black Mountain ‘In The Future’ (Jagjaguwar)20 Dimension X ‘Dimension X’ (KML)
― The tit man from the hilarious 'Loudon Wainwright III' song (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 14:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Top Twenty:
The-Dream - Love/HateLuomo - ConvivialGang Gang Dance - Saint DymphnaV/A: Wighnomy Brothers - MetawuffmischfelgeAir France - No Way Down (UK Version)DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 BluesNe-Yo - Year of the GentlemanYoung Jeezy - The RecessionLindstrom - Where You Go I Go TooShy Child - Noise Won't Stop
Trus'me - Working NightsLee Jones - Electronic FrankTaylor Swift - FearlessEl Guincho - Alegranza!V/A: Fred Deakin - Nu-BalearicaSchool of Seven Bells - AlpinismsMove D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs From The BeehiveTV on the Radio - Dear Science,Noze - Songs on the RocksLil Wayne - Tha Carter IIIFleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
― Tim F, Wednesday, 26 November 2008 20:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To RejoinAlex Moulton - ExodusDungen - 4Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go TooAir France- No Way DownEndless Boogie - Focus LevelD. Lissvik - 7Trx + IntermissionHercules and Love Affair - S/TQuiet Village - Silent MovieTrusme - Working Nights
also loved:
The Juan Maclean - Happy House 12"TV on the Radio - Dear, Science,,Sea and Cake- Car AlarmJacques Renault - RVNG EP"Boris - SmileGirl Talk - Feed the AnimalsVA- After Dark (Italians Do It Better 3x12")Voodoo Chili - Titans EPChaz Jankel - Get Myself Together 12"Betty Botox - Mmm BettyVA - Computer Incarnations for World Peace 2Clinic - Do It!Morten Sorensen - Start Something 12"MIA - Paper Planes DFA mix 12"
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 21:13 (fifteen years ago) link
albums that come to mind:
free agents brass band, 'we made it through that water'rebirth brass band '25th anniversary'seun kuti, 'many things'blind boys of alabama, 'down in new orleans'raphael saadiq, 'the way i see it'brian blade & the fellowship, 'season of changes'mint condition, 'e-life'parts & labor, 'recever'
― some know what you dude last summer (Jordan), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 21:24 (fifteen years ago) link
what is this "ragged wood" and is it as boring as their self-titled?
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 November 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
"Ragged Wood" is a song from the self-titled.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Thursday, 27 November 2008 20:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Tim, is that DJ Sprinkles out/coming out in 2008?
― Maciej (maciej recognizing trill), Thursday, 27 November 2008 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
a "no particular order, off the top of my head stuck at work on thanksgiving" selection
Times New Viking - Rip It OffOneida - Preteen WeaponryLindstrom - Where You Go I Go TooQuiet Village - Silent MovieEl Guincho - AlegranzaGang Gang Dance - Saint DymphnaLil Wayne - Carter IIIGlass Candy - B/E/A/T/B/O/XIndian Jewelry - Free Gold
tie for 10th place - Sic Alps, No Age, High Places, Hercules, TV on the Radio, Vivian Girls, Nu-Balerica, Endless Boogie ...
still need to hear new Dungen and Brightblack. and psyched for that Dan Lissvik record if I can get my hands on it.
― dmr, Thursday, 27 November 2008 20:59 (fifteen years ago) link
los campesinos! - hold on now youngsterthe-dream - love/hatevampire weekend - s/tdeerhunter - microcastle/weird era contyoung jeezy - the recessionkanye west - 808s & heartbreakt-pain - thr33 ringzcut copy - in ghost colourshercules & love affair - s/tjay reatard - matador singles 08
lil boosie - da beginninghot chip - made in the darktv on the radio - dear sciencealex moulton - exoduslil wayne - tha carter IIIne-yo - year of the gentlemanlos campesinos! - we are beautiful, we are doomedair france - no way downthe game - l.a.x.lindstrom - where you go i go too
― racist (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
1. Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista2. Jacaszek - Treny3. Scott Tuma - Not for nobody4. Shed - Shedding the Past5. High Places - 6. Fleet Foxes - s/t7. Lykke Li - Youth Novels8. Bruno Pronsato - Why Cant We Be Like Us9. Grouper - Dragging a dead deer up a hill10. Zdzislaw Piernik & Piotr Zabrodzki - Namanga11. Air France - No Way Down Ep12. Clark - Turning Dragon13. Four Tet - Ringer Ep14. Death Vessel - Nothing is good enough for us15. Tape - Luminarium
― Moka, Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
^^are you the motel de moka guy??
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
forgot about that Grouper album, that's a good one too
― dmr, Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:48 (fifteen years ago) link
guess I need to hear Air France huh
― dmr, Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:49 (fifteen years ago) link
young jeezy - the recessionesham - sacrificial lambzdoap nixon - it's been a long timet-rock - roaches n da ashtrayrip one - epitomecut copy - in ghost colorsreks - gray hairsking magnetic - the co-$igncatalyst - fuck the radiosome atl mixtape ishi dunno was mood muzik 3 this year???
― dat dude delmar (and what), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:51 (fifteen years ago) link
that gorilla zoe dj noize mixtape
― dat dude delmar (and what), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
1. Los Campesinos – Hold On Now, Youngster2. Half Man Half Biscuit – CSI: Ambleside3. The Hold Steady – Stay Positive4. Royce Da 5’9” – The Bar Exam 25. Los Campesinos – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed6. Elzhi- The Preface7. Corb Lund – Horse Soldier Horse Soldier8. Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It9. Ballboy – I Worked On The Ships10. eMC – The Show
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:55 (fifteen years ago) link
dom what the fuck is a los campesinos?? the only ish i heard off your list is raphael saadiq (decent) and emc (got played out in a week & a half for me). you heard any of mine??
― dat dude delmar (and what), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:57 (fifteen years ago) link
actually my boy played me that elzhi and i was sleepin
― dat dude delmar (and what), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link