So we're halfway through 2008; what are your top 10 albums of this year, so far?

guess I need to hear Air France huh

young jeezy - the recession
esham - sacrificial lambz
doap nixon - it's been a long time
t-rock - roaches n da ashtray
rip one - epitome
cut copy - in ghost colors
reks - gray hairs
king magnetic - the co-$ign
catalyst - fuck the radio
some atl mixtape ish
i dunno was mood muzik 3 this year???

that gorilla zoe dj noize mixtape

1. Los Campesinos – Hold On Now, Youngster
2. Half Man Half Biscuit – CSI: Ambleside
3. The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
4. Royce Da 5’9” – The Bar Exam 2
5. Los Campesinos – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
6. Elzhi- The Preface
7. Corb Lund – Horse Soldier Horse Soldier
8. Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It
9. Ballboy – I Worked On The Ships
10. eMC – The Show

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??

actually my boy played me that elzhi and i was sleepin

need 2 check 4 the royce

dom what the fuck is a los campesinos??

― dat dude delmar (and what), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:57 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Welsh sugar rush indie band consisting of seven vegans who used to refuse MySpace friend requests from people if they found their profile misogynistic.

^^^best track on the album in my opinion

EMC isn't a great album, I get that, but I just find it massively comforting. I said it elsewhere, it just reminds me of a kinda legends' sports match, all the highspots being formed at half the speed and yeah you're cutting them a lot of slack because of what they did before, but you gotta show love.

Royce probably isn't the 4th best album of the year, but I've not enjoyed one artist more in the 08. That verse on "Motown 25" on the Elzhi album, man...

I actually dl'd the Esham album after you repped for it on here as well... I dunno, I liked it, but I think I would have gone gaga for it if I was 16. I think I was listening to shit like Molotov back then, it would have filed alongside well.

Heard enough of the Cut Copy at a friend's house, not really my thing. The rest I'll have to do the Myspace run on at some point.

you'll be feelin this --- catalyst - fuck the radio

heres 1 of the joints off that

http://artwork.datpiff.com/mc11e259/Catalyst_Fuck_The_Radio-front-large.jpg
11-STYLIN ON YOU _PROD. THE CATALYST http://www.zshare.net/audio/5193791919590f39/

lol raz b diss

btw los campesinos youtube vid sucked major dick

i've liked lots of music this year but these are the main ones i got really in to and that lasted more than a week or so of serious listening

sic alps - us ez
nick cave & bad seeds - dig lazarus dig
the dutchess and the duke - she's the dutchess, he's the duke
harvey milk - life ... the best game in town
prairie spies - surplus enjoyment
the spectacles - home
wilderness - (k)no(w)here

other stuff i liked: fucked up, krallice, oh sees, flying lotus, gang gang dance, excepter, born ruffians, deerhoof, elf power/vic chesnutt

oh and guys don't forget my band's album is eligible for all your top ten list

ethan i think that reks album is hot too -- way better than dudes like skyzoo imo

its too bad i just realized the nyg'z was october of last year, was all ready to vote for it (tho i guess like half of it was more than a year old already anyway -- giantz ta this came out in like '04)

the-dream
erykah badu
q-tip
speedknot mobstaz
rebirth brass band
young jeezy
frankie knuckles "the gift" mix
gucci mane
webbie
peven everett

im excited about the scarface -- thats still coming out this year right??

and hon. mention for NYG'z

slight changes from the last time i posted in this thread lol

Props for choosing the Corb Lund album. Has this just came out in the UK or something? It was released in 2007 here in Canada.

(numerous xposts by the way)

We are no good at this.

As usual, our list goes to 11 and is in no particular order.

Quiet Village - Silent Movie
Santogold - s/t
Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams
Okkervil River - The Stand Insalubrious
Julie Ocean - Long Gone and Nearly There
Jim Noir - s/t
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Blackblack - s/t
Army Navy - s/t
The Kills - Midnight Boom

Honorable mention:

All-Girl Summer Fun Band, Antietam, Beck, Eagles of Death Metal, Earlimart, Envelopes, Girl Talk, Islands, Jay Reatard, Jolie Holland, Los Campesinos! (X2), Love Is All, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Mogwai, Mount Eerie w/Julie Doiron & Fred Squire, Nada Surf, No Age, School of Seven Bells, Shannon McArdle, Sigur Ros, Silver Jews, The Last Shadow Puppets
The Notwist, The Ting Tings, The Uglysuit, Vetiver, Vivian Girls, Wire

i've only heard one track off the army navy but it's great - need to get the whole lp

OK, The Stand Insalubrious is a pretty hilarious auto-complete error, no?

Also , I can't believe we forgot Deerhunter _and_ Deerhoof.

INPO:

Grouper - 'Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill'
The Chap - 'Mega Breakfast'
Paavoharju – 'Laulu Laakson Kukista'
Mount Eerie (et al) - 'Lost Wisdom' (under 25 minutes, but sublime)
Deerhoof - 'Offend Maggie'
7L & Esoteric – ‘..present Esoteric –vs- Japan: Pterodactyl Takes Tokyo’
Lucky Dragons – ‘Dream Island Laughing Language’
Gang Gang Dance – ‘Saint Dymphna’
John Baker - 'The John Baker Tapes Vols 1 & 2'
The Just Joans – ‘Hey Boy…You’re Oh So Sensitive’

I would put in the Telepathe record, but my "copy" appears to vary in tracklisting from the official tracklist, and the album technically comes out in 2009. But it is quite wonderous.

Crap, we also forgot the Future Clouds and Radar which is pretty excellent (I told you we're no good at this).

for against - shade side sunny side
de rosa - appendices 2008
arms - kids aflame
presets - apocalypso
yellow moon band - travels into several remote nations...
the hussy's - super pro
cause co-motion - it's time
friendly fires - s/t
manhattan love suicides - burnt out landscapes
cut off your hands - you and i

the graham day & the gaolers album will probably knock one of those out after i've heard it, on the strength of the EP and single that preceded it

is the new deerhoof more or less lol indie than their debut?

did you mean deerhunter? 'cause the new deerhoof is way less indie that the man the king the girl

The new Drhf rocks and swings, and is a joy. Much better than Friend Opportunity.

i think i meant deerhunter. and i've only heard the 1st one. i can probably find another thread 2 discuss~~

1. Morgan Geist - Double Night Time
2. Belong - Colorloss

then a bunch of stuff i only sort of like

Their aren't nearly as many consensus favorites this year as we had last year.

i don't think there are any consensus favorites this year. that's why i'm eager to see what wins the pazz and jop poll.

^^are you the motel de moka guy??

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:40 (Yesterday)

I am. But I'm not a guy, my name is Julia. How you guess?

top 25 incl. reissues -- will undoubtedly change but this is what i'm thinking maybe:

1 SIC ALPS: US E-Z (Siltbreeze)
2 VIVIAN GIRLS: Vivian Girls (In the Red)
3 WOODEN SHJIPS: Vol 1 (Holy Mountain)
4 GROUPER: Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type)
5 NODZZZ: Nodzzz (What's Yr Rupture)
6 CRYSTAL STILTS: Alight of Night (Siltbreeze)
7 EAT SKULL: Sick to Death (Siltbreeze)
8 MINGERING MIKE: Super Gold Greatest Hits (Emusic)
9 DAN MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE: X-mas for the Crows (Dagerman)
10 FAMOUS L RENFROE: Children (Big Legal Mess/ Fat Possum)
11 PIERCED ARROWS Straight for the Heart (Tombstone)
12 VARIOUS: VICTROLA FAVORITES (Dust to Digital)
13 JOLIE HOLLAND: The Living and the Dead (Anti-)
14 BLANK DOGS: On Two Sides (Troubleman)
15 VARIOUS: FIGHT ON YOUR TIME AIN'T LONG (Mississippi)
16 LOS LLAMARADA: Take the Sky (S-S)
17 ZOMES: Zomes (Holy Mountain)
18 THE RANK STRANGER: Purgatory (self-released CD-R -- no label)
19 VARIOUS: 1970s ALGERIAN PROTO-RAI UNDERGROUND (Sublime Frequencies)
20 CAUSE CO-MOTION!: It's Time! (Slumberland)
21 ILYAS AHMED: Between 2 Skies/ Towards the Night (Digitalis)
22 ALAN + RICHARD BISHOP: Present the Brothers Unconnected (tour CD, on Abduction)
23 INCA ORE: Birthday of Bless You (Not Not Fun)
24 RAVEONETTES: Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
25 SIC ALPS: Long Way Around to a Shortcut (Animal Disguise)

i really do wonder if people love that vivian girls record because they've heard black tambourine, or because they haven't...

i really do wonder if you really do wonder that

i stopped

gonna have to revise mine eventually, every new person that posts lists something I forgot (which is a good sign I guess)

Eat Skull is DEF. in my top ten

The list I posted isn't definitive. I'll probably end up eliminating fleet foxes at all and substitute with the Middle East or perhaps even the Vetiver record. As I said elsewhere I have a love-hate relationship with them fleet foxes, it all depends of how I feel about them when the time comes.

My top 4 picks are definitley staying in there though.

just got the Kanye with lots of other stuff I need to catch up on, but as of now, something like this:

1. Los Campesinos -- Hold On Now, Youngster
2. Raphael Saadiq -- the Way I See It
3. Hold Steady -- Stay Positive
4. Drive-By Truckers -- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
5. Orchestra Baobab -- Made in Dakar
6. Kimya Dawson -- Alphabutt
7. Vampire Weekend -- Vampire Weekend
8. Jay Reatard -- Matador Singles
9. Lil Wayne -- Carter III
10. Roots -- Rising Down

Should somebody (preferably the people who also manage the polls) start the annual albums and songs nomination threads? I think we're ready for it. No reason to wait as long as we did last year, I think.

Hi Moka- I'm not a very bloggy dude but I like your blog. I found out about Air France through you and that's one of my favorites of the year!

So thanks.

People are sleeping on Kleerup and Mahjongg, I think?

you can still stream mahjongg, btw: krecs.com/mahjongg/kontpab

someone voted for the esoterrorist!!

Kleerup is mad boring.

I used to be bros with mahjhonng but haven't heard the new one. How is it?

Yeah, the Kleerup record is mad boring. "With Every Heartbeat" classic 4 life tho.

Not enough Carter III on these lists why?

its way overrated