Best Album On NME' s 2008 Albums Of The Year List?

Portishead for me.

I can't remember if last year I saw the top list and then decided for the 1st time since I started buying NME not to buy it (I'm sure someone will come across a post by me from last year sying what I did) But I decided to keep the tradition up this year by buying it (and i didnt see the results on here 1st)

Mark G is it worth reading? I know you will have bought it!

These fuckin' guys.

THE ONLY BEST OF '08 LIST WHERE YOU'LL SEE THE VERVE!!

i have heard 11 of these, but i spend the time i could have listened to the other 39 just listening to Late of the Pier instead. TIME WELL SPENT

THE ONLY BEST OF '08 LIST WHERE YOU'LL SEE THE VERVE!!

apart from Q, Mojo, Word and about 5 others

THE ONLY BEST OF '08 LIST WHERE YOU'LL SEE THE VERVE!!

Wrong - try: Q magazine
http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/3172289350/show/924696

Hercules & Love Affair

yeah me too why not

Mark G is it worth reading? I know you will have bought it!

― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:26 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Once again, I refer you to Hello, I am off the NME, --- / when did you get off the NMEBus?

Nice that LOTP got their recog.

MGMT numberone? Mmmmm......tssssss....

Voted VampWk.

Oh, and no TingTings?

Nice that LOTP got their recog

thought it would be top 5, surprised at how low they're placing generally

dunno, after the first ten or so places,usually due to hypefactors (i.e. big tours,interview access,playing the game somewhat, photosessions), the quality of the charts seems fairly consistent the next 20 places.

don't give a shit about Foals but Glasvegas and Metronomy are fucking terrible and i thought i'd like the latter

I might get this weeks anyway.

haha!

Great: 6
Good: 6
OK: 6
Meh: 8
Not Heard: 24

I've heard 7 I think

I have found that I actually quite like Metronomy. But I was a Customers fan, so that's not surprising.

GOD DON'T MAKE ME PICK BETWEEN LOTP AND SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS. I can't decide. That isn't fair.

I might have to get one of my sock puppets to vote for one of each.

WHICH GINGER IS HOTTER?!?!?!*

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3150/3050027272_f6a42d5e46.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3007/2825341708_5a52318f08.jpg

*This is a JOEK before anyone's dad gets on the internet and shouts at me again.

TV on the radio

Great 6
Good 9
Ok 10
Meh 9
Not heard 16

I went with #14

Not heard no14

>23 Johansson, Scarlett Anywhere I Lay My Head

jesus F christ

yeah can't believe that's lower than Oasis

hah

thank god for sock puppets.

Friendly Fires narrowly beat Vampire Weekend for me, my vote would have been different a week or so ago though.

(Thank god, voting for Vampire Weekend in polls is starting to feel like an admission of defeat)

10 Friendly Fires Friendly Fires
11 Neon Neon Stainless Style
12 Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
13 Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes

ok alliteration may be a little overdone by now

well obsoived!

Which are the great 6, Mike?

ban eponomy

Did NME just ignore the Cut Copy album then? Seems a mystifying omission considering the stuff they generally went for this year.

xpost to Nick: Vampire Weekend, Elbow, Late Of The Pier, Portishead, Hercules and Love Affair, British Sea Power.

Bon Iver almost scrapes in there. Friendly Fires are rising fast.

I just don't get the ILM Cut Copy love at all, so the NME and I are in accord over that one. (Cut Copy, Santogold and Girl Talk are currently fighting it out for my "most bafflingly overrated" award.)

"most bafflingly overrated" award

Vampire Weekend all the way for me

Would I like LotP?

hmm.

That's a tough question.

I'm not sure. Could go either way. But I'd like to think that you would.

Someone post a waveform!

The 'why the fuck did they vote for that appalling shit?' factor is quite low in this list though, compared to 2006 or, worse, 2002.

Disclaimer - didn't see Kings of Leon in there, and haven't heard the Glasvegas album.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/1001001/VT_wave.jpg

maybe not quite that bad but close enough

Voted for Frightened Rabbit, which is my #2 album this year after Alopecia by Why? Can't believe they and especially Cut Copy didn't make the NME list. Nothing should surprise though, really.

To be fair, LotP sound like that live as well...

Enough for me to not want to bother. :(

do you avoid music vids on youtube?

I don't avoid music vids on youtube so much as never, ever, ever watch them. I don't like music vids at the best of time and I certainly don't like them on youtube.

Voted The Gaslight Anthem, second on my personal list of 2008.

My views:
Shite: 43
Not Shite: 7

Coldplay --> Best album of 2008

For the record, Coldplay was one of my 7.

Geir's 2008 list
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/GeirH/my_top_albums_of_2008____so_far/

Bit of a slump round about #40 and I haven't heard most of the Norwegian ones but by Geir's standards that's not too bad a list!

I still love that Marit Larsen album, it would be in my list definitely. Also Geir likes Sebastien Tellier! Awesome.

Portishead.

I make it ten non-shite albums. In order:

25 Portishead Third
2 TV on the Radio Dear Science
17 Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid
7 Santogold Santogold
42 Alpinisms School of Seven Bells
44 Li, Lykke Youth Novels
1 MGMT Oracular Spectacular
16 Ladyhawke Ladyhawke
34 Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
23 Johansson, Scarlett Anywhere I Lay My Head

Like these:

7 Santogold Santogold
19 Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life
20 Spiritualized Songs in A and E
25 Portishead Third
33 Deerhunter Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.

I like 2 or 3 songs on these but wouldn't rave about them:

1 MGMT Oracular Spectacular
12 Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
29 Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nick Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

Thought this was shit:

43 Black Kids Partie Traumatic

Not heard the rest yet.

Not heard the Black Kids album, are they really that bad?

The NME really, really should be all over the Gang Gang Dance record...it's their wet dream.

Obviously it isn't. Maybe next year..

12 Crystal Castles Crystal Castles

^ and even this album I wouldn't put on a best-of list

apart from Q, Mojo, Word and about 5 others

I was unaware these magazines were to releasing Best of Lists for 2008; I thought they would be focusing on 1988 or 1998 as usual.

haha

I've just had a good chuckle at the write up for the Oasis album in this poll. By 'chuckle' I mean fighting the urge to kick something violently across the room.

only heard three of these:

portishead an obvious and effortless winner; mogwai nipping at their heels but out of breath; fucked up limping along half a mile or so behind.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

there is one good album on this list and it's hercules and love affair.

although portishead's 'third' was decent enough

Third is easily the best

So everyone vote Portishead!

or just vote. less than 2 hours left.

25 mins left to vote

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

cool

justice is served!!!

I am so glad that LOTP placed so high on both these polls. I feel like I accomplished something, at least.

But god ILX has some shite taste in music. Though I suppose I can blame the NME at the bottom of it all...

heh who voted Glasvegas?

suck that fleet ponces

13 Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes 0

wait, who voted Primal Scream?

Alan McGee

But god ILX has some shite taste in music

homophobe

indiephobe

I wasn't aware that Spiritualized, Primal Scream, TV On The Radio, The fucking Verve, Vampire Weekend, etc. were gay icons.

I was unaware these magazines were to releasing Best of Lists for 2008; I thought they would be focusing on 1988 or 1998 as usual.

Mojo don't give a damn about 1998 or 1988. Their focus is on 1968 and perhaps 1978. :)

As for Q, they write about current music. But maybe focusing on current music that may not sound radically different from what was around in 1998. Or 1988. Or 1978. Or 1968.

pretty sure the PS, Oasis and Verve votes were joke ballots

How can you be sure? There were a few people (elvis t) repping for the verve album when it came out) and oasis probably got a geirvote

I played the Oasis album recently, and found it wasn't bad at all.

One of those "disappointing" on first hearing, decide it's crap, then hear it again and find it's not as bad as remembered.

Heck, I even *like* it!

next you will be thinking the NME is good after all!

did you buy it?

Who, me?

Um, no not yet. I may not bother, looking at that above.

ha, ILX likes the majority of the albums on the NME top fifty

I wasn't aware that Spiritualized, Primal Scream, TV On The Radio, The fucking Verve, Vampire Weekend, etc. were gay icons.

The Verve got a whopping two votes, ready the torches and pitchforks! And you're surely the biggest Spz booster on ILX passim by a factor of ten.

Why on earth are you trying to make an argument about this? You're so far up my ass you can see what I had for dinner last night.

I can't stand anything in the top 5. That's why there's chocolate and vanilla, dude.

you havent heard the spz album though!

I heard enough of it live to know I fucking hate it!

That's why there's chocolate and vanilla, dude.

which is the one that tastes like shite?

bon iver = vanilla

and not vanilla bean or anything like that