Impy's Annual Best-of-the-Year Point Distribution Tally Nonsense - Please Participate

[bono_212]

05 John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love and Freedom[/IMG]

nonononononononononononononononononono

I may love the man, but....dear God FIFTH?! That album was difficult to get through, and I'm a fan.

 

[phanan]

I guess most publications are considering MGMT's release to be 2008.

 

[u2popmofo]

And good.


heyo

 

[u2popmofo]

Pitchfork ran their "honorable mentions" list today. Quite a few I'm surprised aren't making their proper list, including my favorite of the year. I have instantly joined the "OMG, Pitchfork ar teh worstest!11!11!" group.

Albums of the Year: Honorable Mention | Pitchfork

 

[LJT]

Yeah the honourable mention list is a bit whack really...Why?, Department of Eagles and The Dodos I thought were going to be dead certs for the top 50...with Why?, which i'm guessing is your favourite of the year...just a puntanyway I thought it would be in Pitchfork's top 10....weird list.

 

[MMP]

#1) Chinese Democracy - Guns N' Roses
#2) Accelerate - R.E.M.
#3) Beautiful Future - Primal Scream
#4) Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis
#5) The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
#6) Hey Ma - James
#7) Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends - Coldplay
#8) Midnight Boom - The Kills
#9) Only By the Night - Kings of Leon
#10) Forth - The Verve (But if Oracular Spectacular by MGMT counts as 2008, then it gets the #10 spot.)

 

[Anu]

NPR Listeners Poll. A lot of overlap to the other big lists and to the one I will inevitably compose, but I would give this list props.

NPR Listeners Pick The Year's Best Music : NPR Music

 

[u2popmofo]

The first half of Pitchfork's top 50 albums is up, 50 to 25. 25 to 1 will be online tomorrow.

The 50 Best Albums of 2008 | Pitchfork

 

[phanan]

Interesting that they had Bon Iver on last year's list instead.

 

[u2popmofo]

I'm not going to lie, 50-25 was pretty unimpressive in my opinion. Some really mediocre stuff mixed with great stuff that should have been rated higher. It'll be interesting to see how it all breaks out.

 

[lazarus]

Los Campesinos! only made it to #30?! What the fuck?

I was sure it was going to make the Top 5, if not contend for #1.

 

[LemonMelon]

I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised that Brian Eno/David Byrne even made the list.

 

[u2popmofo]

The first half of Pitchfork's top 50 albums is up, 50 to 25. 25 to 1 will be online tomorrow.

The 50 Best Albums of 2008 | Pitchfork

The rest of the list is up. At least the top 9 is solid.

 

[BonoIsMyMuse]

I've been fussing with this for awhile now, and I figure I might as well just go ahead and post it, even though I'm expecting to get a few albums for Christmas that might change it. Chances are most people won't have even heard of quite a few of my picks, which I guess isn't surprising, since I don't think many people around here listen to much experimental jazz.

Anyway, here it is:

1. Evangelista—Hello, Voyager
2. Deerhoof—Offend Maggie
3. The Black Keys—Attack & Release
4. Dr. Dog—Fate
5. Mary Halvorson—Calling All Portraits
6. Vampire Weekend—Vampire Weekend
7. Scott Amendola Band—Live In New York
8. Devin Hoff—Solo Bass
9. Beck—Modern Guilt
10. Jenny Lewis—Acid Tongue
11. Ray LaMontagne—Gossip In the Grain
12. Xiu Xiu—Women As Lovers
13. Ryan Adams—Cardinology

Things I still need to hear that could change this list:
Jolie Holland—The Living and the Dead
Lucinda Williams—Little Honey
Bill Frisell—History, Mystery

Albums I was really looking forward to that were big disappointments:
Kings of Leon--Only By the Night
The Killers--Day & Age

That Evangelista album is the best thing Carla Bozulich has ever done. It went from being my favorite album of the year to one of my favorite albums of all-time in just a few months. Both the music and the lyrics capture what I love most about Carla's work, that delicate and often volatile line between beauty and brokenness and the space those two emotions very often share. It's an album that laments difficult endings and still celebrates the hope of the new possibilities that rise from those endings.

 

[u2popmofo]

Here's TinyMixTapes' year end list:

Tiny Mix Tapes Features: 2008: Tiny Mix Tapes Favorite Albums of 2008 - 25 Albums that Defined 2008 for TMT

 

[the tourist]

My Favourite of '08

Top 5**:
Starflyer 59: Dial M
Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours
Ours: Mercy (Dancing For the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)
The Junipers: Cut Your Key*

Next 5**:
Oasis: Dig Out Your Soul
Coldplay: Viva la Vida
Foxglove Hunt: Stop Heartbeat
The Last Shadow Puppets: The Age of the Understatement
M83: Saturdays=Youth

*only given it 3 listens.
**in no particular order.

 

[u2popmofo]

Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours
Coldplay: Viva la Vida
M83: Saturdays=Youth

 

[the tourist]

How many of the others haven't you heard/heard of?

 

[u2popmofo]

The Dodos- 'The Visiter'

Listening to this for the first time right now (almost finished), and it's completely owning me. I LOVE it, wish I would of listened to Cujo/PinballWizard in March and bought this back then. Great stuff. Can't believe the only "professional" list I've seen it on is Pitchfork's "honorable mentions". This is great, really hitting the spot. Glad I picked it up before the year had ended. Wow. Seriously, wow.

 

[LJT]

Great album, great drumming...Winter rules

Sadly very few people seem to have picked up on it as you said, other than Pitchforks readers poll I don't it's placed anywhere. One of those albums thats completely bypassed the critics.

 

[anitram]

Los Campesinos! only made it to #30?! What the fuck?

I was sure it was going to make the Top 5, if not contend for #1.

Really?

I thought it was just an OK album.

In a year of generally mediocre music. Very disappointing compared to 2007.

 

[LJT]

I really couldn't say if this year was any worse than last...there have been plenty of releases that I will listen to for years to come.

I don't really buy any of these bad years for music arguments.

 

[the tourist]

I really couldn't say if this year was any worse than last...there have been plenty of releases that I will listen to for years to come.

I don't really buy any of these bad years for music arguments.

Me neither. When people say it's a bad year for music, it means they're obviously just not listening to the right music.

 

[u2popmofo]

When people say it's a bad year for music, it means they're obviously just not listening to the right music.

FACT!!11!!@1!


Seriously though, good music always requires some sort of research to find. If you're lazy one year, it's probably going to be a "bad year" for you, and that's no one's fault but your own.

 

[LemonMelon]

FACT!!11!!@1!


Seriously though, good music always requires some sort of research to find. If you're lazy one year, it's probably going to be a "bad year" for you, and that's no one's fault but your own.

If the artists you like aren't releasing anything in a given year, just do some reading. Find some sources for more obscure music and give it a try.

 

[phanan]

TOP 20 ALBUMS

1. The American Dollar - A Memory Stream

Favorite Tracks:

-Lights Dim
-Call
-Starscapes

2. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

-One Day Like This
-Some Riot
-Grounds For Divorce

3. M83 - Saturdays=Youth

-Graveyard Girl
-Skin Of The Night
-Couleurs

4. God Is An Astronaut - God Is An Astronaut

-No Return
-Zodiac
-Echoes

5. Bloc Party - Intimacy

-Ion Square
-Signs
-Ares

6. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours

-Lights & Music
-Far Away
-Feel The Love

7. Coldplay - Viva La Vida

-42
-Lovers In Japan
-Viva La Vida

8. Maybeshewill - Not For Want Of Trying

-He Films The Clouds, Pt. 2
-We Called For An Ambulance But A Fire Engine Came
-The Paris Hilton Sex Tape

9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

-Your Protector
-Blue Ridge Mountains
-White Winter Hymnal

10. Russian Circles - Station

-Station
-Versus
-Harper Lewis

11. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

-The Turning
-I'm Outta Time
-Falling Down

12. TV On The Radio - Dear Science

-Family Tree
-Shout Me Out
-Halfway Home

13. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling

-Batcat
-The Precipice
-I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School

14. Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust

-Festival
-Inni mer syngur vitleysingur
-All Alright

15. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs

-Bixby Canyon Bridge
-I Will Possess Your Heart
-Your New Twin Sized Bed

16. R.E.M. - Accelerate

-Accelerate
-Houston
-Hollow Man

17. Neon Neon - Stainless Style

-I Told Her On Alderaan
-Raquel
-Dream Girls

18. Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

-Significant Other
-Harmony Korine
-Insurgentes

19. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

-Skinny Love
-Flume
-For Emma

20. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

-Singer Songwriter
-Lost Coastlines
-Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel, 1979


Honorable Mentions:

The Evpatoria Report - Maar
Goldfrapp - The Seventh Tree
The Killers - Day & Age
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Moby - Last Night
No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
Set The White Flags On Fire Slowly - Even If The Proletariat Takes The Power Into Its Own Hands, The Spring Will Be Left For Us, And The Aims Of War Will Remain The Aims Of War
This Is Your Captain Speaking - Eternal Return
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You

 

[No spoken words]

TOP 20 ALBUMS

1. The American Dollar - A Memory Stream

Favorite Tracks:

-Lights Dim
-Call
-Starscapes

2. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

-One Day Like This
-Some Riot
-Grounds For Divorce

3. M83 - Saturdays=Youth

-Graveyard Girl
-Skin Of The Night
-Couleurs

4. God Is An Astronaut - God Is An Astronaut

-No Return
-Zodiac
-Echoes

5. Bloc Party - Intimacy

-Ion Square
-Signs
-Ares

6. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours

-Lights & Music
-Far Away
-Feel The Love

7. Coldplay - Viva La Vida

-42
-Lovers In Japan
-Viva La Vida

8. Maybeshewill - Not For Want Of Trying

-He Films The Clouds, Pt. 2
-We Called For An Ambulance But A Fire Engine Came
-The Paris Hilton Sex Tape

9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

-Your Protector
-Blue Ridge Mountains
-White Winter Hymnal

10. Russian Circles - Station

-Station
-Versus
-Harper Lewis

11. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

-The Turning
-I'm Outta Time
-Falling Down

12. TV On The Radio - Dear Science

-Family Tree
-Shout Me Out
-Halfway Home

13. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling

-Batcat
-The Precipice
-I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School

14. Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust

-Festival
-Inni mer syngur vitleysingur
-All Alright

15. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs

-Bixby Canyon Bridge
-I Will Possess Your Heart
-Your New Twin Sized Bed

16. R.E.M. - Accelerate

-Accelerate
-Houston
-Hollow Man

17. Neon Neon - Stainless Style

-I Told Her On Alderaan
-Raquel
-Dream Girls

18. Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

-Significant Other
-Harmony Korine
-Insurgentes

19. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

-Skinny Love
-Flume
-For Emma

20. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

-Singer Songwriter
-Lost Coastlines
-Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed On The Roof Of The Chelsea Hotel, 1979


Honorable Mentions:

The Evpatoria Report - Maar
Goldfrapp - The Seventh Tree
The Killers - Day & Age
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Moby - Last Night
No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
Set The White Flags On Fire Slowly - Even If The Proletariat Takes The Power Into Its Own Hands, The Spring Will Be Left For Us, And The Aims Of War Will Remain The Aims Of War
This Is Your Captain Speaking - Eternal Return
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You

No Portishead?

 

[phanan]

No Portishead?

Don't know what it is, but I've never really cared for them.

 

[No spoken words]

Don't know what it is, but I've never really cared for them.

I hate the Red Sox.

 

[phanan]

I hate the Red Sox.

I wouldn't have it any other way.