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

[Anu]

Best of 2008: The Lists Start Now

The editors of the Interference Pop Culture Webzine invite the posters on JTB&TC to start compiling their Best of 2008 lists, to help inspire our annual end-of-year round-up on the mainpage.

I do recall wanting to have y'all's results posted with ours, but on looking up the story from 340-some days ago, I don't see that we did that. I hope this year will be different. I love the collective view on this board, and I plan to do something with LemonMelon's best 100 of all time soon.

To refresh your memory, this is what Kim and I did last year:
Variety Is the Spice of Life – Your Editors Weigh in on 2007’s Best Music : U2 Interference - U2 Fans, Pop Culture Webzine, & More

So bring your top 8, 18, or 80; your top 10, 20, or 200. Just bring it on.

May the listing begin!

 

[mikal]

Deerhunter - Microcastle
TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
MGMT - Time To Pretend

All gold, IMO

 

[phanan]

MGMT - Time To Pretend

The album name is actually Oracular Spectacular.

I thought it came out in 2007, though.

EDIT - yeah, just checked wiki. First released digitally in 2007, although the retail CD came out in January.

 

[BoMac]

My personal favourites from 2008:

Bloc Party - Intimacy
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
The Killers - Day & Age
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Plants & Animals - Parc Avenue
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
The Stills - Oceans Will Rise
TV on the Radio - Dear Science,

 

[I'm Ready]

1. TV On the Radio-Dear Science,
2. Shearwater-Rook
3. Okkervil River-The Stand Ins
4. Tallest Man on Earth-Shallow Graves
5. Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes
6. Max Richter-24 Postcards in Full Colour
7. Portishead-Third
8. Spiritualized-Songs in A&E
9. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds-Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
10. Cut Copy-In Ghost Colours
11. Dodos-Visiter
12. Lisa Hannigan-Sea Sew (Only released in Europe so far I think, but I'm still counting it)
13. The Mountain Goats-Heretic Pride
14. Fleet Foxes-Sun Giant EP
15. Bonnie Prince Billy-Lie Down in the Light
16. Flying Lotus-Los Angeles
17. Lindstrom-Where You Go I Go Too
18. Mount Eerie-Lost Wisdom
19. Department of Eagles-In Ear Park
20. Sun Kil Moon-April
21. Sigur Ros-Meo suo í eyrum vio spilum endalaust
22. Okay-Huggable Dust
23. Grouper-Dragging Dead Dear Up Hill
24. Ruby Suns-Sea Lion
25. School of Seven Bells-Alpinisms
26. Plants and Animals-Parc Avenue
27. Vampire Weekend-Vampire Weekend
28. The Hold Steady-Stay Positive
29. No Age-Nouns
30. Azeda Booth-In Flesh Tones
31. Times New Viking-Rip it Off
32. Atlas Sound-Let The Blind Lead Those Who Cannot See
33. Frightened Rabbit-The Midnight Organ Fight
34. M83-Saturday=Youth
35. Destroyer-Trouble in Dreams
36. Deerhunter-Microcastles
37. Antony and the Johnson’s-Another World EP
38. Beach House-Devotion
39. Tindersticks-The Hungry Saw
40. Kanye West-808s & Heartbreak
41. R.E.M-Accelerate
42. The Notwist-The Devil,You + Me
43. Jolie Holland-The Living and the Dead
44. Wolf Parade-At Mount Zoomer
45. Silver Jews-Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

 

[andyuk]

KINGS OF LEON - ONLY BY THE NIGHT

Best album of 2008 by a country mile!

 

[AtomicBono]

The Fall of Troy - Phantom on the Horizon

i'm sure I'm the only one who will mention it, but it's absolutely epic. you should all really check it out. He doesn't scream so much anymore. this is a brilliant progressive concept album

 

[Badyouken]

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

 

[Mr. V]

Coldplay - Viva la Vida
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
The Killers - Day & Age
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
TV on the Radio - Dear Science

there's probably more but off the top of my head, that's it. Age of the Understatement is the pick of the bunch, and my best of '08.

 

[IWasBored]

street dogs - state of grace
saul williams - the inevitable rise and liberation of niggy tardust
hudson falcons - desire to burn
mark lind & the unloved - the truth can be brutal
rem - accelerate

and that's all the new stuff i remember buying this year. i'm not even sure that mark lind album was this year...it might have been last year.

 

[Saracene]

1. Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
2. Portishead - Third
3. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
4. The Drones - Havilah
5. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
6. The Breeders - Mountain Battles
7. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
8. Ladytron - Velocifero
9. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt
10. Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones
11. Santogold - Santogold
12. These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
13. The Kills - Midnight Boom
14. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
15. Cat Power - Jukebox
16. The Dø - A Mouthful
17. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
18. Ash Grunwald - Fish Out of Water
19. Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
20. DeVotchKa - A Mad & Faithful Telling

 

[intedomine]

Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends - Coldplay
Ode To J Smith - Travis
Intimacy - Bloc Party
Chimney's Afire - Josh Pyke
Off With Their Heads! - Kaiser Chiefs

 

[Salome]

1. Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws
2. Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
3. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down in the Light
4. Madlib - WLIB AM: King of the WigflipBonnie
5. Portishead - Third
6. Nick Cave & Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
7. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
8. R.E.M. - Accelerate
9. AC/DC - Black Ice
10. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
11. Ray LaMontagne - Gossip in the Grain
12. Lambchop - OH (Ohio)
13. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
14. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
15. Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali


bit of a dissapointing year
don't think any will show up in my top the decade list though I adore the top 4

 

[U2isthebest]

1. Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends-Coldplay
2. Hard Candy-Madonna
3. Accelerate-R.E.M.
4. Detours-Sheryl Crow
5. Dig Out Your Soul-Oasis
6. Day and Age-The Killers
7. 19-ADELE
8. Narrow Stairs-Death Cab For Cutie
9. The Red Album-Weezer
10. Flavors of Entanglement-Alanis Morissette
11. Perfect Symmetry-Keane
12. A Hundred Million Suns-Snow Patrol

 

[toscano]

Metallica - Death Magnetic
Raconteurs - Consolers of the lonely
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Muse - HAARP
David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk

 

[MrPryck2U]

I didn't get too many albums this year, but 2008 wasn't so bad.

Here's my Top 6:

1-REM- Accelerate
2-Guns N' Roses- Chinese Democracy
3-Madonna- Hard Candy
4-Metallica- Death Magnetic
5-Nine Inch Nails- The Slip
6-Beck- Modern Guilt

 

[Zoots]

1. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
2. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
3. REM - Accelerate
4. Keane - Perfect Symmetry
5. Metallica - Death Magnetic
6. Madonna - Hard Candy
7. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy

(Top 3 I'm sure about. The others are a little flexible.)

Oasis

 

[u2popmofo]

As we had already been discussing in the other thread, here's the list of albums that will be fighting it out for the love of my ears and the year end list in the next few weeks:

Bon Iver - 'For Emma, Forever Ago'
Why? - 'Alopecia'
Sigur Ros - 'Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust'
Los Campesinos! - 'Hold On Now, Youngster...'
Los Campesions! – ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’
M83 - 'Saturdays = Youth'
Shearwater - 'Rook'
The Dutchess and the Duke - 'She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke'
Okkervil River - 'The Stand Ins'
TV on the Radio - 'Dear Science'
Fuck Buttons - 'Street Horrrsing'
Vampire Weekend - self-titled
Fleet Foxes - self-titled
Elbow - 'The Seldom Seen Kid'
R.E.M. - 'Accelerate'
My Morning Jacket - 'Evil Urges'
Coldplay -'Viva La Vida'
Destroyer - 'Trouble in Dreams'
Portishead - 'Third'
Wilderness – ‘(k)no(w)here’
The Gaslight Anthem – ‘The ’59 Sound’
Frightened Rabbit – ‘Midnight Organ Fight’
Deerhunter – ‘Microcastle’
Kanye West – ‘808s & Heartbreak’
Department of Eagles – ‘In Ear Park’
The Bug - 'London Zoo'
Mogwai - 'The Hawk Is Howling'

Ordering and finalizing a list before the end of the year should be illegal.

 

[corianderstem]

I have the hardest time even remembering which CDs came out this year.

 

[Zoots]

I have the hardest time even remembering which CDs came out this year.

Just sort your itunes by year! That's what I do to figure this out.

 

[lazarus]

I have the hardest time even remembering which CDs came out this year.

Sometimes, as people get older, their memories become weaker. Often, they have a hard time remembering what year they're currently living in.

Cori, I know this may be hard to believe, but this album did NOT come out this year:

 

[corianderstem]

Damn. I guess that means "Moonlight Serenade" has to come off my "top singles of 2008" list.

 

[LJT]

Bon Iver - 'For Emma, Forever Ago'
Why? - 'Alopecia'
M83 - 'Saturdays = Youth'
Shearwater - 'Rook'
Okkervil River - 'The Stand Ins'
TV on the Radio - 'Dear Science'
Vampire Weekend - self-titled
Fleet Foxes - self-titled
Elbow - 'The Seldom Seen Kid'
Portishead - 'Third'
Frightened Rabbit – ‘Midnight Organ Fight’
Deerhunter – ‘Microcastle’
The Dodos- 'The Visiter'
Hercules and Love Affair- self titled
Peter Broderick- 'Home'
The Maybes- 'Promise'
The Wild Beasts- 'Limbo, Panto'
Get Well Soon- 'Rest Now You Weary Head'
Deus- 'Vantage Point'
Cut Copy- 'In Ghost Colours'
Death Cab for Cutie- 'Narrow'

and a load more are competing for places with me...I have a vague idea of my top 5 though (and I did just nick half of popmofo's list)

 

[Ava79]

Keane - Perfect Symmetry
Sigur Rós - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
The Killers - Day & Age
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue

Quite a different list than what I'd have predicted a year ago. Too bad both Coldplay and Oasis were such big disappointments to me, although I'm hoping both albums will eventually grow on me.

 

[lazarus]

Damn. I guess that means "Moonlight Serenade" has to come off my "top singles of 2008" list.

Don't forget to remove Sing Sing Sing as well.

I don't know how you thought this was up against Britney at the VMAs this year:

YouTube - Gene Krupa- Sing, Sing, Sing

 

[lazarus]

16. The Dø - A Mouthful

YAY!!

So happy someone else is aware of this band.

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Top 10 albums of the year -

1. Taylor Swift - Fearless
2. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
3. Bloc Party - Intimacy
4. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
5. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
6. R.E.M. - Accelerate
7. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
8. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
9. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
10. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Other shit I liked -

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Girls Aloud - Out Of Control
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch
The Saturdays - Chasing Lights
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
Phantom Planet - Raise the Dead
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

 

[Ava79]

YAY!!

So happy someone else is aware of this band.

And I can't belive I forgot about them! The Dø = !

 

[DrTeeth]

And I can't belive I forgot about them! The Dø = !

They're great, but unfortunately A Mouthful is a 2007 release.

 

[Ava79]

They're great, but unfortunately A Mouthful us a 2007 release.

Well that explains why I forgot it from this year's list But boy oh boy are the years going by a little too fast...