2008-Best of the year
 

Get your nominations in and we will compile a best of. Choose five and in order.

Mine:

1. Kayo Dot- Blue Lambency Downward
2. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus , Dig
3. Foals-Antidote
4. Lulu Rouge - Bless You
5. Benga-Diary Of an Afro Warrior

Very close calls:

Bon Iver-For Emma, Forever Ago
Agoraphobic Nosebleed-Altered States Of America
Gojira-The Way Of All Flesh

1. Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
2. Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors
3. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
4. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
5. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs

Note: These are the only 5 albums I have that came out this year, ranked in order of how I liked them. I'm sure there are plenty of good releases I missed.

We still got two months, dude.

1. Meshuggah - obZen
2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3. 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
4. Calexico - Carried to Dust
5. Giraffes? Giraffes! - More Skin with Milk-Mouth

Yeah we have two months but I was bored and we can add an album in if a masterpiece comes out in that time. Damn I forgot about Bon Iver :(

How do you think 2008 compares to the other years of the decade?

I don't think anything's gonna come close to 2002. :(

true that sam

Hmm lets see...

1. Deerhunter - Microcastle
2. Necrovation - Breed Deadness Blood
3. Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward
4. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
5. Jack Bruce & Robin Trower - Seven Moons

I might edit it in the future.(if i had forgotten something that is)

1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Festival Thyme EP
3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
4. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
5. Flogging Molly - Float

what was in 2002?

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
The Roots - Phrenology
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Tom Waits - Alice, Blood Money
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
Sigur Ros - ( )
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight

Just to name a few.

Bold denotes albums which are arguably the artists' best releases.

Only by the Night by the Kings of Leon was i think there best yet.

Eleventh Hour by Del Tha Funkee Homosapian.

:love:

Nice to see you aren't an impressionable douche like most of the "fans" out there.

Eleventh Hour came out this year??? I loved it but I had no idea.

1. Deerhunter- "Microcastle/Weird Era Cont."
2. No Age- "Nouns"
3. Jay Reatard- "Singles 06-07"
4. of Montreal- "Skeletal Lamping"
5. HEALTH- "DISCO"

What do you mean by that?

And yes I am pretty sure, ill check now.

It seemed like everyone heard what sound KOL evolved into and hated it because it wasn't like their earlier albums, completely ignoring that the songwriting, vocals, and instruments are performed better than on any other KOL album. Pitchfork went so far as to call them a U2 cover band.

Pitchfork doesn't know what there talking about 50% of the time. And i agree, everything about the album sounded better. They seemed to grow as musicians alot since there last album.

when circus by spears is relesed that will b the best!<3

1. Opeth - Watershed
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. Ayreon - 01011001
4. Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
5. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath

Damn, I forgot the new Gojira release :(
Its only getting better with each listen.

Jenny Lewis-Acid Tongue
Death Cab for Cutie-Narrow Stairs
Keane-Perfect Symmetry
The Classic Crime-The Silver Cord
I am saving the last spot for the new Killers record

1) Leona Lewis - Spirit

Only 2008 album I really remember but it is amazing. Everything else is mainly earlier.

oh hell yeah.

The M's - Real Close Ones
Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park
Submarines - Honeysuckle Weeks
Electric President - Sleep Well


Once you people have heard these albums they will be on your list.

In no order

Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
Deerhunter- Microcastle
M83- Saturdays=Youth
Marching Band- Spark Large
TV On The Radio- Dear Science

Fucked Up - The Chemisty Of Common Life
The Kills - Midnight Boom
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Portishead - Third

Could change at any point though, it's a close one.I suppose i should check out that Kayo Dot album as well?

Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts
Death Cab for Cutie-Narrow Stairs
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Easily the best record this year. :D

Yes you should check out the Kayo Dot album-it's immense.

I've only got a handful of albums released this year, and the only ones that really impressed me are Nick Cave's 'Dig Lazarus Dig' (easily the pick of the year for me), Mercury Rev's 'Snowflake Midnight' and the self-titled effort from the Week That Was. Good to see all these nominations though - I'll definitely have to check a few of them out in future

Copy pasted from the other thread with some additions:

Bon Iver - For Emma, forever ago 10/10 (technically self-released in 2007 but it got a proper release in 2008).
Cut copy - In ghost colours 9/10
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping 8/10
TV on the Radio - Dear science 8/10
M83 - Saturdays=Youth 8/10
Santogold - Santogold 7/10
Kings of Leon - Only by the night 7/10
Hercules and Love affair - Hercules and Love affair 7/10
My morning jacket - Evil urges 7/10
Calexico - Carried to dust 7/10
Coldplay - Viva la vida or Death and all his friends 7/10
Young Knives - Superabundance 7/10
The Black Keys - Attack and release 7/10
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the lonely 7/10
Keane - Perfect Symmetry 7/10
Fleet foxes - Fleet foxes 7/10
Hot Chip - Made in the dark 7/10
Does it offend you, yeah? - You have no idea what you're getting yourself into 7/10
Beck - Modern Guilt 6/10
Foals - Antidotes 6/10
Gnarls Barkley - The odd couple 6/10
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 6/10
Be your own pet - Get awkward 6/10
The presets - Apocalypso 6/10

Been meaning to get hold of those in particular for bleedin' ages. I'll give 'em a listen when I can - cheers for the reminder :D

I'll get back to everyone in about a week with my own nominations

Flykkiller - Experiments in Violent Light
1. Current 93 - Birth Canal Blues
3. Four Tet - Ringer
Action Biker - Hesperian Puisto
Duchess Says - Anthologie des 3 perchoirs
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Angles
Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living
Bitter:Sweet - Drama
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
5. Koushik - Out My Window
4. Wild Billy Childish & the Musicians of the British Empire - Thatcher's Children
Oneida - Preteen Weaponry
Mr Scruff - Ninja Tuna
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig
I Was a Teenage Satan Worshipper - The Lemonade Ocean

Top 5 only fellas.

:)

:). I have'nt heard the Four Tet album but the Oneidea album is damn good.

1. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
2. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
3. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
4. Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
5. Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

[QUOTE=adidasss;540809]Copy pasted from the other thread with some additions:



Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 6/10

I think vampire weekend deserves more then 6

Then you're just as misguided as those idiots who overhyped it.

Vampire Weekend may be the most dull album of the year. There's no hooks, no real melodies, and they fail to bring anything to the album except mediocre indie rock. If you like indie music, try these instead:

Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
Calexico - Carried to Dust
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

Woah, i can't stand Vampire Weekend but there's EASILY hooks there. Has A Punk never been stuck in your head for hours?