Q Magazine
1 Kings of Leon - Because of The Times2 Fleet Foxes - s/t3 Coldplay - Viva La Vida...4 Vampire Weekend - s/t5 Glasvegas - s/t6 Duffy - Rockferry7 TV On The Radio - Dear, Science8 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid9 The Racontuers - Consoluers of The Lonely10 Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!11. Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust12 Keane - Perfect Symmetry13 MGMT - Orcular Spectacular14 Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads15 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III16 Hot Chip - Made In The Dark17 Adele - 1918 British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?19 Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree20 The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound21 Razorlight - Slipaway Fires22 The Killers - Day and Age23 Beck - Modern Guilt24 The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of The Understatement25 Metallica - Death Magnetic26 Conor Oberst - s/t27 Neil Diamond - Before Home28 Paul Weller - 22 Dreams29 AC/DC - Black Ice30 Portishead - Third31 Black Mountain - In The Future32 Oasis - Dig Out Your Souk33 Hercules & Love Affair - s/t34 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago35 The Hold Steady - Stay Positive36 R.E.M. - Accelerate37 Lykke Li - Youth Novels38 John Mellencamp - LifeDeathLoveAndFreeedom39 Santogold - s/t40 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges41 Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws42 Liam Finn - I'll Be Lightning43 Joan As Police Women - To Survive44 Black Kids - Partie Traumatic45 Jack Johnson - Sleep Through Stattic46 Jenny Lewis - Acid Tounge47 The Verve - Forth48 Randy Newman - Harps and Angels49 Emmylou Harris - All I Indented To Be50 Dido - Safe Trip Home
― Mitchell Stirling, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
How can all these mags release their best-of-2008 lists now, when there's still more than a month left of 2008?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 12:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Tradition
― Dorianlynskey, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
wish these mags would show some balls for once and just do a Top 50 Albums We Feel Deserve More Love ignoring anything that went top 40 or sold over a certain amount. what is the point of a list like Q's? they could do something a lot more interesting and useful to their readers but no.
― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
32 Oasis - Dig Out Your Souk
http://sail-world.com/photos/Med_Marrakech%20souk.jpg
― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
what is the point of a list like Q's?
So that people who buy five albums a year and Q once or twice in a year can feel like they're catching up?
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Including The Killers (this week no doubt) 28 of those albums made the UK top ten.
― Mitchell Stirling, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
why cater an EOY list for people who only buy your magazine once or twice a year? why fill it with best-selling albums when those same people could just go into Tesco and see the same albums there in the actual chart?
― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 13:41 (fifteen years ago) link
On further analysis if The Killers make #1 this weekend the list will have 15 chart toppers. You can see 13 of those records in this weeks Top 75. I also don't see why have a top 50 like that, has they gone down to 100 and put something you might not see in Tesco it might have been worthwhile.
― Mitchell Stirling, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I hear Uncut went with Portishead, haven't seen it myself but that's good to hear.
― Mitchell Stirling, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
why cater an EOY list for people who only buy your magazine once or twice a year?
"Cater" might be too strong a word, but there's def. a market for people who won't follow music all year-round but will pay closer attention at the end of the year because they know they everything they want to know will be condensed into convenient summaries. It's kind of the music equivalent of people who don't watch much sports, but stay glued to the TV during the Olympics, or even people who don't watch too many movies, but will watch the Academy Awards to check out the winners and make sure they haven't missed out on anything big.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Perhaps the Q list will convince them that they don't need to bother anymore.
― GSOHSHIT (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Those annual Q lists are the only ones which seriously raise my suspicions re. authenticity.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
mass outrage at middle aged music lists in magazines aimed at middle aged readers, News at Ten
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Before Paper Thin Walls shut down, we picked Portishead as our Album Of The Year...
So
Paper Thin Walls1. Portishead - Third
― i'm whine btw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 16:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I like your approach.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Ned's ballot:
1. Portishead - Third2. The Cure - Disintegration Pt IV
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
The Voyage Home
― da croupier, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 16:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Sad thing is that's not too removed from the truth, which is another reason I'm not drawing up a list this year.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
These lists need more Matmos, methinks.
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 16:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Don Cavalli album's pretty good tho it's like a parody on old blues albums done with electric gtrs
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
The only list I really get excited for anymore is probably THE WIRE list
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Surprised to see Bon Iver and Okkervil pop up but not Shearwater.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
w/r/t to what Dorian said above, I just realized that I haven't voted for a single rap record this year, in all the various year-end lists I've submitted (they're different for diff publications for criteria reasons and the fact that I actually vote for "national" and "local" CDs for one outlet).
nothing was AWESOME in hip-hop this year, you know? and the likeliest candidates all got pushed back from late 2008 to early 2009.
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
simon otm
Q's list is really just depressing and is surely some cruel joke
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
nothing was AWESOME in hip-hop this year, you know? and the likeliest candidates all got pushed back from late 2008 to early 2009.― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:16 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:16 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I mean, it wasn't the best year for hip-hop sure...
But The Roots, ABN, TI, Jeezy, Webbie and Guilty Simpson are all pretty awesome in my eyes.
― i'm whine btw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Whiney, I'm going to go ahead and fess up that I haven't heard ANY of those!
Wait, who are ABN?
I spend waaaay too much time and energy listing to avant-garde and noise...
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
ABN are Assholes By Nature, Houston diehards Z-Ro and Trae together. I think all those records I mentioned are better than the Lil Wayne record.
If you like avant-garde and noise, i suggest starting with the Roots record, which is pretty apocalyptic and unforgiving and moving on to Guilty Simpson, which is Madlibby stuff that The Wire readers could prolly fuck with.
― i'm whine btw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, since you're here, can we talk about the best NOISE noise records (ie, harsh noise, not Fuck Buttons) of the year?
The only ones I've really loved are (in order)
1. Carlos Giffoni - Eternal Noise2. Emeralds – Solar Bridge3. Prurient - And Still Waiting4. Burning Star Core - Challenger5. The Goslings – Occasion6. Robedoor - Rancor Keeper7. Wold - Stratification8. Skull Defekts - The Drone Drug
But I'm sure there's some I haven't copped. Supposedly Jason Crumer on Hospital is supposed to be ill.
But I'm sure there's a bunch
― i'm whine btw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:46 (fifteen years ago) link
scratch that last line
― i'm whine btw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
also feeling nappy roots and bun b, in terms of hip-hop
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, add Nappy Roots to that list, definitely!
― i'm whine btw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, November 25, 2008 11:16 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark
yah maybe try listening to rap before saying stuff like this??
― deej, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
ooooooohboy I sure do love these conversations
― dumb pseud (some dude), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
and the likeliest candidates all got pushed back from late 2008 to early 2009.
jay-z? common? timbaland?
― racist (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:24 (fifteen years ago) link
50 and Alchemist too (I don't think Common got pushed back to next year, though)
― dumb pseud (some dude), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
whiney you HAVE to cop crumer, that disc is amazing
also i'll second prurient, giffoni (that album and his other releases), bxc
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
That Lil Wayne record should be finishing high in critics polls, probably higher than it has on these listed. I mean it's really good and really popular, which tends to be what rises to the top when consensus is measured.
I don't think it's the best record of the year or anything, but it's one of the best albums that also sold a lot and MIGHT be the best hip-hop album in a relatively weak year for hip-hop albums.
It's the preponderance of Fleet Foxes/My Morning Jacket/Kings of Leon/etc. indie-roots mediocrities that's more depressing.
― Hubie Brown, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
deej, i'll amend what i said to
"nothing was AWESOME in hip-hop this year for me"
that i heard
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:56 (fifteen years ago) link
carter iii was great for what it was but couldn't be top ten for me given that there was so much better stuff out in other genres
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
robedoor and pocahaunted kinda leave me a bit cold, to be honest
Pocahaunted is Pocahorrible
― i'm whine btw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Like if you're going to have a name that stupid, you better be awesome.
― i'm whine btw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Surprised Fennesz' Black Sea hasn't appeared in any list so far as I thought it was pretty much the mainstream ambient album and artist of choice. I suppose the late release is to blame.
― Moka, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 18:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Its not that good and it's no longer fashionable for indie fuXXors to rally around Funnesz
― i'm whine btw (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 25 November 2008 19:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Tape's Luminarium is much better in that vein, but it didn't get too much by means of press
haha i'll second that whiney
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
other great 08 noise: controlled dissonance, fuck buttons, growing, thurston moore, Istituzioni Ambienti Naturalismo / Lolita Vibrator Torture, whistletips, cash slave clique
more discussion of atlas sound plz
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 19:05 (fifteen years ago) link
HOTOTOGISU people
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
also great: the north sea, satellite clouds, starving weirdos
― Beatrix Kiddo, Tuesday, 25 November 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link