Not heard no14
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
>23 Johansson, Scarlett Anywhere I Lay My Head
jesus F christ
― Vichitravirya_XI, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah can't believe that's lower than Oasis
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
hah
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
thank god for sock puppets.
― The All-Singing All-Dancing Unstoppable Kate (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Friendly Fires narrowly beat Vampire Weekend for me, my vote would have been different a week or so ago though.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
(Thank god, voting for Vampire Weekend in polls is starting to feel like an admission of defeat)
10 Friendly Fires Friendly Fires11 Neon Neon Stainless Style12 Crystal Castles Crystal Castles13 Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
ok alliteration may be a little overdone by now
― Manchego Bay (G00blar), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
well obsoived!
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Which are the great 6, Mike?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 14:59 (fifteen years ago) link
ban eponomy
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Did NME just ignore the Cut Copy album then? Seems a mystifying omission considering the stuff they generally went for this year.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
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.)
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:06 (fifteen years ago) link
"most bafflingly overrated" award
Vampire Weekend all the way for me
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Would I like LotP?
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
hmm.
That's a tough question.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm not sure. Could go either way. But I'd like to think that you would.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Someone post a waveform!
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Disclaimer - didn't see Kings of Leon in there, and haven't heard the Glasvegas album.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/1001001/VT_wave.jpg
maybe not quite that bad but close enough
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Chris in Belfast, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
To be fair, LotP sound like that live as well...
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Enough for me to not want to bother. :(
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
do you avoid music vids on youtube?
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Voted The Gaslight Anthem, second on my personal list of 2008.
― Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
santogold vs marling vs school of 7 bells
actually a surprising amount of good albums here (where surprising = "any at all")
just seeing the names of the top 5 acts is now hive-inducing though.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
what's a chairlift?
― Dont Try An Help Me I Dont Need Help Anymore Leave Me Alone (Dave from Norwich), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
"most bafflingly overrated" award, a clear winner for me...Glasvegas
even Geir's fellow countrymen at the Dagbladet newspaper are guiltyhttp://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/3172289350/show/929975
Best international album:1. Glasvegas - Glasvegas2. TV On the Radio - Dear Science3. Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws4. Dungen - 45. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend6. No Age - Nouns7. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III8. Q-Tip - The Renaissance9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes10. The Bronx - The Bronx III11. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt12. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams13. Portishead - Third14. Randy Newman - Harps and Angels15. Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior16. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.17. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive18. Chatham County Line - IV19. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt I20. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion21. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound22. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Death23. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs24. Ry Cooder - I, Flathead25. Opeth - Watershed26. Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali27. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh28. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It29. AC/DC - Black Ice30. Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
by magazines yeah, by friends it's VW
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Glasvegas are bloody awful
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Scotland's worst band of the decade: Glasvegas are bloody awful - but The View are even worse
― djmartian, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:23 (fifteen years ago) link
i think they could be a serviceable band if they ditched that fucking singer. cannot stand him
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
naw, theyre all shit
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
bought ths nme. first time in a year. will read in the bath later. nearly everything i love this year is being ignored: m83, school of the seven bells, ne-yo, friendly fires (gets a token mention here), gang gang dance, air france's ep. are all music journalists deaf? and that's not to mention the tens of songs i think are amongst the best i've ever heard.
― or something, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
are all music journalists deaf?
Don't know this bunch, any good?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:23 (fifteen years ago) link
School Of Seven Bells is in there at 42 but the name and title is round the wrong way
― The Biggest Event In The History Of Ethnic Comedy (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:29 (fifteen years ago) link
ha ha ha, I didn't even notice that! that's the best mixup since the album "His Name Is Alive" by the band "Livonia".
That's not a real LOTP .wav - they'd be much much much more sawtoothed than that.
― The All-Singing All-Dancing Unstoppable Kate (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
carrotcake.wav
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Late Of The Pier should win this contest.
― zeus, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow I haven't listened to any of these.
― Abbott of the Trapezoid Monks (Abbott), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I can remember worse NME end of the year list by the way...
― zeus, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link
when coldplay won it?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
For example, yes. Or 2006, 2007...
― zeus, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
lets compare http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nmeindex.html
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:39 (fifteen years ago) link
christ, 2006 was bloody awful.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
it's always been awful, it always will be awful. it's the fucking nme, what do you expect?
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 19:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Well some on here say they remember when it was really good.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
they're going senile. it was never good.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
cool
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:03 (fifteen years ago) link
justice is served!!!
― psychgawsple, Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:04 (fifteen years ago) link
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...
― Ironic Erection (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
heh who voted Glasvegas?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
suck that fleet ponces
― Minister for Compression Issues (electricsound), Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
13 Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes 0
― k3vin k., Thursday, 18 December 2008 00:50 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, who voted Primal Scream?
― Millsner, Thursday, 18 December 2008 01:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Alan McGee
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 18 December 2008 01:55 (fifteen years ago) link
But god ILX has some shite taste in music
homophobe
― Iconic Erection (sic), Thursday, 18 December 2008 03:34 (fifteen years ago) link
indiephobe
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 18 December 2008 13:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I wasn't aware that Spiritualized, Primal Scream, TV On The Radio, The fucking Verve, Vampire Weekend, etc. were gay icons.
― Ironic Erection (Masonic Boom), Thursday, 18 December 2008 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 18 December 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
pretty sure the PS, Oasis and Verve votes were joke ballots
― Timezilla vs Mechadistance (blueski), Thursday, 18 December 2008 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 18 December 2008 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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!
― Mark G, Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
next you will be thinking the NME is good after all!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 18 December 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
did you buy it?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 19 December 2008 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Who, me?
Um, no not yet. I may not bother, looking at that above.
― Mark G, Friday, 19 December 2008 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, ILX likes the majority of the albums on the NME top fifty
― thomp, Friday, 19 December 2008 01:50 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Iconic Erection (sic), Friday, 19 December 2008 04:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Ironic Erection (Masonic Boom), Friday, 19 December 2008 09:56 (fifteen years ago) link
you havent heard the spz album though!
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 19 December 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I heard enough of it live to know I fucking hate it!
― Ironic Erection (Masonic Boom), Friday, 19 December 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
That's why there's chocolate and vanilla, dude.
which is the one that tastes like shite?
― Iconic Erection (sic), Saturday, 20 December 2008 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
bon iver = vanilla
― psychgawsple, Saturday, 20 December 2008 06:05 (fifteen years ago) link
and not vanilla bean or anything like that