Lone's Lemurian.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link
eat skull - sick to death !!!
^^^yesalso, of montreal is on one maybe, but it should be on every list
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 3 December 2008 12:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm also on my own with System 7's Phoenix, but that's only to be expected.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 12:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes, the Lone album definitely. I also liked Pas Chic Chic, Julian Cope and Death in the Neighbourhood.
― Kim Tortoise, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 12:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I was hoping to see some r'n'b, rap, blues, soul, reggaton, salsa, dancehall, roots reggae, jazz and multiple types of afropop here not just indie. I'll add some more later. Here's a few things-- Concha Buika, Blind Boys of Alabama, John Buitte, Calle 13.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Sharron Kraus - "The Fox's Wedding"Silver Summit - "Silver Summit"
― Jason Pitzl-Waters, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Jamey Johnson- That Lonesome Song
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 17:03 (fifteen years ago) link
basically just albums that my friends put out that no one cares about because they aren't famous
― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 17:04 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^
― some know what you dude last summer (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Joan As Policewoman-To Survive
― sonnyboy, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Jeezy
― vermonter, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
some faves I haven't seen on any mags'/prominent sites' lists yet:
Parts & Labor - Receivers Jaguar Love - Take Me To The Sea Robin Thicke - Something Else Evangelista - Hello, Voyager Pink - Funhouse A.B.N. - It Is What It Is Nine Inch Nails - The Slip Raheem DeVaughn - Love Behind The Melody Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw And Wild Sloan - Parallel Play Prodigy - Product Of The 80s Sheek Louch - Silverback Gorilla Walter Becker - Circus Money Rich Boy - Bigger Than The Mayor Grand Buffet - King Vision Blake Leyh - X-Ray Yankee Zulu Tango The B-52s - Funplex
― nutz in a good way, aka bustin (some dude), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Shed - Shedding The Past
Hasn't been in any lists at all and probably won't be but it's marvellous from start to finish.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
white denim - exposionpaper route gangstaz w/ diplo - fear and loathing in huntsvegas mixtapethe cool kids - bake sale epharlem - free drugs;)
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Jamie Lidell - Jim.... Great album.
― Dan S, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Clark - Turning Dragon
― sonnypike, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
The Bug - London Zoo
^ I carped about this in t'other thread and someone pointed out it's #2 on metacritic.
a mountain of one - collected works
baffled about lack of mention of this one. is it just that anyone who cared, cared in 2007? it had a 2008 US release.
― Edward III, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:55 (fifteen years ago) link
All of them
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Robert Forster - The Evangelist
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
O T M re: Robert Forster!!
and two of my other faves:Vikki Jackman - Whispering PagesJonas Reinhardt s/t
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Is the Annie album in all the lists again?
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Dungen thirded.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
yea i was pleasantly surprised with the jonas reinhardt s/t on kranky. also, i couldn't stop listening to arp's 'in light' this year
― psychgawsple, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Dub Colossus, A Town Called Addis; any of my jazz or Latin or world faves; XX Teens, Welcome to Goon Island
― Dimension 5ive, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:32 (fifteen years ago) link
^^ yes--i forgot about Arp!
― nerve_pylon, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:42 (fifteen years ago) link
15 Great Albums from 2008 that will unfortunately NOT be on many Best of 2008 Lists
Adoration - Sleepwalkinghttp://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/adoration__uk_/sleepwalking/Influenced by Clan of Xymox and The Cure circa disintegration - atmospherical dreamy music from London
http://www.myspace.com/adorationuk
Emily Bezar - Exchange http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/emily_bezar/exchange/America's answer to Kate Bush - art-rock music with expressive female vocals
http://cdbaby.com/cd/ebezar5 http://www.myspace.com/emilybezar
Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin - Holon http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/nik_bartsch%E2%80%99s_ronin/holon/minimalist groove electronic jazz soundscapes from Switzerland
http://www.myspace.com/nikbaertschsronin
Brave - Monuments http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/brave/monuments/sublime art-rock music from USA with lush female vocals
http://www.myspace.com/braveband
Burst - Lazarus Bird http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/burst/lazarus_bird/one of the best produced rock albums of 2008 - multi-dimensional brilliance from Sweden. Fans of Cave In - Jupiter will love this album.
http://www.myspace.com/burstrelapse
Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/elephant9/dodovoodoo/powerful jazz-fusion rock from Norway
http://www.myspace.com/elephant9theband
Folk & Røvere - Lysrædd http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/folk_and_rovere/lysraedd/burial influences plus trip-hop soundscape music from Norway - glacial grooves
http://www.myspace.com/folkogrovere
Guapo - Elixirs http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/guapo/elixirs/avant progressive rock from England - more spatial and varied than their previous albums
http://www.myspace.com/guapoband
Mar de Grises - Draining the Waterhearthttp://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/mar_de_grises/draining_the_waterheart/ death-doom metal with post-metal atmospherics from Chile - superbly produced album - one of the top tier metal albums of 2008
http://www.myspace.com/mardegrises2
Metus - Deliverancehttp://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/metus/deliverance/ethereal music from Polandslowcore dreamy ambient gothic atmospheric art-rock, piano, violins, deep gothic vocals - would appeal to Swans 90s era and Beyond Dawn fans
http://www.myspace.com/metuspl
Mothlite - The Flax of Reveriehttp://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/mothlite/the_flax_of_reverie/progressive art rock from England, the production on this album is sublime - would appeal to Talk Talk and Beta Band fans
from their myspace page: stated influencesThe Underneath | Tin Drum | Night of the Hunter | Music from the Penguin Cafe | White Light from the Mouth of Infinity | The Magic Mountain | Spirit of Eden | Laughing Stock | Hounds of Love | Turangalîla-Symphonie | Big Science | La Planete Sauvage | Lodger | Tarka the Otter | Delusion of the Fury | Feel Flows | Songs from the Big Chair | Love's Secret Domain | Blue Jay Way
http://www.myspace.com/mothlite
Orakle - Tourments and Peditionhttp://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/orakle/tourments_and_perdition/France's answer to Arcturus - avant progressive melodic black metal - the vocalist does the best Garm [of Arcturus] impersonation ever
http://www.myspace.com/orakleband
Setna - Cycle I http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/setna/cycle_i/absolutely stunning music ! from France one of the very best albums of 2008 - fans of Comus will enjoy this - trippy psychedelic music
http://www.myspace.com/setnasesame
Trincaria - Travel Now Journey Infinitely http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/trinacria/travel_now_journey_infinitely/noise rock meets shoegazer metal from this Norwegian collective, the title track Part VI: Travel Now Journey Infinitely - is pure orgasmic in it's build up and release - would appeal to My Bloody Valentine and Neurosis fans. Some metal purists just didn't know what to make of this album, it left them rather confused.
http://www.myspace.com/trinacriamusic
Virus - The Black Fluxhttp://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/virus_f3/the_black_flux/complex experimental rock music from Norway - in the 70s this would have been labeled "rock in opposition"
http://www.myspace.com/czral
― djmartian, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i am pretty sure this was 2007. good album though.
― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
thanx for those djmartian,
Peter Rehberg - Work for GV 2004 - 2008
gets a mention from me.
― mmmm, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't think it officially came out in the US in 2007 but that doesn't mean much anymore
xpost
― Edward III, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:17 (fifteen years ago) link
amazon.com sez 2008... no wiki entry for them?
Audio CD (June 3, 2008)# Original Release Date: October 8, 2007# Number of Discs: 1# Label: Mountain Records# ASIN: B000UYT8RC
― Edward III, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
check that second line...Original Release Date: October 8, 2007
it was 2007 in the UK
― djmartian, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
this wasn't really a "favorite album" per se but i thought born ruffian's "red yellow and blue" was a more successful version of vampire weekend's sound and no one really seemed to care ... might be the lack of obvious afropop signifiers for writers to latch on to?
― n/a is just more of a character....in a genre polluted by clones (n/a), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Come on curmudgeon, reggaeton and salsa mostly suck this year as we've sort of been discussing all year on the appropriate rolling thread. Unless you count those two new Cesar Pedroso albums as salsa (one of them not under his name) in which case it would be nice to see some recognition for them, but it's not too surprising.
I'll second Boris's Smile.
― _Rockist__Scientist_, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
A couple different records on Type:
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill (<<<especially this)Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals
― Z S, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
London Zoo made #9 on the Mojo list but should be more widely known.
― Billy Dods, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Really? That seems astonishingly high for Mojo of all publications.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
the bug is number 2 on metacritic 2008 albums - so is already highly praised by the critical mainstream
2 London Zoo by The Bughttp://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2008.shtml
― djmartian, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Both GGD and the Bug are in the Fact 20 Album List.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Fact Magazine - Top 20http://tinyurl.com/69ffhp
― djmartian, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Confluence, by Manual (Jonas Munk), is his loveliest/floaty-est ambient work yet. Probably has a good shot at recognition on ambient-specialist lists, but I doubt it will show up in any more generalist lists (if there's a token spot for ambient processed guitar work, it will surely go to Fennesz).
― Paul in Santa Cruz, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
these lists are mostly indie-centric so most of my own will be absent, but a favourite album which i haven't seen many people repping for even within its genre is anja schneider's beyond the valley - really exquisitely done minimal techno. it doesn't "move the scene forward" or "switch the game up" or anything which would make it canon- or crossover-friendly, but i love its frosted prettiness - it's full of character and REALLY heavy on melody. 'maki' is probably my favourite on it.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Paavoharju first best album whose title I can neither pronounce nor remember.
― M.V., Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't seen any of my favorite albums on critics' poll lists so far. Eventually I'll maybe see Jamey Johnson (from my top ten) one or two, and I'll almost definitely wind up seeing James McMurtry and Ne-Yo (from my top 20) on a couple. Taylor Swift will probably wind up in my top 30, and she already made Blender's list, at least. Lil Wayne and Hold Steady and Robyn might make my top 50. But it's way easier to list those than to the list all the ones that haven't made any poll lists.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link
no and not just because it's not being released until early next year now (i'll be surprised if it gets listed by many this time next year). it's in my 08 top 10 tho.
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link
what about Strategy's 'Music For Lamping'? i haven't heard it yet but 'Future Rock' is really good.
― Teahouse Foxtrot (blueski), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Whaa? I didn't even know there was a new Strategy!
― Z S, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link
It's coming out again or is it a new album you are talking about?x-post
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
xp (Both Santogold albums somewhere around 50 for me too; Kathleen Edwards a little below that; a handful or two more that I've seen on poll lists likely somewhere in my top 100. But mainly, if anything, I'm kind of amazed that people here don't disagree with random consensus lists way more than they do.)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 3 December 2008 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
yea really there are fewer similarities than differences in opinion
― psychgawsple, Thursday, 4 December 2008 00:05 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't hear the whole Born Ruffians album but the Four Tet remix of "I Need a Life" sounded completely Graceland to me (it's the dude's voice, very Paul Simon-like). And no, for the last time, Vampire Weekend sounds nothing at all like Graceland, thanks and good night.
― Matos W.K., Thursday, 4 December 2008 00:21 (fifteen years ago) link
that strategy was collected older works i thought??
― jergins, Thursday, 4 December 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Is there already a thread where people get to complain about critics polls/magazine best-ofs appearing in November and early December, with deadlines in September and October? How is that a year-end issue?
I love the holidays more than most people I know, but there's enough going on that I can wait for my year-end issues until at least MLK Weekend. In fact, it's usually mid-January before I get around to reading all that crap anyway.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 4 December 2008 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis
― micarl, Thursday, 4 December 2008 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Robert Forster seconded, thirded, whatevs. BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR, DOGGS. What the fuck is a Fleet Foxes?
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 December 2008 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Did Forster not even make the Mojo list?
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 December 2008 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Forster again.
Shannon McArdle- Summer of the Whore
― jsimp, Thursday, 4 December 2008 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Only scanned through everything, but have scandalously yet to see a mention of the excellent Roots Manuva album.
― chap, Thursday, 4 December 2008 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Hey DJ Martian: Travel Now Journey Infinitely is by Trinacria (correct spelling) -- it's a supergroup made of members of Enslaved and Fe-mail, and it is indeed kick-ass. Also, I will second the idea that Guapo's record is pretty good but only about #50 for me, Santogold below that because meh. When she told us that she was DEFINITELY NOT R&B I stopped caring as much.
I predict that Erykah Badu will not place as highly anywhere as she would here or if there was an Idolator poll, where she might make top 10. Also, Willie Nelson ain't showing up anywhere, either with or without Wynton; are hipsters just over poor ol' Willie, or did I just miss his placements?
― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 4 December 2008 02:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Also: TRICKY!!! I love that record!!! But I'm not surprised that Brits have decided to be over him!!!
― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 4 December 2008 02:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Boris - SmileJamie Lidell - Jim.... Great album.
Great albums both, and will make my top ten for the year.
― ilxor, Thursday, 4 December 2008 07:14 (fifteen years ago) link
that new breeders album "mountain battles" is pretty damn great
― deviants w. deliriants (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Nomo - Ghost Rock
― you can't stop the shinin' (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
The Cheap Time debut is a lot more inspired than the Vivian Girls. "London Zoo" and Cheap Time are the only albums this year that I always seem to listen to start-to-finish. More garage rock: "We have you surrounded" is the best thing the Dirtbombs have done. I like Thee Oh Sees wall-of-noise pop on "Master's Bedroom" better than anything else Dwyer's done yet. And I like it better than the Raveonetts, Magnetic Fields and whoever else did that sound this year.
― bendy, Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:37 (fifteen years ago) link
good call on the dirtbombs...i want to get that album, but haven't scrounged up the cash yet, plus the computers in the shop...I saw them at the Blind Pig a couple of weeks ago though...one of the best gig I've ever been to.
― deviants w. deliriants (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 4 December 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
are hipsters just over poor ol' Willie, or did I just miss his placements?
Probably has something to do with him releasing 2 or 3 albums year for the past few years.
― President Keyes, Thursday, 4 December 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Atmosphere, When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (Rhymesayers)
What can I say? It's playing in my head constantly nearly a year later, has more great songs than any of my other favorites from this year (i.e. less that I skip), and still strikes me as beautiful, poignant, and funny.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI: Ambleside
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:56 (fifteen years ago) link
David Byrne and Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
But oddly not in the order it appears on the finished CD. When I downloaded it, the track-order I got (hard to believe it was random) was so much better:
Life Is LongI Feel My StuffEverything That HappensThe RiverThe LighthouseStrange OvertonesHomeMy Big NurseOne Fine DayWanted for LifePoor Boy
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 4 December 2008 23:56 (fifteen years ago) link
^yes
― k3vin k., Friday, 5 December 2008 00:00 (fifteen years ago) link
not to the tracklist, but the record
RS, I'm always dreaming and hoping that someone else who never bothers with the Rolling thread will appear on these general interest threads naming off Spanish language stuff that will dazzle us both.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 December 2008 05:10 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, the tape album's great (xp)the tenniscoats and secai record is one of my top two or three, kinda a slow burner but beautiful. if the record they made with tape was 08 not 07 then that'd be in there too.
― schlump, Saturday, 6 December 2008 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
marnie stern!
― k3vin k., Saturday, 6 December 2008 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Tobias Froberg-Turn Heads Correcto-s/t (Domino)
― kwhitehead, Sunday, 7 December 2008 00:18 (fifteen years ago) link
After my disappointment with The Secret Migration I didn't pay much attention to Mercury Rev's Snowflake Midnight when it came out in Sep. It's kind of sleepy but sounds great right now as the temperature plunges outside from 48 to 12 degrees, and rain will turn to snow, appropriately enough, around midnight.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 15 December 2008 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link