Best Album On NME' s 2008 Albums Of The Year List?

I'm not sure. Could go either way. But I'd like to think that you would.

Someone post a waveform!

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.

Disclaimer - didn't see Kings of Leon in there, and haven't heard the Glasvegas album.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v318/1001001/VT_wave.jpg

maybe not quite that bad but close enough

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.

To be fair, LotP sound like that live as well...

Enough for me to not want to bother. :(

do you avoid music vids on youtube?

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.

Voted The Gaslight Anthem, second on my personal list of 2008.

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.

what's a chairlift?

"most bafflingly overrated" award, a clear winner for me...Glasvegas

even Geir's fellow countrymen at the Dagbladet newspaper are guilty
http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/3172289350/show/929975

Best international album:
1. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
2. TV On the Radio - Dear Science
3. Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws
4. Dungen - 4
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
6. No Age - Nouns
7. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
8. Q-Tip - The Renaissance
9. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
10. The Bronx - The Bronx III
11. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt
12. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
13. Portishead - Third
14. Randy Newman - Harps and Angels
15. Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior
16. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
17. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
18. Chatham County Line - IV
19. Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt I
20. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
21. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
22. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Death
23. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
24. Ry Cooder - I, Flathead
25. Opeth - Watershed
26. Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali
27. Gojira - The Way of All Flesh
28. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
29. AC/DC - Black Ice
30. Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On

"most bafflingly overrated" award, a clear winner for me...Glasvegas

by magazines yeah, by friends it's VW

Glasvegas are bloody awful

Scotland's worst band of the decade: Glasvegas are bloody awful - but The View are even worse

i think they could be a serviceable band if they ditched that fucking singer. cannot stand him

naw, theyre all shit

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.

are all music journalists deaf?

Don't know this bunch, any good?

School Of Seven Bells is in there at 42 but the name and title is round the wrong way

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.

carrotcake.wav

Late Of The Pier should win this contest.

Wow I haven't listened to any of these.

I can remember worse NME end of the year list by the way...

when coldplay won it?

For example, yes. Or 2006, 2007...

lets compare http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/nmeindex.html

christ, 2006 was bloody awful.

it's always been awful, it always will be awful. it's the fucking nme, what do you expect?

Well some on here say they remember when it was really good.

they're going senile. it was never good.

one vote for fucked up - chemistry of common life

a lot of senile posters on ILM then Lex

Heh heh, thanks for the new screen name...

Is it The Lex who doesn't acknowledge the presence of any culture before 1997? Or am I mixing him up with someone else?

Is it The Lex who doesn't acknowledge the presence of any culture before 1997? Or am I mixing him up with someone else?

That could be loads on ILM!

friendly fires is the only album here i particularly care about

That Bloc Party album must be terrible to get the token no.49 slot

^^it is

i voted for vampire weekend

school of seven bells > portishead > laura marling > santogold > hercules and love affair > hot chip > scarlett johansson

these are the only albums on the list which aren't totally worthless. it's good going, considering.

No Earth, Torche, Growing , Harvey Milk or Grails no credibility.

Don't suppose (m)any will vote for it but that Spiritualized album was very good and way better than I expected.

I suppose the same can be said of the verve album

Finally got round to listening to the poxy Foals album, sounds like they've nicked all their songs off Q And Not U and slung in a bit of Pigbag for good measure. Enjoyed some of it, always been a sucker for trebly guitars and skittering drums, but I got a bit naffed off with the singer.

didnt care much for them

Seeing Spz live put me off every wanting to listen to another note of their records ever again!

Admit it, you went to that gig determined not to like it!

Not true! I went to that gig as excited as could be, I wore my silver spacejacket and everything, went and got a good spot in front of one of the pillars so I could see... and, as D observed "that was the quickest I've ever seen you go from bouncey to retching in my life!" I was excited by reports that it was the best live show they'd done in years! Those reports were wrong!

But anyway, this is not the thread for this.

next you will be thinking the NME is good after all!

did you buy it?

Who, me?

Um, no not yet. I may not bother, looking at that above.

ha, ILX likes the majority of the albums on the NME top fifty

I wasn't aware that Spiritualized, Primal Scream, TV On The Radio, The fucking Verve, Vampire Weekend, etc. were gay icons.

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.

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.

you havent heard the spz album though!

I heard enough of it live to know I fucking hate it!

That's why there's chocolate and vanilla, dude.

which is the one that tastes like shite?

bon iver = vanilla

and not vanilla bean or anything like that