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

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.

Well it's still a good album.

WHICH GINGER IS HOTTER?!?!?!

Hercules & LA win this by a mile too.

And best tranny. So I voted them.

should joe satriani have a credit there with coldplay?

Well johnny Marr did join Modest Mouse..

My views:
Shite: 43
Not Shite: 7

Coldplay --> Best album of 2008

For the record, Coldplay was one of my 7.

Geir's 2008 list
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/GeirH/my_top_albums_of_2008____so_far/

Bit of a slump round about #40 and I haven't heard most of the Norwegian ones but by Geir's standards that's not too bad a list!

I still love that Marit Larsen album, it would be in my list definitely. Also Geir likes Sebastien Tellier! Awesome.

Portishead.

I make it ten non-shite albums. In order:

25 Portishead Third
2 TV on the Radio Dear Science
17 Elbow The Seldom Seen Kid
7 Santogold Santogold
42 Alpinisms School of Seven Bells
44 Li, Lykke Youth Novels
1 MGMT Oracular Spectacular
16 Ladyhawke Ladyhawke
34 Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
23 Johansson, Scarlett Anywhere I Lay My Head

Like these:

7 Santogold Santogold
19 Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life
20 Spiritualized Songs in A and E
25 Portishead Third
33 Deerhunter Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.

I like 2 or 3 songs on these but wouldn't rave about them:

1 MGMT Oracular Spectacular
12 Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
29 Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nick Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

Thought this was shit:

43 Black Kids Partie Traumatic

Not heard the rest yet.

Not heard the Black Kids album, are they really that bad?

The NME really, really should be all over the Gang Gang Dance record...it's their wet dream.

Obviously it isn't. Maybe next year..

12 Crystal Castles Crystal Castles

^ and even this album I wouldn't put on a best-of list

apart from Q, Mojo, Word and about 5 others

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.

haha

I've just had a good chuckle at the write up for the Oasis album in this poll. By 'chuckle' I mean fighting the urge to kick something violently across the room.

only heard three of these:

portishead an obvious and effortless winner; mogwai nipping at their heels but out of breath; fucked up limping along half a mile or so behind.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

there is one good album on this list and it's hercules and love affair.

although portishead's 'third' was decent enough

Third is easily the best

So everyone vote Portishead!

or just vote. less than 2 hours left.

25 mins left to vote

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

cool

justice is served!!!

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...

heh who voted Glasvegas?

suck that fleet ponces

13 Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes 0

wait, who voted Primal Scream?

Alan McGee

But god ILX has some shite taste in music

homophobe

indiephobe

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

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.

pretty sure the PS, Oasis and Verve votes were joke ballots

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

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!

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.