link does not work matos...can't access from idolators front page either :(
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 December 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
works for me.
Time mag's 50 Top 10s: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10Albums: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1864324,00.htmlSongs: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/top10/article/0,30583,1855948_1863440,00.html
― Matos W.K., Monday, 8 December 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Resident Advisor's Top 20 labels: http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature-read.aspx?id=994
― Matos W.K., Monday, 8 December 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
dear Time, please research concept of 'at a glance'
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Monday, 8 December 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
re: Time's Vampire Weekend paragraph
Peter Gabriel would be proud.
No he wouldn't.
Paul Simon would be prouder.
Yes he would. That's what's known as "damning with faint praise."
― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 8 December 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
PopMatters Top 50 singles (kind of dire).
― jaymc, Monday, 8 December 2008 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Time's list is quite ILXy.
― M.V., Monday, 8 December 2008 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
no point ILM doing a list then
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Monday, 8 December 2008 23:03 (fifteen years ago) link
how did Trentemøller become the go-to token techno act?
― Popper, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 01:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Jim DeRogatis
1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!" (Anti-)2. David Byrne and Brian Eno, "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" 3. Vivian Girls, "The Vivian Girls" (In the Red)4. The Knux, "Remind Me in 3 Days" (Interscope)5. Brazilian Girls, "New York City" (Verve)6. Local H, "12 Angry Months" (Shout Factory)7. Saul Williams, "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!" (niggytardust.com/Fader)8. Fleet Foxes, "Fleet Foxes" (Sub Pop)9. Kanye West, "808s & Heartbreak" (Roc-a-Fella/Def Jam)10. Erykah Badu, "New AmErykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War" (Motown)
http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/2008/12/the_best_albums_of_2008.html
― Andrew Sandwich, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 01:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Derogatis's next 40:
11. TV on the Radio, "Dear Science" (DGC/Interscope)
12. Parts & Labor, "Receivers" (Jagjaguwar)
13. Jenny Lewis, "Acid Tongue" (Warner Bros.)
14. Spiritualized "Songs in A&E" (Fontana)
15. Sigur Ros, "Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust" (XL)
16. The Black Angels, "Directions to See a Ghost" (Light in the Attic)
17. Girl Talk, "Feed the Animals" (Illegal Art)
18. Gnarls Barkley, "The Odd Couple" (Atlantic)
19. Weezer, "Weezer" (Geffen)
20. Lou Reed, "Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse" (Matador)
21. Portishead, "Third" (Mercury)
22. Q-Tip, "The Renaissance" (Universal/Motown)
23. Rise Against, "Appeal to Reason" (DGC/Interscope)
24. Flight of the Conchords, "Flight of the Conchords" (Sub Pop)
25. Ladytron, "Velocifero" (Nettwerk)
26. Bob Dylan, "Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased, 1989-2006" (Columbia)
27. Moby, "Last Night" (Mute/EMI)
28. Lykke Li, "Youth Novels" (Atlantic)
29. The Gutter Twins, "Saturnalia" (Sub Pop)
30. Wire, "Object 47" (Pink Flag)
31. Randy Newman, "Harps and Angels" (Nonesuch)
32. Sons and Daughters, "This Gift" (Domino)
33. Death Cab for Cutie, "Narrow Stairs" (Atlantic)
34. Beck, "Modern Guilt" (Interscope)
35. Tim Fite, "Fair Ain't Fair" (Anti-)
36. Deerhunter, "Microcastle" (Kranky)
37. Shot Baker, "Take Control" (Riot Fest)
38. Tokyo Police Club, "Elephant Shell" (Saddle Creek)
39. Nine Inch Nails, "The Slip" (nin.com)
40. Alejandro Escovedo, "Real Animal" (Back Porch)
41. Sia, "Some People Have Real Problems" (Hear Music)
42. Joan as Police Woman, "To Survive" (Cheap Lullaby)
43. Darker My Love, "2" (Dangerbird)
44. AC/DC, "Black Ice" (Columbia)
45. King Khan and the Shrines, "The Supreme Genius of King Khan" (Vice)
46. Disfear, "Live the Storm" (Relapse)
47. Super Furry Animals, "Hey Venus!" (Rough Trade)
48. Black Mountain, "In the Future" (Jagjaguwar)
49. Amy Ray, "Didn't It Feel Kinder" (Daemon)
50. Madonna, "Hard Candy" (Warner Bros.)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 01:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Not sure what this comment is in reference to, but Trentemøller is one of the few artists that made Cologne/Berlin minimal sounds accessable to listeners not steeped in a decade of house/progressive trance. I think well selected compilation drawn from his 2003-2006 remix work would be my album of the decade.
― derelict, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 02:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm surprised his Top 10 isn't alphabetical--it usually is.
― Matos W.K., Tuesday, 9 December 2008 02:20 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost; I was referring to DeRo
That said (kindly forgive the missing article above), "Miss You", which I think is the track in question in the PopMatters poll, came out in 2006.
― derelict, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 02:25 (fifteen years ago) link
ugh shut up dero
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 9 December 2008 04:20 (fifteen years ago) link
^
the VG blurb on his blog made me want to vomit.
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 04:26 (fifteen years ago) link
offering the perfect antidote to the Miley Cyrus/"Juno" bizarro world of young femininity so often seen in the media
lolz
― psychgawsple, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
ILM <3's Jonas Bros
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:22 (fifteen years ago) link
AU Magazine (www.iheartau.com - Belfast, Northern Ireland)
50. Eine Kleine Nacht Musik - Eine Kleine Nacht Musik (Modular)49. No Age – Nouns (Sub Pop)48. Midnight Juggernauts – Dystopia (Charisma)47. Ladytron – Velocifero (Nettwerk)46. Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Modern Life (Matador)45. Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs (Atlantic)44. Late Of The Pier – Fantasy Black Channel (Zarcorp)43. Adebisi Shank – This Is The Album Of A Band Called Adebisi Shank (The Richter Collective)42. British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)41. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing (Atp)40. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (Lies)39. Portishead – Third (Mercury)38. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (XL)37. Santogold – Santogold (Atlantic)36. Fight Like Apes – Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion (Model Citizen)35. Lightspeed Champion – Falling Off The Lavender Bridge (Domino)34. Oppenheimer – Take The Whole Midrange And Boost It (Fantastic Plastic)33. Born Ruffians – Red, Yellow And Blue (Warp)32. Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)31. Cadence Weapon – Afterparty Babies (Big Dada)30. V/A - Carling Supports: The Oh Yeah Sessions ‘0829. Beck – Modern Guilt (XL)28. 2562 – Aerial (Tectonic)27. Pacific! – Reveries (Half Machine)26. Los Campesinos! – Hold On, Now Youngster (Wichita)25. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)24. Jamie Lidell – Jim (Warp)23. Jape – Ritual (Cooperative)22. The Presets – Apocalypso (Universal)21. Neon Neon – Stainless Style (Lex)20. Hot Chip – Made In The Dark (EMI)19. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges (Rough Trade)18. Deerhunter – Microcastle (4AD)17. Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping (Polyvinyl)16. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Lie Down In The Light (Domino)15. Spiritualized – Songs In A&E (Universal)14. Foals – Antidotes (Transgressive)13. Nick Cave – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (Mute)12. Hercules And Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair (DFA)11. David Holmes – The Holy Pictures (Canderblinks/Mercury/UMC)10. Glasvegas – Glasvegas (Columbia)9. Why? – Alopecia (Tomlab)8. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid (Polydor)7. The Dodos – Visiter (Wichita)6. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours (Modular)5. Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires (XL)4. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Bella Union)3. Frightened Rabbit – Midnight Organ Fight (Fatcat)2. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (4AD)1. TV On The Radio – Dear Science (4AD)
― Chris in Belfast, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/12/8/allmusics-favorite-jazz-albums-of-2008-2/
AMG's Jazz List
http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/12/8/allmusics-favorite-folk-albums-of-2008/
Folk list
http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/12/9/allmusics-favorite-rb-albums-of-2008/
And R&B List
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
listened to half of the Bon Iver yesterday - big. fucking. whoop. how can anyone be excited enough by this sort of thing to put it at the top of lists?
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I am really blown away at the acclaim that album is getting. I couldn't really get through half of it.
― vampire baseball (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Well Number 50 - 2008 NME album of the year - Heartbreak - Lies
http://www.nme.com/images/218_albumsofyear.jpg
1 down, 49 to go
― djmartian, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 17:47 (fifteen years ago) link
are they doing one a week?
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
From The Sunday Times, Stewart Lee's "left-field" top ten:
1 One More Grain: Isle of Grain (White Heat) Daniel Patrick Quinn’s bored northern bingo-caller vocals drizzle bird’s-eye views of broken Britain over krautrock rhythms, incongruous jazz-fusion trumpet and post-punk guitar scree.
2 Matana Roberts: The Chicago Project (Central Control International) Matana Roberts blows ecstatic saxophone as hard as Albert Ayler, but carries tunes soulful enough to sell experimental jazz noise to sceptics.
3 Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh: Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh (Drag City) Espvall’s droning cello meets Batoh’s acid-blues guitar in a pervasive fog of Swedish folk and Japanese psychedelia.
4 John Edwards: Volume (PSI) John Edwards traverses the neck of his double bass in fearless free-jazz improvisations, using silence, space, sudden motions and sustained undulations.
5 Dick Gaughan: Gaughan Live! at the Trades Club (Greentrax) The Scottish folk singer and guitarist distils four decades of passion into a timeless selection, alternating a lightness of touch with smouldering, righteous fury.
6 Robert Forster: The Evangelist (Tag) The fearsomely fey former Go-Between’s first release since the death of his long-term songwriting partner, Grant McLennan, typifies his apparently effortless talent, with drawled poetry and low-slung guitars.
7 Martin Hayes/Dennis Cahill: Welcome Here Again (Green Linnet) Hayes rescues the fiddle tunes of his native Co Clare from clichéd arrangements and off-the-peg sentimentality, imbuing them with vast emotional depths and moments of considered stillness.
8 The Advisory Circle: Other Channels (Ghost Box) The electronica of 1970s public-information films and weird children’s TV conjures a forgotten suburban nightmare of prescription tranquillisers, coffee mornings, treacherous ponds and imminent nuclear war.
9 NICK PYNN Afterplanesman (Roundhill) Pynn gave his micro-suite of miniature art-folk curios a push this year. Sampled vocals and self-made instruments range across cultural, geographical and temporal boundaries to delightful effect.
10 WILD BILLY CHILDISH AND THE MUSICIANS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Thatcher’s Children (Damaged Goods) Chatham’s venerable garage-rock fundamentalists cock a 1976-style snook at Noughties values and continue to summon instant punk classics from the Thames estuary at will.
Other Sunday Times lists, featuring all the same albums as on everyone elses lists, here.
― DavidM, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Adebisi Shank - This Is The Album (Richter Collective)
Funny how Battles did so well in lists last year, whereas Adebisi Shank is barely a blip. Adebisi Shank reminds me a bit of Battles, but I like AS better.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
quietus do their thing :
30: Beach House - Devotion29: Neon Neon - Stainless Style28: Times New Viking - Rip It Off27: No Age - Nouns26: Grace Jones - Hurricane25: Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir24: Burial Hex - Initiations23: Aidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart22: Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too21: Wire - Object 4720: Amadou and Miriam - Welcome To Mali19: Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics18: Simon Bookish - Everything/Everything17: Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping16: Flying Lotus - Los Angeles15: These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid14. Fuck Buttons - Street Horsssing13. UFOmammut - Idolum12. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. 11. Glasvegas - Glasvegas10. Nadja - Skin Turns To Glass9. One More Grain - Isle Of Grain8. Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!6. Wild Beasts - Limbo Panto5. SunnO))) - Domkirke4. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?3. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent2. Portishead - Third1. The Bug - London Zoo
― mark e, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
hey these lists are getting better! esp that stewart lee one
― psychgawsple, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't know what quietus is but i should obviously find out
― HOOS wearing bitchmade sweaters and steendriving (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
k so now i have to hear this one more grain business
― psychgawsple, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Unless I've missed it, I'm surprised to not see El Guincho on any of these lists considering how much buzz that album was gathering earlier this year.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, apparently it was originally out last year.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:25 (fifteen years ago) link
http://thequietus.com -- which I very very sporadically write for (because I'm often swamped with other stuff!)
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:31 (fifteen years ago) link
waitwaitwait -- DeRo liked a Madonna album enough to place it on a year-end list??
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
get that denim jacket out, the most retro-trad-rockist best albums of 2008 list from classic rock magazine, have a laugh at some of these picks
http://pub37.bravenet.com/forum/3172289350/show/929916
Classic Rock magazine EOY albums
50. The Black Keys - Attack & Release49. Todd Rundgren - Arena48. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - "Dig Lazarus, Dig!!"47. Thunder - Bang!46. Tesla - Forever More45. Viking Skull - Doom, Gloom, Heartache & Whiskey44. The Jim Jones Revue - s/t43. Girlschool - Legacy42. Stonerider - Three Legs Of Trouble41. Black Tide - Light From Above40. Diagonal - s/t39. Dirty Penny - Take It Sleezy38. Glenn Hughes - First Underground Nuclear Kitchen37. Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs36. Graveyard - s/t35. Lethargy - Purification34. Testament - The Formation Of Damnation33. Blood Ceremony - s/t32. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath31. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive30. Kings Of Leon - 0nly By The Night29. Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty28. The Clash - Live At Shea Stadium27. Joe Bonamassa - Live From Nowhere In Particular26. Endeverafter - Kiss Or Kill25. Uriah Heep - Wake The Sleeper24. Rose Hill Drive - Moon Is The New Earth23. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark22. Queen & Paul Rogers - The Cosmos Rocks21. Thin Lizzy - UK Tour 197520. Judas Priest - Nostradamus19. Marillion - Happiness Is The Road18. Pride Tiger - The Lucky Ones17. Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider16. Motorhead - Motorizer15. Black Crowes - Warpaint14. Stone Gods - Silver Spoons & Broken Bones13. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound12. The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely11. Opeth - Watershed10. Motley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles9. Journey - Revelation8. Big Linda - I Loved You7. Whitesnake - Good To Be Bad6. Def Leppard - Songs From The Sparkle Lounge5. Airbourne - Runnin' Wild4. Black Stone Cherry - Folklore & Superstition3. Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy2. Metallica - Death Magnetic1. AC/DC - Black Ice
― djmartian, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
lololololol @ the top 10
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 9 December 2008 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
well done airbourne
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
lol@ the whole list
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Are these lot really still going: Whitesnake, Uriah Heep, Journey.
Girlschool - the last time i heard from these lot I was still in primary school circa 1981.
― djmartian, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:05 (fifteen years ago) link
too bad you're not a girl
― Yentl vs Predator (blueski), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Stuff I like from that list: Viking Skull, Graveyard, Testament, Blood Ceremony, Motorhead, Opeth, Airbourne, Metallica. GnR and AC/DC are okay. Honestly kind of surprised to see that Graveyard caught their attention. Great record.
― Gorgoroth? I hardly knew her! (J3ff T.), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
blueski, you were still munching on farley's rusks in 1981
Motorhead & Girlschool - Please don't touch
― djmartian, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Girlschool album this year was really good! But I can't believe they missed Rose Tattoo, Rick Springfield, Hirax, Night Ranger, Ted Nugent's live album, lots of other things (all better than their top 5, as far as I'm concerned. I never heard the Def Leppard!)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost
J3FF that graveyard band is fucking AWESOME! good stuff. at least some good came out of this thread.
btw i find the classic rock list like 8 zillion times more interesting and charming than most of the lists on this thread, i'd rather read kooky and eccentric lists like that than all the other year end garbage.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, me too; only complained about that list because I basically *like* it. (Agree about Graveyard, too -- I was actually loving that album way back in '07, as an import on Transubstans.)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
xp Also, meant they missed the boat on HELIX, not Hirax. (Though Hirax got a good review in Decibel, I think.)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Classic Rock list is pretty much "Hell, you boys could have a pretty good weekend in Vergas with that stuff!"
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Any sign of NME's 08 rundown?
― davek_00, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 23:43 (fifteen years ago) link
I can make out that it says "No Kooks, Kaiser Chiefs or Razorlight" and 7 of the top 10 are debuts. Which would suggest Santogold, Glasvegas, MGMT, Foals, Late of The Pier, Fleet Foxes and Vampire Weekend joining Kings of Leon, TV on The Radio and Elbow in the top 10.
― Mitchell Stirling, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link