Year-End Critics' Polls '08

Nice to see the Koen Holtkamp make WIRE's electronica list. Criminally overlooked, I tell you!

Nice to see Esperanza Spaulding on the Vibe list. My favorite thing I've discovered today.

discovered? DISCOVERED? oh rev

that's why you gotta read your Cave17 yo

I'd actually forgotten about Cave 17! Thanks for reminding me, I should check that.

78. MGMT ft. Jim Jones, "Electric Feel (Remix)" (mixtapes)

^^hang on wtf is this

― lex pretend, Sunday, December 14, 2008 5:32 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Another track will be the remix to MGMT's "Electric Feel". Jim Jones said this to GQ.com about it

“They did a show (at United Palace Theater) up in Washington Heights, the initial conversation was just that it was an honor to meet them, I think they're kinna cool. And from there it lead into me saying, It'd be crazy if I remixed "Electric Feel". They were like, Yeah, that would be crazy. So I said, Let me get the beats and shit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pray_IV_Reign

what a great fuckin story

"Great Story, Katie Holmes Jim Jones!"

Matos we're gonna do a top 20 and some other stuff in the next week, stay tuned

Everyone else what's up, I'm back kinda

Clash Magazine

40. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of Understatement
39. Cadenie Weapon - Afterparty Babies
38. Adele - 19
37. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
36. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
35. Killers - Day & Age
34. No Age - Nouns
33. Eiene Kliene Nacht Musik - s/t
32. Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
31. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
30. Friendly Fires - s/t
29. Why? - Alopecia
28. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t
27. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
26. Wild Beasts - Limbo Panto
25. Fleet Foxes - s/t
24. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
23. Emiliana Torrini - Me & Armini
22. Dr. Dog - Fate
21. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
20. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
19. Mystery Jets - Twenty One
18. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
17. Deerhunter - Microcastle
16. Aliens - Luna
15. Portishead - Third
14. Coldplay - Viva La Vida...
13. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
12. White Denim - Workout Holiday
11. Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
10. The Bug - London Zoo
9. Gang Gang Dance - 'Saint Dymphna'
8. Santogold - s/t
7. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
6. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
5. Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior
4. Foals - Antidotes
3. Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
2. Vampire Weekend - s/t
1. Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night

Culturedeluxe - The Top 50 Albums of 2008
http://www.culturedeluxe.com/news_item.asp?id=5291

Pop Matters - Best Metal Albums of 2008
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/66667-the-best-metal-albums-of-2008/

That's a pretty good metal list.

Rolling Stone's Top 100 Singles

1. Beyonce, "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"
2. Santogold, "L.E.S. Artistes"

OTM

More like "L.O.L. Artistes"

How can you dislike that song?! I mean, the chorus!

What chorus? You seem to imply that there's some sort of hook there. I like it, just not that much.

i never thought a song could make me miss the real Gwen Stefani

Not sure how it sounds like Gweni? More like YYYs. Would probably be better off sounding like the former.

See, there's this part where the music explodes into this massive, beautiful wave of like guitars, keyboards and ahhhs. And then Santogold joins in: "I can say I hope it will be worth what I give up..."

That's called a "chorus" and, in this case, it's really gorgeous.

opinions4me

Anyway, Tape Store, I was more trying to make a cheap joke than express any coherent opinion. Lighten up, folk.

really hard to not see inclusion of Primal Scream, Oasis, Adele, Coldplay and even the KoL and Killers albums on that Clash list as just record label appeasement

The Vibe list is imperfect in places but it's the best list I've seen on this thread so far.

Including the Primal Scream record on any EOY list seems charitable in the extreme.

Resident Advisor needs to hurry the fuck up and get its lists out. I'm predicting an album win for Shedding The Past and deservedly so, but the singles list always throws up amazing stuff I've never knowingly heard.

I'm curious about that Shed record but there doesn't seem to be a thread about it.

Here are the top albums of 2008 chosen by Helsingin Sanomat, our biggest newspaper, it's a mix of Finnish and foreign albums:

http://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/artikkeli/HS+listasi+kuluneen+vuoden+kiitellyimm%C3%A4t+levyt/1135241971157

(The blurbs are only available in Finnish.)

Here's the Helsingin Sanomat list without the blurbs:

Sam Amidon: All Is Well
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah, Part One
Buika: Niña de fuego
Children of Bodom: Blooddrunk
Coldplay: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours
Dans les arbres: Dans les arbres
Toumani Diabaté: The Mandé Variations
Dido: Safe Trip Home
Duffy: Rockferry
Eleanoora Rosenholm: Älä kysy kuolleilta, he sanoivat
Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
Glasvegas: Glasvegas
Hercules and Love Affair: Hercules and Love Affair
Herra Ylppö & Ihmiset: Sata vuotta
Frida Hyvönen: Silence Is Wild
Johanna Iivanainen & 1N: Outoja maita
Iiwanajulma: Tuhottu tila
Mikko Innanen: F60.8. Ilma Records
Verneri Pohjola & Joonas Riippa: Michelin Star
Ismo Alanko Teholla: Blanco Spirituals
Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
Kiki Pau: Let's Rock
Kuusumun Profeetta: Lyhtykuja
M83: Saturdays = Youth
Mariza: Terra
MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
Melingo: Maldito Tango
Opeth: Watershed
Portishead: Third
The Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely
R.E.M.: Accelerate
Ruudolf: Born in the U.S.A.
Kauko Röyhkä & Riku Mattila: s/t
Sigur Rós: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
The Soundtrack of Our Lives: Communion
Bobo Stenson: Cantando
Stepa: MC
Sväng: Jarruta
Rokia Traoré: Tchamantché
Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
Maija Vilkkumaa: Superpallo
Hank Williams III: Damn Right, Rebel Proud

Resident Advisor's Top 20 Compilations: http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature-read.aspx?id=997

20. Carl Craig – Sessions [Studio !K7]
19. Adam Beyer - Fuse Presents... [Music Man Records]
18. VA - Circoloco @ DC10 - 10 Years Anniversary [Moon Harbour Recordings]
17. Matthew Dear - Body Language Vol. 7 [Get Physical Music]
16. Dave Clarke - Back in the Box [NRK Music]
15. Basic Channel - BCD-2 [Basic Channel]
14. Stefan Goldmann - The Transitory State [Macro]
13. Sascha Funke - Watergate 02 [Watergate]
12. Wighnomy Brothers - Metawuffmischfelge [Freude Am Tanzen]
11. VA - Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated by Vandals [Skull Disco]
10. Andy Stott - Unknown Exception: Selected Tracks Vol. 1 (2004 - 2008) [Modern Love]
09. Âme - Fabric 42 [Fabric]
08. Robert Hood - Fabric 39 [Fabric]
07. Gas - Nah und Fern [Kompakt]
06. Luciano - Fabric 41 [Fabric]
05. DJ /rupture - Uproot [The Agriculture]
04. Metro Area - Fabric 43 [Fabric]
03. Appleblim - Dubstep Allstars: Vol. 06 [Tempa]
02. Efdemin - Carry On, Pretend We're Not in the Room [Curle Recordings]
01. Marcel Dettmann - Berghain 02 [Ostgut Ton]

kinda good, kinda sketchy list from MTV News' mixtape monday:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1601236/20081212/lil_wayne.jhtml

28 In '08: Commercially Released Hip-Hop Singles

1. Lil Wayne - "A Milli"
2. Kanye West - "Flashing Lights"
3. Shawty Lo - "Dunn Dunn"
4. M.I.A. - "Paper Planes"
5. Fat Joe (featuring J. Holiday) - "I Won't Tell"
6. T.I. (featuring Rihanna) - "Live Your Life"
7. Lil Wayne - "Lollipop"
8. Snoop Dogg - "Sexual Eruption"
9. Young Jeezy (featuring Nas) - "My President"
10. Rick Ross (featuring T-Pain) - "The Boss"
11. Plies (featuring Ne-Yo) - "Bust It Baby Pt. 2"
12. The Game (featuring Keyshia Cole) - "Game's Pain"
13. Young Jeezy (featuring Kanye West) - "Put On"
14. David Banner (featuring Chris Brown and Young Joc) - "Get Like Me"
15. Maino - "Hi Hater"
16. Shawty Lo - "Foolish"
17. Rick Ross (featuring Nelly) - "Here I Am"
18. T.I. - "Whatever You Like"
19. Lil Wayne (featuring Babyface) - "Comfortable"
20. The G-Unit - "Rider Pt. 2"
21. Busta Rhymes - "Don't Touch Me"
22. Lupe Fiasco - "Hip-Hop Saved My Life"
23. Jay-Z - "I Know"
24. Kanye West - "Heartless"
25. Lil Wayne (featuring Bobby Valentino) - "Mrs. Officer"
26. Red Cafe (featuring Fabolous, Fat Joe and Jadakiss) - "Paper Touching" remix
27. Ron Browz and Jim Jones (featuring Juelz Santana) - "Pop Champagne"
28. Busta Rhymes (featuring Ron Browz) - "Arab Money"

"Dunn Dunn" over "Foolish"? "I Won't Tell" in top 5!?

Pitchfork start their countdown
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/147998-the-100-best-tracks-of-2008

oh let's not even care about that one

04. Metro Area - Fabric 43

shows you what i know, bored me rotten that one.
tried several times - but never made it to the end - even though there is a devo track as a payoff treat.

For the sake of completeness

P/Fork - yet another website that needs to enrol in At A Glance classes.

the metro area fabric mix bored me as well - actually some of the mixes on the RA list are real head-scratchers. didn't think a great deal of the efdemin one either - my own favourite techno mixes of 08 were probably fuse presents deetron, ellen allien's boogybytes vol 4 and the robert hood fabric which made the RA list. the marcel dettmann one at no 1 was...ok, i guess? i have absolutely no idea what makes it the best mix of the year though.

The Pfork singles lists are usually pretty good for discovering a new song or two, IMHO

Eiene Kliene Nacht Musik is #50 in Au Magazine, #33 in Clash Magazine, and #1 in Culturdeluxe. Listening to it now, Krautrocking goodness.

The Torygraph albums list was unexciting, but their Best Films Of 2008 list is wtf enough to deserve linking to:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/3776706/Best-films-of-2008-films-review-of-the-year.html

I'm curious about that Shed record but there doesn't seem to be a thread about it.

There's no thread on it but there's a bit of discussion on the dance bobbins thread. It doesn't merit much of a thread because it's difficult to say much about it, but it is very good indeed - reminds me a bit of Selected Ambient Works-era Aphex Twin (both of them) and late period LFO but refracted through a minimal prism.

i never got into the shed album, though i do love 'etrange' or whatever the only track with any actual character is called near the end

i mean i kept hearing how it was like a "journey" or whatever but it wasn't a very exciting one.

It's a bit too drifty and ambient to be a journey, I don't know why people say that. Most of the tracks just hang there a bit, which I'm fine with but I didn't really think it would be your thing.

yeah i don't dislike it or anything but it's just strange that it seemed to be the consensus techno album of the year (anja motherfucking schneider, people - plus i thought catz'n'dogz, the mole and akiko kiyama were far more inventive & effective than shed)

I was a bit non plussed on the shed record but it gets better with a few listens.

no fennesz (assuming its a dealine thing) and one vampire weekend on the wire list is a bit of a shock

wire 2008 rewind
01. The Bug - London Zoo [Ninja Tune]
02. Philip Jeck - Sand [Touch]
03. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace [no label]
04. John Butcher - Resonant Spaces [Confront]
05. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna [Social Registry]
06. The Advisory Circle - Other Channels [Ghost Box]
07. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager [Constellation]
08. William S. Burroughs - Real English Tea Made Here [Audio Research Editions]
09. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent [Sanctuary]
10. The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases [Install]
11. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion [Hospital Productions]
12. Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern [Raster-Noton]
13. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! [Mute]
14. Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground [Constellation]
15. Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon, the Chief Turned Into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy By Magic [Crammed Discs]
16. Autechre - Quaristice [Warp]
17. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music [Keysound]
18. Luomo - Convivial [Huume]
19. Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians In Search Of A Sound: Darfur [AUM Fidelity]
20. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland [Die Schachtel]
21. Lukas Ligeti - Afrikan Machinery [Tzadik]
22. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair [DFA]
23. Group Inerane - Guitar From Agadez (Music of Niger) [Sublime Frequencies]
24. Jandek - Glasgow Sunday 2005 [Corwood]
25. Robert Ashley - Concrete [Lovely Music]
26. Tricky - Knowle West Boy [Domino]
27. Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me [Audika]
28. Scorces - I Turn Into You [Not Not Fun]
29. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull [Southern Lord]
30. Terry Riley - The Last Camel In Paris [Elision Fields]
31. Malcom Goldstein - A Sounding of Sources [New World]
32. Christina Carter - Masque Femine [Many Breaths]
33. Stereo Image - s/t [Frog Man Jake]
34. Harvey Milk - Life... the Best Game In Town [Hydra Head]
35. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend [XL]
36. Emeralds - Solar Bridge [Hanson]
37. Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 2 [Tzadik]
38. Portishead - Third [Universal]
39. Toumani Diabate - The Mande Variations [World Circuit]
40. Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and FIRE 3 [Editions RZ]
41. David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dust [Drag City]
42. Vajra - Live [PSF]
43. Murcof - The Versailles Sessions [Leaf]
44. Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness [Bo' Weavil]
45. Peter Rehber - Works for GV 2004-2008 [Editions Mego]
46. Alva Noto - Unitxt [Raster-Noton]
47. Mark Stewart - Edit [Crippled Dick Hot Wax]
48. Sick Alps - US EZ [Siltbreeze]
49. Ellen Fullman & Monique Buzzarté - Fluctuations [Deep Listening]
50. Sao Paulo Underground - The Principle Of Intrusive Relationships [esthetics]

Avant Rock
Aufgehoben - Khora [Holy Mountain]
Burning Star Core - Challenger [Plastic/Hospital]
Birchville Cat Motel - Four Freckle Constellations [Conspiracy]
Black Mountain - In the Future [Jagjaguwar]
The Dead C - Secret Earth [Ba Da Bing]
Eat Skull - Sick To Death [Siltbreeze]
Fabulous Diamonds - Fabulous Diamonds [Siltbreeze]
Growing - All The Way [Social Registry]
Hair Police - Certainty Of Swarms [No Fun Productions]
The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace [no label]
Hototogisu - Under the Rose [Blossoming Noise]
Religious Knives - Remains [No Fun Productions]
Scorces - I Turn Into You [Not Not Fun]
Alexander Tucker - Portal [ATP]
Valet - Naked Acid [Kranky]

Critical Beats
Louis Guillaume - Soulpoint [SD Records]
Joker & Rustie - Play Doe [Kapsize 12"]
King Midas Sound - Cool Out [Hyperdub 12"]
DJ Koze - I Want To Sleep [International Records Recordings 12"]
Martyn - Vancouver/Natural Selection [3024 12"]
Peverelist - Infinity Is Now/Junktion [Punch Drunk 12"]
Rustie - Zig Zag [Wireblock 12"]
Trim - Soulfood Vol. 3 [no label]
Scuba - Twitch (Jamie Vex'd Remix) [Hotflush 12"]
Shackleton - Death Is Not Final [Skull Disco 12"]
Shackleton - Soundboy's Suicide Note [Skull Disco 12"]
Skream - Skreamizm Vol. 4 [Tempa 2x12"]
Tobias - I Can't Fight The Feeling EP [Wagon Repair 12"]
Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco [Perlon 12"]
Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants [Si Es Drum 12"]

Electronica
Benge - Twenty Systems 1968-1988 [Expanding]
Blevin Blectum - Gular Flutter [Aagoo]
Bochum Welt - ROB [Rephlex]
Byetone - Death Of A Typographer [Raster-Noton]
Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto [Touch]
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles [Warp]
Koen Holtkamp - Field Rituals [Type]
Machinefabriek - Dauw [Dekorder]
Matmos - Supreme Balloon [Matador]
Move D - Drøne [Modern Love]
Theo Parrish - Sound Sculptures Vol. 1 [Sound Signature]
Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour [Fat Cat]
Schlammpeitziger - Schingstelle Für Rauschabzug [Sonig]
snd - 4, 5, 6 [snd]
Tape - Luminarium [Hapna]

Global
Les Amazones De Guinee - Wamato [Sterns]
Ammasu Akapoma Group - The Music Of Ammasu: Brong Ahasu, Ghana 1976 [Country & Eastern]
Balla Et Ses Balladins - The Syliphone Years [Sterns]
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay - Pujo [Felmay]
Zerfu Demissie - Akotet [Terp]
Frank Denyer - Music For Shakuhachi [Another Timbre]
Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Music of Niger) [Sublime Frequencies]
Kasai Allstars - In the 7th Moon... [Crammed]
Seant Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80 - Many Things [Tot Ou Tard]
Melingo - Maldito Tango [Naïve]
Rail Band - Mansa [Sterns]
Sam Shalabi - Eid [Alien8]
Amadou Sodia - Ca Va Se Savoir [Sterns]
Terakaft - AKh Issudar [IRL]
Umalali - The Garifuni Women's Project [Cumbancha]

Hiphop
Clipse presents Re-Up Gang - Clipse Presents Re-Up Gang [Koch]
Cool Kids - Winterfresh [no label]
Peedi Crakk - Welcome to Crakk's House [no label]
Giggs - Walk In Da Park [SN1]
Charles Hamilton - It's Charles Hamilton [no label]
Alicia Keys - Teenage Love Affair [J-Records]
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III [Cash Money/Universal]
Madlib - Madvillany 2 [Madlib]
MIA featuring Jay-Z
Boyz (Remix) [no label]
9th Wonder & Buckshot - The Formula [Duck Down]
Proton - Read & Purple Mixtape Volume 1 [no label]
Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto [Stones Throw]
TI featuring Kanye West, Jay-Z & Lil Wayne - Swagga Like Us [Grand Hustle]
Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing [no label]
Yo! Majesty - Futuristically Speaking...Never Be Afraid [Domino]

Jazz & Improv
Michael Adkins Quartet - Rotator [HatOLOGY]
Butcher/Muller/va der Schyff - Way Out Northwest [Drip Audio]
Charles/Grydeland/Wallumrød/Zach - Dans Les Arbres [ECM]
Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra - Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra [Thrill Jockey]
Barry Guy/Marilyn Crispell/Paul Lytton - Phases Of The Night [Intakt]
Mary Halvorson Trio - Dragon's Head [Firehouse 12]
Mazen Kerbaj/Birgit Uhler/Sharif Sehnaoui - 3:1 [Creative Sources]
K-Space - Infinity [Ad Hoc]
Ingrid Laubrock - Sleepthief [Intakt]
Chris McGregor Septet - Up To Earch [Fledg'ling]
Mike Osbourne - Force Of Nature [Reel Recordings]
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune [AUM Fidelity]
Howard Riley - Three Is One [ASC]
Franz Paul Schubert & Gunter 'Baby' Sommer - Hic Sunt Leones [Jazz Haus]
Seymour Wright - Seymor Wright Of Derby [no label]

Modern Composition
Robert Ashley - Concrete [Lovely Music]
Carrier Band - Voice Coil [Deep Listening]
Gloria Coates - Symphony No 15 [Naxos]
Anthony Coleman - Lapidation [New World]
Frank Denyer - Silenced Voices [Mode]
James Dillon - The Soadie Waste [NMC]
Ron George - The Floating Bubble [Innova]
Malcolm Goldstein - A Sounding Of Sources [New World]
Mauricio Kagel - Acustica [Zig Zag Territories]
Annea Lockwood - A Sound Map Of The Danube [Lovely Music]
Olivier Messiaen - Organ Works [Delphian]
Eliane Radigue - Chry-Ptus [Schoolmap]
Eliane Radigue - Naldjorlak [Shiiin]
'Blue' Gene Tyranny - The Somewhere Songs/The Invention Of Memory [Mutable]
Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books and FIRE 3 [Edition RZ]

Outer Limits
AFCGT - AFCGT [no label]
Astral Social Club - Model Town In A Field Of Mud [Textile]
John Baker - The John Baker Tapes Vols 1 & 2 [Trunk]
Excepter - Debt Dept [Paw Tracks]
Ron Geesin - Biting The Hand: BBC Radio Broadcasts 1969-1975 [Hux]
G*Park - Reuters [Tochnit Aleph]
Russell Haswell - Second Live Salvage [Editions Mego]
The Hub - Boundary Layer [Tzadik]
Kikuri - Pulverised Purple [Victo]
Jacob Kirkegaard - Labyrinthitis [Touch]
Richard Skelton - Marking Time [Preservation]
sh*t and Shine - Küss Mich, Meine Liebe [Load]
Howard Steltzer - Bond Inlets [Intransitive]
Volcano The Bear - Amidst The Noise and Twigs [Beta-Lactam Ring]
Zeitkratzer - Electronics [Zeitkratzer]

Dub Top 10
Jimmy Radway & The Fe Me Time Allstars - Dub I [Pressure Sounds]
Johnny Osbourne - Truth & Rights [Heartbeat/Studio One]
Augustus Pablo - The Mystic World Of Augustus Pablo: The Rockers Story [Shanachie]
Deadbeat - Roots & Wire [Wagon Repair]
Culture - Culture & The Deejays At Joe Gibbs 1977-79 [17 North Parade]
Gussie P - Roots & Dub Vol 1 [Sip A Cup]
Henry & Louis - Increments [2 Kings]
Pale Rider - Listen Keenly [Cassava Outernational]
Vibronics - UK Dub Story [Scoops]
The Might Diamonds - The Mighty Diamonds Inna De Yard [Inna De Yard]

Size Matters Top 10
Little Claw - Why Not [Physical Sewer 7"]
Screw - Bans Of The River [Shagrat 10"]
Billy Childish & The Musicians Of the British Empire Vs Halo Of Flies [Amphetamine Reptile 7"]
Elisa Ambrogio & Karl Bauer - Yankee Psychic Hygene [Spirit of Orr 7"]
Zaimph - Bird Of Prey [Arbor 7"]
United Light - Untitled [Alt Vinyl 8"]
Martin Creed - Ooh [Smart Guy/White Columns]
Lightning Strike Lightning - The Moon [L'Animaux Tryst 7"]
Zola Jesus - Poor Sons [Die Stasi 7"]
Anals - Commando Of Love [Sweet Rot 7"]

Compilations
African Scream Contests: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From 70s Benin & Togo [Analog Africa]
An Anthology Of Noise & Electronic Music: Fith A-Chronology [Sub Rosa]
An England Story: The Culture Of The MC In The UK 1984-2008 [Soul Jazz]
Art Of Field Recording Vol 1 [Dust To Digital]
Bollywood Steel Guitar [Sublime Frequencies]
Eccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels [Numero Group]
Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985 [Strut]
Discovered: A Collection Of Daft Punk Samples [Rapster]
Dreams Come True: Classic First Wave Electro 1982-1987 [Domino]
Dubstep Allstars Vol 6: Mixed By Appleblim [Tempa]
Fabric 39: Robert Hood [Fabric]
Give Me Love: Songs Of The Brokenhearted Bahgdad 1925-1929 [Honest Jon's]
Last Kind Words 1926-1953 [Mississippi]
Life Is A Problem [Mississippi]
Living Is Hard: West African Music In Britain 1927-1929 [Honest Jon's]
Love, Peace & Poetry: Chilean Psychedelic Music [Normal]
Mary Anne Hobbs Presents Evangeline [Planet Mu]
Messthetics Greatest Hiss: Classics Of UK Cassette Culture DIY 1979-1982 [Hyped to Death]
Nigeria 70: Lagos Jump [Strut]
Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of the Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-1979 [Soundway]
Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic Afro-Rock & Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria [Soundway]
Oh, Run Into Me, But Don't Hurt Me: Female Blues Singers Rarities 1923-1930 [Sub Rosa]
Rough Trade Shops: Counter Culture 07 [Counter Culture]
Shadow Music Of Thailand [Sublime Frequencies]
Sleeping Bag Records: Greatest 12" Mixes [Sleeping Bag/Acrobat]
Sprigs of Time: 78s From the EMI Archive [Honest Jon's]
Steppa's Delight [Soul Jazz]
The Very Best Of Hugh Tracey [SWP]
Victrola Favorites: Artifacts From Bygone Days [Dust To Digital]
Wierd Compilation Vol 2: Analogue Electronic Music 2008 [Wierd]

Reissues
23 Skidoo - Seven Songs [LTM]
808 State - Quadrastate [ZTT]
A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology [A Guy Called Gerald Music]
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 1985-1992 [R&S]
Arabian Prince - Innovative Life: The Anthology 1984-1989 [Stones Throw]
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Les Stances A Sophie [Soul Jazz]
Kevin Ayers - Songs For Insane Times: Anthology 1969-1980 [Island]
Basic Channel - BCD2 [Basic Channel]
Jorge Ben - Jorge Ben (1969) [Dusty Groove]
The Blue Notes - The Ogun Collection [Ogun]
Anthony Braxton - Complete Arista Recordings [Mosaic]
Anne Briggs - Anne Briggs [Water]
Burzum - Anthology [Candlelight]
Ornette Coleman - The Croydon Concert [Free Factory]
Shirly & Dolly Collins - The Harvest Years [EMI]
Kid Creole - Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1974-1983 [Strut]
Dredd Foole - Kissing the Contemporary Bliss [Family Vineyard]
Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting [DGM/Panegyric]
Gas - Nah Und Fern [Kompakt]
Harry Pussy - You'll Never Play This Town Again: Live Etc. 1997 [Load]
Thomas Leer - Contradictions [Cherry Red]
Liquid Liquid - Slip In And Out Of Phenomenon [Domino]
Loop - Heaven's End [Reactor]
Ewan MacColl/Charles Parker/Peggy Seeger - Radio Ballads [Topic]
Chris McGregor Group - Very Urgent [Fledg'ling]
Model 500 - Classics [R&S]
Grachan Moncur III - Evolution [Blue Note]
Conlon Nancarrow - Studies For Player Piano [Other Minds]
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo De Cotonou - The Voudon Effect: Funk & Sata From Benin's Obscure Labels 1973-1975 [Analog Africa]
Mike Osbourne Trio - The Willisau Concert [Ogun]
Evan Parker - Conic Sections [Psi]
Bernard Parmegiani - L'Oeuvre Musicale [INA]
Washington Phillips - What Are They Doing In Heaven Today? [Mississippi]
Pole - 1 2 3 [~scape]
Ragga Twins - Ragga Twins Step Out [Soul Jazz]
Skullflower - IIIrd Gatekeeper [Crucial Blast]
Steinski - What Does It All Mean? 1983-2006 Retrospective [Illegal Art]
Sun Ra - Some Blues But Not The Kind That's Blue [Atavistic]
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Guitar Boy Superstar 1970-1976 [Soundway]
Yoshi Wada - Off The Wall/Lament For The Rise And Fall Of the Elephantine Crocodile [EM/Omega Point]
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue [Columbia Legacy]
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom/Old Rottenhat/Schleep [Domino]

I hope you didn't type out...

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/148094-2008-pitchfork-readers-poll

this isn't a critics' poll but whatever. basically it sucks.

there were so few options in that poll that basically people were just voting for what order they wanted those 25 records to appear in on the list

yeah, i wonder how much it cost to get a slot on the ballot

The Q one is the best list. As always.
(Or, well, as always since Select disappeared)

that's interesting, geir hongro. what kind of music do you like?