Year-End Critics' Polls '08

Oh and perhaps No Age too.

01: Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP/Fleet Foxes
02: Portishead - Third
03: No Age - Nouns
04: Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
05: Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
06: TV on the Radio - Dear Science
07: Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
08: M83 - Saturdays=Youth
09: Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
10: DJ/rupture - Uproot
11: Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
12: Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
13: Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
14: Air France - No Way Down
15: Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
16: Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
17: Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
18: The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
19: The Walkmen - You & Me
20: Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
21: Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak
22: Santogold - Santogold
23: Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
24: Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
25: Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances

(That was the top 25 of the Pitchfork list)

wow I think I'm only surprised at how unsurprising a top 10 that was (except of course token wildcard DJ/rupture).

Did that Mae Shi make much of a splash in the US? It was released that long ago it seems like it was totally forgotten about... I liked it but never gave it any thought re: EOY lists

surprised at no jeezy or t.i./random wale mixtape being treated as one of the token hiphop albums of the year, i guess.

shameless i know, but a bunch of random people have done their thing for quietus :

http://thequietus.com/articles/00903-the-quietus-list-of-lists

Yup, fairly predictable (maybe other than Cut Copy at 4?) though better than 26-50 was. Can anyone tell me anything about dj/rupture?

DJ Mencap, I don't remember seeing buzz about Mae Shi anywhere outside of pitchfork; maybe one of their pet faves/projects? Not sure though.

thought Gang Gang Dance would be doing much better

thought wayne was a top 5 lock

too popular

Yay Mae Shi! That album is incredible and incredibly slept-on. I put it on my Pazz And Jop ballot in 2007—which would make it pretty much the only time in my life I can rightfully say "FIRST!" about anything, for whatever that's worth

livin' the dream, whiney!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/WidowOfDestiny/Jiggle_Panda.gif

Here's Robert Christgau's list, from Slate.com. Finally some love for the Drive-By Truckers and Conor Oberst, two of my three favorites of the year.

Albums

1. Franco: Francophonic
2. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III (Deluxe Edition)
3. Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Dark
4. TV on the Radio: Dear Science
5. Coner Oberst: Coner Oberst
6. Randy Newman: Harps and Angels
7. Les Amazones de Guinee: Wamato
8. Hayes Carll: Trouble in Mind
9. The Roots: Rising Down
10. The Magnetic Fields: Distortion
11. Orchestra Baobab: Made in Dakar
12. Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
13. Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It
14. Los Campesinos!: Hold On Now, Youngster …
15. Steinski: What Does It All Mean: 1983-2006 Retrospective
16. Robert Forster: The Evangelist
17. T.I.: Paper Trail
18. Menya: The Ol' Reach-Around
19. Jaguar Love: Jaguar Love
20. The Rough Guide to Colombian Street Party

Singles

1. M.I.A.: "Paper Planes"
2. Lee Dorsey: "Yes We Can Can"
3. Conor Oberst: "I Don't Want To Die (In the Hospital)"
4. Los Campesinos!: "Death to Los Campesinos!"
5. Rihanna: "Disturbia"
6. Mike Doughty: "More Bacon Than the Pan Can Handle"
7. Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip: "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
8. Randy Newman: "Potholes"
9. Drive-By Truckers: "The Righteous Path"
10. Nas: "Black President"

whiney that gif is hypnotizing me

6. Mike Doughty: "More Bacon Than the Pan Can Handle"'

there are some decent songs on that album but wow that one is awful

I'm pretty surprised the Jamie Lidell album didn't make the Pitchfork top 50 at all.

I mean, as a neo-soul album on Warp Records that's eons better than Multiply, his last record (which I think was on the 2005 Pfork list), I'd have expected Jim to have done pretty well. It's probably the most purely enjoyable record I've heard all year, besides.

wtf is fleet foxes

I'm listening to that Al Green album finally, and am realizing any album list that has the Jamie Lidell instead of this is MAD SUSPECT

Here's Robert Christgau's list, from Slate.com. Finally some love for the Drive-By Truckers and Conor Oberst, two of my three favorites of the year.

Albums

1. Franco: Francophonic
2. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III (Deluxe Edition)
3. Drive-By Truckers: Brighter Than Creation's Dark
4. TV on the Radio: Dear Science
5. Coner Oberst: Coner Oberst
6. Randy Newman: Harps and Angels
7. Les Amazones de Guinee: Wamato
8. Hayes Carll: Trouble in Mind
9. The Roots: Rising Down
10. The Magnetic Fields: Distortion
11. Orchestra Baobab: Made in Dakar
12. Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
13. Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It
14. Los Campesinos!: Hold On Now, Youngster …
15. Steinski: What Does It All Mean: 1983-2006 Retrospective
16. Robert Forster: The Evangelist
17. T.I.: Paper Trail
18. Menya: The Ol' Reach-Around
19. Jaguar Love: Jaguar Love
20. The Rough Guide to Colombian Street Party

Singles

1. M.I.A.: "Paper Planes"
2. Lee Dorsey: "Yes We Can Can"
3. Conor Oberst: "I Don't Want To Die (In the Hospital)"
4. Los Campesinos!: "Death to Los Campesinos!"
5. Rihanna: "Disturbia"
6. Mike Doughty: "More Bacon Than the Pan Can Handle"
7. Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip: "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
8. Randy Newman: "Potholes"
9. Drive-By Truckers: "The Righteous Path"
10. Nas: "Black President"

― kornrulez6969, Friday, December 19, 2008 10:44 AM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

shouldnt you disappointed about the lack of korn on that list

korn didn't release a new album this year

they had a single on the rock charts, though

it did not rule, however

Actually I'm thrilled to see Jaguar Love on Christgau's list. Fantastic album.

shouldnt you disappointed about the lack of korn on that list

Korn 4 EVA!!!!

nice try whiney

YALL WANNA SINGLES LIST SAY FUCK THAT

self-promo madness: Cave17 top 25:

1. Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part 1 (4th World War)
2. Solange, Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams
3. The Raveonettes, Lust Lust Lust
4. Flight of the Conchords, Flight of the Conchords
5. The Duke Spirit, Neptune
6. Portishead, Third
7. T.I., Paper Trail
8. Boris, Smile
9. The Major Labels, Aquavia
10. TV on the Radio, Dear Science
11. Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life
12. Lil Mama, VYP — Voice of the Young People
13. Prisonshake, Dirty Moons
14. Neon Neon, Stainless Style
15. Aaron Parks, Invisible Cinema
16. M83, Saturdays = Youth
17. Ne-Yo, Year of of the Gentleman
18. Harvey Milk, Life…the Best Game in Town
19. Bardo Pond, Circuit VIII
20. No Age, Nouns
21. Esperanza Spalding, Esperanza
22. The Shackletons, The Shackletons
23. My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges
24. Torche, Meanderthal
25. Anthony Hamilton, The Point of It All

Actually I'm thrilled to see Jaguar Love on Christgau's list. Fantastic album.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, December 19, 2008 11:39 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ good catch, i missed that. i thought maybe Xgau would pass over their album because he big-upped the 3-song EP over the album in the consumer guide.

But after a second look, he must be talking about the EP.

haha oh yeah. kinda silly IMO, since 2/3rds of the songs are also on the album, and the other 8 on the album far outweigh the 1 good non-album EP track, but still, cool of him to list them.

This is the first year in awhile that I didn't roll my eyes at PFM's #1 album pick. Not my favorite album of the year, but at least it isn't Joanna Newsom (or Panda Bear).

Wait, it isn't?

I thought Panda Bear was a pretty good thing for a website to call album of the year

The Panda Bear album was my least favorite album to come out that year.

I mean you're right it was no Daughtry

FWIW, my list.

Your list is a bunch of TL;DR?

Yay!

well, i rolled my eyes at fleet foxes, but that's just cuz i hate them. it was pretty damn predictable actually. thought it was nice Badu was high up there, did they even review that record?

nabisco did

oh ok yeah i honestly didnt know

I Pitchfork not going to post individual writers' lists this year? Or did I miss them?

You missed them: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/148119-2008-albums-of-the-year-individual-lists

tracks list too:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/148119-2008-albums-of-the-year-individual-lists

tracks: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/148118-2008-tracks-of-the-year-individual-lists

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This is the first year in awhile that I didn't roll my eyes at PFM's #1 album pick. Not my favorite album of the year, but at least it isn't Joanna Newsom (or Panda Bear) Sufjan Stevens.

Corrected.