Year-End Critics' Polls '08

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.

Thanks Matos

hmm, of montreal was on four lists, pretty high up on a few. compare this with, say, #50 ponytail, which was on two lists.

Looks like while the Fleet Foxes album was #1 overall, it was only placed #1 on a single writer's individual list. By comparison, Deerhunter and Cut Copy were placed #1 on three lists apiece, while Hercules and Love Affair, Earth and Arthur Russell all placed #1 on two writers' lists apiece.

the responsible ones:

>> Brian Howe
2. Wale: The Mixtape About Nothing

>> Eric Harvey
1. Wale: The Mixtape About Nothing

>> Jayson Greene
4. Wale: The Mixtape About Nothing

the responsible ones
the responsible ones
the responsible ones
the responsible ones
the responsible ones
the responsible ones
the responsible ones
the responsible ones

looks like the era of beanie sigel ending up on pf end of year lists is long gone huh

Sig's album was merely good.

yeahhh suggesteban, looks like an executive decision (and holding fast to their 5.9) trumped the math there on Of Montreal; it does not seem to add up, not at all

OH MY GOD MAYBE THEY DONT RUN THEIR EDITORIAL LIKE A DEMOCRACY WHAT WILL WE DO?!?!?!?!

i never cried foul, whiney.

Of Montreal were nowhere close: Only five votes, two in the top 10. Ponytail, on the other hand, were on 10 ballots, including once in the top 10. You vote for 50 albums, plus you allocate points to your top 25-- you can't just look at those lists as published and determine anything.

ok thanks scott

thought it was nice Badu was high up there, did they even review that record?

they reviewed it like 3 months after it came out or something, as they obv didn't think erykah badu was an artist worthy of their attention until it was obvious how much consensus there was around new amerykah. which says a lot about their editorial priorities!

thumbs up for the cave17 list btw, excellent top 2 and some interesting choices in there (like, raveonettes is the kind of indie that i'm not 100% down with myself, but i do love a single here and there by them and it's not what you'd expect to see on EoY lists) (and so far more welcome than fucking fleet foxezzzzzzz again). we should be talking more about the cave17 list, not the pfork one.

also impressed at cave17 getting the anthony hamilton in there - released, what, four days ago?

The Cave17 list has Flight Of The Fucking Conchords on it, so no.

haha we are DISQUALIFIED :[]

yeah, Flight of the Conchords at #4 was the weirdest thing about the list to me

btw Matos, thanking u so much for the soulbounce lists!

in re: Flight of the Conchords: We have a small staff, two people rated it very highly, end of story. Don't understand why there is any confusion. Me and my son love "Robots" because it is funny but it wasn't on my list either.

(Boring semi-defensive comment: I guess comedy records don't count unless they are hip records by hipsters like David Cross or Patton Oswalt?)

I do need to track down the A. Hamilton

xpost Comedy records count if they are funny.

I like Conchords much more on TV, but the record is well made, which apparently this year counts for a ton. (Hey, my favorite album is Ne-Yo, so I oughta know, right?)

I posted my top 100 tracks on my blog if anyone wants to look:
http://m-matos.blogspot.com/2008/12/fuck-it-ive-tweaked-it-long-enough-and.html

Wow Matos, maybe someday I'll hear like six of these

My biggest disappointment this year is not hearing more from Brazil; Gilberto Gil had 2 records out this year and CSS sure but I am just out of touch these days, my contacts down there have dried up (LOL optometry humor)

Babe, Terror is a great Brazil 08 joint, d5: http://www.myspace.com/babeterror

this not my cup of caipirinha, chris, but thanks. although we should probably keep our semi-beef alive so i can get tons of publicity for SCRAPPY LITTLE CAVE17.COM

i was hoping for albums from some of my fave rave indie brazilian people but they didnt happen yet, tudo bem