Albums of the Year | 2008
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- After giving a brief overview of the year in music, Jason, Kramzer, and Joe each make their picks for the best albums of the year 2008 and discuss what they think makes them so great.
Best-Selling Album: Tha Carter III by Lil Wayne
Longest No. 1 Single: Low by Flo Rida
Grammy - Album of the Year: River: Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Grammy - Record of the Year: Please Read the Letter by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Grammy - Song of the Year: Viva la Vida by Coldplay
Groups Formed: Allo Darlin', Codeine Velvet Club, fun., La Roux, The Men, Tanlines, Walk the Moon, Young Liars
Groups Disbanded: Bauhaus, Celtic Frost, The Format, Hootie and the Blowfish, King Crimson, Phantom Planet, Piebald, Reggie and the Full Effect, Sparta, Spice Girls, Velvet Revolver, Yellowcard
Musicians Who Died: Buddy Miles, Mike Smith, Jeff Healey, Ola Brunkert, Danny Federici, Eddy Arnold, John Rutsey, Bo Diddley, Mel Galley, Jerry Reed, Richard Wright, Mitch Mitchell, Michael Lee, Odetta Holmes, Eartha Kitt, Delaney Bramlett
Top-Grossing Film: The Dark Knight
TIME’s Person of The Year: Barack Obama
Don't forget to comment below with your favorite albums of '08, and if you'd like, take a stab at guessing what our picks for 2009 will be.
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This channel is addictive.
Yes it is.
I must agree. It's nice to see NORMAL people who listens to lots of music and dare say their opinion. Not just "this sucks" to sound cool or "AMAZING" to everything a particular artist does. "Enough of that" as Clint Eastwood would say. I am not sure how big Listography will become but it seems to bring the right kind of people... People here to enjoy and chat music. Nothing else!
Very true.
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1. Trouble In Mind-Hayes Carll
2. Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes
3. The Hard Way-James Hunter
4. Accelerate-R.E.M.
5. Same Old Man-John Hiatt
6. That Lucky Old Sun-Brian Wilson
7. Consolers Of The Lonely-The Raconteurs
8. Keep It Simple-Van Morrison
9. Harps & Angels-Randy Newman
10. Mudcrutch-Mudcrutch
My favourites from 2008:
1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
4. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
5. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
6. Fight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
7. Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
8. Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew
9. Lisa Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
10. Sun Kil Moon - April
No beach house?
@@jackkitchen154 I've got to admit, I've never listened to Devotion - I own and like Teen Dream and Bloom, so I should probably sort it out!
No. 6. "Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis? Did Steve tell you that per chance? Steve."
@@carncats07 😂 "Why exactly Whatcha why? Be more constructive with your feedback, please. Why?"
What an album, it probably should've been higher. I saw them live a few years ago, they were brilliant!
1. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
2. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
3. The Verve - Forth
4. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
hmm I ranked your 2-5 pretty high but never heard Glasvegas - i shall add it to my list of albums to listen to
1. 22 Dreams - Paul Weller
2. Fleet Foxes
3. Dig Lazurus Dig - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
4. Bring Me Your Love - City & Colour
5. The Recordings Of The Middle East - The Middle East
6. Look Out Mountain, Look Out Sea - The Silver Jews
7. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
8. Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket
9. The Evangelist - Robert Forster
10. Blue Atlas - Charles Jenkins & The Zhivagos
11. Life, Death, Love & Freedom - John Mellencamp
12. This Is For The White In Your Eyes - Choir Of Young Believers
1. the age of the understatement - last shadow puppets
2. third - portishead
3. the seldom seen kid - elbow
4. dig lazarus dig - nick cave
5. vantage point - deus
Glad to see a dEUS shoutout here. Not really into their stuff after 2000, but their first three albums were phenomenal.
5- Mudcrutch
4- Tennessee Pusher - Old Crow Medicine Show
3- Songs From the Sparkle Lounge - Def Leppard
2- Keep it Simple - Van Morrison
1 - Warpaint - the Black Crowes.
Runner-Ups:
-Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
-Beach House - Devotion
-The Black Keys - Attack & Release
-The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
-Coldplay - Viva La Vida
AOTY: Santigold - Santogold 🏆
Other nods missing the cut:
-Cage the Elephant - Cage the Elephant
-TV On the Radio - Dear Science
-Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
-Deerhunter - Microcastle
-Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
-Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
I love Joe more each week - especially when Kramzer and Jason shake their heads. Joe speaks for the people!
Joe secured his Vox Populi title with the Sonic Youth take down.
I like Joe’s lists because he picks artists and bands that I know the other guys pick artist and bands that I’ve never even heard of. But that’s why I watch this channel cause I find more music to look up and listen too.
My lists aren’t that interesting, I’m afraid. - Joe
@@NaughtyVampireGod "Oh and you know what? I bought another Sonic Youth album and it sucked... it's just noise!!!" -- Juno McGuff, quirky young person with a mind of her own, dissing on Jason Bateman's musical tastes in JUNO (2007)
I knew Joe was the homie in this group when he picked appetite for destruction as his top album of ‘87.
1.Dig Lazarus Dig!!!-Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2.Everything That Happens Will Happen Today-David Byrne/Brian Eno
3.Real Animal-Alejandro Escovedo
4.Brighter Than Creations Dark-Drive by Truckers
5.Dear Science-TV on the Radio
6.Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes
7.Microcastle/Weird Era Continued-Deerhunter
8.Seven Moons-Jack Bruce/Robin Trower
9.Directions to See a Ghost-Black Angels
10.The Midnight Organ Fight-Frightened Rabbit
I just discovered that I had TV on the Radio as a 2009 album because of the Japan deluxe edition I own...
My Top5:
1. ASHES DIVIDE ´´Keep Telling Myself It´s Allright´´
2. OPETH ´´Watershed´´
3. COLDPLAY ´´Viva La Vida´´
4. GUNS N´ROSES ´´Chinese Democracy´´
5. KEANE ´´Perfect Symmetry´´
Greetings From Canary Islands
I'm relieved you put Watershed ahead of CD...😌 Opeth!🤘
10) Intimacy - Bloc Party
09) The Slip - Nine Inch Nails
08) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
07) 4:13 Dream - The Cure
06) Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends - Coldplay
05) Dear Science - TV on the Radio
04) Midnight Boom -The Kills
03) Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
02) Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! - Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
01) Third - Portishead
Good Cure album.
Rich: Very nice. We matched two of the top 3 (Nick Cave; The Hold Steady)
🏆Consolers Of The Lonely -Raconteurs (to me this is the best of the many good albums Jack White has been a part of)
RUNNERS-UP:
▪︎Modern Guilt -Beck (his 2nd appearance in my top 5)
▪︎Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! -Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Nick's consistency finally gets him into my top 5)
▪︎Real Emotional Trash -Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks (I discovered this album less than a year ago and it's grown on me a lot)
▪︎Oracular Spectacular -MGMT (the first half is amazing which is enough to get it included in a weak year)
JUST MISSED THE CUT:
▪︎Fleet Foxes (s/t) (I enjoy the atmosphere & aesthetic of this album even if the songwriting doesn't blow me away)
▪︎Narrow Stairs -Deathcab For Cutie
▪︎Brighter Than Creation's Dark -Drive-By Truckers
▪︎Attack & Release -The Black Keys
▪︎22 Dreams -Paul Weller
LIVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR:
▪︎Certifiable: Live In Buenos Aires -The Police
Shoutouts to Spiritualized, Sigur Ros, The Gutter Twins, Mogwai, Conor Oberst, Cage The Elephant, Lucinda Williams, The Killers, REM, Stereolab, and AC/DC.
good list - some similar picks
As long as it's Real Emotional- you too now like Trash! With exception of a couple of Shoutouts, (need to investigate these... rhem and ack/deck bands) all of these band I've heard and have something I enjoy.
My list:
1. Beck: Modern Guilt
2. Stereolab: Chemical Chords
3. Primal Scream: Beautiful Future
4. Deerhunter: Microcastle
5. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
I completely forgot Stereolab's Chemical Chords is from '08. Nice catch.
@@AbbeyRoadkill1 Yeah I kinda forgot about all of Stereolab's albums from this decade. I had to go back and adjust my lists.
1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
3. Portishead - Third
4. Duffy - Rockferry
5. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understated
Third by Portishead #1 for me. Here's the review I wrote for it back in the day -
Adventurous Yet Harrowing Record That Wallows in Anxiety and Hopelessness
five stars
A brilliant return after such a long wait. Portishead changes the game plan on THIRD, largely abandoning the trip-hop formula they helped pioneer. I completely understand those who call this music "prog" because it's very sophisticated and goes on mind-bending tangents. I prefer not to label it. This is a pretty unique piece of music and a striking reinvention. By far the most depressing thing they've put out yet. A tour de force.
"Silence" - launches out across unknown territory like a train running off the tracks into a barren land, tumbling headlong into Beth Gibbons' nightmare-ish world spinning out of control. (5 stars)
"Hunter" - This one's a sweet and hazy dream. And like dreams, it morphs in strange ways, burrowing through tunnels and going to disturbing places. (5+ stars)
"Nylon Smile" - Gibbons is worrying her heart out on this hypnotic, unsettling trip through emotional wreckage. (5+ stars)
"The Rip" - A supremely beautiful song - "Wild white horses, they will take me away . . ." It begins with sweetly picked acoustic guitar followed by driving keyboards and further intensified by insistent drums. Possibly the best track. (5+ stars)
"Plastic" - features an off-kilter, unraveling sound like a slow-motion helicopter followed by white hot intensity. A masterpiece loaded with abrupt left turns. (5+ stars)
"We Carry On" - A jumble of oppressive electronics, this music is dark and deformed. This is some of the most interesting, exciting stuff I've heard in a while. (5 stars)
"Deep Water" - This track is a radical departure from everything else here. I frankly find Beth's vocals to be terribly weak and I'm really not feeling the ukulele or the quaint minstrel back-up singers either. Some subversive purpose may be served here, but I still prefer to just skip this one. (2 stars)
"Machine Gun" - Underneath the jarring, mechanical atmosphere lies an amazing, futuristic-sounding song. This album is all about uncomfortable feelings and this track sounds like a schizophrenic hell. (5 stars)
"Small" - a beautiful contemplative meditation that reeks of paranoid isolation. (5 stars)
"Magic Doors" - dramatic and truly strange sounds abound. Is that the trumpeting of electric elephants? Or maybe it's the opening of secret portals. (5+ stars)
"Threads" - absolutely bleak and harrowing, this could be the most emotionally unhinged song ever. (5+ stars)
Wow a review I actually agree with about this fine record!! Nice one! Machine Gun influenced my music making alot...the whole album did so will always love it for that...many people were strangely disappointed at the time as it was soooo dark. But I think it has a shard of lightness to it...e.g like the wild wild horses lyric and gorgeous singing...as they say 'there ain't no light without the dark'....and visa versa...👍👍👍
@@threestringsomg Thanks! I had to edit it because my star ratings weren't showing up. Nearly every song gets 5 stars.
5) Little Honey- Lucinda Williams
4) Peace Queer- Todd Snider
3) Only By The Night- Kings of Leon
2) Revelation- A.J. Roach
1) Blame It On Gravity- Old 97's
Honorable Mention- Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes; Mudcrutch- Mudcrutch; Same Old Man- John Hiatt
5. Day and Age-Killers
4. Evil Urges-My Morning Jacket
3. Prospekt's March (EP)-Coldplay
2. Only By the Night-Kings of Leon
1. Viva La Vida-Coldplay
1. Grouper - Dragging a dead dear up a hill
2. Portishead - Third
3. Dearhunter - Microcastle
4. Have a nice life - Deathconsciousness
5. Pygmy Lush - Mount Hope
My Favorite Five, of 2008:
1. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
2. Miniature Tigers - Tell it to the Volcano
3. Hotel Lights - Firecracker People
4. Matt Alber - Hide Nothing
5. The Dears - Missiles
1. Fleet Foxes - Self Titled
2. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
4. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
5. Gojira - Way of all Flesh
H/M AC/DC - Black Ice, Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream & Opeth - Watershed
10. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
9. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
8. Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
7. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
6. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down in the Light
5. Beach House - Devotion
4. Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
3. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
2. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War
1. Portishead - Third
Grouper! Great list.
1--The Lucksmiths - “First Frost”
2--The Raconteurs - “Consolers of the Lonely”
3--Jack Johnson - “Sleep Through the Static”
4--Jakob Dylan - “Seeing Things”
5--Lotte Kestner - “China Mountain”
6--Ryan Adams - “Cardinology”
7--Robert Forster - “The Evangelist”
8--Aimee Mann - “@#%&*! Smilers”
9--Vetiver - “Thing of the Past”
10--Ray LaMontagne - “Gossip in the Grain”
11--Euros Childs - “Cheer Gone”
12--Vampire Weekend - “Vampire Weekend”
13--Neil Halstead - “Oh! Mighty Engine”
14--Ron Sexsmith - “Exit Strategy of the Soul”
15--Richard Easton - “The Firing Range”
16--Teddy Thompson - “A Piece of What You Need”
17--Mark Geary - “Opium”
18-- Little Joy - “Little Joy”
19--Blitzen Trapper - “Furr”
20--Of Montreal - “Skeletal Lamping”
21--Laura Cantrell - “Trains and Boats and Planes”
22--A.A. Bondy - “American Hearts”
23--Nada Surf - “Lucky”
24--Kate Nash - “Made of Bricks”
25--Hayden - “In Field & Town”
26--James Yorkston - “When the Haar Rolls In”
27--Adam Green - “Sixes & Sevens”
28--Mason Jennings - “In the Ever”
29--Tobias Froberg - “Turn Heads”
30--My Morning Jacket - “Evil Urges”
Jack Johnson makes me physically ill. The only "artist" from that same general period/AAA format that turns my stomach more is Jason Mraz (or "Mr. A-to-Z" to you and me...God, what a loser!)
@@josejones - The funny thing is, I totally get where you are coming from and typically don't like those artists either. For some reason, Jack works for me. There's an elegant soulfulness going on there that reminds me of early 70's reggae (like Jimmy Cliff)... but he's always kind of been a guilty pleasure for me. As I re-listen, I realize that many of his songs have that certain something. Mraz, however, I can't stand.
My list:
1. Susanne Sundfør - Take One
2. Metallica - Death Magnetic
3. Scars on Broadway - Scars on Broadway
4. Lady Gaga - The Fame
5. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and all his Friends
Note: Susanne Sundfør's album is kind of a live album (it's one-takes of her debut's songs) but I prefer it to her self-titled debut. She already presents good songwriting paired with an incredible voice. In later albums she will step up her songwriting even more to become my favorite songwriter of the 21st century so far.
love susanne sundfor
@@gerbilpmc this is not the last time she will appear on my AOTY lists.
HM - Rodolphe Burger - No Sport, Susan Tedeschi - Back to the River, Amy Rigby & Wreckless Eric - self titled, Robert Forster - The Evangelist, Eddie Floyd - Eddie Loves You
5. Taj Mahal - Maestro (Taj released his phenomenal debut in 1967 when all the rock bands went to discover the blues, the blues man started to discover rock. Since then he incorporated music of all genres and continents into his own version of the blues. Taj made "world music" long before anyone brought that term along. At 66 he is still the "maestro" and thankfully spreads out again his style where his previous albums had been a bit too laid back and focused on his new home in Hawaii.)
4. Phil Manzanera - Firebird V11 (Another proof from Manzanera that you can create impressive guitar albums without the need to revert to a show of virtuoso pyrotechnics but that the less-is-more method creates far more interesting music. A stunning album.)
3. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (They had lost one of their main songwriters and the music was leaning a bit too much towards country, otherwise those are 19 strong songs - and the number alone shows what a force the band is. The main issue with the album is that it is their seventh already and not much is new this time around.)
2. B-52's - Funplex ("Keep doing what we're doing cause we're doing it right", they sing. The intention is in the title: Fun. The melodies are irresistible as are the grooves and those not tapping their feet or jumping up to dance go see the doctor - you may be dead already. It was their first album in 16 years and their best in 25.)
1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig (Nick Cave released albums for more than 20 years by this time and there was always something interesting on them but never enough for me to really appreciate a whole release. This one was recorded between the two Grinderman records and maybe this is why it is musically more to my taste. Cave and the band play rock 'n' roll here, even if it is their special version of it and less cabaret. The vocals are less mannered and the overall more straight ahead presentation does the lyrics good.)
You can see my full list of 2008 (or any other year) by clicking on the avatar and then selecting the "about" tab and going to the AllMusic button - the comment section does not allow to post the direct link.
Nick Cave was ALMOST my top album. Just edged out by The Hold Steady. Great to see B-52s listed. I have them just outside my top 5.
I have that B-52s at 11. I don't think it can touch their first two albums but it's good.
@@179rich Nobody could recreate what they did nearly 30 years before. The impressive thing is that they can come up with an updated concept of silly fun without looking silly themselves (or like aging artists pretending to be teens, which would be even worse).
You and I are sharing a #1!
Just a Kingdom of the Crystal Skull kind of year. Notable exceptions:
1. Portishead - Third
2. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
3. The Breeders - Mountain Battles
4. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
5. Nada Surf - Lucky
1. Third by Portishead
2. In the Future by Black Mountain
3. Santogold by Santigold
4. Venus on Earth by Dengue Fever
5. The Odd Couple by Gnarls Barkley
6. Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles
7. Evil Urges by My Morning Jacket
8. Saturdays = Youth by M83
9. When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Sh!t Gold by Atmosphere
10. You & Me by The Walkmen
✌🏼🎧
Runners Up in alphabetical order:
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
Nina de Fuego - Buika
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
Favorite:
Santigold - Santigold
Honorable mentions:
Duffy - Rockferry
Sonny Rollins' Road Shows Volume One, actually one of my favorites but it's a live album recorded over three decades so it doesn't technically count.
Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson - Two Men With the Blues, another live album so can't technically be counted but really great and I still listen to it regularly
My picks for 2008:
1. Viva La Vida or, Death and All His Friends, Coldplay (fourth nomination ,third win)
2. Dig Out Your Soul, Oasis (third nomination)
3. Red Album, Weezer (third nomination)
4. Forth, The Verve (second nomination)
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (first nomination)
Honorable mention:
Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
Accelerate, REM
Seventh Tree, Goldfrapp
Narrow Stairs, Death Cab for Cutie
Attack & Release - The Black Keys
EDIT: forgot Weezer’s Red album was 2008, so Fleet Foxes moves just outside of the top-5
1. The last Shadow Puppets : The Age of the Understatement
2. Portishead : Third
3. Fleet Foxes : Fleet Foxes
4. Elbow : The Seldom Seen Kid
5. Vampire Weekend : Vampire Weekend..
5. Into the Night - Enforcer
4. In the Midst of Beauty - Michael Schenker Group
3. Silver Spoons & Broken Bones - Stone Gods
2. Black Leather Mojo - Silver Ginger 5
1. Warpaint - The Black Crowes
1. Apes & Androids - Blood Moon
2. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
3. Ours - Mercy
4. K.D. Lang - Watershed
5. Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Not an outstanding year but Guy Garvey's lyrics alone are enough for Elbow to earn No.1 spot. Some of the greatest 21st century love songs on The Seldom Seen Kid. Vampire Weekend would get better but their self-titled album was still a sparkling debut.
1. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
2. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3. Oh My God, Charlie Darwin - The Low Anthem
4. Accelerate - REM
5. Santogold - Santigold
6. Welcome To Mali - Amadou and Mariam
7. Do You Like Rock Music? - British Sea Power
8. Only By The Night - Kings of Leon
9. Bodega Rose - Kesang Marstrand
10. Perfect Symmetry - Keane
11. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
12. The Age Of Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
13. Dear Science - TV on the Radio
14. Falling Off The Lavender Bridge - Lightspeed Champion
15. Youth Novels - Lykke Li
16. Off With Their Heads - Kaiser Chiefs
17. 19 - Adele
18. Third - Portishead
19. Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
20. Alas, I Cannot Swim - Laura Marling
Top 2 interchangeable-
Kings of Leon- Only by the Night
Hold Steady- Stay Positive
Best of rest
TV on the Radio- Dear Science
Gaga- The Fame
Moby - Last Night
Metallica- Death Magnetic
Crystal Castles- self titled.
My third favorite year of the 2000s for music, behind 2005 and 2001.
1. The Bedlam in Goliath - The Mars Volta
2. Deathconsciousness - Have A Nice Life
3. Midori - Midori
4. 808s & Heartbreak - Kanye West
Top 50 Albums of 2008:
1. F**k3d Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
2. Paint It Black - New Lexicon
3. Dillinger Four - Civil War
4. Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!
6. Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It…
7. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
8. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
9. Parts and Labor - Receivers
10. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
11. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
12. Frank Turner - Love, Ire & Songs
13. Mock Orange - Captain Love
14. Harvey Milk - Life… The Best Game in Town
15. Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
16. Constantines - Kensington Heights
17. Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
18. Torche - Meanderthal
19. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Lie Down in the Light
20. The Dodos - Visiter
21. No Use for a Name - The Feel Good Record of the Year
22. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
23. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
24. Teenage Bottlerocket - Warning Device
25. Sun Kil Moon - April
26. Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
27. No Age - Nouns
28. Melvins - Nude with Boots
29. Deerhunter - Microcastle
30. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
31. The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir - Ten Thousand
32. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
33. The Bronx - III
34. Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances
35. Nachtmystium - Black Meddle, Part 1: Assassins
36. Black Mountain - In the Future
37. Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams
38. Shearwater - Rook
39. Meshuggah - obZen
40. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
41. The New Year - The New Year
42. The Drones - Havilah
43. Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
44. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
45. American Music Club - The Golden Age
46. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
47. Akimbo - Jersey Shores
48. Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI: Ambleside
49. Lords - F**k All Y’all Motherf****rs
50. Cute Lepers - Can’t Stand Modern Music
5. One Day As A Lion self titled
4. Root Supposed He Was Out Of The Question by Root
3. Modern Guilt by Beck
2. The Fabled City by The Nightwatchman
1. Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Runner Ups:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Sam Phillips - Don't Do Anything
Firemen (Paul McCartney) - Electric Arguments
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Langhorne Slim - Langhorne Slim
The Kills - Midnight Boom
Beck - Modern Guilt
Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Momofuku
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
The Dodos - Visiter
Favorite Album of the Year:
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
I am surprised Vampire Weekend didn't get more love from our reviewers!
its crazy how tastes will change throughout our lives. I'm 50 now and can't get enough metal like when I was a young fella early mid-80's, but when I was your guys age (30's+) I was all about the indie
1.only by the night - kings of leon
2.the way of all flesh - gojira
3.shogun - trivium
4.consolers of the lonely - the raconteurs
5.viva la vida... - coldplay
5 Tightly Unwound - The Pineapple Thief
4 Watershed - Opeth
3 Death Magnetic - Metallica
2 The Way Of All Flesh - Gojira
1 Insurgentes - Steven Wilson
1. Faraquet-Anthology 1997-98
2. King’s x-XV
3. Opeth-Watershed
4. Queenadreena-Djin
5. Metallica-Death magnetic
Opeth!!🤘
1. Frightened Rabbit - the Midnight Organ Fight
2. Shearwater - Rook
3. Okkervil River - the Stand-ins
4. Foals - Antidotes
5. The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
6. Meursault - Pissing on Bonfires, Kissing with Tongues
7. Ryan Adams - Cardinology
8. Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Not Animal
9. Sigur Ros - med sud i eyrum vif spilum endalaust
10. Future Islands - Wave Like Home
11. The Weepies - Hideaway
12. Cloud cult - Feel good ghosts
1. Do You Like Rock Music? - British Sea Power
2. Midnight Organ Fight - Frightened Rabbit
3. Viva La Vida - Coldplay
4. Silent Cry - Feeder
5. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
1. Real Animal - Alejandro Escovedo
2. Just Us Kids - James McMurtry
3. Down Inside the Bottle - Psychobilly Kadillaks
4. Neptune - The Duke Spirit
5. s/t - Mudcrutch
6. Seeing Things - Jakob Dylan
7. The Last Country Album - Heybale
8. Warpaint - The Black Crowes
9. Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket
10. Urban Myths - Courtney Marie Andrews
11. s/t - Buick 6
Weird. I am staring at my Vinyl copy of Warpaint and it says 2007 but Wikipedia says 2008
Your #1 is so under appreciated on this thread!
Yes Jason, showing some love for Dr. Dog. That's cool.
1. AC/DC - Black Ice
2. Metallica - Death Magnetic
3. John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love & Freedom
4. Shinedown - The Sound of Madness
5. Guns n Roses - Chinese Democracy
HM
Toby Keith - That Don’t Make Me a Bad Guy
Zac Brown Band - The Foundation
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Disturbed - Indestructible
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
Jackson Browne - Time the Conqueror
Black Crowes - Warpaint
Tesla - Forever Me
A strong return to form for both AC/DC and Metallica. Chinese Democracy not as good as Appetite and the Use Your Illusions, but I agree with Joe it is a very good album.
For me, another very solid even numbered year, with quite a lot of depth. There's not that much between my top 8. Probably my only top 5 to include 2 'spin-off' acts:
Honourable mention:
Viva la Vida or Death or Death and all His Friends - Coldplay (like many others I prefer their earlier stuff but this just about makes my standard for a mention)
Join with Us - The Feeling
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
The Odd Couple - Gnarls Barkley
Red - The Guillemots
Perfect Symmetry - Keane
10 Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
9 Do you like Rock Music? - British Sea Power
8 Day & Age - The Killers
7 Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
6 Accelerate - REM
5 The Age of the Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
4 Only by the Night - Kings of Leon
3 Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs
2 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
1 The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
2008 / Here are my favorites for that year / Mes favoris pour cette année sont :
1 : Venus On Earth - DENGUE FEVER .
2 : Keep It Simple - VAN MORRISON .
3 : Gravity At Last - AYO .
4 : Back To The River - SUSAN TEDESCHI .
5 : Death Magnetic - METALLICA .
5-Cat Power-Jukebox
4-Winterpills-Central Chambers
3-Metallica-Death Magnetic
2-Drive By Truckers-Brighter Than Creations Dark
1-Mudcrutch
.....Good Year, Okkervil River keeps just missing for me, British Sea Power, The Broken West, Raphael Saadiq, She & him....to name a few
5. "Dig Lazarus Dig" Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
4. "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today" Brian Eno & David Byrne
3. "Insurgentes" Steven Wilson
2. "Sleeping in Traffic - Part Two" Beardfish
1. "Major Parkinson" Major Parkinson
1) Portishead - Third
2) Sun Kil Moon - April
3) TV on the Radio - Dear Science
4) Harvey Milk - Life...the Best Game in Town
5) Fleet Foxes - s/t
6) Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
7) Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
8) Boris - Smile
9) Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
10) Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down in the Light
11) The Dutchess & the Duke - She's the Duchess, He's the Duke
12) Thee Oh Sees - The Master's Bedroom...
13) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
14) Torche - Meanderthal
15) The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
THANK YOU, JOE!!
1. Guns N Roses- Chinese Democracy
2. Deerhunter- Microcastle
3. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
4. Kanye West- 808s & Heartbreak
5. M83- Saturdays = Youth
It's true Chinese Democracy won't appeal to all tastes- one critic described it something like "each song is super innovative in the first 10 seconds, then that all goes away for the remainder of the song". Which is kinda true, but if you like grandiose rock albums like me, and appreciate some tremendous guitar solos, and go for the classic Elton John inspired sound on "Street of Dreams" or "This I Love", you'll see it's a neglected near-masterpiece.
It’s so out of place (on both your list, my list and in 08) it’s this great anachronistic piece of rock hedonism. But it really is fantastic and sounds completely unique. - Joe
@@TastesLikeMusic Yeah I just happen to like "Daydream Nation inspired music" as well (great album btw), even though it sounds totally different, I just try to rank things by the amount of enjoyment they brought me! I considered other rock/post-grunge albums but a pretty lousy year.
My top 10 for 2008:
10. Furr - Blitzen Trapper
9. Microcastle - Deerhunter
8. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
7. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today - David Byrne & Brian Eno
6. Santogold - Santigold
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4. Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill - Grouper
3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2. Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
1. Nouns - No Age
Honorable mentions:
You & Me - The Walkmen
The Chemistry of Common Life - Fucked Up
Street Horrrsing - Fuck Buttons
In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy
Thank you Joe!! I well remember November 2008 buying Chinese Democracy in Best Buy, where it was exclusively sold, and listening to it that evening and thinking "this is such a great record! Another GnR masterpiece! So worth the wait!" only to discover that seemingly everyone else in the world passionately disliked the album. I saw them live in 2011 and really loved the live versions of the songs, and looked around to see literally no one else in the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford NJ rocking out or even pretending to like the stuff. The group I was with couldn't believe I knew the tunes and was singing along. I've never wavered in my support of the album and for 12 years I've told anyone who cares that its a great record and no one agreed. So I've joked for years that 2 people on Earth liked the albums; Axl and me. I'm happy that I can now update my list to Axl, me, and Joe. So Joe I thank you for sticking to your guns, knowing you'd catch flak for admitting you like it.
Thanks, Rob. Good to see there are fans out there. Weirdly it seems like the populace’s reaction to it was worse than the critics, most of whom thought it was pretty good. I don’t think most people ever actually listened to it. - Joe
Watching your video, and the comments, it still amazes me how much more varied the lists are when we're well into the 00s.
Santogold - Santigold. One of those rare albums that combines so many genres and it somehow works
My top 5
5. Black Ice (AC/DC)
4. Songs From The Sparkle Lounge (Def Leppard)
3. Saints Of Los Angeles (Motley Crue)
2. Good To Be Bad (Whitesnake)
1. Death Magnetic (Metallica)
Fleet Foxes were really something different when it came out. Still love all their records.
5) Beast (Self-titled)
4) Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs
3) Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop, Drop, & Roll
2) Vampire Weekend (Self-titled)
1) Fleet Foxes (Self-titled) + Sun Giant EP
1. Phantom Planet- Raise the Dead
2. Katy Perry- One of the Boys
3. Lindsey Buckingham- Gift of Screws
4. Albert Hammond Jr.- Como Te Llama
5. The Brian Jonestown Massacre- My Bloody Underground
- Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid -....- Coldplay - Viva La Vida -....- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus Dig -....- Fleet Foxes -....- Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul -....- John Hiatt - Same Old Man -....- The Verve - Forth -....- Mike Oldfield - Music Of The Spheres -....- Bryan Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today - Nils Lofgren - The Loner -....- Grayson Capps - Rott'n'Roll -....- Vampire Weekend -....- My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges -
My favorite album of 2008 is a little unknown album called How Will I Know If I’m Awake by Brent Cash. Really awesome and bright and soothing sunshine pop that’s expertly sung, played, produced and done! Joe and Jason, you both especially need to check this album out if you haven’t already; I think you’ll really like it! 🥹🤗🩵
My favorite albums of 2008 are:
1. Glasvegas - “Glasvegas”
2. Nada Surf - "Lucky"
3. Sigur Ros - “Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust"
Lucky was my favorite in 2008. It’s fallen slightly but I still think it’s great and still think it’s the best Nada Surf album. -Jason
1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
3. Lenny Kravitz - It is Time To a Love Revolution
4. Opeth - ´Watershed
5. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
With you on Fleet Foxes and Dig Out Your Soul; both in my top 5.....
1. A Little Bit Longer Jonas Brothers
2. Don't Forget Demi Lovato
3. Lighting Strikes Again Dokken
4. Fearless Taylor Swift
5. The Fame Lady Gaga
1. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
3. Ladytron - Velocifero
4. REM - Accelerate
5. The Killers - Day & Age
HM:
The Airborne Toxic Event - s/t
The B-52s - Funplex
A bit of a step down from last year. Top 3 all excellent and very close.
1. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today - David Byrne & Brian Eno
2. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3. Little Death - Pete & The Pirates
4. Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
5. Falling Off the Lavender Bridge - Lightspeed Champion
6. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
7. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
8. Walk It Off - Tapes and Tapes
9. Devotion - Beach House
10. April - Sun Kil Moon
11. Ode to J. Smith - Travis
12. Modern Guilt - Beck
13. Field Manual - Chris Walla
14. Antidotes - Foals
15. Parallel Play - Sloan
16. Distortion - The Magnetic Fields
17. Skeletal Lamping - Of Montreal
18. Animal - Margot & The Nuclear So and So's
19. Made In The Dark - Hot Chip
20. At Mount Zoomer - Wolf Parade
Honorable mentions, some legendary artists who dropped good new records in 2008:
• Go Away White - Bauhaus
• Still - BoDeans
• Time the Conqueror - Jackson Browne
• Momofuku - Elvis Costello & the Imposters
• Rain - Joe Jackson
• Nostradamus - Judas Priest
• District Line - Bob Mould
• Accelerate - R.E.M.
• Weezer (red) - Weezer
• 808s and Heartbreaks - Kanye West
And last but not least, special shout out to:
• Fearless - Taylor Swift....
My suggestions for best albums of 2008:
Lay It Down - Al Green
Third - Portishead
808s And Heartbreak - Kanye West
I Am - Sasha Fierce - Beyoncé
New Amerykah Part One - Erykah Bady
A little early for Beyoncé in my mind, but we’re getting close to the good stuff. - Joe
Excellent year, the top ones are great albums :
1. Self-titled. Fleet Foxes
2.Dear Science. TV On The Radio
3.Self-titled. Vampire Weekend
4.Dig!!! Lazurus Dig!!!. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
5.Third. Portishead
6.Visiter. The Dodos
7.Songs in A&E. Spiritualized
8.The Evangelist. Robert Foster
9.A Place Where We Could Go. Jeremy Jay
10.You & Me. The Walkmen
11.Oh (Ohio). Lambchop
12.Accelerate. R. E. M.
13.Caught In the Trees. Damien Jurado
14.Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. David Byrne & Brian Eno
15.Lie Down In The Light. Bonnie Prince Billy
16.Self-titled. The Felice Brothers
17.Instant Coffee Baby. The Wave Pictures
18.Next Year In Zion. Herman Dune
19.Volume I. She & Him
20.Devotion. Beach House
21.Self-titled. Conor Oberst
Hi Fran. Another good list. Got Nick Cave (#2) and REM (#4). Everyone seems to love Fleet Foxes. Will give it another listen. Heard it before but didn't make a big impression on me. So will re-visit.
Fran: Guess I am missing out why Vampire Weekend is great. oh well. Agree w Kram on this band.
Hey Naughty, yep, this time we've got more in common. I haven't listened much to The Hold Steady, but I really like what I heard, so I guess I should give this one a spin
@@frangarcia7774 Yeah, Fran. Check it out. The song Joe was describing is called "One for the Cutters" - an excellent "crime story" song.
Sleep Through the Static - Jack Johnson
Last Days at the Lodge - Amos Lee
Viva la Vida and Prospekt’s March - Coldplay
Gossip in the Grain - Ray LaMontagne
Summer at Eureka - Pete Murray
19 - Adele
F#@%ing Smilers - Aimee Mann
A Hundred Million Suns - Snow Patrol
Little Wild One - Joan Osborne
Safe Trip Home - Dido
1. Stay Positive- The Hold Steady (My favorite album by these guys)
2. The '59 Sound- Gaslight Anthem (Energetic, anthemic, heart on the sleeve rock the way they used to play it. Great summer road trip music too!)
3. Devotion- Beach House (They are actually a recent discovery)
4. Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill- Grouper (I've been really getting into ambient stuff lately and this album is both haunting and beautiful!)
5. Vampire Weekend- S/T (Just a really fun summer record)
Runners up: Fleet Foxes, Dig!! Lazarus Dig!! Nick Cave, Accelerate- R.E.M. (maybe not objectively, but I love it)
Sadly, you're getting close to some years when I won't be able to do these lists anymore.
agree on Hold Steady - my #1 as well - close w Nick Cave
I checked out that Fleet Foxes album and it was pretty great, I had never heard of them before so thanks for the recommendation Kram.
1. Kings of Leon: Only by the Night
2. AC/DC: Black Ice
3. Black Keys: Attack and Release
4. Metallica: Death Magnetic
5. Weezer: Red Album
Albums I really like for this year would include Third, Dear Science, Vampire Weekend, Only by the Night, Fleet Foxes, and Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! But the two albums right at the top of my list would be Apocalypso by The Presets and the absolutely fantastic The Seldom Seen Kid by Elbow. The Presets get a lot of love Down Under but I don't think they cracked any other market. Elbow are gigantic in the UK, and deservedly so. I own five or six of their albums and The Seldom Seen Kid is a masterpiece - incredibly emotive music, from start to finish, with no filler. I think this is the most divergent I've been to the lists presented, which is no bad thing, and simply indicates the wide range of music and styles that were available in 2008.
Not as strong as 2007, but quite a deep year with lots of very good but not great (4 star) albums. My top 4 are 4.5 stars.
1. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
2. Narrow Stairs - Death Cab for Cutie
3. Vampire Weeknd - Vampire Weekend
4. Viva la Vida or Death & All His Friends - Coldplay (not cool, I know but this is a good album)
5. Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs
HM: Duffy - Rockferry, My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges, Oracular Spectacular - MGMT, Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Bob Mould - District Line
Verse - Aggression
Sun Kil Moon - April
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Marah - Angels of Destruction
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Have Heart - Songs To Scream At The Sun
Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
Great calls on Stay Positive and Evil Urges! Here's my list:
1. Brighter Than Creation’s Dark-Drive-By Truckers
2, Mudcrutch
3. Stay Positive-The Hold Steady
4. Warpaint-The Black Crowes
5. Blame It on Gravity-Old 97's
6. Trouble No More-Hayes Carll
7, Evil Urges-My Morning Jacket
8. Cardinology-Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
9. Accelerate-R.E.M.
10. Consolers of the Lonely-The Raconteurs
11. The Band of Heathens
12. Dig Out Your Soul-Oasis
13. Only by the Night-Kings of Leon
14. Acid Tongue-Jenny Lewis
15. Day & Age-The Killers
16. Viva la Vida-Coldplay
17. Real Animal-Alejandro Escovedo
18. Furr-Blitzen Trapper
19. You & Me-The Walkmen
20. That Lonesome Song-Jamey Johnson
21, The Better Angels of Our Nature-Glossary
22. The Good Life-Justin Townes Earle
23. Little Honey-Lucinda Williams
24. Angels of Destruction! Marah
25. Asking For Flowers-Kathleen Edwards
Just missed:
•Ode to J. Smith -Travis
•Bulletproof-Reckless Kelly
•Seeing Things-Jakob Dylan
•Life, Death, Love and Freedom-John Mellencamp
•Black Ice-AC/DC
8 Let's Go Everywhere -Medeski Martin & Wood 7 Flight of the Conchords 6 Consolers of the Lonely -Raconteurs 5 Radiolarians I -MMW 4 Rage! -Lettuce 3 Real Emotional Trash -Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks 2 Third -Portishead 1 Attack & Release -Black Keys. Live: Snakes & Arrows -Rush.
You turned me on to that Stephen Malkmus album almost a year ago and it made my top 5! Nice list.
Good year.
My winner is the Fleet Foxes' debut.
Sun Kil Moon - April was a very strong contender.
Also good were Robert Forster - The Evangelist,
Cat Power - Jukebox and R.E.M. - Accelerate
This is the beginning of the end. After two huge years and three in the last four, the big years are done. I barely had enough to make a top five. (I would have included MGMT, but my source listed Oracular Spectacular as 2007, so I ranked it last week. This week it would have been around 4 or 5 if I had included it). Of these five, there is only one album I really love, the debut from Glasvegas. Funny thing, I just found out they are from Glasgow. For years I thought they were from Las Vegas. Thank you, Google.
1. Glasvegas
2. Day And Age - The Killers
3. 19 -Adele
4. Rockferry - Duffy
5. Midnight Boom - The Kills
I thought '08 was the weakest year I've come across so far. It makes 1981 look like 1970.
Apparently Oracular Spectacular was released as a download only in 2007 and in physical format in 2008.
Wow apart from Fleet Foxes I reckon this is the farthest apart from all 3 of you that my taste has been ever.....as you are all on the other side of the world I will let you guys off this week....lol😎... entertaining as always guys!👍
The age of the understatement The last shadow puppets
2008 wasn’t a great year from my perspective but it was once again rescued by the brilliant Lenny Kravitz. In my view, he released his finest album in 15 years.
1. It Is Time For A Love Revolution - Lenny Kravitz
2. Only By The Night - Kings Of Leon
3. Revelation - Journey
4. Attack & Release - The Black Keys
5. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
I will have to quit while I am ahead with trying to predict your choices - I will be struggling to find 5 albums I like for most years from here on, let alone attempting to guess what you guys might select.
1. Street Horrrsing - Fuck Buttons
2. Microcastles - Deerhunter
3. Dragging a dead deer up a hill - Grouper
4. Third - Portishead
5. Havilah - The Drones
6. Fleet foxes S/T
7. Nouns - No age
8. Gurrumul - Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu
9. Black sea - Fennesz
10. Saturdays = Youth - M83
11.Devotion - Beach house
12. Crystal Castles S/T
Top 5 - 2008
5) Never Too Loud (by Danko Jones)
The most commercial record (so far) by these guys. Seem to be pretty much overlooked or forgotten but
is better than it's reputation.
Grade? 2,9 / 5
4) Black Ice (by AC/DC)
Too many songs but still one of the better later day AC/DC records in my opinion.
Grade? 3 / 5
3) Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock (by Joe Satriani)
Not a personal favorite from Joe Satriani but a bit "more easy" than many of his other work. Solid.
Grade? 3,2 / 5
2) Music of the Spheres (By Mike Oldfield)
Mike Oldfield leaving progressive rock, pop and guitars and going classical? Not his most direct album
but one I rate rather high. Very enjoyable in the right mood.
Grade? 4 / 5
1) Live at Ronnie Scott's (by Jeff Beck)
Doing a bit of cheat with a live-album but this is an important one. Jeff Beck has done so many styles with
so many different players so it is hard to recommend a studioalbum. Go about fifty years into his career and he releases a live-album with many newer (lesser known) tracks and absolutely kills it. A must have for me.
Grade? 5 / 5
Thoughts about other albums!
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy: Axl Rose is one of the most hated people in rock (or used to be), the band is totally different and the long wait made it more into a joke than anything. I remember really liking "Street of Dreams" but I never really took my time with this album like Joe now have. Maybe I will someday but not today.
Metallica - Death Magnetic: I would probably put this album above several on my list.. If I could listen to it. The production is so bad and loud. Someone really needs to fix the sound here.
R.E.M - Accelerate: I like that they went back to bacis but perhaps TOO much basics for my taste. Some songs are good but this lightweight rock with garage-feeling just doesn't do much. Stronger melodies or more guitar would have been great for me.
2008 my no.1 and 2 are both candidates for album of the decade and both no.1 really....
12 Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles 8/10
11 Dig Lazerus Dig by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 8/10
10 The Way of All Flesh by Gojira 8/10
9 Only By The Night by Kings of Leon 8.5/10
8 Exotic Creatures of the Deep by Sparks 8.5/10
7 Third by Portishead 8.5/10 (many haters but it is strangely gripping still today for me)
6 Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes 9/10
5 Flight of the Concords by Flight of the Conchords 9/10 (Yes Robots is a riff on The Body Electric by Rush from the amazing Grace Under Pressure....1 zero zero 1 zero zero 1....etc..😊... what a record!!)
4 Limbo Panto by Wild Beasts 9/10 (excellent debut from unique band)
3 Modern Guilt by Beck 9.5/10
2 Watershed by Opeth 10/10( a prog metal folk classic already and fully deserving of its reputation as one of Opeths very best....this album is great but they rarely do not make a great record.)
1 Seventh Tree by Goldfrapp 🏆 10/10 ( in the last year this record has become an all timer and a real top 20 ever album...if not heard this then it is a must hear. Goldfrapp have yet to surpass this folk pop masterpiece.)
Hell yeah Grace Under Pressure is amazing! Given their vast array of influences, I'll go with the 1 zero riff.
1.Beyonce - I Am...Sasha Fierce
2.Lenny Kravitz - It's Time For A Love Revolution
3.The Roots - Rising Down
4.Metallica - Death Magnetic
5.Lil Wayne - The Carter III
Other Albums I Dig From 2008:
Ludacris - Theater Of The Mind
Madonna - Hard Candy
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
Nas - Untitled
T.I. - Paper Trail
Lady Gaga - The Fame
3 Doors Down - 3 Doors Down
Solange - Sol-Angel
Janet Jackson - Discipline
Mariah Carey - E = MC2
Usher - Here I Stand
Snoop Dogg - Ego Trippin'
Adele - 19
Honourable mentions for 2008:
Foals - Antidotes
Albert Hammond Jr - Como te Llama
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Sparks - Exotic Creatures Of The Deep
James - Hey Ma
Van Der Graaf Generator - Trisector
The Breeders - Mountain Battles
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
The Courteeners - St Jude
Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch
Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha
Black Mountain - In The Future
Eagles Of Death Metal - Heart On
Black Stone Cherry - Folklore And Superstition
The top 5 albums of 2008:
5. Uriah Heep - Wake The Sleeper
4. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt
3. Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets
2. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
1. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Good call on ladyhawke. Really dig it
I had both your #1 and #5 initially on my candidate as well since I liked them when they came out that year. But I did not listen to any of them in the recent decade and these day they could not confirm my good memories. They both went down to the 3,5 star category - this happens a lot for albums from 1990 onward that at first sound great but not for too long...
@@ryankramzer1256 Thanks Ryan but The Symbol Remains is still better : - )
@@jesuschambers eeeeeek
@@roxannewalsh I am of the opinion that if I like an album, I don't have to listen to it regularly to maintain my ranking. I haven't played my top 5 for quite a long time(This happens when you have a large collection) but for me, they are the best of this year. Surprised that you didn't mention: Ladyhawke as she's from your neck of the woods.
One of my favorite years. Here is my top 10:
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Dig Lazarus Dig
4. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
3. Sigur Rós: Međ Suđ í Eyrum viđ Spilum Endalaust
2. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
1. Kloster: Do not be Afraid
I totally forgot how much I like that MMJ album. Used to have it on repeat.
The 4 I feel best about at the moment are probably:
1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle
3. Sparks - Exotic Creatures Of The Deep
4. R.E.M. - Accelerate
I guess Fleet Foxes could get in there at #5, but there are several bubbling unders I have to sort out. I definitely could see Dr. Dog - Fate and Lindsey Buckingham - Gift Of Screws rising upon coming back to them more, and I liked the Magnetic Fields - Distortion and the Sigur Ros album where they were all running around naked on the cover a good bit too. I haven’t quite hit 4-1/2 or 5 star love for anything from 08 though, at least not yet.
I thought the surprise Evil Urges at #1 from Joe to upset Kramzer was hilarious. It’s not as good as Z for me, but I’d take the weird diversity of it over the samey and hookless first two albums for sure (especially At Dawn, ugh).
I'm glad someone else appreciates Animal!/ Not Animal as much as I do. Amazing overlooked album. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's need more love
For each of these vids I always enjoy pausing the thumbnail clip and looking for albums I like/are familiar with and only finding like 2 or 3.
Yanks 4, Brits 1
Shelby Lynne - Just a Little Lovin'
Vetiver - Thing of the Past
Sun Kil Moon - April
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Adele - 19
I thought this was a really good year, but looking back now, it's really not that great. Having said that, there were a number of very good to great albums and this is my Top 5:
1 The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
2 Nick Cave - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
3 Metallica - Death Magnetic
4 Gary Louris - Vagabonds
5 Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Honorable mentions (in random order):
Steve Wynn - Crossing Dragon Bridge
Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static
REM - Accelerate
Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt
Nazareth - The Newz
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Portishead - Third
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
King's X - XV
Motörhead - Motorizer
Chris Eckman - The Last Side Of The mountain
Fleet Foxes hands down for me. Possibly of the decade. Can’t say I’ve heard of any of Jason’s picks bar Conor Oberst!
Not a great year:
1) Imperial Wax Solvent : The Fall
2) Dig Lazarus Dig : Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
3) Rook : Shearwater
4)Microcastle / Weird Era Cont. : Deerhunter:
3) Black Sea : Fennesz
Honorable mentions: Object 47 by Wire. One of their weakest latter albums but still decent compared to a lot from 08. Made in Dakar : Orchestra Baobab. Third : Portishead. The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull : Earth. Mountain Battles :The Breeders.
Alright then, my top 10 for a change:
1. The Seldom seen kid - Elbow (my only album from this year to make my album top 500)
2. Watershed - Opeth
3. Happiness is the road - Marillion (one of their best with Hogarth)
4. Songs for you, truths for me - James Morrison
5. Alas I cannot swim - Laura Marling
6. 01011001 - Ayreon (another brilliant rock opera)
7. Time the conqueror - Jackson Browne (he still made very strong albums late into his career)
8. Only by the night- Kings of Leon (a bit uneven but some of their best songs)
9. Last Days at the Lodge - Amos Lee
10. Insurgentes - Steven Wilson (he would get much better solo in later records)
The #6 album - is that the correct title?
@@NaughtyVampireGod it's what it says on the case... why?
@@toonhkuitjes6382 just a dumb comment - sry - ignore it ;)
My favorite album for 08 is by Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig!!