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Post by bowiglou on Dec 30, 2008 0:14:27 GMT -5
OK, off hand (not in order) are my best of 2008.....
(1) TV on the Radio--Dear Science
(2) Fleet Foxes-Fleet Foxes
(3) Calexico--Carried to dust
(4) Alejandro Escavedo--Real Animal
(5) MGMT--Oracular Spectacular
(6) My Morning Jacket--Evil Urges
(7) Hold Steady--Stay Positive
(8) Byrne/Eno--Everything that Happens Will Happen Today
(9) Fate-Dr. Dog
(10) 22 Dreams--Paul Weller
(11) Spiritualized--Songs in A&E
(12) Duffy--Rockferry
(13) Elbow--the Seldom Seen Kid
(14)Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds-- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
(15) Vampire Weekend--Vampire Weekend
(16) the Pretenders--Break Up the Concrete
(17) REM--Accelerate
(18) Mudcrutch--Mudcrutch
(19) Death Cab for Cutie--Narrow Stairs
(20) The Fireman --Electric Arguments
(21) Belle and Sebastian --The BBC Sessions
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Post by wayved8 on Dec 30, 2008 0:35:52 GMT -5
This is my top ten. Note all albums were not released in 2008 but its my life and these albums rocked my world this year (in no means definitive but by no means bullshit): 1. Boston Spaceships-Brown Submarine/Circus Devils-Ataxia/Psycho and the Birds - We've Moved/Robert Pollard Is Off To Business 2. No Age- Nouns (MBV for 2008!) 3. Brian Hyland - self titled (1973) Unfortunately Expensive Hip O reissue 4. Oranges Band - Are Invisible (it would serve anyone here to get a copy of this!) 5. War on Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues 6. REM-Accelerate 7. Sea and Cake-Car Alarm 8. Procol Harum-Home 9. Deerhunter-Microcastles 10. Lotti Golden - Motor-Cycle I hate to do this: Biggest disappointment: My Morning Jacket-Evil Urges--did not like it. thats saying ALOT. usually I can find some merit in anything but I couldn't even ENJOY listening to it at all!  Fresh new direction? Breaking new ground? I would rather llisten to gerry rafferty or some other dumb ass crap. |
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Post by wayved8 on Dec 30, 2008 0:55:32 GMT -5
bowieglouL get the Forester solo NOW.
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Post by maarts on Dec 30, 2008 1:50:33 GMT -5
bowieglouL get the Forester solo NOW. What he said! Absolutely recommended. |
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Post by phil on Dec 30, 2008 9:43:09 GMT -5
Hé Bow ... Looks like the new Macca album was good enough to be included in your *Best of 2008* list... I'll try to listen to it soon! BTW, if you're interested in the show he gave for the 400th anniversary of Québec city... Here's the link ... adegarock.blogspot.com/2008/09/paul-mccartney-quebec-city-canada.html Great set... Very good recording... |
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 30, 2008 13:03:40 GMT -5
200 bucks or dl for free? 200 bucks or dl for free? what should i do? what should i DO??! ...oops too late. a GREAT disc(s) thorn. Both of you are damned lucky to even be listening to that. I would shake my fists at you but am too feeble for it. Its cool though I can wait. Theres too much out there anyhow for me to sift through. Right now I am veritably a-wallow in this sublime ensemble of eclectic musicians devoted to sonically captivating their audience in a gigantic LUV SAC of tripped out hip-hop beats, spacey drifting rhythms punctuated by almost fully-realized songs that coalesce from the various players input into a deeply resonant and rich hybrid of musical saturation that can only be described by its enigmatic moniker "puscifer". If I were to judge by the apparant lack of interest in this band just from posters herein (and Sedaka), I could only conclude that the album V is for Vagina is the most overlooked gem of 2007. I can't stress this enough but it is, for now, superior to both TOOL and A Perfect Circle to me, and if that isn't the case, suffice it to say that I enjoy listening to it more than I do the two aforementioned classic bands. I've seen TOOL 9 times live and APC 3 times, I love both bands no matter what is said and done. Yet nothing compares to the excitement of being able to see one of the debut live performances of Puscifer, this February 15 in Vegas. "V is for Vagina" is obviously nothing but the "first stage" of the "revolving door of talent" which Puscifer naturally is set up to encompass. When you have people like Alan Moulder, Lustmord, Tim Alexander, Danny Lohner, Tim Commerford, Satan, and Trey Gunn working with you, then you're onto something. from Wikipedia:Concert debut
In 2009, Keenan is set to join Bette Midler and Cher in Las Vegas for a cabaret show that will serve as Puscifer's concert debut. Scheduled to open February 13 and 14, the show, which will have a long-term residency at the Pearl Concert Theatre in the Palms Casino Resort,[11] is expected to be a "quirky variety show [that] will feature comedy and music" and many guest musicians including Tim Alexander, Danny Lohner, Lustmord, and Alan Moulder.[12] While Keenan said that fans shouldn't expect to see the kind of elaborate and precise stage production they experience at a Tool gig, he also said he's not exactly sure what will happen at the shows. "There's an element of improv and jazz," he said. "There's not a perfectly planned out production that's been a well-oiled, well-honed machine [...] This is more about capturing the energy in the moment."[13]...In any case, I'm not trying to convince all of you posters and/or former TOOL/APC fans that Puscifer is something you should devote your lives to or you will be sure to go to Heaven (Lord only knows how boring that place is); and I'm not about to suggest that you wouldn't be able to fathom such a multi-faceted jewel of post-industrial alternative electrosex, but I am going to hint that I, Thorngrub, will miss all of you former afficionadoes of the great work of MJK that, for whatever odd reasons, have been left out of this travelling psycho-circus's sidereal freakshow. You and your spirits will be missed. But I ain't about to let it stop me from enjoying THE show of 2009's Winter Doldrums. I'll probably be wearing my Jester's Hat w/the Bells on it - in case you're there and want to meet me. |
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Post by KooL on Dec 30, 2008 13:42:44 GMT -5
1. Q - Tip - The Renaissance
2. Bauhaus - Go Away White
3. Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
4. Grace Jones - Hurricane
5. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
6. The Fireman - Electric Arguments
7. Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
8. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
9. Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
10. Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig!!!
11. Hercules And Love Affair - Hercules And Love Affair
12. Elvis Costello - Momofuku
13. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
14. The Killers - Day & Age
15. REM - Accelerate
16. Metallica - Death Magnetic
17. Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha
18. The Pretenders - Break Up The Concrete
19. Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
20. The Cure - 413 Dream
21. TV On The Radio - Dear Science,
22. Tim Finn - The Conversation
23. John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love and Freedom
24. Moby - Last Night
25. The Black Crowes - Warpaint
26. Beck - Modern Guilt
27. Estelle - Shine
28. Nikka Costa - Pebble To A Pearl
29. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One
30. Lizz Wright - The Orchard
31. Extreme - Saudades de Rock
32. Alanis Morissette - Flavors Of Entanglement
33. Portishead - Third
34. Scott Weiland - Happy in Galoshes
35. Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark
36. The B-52s - Funplex
37. Gavin Rossdale - Wanderlust
38. Electric Six - Flashy
39. Tom Jones - 24 Hours
40. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Weird that the only hip-hop album on my list is also my favourite album of the year. But it's just that good.
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Post by Thorngrub on Dec 30, 2008 14:23:01 GMT -5
REally nice, diverse list there, Kool. And from that "corporate cannibal" song, I'd wager you're spot -on about including the new Grace Jones on it. I will be getting my copy asap - thanks to you.
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Post by phil on Dec 30, 2008 14:23:54 GMT -5
Oh Yeah! Forgot that Lizz Wright album in my list...  Great album! As were her other two...   ... ... Dreaming Wide Awake ... ... Salt ... |
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Post by maarts on Dec 30, 2008 17:39:56 GMT -5
Thorn- you send me your addy I'll git you that Wilson to you! And anyone else wanting...remember the second disc won't be in the shops....
We should make a mixtape with some of our fave tunes of 2008...good times! I ran into Don's Wellwater Conspiracy-burns for me and played that yesterday...good music but hasn't grown exponentially beyond that qualification. And the short-song-mixes....damn they were fun to do too.
Kool, Glen- great list! Need to get that No Age! And the Tim Finn is indeed a good album, I only heard it two weeks ago for the first time.
Wish for 2009- that damned MBV-boxset to be released or is that now vastly becomning another Chinese Demoocracy?
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Post by bowiglou on Dec 30, 2008 18:31:53 GMT -5
I sure will...I tell you, thought I came late in the game I find the Go-Betweens to be one of the ultimate classy, talented, and non-pretentious bands out there.......I wonder how much longer they would have continued if not for the untimely demise of Forester's cohort......... There are a couple of bands that I can draw some parallels....for instance, when I first heard the Church (circa 1984 with Remote Luxury) or the Jayhawks I was instantly drawn to these bands and their entire ouvre (sp?)........i feel the same with the Go-Betweens..... bowieglouL get the Forester solo NOW. What he said! Absolutely recommended. |
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Post by bowiglou on Dec 30, 2008 18:33:38 GMT -5
thanks Phil..yes, I am pleasantly surprised by the Fireman.......it is very very different from his solo LP's...apparently he wrote 13 songs in 13 days (with erstwhiel Killing joke member as producer) and as he did with his debut (McCartney) he played all the instruments...........and that experimental/ragged/rushed feel serves him best!!!! Hé Bow ... Looks like the new Macca album was good enough to be included in your *Best of 2008* list... I'll try to listen to it soon! BTW, if you're interested in the show he gave for the 400th anniversary of Québec city... Here's the link ... adegarock.blogspot.com/2008/09/paul-mccartney-quebec-city-canada.html Great set... Very good recording... |
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Post by bowiglou on Dec 30, 2008 18:35:28 GMT -5
nice list Kool...with one minor exception: though there were critical raves for the Hercules album, it just wasn't my taste....seemed kinda disco-y!!!!!
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Post by bowiglou on Dec 30, 2008 19:03:06 GMT -5
I also forgot:
Kathleen Edwards--Asking for Flowers
Silver Jews--(forget the name, but their latest!!)
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Post by bowiglou on Dec 30, 2008 19:52:19 GMT -5
...and just listening to what I would like to add to my 2008 list:  |
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Fresh new direction? Breaking new ground? I would rather llisten to gerry rafferty or some other dumb ass crap.
