Best Albums- 2008

[dragonboy]

K(NIEVEL)

Class!!!  ;D  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

[red]

Class!!!  ;D  [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

oh man, why didn't you post that picture when i was 'EVIL K'?!?!?!

>:( ;) ;D 8-)

[DaFunkyPrecedent]

Album of the Year:

DJ Rupture - Uproot.

I don't where this guy came from or even where he gets his beats from...but when you put this guys record on - your whole fucking house will rattle along with every organ in your body.  I have found myself laughing while listening to Uproot, not because anything comical exists within it, but because it is so intense, so fun and new that laughter seems like the only proper emotion to extract from myself.  Go cop this album! It is Dub Step in the dark streets of London.  It a slice of a foreign world blended into a modern Hip Hop headphone.  It is a sleazy Jamician dance club built on top of a breezy mind out day dream.  It is pure perfection.  

[Easy Morning Rebel]

Favourite 2008 albums so far... NOT IN ORDER!

Ryan Bingham - Mescalito
Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind
Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be
Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
Allison Moorer - Mockingbird (love her version of Gillian Welch's "Revelator")
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Old 97's - Blame It On Gravity
Beck - Modern Guilt
Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson - Rattlin' Bones
Rodney Crowell - Sex And Gasoline
Caroline Herring - Lantana
Radiohead - In Rainbows (not as good as "OK Computer", but still, it's Radiohead goddammit!)


more to come later...... ;)

[Dee.]

Quick and sloppy list in no order

Pop Levi - Never Never Love
Donovan Quinn & the 13th Month - Self Titled
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea
Why - Alopecia
Okay - Huggable Dust
Human Highway - Moody Motorcycle
Vetiver - Thing of the Past
Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down
Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go
Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust

[Ghosts_on_TV]

I consider In Rainbows 2007.

[Easy Morning Rebel]

I consider In Rainbows 2007.

Well, I don't. Maybe it was released in USA 2007? I don't know because I've never been there but I'm pretty sure it was released in 2008 in Sweden at least. That's what I go for.

[mjkoehler]

MGMT-Oracular Spectacular I completly forgot this came out in '08. For some reason I thought it was '07.

[fitzcarraldo]

Hardly bought any new music this year but these 08 albums were played lots

MMJ - Evil Urges
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Beck - Modern Guilt
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
DJ Rupture - Uproot
Portishead - Third
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Stars of the Lid - Carte de Visite

[getinthevan]

I consider In Rainbows 2007.

Well, I don't. Maybe it was released in USA 2007? I don't know because I've never been there but I'm pretty sure it was released in 2008 in Sweden at least. That's what I go for.

This one lands in a grey area since it was released online in 2007 but not physically released until January 1st, 2008.  

[tomEisenbraun]

MGMT-Oracular Spectacular I completly forgot this came out in '08. For some reason I thought it was '07.

[size=20]Ho. Lee. Shit.[/size]

[Ghosts_on_TV]

I consider In Rainbows 2007.

Well, I don't. Maybe it was released in USA 2007? I don't know because I've never been there but I'm pretty sure it was released in 2008 in Sweden at least. That's what I go for.

It was released October '07 for everyone on their website.

[Ghosts_on_TV]

Hardly bought any new music this year but these 08 albums were played lots

MMJ - Evil Urges
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Beck - Modern Guilt
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
DJ Rupture - Uproot
Portishead - Third
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Stars of the Lid - Carte de Visite

No Sun Kil Moon?

[Ghosts_on_TV]

I consider In Rainbows 2007.

Well, I don't. Maybe it was released in USA 2007? I don't know because I've never been there but I'm pretty sure it was released in 2008 in Sweden at least. That's what I go for.

This one lands in a grey area since it was released online in 2007 but not physically released until January 1st, 2008.  

I had a physical copy in my hands Christmas eve '07. It was the discbox. I'm not trying to make a big deal about it, just sayin.  ;D

[getinthevan]

I consider In Rainbows 2007.

Well, I don't. Maybe it was released in USA 2007? I don't know because I've never been there but I'm pretty sure it was released in 2008 in Sweden at least. That's what I go for.

This one lands in a grey area since it was released online in 2007 but not physically released until January 1st, 2008.  

I had a physical copy in my hands Christmas eve '07. It was the discbox. I'm not trying to make a big deal about it, just sayin.  ;D

I also got the discbox around then!  I hadn't thought about that...  Mine looks different though.  It's grey and looks like it has scribbles all over it.

[red]

I also got the discbox around then!  I hadn't thought about that...  Mine looks different though.  It's grey and looks like it has scribbles all over it.

have you not basked in its glory yet?  (i'm saying that because the grey thing with scribbles houses what ghosts is holding.)

i've got one too!  let's wife-swap, or something.

[Ghosts_on_TV]

I consider In Rainbows 2007.

Well, I don't. Maybe it was released in USA 2007? I don't know because I've never been there but I'm pretty sure it was released in 2008 in Sweden at least. That's what I go for.

This one lands in a grey area since it was released online in 2007 but not physically released until January 1st, 2008.  

I had a physical copy in my hands Christmas eve '07. It was the discbox. I'm not trying to make a big deal about it, just sayin.  ;D

I also got the discbox around then!  I hadn't thought about that...  Mine looks different though.  It's grey and looks like it has scribbles all over it.

Like K said, that pic is of it sans cover.

[Ghosts_on_TV]

You should really open it if you didn't, it's great. THis was us listening to it till the wee morning hours of CHristmas Day... :-?

[Easy Morning Rebel]

I consider In Rainbows 2007.

Well, I don't. Maybe it was released in USA 2007? I don't know because I've never been there but I'm pretty sure it was released in 2008 in Sweden at least. That's what I go for.

It was released October '07 for everyone on their website.

Whatever! At least for me it is a 2008 release because in the part of the world where I live it did come out in stores in 2008, and I'm going for that. That's about it!

[ultravisitor]

My top three, in random order.


Why everyone slept on Frightened Rabbit, I'll never know.  (Too blinded by Vampire Weekend as they wore the emperor's new clothes?)  This was amazing.


Deastro gave me faith in music.  These songs were recorded by him, on his own, while he was a teenager living in his parents' house -- and they're better than what most artists on major labels end up producing.  This was even released by emusic originally because he was unsigned.  Thankfully, he was signed by Ghostly International by the end of the year.  So there is some justice in the world.


Need I say more?

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