Best Albums- 2008

[Easy Morning Rebel]

Here's my very belated list:

1) My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
2) Rodney Crowell – Sex And Gasoline
3) Drive-by Truckers – Brighter Than Creation's Dark
4) Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson – Rattlin' Bones
5) Lucinda Williams – Little Honey
6) Hayes Carll – Trouble In Mind
7) Emmylou Harris – All I Intended To Be
8) Aimee Mann - @%&! Smilers
9) Ryan Adams & the Cardinals – Cardinology
10) Shelby Lynne – Just A Little Lovin'
11) Pieta Brown – Pieta Brown
12) Allison Moorer - Mockingbird
13) Beck – Modern Guilt
14) Old 97's – Blame It On Gravity
15) Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
16) Radiohead – In Rainbows
17) Nada Surf – Lucky
18) Tift Merritt – Another Country
19) Jesse Malin – On Your Sleeve
20) The Hold Steady – Stay Positive

(21. Dexateens – Lost And Found)

[tomEisenbraun]

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?

More to come...

I'll definitely be snagging your first two when my eMusic subscription renews on the 16th. the album art alone on Daestro makes me pretty happy.

[red]

i absolutely love "the modern leper", but i haven't heard anything else from that frightened rabbit album.

daestro hey?  i'll have to look into him.  

[charps]

First of all, here's the best list you can find, Altcoutrytab.ca's own Gamblers.

http://altcountrytab.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19278&start=0

You'll see MMJ at #13, which may be a little low, but these people always end up with a pretty good list of albums.  Here are my top 10.

1   Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark  
2   Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life  
3   Tift Merritt - Another Country
4   My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges  
5   The Hold Steady - Stay Positive  
6   Sun Kil Moon - April
7   The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers  
8   She and Him - Volume 1  
9   Lucinda Williams - Little Honey  
10  Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down in the Light  

[dragonboy]

Here's my list in some sort of order:

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Black Keys - Attack & Release
DBT - Brighter Than Creations Dark
Nick Cave - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Shearwater - Rook
Goldfrapp - 7th Tree
Pete Molinari - A Virtual Landslide
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
Cat Power - Jukebox
James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes
The Roots - Rising Down
Sigur Ros - Meo Suo
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of Understatement
Ray LaMontagne - Gossip In The Grain
Peter Bruntnell - Peter & The Murder of Crows
Coldplay - Viva La Viva
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
GlasVegas - GlasVegas
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple

Albums I've bought but haven't played yet:
Verve - 4th
Portishead - 3rd
Tony Christie - Made In Sheffield

I've probably forgotten a few...

I still haven't played 4th but I love Made In Sheffield & 3rd.

3rd actually sits in 3rd place now after Elbow & FF...

I have Amadou & Mariam's Welcome To Mali on order too - Metacrtic's best reviewed album of 2008!

I love this song!!!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KhFv1qJcao