2008 in music. • Page 6

Revisited Death Magnetic and it's definitely better than I remembered. A big step up from the three albums that came before it.
But I swear if their next album has an Unforgiven IV I'm throwing in the towel.

 

literally no one else in weezer should ever sing lol

 

Cold Dark World was a BIG BIG no, as stated earlier.

Automatic also did not doing anything for me.

I dunno, maybe it was just novelty or I liked the hook, but Thought I Knew is the best of the bunch.

 

On first listen Pig was the one that stood out to me the most, didn't expect a song like that and it really worked for me.

 

See, y'all are spoiled with deluxe versions. All I got in 2008 was 10 new Weezer songs that I only liked half of

 

So true all around - although even though I may have acted "too cool" for Coldplay, I still was blasting and singing along to this album in my car constantly.

Revisiting it today and I think it also may be their greatest, as you said. I loved the release cycle for it too, "Violet Hill" is such an underrated gem in their catalog, I feel like many people forget that was released as the first single, a foot-stomping rocker. And then to follow it up less than a month later with the title track, and that song absolutely took over the music world for that entire summer of '08. Deserving that it took them to their first US #1.

The Propekt's March EP as a companion piece is also so so good. Whenever I listen to this album I just let it play right through with the EP tacked on to the end - particuarly love "Life In Technicolor II".

 

My best friend got so fucking mad at me that we left a Mind Eraser show to see RZL DZL. Hasn't let me live it down. No Ragrets.

 

Yeah, I was definitely listening to this album a lot that summer too, even as I pretended to be too cool. Haha

If I have one gripe, it's that it could have been an even stronger album if they'd included some of the stuff from the EP. Specifically, "Life in Technicolor II" should be the album version (it's their "Where the Streets Have No Name"; why isn't it on the album!?) and I'd love if "Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground" was tucked in there somewhere too, though I'm not totally sure where you'd put it.

 

Good choice

 

Was just listening to Justin Townes Earle’s The Good Life and realized I missed it when making my list, but it def would have been on there.

 

1. Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. City & Colour - Bring me Your Love

4. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
5. Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation
6. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
7. Lydia - Illuminate
8. La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
9. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III

 

Oh man Torche’s Meanderthal came out this year. What a record. What a band. Some of the loudest shows I’ve been to. Who knew stoner/sludge metal could be so poppy.

 

I saw them with Boris around that era. Never been so sweaty and deaf in my life.

 

The only Weezer album that Red is better than is Make Believe. They REALLY tested their fanbase with the Make Believe-Red-Raditude era.

 

simply untrue

 

I will not take Red blasphemy. Yes, it’s got some stinkers but it’s nowhere near the bottom. More like middle to low middle

 

The Greatest Man That Ever Lived is worth an album.

 

Red is bad but it’s definitely better than make believe and raditude. It’s also better than Hurley imo and I actually prefer its handful of good songs to most of EWBAITE, but as a whole that album is less embarrassing. So realistically for me it’s 4th worst probably 5th if you count Spring.

 

If you replace the songs with the other guys singing with the b-sides I'll take it over Green for sure.

 

1. Jack's Mannequin-The Glass Passenger

I was a casual fan who knew the general story of what Andrew went through, but I was still a bit thrown off at how different this sounded from EIT. I was ready for another summery greatness album and instead got a gloomish but super hopeful fall album. Maybe it's just the "started feeling like October" line but the whole album really does feel like a fall album to me, which i guess does make it the perfect follow up to one of the best summer albums ever. Theres only a couple of songs on the album I've never really been able to get into at all, Orphans and Drop Out, but even witH Drop Out I have listened to and enjoyed it once in a while. The whole rest of the album ranges from good to top tier for me. And some of the bonus tracks that came out around the time are some of my favorite JM songs, aka Miss California and Doris Day.

2. Alkaline Trio-Agony & Irony

This is probably my true #1, but TGP had enough top 3 rankings that I was hoping to give it an extra boost. The fan reaction to this album is really weird for me because I love it, but it seems polarizing to the fanbase. I guess because they kind of suddenly dropped the glamgoth style for a more straight forward alternative rock sound and people weren't ready for it. But damn did they churn out a good one. I think when I do my album rankings this one is usually fighting it out with FHTI for the #2 slot behind GM. This is Skiba's last exceptionally strong Alk3 album imo, with his only real weak song being Live Young Die Fast. And this album was the 3rd in a row of peak Dan Andriano. Dan really crushed it here, every album song is top notch AND the bonus tracks Burned Is the House and In My Stomach are probably in my top 10 dan tracks/top 10 band overall tracks. If I have a non-live young die fast gripe with this album, it's Into The Night being the closer instead of In My Stomach. Into The Night is a fine song but don't like it as a closer. Do You Wanna Know? should have been a single, and the story about the label forcing them to put it on the album made me hopeful it would be. Over and Out was good but the blood-pact members got spoiled on the original acoustic version that Derek did. I love Matt's bridge in Love Love Kiss Kiss, and I also thought it was cool how they published the sheet music to Love Love Kiss Kiss before the song was released and challenged the blood pact and fans to make their own covers of it using the sheet music. I forgot what the winner of that contest got when they won. I Found Away and Calling All Skeletons are two of matt's best tbh. I remember the excitement of hearing In Vein for the first time as they debuted it live, I think at Warped Tour maybe? Just a great rock album with both song writers still in their peaks.

 

1. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
My favourite album ever.

2. City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love

3. Story of the Year - The Black Swan

Main honourable mention I want to shout out is The Getaway Plan - Other Voices, Other Rooms.
Probably the best 'scene'album to come out of Australia and had deserved crossover appeal with all time classic single Where the City Meets the Sea. Unsure if they ever tasted any success un the USA?

 

1. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
2. Fall Out Boy- Folie a Deux
3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

 

the gaslight anthem's the 59 sound wins with 42. fall out boy's folie a deux had 27 and frightened rabbit's midnight organ flight had 22.

 

That’s a good group of winners

 

Hell yeah Gaslight.