2008 in music. • Page 4

1. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
2. Copeland - You Are My Sunshine
3. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight

Others:
The Benedict Affair - With More Class
Colour Revolt – Plunder, Beg, and Curse
Lydia – Illuminate
Anberlin – New Surrender
House of Heroes – The End is Not the End
Jack’s Mannequin – The Glass Passenger
Underoath – Lost in The Sound of Separation
Relient K – Birds and Bee Sides
Tiger’s Jaw – S/T
Mat Kearney – Cit of Black and White

 

1. Chad Perrone - Wake
2. Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
3. Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger

Excruciating Cuts:
Taylor Swift - Fearless
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Lydia - Illuminate
Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt

Others I love:
Copeland - You Are My Sunshine
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Charlotte Sometimes - Waves and the Both of Us
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Riendeau - Your Body, My Satellite EP
Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak
The Audition - Champion
Thrice - The Alchemy Index , Volume III & IV: Air and Earth
Doomtree - Doomtree
Metallica - Death Magnetic

Good ones:
City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
Valencia - We All Need a Reason to Believe
Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws
Anberlin - New Surrender
Frank Turner - Love, Ire and Song
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Moving Mountains - Foreward EP
Coeur de Pirate - Coeur de Pirate
Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
The New Frontiers - Mending
Underoath - Lost in the Sound of Separation
Lights - LIGHTS EP
The All-American Rejects - When the World Comes Down
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Cardinology
Safety Suit - Life Left to Go
Zo and Tigallo - Love the '80s
As Tall As Lions - Into the Flood EP
B.B. King - One Kind Favor
The Maine - Can't Stop Won't Stop
Laura Stevenson and The Cans - A Record
Brighten - Early Love EP
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
The Cab - Whisper War
Adele - 19
Butch Walker - Sycamore Meadows
Demi Lovato - Don't Forget
Beres Hammond - A Moment in Time
Counting Crows - Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings
Eye Alaska - Yellow and Elephant EP
John Legend - Evolver
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Animal!/Not Animal
Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge
Russian Red - I Love Your Glasses
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Brightwood - Wake
Good Old War - Only Way to Be Alone
Search the City - A Fire So Big the Heavens Can See It
The Academy Is... - Fast Times at Barrington High
Arrows - Modern Art and Politics
Big Blue Ball - Big Blue Ball
Edison Glass - Time Is Fiction
Mansions - Mansions EP/When I Sleep EP/Black Sheep EP/Mr. Boddy EP
The Morning Light - The Morning Light
Northstar - Broken Parachute EP
Motion City Soundtrack - Acoustic EP
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
Nas - Untitled
Beyonce - I Am...Sasha Fierce
Paper Route - Are We All Forgotten EP
Oceanlab - Sirens of the Sea
She & Him - Volume One
Jazmine Sullivan - Fearless
Keane - Perfect Symmetry
Rookie of the Year - Sweet Attention
Ray Lamontagne - Gossip in the Grain
Cinematic Sunrise - A Color Storybook and a Long Playing Record
The Narrative - Just Say Yes EP
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Emarosa - Relativity
Panic! at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Koushik - Out My Window
The Roots - Rising Down
Rise Against - Appeal to Reason
The Rescues - Crazy Ever After
The Gaslight Anthem - Senor and the Queen EP
The Morning Light - The Sounds of Love EP
Go Radio - Welcome to Life EP
Reign of Kindo - Rhythm, Chord and Melody
Ace Enders and a Million Different People - The Secret Wars
Esperanza Spalding - Esperanza
Houston Calls - The End of an Error...
Owl City - Maybe I'm Dreaming
The Killers - Day and Age
Tristan Prettyman - Hello
Seal - Soul
The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues
The Classic Crime - The Silver Cord
Various Artists - Twilight Soundtrack
Darius Rucker - Learn to Live
Owl City - Of June EP
Sarah Jaffe - Ever Born Again EP
Secret Lives of the Freemasons - Weekend Warriors
Forever the Sickest Kids - Underdog Alma Mater
Lovedrug - The Sucker Punch Show
The Kooks - KONK
Four Letter Lie - What a Terrible Thing to Say
Driver F - Chasing the White Whale
Armor for Sleep - The Way Out Is Broken EP
A Cursive Memory - Changes
Youth Group - The Night Is Ours
Mike Hale - Broken with No Hope
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
You, Me, and Everyone We Know - So Young, So Insane EP
Lenny Kravitz - It's Time for a Love Revolution
Weezer - The Red Album
Common - Universal Mind Control
The Ember Days - The Ember Days EP
So Long Forgotten - Baptism EP

Not a fan:
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Lady Gaga - The Fame
36 Crazyfists - The Tide and Its Takers
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
VersaEmerge - Perceptions

Targets for listening:
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Flight
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
The Black Keys - Attack & Release
Dear and the Headlights - Drunk Like Bible Times
Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
Protest the Hero - Fortress
REM - Accelerate
Killer Mike - I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II
Solange - Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Wale - Mixtape About Nothing
Promise of Redemption - When the Flowers Bloom
Foxy Shazam - Introducing Foxy Shazam
Kid Cudi - A Kid Named Cudi
Bayside - Shudder
Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors
Steve Winwood – Nine Lives
La Dispute – Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
Tigers Jaw – Tigers Jaw
Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Foals - Antidotes
Nada Surf - Lucky
Beck - Modern Guilt
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
The Rosebuds - Life Like
Story Of The Year - The Black Swan
The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
Al Green - Lay it Down
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things

 

Man, look at those cuts you had to make. What a year this was.

 

Interesting to see some of the love for Death Magnetic. My memory of it at the time is that people praised it as a "return to form" after St Anger but over time people soured on it.

 

I've not heard it in a long time but I loved it when it came out. Completely forgot about it when making my list, it might have made it.

 

First of all, thank you for having Folie on your top 3. and Second of all....dammmmmmnnnn this is a fantastic list!

 

As big a Metallica fan I am I dont think I ever really gave Death Magnetic a chance. My fandom kinda died with St Anger and the rise of pop punk, and then I got back into them a decade later with Hardwired to Self Destruct. Maybe I'll revisit DM today.

 

Trying to decide if this is my last year doing the big, comprehensive list. Not sure I can do it in good conscience in a year in which my band put out two albums. Just seems too recent.

 

Would understand where you're coming from and the reasoning, but I think I speak for several of us that I would be bummed to not see your list. You always seem to mention at least I few that I enjoy and COMPLETELY forgot about, and not to mention good recommendations for stuff that I did not know before.

 

Don't even play us like that homie!

 

death magnetic kinda sucks. one of their worst.

 

Death Magnetic is classic Metallica in that it's a fantastic album with production issues, like just about every record in their entire career.

 

the songs aren’t there imo. hoping they leave unforgiven songs dead where they belong.

 

1. Tallest Man - Shallow Grave
2. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 3

HM: 808s, Feed the Animals (still soooooooo much fun), Viva la Vida, Fleet Foxes

Albums I don't love in full but have some fantastic standouts: '59 Sound (the opening 4 song run, goddamn), Fearless, Folie (buffaloes is at worst top 3 FOB song), Wolf Parade - At Mt Zoomer, Beach House - Devotion, M83, Pretty. Odd

Not in love with this year overall. Weezer confirmed Make Believe's epic disappointment was no fluke. Death Cab put out their first bad album (starts really strong and absolutely falls apart after Cath, imo). Devotion is easily my least favorite of the first 4 Beach House albums. Fleet Foxes and Wayne are probably the only two above that I feel peaked with this release, and the latter probably says more about how much more of his discography I need to give a serious relisten to.

 

This is a year I went all in on skramz and sludge. Still love a lot of these records.

1. Murder By Death - Red of Tooth & Claw
2. Mutyumu - il y a
3. Why? - Alopecia

Foals - Antidotes
Century - Black Ocean
Killing the Dream - Fractures
Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Santigold - Santogold
Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You
Cursed - III
Blacklisted - Heavier than Heaven...
Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground - s/t
Loma Prieta - Last City
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Foxy Shazam - Introducing...
Protest the Hero - Fortress
Genghis Tron - Board Up the House
Admiral Angry - Buster
Annuals - Such Fun
Burst - Lazurus Bird
Maps & Atlases - You and me and the Mountain
Torche - Meanderthal
Daitro / Sed Non Satiata split
Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - Animal / Not Animal

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/ecirht/best_of_08/

 

I feel like I post it way too often, but this album is so fucking unique and wonderful and gorgeous. Really wish it were on streaming. Maybe I'll try and find a physical copy somewhere.

 

I really like that album but I've only heard it a few times and it's so dense. Will probably be on my 2008 list eventually haha.

 

The third Unforgiven is not one of their best but I’m shocked “All Nightmare Long” isn’t exactly your kind of jam

 

Oh man heard “As Tall As Cliffs” and now realize I rated Animal/Not Animal too low

 

Listened to Weezer's Red album and actually quite enjoyed it aside from the songs the other guys were singing.

 

Weird how few people mentioned Sigur Ros. That album is such a delight.

 

I agree 100%. It's a shame Ryan left the band, but looking at the direction Patd took after his exit it's clear it had to happen.

New Perspective is kind of a mix between Fever and Pretty Odd, and it rules. This acoustic take is amazing. Brendon is such a good freacking singer.

 

Yeah, All nightmare long is one hell of a song.

 

If anyone likes heavy screaming shit, I’d feel very accomplished if I got some humans to actually listen to that Riendeau EP. I’m biased because I knew them but I legitimately think it’s a great metal record

 

Very metalcore. Death Row Tull is funny though I think it should be toll