Albums Of The Year 2008

[Paulie Tandoori]

blinking heck! i've never had so many entries make the chart before!!!

(not sure if that's a good thing or not, have i become a mindless populist?)

 

[El Jefe]

boring

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

 

[Orang Utan]

that's why I thought you'd like it

Nah, the Deerhunter album is the one that looks interesting, not the Lindstrom

 

[bluestreak]

Joint 13

Vampire Weekend - s/t

This should be a horrible record. It should make you want to point and laugh. On paper a Strokes wannabe band mixing it up with world music is so crap they should just do it in blackface. But this is a playful, intelligent album, perhaps a little too dinner-party, but a good record nonetheless.

 

[Dillinger4]

Vampire Weekend - s/t

This should be a horrible record. It should make you want to point and laugh. On paper a Strokes wannabe band mixing it up with world music is so crap they should just do it in blackface. But this is a playful, intelligent album, perhaps a little too dinner-party, but a good record nonetheless.

I quite like this.

Maybe I should a little ashamed, for the reasons pointed out here. But I just like it.

 

[bluestreak]

Joint 13

Fennesz - Black Sea

Now, I've not even heard of this guy, but for two urbanites it was album of the year, and was mentioned in despatches by others, so here's what the internet says about him: Fennesz is a towering figure in the world of experimentalelectronica, whose worldwide influence is readily apparent.Here he continues to use his patented digitally-processed electric guitar technique to create granular washes of ambient sound, but this time with a darker, less pop-influenced tone than before. Now we know.

 

[bluestreak]

12

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

No wonder she left you, you wet git.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

I quite like this.

Maybe I should a little ashamed, for the reasons pointed out here. But I just like it.

you should be very ashamed, very very very ashamed.

 

[Crispy]

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

No wonder she left you, you wet git.

 

[Dillinger4]

you should be very ashamed, very very very ashamed.

But I am not. Which is worse.

 

[El Jefe]

No wonder she left you, you wet git.

<applauds>

 

[braindancer]

Fennesz - Black Sea

Now, I've not even heard of this guy, but for two urbanites it was album of the year, and was mentioned in despatches by others, so here's what the internet says about him: Fennesz is a towering figure in the world of experimentalelectronica, whose worldwide influence is readily apparent.Here he continues to use his patented digitally-processed electric guitar technique to create granular washes of ambient sound, but this time with a darker, less pop-influenced tone than before. Now we know.

Fantastic album - my album of the year

 

[ethel]

fennesz=mike patton innit.

 

[Dillinger4]

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

No wonder she left you, you wet git.

Who is voting for all this?

 

[El Jefe]

fennesz=mike patton innit.

it's not... it's a guy called Christian Fennesz

eta: you're thinking of Fantomas

 

[christonabike]

fennesz=mike patton innit.

Don't think so

Fennesz is ace though, saw him at the IMAX



Beaten to it, doh

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Who is voting for all this?

i must admit, that thought passed through my head.....

 

[twistedAM]

Vivian Girls only one so far and will probably be the only one but will kick myself if there's a Black Mountain lobby here and i forgot to vote for it. as with Frightened rabbit.

Back to listening to The Donkeys...was no point in voting for that one but it's great

 

[girasol]

none of my votees has made it (yet? )

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

none of my votees has made it (yet? )

i've had 4 (so far )

 

[bluestreak]

10

Yeah, I know, I just realised I fucked up... Santogold should have been on this list as well, back with lindstrom, SMZ, and the Fall. But nevermind that now, let's go to number 10 in our charts...

M83 - Saturday = Youth

Young people are cool. They have haircuts and can wear wacky outfits without looking like total cunts. They dance in clubs. They have lie ins or, get this, don't go to bed at all. I hate them. The bloke who made this album didn't get bitter, he got wistful, so he made this album about being 15. I haven't heard it, so I got nothing to say, is it worth my eartime? I'd expect it to be horrible, tbh.

 

[dodgepot]

one of my mine had made it (i think - i can't remember whether i put it on the list)

 

[bluestreak]

Who is voting for all this?

Not you, you apathetic bugger.

When you don't send your list to me, voices get heard who do. Use your vote and keep indie twats out your charts.

 

[dodgepot]

Young people are cool. They have haircuts and can wear wacky outfits without looking like total cunts. They dance in clubs. They have lie ins or, get this, don't go to bed at all.

i'd read that far and thought "i hate young people", so you can imagine how relieved i was to carry on reading and find this...

I hate them.

 

[twistedAM]

By the way bluestreak, thanks for doing this all again.

Champ!

 

[Orang Utan]

Here's the other urbanite who had fennesz as album of the year. There can't have been that many votes

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

M83 are quite cool in a floaty way.

 

[Dillinger4]

By the way bluestreak, thanks for doing this all again.

Champ!

yeh

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Yeah, I know, I just realised I fucked up... Santogold should have been on this list as well, back with lindstrom, SMZ, and the Fall. But nevermind that now, let's go to number 10 in our charts...

bloody hell, that would've taken me up to 5 out of 10!!