Albums Of The Year 2008

[bluestreak]

9

Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull

I love you sometimes urban, you can vote for indie bollocks but still put what is basically a doom album in the top 10. This is great and fully deserves to be one of those albums that *mutter* transcends genre *shuffles feet* and crops up in music collections of people who don't normally listen to doom.

 

[El Jefe]

Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull

I love you sometimes urban, you can vote for indie bollocks but still put what is basically a doom album in the top 10. This is great and fully deserves to be one of those albums that *mutter* transcends genre *shuffles feet* and crops up in music collections of people who don't normally listen to doom.

finally - the good shit

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

boring.

 

[bluestreak]

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

plus a couple of other nominations at lower points in the scale. about 35-40 people voted, and best of all: only four or five only named one album. i'll let them out themselves if they want to.

 

[Orang Utan]

downloading now....

 

[braindancer]

finally - the good shit

Sweet - I think I forgot to vote for this though - cracking album!

 

[bluestreak]

8

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

Student disco music. Promos don't sell on ebay. Go and buy the Earth album instead FFS.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

no fucking 8!!!! jebus, what gwan here!!!!

 

[Dillinger4]

Man.

I don't even know what to say right now.

 

[bluestreak]

7

Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

Wonderful glorious droney electronica to rumble yer guts. One of my personal favourites!

 

[bluestreak]

6

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

Horns and gravel. Won some prize or other.

 

[twistedAM]

Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

Wonderful glorious droney electronica to rumble yer guts. One of my personal favourites!

Fuck yeah! I'd forgotten I'd put that in pole!

 

[bluestreak]

5

The Bug - London Zoo

Raggastep? Dubhall? Aceness.

 

[bluestreak]

4

TV On The Radio - Dear Science

Some even rate this as better than Desperate Youths, Bloodthirsty Babes! Harmonic art pop with drive!

 

[girasol]

yay for 5 and 6

 

[bluestreak]

Joint 2

Fleet Foxes - s/t

Kind of baroque indie rock from Seattle, intelligent, though not as clever as it wants to be. Many people's second favourite of the year!

Portishead - Third

It turns out, they are still relevant.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

drum roll please ladeez and gennelmen!!!!!

 

[Crispy]

The fact that the top curve of the 3 and the loop of the P don't exactly line up annoys me.

 

[bluestreak]

Numero one!

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

For once one of my favourites wins! Another great Bad Seeds record, as jubilant and dark as the rest. This sparks with life and fire and ire and wit. A deserved win IMO.

 

[colacubes]

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

For once one of my favourites wins! Another great Bad Seeds record, as jubilant and dark as the rest. This sparks with life and fire and ire and wit. A deserved win IMO.

A worthy winner

 

[bluestreak]

wow, i thought for a while i wasn't going to make it - i have a train to catch and have to leave in eight minutes...

now fight about it. this thread cost the taxpayer a lot of money today, make it worth their while

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Yay! Thought this had to be it

Good work bluey, thanx for all your efforts.

 

[clandestino]

excellent work, bluestreak!

not as inspiring a list as previous years, i don't think, but some interesting stuff to investigate on there.

 

[bluestreak]

it was a pleasure. doing this satisfies a lot of high fidelity-style music geek OCD needs in me

 

[Dillinger4]

it was a pleasure. doing this satisfies a lot of high fidelity-style music geek OCD needs in me

 

[El Jefe]

deserved first place from Cave, not sure what the fuck Fleet Foxes were doing so high

 

[El Jefe]

let's have your individual nominations now then.

mine:

1 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
2 Los Campesinos - Hold On Now Youngster
3 Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
4 The Bug - London Zoo
5 Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
6 Night Marchers - See You In Magic
7 Boredoms - Super Roots 9
8 Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
9 Adem - Takes
10 Nurse With Wound - Huffin Rag Blues
11 Those Dancing Days - In Our Space Hero Suits
12 Shackleton & Appleblim - Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals
13 Eli Paperboy Reed - Roll With You
14 Melvins - Nude With Boots
15 Fucked Up - Chemistry Of Common Life
16 Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir - 10,000
17 Shit & Shine - Kiss Mich Mein Leibe
18 Bookhouse Boys - Bookhouse Boys
19 Evangelista - Hello Voyager
20 Lykke Li - Youth Novels

 

[El Jefe]

did NOBODY else vote for the Adem album? it's gorgeous.. surprised Mogwai didn't feature too

 

[Dillinger4]

That is a good list. I like Adem. One of his songs was in a Shane Meadows film.

I also like that you have put Los Campesinos at number 2!

 

[Orang Utan]

very boring looking list