Fave Albums of 2008

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Since someone did one for movies, I thought we may as well do a thread for the music as well

My personal Top6 of last year:

1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
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2. The Bug - London Zoo
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3. Roots Manuva - Slime and Reason
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4. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
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5. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
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6. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool
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So Caftards, what were you listening to for most of last year?
 
In no particular order-

Metallica - Death Magnetic
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MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
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Crystal Castles -
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Foals - Antidotes
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The Last Shadow Puppets - Age of the Understatement
Paul Weller - 22 dreams
Editors - An end has a start
The Killers - Day & Age

Though my most listened to album is The Rifles' - The Great Escape, not released yet but have the songs, fecking class, i reccomend

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Will add more if i think of them.
 
roodboy said:
1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
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So Caftards, what were you listening to for most of last year?
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This would be my choice.

Roots Manuva is pretty good, too. Not so familiar with that album, though.
 
Dr. Dwayne said:
This would be my choice.

Roots Manuva is pretty good, too. Not so familiar with that album, though.
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Was well impressed by the Vampire Weekend album - thought they might just be about 1 or 2 good singles that I heard on the radio but the whole album is great.

The new Roots Manuva album is quite different from his previous - you should check it out
 
Most of the others mentioned above I like, so no need to mention them again. But other good albums from 2008 include...
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (has really grown on me)
Portishead -Third
TV on the Radio - Dear Science

An honorable mention to Jonny Greenwood's 'There Will Be Blood (OST)'
 
Doogie said:
Most of the others mentioned above I like, so no need to mention them again. But other good albums from 2008 include...
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (has really grown on me)
Portishead -Third
TV on the Radio - Dear Science

An honorable mention to Jonny Greenwood's 'There Will Be Blood (OST)'
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I like their earlier stuff, but thought this was a kinda underwhelming album. Didn't really get into it as much as i would've liked. Few great tracks on it though
 
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold
Hadouken! - Music For An Accelerated Culture
Chords - Things We Do For Things
The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
The Gaslight Anthem -The '59 Sound
Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
Thrice - The Alchemy Index III & IV
 
10. Lydia - Illuminate
9. Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors
8. Thrice - Alchemy Index 3 & 4
7. The Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
6. Anthony Green - Avalon
5. Dance Gavin Dance - The Deathstar Album
4. The Fall of Troy - Phantom on the horizon
3. Santogold - Santogold
2. Protest The Hero - Fortress
1. Forgive Durden - Razia's Shadow
 
Kanye West - 808's and Heartbreaks

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Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night

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The Killers - Day and Age

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Bloc Party - Intimacy

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Last Shadow Puppets - Age Of The Understatement

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Boy Kill Boy - Stars and The Sea

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We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery

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Lots of others like Konk by Kooks, Oracular Spectacular by MGMT and Emergency by Pigeons
 
CLK_FPC said:
i think its one of those that, depending on your geographics, it leaked on the net and came out in the US in dec 07 but came out in uk in Jan 08
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Well in that case I am editing the first post and making it a top6 :cool:
 
Crystal Castles is slowly turning into my favourite album of all time, can't wait for the next.
 
Ekeke said:
10. Lydia - Illuminate
9. Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors
8. Thrice - Alchemy Index 3 & 4
7. The Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
6. Anthony Green - Avalon
5. Dance Gavin Dance - The Deathstar Album
4. The Fall of Troy - Phantom on the horizon
3. Santogold - Santogold
2. Protest The Hero - Fortress
1. Forgive Durden - Razia's Shadow
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Some good choices, I actually thing DGD have improved since Johnny left. Was gutted when he joined Emarosa, I thought Chris had a much better voice and after hearing their EP years ago was waiting ages for their album to come out. Oh well, Johnny's voice isn't actually that bad and Relativity is still a good album
 
Millencolin - Machine 15
Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Offspring - Rise and Fall
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
New Empire - Come with me Tonight
 
roodboy said:
I was actually going to put that in my top5 but when I looked it said it came out in 2007 - great album
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feck it, man.

This is one of my favourite albums of last year, and the year before that, and the year before that and so on....

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Donut said:
Amy MacDonald :nervous:
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Was released in July 2007 (UK), but in 2008 elsewhere so I guess you can put it here.
And if you do, so will I. I'm not sure many of my favourite albums from 2008 will live for very long, but this is an album I guess I could still listen to when I'm old.
 
samabachan said:
I enjoyed the Atmosphere one, Andrew Bird's album (Scythian Empires?), Hot Chip one, Lupe Fiasco's obviously; Raconteurs, Portishead, MGMT and Oasis were alright and that's about it. Am I getting old or was 08 a really fecking shit year for music?
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Let's see. Off the top of my head I can remember listening to nine whole albums from last year. Two of them were brilliant, two very good, four good and two somewhere in the region of fecking terrible, all adding up to an average of good and a half. But in terms of quantity it was probably the worst year since 99 or something.
 
pillory said:
Let's see. Off the top of my head I can remember listening to nine whole albums from last year. Two of them were brilliant, two very good, four good and two somewhere in the region of fecking terrible, all adding up to an average of good and a half. But in terms of quantity it was probably the worst year since 99 or something.
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Which 2 were brilliant? I think you tried to post them earlier but that post is just blank for me ...

I think not appreciating new music can actually be a sign of getting old!
Even though it is so easy to gt hold of nowadays, I tend to listen to less and less new music and am happy with all my old stuff - not sure whether this is because my standards are higher than when i was younger due to having to listened to so much more music over time - but every now and again an album comes along which restores my faith in music and keeps me interested
 
Elbow and portishead have put out some good albums... ummm.... cant think of any more, dont listen to recent stuff so much
 
roodboy said:
Which 2 were brilliant? I think you tried to post them earlier but that post is just blank for me ...
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Hey, it's blank for me too now. I saw them earlier today. They were Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista and Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna.

roodboy said:
I think not appreciating new music can actually be a sign of getting old!
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I can certainly be a sign of getting a real job and a family. (Or of being short on money and internet connections, which is my excuse for checking out so little music last year.)
 
Current 93 - Birth Canal Blues (this is an EP though)
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Baby Dee - Safe Inside the Day
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Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Angles
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Laphroaig - would be useful if you labelled your choices as it is not always obvious what the feck it is!
 
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