For those of you who are new to my best of lists, here's the rules.
Albums must have been released in 2008, not just have been discovered by me in 2008.
One representative track per album will be placed on cd mix.
Number of songs on list will be determined by number of songs that can fit on said cd.
This year's list is made up of 24 songs based upon the best 24 albums (in order):
1. Nothing Ever Happened -Deerhunter (Microcastle)
2. Fools -The Dodos (Visiter)
3. But For You Who Fear My Name -The Welcome Wagon (Welcome To The Welcome Wagon)
4. Skinny Love -Bon Iver (For Emma, Forever Ago)
5. Little David, Play On Your Harp -Nimrod Workman (I Want To Go Where Things Are Beautiful)
6. When We Embraced -Micah P. Hinson (Micah P. Hinson & The Red Empire Orchestra)
7. White Winter Hymnal -Fleet Foxes (Fleet Foxes)
8. Boneless -The Notwist (The Devil, You + Me)
9. Rooks -Shearwater (Rook)
10. Family Tree -TV On The Radio (Dear Science)
11. 5 Years Time -Noah and the Whale (Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down)
12. People Talk -Cheap Time (Cheap Time)
13. American Gangster Time -Elvis Costello (Momofuku)
14. Sequestered In Memphis -The Hold Steady (Stay Positive)
15. The Old Days -Dr. Dog (Fate)
16. Not Your Lover -Blitzen Trapper (Furr)
17. The Next Time Around -Little Joy (Little Joy)
18. Strange Victory Strange Defeat -Silver Jews (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)
19. Pieces of What -MGMT (Oracular Spectacular)
20. Where Is The Puzzle? -Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Lie Down In The Light)
21. Gardenia -Stephen Malkmus (Real Emotional Trash)
22. When We Were Still Friends -Herman Dune (Next Year In Zion)
23. Call It A Ritual -Wolf Parade (At Mount Zoomer)
24. A-Punk -Vampire Weekend (Vampire Weekend)
And, because this was such a good year for music, here's 16 more songs I liked more than the albums they appeared on:
1. Sultan -What Made Milwaukee Famous
2. In The New Year -The Walkmen
3. California Girls -The Magnetic Fields
4. What It's All About -Girl Talk
5. Warchild -Emmanuel Jal
6. No One Does It -Department of Eagles
7. Bruises -Chairlift
8. Lost Coastlines -Okkervil River
9. Sitting -White Denim
10. Taking The Farm -The War On Drugs
11. Black Rice -Women
12. Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2 -My Morning Jacket
13. Grapevine Fires -Death Cab For Cutie
14. Snowblind -plus/minus
15. Psychotic Girl -The Black Keys
16. Miniature Birds -Grand Archives
5 comments:
Great list. I love Blitzen Trapper, Dr. Dog (though they have the worst name in the world for a good band) and the Fleet Foxes. And there's a lot of stuff on this list I haven't heard that I'll be checking out for sure.
It was very nice meeting and chatting with everybody last night at the Inklings. I love opinions, especially about music, movies, etc. Good times.
now wasn't the bon iver album first released in 07?
Again, thanks for the list. I'll be checking some out fo' sho. (Except bon iver which I already have... and listen to EVERY day)
Released in 2008.
http://www.boniver.org/disc.php.
Vernon independently released Bon Iver's debut album, For Emma, Forever Ago in 2007, the majority of which was recorded while spending three months in a remote cabin in Wisconsin. from Wikipedia
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