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Oct 30 '08 by mynameisgerard

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Favorite 2008 Music Albums?

What are your favorite albums so far this year?

Here are mine in no particular order

* My Morning Jacket - Good Intentions
* Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
* Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
* Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
* Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
* Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
* The Streets - Everything is Borrowed

Ballz on Oct 30 '08 at 1:59am

N.E.R.D - Seeing Sounds
Adele - 19
The Roots - Rising Down
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
Duffy - Rockferry

jean_warhol on Oct 30 '08 at 2:13am

Los Campesinos!

againstbound on Oct 30 '08 at 2:17am

Opeth-Watershed
Meshuggah-Obzen

I'm sure there's more, but right now I'm too sleepy to care.

Kettcar on Oct 30 '08 at 5:15am

The Gaslight Anthem - the ..59 sound
Bloc Party - intimacy
Kings of Leon - only by the night
Wolf Parade - at mount zoomer
Elbow - the seldom seen kid
Vampire Weekend - dto.
Foals - antidotes
Nada Surf - lucky
MGMT - oracular spectacular
TV on the Radio - dear science,
Niels Frevert - du kannst mich an der ecke rauslassen
Peter Licht - melancholie und gesellschaft
Able Baker Fox - voices
Okkervil River - the stand-ins
Turbostaat - vormann leiss
Crystal Castles - dto.
Alkaline Trio - agony & irony
Fleet Foxes - dto.
The Last Shadow Puppets - the age of the understatement
Black Kids - partie traumatic
Conor Oberst - dto.
Portugal.The Man - censored colors
The Dodos - visiter
Does it offend you, yeah? - you have no idea...
Get Well Soon - rest now weary head...
I am Kloot - play moulah rouge
The Kooks - konk
Late of the Pier - fantasy black channel
Phantom Planet - raise the dead
Santogold - dto.
Seachange - stars whiteout

mynameisgerard on Oct 30 '08 at 8:28pm

thats quite the list... sweet stuff!

Tonteau on Oct 30 '08 at 9:06pm

Untrue by Burial was particularly excellent.

avalanche_lily on Oct 30 '08 at 9:07pm

MGMT - oracular spectacular

shilohcoral on Oct 30 '08 at 9:09pm

I triple the MGMTness

I'm also pretty into Black Kids and I have real hometown pride for them. Although their album had VERY mixed reviews.

shilohcoral on Oct 30 '08 at 9:10pm

Ooh, and didn't Justice -- Cross come out this year? I love that album and I'm seeing their doc tomorrow!

shilohcoral on Oct 30 '08 at 9:10pm

AAH AND WOLF PARADE! Geez, I have amnesia/million posting today

beezu on Oct 30 '08 at 9:21pm

Viva La Vida! :)

mynameisgerard on Oct 31 '08 at 12:23am

I think Justice came out last year but I think we can let it slide and be on the list, haha

canceromega on Oct 31 '08 at 12:43am

Microcastle - Deerhunter
Red, Yellow & Blue - Born Ruffians
Feed the Animals - Girl Talk
Grapefruit Clouds - Human Milk
Hold On Now, Youngster - Los Campesinos!
Dawn - Mount Eerie
Entanglements - Parenthetical Girls
Censored Colors - Portugal. The Man
The Rhumb Line - Ra Ra Riot
Eyes At Half Mast - Talkdemonic
Beat Pyramid - These New Puritans
Reefer - Reefer
Alopecia - WHY
Rip it Off - Times New Viking

Hmm, that's all I can think of for now.

6 days later

iPear on Nov 06 '08 at 10:29am

I haven't gotten too many new albums, but of the ones I have gotten.

I really like the new Portugal. The Man, Bon Iver, The Faint, and sort of MGMT

Johnny Baboon on Nov 06 '08 at 10:31am

The mountain goats - heretic pride

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iPear on Nov 06 '08 at 10:37am

I only have like one MOuntain Goats song, and this one Aesop Rock song which has the lead singer in it, they're pretty sweet.

Framble on Nov 06 '08 at 11:05am

Vampire Weekend Crystal Castles MGMT'seseses debuts.

mr spiers on Nov 06 '08 at 11:06am

PIVOT - O Soundtrack My Heart

FaithHopeTrick on Nov 06 '08 at 11:09am

Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger : )

Jellyes on Nov 06 '08 at 11:13am

The Presets - Apocalypso
SebastiAn - The Remixes
Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
Kitsune Maison 5
Kitsune Maison 6
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Crystal Castles - self-titled
Hercules and Love Affair - self-titled
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Infadels - Universe in Reverse
Pacific! - Reveries
Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
Surkin - Mark I EP/Mark II EP

10 days later

iPear on Nov 16 '08 at 7:34pm

I am IN LOVE with FATE by Dr. Dog

twoonebee on Nov 16 '08 at 8:04pm

The Born Ruffians album is awesome, as is Bon Iver.
Crystal Castles were good 3 years ago.

This year I was loving the new:
Santogold...
Sam Sparro...
The Ting Tings...
Steven Malkmus and the Jicks...
The Silver Jews...
Jaguar Love...

and a few more I cant remember...

FRICKINAWESOME on Nov 16 '08 at 8:09pm

We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed by Los Campesinos!

Festival Thyme EP by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

Dear Science by TV on the Radio

Was The Racountuers, Consoloers of the Lonely album out this year? Then that one too.

The Piano Plays Itself: Self-Titled.

There's more, but i cannot think of them right now.

2 days later

mynameisgerard on Nov 18 '08 at 8:44pm

add the streets - everything is borrowed to my list

valorandvellum on Nov 18 '08 at 8:51pm

Did anyone mentioned Tokyo Police Club's Elephant Shell?

jet approves on Nov 18 '08 at 8:53pm

islands - arm's way

valorandvellum on Nov 18 '08 at 8:55pm

Also... a lot of these listed albums have some good songs, but I don't think are that great of an album as a whole. Like MGMT is a great band, but their actual album is a bit too mixed when it comes to some songs being very catchy and others that are not as accessible (and having a completely different sound from the rest of the album). To me, that album is reminiscent of a 90s alternative band's CD that would have 1-3 good songs and the rest being a bunch of filler.

FRICKINAWESOME on Nov 18 '08 at 9:04pm

I agree V&V with your assesment of many of the albums listed, that's why i tried to go with albums that were solid through and through. As for Elephant Sheel, it's a consistant album, but nothing really stands out in that album to me as something innovative. I was satisfied and dissapointed at the same time on that one.

There's so many more that i can't think of right now.

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