Saturday, December 27, 2008

2008 releases that i listened to this year

As you can see by this list, I spread myself a bit thin this year. Sooooo much good music came out in 2008, and as such I am quite late with my top 50 albums. I'm working on it though.


The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound


The Miserable Rich - 12 Ways To Count


Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak


R.E.M. - Accelerate


Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue


2562 - Aerial


Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim


The Subways - All Or Nothing


Port O'Brien - All We Could Do Was Sing


WHY? - Alopecia


The Decemberists - Always The Bridesmaid: A Singles Series Volume 1-3


Kimya Dawson - Alphabutt


Marah - Angels Of Destruction!


Foals - Antidotes


Sun Kil Moon - April


Islands - Arm's Way


Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers


Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer


The Black Keys - Attack & Release


The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale


Kris Drever, John McCusker & Roddy Woomble - Before The Ruin


Look See Proof - Between Here And There


Oxford Collapse - Bits


The Mountain Goats & Kaki King - Black Pear Tree EP


Old 97's - Blame It On Gravity


Grand Island - Boys & Brutes


We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery


Nelly - Brass Knuckles


City And Colour - Bring Me Your Love


O'Death - Broken Hymns, Limbs And Skin


Boston Spaceships - Brown Submarine


Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cardinology


Calexico - Carried To Dust


Bodies Of Water - A Certain Feeling


The Quarter After - Changes Near


Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life


Guns n' Roses - Chinese Democracy


Yesan Damen - Chronos/Kairos


Kelley Stoltz - Circular Sounds


Castanets - City Of Refuge


MIT - Coda


Colin Meloy - Colin Meloy Sings Live!


Colin Meloy - Colin Meloy Sings Sam Cooke


No Kids - Come Into My House


Albert Hammond, Jr. - ¿Como Te Llama?


Computer Vs. Banjo - Computer Vs. Banjo


Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst


The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely


Correcto - Correcto


The Long Blondes - Couples


These United States - Crimes


Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles


Dirty On Purpose - Dead Volcanoes EP


TV On The Radio - Dear Science


Catfish Haven - Devastator


Beach House - Devotion


Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha


Full Service - The Dig


Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazurus Dig!!!


You Am I - Dilettantes


Clinic - Do It!


Mitch Hedberg - Do You Believe In Gosh?


British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?


CSS - Donkey


Dear And The Headlights - Drunk Like Bible Times


Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel - Dual Hawks


The Apples In Stereo - Electronic Projects For Musicians


Evangelicals - The Evening Descends


Bobby & Blumm - Everybody Loves...


Pomegranates - Everything Is Alive


David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today


The Academy Is... - Fast Times At Barrington High


Dr. Dog - Fate


We Shot The Moon - Fear And Love


Girl Talk - Feed The Animals


Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)


Chris Walla - Field Manual


The Capstan Shafts - Fixation Protocols


Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes


Flight Of The Conchords - Flight Of The Conchords


Crooked Fingers - Forfeit/Fortune


Brothers And Sisters - Fortunately


Air Traffic - Fractured Life


Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires


El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars


Blitzen Trapper - Furr


The Owl Service - A Garland Of Song


Conor Oberst - Gentlemen's Pact EP


Be Your Own PET - Get Awkward


Bridges And Powerlines - Ghost Types


Headphone - Ghostwriter


Glasvegas - Glasvegas


Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Glistening Pleasure


The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain


The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues


Grand Archives - The Grand Archives


Acorn - Here & There & Back


Jason Collett - Here's To Being Here


The Fratellis - Here We Stand


The Twilight Sad - Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did


The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride


The Weepies - Hideaway


Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...


Brett Dennan - Hope For The Hopeless


Horse Feathers - House With No Home


The Ascent Of Everest - How Lonely Sits The City


Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night


Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw


Earlimart - Hymn And Her


Bowerbirds - Hymns For A Dark Horse


Kelley Polar - I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling


Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin And Still Got Most Of It Left


Wye Oak - If Children


Elf Power - In A Cave


Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park


Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours


Mason Jennings - In The Ever


Black Mountain - In The Future


Ezra Furman & The Harpoons - Inside The Human Body


The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby


Temposhark - The Invisible Line


Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Is It The Sea?


Errors - It's Not Something, But It Is Like Whatever


John & Jehn - John & Jehn


Cat Power - Jukebox


Juno OST


The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead


Constantines - Kensington Heights


The Twilight Sad - Killed My Parents And Hit The Road


Kings Of Caramel - Kings Of Caramel


The Kooks - Konk


Langhorne Slim - Langhorne Slim


The Strugglers - The Latest Rights


Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who See But Cannot Feel


Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down In The Light


Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town


The Rosebuds - Life Like


Dirty On Purpose - Like Bees EP


Val Emmich - Little Daggers


Pete & The Pirates - Little Death


Frightened Rabbit - Liver! Lung! FR!


Jolie Holland - The Living And The Dead


Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea


Flying Lotus - Los Angeles


Ratatat - LP3


Nada Surf - Lucky


The Shaky Hands - Lunglight


Devotchka - A Mad And Faithful Telling


Hot Chip - Made In The Dark


Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks


Our Brother The Native - Make Amends, For We Are Merely Vessels


The Bell - Make Some Quiet


Matthew Ryan - Matthew Ryan Vs. The Silver State


Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust


Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.


The Kills - Midnight Boom


Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight


Takka Takka - Migration


The Break And Repair Method - Milk The Bee.


The Dears - Missiles


The Whigs - Mission Control


Beck - Modern Guilt


Gregory And The Hawk - Moenie And Kitchi


Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Momofuku


Monade - Monstre Cosmic


Throw Me The Statue - Moonbeams


The Spinto Band - Moonwink


Hello Saferide - More Modern Short Stories From Hello Saferide


Elliott Brood - Mountain Meadows


Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch


The Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Valentine


City & Colour - The MySpace Transmissions


Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs


Will Quinlan & The Diviners - Navasota


The Duke Spirit - Neptune


Pop Levi - Never Never Love


Metronomy - Nights Out


Harrisons - No Fighting In The War Room


No Age - Nouns


The Broken West - Now Or Heaven


Tilly And The Wall - O


Mother Mother - O My Heart


Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple


Lambchop - OH (Ohio)


Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling


Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night


Andre Ethier - On Blue Fog


Christian Silva - Onward!


MGMT - Oracular Spectacular


Plants And Animals - Parc Avenue


Black Kids - Partie Traumatic


Our Brother The Native - Parting Marrows EP


Noah And The Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down


Perhapst - Perhapst


Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Pershing


White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory


Girls In Hawaii - Plan Your Escape


Hello, Blue Roses - The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty...


The Very Sexuals - Post-Apocalyptic Love


Panic! At The Disco - Pretty. Odd.


Dar Williams - Promised Land


Giant Sand - proVISIONS


Man Man - Rabbit Habits


Mates Of State - Re-Arrange Us


The M's - Real Close Ones


Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash


The Teenagers - Reality Check


Guillemots - Red


Weezer - The Red Album


The Shondes - The Red Sea


Born Ruffians - Red Yellow & Blue


The Corrections - Repeat After Me


Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line


Times New Viking - Rip It Off


The Roots - Rising Down


Dirty Pretty Things - Romance At Short Notice


Shearwater - Rook


Echo Revolution - A Safe Place To Start


The Mountain Goats - Satanic Messiah EP


M83 - Saturdays = Youth


The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia


School Of Language - Sea From Shore


The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion


Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - Searching For The Hows And Whys


Peter Bjorn And John - Seaside Rock


The Avett Brothers - The Second Gleam


Secret Machines - Secret Machines


Glen Phillips - Secrets Of The New Explorers


Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid


The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Graves


Ladyhawk - Shots


Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07


Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping


Electric President - Sleep Well


Great Northern - Sleepy Eepee


SJ Esau - Small Vessel


Shearwater - The Snow Leopard EP


Glasvegas - A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like A Kiss)


Andrew Bird - Soldier On


Land Of Talk - Some Are Lakes


Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping


Brendan Canning - Something For All Of Us


Neon Neon - Stainless Style


Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins


The Hold Steady - Stay Positive


13Ghosts - The Strangest Colored Lights


Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing


Annuals - Such Fun


Nik Freitas - Sun Down


Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP


Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanogan - Sunday At Devil Dirt


Young Knives - Superabundance


Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Volume 8


Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher


Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III


The Clientele - That Night, A Forest Grew


The Accidental - There Were Wolves


Portishead - Third


Sons & Daughters - This Gift


Marnie Stern - This Is It & I Am It & You Are It & So Is That & He Is It & She Is It...


This Is Ivy League - This Is Ivy League


The Futureheads - This Is Not The World


Joan As Policewoman - To Survive


Woodpigeon - Treasury Library Canada


Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams


Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind


Sleepless Nights - Turn Into Vapour


Mystery Jets - Twenty One


Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend


Au - Verbs


The National - The Virginia EP


The Virgins - The Virgins


Dodos - Visiter


She & Him - Volume One


Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light


The Battle Royale - Wake Up, Thunderbabe


Tapes 'N Tapes - Walk It Off


Augie March - Watch Me Disappear


Animal Collective - Water Curses EP


Ben Folds - Way To Normal


The Plastic Constellations - We Appreciate You


Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed


We Are The Physics - We Are The Physics Are OK At Music


Sugar Glyder - We Cracked The Sky


Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things


What Made Milwaukee Famous - What Doesn't Kill Us


The Wooden Sky - When Lost At Sea


Vessels - White Fields And Open Devices


I'm From Barcelona - Who Killed Harry Houdini?


Say Hi - The Wishes And The Glitch


Dosh - Wolves And Wishes


Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers


Aqualung - Words And Music


+/- - Xs On Your Eyes


The Walkmen - You & Me


Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into


Lackthereof - Your Anchor


The Martial Arts - Your Sinclair

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