Top 5 Albums Of 2008

Don't think I'm too early with this, not expecting anything of worth to come out round about Chrimbo.

I think it's been an ace year for albums. I could easily have picked 10 while last year I'd have struggled to pick a Top 3. So off we go....

1. Los Campesinos!
   'Hold On Now Youngsters'

2. Friendly Fires
   'Friendly Fires'

3. The Teenagers
   'Reality Check'

4. Los Campesinos!
   'We Are Beuatiful, We Are Doomed' (last band to realease 2 albums in 8 months????)

5. Glasvegas
   'Glasvegas'

Ladytron Sons and Daughters Nada Surf The Hold Steady The Verve

Honourable mentions:

TV On The Radio REM MGMT The Whip Hot Chip

No 'honourable mentions' please. Dead easy. Post your Top 5 then stop. If I'd wanted a Top 10 or a list of honourable mentions I would've called this thread;

'Top 10 Albums of 2008 Or Your Top 5 Albums Of 2008 And Any Other Ones You Thought Were Good '

El Jarvo wrote: Can I do a top 4 cos I can't even think of a top 5?

NO. you heard the man. "Top 5 Albums Of 2008".

MAKE SOMETHING UP IF NECESSARY.

Didn't Ladytron have a record out this year?

If so I vote:

1 - Technique Remastered 2 - Lowlife remastered 3 - Movement remastered 4 - Power Corruption and Lies. Remastered 5 - Ladytron

Edit: And my most favourite of all was X Marks Destination

Can't put them in an order, but here goes:

The Music - Strength in Numbers Cold War Kids - Loyalty to Loyalty Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires Ladytron - Velicifero TV on the Radio - Dear Science

Not much different from other people's choices I guess. I'm not going to be the first to mention Elbow either.

I. James, Hey Ma.

II. OceanLab, Sirens of the Sea.

III. Bomb the Bass, Future Chaos.

IV. Portishead, Third.

V. Dunno... we still have a month and a half to go, don't we?

bloodynora wrote:

El Jarvo wrote: Can I do a top 4 cos I can't even think of a top 5?

NO. you heard the man. "Top 5 Albums Of 2008".

MAKE SOMETHING UP IF NECESSARY.

.....and no posts from silly women either please. We all know the fairer sex know shit about music anyway.

gasp! just for that i'm not going to bother with 3-5. yeah, that's right.

fleet foxes goldfrapp

bloodynora wrote:

fleet foxes goldfrapp

I rest my case.

bloodynora wrote: gasp! just for that i'm not going to bother with 3-5. yeah, that's right.

fleet foxes goldfrapp

Shouldn't you be watching Little Dorritt?

i HATE this forum.

it's so cliquey and everyone picks on me.

I'll get back to this thread mid-next month. 'Nuff said.

Trans-Intellingence Express wrote: I'll get back to this thread mid-next month. 'Nuff said.

Well thanks for sharing that with us.

1 Cut Copy 2 Los Campesinos 3 Portishead 4 808 state reissues 5 Swing out Sister or ABC new ones (sorry!!)

System 7 - Phoenix The Orb - The Dream The Whip - X Marks Destination Neon Neon - Stainless Style Bomb The Bass - Future Chaos

(and two of those might I might have put on last year's list, as I might have picked up the Japanese releases - I can't remember)...

Mostly a rubbish year for albums... :)

Not a lot in 2008

Cut copy Oasis (pretty good)

It was a good year. I did a top 30

1.Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself into 2.Nine Inch Nails - The Slip 3.The Whip - X Marks Destination 4.Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours 5.We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Maestry 6.Los Campesinos! - Hold On Your Youngster 7.The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath 8.Ladytron - Volicifero 9.The Presets - Apocalypso 10.MGTM - Oracular Spectacular 11.British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? 12.The Cure - 4:13 Dream 13.NEON NEON - Stainless Style 14.Bloc Party - Intimacy 15.PJ Harvey - White Chalk 16.Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul 17.R.E.M. - Accelerate 18.Hot Chip - Made In The Dark 19.Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs 20.Louis XIV - Slicks Dogs And Ponies 21.CSS - Donkey 22.Black Kids - Partie Traumatic 23.M83 - Saturdays = Youth 24.Brazilian Girls - New York City 25.My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges 26.Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times
27.Portishead - Third 28.The Verve - Forth 29.The Teenagers - Homecoming 30.Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads

and the worst album was Coldplay - Viva la vida loca

getting back to the idea of a concise top five....

NEON NEON Stainless Style NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Dig Lazarus Dig GLASVEGAS Glasvegas PENDULUM In silico THE LANCASHIRE HOT POTS Pot Sounds

the last one is not a foodie wind up, they're kind of a novelty folk act, made/makes me smile at the moment, fav download was He's Turned Emo by the Lancs Hotpots which has a pop at simply red and fallout boy in the same verse, again it made me laugh. possible future what was I thinkin etc, but that happened with Northside too.... hey ho

Black Ice - AC/DC Motorizer - Motorhead Poisoned Apple - Venemous Concept Running Wild - Airbourne Folklore and Superstition - Black Stone Cherry

So looking over everyone's list, seems to confirm this was shite year for music:(

Uncle Liam wrote:

Trans-Intellingence Express wrote: I'll get back to this thread mid-next month. 'Nuff said.

Well thanks for sharing that with us.

No problem. I haven't made my mind up yet. ;)

Nope, not having Kings Of Leon this year.They should have just stopped and retired/split after 'Fans' last year.They'll never top that.

Have We Are Scientists brought out an album this year? That single where the 2 blokes are arguing over the girl and the dog in the flat in the video is possibly my single of the year.

oh hnag on, what about Vampire Weekend? I've liked a couple of their songs this year.And apparently their album is ace.So i'll go for that one.Although i haven't heard it in full.And Portishead's album simply for the fact Beth sings about being taken away by white horses.Which is great on a bitterly cold and snowy April day.

1. Keane - Perfect Symmetry

A big disappointment from their first two albums (though I've only given this one Saturday night listen so far).

2. Cut///Copy - In Ghost Colours

Some great songs on this album, including Hearts On Fire.

3. Billy Bragg - Mr Love & Justice

The protest song O' Freedom is an outstanding piece of music.

4. Jaytech - Everything Is OK

An interesting electronic album.

I haven't bought the latest Pendulum album, but that would had probably have been the fifth.

I don't usually buy many albums, but am looking forward to a superb year in 2009, with Simple Minds, U2 and Depeche Mode all schedueled to release albums next year.

1. Death Magnetic - Metallica

2. The Slip - Nine Inch Nails

3. Accelerate - REM

4. Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis

5. For My Friends - Blind Melon

honourable mention:

Black Ice - AC/DC

Not bad Jack, there's actually only two of those that would get flung out the window if you tried to play them in my CD player.....one if I was drunk enough.

Doctor? wrote: Not bad Jack, there's actually only two of those that would get flung out the window if you tried to play them in my CD player.....one if I was drunk enough.

let me guess..........................metallica

[orange]State of Love and Trust [/orange] wrote:

Doctor? wrote: Not bad Jack, there's actually only two of those that would get flung out the window if you tried to play them in my CD player.....one if I was drunk enough.

let me guess..........................metallica

Nope, AC/DC actually, never liked 'em, never will I fear. Metallica was the one I'd put up with if I was really hammered ;) (drink makes me forget how vile and greedy they are and just enjoy their playing (even if not always the music)).

New list:

Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles Venemous Concept - Poisoned Apple AC/DC - Black Ice Melvins - Nude With Boots Motorhead - Motorizer

Honourable mention

Alice Cooper - Along Came a Spider

Empress Touch wrote:

1. Keane - Perfect Symmetry

A big disappointment from their first two albums (though I've only given this one Saturday night listen so far).

So why is it your No 1?

Empress Touch wrote:

I don't usually buy many albums, but am looking forward to a superb year in 2009, with Simple Minds, U2 and Depeche Mode all schedueled to release albums next year.

Oh joy. Shame Aha aren't releasing one or you'd be creaming in buckets.

TossERS

SHED wrote: TossERS

He's an icon. A perfect example of gay marriage.

Burt Reynolds wrote: He's an icon.

I'm pretty sure that it's Boaty who's the icon around here.

Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust British Sea Power - Do you like rock music? Seth Lakeman - Poor mans heaven

also Glasvegas - Glasvegas Oasis - Dig out your Soul Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cardinology Coldplay - Viva la Vida Portishead - Third Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes Elbow - The Seldom seen kid

Autechre - Quarastice Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling Fennesz - Black Sea The Drift - Memory Drawings The New Year - S/T

[orange]State of Love and Trust [/orange] wrote:

5. For My Friends - Blind Melon

Did they dig up a new singer or just the old one? :rip:

Only purchased a few myself from this year:

5. The Cure - 4:13 Dream (finally, something non-shit from Bobby S. & Co...been waiting awhile for that)
6. Keane - Perfect Symmetry ("Spiralling" is amazing, rest a bit so-so, hope they keep mining the big beats/crazy synth route)
7. Weezer - Weezer(Red Album)-(first one I actually bought, A-Side is great, minus marks for letting the other wankers in the band sing.
8. NIN - The Slip (Natch)
9. The Clash - Live at Shea Stadium 1982. Two words: buy now.

• Nine Inch Nails - "The Slip"

• Inara George & Van Dyke Parks - "An Invitation"

• Dennis Wilson - "Pacific Ocean Blue Legacy Edition" (reissue)

• Sun Kil Moon - "April"

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

Wire's "Object 47" is alright too, but not good enough to be in my Top 5.

Top '08s include BRMC, NIN,

3. The Raconteurs, AMO1 and happy the hear more of 5. TV on the Radio. TVOTR have always been on chilled fire.

..EDIT messed the brackets. Excellent thanks, Soldier boy your Blind Melon comment is today's assehole vote.

EdelBrock wrote:

[orange]State of Love and Trust [/orange] wrote:

5. For My Friends - Blind Melon

Did they dig up a new singer or just the old one? :rip:

got a new singer........but now they've kicked him out.

i dont care anyway the album is great.

Interesting they went with a new singer. Haven't heard it, did they go the route of 10000 maniacs (singer that carbon copies the sound of the old) or the INXS route?

Just seems wrong to bring a group back from the dead over a decade after the singer is gone... sounds if the band members weren't confident they could do a new band without the plug of the old name...

btt for when i;ve finished doing mine so i can find it easily.

still working through some latecomers (manhattan love suicides, those dancing days, the week that was etc)

A Mountain Of One - Collected Works (technically 2007)

Air France - No Way Down

Low Motion Disco - Keep It Slow

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Hatchback - Colours Of The Sun

Hank Wiseass© wrote: A Mountain Of One - Collected Works (technically 2007)

Arcade Fire- Neon Bible (Techincally 2007) Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights (Technically 2002) Morrissey- Southpaw Grammar (Technically 1995) The Chameleons- (Technically 1983) The Bible on CD (Technically 15000bc to 400AD, approximately).

fucking hell

"Forth" - The Verve. "The Slip" - Nine Inch Nails. "We Started Nothing" - The Ting-Tings. "Dig Out Your Soul" - Oasis. "Vampire Weekend" - Vampire Weekend.

OMG I hardly bought any actual CDs this year...

And half of those are most probably not known outside Germany:

PeterLicht "Melancholie und Gesellschaft" Polarkreis 18 "The colour of Snow" NIN "The Slip" I Am Kloot "Play Moolah Rouge" Six.by Seven "Strangled on the vine" (acoustic album)

Johnny Giles wrote: Pop Levi - Never Never Love Darren Hayman - Great British Holiday EPs The Whip - X Marks Destination Ladytron - Velocifero Black Kids - Partie Traumatic

i thought you were DEAD

Johnny Giles wrote: Pop Levi - Never Never Love

that just cos of the obvious connection?

have listened to it a few times but not really grabbed me

my top 15

1 the charlatans - you cross my path 2 spiritualized - a&e 3 the whip - x marks destination 4 shearwater - rook 5 ladytron - velocifero 6 throw me a statue - moonbeams 7 half man half biscuit - csi ambleside 8 ballboy - i worked on the ships 9 the week that was - s/t 10 speed market avenue - way better now 11 elbow - seldom seen kid 12 make model - s/t (unreleased ) 13 los campesinos! - hold on now youngster 14 tv on the radio - dear science 15 the helio sequence - keep your eyes ahead

portishead could easily get in here, but not really listened to it enough as yet

I've bought more than five and cannot make any Top 5 with them.

I wonder if there will be any in the future Top 5 Albums of the 2000's thread...

A Certain Ratio - Mind Made Up

1. The Charlatans - You cross my path
2. The Whip - X marks destination
3. Blondfire - My someday
4. Oasis - Dig out your soul
5. Death cab for cutie - Narrow stairs

GlasVegas wrote:

2. Friendly Fires
   'Friendly Fires'

My favourite of the year. Totally love it. Especially 'Paris'.

The Teacher wrote:

Hank Wiseass© wrote: A Mountain Of One - Collected Works (technically 2007)

Arcade Fire- Neon Bible (Techincally 2007) Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights (Technically 2002) Morrissey- Southpaw Grammar (Technically 1995) The Chameleons- (Technically 1983) The Bible on CD (Technically 15000bc to 400AD, approximately).

fucking hell

Not bought many NEW albums mostly old CDs lately,but my TOP 4 are..

1. GLASVEGAS Glasvegas
2. LADYTRON Velocifero
3. THE WHIP X Marks Destination
4. KEANE Perfect Symmetry whoops nearly forgot
5. THE KILLERS Day & Age oh followed closely by... SOFT CELL on I-Tunes 12"Mixes Boxset (technically 1981-whatever)

MONTY DOES DALLAS wrote:

4. KEANE Perfect Symmetry

That album really bugs me. I'm a fan of the band since before they were well known and I've really liked everything they've done up to now. Perfect Symmetry has 3 songs I think are among the best they've done - Spiralling, Lovers Are Losing and the title track. The rest is really, really average. Their old B-Sides are better than most stuff on there!

Major Tarantino wrote:

MONTY DOES DALLAS wrote:

4. KEANE Perfect Symmetry

That album really bugs me. I'm a fan of the band since before they were well known and I've really liked everything they've done up to now. Perfect Symmetry has 3 songs I think are among the best they've done - Spiralling, Lovers Are Losing and the title track. The rest is really, really average. Their old B-Sides are better than most stuff on there!

Absolutely. I hope they get back to their best soon.

I've just listened to the latest Pendulum album In Silico and it is brilliant. I wouldn't have got into drum 'n' bass if it wasn't for these guys. Pity about the new video.

Cut Copy "In ghost colours" M83 "Saturdays = youth" The Helio Sequence "Keep your eyes ahead" The Whip "X marks destination" Robert Forster "The evangelist"

Runners-up: Van She, Ladyhawke, The Walkmen, The Charlatans, The B-52's, R.E.M., Magnetic Morning, Low Vs Diamond

...and here's to White Lies' "To lose my life or lose my love" being 2009's best!

Empress Touch wrote:

Major Tarantino wrote:

MONTY DOES DALLAS wrote:

4. KEANE Perfect Symmetry

That album really bugs me. I'm a fan of the band since before they were well known and I've really liked everything they've done up to now. Perfect Symmetry has 3 songs I think are among the best they've done - Spiralling, Lovers Are Losing and the title track. The rest is really, really average. Their old B-Sides are better than most stuff on there!

Absolutely. I hope they get back to their best soon.

I've just listened to the latest Pendulum album In Silico and it is brilliant. I wouldn't have got into drum 'n' bass if it wasn't for these guys. Pity about the new video.

you serious??

Where were you in 1994/5?

If this is drum and bass, I'm a monkey's uncle. Sounds like a piss poor imitation of the Prodigy with some comedy Metallica thrown it. C'mon!!

Aye i'm not taken by Pendulum at all. Nowt orginal. As you say , Bert, Prodigy did it all, much MUCH better, over a decade ago.

Monsieur Round & Round wrote: And here's to White Lies' "To lose my life or lose my love" being 2009's best!

It probably will be.. I've heard most of it, and the huge bidding war that broke out amongst labels in the Autumn sounds justified. Bring on death disco

johnny wrote: Aye i'm not taken by Pendulum at all. Nowt orginal. As you say , Bert, Prodigy did it all, much MUCH better, over a decade ago.

Besides, the Prodigy hath returned with this, and new album to follow in February. It's ace, but only if you turn it up loud and piss off the neighbours, as I'm doing right now.

Not bad. Obviously recognizably Prodigy. Couldn't get it to play that loudly on my earphones here and don't want to wake the neighbours up again with the speakers.It probably sounds better at full volume, like you say.

1. Glasvegas- Glasvegas
2. TV On the Radio- Dear Science
3. Beck - Modern Guilt
4. Bloc Party - Intimacy
5. Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
6. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
7. Vampire Weekend - Vampire weekend
8. British Sea Power - Do you like Rock music
9. Santogold - Santogold
10. Neon Neon - Stainless Style

could also have included... Hot Chip, Teenagers, Elbow, KOL, Weller, foals, japanese popstars.

I don't agree with the people saying it was a shite year for music. Probably just age/cynicism...