Top 5 Albums Of 2008

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)