best of 08

[tealovertoma]

Favourite albums, people! I think I've pretty much heard all the big/best ones, but maybe I can still discover some new stuff.

My favourites:
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Sigur Ros - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver and Snow Patrol, Cold War Kids were also good. I'm counting In Rainbows as 2007 and Radio Wars as 2009, obviously.

And what's everyone looking forward to in 2009? Apart from the new Howling Bells album I can't wait to get my hands on the new Metric, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys and One eskimO's debut album.

[blade]

This is a good idea, but only if you can translate that Icelandic Sigur Ros title into English.

I'm going to carry on the Icelandic theme here too, with Emiliana Torrini. My faves of '08:

THE LONG BLONDES - "Couples"

EMILIANA TORRINI - Me and Armini

ABI TUCKER - One December Moon

GOLDFRAPP - Seventh Tree

LAZENBY - The Loft Years


I was going to have "THE DUKE SPIRIT - Neptune" as my No.1 until I looked at the CD and found it was 2007!

[Deleted]

My favourites so far:

• Steve Kilbey - Painkiller
  
• Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
  
• Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
  
• Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
  
• Emilíana Torrini - Me And Armini

Apart from these I also like the new albums by The Notwist ("The Devil, You + Me"), Bang Gang ("Ghosts From The Past"), Pugwash ("Eleven Modern Antiques") and The Verlaines ("Pot Boiler")

As for 2009: Looking forward to the new HB album of course, and towards about one to four releases by The Church (if they don't get delayed again). Hopefully there'll also be new releases by Bat For Lashes and Dimmer

[johnnyfromthewood]

It was a good year. Some very good German albums came out.

Tomte - Heureka
Fotos - Nach dem Goldrausch
Kettcar - Sylt
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Weezer - Red Album
Niels Frevert - Du Kannst Mich An Der Ecke Rauslassen
The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed
Herrenmagazin - Atzelgift
Ef - I Am Responsible
Travis - Ode To J. Smith
The Kills - Midnight Boom

For you who wrote Sigur Rós, the album of Ef - I am Responsible could be interesting. Swedish Post-rock.


The next year will start good. Looking forward to the new John Frusciante album 'The Emyprean' and then to 'Radio Wars'.

[carpathian]

I was quite surprised when I went through and realised the number of things that really shone for me:-

Album of the year by a very great margin:-
Steven Wilson - "Insurgentes"

Very honourable mentions, some of which were runners at one point or another:-

Goldfrapp - "Seventh Tree"
Ladytron - "Velocifero"
Portishead - "Third"
Shearwater - "Rook"
James Blackshaw - "Litany Of Echoes"
The Twilight Sad - "Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did"
Larkin Grimm - "Parplar"
SoiSong - "qXn94"
Leila - "Blood, Looms and Blooms"
Orlog - "Elysion"
Satyricon - "The Age Of Nero"
Anathema - "Hindsight"
Nine Inch Nails - "Ghosts I-IV"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Slip"
Einstürzende Neubauten - "The Jewels"
Metallica - "Death Magnetic"
Porcupine Tree - "Nil Recurring"
Opeth - "Watershed"

Yep, all in all a pretty good year !

[chrome3d]

I compressed them to 10 in no particular order. No local finnish albums.

Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Beck - Modern Quilt
Beach House - Devotion
Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Mercury Rev- Snowflake Midnight
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Steve Kilbey- Painkiller
Marty Willson-Piper - Nightjar

[blade]

And the winner is.............

GOLDFRAPP - Seventh Tree!!!!

with 4 votes.

Three have two votes:

Sigur Ros
Emiliana Torrini
Steve Kilbey
Nine Inch Nails (2 albums in one year?)

[chrome3d]

But 2008 is not over yet! There might be somebody still preparing his/her list. Yes, the Goldfrapster is a good choice. It fits to so many moods.