music of 2008

by andy on December 30, 2008

in lists, music

Top Albums of 2008

  1. Fleet Foxes- “Fleet Foxes”
  2. Bon Iver- “For Emma, Forever Ago”
  3. M83- “Saturdays=Youth”
  4. Throw Me The Statue- “Moonbeams”
  5. Vampire Weekend- “Vampire Weekend”
  6. Sigur Ros- “með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust”
  7. Hot Chip- “Made in the Dark”
  8. Brooke Waggoner- “Heal for the Honey”
  9. Evangelicals- “The Evening Descends”
  10. Mates of State- “Re-Arrange Us”

Other good albums I don’t feel like ranking: Air France “No Way Down”, Anathallo “Canopy Glow”, Atlas Sound “Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel”, The Dodos “Visiter”, DCFC “Narrow Stairs”, Beach House “Devotion”, Notwist “The Devil You And Me”, Okkervil River “The Stand Ins”, Wolf Parade “Mt. Zoomer”, The Welcome Wagon “WttWW”, Tokyo Police Club “Elephant Shell”, Shearwater “Rook”, The Shackletons “The Shackeltons”, TVOTR “Dear Science”

Top albums released in 2008 according to how many play counts they have. Because, hey, I can say I like all these awesome pitchfork bands but iTunes play count doesn’t lie:

  1. Fleet Foxes-”Fleet Foxes”
  2. Bon Iver- “For Emma, Forever Ago”
  3. Headlights- “Some Racing, Some Stopping”
  4. DCFC- “Narrow Stairs”
  5. Wild Sweet Orange- “We Have Cause To Be Uneasy”
  6. The Dodos- “Visiter”
  7. Air France- “No Way Down”
  8. Vampire Weekend- “Vampire Weekend”
  9. M83- “Moonbeams”
  10. Throw Me The Statue-
  11. Hot Chip- “Made in the Dark”
  12. Mates of State-”Re-Arrange Us”
  13. Sigur Ros- “með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust”
  14. Tokyo Police Club-”Elephant Shell”

Best Live shows of ‘08

  1. Notwist @ neumos
  2. Sigur Ros @ Benoroya Hall
  3. Bon Iver w/AA Bondy @ Neumos
  4. Barcelona @ neumos, nectar, triple door and neumos again.
  5. Radiohead @ White River Ampitheater
  6. M83 @ Neumos
  7. The Dodos @ capitol hill block party
  8. Beach House w/Throw Me The Statue @ Chop Suey
  9. Headlights w/Evangelicals @ nectar
  10. Hot Chip @ the showbox

Five Disappointing albums of 2008

  1. The Cure “4:13 Dream”
  2. Conor Oberst “Conor Oberst”
  3. Jenny Lewis “Acid Tongue”
  4. Grand Archives “The Grand Archives”
  5. She & Him “Volume One”

Best ‘new’ old albums acquired in 2008

  1. The Microphones “The Glow pt 2″
  2. Joanna Newsom “ys”
  3. Broken Social Scene “Bee Hives”
  4. Anathallo “Floating world”
  5. Flaming lips “All of their albums”

{ 3 comments }

devin 12.30.08 at 8:31 pm

you didn’t like grand archives? i liked it alot. what’s the deal with barcelona? when are the gonna get signed and hit the bigtime?

Andy 12.30.08 at 8:58 pm

It was ok. All of those albums I had really high expectations for. So it isn’t that they were really terrible but just didn’t live up to what I was hoping for.

Barcelona just signed to Universal Motown records. Which is huge. Now they are label mates with lil wayne, t pain and Lindsay lohan!!!

faithsalutes 01.05.09 at 12:55 pm

uh, i am looking some of these up and they are making me very happy. go barcelona. i needed some new music other than lil wayne, though he is one of the greatest artists according to VHI Hip Hop countdown. gag.

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