Top 10 Albums of 2008

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What is everyone elses list???

I still have a few albums to get this year but I have downloaded/bought probably close to 100. In order as follows...



1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

2. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

4. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight

5. TV On The Radio - Dear Science

6. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?

7. The Walkmen - You and Me

8. Shearwater - Rook

9. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

10. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

Runner Up - The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me

 

[Paxton]

BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR:

Alanis Morissette - Flavors of entanglement


RUNNERS-UP:

Kanye West - 808's & Heartbreak
Coldplay - Viva la vida or death and all his friends
Duffy - Rockferry
Cyndi Lauper - Bring ya to the brink
Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard - The Dark Knight
Terrence Howard - Shine through it
Morten Harket - Letter from Egypt
John Legend - Evolver
Steve Winwood - Nine lives

 

[evilest]

Flavors of Entanglement - Alanis Morissette
This is Alphabeat (UK release 2008) - Alphabeat
Rockferry - Duffy
19 - Adele
Freemasons - Unmixed
All Hope is Gone - Slipknot (much better live)

To be honest I'm struggling. Many albums this year have dissapointed me, and a lot of my music, even if it's around this year was released before that.

However my award for 'Most dissapointing and underacheiving Follow up' goes straight to PRETTY.ODD. the sonic mess by PATD.

 

[NameTaken]

My #1 release of the year (too lazy to list top ten) was Mindless Self Indulgence's "If".

 

[bostonboy20]

These aren't in any order...these are just 10 albums that I really dug this year

Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Ferras - Aliens and Rainbows
The Airborne Toxic Event - The Airborne Toxic Event
The Killers - Day and Age
Amie Miriello - I Came Around
Anthony Green - Avalon
The Cab - Whisper War
Lady Antebellum - Lady Antebellum
The Fashion - The Fashion
Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like A Virgin Losing a Child

 

[Paxton]

First of all, thanks TalkinToTheRain for taking the time to go over my list.

I agree with Alanis for the most part (maybe not THE best, but one of the best). But I don't know about the others beyond Duffy's "Rockferry". Kayne West's latest has been generally trashed left and right and certainly won't be considered the highlight of his career. In fact, so far it's proven to be the dark spot.

I firmly believe that Kanye's "808s & Heartbreak" is his best album ever. Mr. West was bold enough to take his sound to a whole new level, and what's most important, he finally found his singing voice.

I don't mind anything else on your list except for Zimmer and Howard's "The Dark Knight" which I wholeheartedly believe to be one of the worst scores for a big blockbuster film I have ever had the displeasure of hearing. There have been much better scores this year and Zimmer and Howard are capable of far, far better. I'm actually a pretty big fan of movie scores when done right and when they're not an assault on the ears as TDK is all the way through.

What you hated about the The Dark Knight score is what made me love it.
The irritating quality of the tracks is what makes it unique and worthy.
To listen to the whole album is a powerful experience that never fails to affect the listener for better or worse. It's like getting kicked in the head while you are sleeping.

I guess my favorite album of this year was Mariah Carey's "E=MC2", which really gave me what I was looking for, unlike releases from virtually everyone else I looked forward to music from this year. From Janet Jackson, to Madonna, to Beyonce I was disappointed. I did like Mary J. Blige's "Growing Pains", however. The one album that stood out to me that I expected to loathe was Solange Knowles' "Sol-Angel". That was one fit of creativity that actually worked to my surprise.

Mariah's "E=MC2" biggest problem is how predictable it was.

Janet's "Discipline" was actually better than "Damita Jo" and "20 Y.O" but got lost along the way.

Madonna's "Hard candy" proved that she's still human enough to make a horrible album after 25 years of career.

And Beyoncé was clever enough to create an alter-ego named Sasha Fierce so she could blame her for the double wreck that turned out to be her new album.

Finally, I will have to agree with you about the refreshing sound of Solange Knowles' "Sol-Angel". Maybe next time, Beyoncé should pay more attention to her little sister's advice.

 

[MCsNo1Fn]

and what's most important, he finally found his singing voice.

Through vocoder. Like it's never been done before. He's so genius he's the last to do it.
Anyway...

10] Departure, Jesse McCartney
09] Pocketful Of Sunshine, Natasha Bedingfield
08] Rockferry, Duffy
07] Unexpected, Michelle Williams
06] Play, Brad Paisley
05] Kellie Pickler, Kellie Pickler
04] One Of The Boys, Katy Perry
03] Bittersweet World, Ashlee Simpson
02] Circus, Britney Spears
01] E=MC2, Mariah Carey


Best Album of the Year: Fearless, Taylor Swift

 

[Yeehaw]

My Top 10, top to bottom:

Alanis Morissette - Flavors Of Entanglement
Mariah Carey - E-MC2
Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Girls Aloud - Out Of Control
Britney Spears - Circus
Jason Mraz - We Sing We Dance We Steal Things
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Jay Brannan - Goddamned
Madonna - Hard Candy

 

[knotty223]

1. M83 - Saturday = Youth
2. Health - Disco
3. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
4. Portishead - Third
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6. Deerhunter - Microcastle
7. Autechre - Quaristice
8. No Age - Nouns
9. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
10. Lykke Li - Youth Novels

also

Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist
Santogold - Santogold
Hot Chip - Made in The Dark
Ladytron - Velocifero

 

[bostonboy20]

I've never even listened to Hard Candy....does that satisfy you? Actually I don't think I've ever listened to a full Madonna album.

 

[YeahWhatever]

If I had to pick 10:

10 - Cat Power - Jukebox
9 - Kaiser Chiefs, Off With Their Heads
8 - Sia, Some People Have Real Problems
7 - Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree
6 - Ting Tings, We Started Nothing
5 - Santogold, Santogold
4 - MGMT, Oracular Spectacular
3 - Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
2 - The Kills, Midnight Boom
1 - Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue


Runners Up:

Kate Nash, Made of Bricks
Adele, 19
Cold War Kids, Loyalty to Loyalty
She & Him, Volume One
The Killers, Day & Age
Martha Wainwright, I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
Be Your Own Pet, Get Awkward!
Kings of Leon, Only By the Night
Portishead, Third

 

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I have to admit that I'm shocked at how many people are including Hard Candy on their lists. I've never spoken to a person who even put up with that album.

No critic in their right mind will put Madonna in their top 10. I actually bought the album myself and it turned out to be a piece of shit like Chris Martin's latest pile of crap.

I am also shocked to see too many people who don't know how to turn the radio off. There are tons of great artists out there that are not on Billboard or being nominated for Grammys and MTV award shows which have turned out to be a complete joke themselves.

But some of you have very good lists and you know who you are.

Here are some other albums to consider besides my top 10....




Other notable albums to get for 2008:

- Devotion by...Beach House
- In Ghost Colours by...Cut Copy
- Keeper's by...Deastro
- Time To Pretend EP by...MGMT
- Chunk of Change by...Passion Pit
- Sad Robots by...Stars
- Lust Lust Lust by...the Revonettes
- The Devil You + Me by...the Notwist
- The Age Of The Understatement by...The Last Shadow Puppets
- Some People Have Real Problems by...Sia
- Everything Is Borrowed by...The Streets
- Stay Positive by...The Hold Steady
- Med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust by...Sigur Ros
- Dig Your Soul Out by...Oasis
- The '59 Sound by...The Gaslight Anthem

 

[Give-It-2Me]

1. Flavors of Entanglement - Alanis Morissette
2. This Is Alphabeat- Alpabeat
3. Detours - Sheryl Crow
4. Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down- Noah and The Whale
5. Day & Age- The Killers
6. Only by the night- Kings Of Leon
7. Britney Spears- Circus
8. Funhouse- P!nk
9. Rockferry - Duffy
10. We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things- Jason Mraz

But 10 is to hard so some more
11. Goddamned- Jay_Brannan
12. The Fame- Lady Ga, Ga
13. Red Letter Year- Ani Difranco
14. Ladyhawke- Ladyhawke
15. Oracular Spectacular- MGMT
16- Hard Candy- Madonna
17. Chasing Lights- The Saturdays
18. Pop- Same Diffrence
19. @#%&*! Smilers - Aimee Mann
20. Volume One- She And Him

 

[Give-It-2Me]

The newest Madonna album was meant to compete with the Justin Timberlake's and Nelly Furtado's of music. The album was actually received pretty well.

Yea the album has done well. It's the 3rd biggest selling album of the year and biggest by an american artist. The only people that hated it where big Madonna fans and even then there are a number of fans that loved ie my boyfriend.

 

[justsimon]

I didn't listen to much new music this year so I wouldn't presume to make a top 10. I did like these, though:

Way to Normal, Ben Folds
Funplex, B-52s
Third, Portishead (not my favorite by them)
Little Honey, Lucinda Williams (what I've heard of it so far)

 

[matt1980111]

I can only think of 4 that really rocked my world this year: "E=MC2" by Mariah , "Spirit" by Leona Lewis, "The Fame" by Lady Ga-Ga, and "Rockferry" by Duffy.

'Spirit Deluxe' featuring 'Run' is my favorite of the year! Love her voice. I actually thought "E=MC2" had 4 or 5 amazing songs and the rest was really, really good. I'm a huge fan of Lady Ga-Ga now and Duffy is just amazing.

Now there have been some great amazing songs this year as well!

 

[Magician]

"The Fame" by Lady Gaga was incredible, in my opinion. Some found it repetitive, but I think it served its purpose well, but then again, I'm much more of a movie person than a music person.

 

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You asked for our lists.. no need to be a condescending ass about it. We each have our likes and dislikes and apparently a lot of people liked Madonna's album as it had mostly positive reviews and sold several million.

Just because I was interested in seeing what other gays thought were the top albums of 2008 doesn't mean I was gonna jump for joy when I saw so many actually put Madonna in their list. And just because a album "sold several millions" doesn't mean dick. Sorry that you took a little criticism so personal, as it was not the intention at all to offend anyone.

For those interested in talking about good music, another album to check out would be by City And Colour - Bring Me Your Love. Just picked it up last night.

Cheers!

 

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I turn off the radio, I just don't then log onto the internet and listen to music from obscure bands with random names, lol.

Ha ha, random names? No, I just like to expand and test my musical tastes as I cannot stand the stuff in constant rotation on the radio. Don't get your hopes up for Janet...she hasn't produced a good album since Velvet Rope which I absolutely love.

 

[bostonboy20]

Just because I was interested in seeing what other gays thought were the top albums of 2008 doesn't mean I was gonna jump for joy when I saw so many actually put Madonna in their list. And just because a album "sold several millions" doesn't mean dick. Sorry that you took a little criticism so personal, as it was not the intention at all to offend anyone.

For those interested in talking about good music, another album to check out would be by City And Colour - Bring Me Your Love. Just picked it up last night.

Cheers!

I just downloaded that the other night...only listened once so far though...but I like it