/ / / / / BEST OF '08: QUALIFIERS (a quick taste of some of my jams this year)


Hot Chip / Made In The Dark (2008)
Hot Chip / Made In The Dark (2008)

JAMS: wrestlers (original + sticky dirty pop mix) . one pure thought . don't dance[!!] . ready for the floor . bendable poseable


Nadia Oh / Hot Like Wow (2008)
Nadia Oh / Hot Like Wow (2008)

JAMS: got your number (original + remix feat. shawn jaros + rogerseventytwo) . that kind of girl . shake it . rip it up . n.a.d.i.a. o.h. . hot like wow


The Presets / Apocalypso (2008)
The Presets / Apocalypso (2008)

JAMS: if i know you . yippiyo-ay . talk like that . a new sky . this boy's in love . together . my people

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[Edited 10/22/08 10:14am]

I can't imagine someone will top this one in the next two months:

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2) Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust

3) Beck - Modern Guilt

4) Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt.1

5) Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun

6) Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree

7) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

8) The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement

9) Hot Chip - Made In The Dark

10)The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely


Good year for music

The new Aterciopelados came out today, but I haven't gotten it yet. That could make my top 10. The only other new album I know for sure I'll get this year is The Cure's latest, but I doubt that will make any kind of impact with me.

My top 10 of 2008 as of now:

1. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
2. Portishead - Third
3. The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
4. Ladytron - Velocifero
5. Duffy - Rockferry
6. Sons And Daughters - This Gift
7. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
8. She & Him - Volume One
9. The Long Blondes - Couples
10. Santogold - Santogold

Not as good as the last two years. I was very pleased with my top 20 lists of 2006 and 2007, but I can't say the same for this year.

BT11 said:

Totally forgot that these 2 were this year. Apparently everything good came out in first few months of the year.

sextonseven said:

Me too. I have my albums this year, sure. It was more of a singles year for me. But the stuff 2006 and 2007 KICKED.MY.ASS. I still play stuff from the last two years like it just came out.

2006 is still my favorite music year of this decade.

Mara said:

same here! This year was musically a tad LAME for me

thekidsgirl said:

I wanna cry when I think about 2006.

I loved that year: The PRESETS DEBUT, Infadels' kick ass debut, Kudu's debut, Lo-Fi-Fnk's Boylife, Goldfrapp's Supernature, Bonobo's Days To Come, The Ark: Live @ Spaceland, The Ordinary Boys' last album, the pop beatdown that was Nelly Furtado's Loose, Muallem, Van She's EP, The Pipettes, The Attic, Tigercity, Uniting Nations, Scent's Up and Down, The Futureheads' Skip To The End, Mandy, The Robocop Kraus' You Don't Have To Shout, Cicada, Modcasts, Rudebox, Misstrip, Klaxons' Gravity's Rainbow, LRD's Darkdancer reissue, YYY's Gold Lion, Morningwood, Bad Animal, NYPC's EP, Eric Gadd's Meet Me Here, Pink Grease, Catchy Tunes of Sweden, bent, MSTRKRFT's Easy Love, Rihanna's SOS + The Bravery = clubbing in Hollywood, HavocTV[!], Mylo [vs. Miami Sound Machine], Darin's Break The News, Cyantific's Ghetto Blaster, Bombay Rockers, Linda Sundblad, The Knife's Silent Shout, Amy Diamond, I'm From Barcelona, Hot Chip's The Warning...and I haven't even scratched the surface with all my headtrips and discoveries that year. I LOVED 2006. Still do.

I'm sure I'll like Britney's new album and I'm looking forward to Kanye's new one too. Will also see what Ciara's is like.

I listened to Ne-Yo's the other day, my god, it was HORRIBLE.

I really like the latest Lenny Kravitz and the new release from Bob Dylan, BUT, my absolute favorite album from 2008 is Al Green! The entire cd is awesome and it re-enforces to me that some people are still making meaningful, real music.