(in no particular order)

future islands- wave like home
beach house- devotion
fleet foxes- fleet foxes
no age- nouns
dodos- visiter
girl talk- feed the animals
beck- modern guilt

10/8/2008 6:55:35 PM

Agollach - The White
Melvins - Nude with boots
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Opeth - Watershed (i guess)

are the only things on my list

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10/8/2008 7:05:41 PM

i have a list im whittling down...or at least attempting to. Its tough though to compare certain bands/albums that are near polar opposites. :/ And I still have a small list of albums to get or ones I have that I have barely gotten to listen to.

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10/8/2008 7:35:04 PM

I was listening to a bunch of stuff the other day and was going to do this but forgot...

Beck - Modern Guilt
Wolf Parade - Mount Zoomer
Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell

that's all I can think of right now that I would consider to be a top album.

10/8/2008 7:42:03 PM

Bon Iver (I think it was released on Jagjaguwar in January or February, so I'm counting it)
Fleet Foxes

It hasn't really been a great year for great music

10/8/2008 7:54:55 PM

i haven't really loved anything that's come out this year, but i probably listened to the carter 3, feed the animals, and syclops "i've got my eye on you" more than others.. the fleet foxes album got old after two weeks (kind of like that peter bjorn and john album from last year)

10/8/2008 8:20:17 PM

Vivian Girls - s/t
Times New Viking - Rip It Off
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
Thurston Moore - Sensitive/Lethal

10/8/2008 8:59:54 PM

dodos - visiter
wolf parade - mount zoomer
bon iver - for emma, forever ago
blood on the wall - liferz

i can't remember everything that came out this year

10/8/2008 9:22:30 PM

These are the ones that have definitely made it:

Arsis - we are the nightmare
Protest the Hero - fortress
The Mars Volta - bedlam in goliath
Lovedrug - the sucker punch show
Fleet Foxes - s/t
Bon Iver - for emma, forever ago
Maps & Atlases - you & me & the mountain
empire! empire! (I was a lonely estate) - Year of the Rabbit 7"
Statehood - Lies and Rhetoric (carry over from the last month of 2007 but I didnt get it until this year)

I have others that I really like that I have gotten very recently and I havent had enough time to let them sink in and others that hit me strong at first but havent stuck with me that well (cult of luna, meshuggah, opeth, sigur ros, mogwai) and im still anticipating a new copeland release among a few others. Ill update this again towards the end of the year.

[Edited on October 8, 2008 at 9:35 PM. Reason : ]

10/8/2008 9:34:07 PM

oh, also

of montreal - skeletal lamping

10/8/2008 9:35:04 PM

only album I've bought this year is Metallica's Death Magnetic, which seems to be kicking ass

10/8/2008 11:07:20 PM

i could never get into fleet foxes. its just ooo ahhh background'esque music to me.

10/9/2008 1:53:20 AM

didnt even realize girl talk put out a new albumn. yaye for tdub

10/9/2008 3:30:14 AM

coheed - no world for tomorrow
underoath - lost in the sound of separation
norma jean - norma jean vs. the antimother

10/9/2008 4:35:54 AM

Jenny's Hangnail - Robot Visions

Man, I haven't heard of most of the bands listed. Either y'all only listen to indie shit, or I've become that old guy that can't listen to anything new.

10/9/2008 7:19:01 AM

Why can't it be both?

My list so far, semi-off the top of my head:
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
She and Him - Volume One

10/9/2008 7:46:12 AM

^i've enjoyed each one of those as well.

i think the okkervil river album has probably been my most played. Its just so complete front to back.


i'm trying to pull up some of these others that have been listed that i have not yet heard.

10/9/2008 8:14:34 AM

I def. need to listen to The Stand Ins some more--it just doesn't seem as amazing as The Stage Names right off the bat, so I haven't really given it a good listen.

10/9/2008 8:17:47 AM

I got over Black Kids reeeeaaally quickly.

10/9/2008 8:27:59 AM

black who?

just kidding. it's a fun album and i don't know why pitchfork decided to shit on it.

10/9/2008 8:31:05 AM

Animal Collective - Water Curses EP

10/9/2008 9:17:03 AM

Girl Talk is awesome.

Isn't he coming to Raleigh soon?

10/9/2008 9:37:27 AM

monday.. it's been sold out for months though

10/9/2008 10:01:11 AM

m83 - saturday=youth
fleet foxes - s/t
cut copy - in ghost colours
girl talk - feed the animals

those are about the only albums i'd support for a "top album" position.

i play the hell out of tokyo police club - elephant shell, but i don't think it's as solid an album to compete with the big boys.

10/9/2008 11:28:06 AM

anyone enjoying the Santogold album? I really am.

10/9/2008 12:18:25 PM

Quote :

"Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us"

really?

i'm a huge MOS fan but that is one of the most meh-worthy albums of the year

10/9/2008 1:22:49 PM

The Hold Steady-Stay Positive
TV on the Radio-Dear Science,
Okkervil River-The Stand-Ins
Kings of Leon-Only By the Night
The Gaslight Anthem-The '59 Sound


some others i have listed at home but i'm at work and those come to mind....

10/9/2008 2:37:58 PM

^that's a very good list, except I haven't listened to the new Kings of Leon yet...I liked their last album though

10/9/2008 2:44:22 PM

am i the only one that didn't think too much of the new tv on the radio? i mean i gave it a solid chance, but it just didn't do anything for me.

10/9/2008 2:50:48 PM

^ i enjoyed it but it didnt stick with me well at all, got old fast.

^^ I liked their last one as well, this one didnt go over too well with me first listen. I'll give it another go somewhere down the line.

^^^ I still need to check out the new Hold Steady. and The Gaslight Anthem album is good, I just got it though last week so I still need time to let it sink it. But so far it has a chance to be one of my favorites this year.

10/9/2008 2:53:40 PM

^I wasn't feeling Stay Positive at first and was kind of disappointed, but the more I've listened to it the more I like it, probably not as good as Boys and Girls in America or Separation Sunday but it's excellent nonetheless

10/9/2008 3:05:19 PM

oh yeah

big ups for Why? - Alopecia

i can't stop listening to it

10/12/2008 1:35:05 PM

Quote :

"i'm a huge MOS fan but that is one of the most meh-worthy albums of the year"

Well, for what it's worth, I am NOT a huge Mates of State fan and I think Re-Arrange Us was way better than anything else of theirs I'd heard. That might be why

10/12/2008 1:41:59 PM

I'll definitely have to add Department of Eagles to my list.

10/20/2008 10:26:57 AM

I forgot Cool Hand Luke's "The Sleeping House." Its a really solid record and one of my favorites of this year that I just forgot in my first post, my only big knock on it is the same knock I have on the new Copeland. Both albums are extremely piano heavy with very sparse guitar. Now, this is normally no big deal but both bands had a bit more oomph in the past that I feel is missing.

10/20/2008 2:56:14 PM

oh what up!?

Au - Verbs

it's fucking amazing. check it out, all of y'all.

10/28/2008 4:00:24 PM

It's pretty good, don't remember it knocking my balls off or anything, though.

10/28/2008 4:03:55 PM

okay, well. maybe i just really, really love exaggeration.

10/28/2008 4:45:27 PM

Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It

10/28/2008 5:46:51 PM

Quote :

"I'll definitely have to add Department of Eagles to my list."

That record is quality. Very quality.


I also would like to totally agree with the Cool Hand Luke comment. I dig the album.

10/28/2008 6:36:01 PM

just gonna throw my vote in for for emma, forever ago.

10/28/2008 7:20:08 PM

that raphael saadiq album is pretty cool. Why? - Alopecia didn't get that much attention, but it's really good

10/28/2008 7:39:44 PM

Cynic - Traced In Air
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Peter Gabriel & Friends - Big Blue Ball
Van Der Graaf Generator - Trisector

10/28/2008 8:54:40 PM

tvotr - dear science
mars volta - bedlam in goliath
diplo's pitchfork/I like turtles mix (not an album but amazing none the less)

10/29/2008 1:05:33 AM

Metallica - Death Magnetic
Opeth - Watershed

10/29/2008 8:31:45 AM

^^can you put up a link to that turtles remix plz

I was just watching that video the other day

10/29/2008 9:14:06 AM

KINGS OF LEON

10/29/2008 9:33:21 AM

haha, i see a fellow cynic fan

10/30/2008 9:20:56 PM

free leech on waffles so i'm checking out some of these albums everybody has been talking about -- i wait until free leech to do this sort of thing because a) my ratio sucks balls and b) i usually hate what's hip in the music scene nowadays but

this fleet foxes is pretty sweet

also, i'm enjoying the new metallica on my first listen

10/30/2008 9:30:44 PM

listening to the new Ryan Adams. not bad but I need to listen a few times to get a feel for it.

10/31/2008 8:58:36 AM