Thursday, January 08, 2009
Something for Your Sister
When it came to music, 2008, you were pretty good to me.
Favorite Albums of 2008
(in no particular order, on account of my pusillanimity)*
Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Partie Traumatic, Black Kids
Twelve Angry Months, Local H
Used and Abused, Danger Radio
Dear Science, TV on the Radio
The Killers' Day & Age makes my list, but just barely.
Worst Album of 2008
Loyalty to Loyalty, Cold War Kids
Best EP
One Day as a Lion, One Day as a Lion
Favorite Opening Tracks
Spiralling, Keane
Ooh Yeah, Moby
Hit the Heartbrakes, Black Kids
Me + Your Daughter, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head
Most Underwhelming Opening Track
Time for Some Action, N.E.R.D.
Songs, She Moaned
Electric Feel, MGMT
The World We Live In, The Killers
Heavy Heart, Ghostland Observatory
DLZ, TV on the Radio
Chick Lit, We Are Scientists
The Way a Disc Should End
Goodnight, Travel Well, The Killers
(December) Hand to Mouth, Local H
Where I Started, Danger Radio
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Gmork
*That, or your incontinence.
Hear hear to TV on the Radio and MGMT. (Was Oracular Spectacular in 08? Seems like that shit has been out forever.)
ReplyDeleteWould add Cardinology, For Emma Forever Ago, and Fleet Foxes.