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.

1 comment:

TMH said...

Hear hear to TV on the Radio and MGMT. (Was Oracular Spectacular in 08? Seems like that shit has been out forever.)

Would add Cardinology, For Emma Forever Ago, and Fleet Foxes.