my top 100 albums of 2008
 

Okay, this is the final list, after doing a ton of listening back to these records (and specifically listening to the new fire on fire a lot) the past couple of days. I think I'm happy with the list, though obviously the year isn't over and I'll probably hear even more albums from this year from now until then. Anyway...........

1. suishou no fune - prayer for chibi
2. thank you - terrible two
3. mass of the fermenting dregs - s/t
4. extra life - secular works
5. james blackshaw - litany of echoes
6. krallice - krallice
7. fire on fire - the orchard
8. robbie basho - bonn ist supreme
9. stereolab - chemical chords
10. kasai allstars - in the 7th moon, the chief turned into a swimming fish and ate the head of his enemy by magic
11. secret chiefs 3 - xaphan
12. autistic daughters - uneasy flowers
13. fennesz - black sea
14. collections of colonies of bees - birds
15. dengue fever - venus on earth
16. david grubbs - an optimist notes the dusk
17. sic alps - u.s. ez
18. christina carter - original darkness
19. marc ribot - exercises in futility
20. ponytail - ice cream spiritual
21. zazen boys - 4
22. farmers market - surfin ussr
23. kayo dot - blue lambency downward
24. daemian frost - spirito di daemo
25. phillip jeck - sand
26. heroine sheiks - journey to the end of the knife
27. autechre - quarstice
28. jim o'rourke - long night
29. zdisław piernik and piotr zabrodzki - namanga
30. sunn o))) - domkirke
31. zs - the hard
32. lsd march - nikutai no tubomi
33. ocrillim - annwn
34. oren ambarchi - a final kiss on poisoned cheeks
35. jack rose - i do play rock and roll
36. melvins - nude with boots
37. kallsup - above the mountains
38. the fall - imperial wax solvent
39. jandek - myth of blue icicles
40. experimental dental school - jane doe loves me
41. ryoji ikeda - test pattern
42. the hospitals - hairdryer peace
43. hum of the druid - frozen tropics
44. joe grimm - brain cloud
45. lsd pond - lsd pond
46. women - women
47. zach hill - astrological straits
48. squarepusher - just a souvenir
49. brown wing overdrive - esp organism
50. boris - smile
51. harvey milk - life
52. john zorn - dreamers
53. grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill
54. the residents - bunny boy
55. vivian girls - self-titled
56. john adams - a flowering tree
57. cheveu - s/t
58. the goslings - occassion
59. kazuki tomokawa - blue water, red water
60. birchville cat motel - gunpowder temple of heaven
61. guapo - elixirs
62. jimmy cake - spectre and crown
63. sun city girls - brothers unconnected tour disc
64. rhys chatham - guitar trio is my life
65. deerhoof - offend maggie
66. fuck buttons - street horrrsing
67. lsd and the search for god - ep
68. phantom orchard - orra
69. motorpsycho - little lucid moments
70. burning star core - challenger
71. eat skull - sick to death
72. shit and shine - cherry
73. bill dixon - 17 musicians in search of a sound
74. metallica - death magnetic
75. ymck - family genesis
76. legendary pink dots - plutonium blonde
77. maps and atlases - you and me and the mountain
78. elf power - in a cave
79. excepter - debt dept
80. earth - bees made honey in the mouths of lions
81. the mae shi - hlllly h
82. crow tongue - ghost eye seeker
83. sparta locals - leecher
84. grails - take refuge in clean living
85. religious knives - the door
86. brethren of the free spirit - all things are from Him, through Him and in Him
87. gang gang dance - saint dymphria
88. sir richard bishop - knucklehead freefall
89. islands - arms way
90. red krayola - fingerpointing
91. growing - all the way
92. don caballero - punkgasm
93. venetian snares - detrimentalogist
94. opeth - watershed
95. we versus the shark - dirty versions
96. our brother the native - make amends, for we are merely vessels
97. parenthetical girls - entanglement
98. joji yuasa - music for experimental films
99. flood - here we are in texts already written in the sky
100. alva noto - unitxt

Albums I heard that weren't that great:
New Xiu Xiu
Crystal Castles
Free Kitten
Wire - Object 47
new Mogwai
No Age
anything the Mars Volta put out (lifetime achivement award)
The Breeders - Mountain Battles
[I need to add more this section]

Everything I didn't list, assume I never heard or didn't think it was good enough or bad enough for inclusion in either list.

And that's it I think.

I think you meant:

78. elf power - in a cave
77. excepter - debt dept

nobody's perfect

hah

I haven't heard of a ton of those. I thought Domkirke was horribly boring though. Even for them.

Myth of Blue Icicles and Smile were great, and I really want to hear the LSD March one. I've never heard any LSD Pond, either.

I have lain ignorant of any new music in the last year, so i might actually look for some of your sugestions atsonicpark

2007 release.

Wow. I don't think I've liked 100 albums from any year, much less 2008. There's probably only 10-15 that I like this year and maybe only five I'm going to listen to consistently when the year is over.

Kudos. Will check a lot of those out.

Like Acousticrock, while I've not taken too much notice of new releases this year, yours looks like a decent list to explore for possible purchases in the future. Nice one.

http://rateyourmusic.com/release/alb...head_freefall/

"Released: 2008".

Though it may be wrong. Heheh.

only 100?

for what its worth, my 10
1. Silver Mnt. Zion...: 13 blues for 13 moons
2. Sigur Ros: notgonnatryandspellthat
3. Portishead: Third
4. Foals: Antidotes
5. Radiohead: InRainbows (wiki says it was 2008)
6. The Breeders: Mountain Battles
7. Sonic Youth: SYR8
8. British Sea Power: Do You Like Rock Music?
9. REM: Accelerate
10. Mogwai: The Hawk Is Howling

no alopecia?
blah.

Hahahaha

i'm pretty sure i got that and the other one (staged?) at the same time, and that was sometime last year. discogs.com also lists it as 2007.

Hmm.

Well, just in case it is 2008, feel free to replace that entry with the sir richard bishop / earth split then, haha.

...er, that's 2008 for sure, right?

Have you heard Mystic Atmosphere?
That also came out this year and I think I prefer it over Prayer for Chibi. Very raw.


edit: it's OOP but I'll upload it for you if you want. or you could get it on slsk etc.

Yeah, I've heard em all. Mystic Atmosphere is awesome, it's just not as epicly awesome. Haha.

Ah, OK. I should get back to listening to Prayer For Chibi I suppose.
I was eagerly anticipating it, but when it came out and I heard it I just couldn't really get in to it much. It just seemed too.... long. and too quiet.
I really love Suishou No Fune though.

When you hear that stuff live, it is anything but quiet.
Those two like it LOUD.

I've been hoping to hear them live for a couple of years now... and I think it's finally going to happen in 2009. Fingers crossed.

Excellent number 1 atsonicpark, I love that album. I need to hear more SNF, for sure.

haven't heard anything else in yr top 5 though, to soulseek I go! :)

same here.

God damn you're thorough. Mine:

1. krallice
2. james blackshaw-litany of echoes
3. all the other stuff i enjoyed (earth, times new viking, suishou no fune, ocrillim, fennesz, wale...I'm sure theres more...)

My list will be hated:

1. Tha Carter 3 by Lil Wayne
2. Get Akward by Be Your Own Pet
3. Consolers of the Lonely by The Raconteurs
4. Midnight Boom by The Kills
5. Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes

My 20 favorites so far :

1. James Blackshaw - Litany of echoes
2. Extra Life - Secular works
3. Nico Muhly - Mothertongue
4. Kazuki Tomokawa - Blue water, red water
5. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
6. Evangelista - Hello, voyager
7. Kayo Dot - Blue lambency downward
8. Beach House - Devotion
9. Madvillain - Madvillainy 2: The Madlib remix
10. Zdzisław Piernik / Piotr Zabrodzki - Namanga
11. Sun Kil Moon - April
12. Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
13. Ilyas Ahmed - The vertigo of dawn
14. Magic I.D. - Till my breath gives out
15. Portishead - Third
16. Pocahaunted - Island diamonds
17. Runhild Gammelsaeter - Amplicon
18. Phantom Orchard - Orra
19. Indian Jewelry - Free gold!
20. Autistic Daughters - Uneasy flowers

but this may change in the next few months, as always

edit : thx for this list atsonicpark, some potentially amazing stuff to check out

agreed, that james blackshaw album, I just checked it iout and it's fucking incredible. cheers for the indirect recommendation!

Glad people are enjoying my list... Massassinated, yours is pretty awesome.

anytime i think i'm about ready to finalize a list, i hear something else amazing... damnit.

anyone hear the Stag Hare album "Black Medicine Music"? shiiit

Hey, thanks for the people who repped me. I just checked and was shocked to see I'm # 2 on the rep list. No one's ever going to beat floatingslowly though, haha.

I was not kiddin' about alopecia, DUDE!!

I'm not into much new music, but Quaristice and In Rainbows (released 2008 here) were pretty good. Quaristice in particular took me ages to get into but was most rewarding, solidifying the fact that Autechre's albums are all quality.

Ooh and the Pavement reissue of Brighten the Corners was awesome. Really dug it.

5. eat skull-sick of death
4. love is all- a hundred things that keep me up at night
3. crystal stilts- alight of night
2. vivian girls- s/t
1. fucked up- the chemistry of common life

great year in music. my top 50 in order:

• Boris – Smile
• Paul Flaherty/Bill Nace/Thurston Moore – S/T
• Suishou No Fune - Prayer For Chibi
• Lars Horntveth – Kaleidoscopic
• Pumice - Quo
• Vandermark 5 – Beat Reader
• The Thing – Now And Forever
• Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
• Beck – Modern Guilt
• Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
• Free Kitten – Inherit
• No-Neck Blues Band - Clomeim
• Takayanagi Masayuki New Direction For The Art- Complete ''La Grima''
• Sonic Youth/ O’rourke/Merzbow /Gustafsson - Andre Sider Af Sonic Youth
• Melvins - Nude With Boots
• Deerhunter – Microcastle
• Tall Firs-Too Old To Die Young
• Dead C – Secret Earth
• Sonic Youth - J'Accuse Ted Hughes
• 16-17 - Gyatso
• Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
• Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
• Lee Ranaldo - Maelstrom From Drift
• Thurston Moore - Sensitive/Lethal
• James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes
• John Zorn, Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson- The Stone (Issue Three)
• Rhys Chatham – Guitar Trio Is My Life
• John Zorn - The Dreamers
• Silver Jews –Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
• Magik Markers-Gucci Rapidshare Download
• Fleet Foxes – S/T
• Sparks - Exotic Creatures Of The Deep
• Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
• My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
• Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
• Vampire Weekend - ST
• The Peeper – S/T
• Tussele – Cream Cuts
• Portishead – Third
• Vivian Girls – S/T
• Religious Knives – The Door
• David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes The Dusk
• Mgmt - Oracular Spectacular
• Braxton, Anthony, William Parker & Milford Graves -Beyond Quantum
• Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
• Burning Star Core – Challenger
• Fennesz - Black Sea
• Emeralds- Solar Bridge
• Wavves – S/T
• Growing - all the way

Lots of great albums in there, Moshe. Didn't know Vandermark 5 had a new one, will have to investigate...

some great cello action in the vandermark album. didn't see the new nnck in many lists. I think it is their best work to date.

it would be in mine if i could be bothered to write a list

great list Moshe, no Hush Arbors though?

I had a dream last night that I bought the Fleet Foxes album.

didn't listen to it yet.