Best Albums of 08.

[Agent Orange]

Originally Posted by Tommy

I liked this album a lot on first listen, it has some catchy and interesting lyrics. I even saw them play live last night, they gave a good performance but nothing that blew me away unfortunately.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...endID=19603937

I had "The Hollows" on repeat for about an hour when I first heard it


Algorhythms - Algorhythms EP


They're giving it away for free on their myspace, too.

[Arcwave]

A friend of mine, Scott Morgan, who was a guitarist, music editor, and arranger of the American soundtrack of Dragonball Z just released his new album with music based on the show. Check it out: http://cdbaby.com/cd/morganstudios2

This album is dedicated to Scott's former colleague and unsung hero Mike Smith whose music is an inspirational source for much of the music inside. A very special thanks goes to the fans as well!

[Tommy]

Originally Posted by Agent Orange

I had "The Hollows" on repeat for about an hour when I first heard it


Algorhythms - Algorhythms EP


They're giving it away for free on their myspace, too.

Thanks I'll check it out.

[Sides]

Just mannage to listen to some albums, the last couple of weeks. I find those listed below are worth mentioning.

Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets
Dirty Pretty Things - Romance At Short Notice
Santagold - Santagold
The Twilight Sad - Here, It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did (OK, it is a EP)
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

[Daughter!]

BB King - One Kind Favor

It is so good.

One Day As A Lion - One Day As A Lion EP

Very good. Some awesome musicians joining forces to make some sick Funk metal.

That new album that Brian Eno and David Byrne is another album that people are raving about, but I didn't like it very much. It sort of bored me. Sorry.

[Daughter!]

Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors

So great. Just so great.

[Paladinoras]

To me:

Umm,

I LOVED YESTERDAY - YUI
KISS - L'Arc en~ciel
BEST FICTION - Namie Amuro (Still can't believe that she is 30)
Heart Station - Utada Hikaru
Don't Stay - Nami Tamaki
It Won't Be Soon Before Long - Maroon 5
Sora - Yui Aragaki (Late December, so I guess it counts)

[Shadow Kira01]

2008 isn't finished yet, I will pick a few off the Oricon chart:

Utada Hikaru - Heart Station
YUI - I LOVED YESTERDAY
Kuraki Mai - ONE LIFE
Lenny Kravitz - Love Revolution
Gackt - 0079-0088
Simple Plan - Simple Plan 3

[Lebron]

Eh, most of the music I'm listening to aren't from 2008. The only albums I really like from this year are





edit: actually the Nightwish one is from last year.

[nanafan]

jenny lewis-acid tongue
yael naim and david donaetien(sorry not from this year, but it's new to me)
charlotte sometimes waves and the both of us

[jouttex]

Nothing really outstanding yet, a lot of great singles though, so far the albums I like are Suara's Taiyou to Tsuki, Misato Aki's here I am, and Yukarin's Izayoi no Tsuki Canaria no Koi. And I have high expectation for Minorin's Parade (out end of November).

JAM Project's Get Over the Border and Kuribayashi Minami's dream link came close, but I enjoy them more like a single compilation than an album.

If you count anime soundtracks, I'd say kure-nai and (of course) Macross F pwns 2008.

... am I the only one posting anime-related albums here? T_T

[zzeroparticle]

Nope, but if you ask me, I'd take Romeo x Juliet's soundtrack over the two that you listed. I think Hitoshi Sakimoto's work on that one is absolutely stunning, both in the way he manages to capture the essence and mood of the setting as well as compose appropriate music for the action scenes which are filled to the brim with energy as well as instilling within it a sense of majesty.

Kure-nai's soundtrack, on the whole, was a good effort, but I felt that it got bogged down a bit too much with repetitive melodies and that the first CD was pretty bland. Thankfully, the second CD manages to make it a whole lot better.

Macross Frontier, was also pretty decent, but only if you restricted yourself to the instrumental tracks. Any deviation from that and you end up running into May'n's music, which I think are absolutely atrocious. Megumi Nakajima delivers a better performance by far since she actually puts emotions into her music unlike May'n, whose voice tends to be bland as though no effort were expended when she sings.

[nanafan]

ingrid michaelson-Be Okay

[Flame-X]

Suara - Taiyou to Tsuki




Dir en grey - Uroboros




girugamesh - MUSIC

[Aoi_chan]

Spoiler for fav albums of 08':

Bloc Party - Intimacy



Asian Kung Fu Generation - Imade minu Asu ni




Crystal Kay - Color Change!




Nell - Seperation Anxiety





Bugy Craxone - Hello, Punk Lovers





Ogre you Asshole - しらない合図しらせる子





Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend



Epik High - Peices, Part 1




Leo Imai - Fix Neon




One Ok Rock - Kanjou Effect




Dir en grey - Uroboros

[Sides]

Well this year is almost over and my album of the year is

Spoiler:

"We Have You Surrounded" by The Dirtbombs.



Apparently Oblivians and The Gories (one of Mick Collins older band) will be playing some gigs in summer 2009, if they are playing in you area make sure to check them out.

[nanafan]

Rachael Yamagata-Elephants Teeth Sinking into Heart

[loomer]

updated for the end of the year:

Air France - No Way Down EP
Animal Collective - Water Curses EP
Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Beach House - Devotion
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow & Blue
Crystal Castles - S/T
Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Final Fantasy - Spectrum, 14th Century EP
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Hulahooper - Good Morning Good Evening EP
The Dears - Missiles
The Dodos - Visiter
Times New Viking - Rip It Off
Vampire Weekend - S/T

[.calla.]

fleet foxes - self-titled (also their ep 'sun giant' is good too)
the last shadow puppets - age of the understatement


and i think that is it... a pretty unimpressive year

[Sides]

Originally Posted by .calla.

and i think that is it... a pretty unimpressive year

I think it was a great year, but with download distribution selling so heavily this year, i'm quite disappointed, because i noticed that some highstreet shop are stocking much less CDs/vinyls of non mainstream artists, artist not backed by big record lables.

Have to revise my decision

Spoiler:

The Dirtbombs album is great and it was nice to see Mick Collins releasing something this year.
B.B. Kings record was also awesome, but my final decision is the album by Jools Holland, the informer. Especially the bonus CD, the vocals of louise marshall, ruby turner and rico rodriguez made me it for me. Unlike my other records bought in 2008 this one i can play any time and people (will) enjoy(s) it.