TSM 2008 Year-End Awards: Music

[Guest Czecherbear]

Here's a little concept thread worth trying. In this thread, you can submit your end-of-year lists for various things in the music field, like Best Album, Best Single, Best Lyric, Worsts, so on, so forth. Totally open beyond establishing a best album; you can invent as many categories as you'd like and put them into play for everyone else. It might be a little early for this, with 29 days left to hear things, but we might as well get the idea out there and pin it. I hope this isn't a total flop; maybe we can franchise the concept out to the rest of the folders on the board.

[BUTT 0]

"Something In Your Mouth" by Nickelback.

 

 

Which category does this win? ALL OF 'EM!

[Lord of The Curry 0]

I dunno if this is going to make any Best Of lists come year end but "Luxury Tax" by Rick Ross feat. Tricky Daddy, Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy has become one of my most consistently listenable songs in 2008.

 

Also Los Angeles by Flying Lotus will make no Top Ten lists on AOTY but it should.

[Smartly Pretty 0]

Top 5 songs featuring a Cello

 

1.Ghosts Under Rocks - Ra Ra Riot

2.The Arm - Islands

3.You! Me! Dancing! - Los Campesinos!

4.How To Embrace a Swamp Creature - The Mountain Goats

5.M79 - Vampire Weekend

[cbacon 0]

You guys counting Bon Iver's album count as '07 or '08?

[haws bah gawd 0]

"Something In Your Mouth" by Nickelback.

 

 

Which category does this win? ALL OF 'EM!

 

You know, that's actually not that bad. The lyrics are laughable, but the music is listenable. That really fast-singing part is funny as hell. I've heard much MUCH worse.

 

I listen to mostly European Power Metal, so most of my favorites from the year are songs / bands few have heard of.

 

Best Album - "Rethroned" by Northern Kings - This was released a week ago in Europe, and I haven't stopped listening. For those that don't know, Northern Kings is a "super group" featuring Jarkko Ahola from Teräsbetoni, Marco Hietala from Nightwish and Tarot, Tony Kakko from Sonata Arctica and Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto from Charon. Rethroned is a cover album featuring Power Metal renditions of popular pop songs from the 80's, 90's, and 2000's. They produced some truly amazing recreations of "Kiss From a Rose", "Wanted Dead or Alive", "Take on Me", and "Nothing Compares 2 U". They also made a goth rendition of "I Should be So Lucky" by Kylie Minogue. It's a really fun album with an interesting twist on several popular songs.

 

Best Live Album - "Ghost Opera: The Second Coming" by Kamelot - This not only featured a reissue of their 2007 Studio album Ghost Opera, but also came with an bonus disc featuring a 10-track live performance recorded in Belgrade, Serbia, along with a couple unreleased tracks. Roy Khan has one of the best voices in Power Metal, and their live shows never cease to amaze.

 

Worst Album - "Anthems for the Damned" by Filter - I enjoyed these guys in the 90's and early 2000's, mainly due to vocalist Richard Patrick's inhuman vocal chords. I was excited to hear they were working on a new album, but this was a huge let down. Long gone are Patrick's screams, and the rest of the band seems to have mellowed-out as well. Really, I'm just glad I downloaded it, and saved myself $16.

 

Biggest Shock of the Year - "Chinese Democracy" was finally released.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Best Hip Hop

 

6.) Why?-Alopecia

5.) Wale-The Mixtape About Nothing

4.) Flying Lotus-Los Angeles

3.) Re-Up Gang-We Got it For Cheap Vol. 3

2.) The Cool Kids-The Bake Sale EP

1.) Q-Tip-The Renaissance

 

Best Rock

 

6.) Caina-Temporary Antennae

5.) Celestial Sea-Deep Inside The Cold

4.) Spiritualized-Songs in A & E

3.) Earth-The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull

2.) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds-Dig Lazerus! Dig!

1.) TV On the Radio-Dear Science

 

Best Electronic

 

7.) Hercules and Love Affair-Hercules and Love Affair

6.) Cut Copy-In Ghost Colors

5.) Ad.ver.sary-Bone Music

4.) Flying Lotus-Los Angeles

3.) DJ / Rupture-Uproot

2.) The Bug-London Zoo

1.) Portishead-Third

 

Best Metal

 

10.) Scar Symmetry-Holographic Universe

9.) Boris-Smile

8.) Enslaved-Vertebrae

7.) Made Out Of Babies-The Ruiner

6.) Velnias-Soverign Nocturnal

5.) Cynic-Traced in Air

4.) Darkspace-Darkspace III

3.) Gates of Slumber-Conquerer

2.) Nachtmystium-Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1

1.) Origin-Antithesis

 

Compilation of the year

 

Basic Channel-BCD 2

Overrated

 

Lil Wayne-The Carter III

Krallice-Krallice

Underrated

 

Velnias-Soverign Nocturnal

Caina-Temporary Antennae

Ad.ver.sary-Bone Music

Celestial Sea-Deep Inside The Cold

 

Worst Album

 

Cryptopsy-The King Beneath

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

Best Hip Hop

 

6.) Why?-Alopecia

 

Uhmm....

[Gary Floyd 0]

Best Hip Hop

 

6.) Why?-Alopecia

 

Uhmm....

Well, it's sorta Hip Hop, I think.

[Henry Spencer 0]

One, maybe two songs on Alopecia could be considered to have hip hop influences, in a stretch.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Worst Album

 

Cryptopsy-The King Beneath

 

A thousand times this. Inexcusably bad.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

You guys counting Bon Iver's album count as '07 or '08?

My mom is into Bon Iver. Apparently a few of the songs off For Emma, Forever Ago were used on Grey's Anatomy, and she thought they were great. I think that album's really good, but there's some weird cognitive dissonance involved for me, since the rest of my mom's musical taste extends to Il Divo and Bruce Springsteen.

 

2008's best songs for dancing drunkenly at 1 in the morning:

M83 - "Graveyard Girl"

Cut Copy - "Light and Music"

Lil Wayne - "Mrs. Officer"

Girl Talk - "Here's the Thing," in large part because of "I wish that I had Jessie's Girl/But I'd rather get some head"

[Lord of The Curry 0]

LAKACOPCAR

 

Bobby Valentino's attempt at rapping at the end is god-awful though.

[cbacon 0]

This year is pretty weak compared to last year. I might have trouble coming up with 20 albums that I really liked.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Plants and Animals "Parc Avenue" will likely rank high for me when it's all said and done.

[Gary Floyd 0]

You know, I really should have put Caina's Temporary Antennae and Celestial Sea's Deep Inside The Cold in my top rock albums. Granted, Caina is sorta Black Metal, but then it's also indie rock, post rock, shoegaze, and some other things, so I really can't classify it, while Deep Inside The Cold is the only Post Rock album to really grab my attention this year-well, I guess Earth's The Bees Made Honey In the Lion's Skull is sorta Post Rock too (it's different than Earth 2, Pentastar: In The Style Of Demons, and Phase 3: Thrones And Dominions.)

[Henry Spencer 0]

Quick n' dirty list I reserve the right to change:

1. Why? - Alopecia

2. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

3. TV On The Radio - Dear Science

4. Spiritualized - Songs in A&E

5. Sigur Ros - Mea Sua i Eyrum Via Spilum Endalaust

 

Honorable mentions to Weezy, Nachtmystium, Torche, Earth, Portishead, and The Bug.

 

Most disappointing

1. Bauhaus - Go Away White

2. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

3. The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded (I'm coming around on this one slowly, though)

[Gary Floyd 0]

Quick n' dirty list I reserve the right to change:

Honorable mentions to Weezy, Nachtmystium, Torche, Earth, Portishead, and The Bug.

Finally, someone else who liked that album.

 

Most disappointing

1. Bauhaus - Go Away White

Ugh, tell me about it. I should add Coil's The New Backwards as well.

[BifEverchad 0]

BEST ALBUMS

 

Hawksley Workman - Between the Beautifuls

Nada Surf - Lucky

The Trews - No Time for Later

We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

REM - Accelerate

The Kooks - Konk

The Roots - Rising Down

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Weezer - The Red Album

My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

Beck - Modern Guilt

Nas - Untitled

Bloc Party - Intimacy

The Game - LAX

Kings of Leon - Only by the Night

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul

Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads

Q-Tip - The Renaissance

Ludacris - Theater of the Mind

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

One, maybe two songs on Alopecia could be considered to have hip hop influences, in a stretch.

I'm still having a hard time getting behind this one, or Why? in general. I like some of what they're doing, but those nasally-ass They Might Be Giants vocals are killing me. And I like Joanna Newsom!

[Youth N Asia 0]

I either bought or downloaded the fewest albums every in 2008. Wasn't a great year in my opinion

[PILLS! PILLS! PILLS! 0]

Albums from this year that I endorse:

 

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks- Real Emotional Trash

Portishead- Third

Joan of Arc- Boo! Human

 

That is all that I can think of right now.

[C Dubya 04 0]

6 Albums that I enjoyed this year (note, there are others, but these were the first to spring to mind):

 

The Hold Steady - Stay Positive

REM - Accelerate

The Roots - Rising Down

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Dr. Dog - Fate

My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

 

1 Album I had hoped would be great or at least good but ended up hating:

Ben Folds - Way to Normal

[cbacon 0]

1. Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight

2. Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer

3. M83 – Saturdays = Youth

4. Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaus

5. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago

6. Brendan Canning – Something For All of Us

7. Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak

8. Lil’ Wayne- Tha Carter III

9. TV on the Radio – Dear Science

10. Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings And All

11. Jessica Lea Mayfield – With Blasphemy So Heartfelt

12. Okkervil River – The Stand Ins

13. Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs

14. Land of Talk – Some Are Lakes

15. Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue

16. Why? - Alopecia

17. Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue

18. Candence Weapon – Afterparty Babies

19. CSS – Donkey

20. Cat Power - Jukebox

[Lord of The Curry 0]

"Kissing The Beehive" from At Mount Zoomer is unquestionably one of my songs of the year. I'll never get tired of singing along to "Jonathan/Jonathan/The waterfalls are running thin."

[At Home 0]

I only liked a couple albums this year.

 

Beck - Modern Guilt

Fleet Foxes - S/T

Joan of Arc - Boo Human

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0]

Here's a top 5 list off the top of my head. I'm probably forgetting a lot.

 

1. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

2. Diplo/Santogold - Top Ranking

3. Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances

4. Boris - Smile

5. The Very Best - Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are the Very Best

 

 

[Gary Floyd 0]

Yeah, the new Enslaved is going there and replacing Metallica.

[King Kamala 0]

I'll do concert of the year. Top Three instead of the usual Top Five since I only went to five or six shows overall this year.

 

3. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers with Stevie Winwood, June 13th at The TD Banknorth Garden in Boston, MA (Crossed off one of the bands on my "Acts I have to see before they croak" list with Petty. Rock solid greatest hits sets from both groups.)

2. Bob Dylan, May 17th at The Colisee in Lewiston, ME (Great setlist, great performance. Great seeing Dylan in a relatively small venue in the middle of nowhere but the whole thing was hampered by a weird as hell audience.

1. Gnarls Barkley with Hercules and a Love Affair, August 6th at The Wilbur Theatre in Boston, MA

 

[Ravenbomb 0]

Best album: "You're Awful, I Love You" by Ludo