America™: Out of ideas since 1999!

Sad indeed. I didn't realize what a dearth of good albums came out this year until I saw that list.

I didn't realize Lucinda Williams released a new one in 08. Will add it to all her others shortly.

Newsflash: creating good music isn't dependent upon youth.

If you disagree, the ghost of Johnny Cash will shove his rusty cage up your ass.

Glaring omissions:

The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles

nice to see No Age and TV on the Radio on there. Considering this was RS, I figured it's top ten would be nothing but hasbeens.


for what it's worth, my list:

1. No Age: Nouns
2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
3. Wire - Object 47
4. Auburn Lull: Remain Civil Twilight
5. Darker My Love - 2
6. Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
7. Grails - Doomsayer's Holiday
8. Mogwai - Hawk is Howling
9. Benoit Pioulard - Temper
10. Grails - Take Refuge in Clean Living
11. Portishead - 3
12. Boris: Smile (US version. Japanese version sounds like demos. Though 2 of the tracks in the US version are badly edited)
13. Transitional: Nothing Real Nothing Absent
14. Valet: Naked Acid (nice, weird psychedelic-folk stuff)
15. Retribution Gospel Choir (s/t)
16. Spiritualized: Songs in A&E
17. NIN: Ghosts
18. NIN: The Slip

harryasaboy: I didn't realize Lucinda Williams released a new one in 08. Will add it to all her others shortly.

Why are you going to go out and buy her album if you're just going to throw it in the toilet?

/despises everything she's recorded since "Car Wheels."

Blues_X: Newsflash: creating good music isn't dependent upon youth.

If you disagree, the ghost of Johnny Cash will shove his rusty cage up your ass.

uhmmm, not sure about that, as far as rock N roll goes. *THERE IS EXCEPTIONS** but usually a rocker over 30 keeps pumping inferior carbon copies of their earlier good stuff

I dont mean by that that they should stop recording but I havent heard the new metallica, mellencamp, Brian Wilson, G N R or Stephen Malkmus on the list, but im sure my theory applies

The Malkmus album rocks.

/still hates RS lists.

The Slip and Ghosts were both amazing. Much better than anything Lil farking Wayne could put out.

fark your boring, cliched music by people who are no longer talented and pay the losers at Rolling Stone to put them on their list. fark it, I say.

NiN wasn't around in 1988. LOLOLOLOLOL

The new Raconteurs CD is the only one on that list that I've even heard. I must be getting really old.

'08 albums I love, in no particular order:

Kalmah: For the Revolution
Communic: Payment of Existence
Manilla Road: Voyager
Torture Squad: Hellbound
Exmortus: In Hatred's Flame
Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts

Yeah, big metal fan (everything but Ghosts counts). Didn't like Death Magnetic (though the Guitar Hero version wasn't as obnoxious as the studio release). Liked some of Vampire Weekend's songs alot, but I have to like 99% of an album to think it great.

For what it's worth:

10. Grampall Jookabox
9. Flight of the Conchords
8. Conor Oberst
7. Cold War Kids
6. Mogwai
5. Joe Pug
4. The Black Keys
3. Bob Dylan
2. TV on the Radio
1. Foals

Am I the only one that doesn't get the hype over Vampire Weekend and MGMT?

Not sure if I am too snobby, or not snobby enough to enjoy their sh*t

40 Jonas Brothers - A Little Bit Longer

Just when I though that RS couldn't fail any harder...

busy chillin': 4. The Black Keys

I love the Black Keys, but I'd say their latest is probably their worst album to date.

10.Alterbridge
9. The Mars Volta
8. FloBots
7. Pennywise
6. Judas Priest
5. Offspring
4. Seether
3. Buck Cherry
2. Theory of a Deadman
1. Shinedown

If I made a list of the top 50 music magazines in 2008, RS wouldn't be on it.

Opeth - Watershed
Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk (not that great, but their best in a while)
Trivium - Shogun
Supercontinent - Vaalbara
Meshuggah - Obzen
Bloodbath - Ublessing the Purity
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh

harryasaboy: I didn't realize Lucinda Williams released a new one in 08. Will add it to all her others shortly.

It's a good album. I also recommend Susan Tedeschi's 'Back to the River' if you haven't heard it.

Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God

Opeth - Watershed

Kalmah - For the Revolution

For what it's worth:

10. Faith +1
9. Blur
8. Iron Maiden
7. Rolling Stones
6. Pearl Jam
5. My Chemical Romance
4. Fallout Boy
3. Beck
2. Coldplay
1. Creed

/What? Why you hatin'?

Uzzah: Why are you going to go out and buy her album if you're just going to throw it in the toilet?


Because I won't. Car Wheels is her best, but I don't share your dislike of her newer stuff.

Also glad to see Ryan Adams made the list with the Cardinals. Have it already. But like all those songs better live.

czerno: The Slip and Ghosts were both amazing. Much better than anything Lil farking Wayne could put out.

Was going to say something along these lines. Lil'Wayne at #3? ...really?

Rolling Stone magazine has stayed in 1980 a day too long.

Scars on Broadway - Scars on Broadway

Your bands suck, and mine are awesome.

Do we really need to continue?

who the fark is "TV On the Radio"?


/lawn, off.

What, no Dolly? Blasphemy!

Cynic!

I'd never heard a Lil Wayne song till all these 'best of' lists started coming out, so thought I'd check one out - Lollipop.

WTF? Is this really what Americans are buying these days? It's barely even music - and I don't say that as hip-hop hater, I'm not going to justify anything, but come on? This is what people like? Serious, actual music critics included? I think the hipster 'it's cool to like shiat music' thing is getting out of hand.

For what it's worth:

10. a band no one has ever heard of
9. a band no one has ever heard of
8. a band no one has ever heard of
7. TV on the Radio
6. a band no one has ever heard of
5. a band no one has ever heard of
4. a band no one has ever heard of
3. a band no one has ever heard of
2. a band no one has ever heard of
1. a band no one has ever heard of

danduran: I'd never heard a Lil Wayne song till all these 'best of' lists started coming out, so thought I'd check one out - Lollipop.

WTF? Is this really what Americans are buying these days? It's barely even music - and I don't say that as hip-hop hater, I'm not going to justify anything, but come on? This is what people like? Serious, actual music critics included? I think the hipster 'it's cool to like shiat music' thing is getting out of hand.

Every generation has tone-deaf mouth-breathers who pretend to be experts on music and/or entertainment.

Slim Whitman sold a lot of that yodelling crap.

festus: danduran: I'd never heard a Lil Wayne song till all these 'best of' lists started coming out, so thought I'd check one out - Lollipop.

WTF? Is this really what Americans are buying these days? It's barely even music - and I don't say that as hip-hop hater, I'm not going to justify anything, but come on? This is what people like? Serious, actual music critics included? I think the hipster 'it's cool to like shiat music' thing is getting out of hand.

Every generation has tone-deaf mouth-breathers who pretend to be experts on music and/or entertainment.

Slim Whitman sold a lot of that yodelling crap.

Tell me about it. I did some casual proofing work for a pretty major (by NZ standards) music magazine last year/earlier this year, and I couldn't believe the crap the permanent staff would put on. When the graphic designer kept playing Britney's Blackout album over and over, loudly, on her earbuds, I'd had enough.

since we're listing:

10. The Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
9. Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark
8. Metallica - Death Magnetic
7. Black Keys - Attack and Release
6. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberts
5. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
4. Blue Mountain - Dog Days (Reissue)
3. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
2. Secret Machines - Secret Machines
1. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark

rotsky: Rolling Stone magazine has stayed in 1980 a day too to long.

Sorry, pet peeve.

SilentStrider: who the fark is "TV On the Radio"?


/lawn, off.

TV on the Radio - Halfway Home. one of my favorite tracks of the year, though not entirely indicative of the album's sound.


I'm honestly surprised they're not bigger than they are.

Children of Bodom - Blood Drunk
Scars on Broadway - Self Titled
Mudvayne - The New Game

Blues_X: Newsflash: creating good music isn't dependent upon youth.

If you disagree, the ghost of Johnny Cash will shove his rusty cage up your ass.

Newsflash, Johnny Cash borrowed that rusty cage from some young punks.

jasonmicron:NiN wasn't around in 1988. LOLOLOLOLOL

Purest Feeling. LOLOLOLOL.

Been thinking about my top 2008 albums recently so it seems a good opportunity to share.

Bon Iver - For Emma Forever
Laura Marling - Alas I cannot swim
Malcolm Middelton - Sleight of Hand
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Santogold - Santogold
Lykke Lee - Youth Novels
Foals - Antidotes
Herman Dune - Next Year in Zion
Bromheads Jacket - On the Brain
Micha P Hinson - Micha P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra
My Kappa Roots - The Home of St. Colme Burnt Down

Mostly a melancholy bunch with a bit of dancing thrown in, reflects my 2008 well

# 1

Here's my top 10

1. Dillinger Four - C I V I L W A R
2. Teenage Bottlerocket - Warning Device
3. Paint It Black - New Lexicon
4. LaGrecia - On Parallels
5. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
6. Lemuria - Get Better
7. Shorebirds - It's Gonna Get Ugly
8. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
9. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
10. Tim Barry - Manchester

Coldplay: Viva La Vida

Destroyer: Trouble In Dreams
[for those who don't know Destroyer, think:
Vocals: David Bowie plus Bob Dylan
lyrics: almost stream of consciousness, lots of cool one-liners
Music: indie pop/rock]

Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes [vinyl LP + EP]
[for those who don't know Fleet Foxes, think:
Vocals: very similar to Jim James of My Morning Jacket, but different [more pure, less throaty]
Lyrics: (sorry, hard to describe)
Music: Indie, somewhat oldschool [i mean like old old folk blues], folky / pop-rock, great vocal harmonies

Doubt I even bought 10 albums in 2008. A couple brilliant ones I did get that weren't on the list:

- Opeth's Watershed
- Ohgr's Devil In My Details

List reminds me I still need to pick up that TVotR disc.

Winktologist: America™: Out of ideas since 1999!

Yeah, I love America. Why aren't they on this list??

/Oz Never Gave Nuthin to the Tin Man

Mine (off the top of my head, I'll probably forget something)

LadyHawke - LadyHawke
Portishead - Third
Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
Ryan Adams - Cardinology
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
TV On the Radio - Dear Science
Scars on Broadway - Scars on Broadway

We Gen-X'ers are not going to let go of the pop-culture mantle that easily.


You thought the baby boomers were bad. HA!

Wow bunch of people saying Children of Bodom and Trivium, yet I see 0 mention of Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone?