meh

subby: Top 10 rock albums of 2008. Bonus: No Nickelback or Coldplay and bands you've never heard of.

Mogwai only gets an "honorable mention"?!? WTF...who writes this crap?

...would like to have a word with you

Never heard of any of them.

At least Maroon 5 isn't up there again. Don't they always get nominated for a Grammy every year even though they don't release music?

subby stole my headline.

It's nice to see someone who didn't put that frigging TVOTR record at number 1 at least. There aren't many of those.

And still no love for The Big Sleep.

I like how they have to open with disclaimer so that the Radiohead cultist don't succumb to fits.

minus: all crap i've never heard of.

I kinda liked this one:


//kinda..

If you haven't heard of these bands, you haven't been paying attention. These are not unknowns.

Protip: there is music on the tubes now.

klymen: I kinda liked this one:


//kinda..

there's no kinda about it for me, i did like it.

bobbette: If you haven't heard of these bands, you haven't been paying attention. These are not unknowns.

Protip: there is music on the tubes now.

I'll bite.

Yeah, they're not unknowns, sure. Because quite a few people know and like them. And there's no use arguing taste in music. You like what you like and I can't really say you're wrong. And vice versa.

The problem I have is modern music seems like the worst mix possible: the one-hit wonder nature of the 80's mixed with the obscure, fly-by-night style of the 90's.

Most of these bands will be forgotten- even by their fans- in 20 years. Find any "top 10 albums of 1978" list, and you can't say the same.

I'm not speaking at all about the music itself. But there's something to be said about music standing the test of time.

NeverDrunk23: Never heard of any of them.

That's what makes lists like this more interesting.

I for one have queued up (umm, I mean, I've made a shopping list for next time I see a CD shopt) most of those to check out.

accordians!

I'm glad to see "Third" by Portishead and "Narrow Stairs" by Death Cab for Cutie got honorable mentions. I'd rate them higher, but then I'm not real familiar with the albums that topped their list. I'll have to check them out.

I like what I've heard of Jenny Lewis/Rilo Kiley.

Oh Fleet Foxes, you make me happy.

Several excellent bands in the runner up list.

I was surprised to see a name I know and an album I possess (Black Keys). Good shiat. Other than that, TVotR is only one I know - they're good, no doubt, but I don't think they're that good.

Cuz music is only kewl if nobody listens to it!

All music for 2008 so far has been crap.

This list is also crap...

Oh, I give up.

subby: AP's top 10 rock albums of 2008. Bonus: No Nickelback or Coldplay

...or AC/DC... or Metallica... or Guns 'N Roses. Every list I've seen thus far has at least one of those on there, and I suspect it's done just b/c it's an easy way out. "Oh, Metallica used to kick ass, so their new album is the bomb-diggity." I'm glad they weren't even tempted to list any as honorable mentions.

Good lord am I out of touch...


/Going back to my 78's now.
//Mack The Knife FTW

Like CheddarPants said



The album is amazing.

Because of where I live, I'm reminded everyday how "awesome" Death Cab for Cutie is.

I do like them, but I thought their latest album overall was rather meh for them.

Scars on Broadway - Self titled

Joystk: subby: Top 10 rock albums of 2008. Bonus: No Nickelback or Coldplay and bands you've never heard of.

FTFY

I used to be the music director for a college radio station, and I've only heard of four of the top ten. Music journalism has become a race to see who can name the most random bands as OMG TEH BEST EVAR. Farking hipsters.

The Hold Steady
Fleet Foxes
TV On The Radio
Black Keys
Jenny Lewis

Cake Hunter: accordians!

I already know how that will end.

Should have received honorable mention, at least:



/hot as rock

Read this magazine, and quit yer biatchin':



free sample issue (new window)

I knew this would happen.... I suddenly don't know anything about the current music scene. Is that what happens when you hit 40? Is it all vinyl records and telling kids to get off my lawn from here on out?

thermo: Is it all vinyl records

Actually those are cool again so you're good to go.

I heard of all bands there.

COZ I'M AN ANGLOPHILIC.

This is something NME would write.

thermo: I knew this would happen.... I suddenly don't know anything about the current music scene. Is that what happens when you hit 40? Is it all vinyl records and telling kids to get off my lawn from here on out?

40?! Hell, I'm 24 and I didn't know a single one of the Top 10 acts listed. I still listen to new music, but I find it difficult to wade through all the crap. I just wait a year or two to see who's left and then check out their older records.

/I guess it's not really new then...

Best of the unlikely comebacks, at least.

Last time we got one of these lists, I went out an listened to a bunch of samples. None were worth the few minutes I gave them.

I believe Drive-by Truckers was on that last list, and from the recommendations in the thread, I gathered it was a kick-ass rock band. Instead I got a truckload full of nu-country or some such crap.

Gawd, I hate you all.

Carnivore,

I feel out of touch even though I was a 90's kid. I don't even consider some of this list rock. Give me Alter Bridge.

downstairs: ...would like to have a word with you

...can eat a dick because their music is beyond annoying.

and



The list is supposed to be rock and not 8 bands that no one has heard of, right?

thermo: I knew this would happen.... I suddenly don't know anything about the current music scene. Is that what happens when you hit 40? Is it all vinyl records and telling kids to get off my lawn from here on out?

Working with a musician (he has the same day job as me, but plays gigs a couple of times a week at night) helps. I don't know how he managed to do both jobs with very little sleep ...

He's 'switched on' and is a great source of new and unusual stuff. Sometimes his choices are bad, and I think he has padded his iTunes playlist a bit with some stuff simply because it is so fukced up and indie and ... not even what you might call music.

But most of the stuff he recommends are at least worth a few listens.

I also prowl around alternative net radio stations from time to time, just to experience what's being played.

downstairs: Most of these bands will be forgotten- even by their fans- in 20 years. Find any "top 10 albums of 1978" list, and you can't say the same.

This list in the link is one person's own personal best-of list, not a list of popular favorites. Don't let your ignorance of the current music scene let you think that you know what other people will remember and like in 20 years. I know that I still listen to plenty of the music that I would have listed in a best-of 20 years ago (1988), and I'm sure that list would be full of bands that you'd have dismissed as fleeting fancies at the time.

I'm sure there were plenty of lists from 1978 that were packed with disco albums and sensitive singer-songwriter fare that have long been forgotten.

Grey Street: Music journalism has become a race to see who can name the most random bands as OMG TEH BEST EVAR. Farking hipsters.

This.

Maybe I'm just getting old, but they still make rock music? I thought they stopped that a while ago.

1. Put snakes on plane: Last time we got one of these lists, I went out an listened to a bunch of samples. None were worth the few minutes I gave them.

I believe Drive-by Truckers was on that last list, and from the recommendations in the thread, I gathered it was a kick-ass rock band. Instead I got a truckload full of nu-country or some such crap.

Gawd, I hate you all.

I'm guessing The Black Keys wasn't on that earlier list.

Check out THIS (new window)

...or THIS (new window)

...or THIS (new window)

/serious ass
//it gets kicked