Heard of most of them, own half, off to listen to the others and decide if I want them, too.

/ha

Own one of them, would listen to two others, heard of a 4th. And that's it. Am I really out of touch with current music, or are those a bunch of unknowns?

All of that is crap. Hannah Montana is the best ever!

Heard of most of them. Listened to several of them today alone.

Subby- pull your pants up and stop wearing your hat at a jaunty angle.

looks like my Ipod-#4 is awesome

I've heard of most of 'em. Put the Rush albums away for a month, subby. There's a lot of great music out there.

yet another reason i prefer "sound opinions" to "all songs considered:" all songs considered put the new my morning jacket album as one of the years best, while sound opinions rightfully called it one of the year's biggest turkeys (one they were highly anticipating but ended up hating).

Have we forgotten so soon? (pops)

Wow, I saw most of those artists this summer at festivals and have a ton of that stuff on the iPod.

/just realized I'm a pretentious asshole

I've only heard of four of the artists, but then I'm an old, out-of-touch fart, so who cares?

/Downloading now.

oldebayer: I've only heard of four of the artists, but then I'm an old, out-of-touch fart, so who cares?

/Downloading now.

I've listened to zero of those songs and heard of a view of them, but then I'm not old, very out-of-touch, and listen to about 10 artists so who cares?

The top 99:

1 Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
2 Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
3 Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
4 TV on the Radio, Dear Science
5 Death Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs
6 MGMT, Oracular Spectacular
7 Flight of the Conchords, Flight of the Conchords
8 My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges
9 Coldplay, Viva La Vida
10 Sigur Ros, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
11 She & Him, Volume One
12 Okkervil River, The Stand Ins
13 Beck, Modern Guilt
14 Juno, Soundtrack
15 The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely
16 Girl Talk, Feed the Animals
17 The Black Keys, Attack and Release
18 Kings of Leon, Only By The Night
19 Conor Oberst, Conor Oberst
20 Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue
21 The Hold Steady, Stay Positive
22 Bob Dylan, Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
23 Blitzen Trapper, Furr
24 Portishead, Third
25 David Byrne & Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
26 Of Montreal, Skeletal Lamping
27 Cat Power, Jukebox
28 Santogold, Lights Out
29 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
30 Wolf Parade, At Mount Zoomer
31 Punch Brothers, Punch
32 Ray LaMontagne, Gossip in the Grain
33 Drive-by Truckers, Brighter Than Creations Dark
34 Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Cardinology
35 Ra Ra Riot, Rhumb Line
36 Gnarls Barkley, Odd Couple
37 Calexico, Carried to Dust
38 Dr. Dog, Fate
39 Lucinda Williams, Little Honey
40 Devotchka, A Mad And Faithful Telling
41 Weezer, Weezer (Red Album)
42 Frightened Rabbit, Midnight Organ Fight
43 The Walkmen, You & Me
44 Mates of State, Re-Arrange Us
45 The Dodos, Visiter
46 M83, Saturdays=Youth
47 The Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride
48 Adele, 19
49 Deerhunter, Microcastle
50 Shearwater, Rook
51 Randy Newman, Harps and Angels
52 Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid
53 Department of Eagles, In Ear Park
54 Thao Nguyen, We Brave Bee Stings and All
55 Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours
56 Alajandro Escovedo, Real Animal
57 Nada Surf, Lucky
58 Duffy, Rockferry
59 Flobots, Fight With Tools
60 Cold War Kids, Loyalty to Loyalty
61 Bonnie Prince Billy, Lie Down in the Light
62 Black Kids, Partie Traumatic
63 Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Real Emotional Trash
64 Sun Kil Moon, April
65 Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III
66 Los Campesinos!, Hold On Now, Youngster
67 Magnetic Fields, Distortion
68 The Helio Sequence, Keep Your Eyes Ahead
69 Nine inch Nails, Ghosts I-IV
70 The Mars Volta, The Bedlam in Goliath
71 Lykke Li, Youth Novels
72 Cloud Cult, Feel Good Ghosts
73 Beach House, Devotion
74 Railroad Earth, Amen Corner
75 Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles
76 Islands, Arm's Way
77 Hercules and Love Affair, Hercules and Love Affair
78 Man Man, Rabbit Habits
79 The Raveonettes, Lust Lust Lust
80 Amanda Palmer, Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
81 Silver Jews, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
82 Spiritualized, Songs in A&E
83 Why?, Alopecia
84 Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
85 No Age, Nouns
86 Delta Spirit, Ode to Sunshine
87 Oasis, Dig Out Your Soul
88 Plants and Animals, Parc Avenue
89 Jolie Holland, The Living and the Dead
90 Dengue Fever, Venus on Earth
91 Deerhoof, Offend Maggie
92 Metallica, Death Magnetic
93 Juana Molina, Un Dia
94 Foals, Antidotes
95 The Fireman, Electric Arguments
96 Laura Marling, Alas I Cannot Swim
97 I'm From Barcelona, Who Killed Harry Houdini?
98 Lightspeed Champion, Falling Off Lavender Bridge
99 Parts & Labor, Receivers

Here are some of my faves from 2008, in no particular order.

I don't feel very original because most of them are on other peoples lists, too:

TV On The Radio - "Dear Science"
Calexico - "Carried To Dust"
Beck - "Modern Guilt"
Elbow - "The Seldom Seen Kid"
Supergrass - "Diamond Hoo Ha"
The Kooks - "Konk"
MGMT - "Oracular Spectacular"
Dr. Dog - "Fate"
The Breeders - "Mountain Battles"
Oasis - "Dig Out Your Soul" (I know, I know, but I like the record, OK?)
She & Him - "Volume One"


--And these guys I wouldn't normally mention with the above, but they have some catchy songs, and I have to give credit to Local Band that Made it (somewhat) Big in '08:
Cloud Cult - "Feel Good Ghosts" (Minneapolis)

big_pth: Heard of most of them. Listened to several of them today alone.

This.

Of course I listen to The Current which just happens to be the local Minnesota Public Radio station and they play all of these artists on a daily basis.

/Founding and continuing member

TV on the Radio is awesome. Beck never disappoints (IMO). Portishead is still around? Going to have to get Conor Oberst's cd, loves Bright Eyes

Subby you fail.

I have 20 of the 25.

Who hasn't heard of Bob Dylan, My Morning Jacket, Coldplay, Beck, Sigur Ros?

///Sigur FREAKING Ros!!

This Fleet Foxes stuff seems really bland. Am I missing something? I mean it's cool that it sounds sort of like Simon & Garfunkel records, but ... ?

paradroid: This Fleet Foxes stuff seems really bland. Am I missing something? I mean it's cool that it sounds sort of like Simon & Garfunkel records, but ... ?

Let's be honest... Simon & Garfunkel are kinda bland too. They're just farking awesome musicians. (Well, Paul is.) I think it's the same thing with Fleet Foxes - you don't have to spit blood and play power chords at 200 bpm. They're a little boring, sure, but they write good songs, and it takes all kinds.

List fails by not mentioning this:

OMFG, what's up with his boring indie shiat? Where's Chinese Democracy, Death Magnetic and Disturbed?!


/just wanted to get this out of the way.
///Sigur Ros is boring as fark all.

Alternative Title: Coachella 2009 Lineup Leaked

shanrick: Subby- pull your pants up and stop wearing your hat at a jaunty angle.

First GIS for "jaunty hat"



On a different topic, I've heard of 15 of the 25, but only because I started listening to my local indie rock station this year. I know this is an NPR list, but damn, that is some wussy music. Good every now and then, but you've got to temper it with some hard rock.

The list needs Raphael Saadiq.

This list, like most top whatever lists, ignores a lot of where the real fresh sounds are coming from. This is to be expected, sadly, even from NPR listeners, who by and large are a lot more adventurous than the average Farker. Sure I'm talking shiat but it's true.

This isn't trolling for you guys that want to discuss GNR, Metallica, and AC/DC ad nauseum. But for those of you interested in challenging yourselves with some great non-mainstream shiat, check out the following artists who released true heat in '08:

Squarepusher
Flying Lotus
Hudson Mohawke
Blu & Exile
Vibe Squad
Neil Landstrumm
Tipper
Prefuse 73
Del the Funkee Homosapien
Ting Tings
Kelly Polar
Daedelus
Samiam
Edit
Cool Kids

I hate to say it, but the new Bloc Party record is hot too.

If you like what Girl Talk is doing, check out Ludachrist and Kill the Noise, both of whom are doing that crazy mash-up shiat way better and not so gimmicky.

This all, of course, in my not so humble opinion. So much great music dropped in 2008 that I can't wait for 2009.

I'm glad Portishead's new album got on the list. It's a great album, and an excellent comeback album after not releasing anything for a decade.

come on subby most FARKERS have heard of at least half of these bands.

/they're cooler than those guuuuuuuys

I'm just gonna get it over with in this thread, and ignore every other goddamn "top ## list for popular music" link that's submitted.

1. Gojira-The Way of all Flesh
2. Enslaved-Vertebrae
3. Bloodbath-The Fathomless Mastery
4. Amon Amarth-Twilight of the Thunder God
5. Opeth-Watershed

LISTEN TO METAL GODDAMMIT

/or not. your call.

311rulez:

///Sigur FREAKING Ros!!

I came here to say something like this.

Bah! I'm so sick of look-how-adorable-I-am Jenny Lewis and Kimya Dawson is-so-cool-because-her-music-was-in-Juno.
I haven't heard the Sigur Ros album yet, but I'm willing to bet it's ridiculously amazing. And I've never heard the Girl Talk album, but he was great in concert.

no mindless self indulgence in the top 100 makes ling-ling get stabby.

seveword: I'm just gonna get it over with in this thread, and ignore every other goddamn "top ## list for popular music" link that's submitted.

1. Gojira-The Way of all Flesh
2. Enslaved-Vertebrae
3. Bloodbath-The Fathomless Mastery
4. Amon Amarth-Twilight of the Thunder God
5. Opeth-Watershed

LISTEN TO METAL GODDAMMIT

/or not. your call.

K, Watershed, worst Opeth album to date.

Okkervil River is fantastic.

But Pop Lie is totally not the best song on the album.

Lost Coastlines blows it away. Twice. With both hands tied behind its back.

I need to listen to the new Portishead. List is lacking Amanda Palmer, The Presets, and the US releases (finally) of IAMX.

Haven't heard of most of them, and after listening to them, I decided it was for a reason.

I can forgive the boring slow ballad-y ones because I just prefer stuff that's more up-tempo, but as for the rest, damn, what happened to coherent songs?

You know the ones, where the lyrics were set to a catchy melody, and it was backed up by instruments all playing along with each other. I just don't get this "everyone kind of does their own thing" sort of music.

All I can say is, NPR's listeners have terrible taste.

Yeah, I suggest you click on those little 'play' links there for the ones you haven't heard. Most of that's some pretty good music, if you like melodies and stuff.

If you're all about the brutal blasting metal noise or fat funky beats, not so much.

Except for The Black Keys, and Dylan, of course, it all sucked.

Get off my lawn.

And all their friends.

eddyatwork: All of that is crap. Hannah Montana is the best ever!

IT'S MILEY!

pop

Here are my favorite records of 2008 (not necessarily recorded in 2008), not on any list, just kind of ran into them...

1. 'When I Was Cruel' Elvis Costello
2. 'Very Best Of' J.J. Cale
3. 'Pretenders' Pretenders
4. 'Essential Steve Earle' Steve Earle
5. 'Psyence Fiction' U.N.K.L.E.

Vampire Weekend at #2?

Gag. Anywhere in the top 100 would make the list a failure. #2 makes it a COLOSSAL failure.

// oh snap!

that list is whiter than an episode of friends

1 Metallica
2 Metallica
3 Metallica
4 Metallica
5 Metallica
6 Metallica
7 Metallica
8 Metallica
9 Metallica
10 Metallica
11 Metallica
12 Metallica
13 Metallica
14 Metallica
15 Metallica
16 Metallica
17 Metallica
18 Metallica
19 Metallica
20 Metallica
21 Metallica
22 Metallica
23 Metallica
24 Metallica
25 Guns n' Roses

So NPR listeners are pseudo-hip and insufferably smug? Who knew?

9mm Parabellum Bullet - VAMPIRE

This is the one band that even my friends who don't listen to Japanese music seem to love. I think they would pass the Farker test too.

I've heard of most of that list, but since I don't have a mangina I don't enjoy listening to them.

Actually this is the first "Best of" list in a while that I actually have heard more than half of the bands. Heard OF being the key word here, though, I only listened to 3 of the albums.

/spends all my time listening to free dubstep and Solid Steel mixes these days

The Onion fellated the TV on the Radio stuff too. Just gave it a listen, and I think it sucks.

But that's just me.