Songs I voted for:
- Cure, The – The Only One
- My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
- Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – More News From Nowhere
- Snowman – We Are The Plague
- Smashing Pumpkins – The Rose March
- Ryan Adams and the Cardinals – Fix It
- Mars Volta, The – Goliath
- TV On The Radio – Golden Age
- Wolf Parade – Bang Your Drum
- Nine Inch Nails – Discipline
I’ll be crossing off the list as some of the songs enter the countdown … hopefully.
While we wait, enjoy some Hall and Oates: Out of Touch.
UPDATE: 4:52pm (WST)
Countdown over, Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire took out #1 … and I managed to not get a single song in the countdown. Go me! … the only artist that made it was ‘Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’, however for another song. Oh well, it was fun for me to sit down and choose 10 songs I loved for 08.
]]>Armed with this new filtered list I was quickly reminded about just how many great, and no so great, records were released into the music market. Without breaking from the tradition of ‘list making’ I cut it down to that perfect double digit number – 10. This even number of records will be the list I would look back on in 2018 and think either: “It’s still a classic now” or “Really? That record”.
So if you’re set to read yet another Top 10 list, read on. Interesting to note that I posted a top 10 albums the other week on my tumblr blog … but since then have realised that there were a few albums I loved more than others. So this is the final, revised version. I swear. So 2008, this is just some of the music you gave me, in no order or preference.
- TV on the Radio – Dear Science
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
- Portishead – Third
- My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
- Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer
- Snowman - The Horse, The Rat And The Swan
- The Cure: 4:13 Dream
- Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - Cardinology
- Fujiya & Miyagi – Lightbulbs
- Okkervil River – The Stand-Ins
As the year ended on December 31st, I listened to my final song for 2008 (The Beatles – Julia) and took a screen shot of my charts on last.fm. With that all done, here are the results …
Top Artists for ’08
No real surprise for number one, everybody knows my relationship with the Smashing Pumpkins but 9060 songs? Let me explain that, why won’t you let me explain! … Majority of that number would have been live shows from the Live Media Archive, but still it is the year the band tour Australia so of course I would have got a bit excited listening to their music. As for the other 14, it was really nothing different than from years gone. The bands that have shaped the last 10+ years of my life. Although I have to say that the two bands for whom my love grew for this year are Okkervil River and Wolf Parade, next year I expect them to be much higher.
Top Tracks for ’08
When I look at this list it reminds me of one thing, the greatest 20 song playlist I made this year. Actually ever. Tracks 1,2,3,5,6,8 and 10 all appeared in this said playlist. The only thing I can say about this playlist is that it went for the right amount of time, the songs flowed so perfectly with sound and tempo. Expect it to appear as a mix one day here.
As previously mentioned Okkervil River really captured my heart this year, a band I had always admired for a few years but something just clicked last year. I can’t explain what it was, or is, but it was like that I finally ‘got them’. Their message was getting through to me and I was picking up the reception loud and clear.
So there is one thing missing, What are the albums of last year? … be patient, they are coming soon.
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