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Music 2008
I admit that I like to look over people’s year end music lists. I will often scour those critics I like the most for some missed gems. I almost always find somebody that I hadn’t heard before. So on the off chance that anyone cares. Here is my best of list for 2008. I compiled by first looking at what came out in 2008 and then by what I played the most. I didn’t do it by a straight play count because I wanted music that came out at the end of the year to have the same chance. Without further ado, here is my album and song list for 2008.
1) Amanda Palmer Who Killed Amanda Palmer 2) Cold War Kids Loyalty To Loyalty 3) The Ting Tings We Started Nothing 4) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! 5) Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue 6) Vermillion Lies What’s In The Box 7) The Knux Remind Me In 3 Days 8) Mother Mother O My Heart 9) TV On The Radio Dear Science 10) Santogold Santgold 11) Jared Mees & the Grown Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine,Children, Money 12) The Dresden Dolls No, Virginia 13) Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords 14) The Cat Empire So Many Nights 15) Firewater The Golden Hour 16) Tilly and the Wall o 17) Blitzen Trapper Furr 18) Okkervil River The Stand Ins 19) Los Campesinos! We are Beautiful, We Are Doomed 20) Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer
There were a bunch that I put on and took off but this is as close as I could come to my favorites of the year. The songs were even worse. I had a huge list and that would have been a terribly long blog entry. I narrowed down to the list below.
Top Songs in no particular order.
1) Something Is Not Right With Me Cold War Kids 2) Guitar Hero Amanda Palmer 3)That’s Not My Name The Ting Tings 4) None Shall Pass Aesop Rock 5) Night Reconnaissance The Dresden Dolls 6) Borneo Firewater 7) Hayloft Mother Mother 8) Who Knows? Dearly Beloved 9) California Dreamer Wolf Parade 10) Fishies The Cat Empire 11) Lost Coastlines Okkervil River 12) Swimming Pools Thao 13) The Business These United States 14) A Killing Machine How I became The Bomb 15) Mr. Weatherman Rebekah Higgs 16) She Comes Vermillion Lies 17) Welcome To The Occupation Cold War Kids 18) Runs In The Family Amanda Palmer 19) Slabtown (Friday Night) Jared Mees & the Grown Children 20) C’mon Baby Say Bang Bang Jane Vain & The Dark Matter 21) Dancing Choose TV On The Radio 22) L.E.S. Artistes Santogold 23) The Beach Dr. Dog 24) Pot Kettle Black Tilly and the Wall 25) Does This Mean You’re Moving On The Airborne Toxic Event 26) I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Black Kids Boyfriend How To Dance 27) Bus Bus Amy Ray 28) Century Eyes Shearwater 29) Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 30) We Are Beautiful, We Los Campesinos! Are Doomed 31) The Next Messiah Jenny Lewis 32) The Vowels, Pt. 2 Why? 33) Dying Is Fine RA Ra Riot 34) The Age Of The Understatement The Last Shadow Puppets 35) Bang! Bang! The Knux 36) Strange Boy Kerli 37) 2 O’Clock Kaki King 38) How I Could Just Kill A Man Charlotte Sometimes
>I know none of those songs/artists! My Uncle is cooler than I am!! Miss you 🙂
>I love that cd by amanda palmer you gave me, my favorite was ampersand, runs in the family, and astronaut(: & me and my friend gage love bang bang by the knux(: