I'll have my list done this weekend but figured we should get the ball rolling.

this is what we call an old school zing

(and the fanclub already has a copy)

I haven't really thought about my list much yet but I do know that between brainbow, mogwai and NIN's Ghosts, instrumental music made a big comeback (at least for me) in 2008.

My 2008 Top 10:

1. Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line
2. Panic at the Disco – Pretty. Odd.
3. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
4. Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
5. Phantom Planet – Raise the Dead
6. Tokyo Police Club – Elephant Shell
7. Sigur Ros – Meo Suo Ieyrum….
8. Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs
9. Bob Dyaln – 2008 Bootleg Series
10. The Cardinals (Ryan Adams) – Cardinology

...and let the judging begin!

1. Dead Congregation- graves of archangels lp (Total Incantation worship. I eat this stuff up.)
2. Revenge- infiltration.downfall.death lp (sketch!)
3. Iron Lung -sex/sexless lp (The only hardcore band that matters to me anymore. Straight up Swans meets Voivod meets No Comment. Makes your "brutal" band look real lame)
4. Arckanum- reinkaos cd- (Dude wears a dumb mask but writes punkish black metal. nasty.)
5. Wovenhand- ten stones lp (the apocalypse never sounded so good.)
6. Spiritualized- songs in a & e lp (way too long between albums. hasn't lost a step)
7. Ignivomous/Tzun Tzu 7" (aussie death metal. More incantation worship.)
8. Oneida- preteen weaponry lp (fuckkkk kraut-out on this shit)
9. Fabulous Diamonds lp (summer hazed)

Still haven't gotten to my Mystifier box set, Hammers of Misfortune lp and some other stuff sitting around.
I'll post more later. I gotta eat.

1) King Matador Franchise: Float On, Float On, Dangerous Spider

2) OAF!: Whoops (collected b-sides)

3) Terri & Someone: This Is Already That

4) Beastron: Flange vs. Swirl

5) Kanser: Above All, A Far Banquet

6) Saxby Chambliss Sextet: I've Been Drinking Whiskey

7) Dorset: Nothing To Celebrate Plus 11

Tevradorn: Semsaron>>>>

9) Did anything good come out this year?

10) Let me know.

11) Szunszpottz: Hey Up!

12) Hung Otters: Dun' Hangin' (In Aught Eight)

13) The Super Desserts (s/t)

14) The Different Strokes: Still Strokin' Differently

15) Ugly Stick: Still Glistening

16) Burn Units: Burnin' 4U

17) Gerry and the Hat Tricks: Elderly and loving it (but hating the incontinence consarn it)

18) HEY, CHECK THIS OUT! I REALLY LIKE THE SHE & HIM RECORD.

19) Robert Pollard & whatever his new bullshit is

20) Jesus Christ I don't even care anymore. I'm sorry I posted this in the first place.

I don't think I am ready to list 10 albums from this year. I know that Lust Lust Lust and the Muslims self titled will be on my list, maybe the Noah and the Whale album, a few others beyond that but really I didn't hear a lot of blow me away albums. I mean, I heard a lot of good albums, but this whole top ten list thing seemed easier in prior years.

yeah, i feel like it was super easy for me to pick out my favorite 2008 columbus music, but i can barely remember anything that really grabbed me in 08....

it also breaks my heart to say that there was a wedding present album that came out this year and i cannot, in good faith, put that on a top-10 list...it's just meh.

hold on, I'm still trying to find something obscure enough.

I tend to be a year behind the times and some of my favorites of 2008 were actually released in 2007.

Favorites of 2008
1. Metallica - Death Magnetic
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
4. Railroad Earth - Amen Corner
5. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
6. TV On The Radio - Dear, Science
7. The Watson Twins - Fire Songs
8. The Walkmen - You And Me

2008 Favorites that came out in 2007
1. Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer
2. Or, The Whale - Light Poles and Pines
3. Bill Frisell & Floratone - Floratone

2008 Just received and really like after few listens
1. Q-Tip - The Renaissance

Most of my list reads like a list of a lot of bands that I used to hate:

10. take no damage: Mushroom Clouds and Silver Linings
9. Two Cow Garage Speaking In Cursive
8. The Sundresses Barkinghaus
7. The Lost Revival Homemade Confetti
6. Weezer Red Album Deluxe
5. REM Accelerate
4. Cold Play Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
3. Death Cab for Cutie Narrow Stairs
2. MGMT Oracular Spectacular
1. The Killers Day and Age

If that new/last Sun album (Dont Let Your Baby Have All the Fun) actually comes out... it shoots to no. 1.

Upon further inspection of posts I think Strummy is my new favorite person.

1. Firewater - The Golden Hour
2. Elvis Costello - Momofuku
3. Byrne and Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
4. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
5. Calexico - Carried to Dust
6. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

(a bunch of old crap)

10. Now That's What I Call Music! 27

These folks all put out music in 2008 that didn't suck, as I understand it:

Fleet Foxes
Beck
American Music Club
Magnetic Fields
Stephen Malkmus
Bonnie Prince Billy
Elvis Costello
Ron Sexsmith
Benji Hughes
Boston Spaceships
Bizzy Bone


local faves would probably have to be Ghost Shirt and Ugly Stick and I hear what the Whiles have coming out soon is fabulous. TJSA, Cheater Slicks were great live performances and I enjoyed some Unholy 2. Everything else I was either too deaf or too drunk to understand at the time or I forgot. Sorry. I'll keep listening.

Huh - did not realize Magnetic Fields put something out.

Sweet.