[DudeAsInCool]

Filter's Top 10 Albums of the Year

1. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. Dr. Dog - Fate
4. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
5. Foals - Antidotes
6. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
7. She And Him - Volume One
8. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
9. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors
10 The Dears - Missiles

Source: NME

[DudeAsInCool]

The Observer

1. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Amadou And Mariam – Welcome To Mali
3. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
4. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
5. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
6. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
7. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
8. Kanye West – 808s And Heartbreak
9. Portishead – Third
10. TV On The Radio – Dear Science

Source: NME

[DudeAsInCool]

The Sunday Times

1. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
2. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
3. Paul Weller – 22 Dreams
4. Nick Cave – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
5. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
6. Aidan John Moffat – I Can Hear Your Heart
7. Al Green – Lay It Down
8. Kanye West – 808s And Heartbreak
9. REM – Accelerate
10. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges

Source: NME

[DudeAsInCool]

Pitchfork

1. Deerhunter – Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
2. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
3. No Age - Nouns
4. Hercules And Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair
5. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
6. DJ Rupture - Uproot
7. Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common Life
8. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
9. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
10. Portishead – Third

Source: NME

[DudeAsInCool]

THE PUNK GUY'S FAVORITE RECORDS OF 2008

Rosetta - Wake / Lift
31knots - Worried Well
Bon - Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Lil’ Wayne - tha Carter 3
Horse Feathers - House with No Name
ASS - My get up and go just got up and went LP (Sweden’s Andreas Söderström)
Russian Circles - Station
Portishead - Third
This Will Destroy You - s/t
the Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath
The Grey Daturas - Return to Disruption
Detektivbyrån - WermlandThe Jimmy Cake - Spectre and Crown
The Black Angels -Directions to see a Ghost
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum end
Asher Roth - The Greenhouse Mixtape

SOME RUNNER UPS
… And You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead - Festival Thyme EP, Mammatus - The Coast Explodes, Deerhunter - Microcastles, OM - Subpop 7inch, Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull, Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP and a few more.

Read the reviews @ The Punk Guy (With links to mp3s, videos, websites, etc)

[DudeAsInCool]

NPR Listeners Pick 2008's Best Music

NPR listeners cast tens of thousands of votes in the All Songs Considered music poll. You nominated 100 albums. Here are the votes:







You can listen to various songs and download the podcast which discusses the selections right HERE.

[DudeAsInCool]

NPR Listeners Pick 2008's Best Music

NPR listeners cast tens of thousands of votes in the All Songs Considered music poll. You nominated 100 albums. Here are the Top 25:

01. Fleet Foxes
Album: Fleet Foxes [Bonus Tracks]
Song: White Winter Hymnal

02. Vampire Weekend
Album: Vampire Weekend
Song: A-Punk

03. Bon Iver
Album: For Emma, Forever Ago
Song: Skinny Love

04. TV on the Radio
Album: Dear Science
Song: Halfway Home

05. Death Cab for Cutie
Album: Narrow Stairs
Song: Cath...

06. MGMT
Album: Oracular Spectacular [Bonus Features]
Song: Time to Pretend

07. Flight of the Conchords
Album: Flight of the Conchords
Song: Business Time

08. My Morning Jacket
Album: Evil Urges
Song: Evil Urges
My Morning Jacket's roots lie in distinctly American music forms (country, folk, classic rock), all wrapped in reverb and Jim James' soaring voice. Evil Urges, the band's fifth studio album since it formed in Kentucky in 1998, is all over the sonic map for some listeners. But it's also My Morning Jacket's most ambitious and epic album.

09. Coldplay
Album: Viva la Vida
Song: Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love

10. Sigur Rós
Album: Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
Song: Inní Mér Syngur Vitleysingur

11. She & Him
Album: Volume One
Song: Change Is Hard

12. Okkervil River
Album: The Stand Ins
Song: Pop Lie

13. Beck
Album: Modern Guilt
Song: Chemtrails
Will this guy ever run out of catchy guitar riffs and funk-powered grooves? Modern Guilt comes nearly 15 years after Beck released Mellow Gold, and it easily stands up against his finest work. Produced by Danger Mouse, Modern Guilt is fresh, soulful and fun.

14. Kimya Dawson and Antsy Pants
Album: Juno (Soundtrack)
Song: Tree Hugger

15. The Raconteurs
Album: Consolers of the Lonely
Song: Many Shades of Black

16. Girl Talk
Album: Feed the Animals
Song: In Step

17. The Black Keys
Album: Attack & Release
Song: Psychotic Girl

18. Kings of Leon
Album: Only by the Night
Song: Manhattan

19. Conor Oberst
Album: Conor Oberst
Song: Lenders in the Temple

20. Jenny Lewis
Album: Acid Tongue
Song: Acid Tongue

21. The Hold Steady
Album: Stay Positive
Song: Constructive Summer

22. Bob Dylan
Album: Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
Song: Dreamin' of You

23. Blitzen TrapperArtist: Blitzen Trapper
Album: Furr
Song: Furr

24. Portishead
Album: Third
Song: The Rip

25. Brian Eno / David ByrneArtist: Brian Eno / David Byrne
Album: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Song: Strange Overtones

You can listen to select songs and download the podcast which discusses the selections right HERE.

[DudeAsInCool]

Doubtful Sounds "THE BEST OF 2008"

25. Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothin’ And I Still Got Most Of It Left

24. Joan As Police Woman - To Survive

23. 2562 - Aerial

22. TV On The Radio - Dear, Science

21. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

20. Harvey Milk - Life, The Best Game In Town

19. Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin

18. Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea

17. Portishead - Third

16. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins

15. Jay Reatard - Matador Singles 08

14. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

13. Wovenhand - Ten Stones

12. Giant Sand - proVISIONS

11. Chad Van Gaalen - Soft Airplane

10. Beach House - Devotion

9. Boris - Smile (Japan version)

8. Vetiver - Thing Of The Past

7. The Drones - Havilah

6. The War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues

5. m83 - Saturdays=Youth

4. The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers

3. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull

2. Pete & The Pirates - Little Death

1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

Check out Doubtful Sounds

[DudeAsInCool]

LineThroughLines: The Top 30 (or 41) Albums of 2008

#31-41 in random order: The New Frontiers - Mending, The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride, Lovedrug - The Sucker Punch Show, Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge, The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead, Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping, The Dodos - Visiter, The Dears - Missiles, Coldplay - Viva La Vida..., Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts, Brooke Waggoner - Heal for the Honey

30. Nada Surf - Lucky
29. Elbow - The Seldom-Seen Kid
28. Domingo - s/t
27. Ben Sollee - Learning to Bend
26. Mark Kozalek - Finally
25. Annuals - Fun
24. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
23. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
22. Sam Sparro - s/t
21. +/- - Xs On Your Eyes
20. French Kicks - Swimming
19. The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues
18. Beck - Modern Guilt
17. Fleet Foxes - s/t
16. Ray LaMontagne - Gossip in the Grain
15. Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
14. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Animal!/Not Animal
13. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
12. Flight of the Conchords - s/t
11. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
10. The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed
9. Chris Merritt - Pixie and the Bear
8. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
7. Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line
6. Copeland - You Are My Sunshine
5. Empire of the Sun - s/t
4. Q-Tip - the Renaissance
3. Jamie Lidell - Jim
2. Shearwater - Rook
1. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight

Read the review @ LineThroughLiines

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[DudeAsInCool]

I Rock Cleveland's Year End Extravaganza Bonanza: 2008's Top Albums

1. Black Mountain
2. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
3. Earth
4. Boris
5. Fucked Up
6. The Dutchess and The Duke
7. Vampire Weekend
8. Spiritualized
9. Jay Reatard
10. Prisonshake
11. Gentleman Jesse and His Men
12. No Age
13. Deerhunter
14. Black Keys
15. Grails
16. Times New Viking
17. Sic Alps
18. Sloan
19. Boston Spaceships
20. The Dreadful Yawns
21. The Black Angels
22. The Verve
23. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan
24. Army Navy
25. Parts and Labor

Check out the offerings at I Rock Cleveland

[DudeAsInCool]

EAR FARM’s Top 8 EPs of 2008

"Wikipedia defines an EP as “a vinyl record, CD, or music download which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as an LP. Usually, an EP has around 10–28 minutes of music, a single has up to 10 minutes, and an album has 30–80 minutes.”

Animal Collective - Water Curses (MP3: “Water Curses”)
Battle of Mice/Jesu - Split (MP3: “The Bishop” by Battle of Mice)
Goes Cube - Not What We Thought (MP3: “Goes Cube Song 57″)
Final Fantasy - Spectrum, 14th Century (MP3: “The Butcher”)
The Laughing - Jungle EP (MP3: “The Canopy”)
Sean Bones - Easy Street (MP3: “Easy Street”)
Tanya Morgan - The Bridge (MP3: “The Bridge” (featuring Elucid))
Violens - V (MP3: “Violent Sensation Descends”)

Read the reviews @ Earfarm

[DudeAsInCool]

New York Post's Top 10 Albums of 2008

1. "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," Coldplay

2. "Day and Age," the Killers

3. "Tha Carter III," Lil Wayne

4. "Partie Traumatic," the Black Kids

5. "Chinese Democracy," Guns N' Roses

6. "Attack & Release," the Black Keys

7. "Two Men With the Blues," Wynton Marsalis & Willie Nelson

8. "Rockferry," Duffy

9. "The Mande Variations," Toumani Diabate

10. "Sounds Eclectic: The Next One," Various Artists

Honorable Mentions

* "Funhouse," PINK

* "Hope at the Hideout," Mavis Staples

* "Black Ice," AC/DC

* "One Kind Favor," B.B. King

* "Around the Bend," Randy Travis

Read the review @ The NY Post

[DudeAsInCool]

Done Waiting's "Favorite Albums, Songs and Concerts of 2008"

1. Florence and the Machine, Live @ SXSW & Kiss With a Fist (single)

2. The Dodos, Visiter (album)

3. Times New Viking, Rip it Off (album)

4. Gnarls Barkley, The Odd Couple (album)

5. Los Campesinos!, Hold On Now, Youngster and We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (albums)

6. Columbus Discount Records, The Columbus Discount Singles Club Year 1

7. Langhorne Slim, Langhorne Slim (album)

8. Alina Simone, Everyone is Crying Out to Me, Beware (album)

9. Two Cow Garage, Speaking in Cursive (album)

10. Envelope, Shark Bolt (album)

11. Vivian Girls, Vivian Girls (album)

12. The Hold Steady, Stay Positive (album)

13. Moon High, Moon High (album)

Check out the reviews and samples at Done Waiting

[Shawn]

Redneck4sure, on Nov 21 2008, 04:49 PM, said:

Gnarls Barkley and Grace Jones were the only 2 in that entire post that I have ever heard of.

....and I'm proud of it.

Half the time I think that's the point.

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Look at me, I'm so refined and hip.

[DudeAsInCool]

Shawn, on Dec 17 2008, 05:04 PM, said:

Half the time I think that's the point.

You can sample a lot of the various bands at some of the websites. Worth a quick cruise...