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Favourite things that weren't albums in 2008

mug_mug_mug [Edit] [Delete] 38 replies 18:44, 14 December '08

Maybe you liked a 7" or a song or a gig or a stupid funny shaped limited edition piece of crap in 2008! Why not write about it and not just make another boring list below?

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    charlottefield live on valentine's day in cambridge. it wasn't long after the record was released, and it happened that the guy doing the sound at the (short lived) cambridge barfly that night was the same guy who mixed their record. so obviously he made them sound absolutely amazing, and also decided to turn the volume up as loud as the building structure would allow. which is the best way to listen to charlottefield, i'd wager. they were electrifying

    also i enjoyed the whole of bestival, because i'd not long finished uni and all my friends were there too. that was pretty amazing

    isibuko | 14 Dec '08, 18:51 | X
  • I had my ears syringed.

    That's probably the best thing that's happened for me this year.

    JGJug | 14 Dec '08, 18:53 | X
    • like

      metaphorically syringed or actually syringed?

      mug_mug_mug @JGJug | 14 Dec '08, 18:54 | X
      • Actually syringed.

        I was almost totally deaf in one ear. Absolutely loads of stuff came out. It was brilliant.

        JGJug @mug_mug_mug | 14 Dec '08, 18:57 | X
        • Nice!

          and screamo-crunk was invented just in time too. I tried one of those ear candles once. It was RUBBISH

          mug_mug_mug @JGJug | 14 Dec '08, 19:07 | X
        • hell yeah

          i did exactly the same thing it was AWEEESSOOMMMEE

          tv_party @JGJug | 14 Dec '08, 19:31 | X
  • i ent to see sic alps and in between songs the singer dude kpt saying we ahve a black president there are good times ahead

    dukebox | 14 Dec '08, 19:11 | X
    • Do you actually believe there

      are good times ahead?

      mug_mug_mug @dukebox | 14 Dec '08, 19:22 | X
      • i heard we were all doomed idk tho

        im tryin to htink of a more wrthwhile contrsibution to this thread sry

        dukebox @mug_mug_mug | 14 Dec '08, 19:24 | X
        • It's ok

          people will probably play music and dance and make lists whatever happens

          mug_mug_mug @dukebox | 14 Dec '08, 19:30 | X
  • mount eerie fog movies dvd

    ThingsThatFly | 14 Dec '08, 19:14 | X
  • I liked the Growing ATP set I downloaded from WFMU

    the other day. I'm dilly dallying over King Khan. I don't want to go alone, and I'm dreading work tomorrow.

    lemonbrickcombo | 14 Dec '08, 19:35 | X
    • I haven't heard that Growing one yet.

      There's a free live set of theirs on emusic as well.

      KK don't strike me as a Sunday night, going to a gig on your own type band.

      JGJug @lemonbrickcombo | 14 Dec '08, 19:43 | X
      • It's great. It's also perfectly timed for my daily commute.

        lemonbrickcombo @JGJug | 14 Dec '08, 19:45 | X
      • Yeah, I'm going to give it a miss.

        3 support bands will mean it'll be a late one. And I don't think I can manage that.

        lemonbrickcombo @JGJug | 14 Dec '08, 20:34 | X
        • Noooooo!

          :(

          mug_mug_mug @lemonbrickcombo | 15 Dec '08, 12:33 | X
        • You missed a fun gig

          King Khan spent a lot of the set in the crowd dancing so I didn't feel too bad being on my own. It was like an hour long version of the toga party scene in Animal House. Was only two support bands.

          Placid_Casual @lemonbrickcombo | 15 Dec '08, 15:09 | X
  • um

    Family Battle Snake - Optimistic Suburbia
    Eric Copeland - Alien in a Garbage Dump
    Evan Miller - Three Improvisations
    Emeralds - basically everything
    Sparkling Wide Pressure - Guide Me Little
    Skullflower/Axolotl - Bored Fortress split
    Sam Goldberg - Out of Body Experiences
    Robedoor - Endlessly Blazing
    Raccoo-oo-oon - Mythos Folkways Vol. IV
    Prurient - Time Began in a Garden
    Pocahaunted & Robedoor - Plays Berkley
    Pocahaunted - basically everything
    Lamborghini Crystal - Roach Motel
    Kria Brekkan - Wildering
    Fantastic Magic - Witch Choir
    Blue Sabbath Black Fiji - The Night Hawk/Metronopig
    Sun Araw - The Phynx
    James Ferraro - Marble Surf
    Wet Hair - Irifi

    probably more.

    boa_constrictor | 14 Dec '08, 19:52 | X
    • the phynx!

      is probably the best thing i've heard this year. it's taken me a lot longer to get into their new 'beach head' lp but i'm enjoying the whole druggy dub thing at the moment (see pocahaunted). i think my favourite thing about this year is finally getting my parents thirty year old pioneer soundsystem to work properly so that i don't have to use the crappy sub-fisher price piece of shit that i've had to play records on. it makes my walls vibrate on the lowest of volumes. my favourite gigs have were probably comets on fire at the luminaire, acid mothers temple at islington mill with gnod and primordial undermind and a whole host of other crazy crap, the approximately intimate universe tour and orchestre de marcel puissant doing their punk tropicalia jazz thing in a tiny basement room in stoke.

      shishapangma @boa_constrictor | 14 Dec '08, 20:20 | X
      • Sun Araw

        sound awesome from the little bit that i've heard but they only seem to have LPs available now and my shite moment of 2008 was destroying my turntable (also nicked from my dad). Rubbish!

        I think the best band I saw this year were the Meat Puppets. Pajama wearing freaks with musical telepathy. Also seeing Harvey Milk play 'I've Got A Love' was awesome. And four short crazy tapes from this guy
        http://www.geocities.com/YOUNGTAPES/
        And the Ducktails single
        And 'Lazer Beam' by Don Carlos. Still.

        mug_mug_mug @shishapangma | 14 Dec '08, 22:05 | X
  • Way more stuff than albums

    I can only think of one album from this year I really liked.

    Water Curses EP
    Pretty much the perfect release from my favourite band, blissful.

    Darkstar - Need you/Squeeze My Lime

    ignited my interest in the ridiculous wealth of fantastic british dance music being released

    Starkey - Remix of Lilyliver by Darkstar

    Good music

    Mujava - Township Funk

    Yeah

    Eric Copeland - Alien In A Garbage Dump

    Most stuff released on Hyperdub

    Other things my brain isn't storing

    millionaire | 14 Dec '08, 20:19 | X
  • It's not music but

    Wall.E

    Ha.

    st_nick_ | 14 Dec '08, 20:42 | X
  • Hardcore girls

    Ha ha ha.

    Zapsta | 14 Dec '08, 20:43 | X
  • just one thing really

    KayakingCabble | 14 Dec '08, 23:47 | X
    • shit i hit return by mistake

      anyways as i was going to say

      Juan Maclean - Happy House
      no question the best single track i've heard this year, can't help but dance to it

      KayakingCabble @KayakingCabble | 14 Dec '08, 23:49 | X
  • The reformation of both

    My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus Lizard

    ClamingToBeOnTele | 15 Dec '08, 00:28 | X
    • The MBV gig I saw was amazing

      It was almost as loud as everyone on here said it was

      mug_mug_mug @ClamingToBeOnTele | 15 Dec '08, 12:33 | X
  • It was so hot!

    Sometimes even too hot for English types. I had about eight ice creams in the couple of hours waiting for the rest of wor chalet to turn up. But yes the two that I went to were extremely good. Last week's was the best one yet!

    mug_mug_mug @ady_f | 15 Dec '08, 12:41 | X
    • All the Dubstep 12" I have collected

      each one of them brings me so much joy and bass.

      jimitheexploder | 15 Dec '08, 15:11 | X
      • this gig with The Mae Shi and JoFo

        http://thesonicminefeild.blogspot.com/2008/05/mae-shi-johnny-foreigner-loinheart.html

        alot of fun!

        jimitheexploder @jimitheexploder | 15 Dec '08, 15:12 | X
    • MBVMBVMBVMBVMBVMBVMBV

      Oh yeah, the new Maps & Atlases EP and Sun Giant were pretty cool as well.

      theskysawfulblue | 15 Dec '08, 15:35 | X
    • I liked that gig too

      I think I prefer it when the people playing with Corsano aren't as horrendously loud so he can play the chimes and stuff. Maybe i'm getting old :( The Rats sound coo

      mug_mug_mug @wishpig | 18 Dec '08, 13:37 | X
    • The packaging to Skeletal Lamping

      was better than the music contained therein

      CiderEagle | 18 Dec '08, 13:29 | X
    • The Night Marchers playing Scene Report followed by Fisting the Fanbase

      at the 100 Club. Best thing ever.

      shucks | 18 Dec '08, 13:41 | X
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