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Earlier this week, we had a discussion about your favourite eight albums of 2008 (and the DiS board's poll has already begun over this'a way!) Whilst our end of year list is due at the end of next week and our core editorial staff are busy compiling their own mix-tapes, we thought it about time that we got down to the nitty-gritty details of the few minutes which made everything make sense for you this year.
We want to know what your top eight tracks were. What had you dancing out of bed in the morning or repeatedly reaching for the again-again button? We want to discover which of those few beautiful combinations of chord progressions had you lurching for the nearest Kleenex.
My Favourite Songs from 2008:
1 Death Cab for Cutie 'I Will Possess Your Heart'
From the album Narrow Stairs
Partly because a song like this was somewhat unexpected but mostly because it stalked me all summer long. It chased me across America and heaved my arms aloft during the gaps 'tween bands at various festivals. Yeah, I admit, it languishes in extreme bookish-emo territory but give it a few seconds of its eight minutes or so and the transcendental throb mixed with that desperate urgency of someone slowly drowning in grain, has something otherworldly that just about makes up for the fact that there's no Postal Service record on the immediate horizon.
2 Friendly Fires 'Paris'
From the their self-titled album.
It has been twelve months since my last confession... that this is song of the year. Again. A few weeks back, experimenting, as you do, I listened to daytime Radio 1, mostly to see whether it was all sub-Peter Cook jokes about muslim lesbians. What I didn't bargain for was Fearne Cotton filling two minutes of airtime raving about how much she loves this recently re-released song with the glorious realisation that this band have (finally) crossed-over. They've found their throng of confetti-gun-toting fans, been snapped up by the folks at _XL_ and released one of the best mainstream-friendly debut albums from a British band for quite sometime.
3 The Kills 'Black Balloon'
From the album Midnight Boom
Possibly the most adroit track the band have ever recorded. It ends with Alison Mosshart cooing not unlike Metric's Emily Haines. Couldn't find an official video or any good live footage of the track but I did find these kids messing around with a camera, with the song as the soundtrack:
take it back from miguel on Vimeo.
4 Deerhunter 'Nothing Ever Happened' from the album Microcastle
5 Cut Copy 'Out There On the Ice' taken from the album In Ghost Colours
6 Panic at the Disco 'That Green Gentleman (Things Have Changed)' from the album Pretty.Odd.
7 Hauschka 'Blue Bicycle' from the album Ferndorf
8 The Raveonettes 'Dead Sound' from the album Lust, Lust, Lust
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01: volcano! - Africa Just Wants To Have Some Fun
02: Why? - These Few Presidents
03: Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow, Blue
04: Johnny Flynn - The Box
05: Mogwai - Batcat
06: Palms - Der Koenig
07: Shit 'n' Shine - Toilet Door Tits
08: Anni Rossi - Wheelpusher
Off the top of my head
1. Animal Collective - Water Curses
2.Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
3. Gang Gang Dance - Princes
4. High Places - Shared Islands
5. Times NewViking - Teen Drama
6. Why? - The Vowels Part 2
7. Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
8. Fuck Buttons - Sweet love for Planet Earth
I cant work an exact order but...
Hot Chip- Ready For The Floor
Foals- Red Socks Pugie
Those Dancing Days- Hitten
MGMT- Kids
Wild Beasts- Devil's Crayon
Elbow- Grounds For Divorce
Dananananaykroyd- Pink Sabbath
1. MGMT - Time to Pretend
2. Sam Sparrow - Black and Gold
3. Johnny Foreigner - Salt, Pepa and Spinderella
4. Los Campesinos! - My Year in Lists (oh the joyful irony)
5. Bon Iver - Wolves, Pt II.
6. Conor Oberst - Money Lenders in the Temple
7. Crystal Castles - Air War
8. Vampire Weekend - Walcott
BONUS TRACK
9. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
1. Why? - Simeon's Dilemma
2. The Mars Volta - Wax Simulacra
3. Flying Lotus - GNGBNG
4. The Sound Of Animals Fighting - The Heraldic Beak of the Manufacturer's Medallion
5. Dananananaykroyd - Pink Sabbath
6. Flying Lotus - Parisian Goldfish
7. Gang Gang Dance - Bebay
8. Cadence Weapon - True Story
In no particular order
1. Screaming Tea Party - Today is the day
2. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
3. Wild Beasts - Devils Crayon
4. Sons of Noel and Adrian - The Wreck is not a boat
5. Fleet foxes - Mykonos (however you spell that!)
6. Woodpigeon - Home is a... (was that this year)
7. Hot Silk Pockets - Panda Eyes
8. Something off the Mountain goats new one that was early this year wasn't it..
I should never write in the top blah..I lost interest before the end every time!
Too many to choose from but here goes...
1. Portishead - Machine Gun
2. Exit Calm - We're On Our Own
3. The Wave Pictures - I Remembered
4. Model Morning - This Town
5. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices
6. Wooden Shjips - Losin' Time
7. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Come Saturday
8. The Domino State - What's The Question
Almost made it...Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, M83 - We Own The Sky, The Raveonettes - Dead Sound, White Lies - Death, MGMT - Kids, Chairlift - Bruises, The Black Angels - You On The Run, School Of Seven Bells - My Cabal.
These...
1. Ladyhawk - I Don't Always Know What You're Saying
2. Why? - Song of the Sad Assassin
3. Portishead - Machine Gun
4. dEUS - Oh Your God
5. One Day As A Lion - Last Letter
6. Deerhunter - Nothing Happened
7. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - We Call Upom the Author
8. No Age - Teen Creeps
I didn't think about these to much but it will do just fine
1. Peverelist - Clunk Click Every Trip (Punch Drunk)
I love it so much, rolling beats, deep mellodies, masses of tention and a hell of a pay off.
2. Rustie - Zig Zag (Wire Block)
Wonky as hell and full of bleeps, it makes me fall over and dance all at once. It's like a sugar rush.
3. Kode 9 & L.D. - Bad (Hyperdub)
A dubstep funky hybrid from two amazing producers, just brilliant.
4. Starkey - Spacewalk (Planet Mu)
Perfect end of the night number that is both really happy and bouncy but with a sad tone to it.
5. Pangaea - Router (Hessle Audio)
Soulful future garage manuvas from Leeds, maybe the most emotional and beautiful dubstep track since Burial.
6. Apple - Siegaliser (white label)
funkyfunkyfunkyfunky dirty funkyfunkyfunkyfunky grimey funkyfunkyfunkyfunky funky is making waves.
7. Darkstar - Need You (Hyperdub)
huge bass and some of hee best vocoder work I have heard in ages sublime track.
8. Shackleton - Shortwave (Skull Disco)
R.I.P. Skull Disco :(
Mine were
1. Chad VanGaalen - Phantom Anthills
2. Air France - No Excuses
3. Constantines - Trans Canada
4. Poni Hoax - Hypercommunication (Jaokim Remix)
5. Vivian Girls - Tell The World
6. Lil' Wayne - I'm Me
7. Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
8. Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
Here's mine...
01 - The Hold Steady - Slapped Actress
02 - Mother Mother - Arms Tonite
03 - Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
04 - of Montreal - Beware Our Nubile Miscreants
05 - TV on the Radio - Halfway Home
06 - Quinn Walker - Smile For Me
07 - Fleet Foxes - Meadowlark
08 - RATATAT - Imperials
09 - Stephen Malkmus - Wicked Wanda
10 - She & Him - Black Hole
do they have to be singles?
Mystery Jets - Flakes
Metronomy - Heartbreaker
Neon Neon - Belfast
Will.i.am - Heartbreaker
Girls Aloud - Can't Speak French
Foals - Red Sock Pugie
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Meeting Place
Black Kids - Hurricane Jane
I like indie as well...
but this year has been my get excited about dance music again year and these tracks don't appear on albums for the most part.
indie tracks of the year:
Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happens
Atlas Sound - Scraping Past
Volcano! - Palimpsests
This Town Needs Guns - Lemur
Rolo Tomassi - Nine
Worriedaboutsatan - Evil Dogs
Adebisi Shank - Minirockers
The Mae Shi - Run To Your Grave
1. Eugene Mcguinness - Those Old Black And White Movies Were True
2. Gutter Twins - Idle Hands
3. Bob Dylan - 'cross The Green Mountain
4. Neon Neon - I Told Her On Alderaan
5. Elbow - Starlings
6. Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected
7. Mogwai - Batcat
8. Baddies - Battleships
Not in order, just a list...
Dananananaykroyd - Pink Sabbath
Deerhoof - The Tears Of Music And Love
Elbow - Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth
Pulled Apart By Horses - Meat Balloon
Dinosaur Pile-Up - My Rock N Roll
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
mine
8. Late of The Pier - Focker/Heartbeat - couldnt decide which track. 2 perfect singles on a solid, but slightly patchy album.
7. Tokyo Police Club - In A Cave - incredible, perfect single on a solid, if unremarkable album. The lyrics are lovely.
6. Bloc Party - Signs - tubular bells for the post-nu-rave generation? The vocals hit a perfect spot on occassion in this track.
5. Wiley - If you're going out, i'm going out too - summer party anthem! Grime-lite!
4. Food For Animals - Shhhy - the best noise-hop ever. Hail.
3. TV On The Radio - DLZ - the album is total solid, but this is a shining star of a tune. Sublime.
2. Throats - Hibernate - show me a better hardcore or metal song this year and i'll show you the door. The ending is jawdropping and it contains at least another 3 beyond insane riffs from heavy heaven.
1. Frankmusik - Done Done - this was a fucking b-side to a tour-only single. This is one of the best songs ever, nevermind just this year.
These is mine
1. The Mae Shi - Lamb and Lion
2. Elle s'appelle - Little Flame
3: F*ck Buttons - Sweet Love for Planet Earth
4: The Death Set - Negative Thinking
5: Russian Circles - Harper Lewis
6: Frightened Rabbit - Modern Leper
7: Nico Muhly - The Only Tune, Pt. 3 (well, all three really)
8: Pope Joan - Pocket of Change
It's ruddy hard whittling it down to 8 though
Little Flame was 2007
I got it for Christmas last year. :)
top of my headdd...
Mystery Jets - Young Love
Guillemots - Get Over It
Wild Beasts - Devil's Crayon
Laura Marling - Night Terror
Johnny Flynn - The Box
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
I second nearly all of these
Will.I.Am though? Urrgghh
Summit like, but not exactly:
Nick Cave etc - We Call Upon The Author To Explain
Sigur Ros - Gobbeldigook
Parenthetical Girls - Song For Ellie Greenwich
of Montreal - the one about the guy who fucked yr sister in an alleyway, etc, i cant remember what its called
Wild Beasts - She Purred Whilst I Grrred
Friendly Fires - Paris
Los Campesinos! - We Exhaled and Rolled Our Eyes in Unison
Slow Club - Me and You!
...
1. MGMT - Kids
2. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire
3. Late Of The Pier - Bathroom Gurgle
4. Foals - Balloons
5. Friendly Fires - Paris
6. Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone (Black Kids RMX)
7. Chairlift - Planet Health
8. HEALTH - Triceratops (CFCF remix)
The intro to Nothing Ever Happened
reminds me of Tin Soldiers by Stiff Little Fingers.
Basically
1=Rogue wave - Harmonium
2=Why? - Simeon's Dilemma
3=Envy Corps - Walls
4=Death Cab - Cath
5=Jofo - Yes you talk too fast
6=Okkervil River - Blue Tulip
7=Errors - Pump
8=Mates Of State - Help Help
so hard to choose
1. The War On Drugs – A Needle In Your Eye # 16
2. The Mae Shi – Kingdom Come
3. m83 - Kim & Jessie
4. This Town Needs Guns – Crocodile
5. Cats in Paris – Flamethrowers
6. Maps & Atlases – The Most Trustworthy Tin Cans
7. Crystal Castles - Untrust Us
8. Zomby – Strange Fruit
so many wonderful tracks omitted :(
these
sing again - chris walla
crimewave - crystal castles
cath... - dcfc
starlings - elbow
on board - friendly fires
sex on fire - kol
can you tell - ra ra riot
m79 - vampire weekend
the following
1. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
2. Bon Iver - Lump Sum
3. Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor
4. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
5. MGMT - Kids
6. Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
7. El Guincho - Palmitos Park
8. Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed
Off the top of me head and in no particular order of preference..
Lykke Li - "Breaking It Up" - My artist of the year, taken from my album of the year,
TV on The Radio - "Crying" - Out on a limb with the vocals with spectacular results.
Johnny Foreigner - "Salt, Pepper n Spinderella" - "Bring in the real drums" I heart this band so much..
Late Of the Pier - "Heartbeat" So much fun listening to this LP, could of been any one of 3 tracks.
Wildbirds and Peacedrums - "My Heart" A memorable, remarkable and emotional tune. A fervent Joy!!
Kings Of Leon - "Sex On Fire" From the most consistent band in the world right now.
Death Cab For A Cutie - "I Will Possess Your Heart" - Really rather cool, and rather special!! DiS Knows....
Take That - "Greatest Day" I shouldn't but I do!! Great lead vocal and harmonies
One outright clear winner for me...
1: M83 - Graveyard Girl
Everything that is M83 distilled into just under 5 minutes of Shoegaze/New Wave pop perfection, the climax piece from the best John Hughes movie never made.
2: Another Day - Jamie Lidell
More Stevie Wonder than Stevie Wonder's been for 20 odd years, this is the opener and set up for one of the year's best yet oddly overlooked albums.
3: Sebastien Tellier - Divine (DANGER Remix)
Take one daft French bastard. Add another daft French bastard. Blend silly Doo-wop with bone crunching, synapse shattering Electro. Dance like a motherfucker.
4: Elbow - The Lonliness of a Tower Crane Driver
It might not have the loveydoviness of Mirrorball or the Football Crowd chantability of One Day Like This, but ...Tower Crane Driver is the emotional peak of 'The Seldom Seen Kid'.
5: Neon Neon - Dream Cars
A fitting double tribute to both ludicrous 80s car style and Gary Numan's ludicrouly 80s music, a nostalgic blitz from left of centre.
6: Frightened Rabbit - Keep Yourself Warm
"You won't find love in a, won't find love in a hole" - as if Aidan Moffat fronted Idlewild circa 1998.
7: Ost & Kjex - Milano Model (Mungolian Jet Set Remix)
Bouncing joyfully from bizarre a capella oddity to jaunty sea-shanty till finally settling on dirty back-beat bassline sex pest, this was the funk-odyssey of 2008.
8: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Midnight Man
Like The Doors existed in the early 90s and tried to rewrite something off Let Love In. And it's just as great as that sounds.
trouble is...
how'm I supposed to squeeze Mogwai's Batcat, Sigur Ros' Ara Batur and god knows how many others into that 8?
Off the top of my head:
1 Out There On The Ice - Cut Copy
2 Heartbeat - Late Of The Pier
3 Williams Blood (Aeroplane Remix) - Grace Jones
4 I Told Her On Alderaan - Neon Neon
5 White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
6 Ghost Under Rocks - Ra Ra Riot
7 Furr - Blitzen Trapper
8 Keep Yourself Warm - Frightened Rabbits
This was a lot harder...
No Age - Sleeper Hold
Beach House - Heart Of Chambers
Times New Viking - DROP-OUT
Usher - Love In This Club
Mayyors - White Jeep
Jay Reatard - An Ugly Death
Chad VanGaalen - Molten Light
The Bug - Skeng
The Sleaze - Smokin' Fucking' Cigs
I think that's nine... again
8
'We're Looking For A Lot Of Love' Hot Chip Feat. Robert Wyatt
'Austere' The Joy Formidable
'Sweet Love For Planet Earth' Fuck Buttons
'Fifty Year Old Man' The Fall
'Friends Are False' Delays
'April 13 Edit' Atlas Sound
'Islands' The Sleeping Years
'Buff Nuff' Roots Manuva
hm...
1. Devotchka - Blessing in disguise
2. Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof
3. The last Shadow Puppets - Standing Next to me
4. Late of the Pier - Focker
5. British Sea Power - Waving Flags
6. The Black Keys - Strange Times
7. The Ting tings - That's not my Name
8. The Raconteurs - Salute your Solution
the indie-est chart i've done in years
1) Late of the Pier - Heartbeat/Focker (i can't decide between the two)
2) Friendly Fires – Paris
3) MGMT – Kids
4) Plastic Little – I’m Not A Thug
5) Data – Rapture
6) HeartsRevolution – CYOA
7) Foals – Cassius
8) Autokratz - Stay The Same
1. MGMT - Time To Pretend
2. Dead Heart Bloom - Nothing Will Break Me Now
3. What Made Milwaukee Famous - Resistance St.
4. Gentleman Auction House - The Book of Matches
5. The Republic Tigers - Buildings & Mountains
6. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
7. Elbow - Grounds For Divorce
8. Innerpartysystem - Don't Stop
Actually, ignore the numbers. I don't like that order at all.
Does 'Paper Planes' count as this year?
If so:
1) MIA - Paper Planes
2) Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth
3) Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal [shame about the rest of the album though]
4) Gang Gang Dance - Princes
5) Johnny Flynn - Tickle Me Pink
6) Portishead - We Carry On
7) These New Puritans - Colours
8) Cadence Weapon - Do I Miss My Friends?
If not, you can drop that track and add Zombie Zombie's 'Driving This Road...' to the bottom of the list.
I could probably name 40...
but if forced to pick 8, it would look something like:
1. Johhny Foreigner - Sometimes, In the Bullring
2. Frightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off
3. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
4. British Sea Power - No Lucifer
5. Los Campesinos! - Drop It Doe Eyes
6. Shearwater - The Snow Leopard
7. Pete and the Pirates - She Doesn't Belong to Me
8. The War on Drugs - Taking the Farm
First 8 that come to mind...
m83 - kim & jessie
frightened rabbit - good arms vs bad arms
pnau - embrace (fred falke remix)
errors - pump
twilight sad - half a person
low motion disco - love love love (aeroplane remix)
tv on the radio - love dog
dusty kid - the cat (this year or not?)
every aeroplane remix i've laid my paws on has been solid gold.
Without thinking too much about it, and in no particular order...
MGMT - Time to Pretend
The Kills - Last Day of Magic
Beck - Gamma Ray
Late of the Pier - Heartbeat
M83 - Graveyard Girl
The Drones - The Minotaur
Crystal Castles - Untrust Us
Fuck Buttons - Bright Tomorrow
It's been a very dancey year, hasn't it?
runaway winner: Ladyhawke Magic
TVOTR Golden Age
Fleet Foxes White Winter Humnal
Deerhunter Agarophobia
MGMT Time To Pretend
Gentlemen Auction House ABCDEFGraveyard
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson Buriedfed
Air France Collapsing At Your Doorstep
(not just singles)
1. portishead - machine gun
2. m83 - highway of endless dreams
3. goldfrapp - clowns
4. fleet foxes - your protector
5. mogwai - batcat
6. nine inch nails - discipline
7. sigur ros - gobbledigook (or all alright)
8. get well soon - witches! witches! rest now in the fire
[9. deerhunter - agoraphobia
10. final fantasy - ultimatum]
Here's Mine
1. The Kills - Last Day of Magic
2. MGMT- Time To Pretend (not strictly this year but it didn't make my list last year as it came out in Australia after I'd already written it)
3. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
4. The Drones - The Minotaur
5. The Dodos - Fools
6. Sebastien Tellier - Divine
7. Wold Parade - California Dreamer
8. Fuck Buttons - Sweet love for Planet Earth
8 + 1
Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules Theme
Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating
Bon Iver - For Emma
The Raconteurs - Salute your Solution
The Dodos - Fools
MGMT - Kids
Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
and one dead cert for 2009
Animal Collective - Brother Sport
Paper Planes?
No. Since it was released as a single in 2007 on album from 2007, it does not.
no order
Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
British Sea Power - No Lucifer
Pulled Apart By Horses - High Five, Swan Dive, Nose Dive
Algernon Cadwallader - Horror
Bon Iver - Wolves
Why? - Good Friday
Maps & Atlases - Artichokes
Lemuria - Yesterday's Lunch
that was stupidly hard, but couldn't decide which Frightened Rabbit song to include
Cripes
01: Cut Copy - Feel The Love
02: Bon Iver - Flume
03: Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
04: Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
05: Portishead - The Rip
06: No Age - Teen Creeps
07: Conor Oberst - Milk Thistle
08: Why? - Fatalist Palmistry
& Conor Oberst - Breezy, Metronomy - Heartbreaker, Lykke Li - Breaking It Up, among others...
Mine
1. My Drive-Thru-Julian Casablancas/Santogold/Pharrell Williams
2. Swagger-The Vox Jaguars
3. Nobody Lost, Nobody Found-Cut Copy
4. This Boy's In Love-The Presets
5. Jon Jon-Bart Davenport
6. Move For Me-Kaskade
7. I Wanna Be Like You-The Morning Benders
8. Old Home Movies-The Botticellis
9. The Flight Upstairs-The Magic Bullets
10. Let's Make Out-Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Again not in any order
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Shot Gun Blues
Tricky - School Gates
Beck - Chemtrail
Portishead - Threads
Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
Emiliana Torrini - Jungle Drum
Spiritualized - Sweet Talk
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - We Call Upon The Author
My 8
1. Weezer - The Greatest Man That Ever Lived
2. Late of the Pier - Focker
3. Elbow - Bones of You
4. Cold War Kids - We Used to Vacation
5. Futureheads - Beginning of the Twist
6. MGMT - Time to Pretend
7. NERD - Everyone Nose
8. Isosceles - Watertight
No Order.
1. Elbow - The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
2. Deerhoof - My Purple Past
3. Portishead - The Rip
4. Glasvegas - Ice Cream Van
5. Why? - The Hollows
6. Laura Marling - Tap at my Window
7. Animal Collective - Water Curses
8. Keelay - Love makes livin' alright
In Order
1. Home Life - Shearwater
2. Underneath The Stars - The Cure
3. Graveyard Girl - M83 *Single of the year*
4. Harmonium - Rogue Wave
5. Slapped Actress - Hold Steady
6. Her Birthday - Popular Workshop
7. The Beautiful Light - Slow Down Tallaheasee
8. You Want The Candy - Raveonettes
This was harder than I thought it would be.
Which is the sign of a secretly bumper year, no?
top8
1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- More News From Nowhere
2. Team Waterpolo- Letting Go
3. The War on Drugs- Taking the Farm
4. Bon Iver- Skinny Love
5. The Kills- Last Days of Magic
6. Cut Copy- Unforgettable Season
7. i concur- Oblige
8. Johnny Foreigner- Our Bipolar Friends
Snow Leopard
Nice...forgot about that song.
in no particular order
wynter gordon - surveillance
hauschka - freibad
kanye west - love lockdown
nomo - nova
gang gang dance - blue nile
jonquil - parasol
mahjongg - free grooverider
d. lissvik - track 6
A top 8
Weezer - Pork & Beans
Mystery Jets - Young Love
Crystal Castles - Vanished
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Deerhunter - Little Kids
British Sea Power - Waving Flags
Johnny Foreigner - Salt, Pepper and Spinderell
Friendly Fires - Paris
Probably.
Actually
could put MGMT - Electric Feel in there as well. Pure summer!
at the moment i'm saying
Los Campesinos! - My Year In Lists
Neon Neon - I Told Her on Alderaan
Applicants - Crapuccino!
Hot Chip - Wrestlers
Wiley - Wearing My Rolex
Yung Nate & Charles Hamilton - Stutter
MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Nite Version)
Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
my list
ANYWHERE - The Presets
TALONS - Bloc Party
SPACEMAN - The Killers
ID ENGAGER - Of Montreal
DISCIPLINE - Nine Inch Nails
CRYING (Telepathe Remix) - TV On The Radio
I WILL POSSES YOUR HEART - Death Cab For Cutie
ST. MODESTO - Chris Walla
Something like this...
Alphabeat - Ten Thousand Nights
Annie - I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me
Blitzen Trapper Devil’s A-Go-Go
Hot Lava - Apple+Option+Fire
Jeremy – Make Love Not War
MGMT - Time To Pretend
Panic At The Disco - That Green Gentleman
Sunny Day Sets Fire - Adrenaline
The hollows
was '07
the first eight i can think of
white lies - death
jeremy warmsley - lose my cool
mystery jets - young love
florence and the machine - kiss with a fist
noah and the whale - shape of my heart
late of the pier - focker
ladyhawke - back of the van
the kills - what new york used to be
ya
1 Pens High in the Cinema
2 Telepathe Devils Trident
3 Ladytron Black Cat
4 Young and Restless I Pointed at you and u burst into flames
5 Pets with Pets We Only Found this Place
6 Fizzy Dino Pop Wind Up Bird
7 Teenagers in Tokyo Very Vampyre
8 Batrider I Never Feel like Im Here
Okay...
1. Vampire Weekend - M79
2. Cut Copy - Feel The Love
3. Pop Up - Love Triangle
4. The Notwist - Gloomy Planets
5. Cut Copy - Feel The Love
6. Black Mountain - Stay Free
7. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
8. MGMT - Time To Pretend
In No Specific Order
Broken (Fairy Lights Remix) - Late of the Pier
In A Cave - Tokyo Police Club
Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days
Electric Feel - MGMT
Water Curses -Animal Collective
DLZ - TV On The Radio
Ion Square - Bloc Party
Good Friday - Why?
Extras: Never Stops (Deerhunter). Gobbledigook - Sigur Ros. Lucean - I Was A Cub Scout. M79 - Vampire Weekend.
Hmmmm...
1.MGMT - Time To Pretend
2. Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
3. Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone
3. Foals - Balloons
4. White Denim - Don't Look That Way At It
5. Bon Iver - Stacks
6. Santogold - L.E.S Artistes
7. Neon Neon - I Lust U
8. Tigercity - Are You Sensation
Hmmmm...
1. MGMT - Time To Pretend
2. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
3. Lykke Li - I'm Good I'm Gone
4. Foals - Balloons
5. Bon Iver - Stacks
6. White Denim - Don't Look That Way At It
7. Santogold - L.E.S Artistes
8. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
9. Jeremy Warmsley - Lose My Cool
10. Tigercity - Are You Sensation
Hmmmm...
1. MGMT - Time To Pretend
2. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
3. Lykke Li - I'm Good I'm Gone
4. Foals - Balloons
5. Bon Iver - Stacks
6. White Denim - Don't Look That Way At It
7. Santogold - L.E.S Artistes
8. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
9. Jeremy Warmsley - Lose My Cool
10. Tigercity - Are You Sensation
jeez
I can't count or post, what a dick!
1. Songs for Kylie - BALLBOY
2. Up - THE SATURDAYS
3. Sketchpads - SMOKERS DIE YOUNGER
4. Old Fools - MAGNETIC FIELDS
5. National Shite Day - HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT
6. I Haven't Told Her - BENJAMIN WETHERILL
7. I Lost The Monkey - THE WEDDING PRSENT
8. Single Ladies (Put a ring on it) - BEYONCE
10 coz some might not be 2008!
Foals - Red Rock Spugie
The Death Set - Day In The Wife
Portishead - The Rip
Capitol K - Libertania
N.E.R.D - Spazz
TV On The Radio - Love Dog
Shearwater - Lethian Bound
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
The Bug - Poison Dart
Daedelus - Make It So
My opinion is the best.
2008 had better albums, but 2007 was a better year for singles, I thought. Even so, there were some good ones:
1. In The New Year - The Walkmen
2. Love Lockdown - Kanye West
3. Eraser - No Age
4. Calvary Scars (Weird Era, Cont. version) - Deerhunter
5. American Boy - Estelle ft. Kanye West
6. White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes
7. Jodi - The Dodos
8. Live Your Life - T.I. ft. Rhianna
Also.
Time To Pretend would have gotten on there if MGMT sucked less and didn't have all that annoying stuff in the background of it.
In alphabetical order:
Black Kids - I've Underestimated My Charm (Again)
Blood Red Shoes - I Wish I Was Someone Better
Johnny Foreigner - Salt, Pepa and Spinderella
Ladyhawke - Paris Is Burning
Ladytron - The Lovers
Laura Marling - My Manic And I
Little Boots - Stuck On Repeat (Free MP3 Of The Year)
Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! (also winner of the Intro Of The Year Award)
(So many artists beginning with L!)
Video Of The Year and Duet Of The Year:
Mystery Jets feat. Laura Marling - Young Love
Song Title Of The Year (sponsored by "Copy & Paste"):
Los Campesinos! - This Is How You Spell, "HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics"
and rediscovered song of the year:
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name
Black Kids? Are You Kidding?
In alphabetical order, The Black Kids suck, as does your list.
loose order, screw singles
1. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
2. Fuck Buttons - Bright Tomorrow
3. Telepathe - Chrome's On It
4. Santogold - LES Artists
5. Deerhunter - Twilight At Carbon Lake
6. Glass Candy - Life After Sundown
7. Ratatat - Black Heroes
8. Anthony & The Johnsons - Shake That Devil
and a HEAPLOAD more
Deez...
1. Ladyhawk - I Don't Always Know What You're Saying
2. Why - Song of the Sad Assassin
3. Portishead - Machine Gun
4. dEUS - Oh Your God
5. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
6. One Day As A Lion - Last Letter
7. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
8. Subtle - Gone Bones
Here be 8 that be great....
1. Sissy Wish - DWTS
2. Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone
3. HeartsRevolution - CYOA (Flosstadamus Remix)
4. The Kills - Last Day Of Magic
5. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules Theme
6. Of Montreal - For Our Elegant Caste
7. The Futureheads - Beginning Of The Twist
8. Why? - The Hollows
Go WHY? !
It's so nice to see how much Why? is appreciated here :) and that DiS was one of the few to include Alopecia on a best of 08 list...
Anyway, my top 8 songs of 08:
1. L.E.S. Artistes by Santogold
2. He Doesn't Know Why by Fleet Foxes
3. You Know Me Better by Roisin Murphy
4. The Hollows by WHY?
5. Lights & Music by Cut Copy
6. Chasing Pavements by Adele
7. The Most Beautiful Girl in the Room by Flight of the Conchords
8. Flashing Lights by Kanye West
(just another 91 years and then when we can list our top 100 of the century...)
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