Posted by SubSickAlien on December 5, 2008 at 7:18pm
It was a good year for music but not for the music industry. With this uncertainty the music industry is faced with today I'm glad to see musicians continue to make good music. Many of you reading this list will agree or dissagree with some of my picks for this year's best albums and I would like to see what some of you picked for YOUR top albums of 2008, so please do share. If you are wondering why I did not include 'In Rainbows' in this list... well it's because 'In Rainbows' was released on October 10, 2007 and I know that even those without a computer got to listen to it as well... and besides, it was last year's number one if you ask me.Cheers!-SSA[50] Unkle - End TitlesKey Tracks: 'Chemical' & 'Ghosts'[49] Underoath - Lost In The Sound Of SeparationKey Tracks: 'Breathing In A New Mentality' & 'A Fault Line, A Fault Of Mine'[48] Vampire Weekend - Vampire WeekendKey Tracks: 'A-Punk' & 'Mansard Roof'[47] Cold War Kids - Loyalty To LoyaltyKey Tracks: 'Something Is Not Right With Me' & 'Every Valley Is Not A Lake'[46] The Hold Steady - Stay PositveKey Tracks: 'Constructive Summer' & 'Sequestered In Memphis'[45] R.E.M. - AccelerateKey Tracks: 'Living Well Is The Best Revenge' & 'Hollow Man'[44] The Walkmen - You & MeKey Tracks: 'Dónde Está la Playa' & 'In The New Year'[43] The Roots - Rising DownKey Tracks: 'Rising Up' & '75 Bars'[42] Esoteric - The Maniacal ValeKey Tracks: 'Circle' & 'The Order Of Destiny'[41] Primal Scream - Beautiful FutureKey Tracks: 'Can't Go Back' & 'Beautiful Future'[40] The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The LonelyKey Tracks: 'Salute Your Solution' & 'Many Shades Of Black'[39] Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaustKey Tracks: 'Gobbledigook' & 'Inní mér syngur vitleysingur'[38] Okkervil River - The Stand InsKey Tracks: 'Lost Coastlines' & 'Blue Tulip'[37] Conor Oberst - Conor OberstKey Tracks: 'Cape Canaveral' & 'Lenders In The Temple'[36] Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts Vol. I-IVKey Tracks: (Any and all)[35] Gnarls Barkley - The Odd CoupleKey Tracks: 'Who's Gonna Save Your Soul' & 'Would Be Killer'[34] Mates Of State - Re-arrange UsKey Tracks: 'Get Better' & 'The Re-Arranger'[33] Black Mountain - In The FutureKey Tracks: 'Tyrants' & 'Bright Lights'[32] Hot Chip - Made In The DarkKey Tracks: 'Shake A Fist' & 'Ready For The Floor'[31] Mount Eerie - Lost WisdomKey Tracks: "Lost Wisdom' & 'Flaming Home'[30] Santogold - SantogoldKey Tracks: 'You'll Find A Way' & 'Creator Vs Switch'[29] Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb LineKey Tracks: 'Ghost Under Rocks' & 'Too Too Too Fast'[28] Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout SeaKey Tracks: 'What Is Not But Could Be If' & 'San Francisco B.C.'[27] Calexico - Carried To DustKey Tracks: 'Victor Jara's Hands' & 'Writer's Minor Holiday'[26] Girl Talk - Feed The AnimalsKey Tracks: 'Set It Off' & 'Shut The Club Down'[25] Autechre - QuaristiceKey Tracks: 'Perlence' & 'Simmm'[24] Spiritualized - Songs In A&EKey Tracks: 'Soul On Fire' & 'Sweet Talk'[23] The Cure - 4:13 DreamKey Tracks: 'Underneath The Stars' & 'Hungry Ghost'[22] Crystal Castles - Crystal CastlesKey Tracks: 'Crimewave' & 'Magic Spells'[21] Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IIIKey Tracks: 'Mr Carter' & 'A Milli'[20] Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common LifeKey Tracks: 'Royal Swan' & 'Golden Seal'[19] Fleet Foxes - Fleet FoxesKey Tracks: 'White Winter Hymnal' & 'Ragged Wood'[18] Cut Copy - In Ghost ColoursKey Tracks: 'Feel The Love' & 'Nobody Lost, Nobody Found'[17] Foals - AntidotesKey Tracks: 'Red Socks Pugie' & 'Cassius'[16] Sun Kil Moon - AprilKey Tracks: 'The Light' & 'Tonight The Sky'[15] The Verve - ForthKey Tracks: 'Rather Be' & 'Noise Epic'[14] Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!Key Tracks: 'Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!' & 'Midnight Man'[13] Beck - Modern GuiltKey Tracks: 'Orphans' & 'Chemtrails'[12] MGMT - Oracular SpectacularKey Tracks: 'Weekend Wars' & 'Electric Feel'[11] Goldfrapp - Seventh TreeKey Tracks: 'Caravan Girl' & 'A&E'[10] The Bug - London ZooKey Tracks: 'Angry' & 'Insane'[09] No Age - NounsKey Tracks: 'Eraser' & 'Teen Creeps'[08] Elbow - The Seldom Seen KidKey Tracks: 'Grounds For Divorce' & 'On A Day Like This'[07] TV On The Radio - Dear ScienceKey Tracks: 'Halfway Home' & 'Family Tree'[06] She & Him - Volume OneKey Tracks: 'Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?' & 'I Should Have Known Better'[05] Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks The Jicks - Real Emotional TrashKey Tracks: 'Elmo Delmo' & 'Real Emotional Trash'[04] Deerhunter - MicrocastleKey Tracks: 'Agoraphobia' & 'Microcastle'[03] M83 - Saturdays = YouthKey Tracks: 'Couleurs' & 'Graveyard Girl'[02] Portishead - ThirdKey Tracks: 'Hunter' & 'Plastic'[01] Flying Lotus - Los AngelesKey Tracks: 'Comet Course' & 'Riot'Read more…
New to me anyway. They're called Home Video. :P I'm excited since I rarely, rarely ever discover a new band that I like. Unfortunately most music nowadays has changed far from my taste. I hear the occasional new song I like, but rarely a band. The only time I usually like something new on the radio is if its from one of my old bands I already know.Anyways, (so far at least) I think I'm really going to like them. A few influences:The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Depeche Mode, Björk, Massive Attack, Brian Eno, Radiohead, The Cocteau Twins, Boards of Canada, My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, PortisheadAnd by the way - I'm really excited that the Verve is back now. I need to go get that new album...
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Radiohead performed a brand new song during the two Dublin shows!It is called Super Collider. Here you can find 2 vids and the lyrics of the songBesides the first video of a Johny Thom version of The Rip was uploaded here in Waste Central!Enjoy!!!
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The unassailable logic of our warped and twisted universe states that it will always piss down on a bank holiday. Fucking rain. The sky I am gazing absent-mindedly out at is indecently miserable. People could be out in the sun, the fresh air, maybe even enjoying themselves, but no... had to rain, didn't it. Instead, the populace will be reduced to traipsing glumly round shopping centres and supermarkets and garden centres, indulging in a spot of rainy-day commercialism, a retailer's wet-dream, while sincerely wishing with all their sweet little hearts that they were somewhere else. Bless 'em.The predictability of this scenario probably says something about the crushing mundanity of 21st century existence but, to be honest, the soul-sappingly depressing weather means I just can't be bothered. Ho hum. Tomorrow is fairly likely to be another day...
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Radiohead won the Ivor Novello award for the best album of 2007. Amy Winehouse also won the Best Song Musically and Lyrically award while my all time fav David Gilmour won the Lifetime Achievement Award!Click here for the Ivor Novello winnersRead more…
Radiohead are nominated for the Ivor Novello Awards. They will compete with Stephen Fretwell and Cherry Ghost for the title of the Best album of 2008!
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that's what i thought after that tragic night in Brick Lane, after hours of queueing, and all the time thinking it was a dream, i could only see Ed, and he smile at me but probably he will never remind me at all, and anyway i want him to see him play! but it was so not meant to be, i was kick out, when security find out about the fake bracelets, just when they start to play in the other part of the 93 feet east, along with other girls and boys, when i was going out, Nigel Godrich was coming in, hahaahathe only picture i took, with my LCA :) i even behave myself! by not taking pictures at all! and that my friends is quite difficult to do, so unfair!
but this year is the year, i'm just waiting for those tickets and dates in L.A. *_*ps. grammar sucks
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#1In this school (Borgarholtsskóli) you have different people you're with in each course usually, so it happens once in a while that you don't have anyone you know well in the room to converse with. When that happens and you're a little bored in class almost anything can go as a time-spending activity.Last math class I got bored so I decided to do a little social study with the students. There were about 22 people present in the class. Out of those 22 there were 14 people wearing hoodies. Out of the 14 wearing hoodies there were 4 wearing star patterned ones. In that group of 14 I did not count the 6 people who were wearing fleece or outerwear and might have been wearing hoodies underneath. That leaves two people who were definitely not wearing hoodies but shirts or sweaters. That means we can assume, from my overly professional survey, that 60-90% of Icelanders wear the same styled clothes.God, school is boring...#2The word of the day in today's class was odd. It was "chattel" which pretty much means "object that can be moved". In addition to learning this wacky, new word we did an assignment about proverbs. Englishas well as Icelandic proverbs, actually. It was educational and fun. I wrote a short story about an unlucky person who had spilled tooth paste all over the bathroom floor, burnt his toast, been yelled at by his boss, hada stapling accident and, then to top it all off, came home to an empty apartment, having been robbed. Can you tell what proverb the story was linked to? (If you highlight the line below you'll find the answer out)Out of the frying pan and into the fireTo fill in some space here are a few Icelandic proverbs directly translated to English:-Seldom is a single wave on its own (sjaldan er ein báran stök)-Necessity teaches a naked woman to weave (Neyðin kennir naktri konu að spinna)-A burnt child avoids the fire (Brennt barn forðast eldinn)-Thanks for ending the lesson early. That's always fun and it gave me more time for... homework =(#3Back in the olden days people used to talk to their friends and write in a journal to ventilate any strong emotions that needed to be expressed. Now it's more popular to write public internet blogs, get advice from some TV show or even going to see a psychiathrist. diaries have merely turned into an old classic like the casette tape, only fashionable to new rave hipsters and the such. If you don't know what new rave is it's all those people wearing hoodies in neon colours, with star shapes on them, resembling the 80s a bit. Diaries are also getting more popular to sing about in modern music for their retroness and easiness for making a corny song surrounding that topic. Among the artists who have made songs about diaries are Britney Spears, Travis and ermm... I should have made more research for this...#4That book we're supposed to be reading now (you know that book with too long a title for me to bother writing down [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time]) scared me a lot. You see ,while reading it I discovered so many similarities between me and Christopher that I started fearing I might have some sort of Asperger's syndrome. At first I thought it was just a funny coincidence , us Christopher both loving math, being a bit aloof and hating the French, but around the part where Christopher discovered his mother's letters I was more sure than not about me having Asperger's. Thankfully my mind changed once Christopher started showing the negative side of his diagnosis on the way to his mother. I might like math but I don't crouch and moan when feeling overwhelmed, I might be aloof but I'm not afrai of touching or big crowds and I might hate the French but surely that's jsut a coincidence. The writer could have chosen Germany for all he cared, except the poor things can hardly handle any more judgement against them.#5Eralier in this book I mentioned disliking the French intensely. This might require an explenation which I will give now. The explenation might not make the most sense but it is my reason nontheless for cringing over most French things.The French are known as romantic, delicate citizens with pouty mouths, fancy cotour and shapely baguettes. That's extremely annoying to me because of their intense snobness towards it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of your country but the French take it a bit too far, thinking they are the classiest and most romantic, in the way that the Americans think they're the navel of the universe and, the smartest and the richest. Vampires and the French are the same to me. They're both interpreted as annoyingly romantic but if you met them in real life you would get bitten, or in the French's case, hit in the head with a Prada bag. Zombies and Germans I like however. They bite and shoot you maybe, but at least they don't pretend to be great and romantic while doing it.
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All these competitions come at the wrong time. I'd have loved to have animated a music video for Radiohead, and remixed Nude, but I just don't have the time to give it right now - a year or two ago would have been perfect! Damn LP7 delays... anyway I thought I'd share my old videos and some rh related musicy things:Climbing Up The WallsNo SurprisesRandom video done with Arkaos and their default clips, done to an instrumental cover I did of Cymbal RushHad a go at videotape too before IR version...and most recently I did a random mashup of beastie boys and reckoner, that I think works really well actually :) :Just need a break and I want to turn this hobby into something a bit more real. Just gotta remember not to lose it at the back of my head and one day I'll be in a position where I can advance with this sort of stuff.MattRead more…
