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No więc dobry miesiąc temu zaproponowałem kilka ciekawych kapel ze Skandynawii, teraz pora na część drugą.

Mugison
+ z Islandii
+ mało odsłuchań na laście, można być true indie [truindi]
+ z Islandii
- mało wykwintna nazwa zespołu

Paatos
+ ze Szwecji
- śpiewają po angielsku

Frakkur
+ taki projekt pokrewny od Sigur Rós, tylko znając Frakkura możesz być trófanem Sigurów
+ Islandczyk
+/- gej

Kaizers Orchestra
+ Norwegowie (Norwedzy?)
+ śpiewają po norwesku
+ dobre teksty do opisów na gg

i to by było chyba na tyle

2008 03 23 Doornroosje, Nijmegen - Patrick Watson
2008 03 23 Doornroosje, Nijmegen - Voicst
2008 04 29 Camelot, Nijmegen - Waterflow
2008 04 30 Oranjepop, Hunnerpark, Nijmegen - Agua de Annique
2008 04 30 Oranjepop, Hunnerpark, Nijmegen - Flip Kowlier
2008 04 30 Oranjepop, Hunnerpark, Nijmegen - Marike Jager
2008 05 05 Bevrijdingsfestival Gelderland, Wageningen - Lefties Soul Connection
2008 05 05 Bevrijdingsfestival Gelderland, Wageningen - Memphis Maniacs
2008 05 28 Effenaar, Eindhoven - Motorpsycho
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - From First to Last
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Jonathan Davis
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Incubus
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Porcupine Tree
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Metallica
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Air Traffic
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Moke
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Bad Religion
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Editors
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Justice
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - The Verve
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Foo Fighters
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Fiction Plane
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Patrick Watson
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Cavalera Conspiracy
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - The Hives
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Serj Tankian
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Queens of the Stone Age
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Róisín Murphy
2008 05 30 Pinkpop 2008, Landgraaf - Rage Against the Machine
2008 06 12 Paradiso, Holland Festival - Mondo Cane - with Metropole Orkest, Amsterdam - Mike Patton
2008 06 15 Arrow Rock Festival, Goffertpark, Nijmegen - Journey
2008 06 15 Arrow Rock Festival, Goffertpark, Nijmegen - Def Leppard
2008 06 15 Arrow Rock Festival, Goffertpark, Nijmegen - Kansas
2008 06 15 Arrow Rock Festival, Goffertpark, Nijmegen - Whitesnake
2008 06 15 Arrow Rock Festival, Goffertpark, Nijmegen - Twisted Sister
2008 06 15 Arrow Rock Festival, Goffertpark, Nijmegen - Motörhead
2008 06 15 Arrow Rock Festival, Goffertpark, Nijmegen - KISS
2008 07 10 Doornroosje, Nijmegen - Dinosaur Jr.
2008 07 12 Vierdaagsefeesten, Nijmegen - Memphis Maniacs
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Anavarin
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Blaudzun
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Chrome Hoof
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - DeVotchKa
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Fink
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Finntroll
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Get Well Soon
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Heidevolk
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Late of the Pier
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Liars
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Lucky Fonz III
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Mugison
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Myrkvar
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Pivot
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Triggerfinger
2008 07 18 De Affaire, Valkhof, Nijmegen - Yacht
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Blood Red Shoes
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Elbow
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Get Well Soon
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Gogol Bordello
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Headphone
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Holy Fuck
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Infadels
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Killswitch Engage
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Late of the Pier
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Los Campesinos!
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Mindless Self Indulgence
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Pendulum
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Pivot
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Sigur Rós
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Textures
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - The Dresden Dolls
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - The Gutter Twins
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - The Hoosiers
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Triggerfinger
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Tunng
2008 08 15 Lowlands, Biddinghuizen - Volbeat
2008 08 23 013, Symforce II, Tilburg - Textures
2008 08 23 013, Symforce II, Tilburg - Magic Pie
2008 08 23 013, Symforce II, Tilburg - Demians
2008 08 23 013, Symforce II, Tilburg - Pain of Salvation
2008 08 23 013, Symforce II, Tilburg - Opeth
2008 10 16 013, Tilburg - Porcupine Tree
2008 10 19 Doornroosje, Nijmegen - Motorpsycho
2008 12 19 Atak, De Nacht van Rockarty, Enschede - De Kift
2009 01 23 Doornroosje, Nijmegen - Headphone
2009 01 23 Doornroosje, Nijmegen - Woost
2009 03 30 Ahoy, Rotterdam - Metallica
2009 03 30 Ahoy, Rotterdam - Machine Head
2009 03 30 Ahoy, Rotterdam - The Sword
2009 04 09 W2, 's-Hertogenbosch - God Is an Astronaut
2009 04 09 W2, 's-Hertogenbosch - This Will Destroy You
2009 04 20 Doornroosje, Nijmegen - Holy Fuck
2009 04 20 Doornroosje, Nijmegen - It Hugs Back
2009 04 25 Lux, Nijmegen - Get Well Soon
2009 04 25 Lux, Nijmegen - Dear Reader
2009 04 30 Oranjepop, Hunnerpark, Nijmegen - De Staat
2009 04 30 Oranjepop, Hunnerpark, Nijmegen - Hotel
2009 04 30 Oranjepop, Hunnerpark, Nijmegen - Dollhouse
2009 04 30 Oranjepop, Hunnerpark, Nijmegen - theFringe
2009 04 30 Oranjepop, Hunnerpark, Nijmegen - Antwerp Gipsy-ska Orkestra
2009 05 05 Bevrijdingsfestival Gelderland, Wageningen - The Q!
2009 05 05 Bevrijdingsfestival Gelderland, Wageningen - Moos Blues
2009 05 05 Bevrijdingsfestival Gelderland, Wageningen - Zulu 9.30
2009 05 05 Bevrijdingsfestival Gelderland, Wageningen - Bertolf
2009 05 05 Bevrijdingsfestival Gelderland, Wageningen - Memphis Maniacs
2009 05 05 Bevrijdingsfestival Gelderland, Wageningen - Zuco 103
2009 05 05 Bevrijdingsfestival Gelderland, Wageningen - C-Mon & Kypski

1. The Books w. Jose Gonzalez ‘Cello Song’
2. Emmy the Great ‘Where Is My Mind?’
3. M. Ward ‘For Beginners’
4. Akron/Family ‘Ed Is A Portal’
5. My Latest Novel ‘Pretty In A Panic’
6. Camera Obscura ‘Super Trouper’
7. Mugison ‘The Great Unrest’
8. Woodhands ‘Electric Avenue’
9. Shout Out Out Out Out ‘Guilt Trips Sink Ships’
10. Justice ‘D.A.N.C.E.’
11. Modeselektor ‘200007′ (Paul Kalkbrenner’s Tap Sum Bong 20009 Remix)
12. Röyksopp ‘Happy Up Here’ (Boys Noize Remix)

You can listen to all this here: www.heutepopmorgen.com

Here it is, the new Battle Of The Albums. This time records from 2008 will fight for honor.

The rules of this stage:
256 albums
32 groups with 8 albums each
you vote for 2 out of 8 in each group
in each group the 2 first proceed to the next phase
when it's undecided who should proceed, there'll be an extra poll
voting until Sunday the 25th January


If you like this one, just join this group.


Have fun with it:

Group 1
¡Forward, Russia! - Life Processes
Akimbo - Jersey Shoes
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Mr. Oizo - Lambs Anger
H2O - Nothing To Prove
Russian Circles - Station
Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Modern Life
Deichkind - Arbeit nervt
Group 2
Anberlin - New Surrender
The Kooks - Konk
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
American Music Club - The Golden Age
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Marianne Faithfull - Easy Come Easy Go
Lambchop - OH (ohio)
Group 3
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - The Cross Of My Calling
The Walkmen - You & Me
Woven Hand - Ten Stones
Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors
Anathema - Hindsight
36 Crazyfists - The Tide And Its Takers
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
Dr. Dog - We All Belong
Group 4
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules And Love Affair
Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces
Why? - Alopecia
Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
The Caesars - Strawberry Weed
Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
Group 5
Herman Dune - Next Year in Zion
Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
The Hellacopters - Heads Off!
Pete Philly & Perquisite - Mystery Repeats
Deerhunter - Microcastle
The Dodos - Visiter
Aimee Mann - @#%&! Smilers
Mugison - Mugiboogie
Group 6
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Blackmail - Tempo Tempo
The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed
Everlast - Love, War And The Ghost Of Whitey Ford
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
HORSE the band - A Natural Death
Ben Folds - Way to Normal
Disturbed - Indestructible
Group 7
Sons and Daughters - This Gift
Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs
Beck - Modern Guilt
The Black Crowes - Warpaint
The Sword - Gods Of The Earth
Cat Power - Jukebox
Juana Molina - un dia
Rosenstolz - Die Suche geht weiter
Group 8
Fear My Thoughts - Isolation
Deadlock - Manifesto
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Donots - Coma Chameleon
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Less Than Jake - GNV FLA
Adele - 19
Group 9
These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Pershing
A.Armada - Anam Cara
Donovan Frankenreiter - Pass it Around
Jolie Holland - The Living And The Dead
Calexico - Carried To Dust
Tindersticks - Tindersticks
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
Group 10
September Malevolence - After This Darkness, There Is A Next
Misery Speaks - Catalogue Of Carnage
Eaten by Sheiks - Bold
Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead
The Black Keys - Attack and Release
Jaguar Love - Take Me to the Sea
Santogold - Santogold
Portishead - Third
Group 11
Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down In The Light
The Cure - 4:13 Dream
Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun
Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones
Kettcar - Sylt
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
Volbeat - Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
Group 12
Get Well Soon - Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon
Leech - The Stolen View
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt
Klee - Berge versetzen
Murder by Death - Red of Tooth and Claw
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
Misery Index - Traitors
Feeder - Silent Cry
Group 13
The Haunted - Verses
Heaven Shall Burn - ICONOCLAST
31 Knots - Worried Well
Have Heart - Songs to Scream at the Sun
PeterLicht - melancholie und gesellschaft
AC/DC - Black Ice
Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
Group 14
Burst - Lazarus Bird
Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season
Underoath - Lost In The Sound Of Seperation
Al Green - Lay It Down
Emil Bulls - The Black Path
Pennywise - Reason To Believe
The Offspring - Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace
The Zutons - You Can Do Anything
Group 15
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
Tomte - Heureka
Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Attack In Black - Marriage
Sigur Rós - Með Suð I Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
Fall Out Boy - Folie À Deux
Disco Ensemble - Magic Recoveries
Group 16
Die Toten Hosen - In aller Stille
Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
emirsian - Yelq
Duffy - Rockferry
Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Randy Newman - Harps And Angels
Group 17
Soulfly - Conquer
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Metronomy - Nights Out
I Am Kloot - Play Moolah Rouge
Able Baker Fox - Voices
Funeral for a Friend - Memory And Humanity
Alkaline Trio - Agony & Irony
Polarkreis 18 - The Colour of Snow
Group 18
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
Ellen Alien - Sool
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
Ólafur Arnalds - Variations of Static
Katy Perry - One of the Boys
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Have Another Ball!
High Places - High Places
The Fratellis - Here We Stand
Group 19
John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love and Freedom
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
UNKLE - End Titles... Stories For Film
Jack Johnson - Sleep Through The Static
Farin Urlaub - Die Wahrheit Übers Lügen
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Group 20
Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
Jackson Browne - The Time Conqueror
Van Morrison - Keep It Simple
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Audrey - The Fierce and the Longing
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
Torche - Meanderthal
Group 21
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
The Dandy Warhols - Earth To The Dandy Warhols
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Trivium - Shogun
Gregor Samsa - Rest
WE - Tension & Release
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
Group 22
Beehover - Heavy Zooo
Nada Surf - Lucky
Dirty Pretty Things - Romance at Short Notice
Ry Cooder - I, Flathead
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
The Rumble Strips - Girls and Weather
Travis - Ode To J. Smith
From First to Last - From First To Last
Group 23
Augustana - Can't Love, Can't Hurt
Madsen - Frieden im Krieg
Tilly and the Wall - O
John Hiatt - Same Old Man
Gonzales - Soft Power
Klimt 1918 - In Case We'll Never Meet Again
Weezer - The Red Album
Motörhead - Motörizer
Group 24
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
dEUS - Vantage Point
+/- - Xs on Your Eyes
Joan as Police Woman - To Survive
Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds
Land of Talk - Some Are Lakes
Amy Macdonald - This Is the Life
Group 25
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
Damiera - Quiet Mouth Loud Hands
Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
Neva Dinova - You May Already Be Dreaming
Slut - StillNo1
Black Stone Cherry - Folklore & Superstition
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
Group 26
The Roots - Rising Down
Ron Sexsmith - Exit Strategy of The Soul
of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
The Futureheads - This Is Not the World
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Bloc Party - Intimacy
The Indelicates - American Demo
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
Group 27
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV: Air & Earth
Thomas D - Kennzeichen D
Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets
Scars on Broadway - Scars On Broadway
Al Stewart - Sparks Of The Ancient
Unearth - The March
Group 28
The Bronx - III
Tricky - Knowle West Boy
A Fine Frenzy - One Cell In The Sea
Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heaven Lonelier Than God
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Caspian - The Four Trees
Group 29
Elvis Costello - Momofuku
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
James Yorkston - When the Haar Rolls In
Backyard Babies - Backyard Babies
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Anna Ternheim - Leaving on a Mayday
Grace Jones - Hurricane
MIA. - Willkommen im Club
Group 30
Albert Hammond Jr. - ¿Cómo Te Llama?
Black Mountain - In The Future
The Killers - Day and Age
Opeth - Watershed
Sport - Unter Den Wolken
Constantines - Constantines
Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
Foals - Antidotes
Group 31
The Kills - Midnight Boom
The Subways - All or Nothing
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Sugarplum Fairy - The Wild One
CSS - Donkey
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
The Rascals - Rascalize
Group 32
Little Joy - Little Joy
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
Hot Club de Paris - Live at Dead Lake
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
Nickelback - The Dark Horse
Steve Winwood - Nine Lives
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean And The Sun

Das Leben ist voller glücklicher Zufälle. Ich habe aus Langeweile ein bisschen auf Spiegel Online (ja ich schäme mich ein wenig dafür) rumgesurft und bin über einen Artikel über die Künstlerplattform hobnox gestolpert. Ich hatte schon mal in einem Vortrag von Thomas Knuewer davon gehört, aber das Lesezeichen seitdem nicht wieder benutzt. Also rauf auf die Plattform und mal ein bisschen rumgestöbert. Die haben da einen Musikkanal "sly fi" und da ist gerade ein Video mit einem merkwürdig aussehendem und mit komischem Akzent sprechenden Zottelmusiker zu sehen. Der Akzent kam mir irgendwie bekannt vor. Der Typ sitzt da mit seinem Kumpel und zwei Akustikgitarren und fängt an zu spielen und zu singen. Der hat eine wirkliche elektrisierende Stimme und kann auch richtig gut Gitarre spielen. Der Song ist ein Hammer. Der Barde heißt Mugison. Von dem habe ich noch nie gehört. Wikipedia hilft weiter. Mugisonkommt von der schönen Insel Island. Deswegen kam mir sein Akzent auch so bekannt vor. So sprechen alle Isländer englisch, vor allem Björk. Ich habe mir dann gleich mal seine beiden Alben Mugimama und Mugiboogie gezogen. Klingt kein bisschen wie Sigur Ros oder Björk, nicht mal richtig nach Island. Der Stil ist schwer zu beschreiben. Man findet wunderschöne einfache Melodien genauso wie Wahnsinn, wie man ihn auch vom KornSänger Jonathan Davis nicht schräger erwarten würde. Vor allem Mugimama ist eine der kreativsten und besten Scheiben, die ich dieses Jahr gehört habe. Dieses Album wird noch eben ganz fix von mir zu der persönlichen Album Entdeckung des Jahres gekürt.

Hi all,
this will be my third Battle Of The Albums. As it worked well in 2007 i'll stay with the rules from last year. But at first I need you. I'd like to have 256 participating albums, and for that I need your advice. Choose your albums that aren't yet in the list. The records may come from every genre you like, only the release date must be in 2008. If you find some errors in the list, then please give a hint. :)
I appreciate your help.

The Battle Of The Albums 2008 will probably start in the first week of 2009. If you want to see the results of older Battle, just go back in my blog history...

here is my list:

31 Knots - Worried Well
A.Armada - Anam Cara
Able Baker Fox - Voices
AC/DC - Black Ice
Akimbo - Jersey Shoes
Albert Hammond Jr. - ¿Cómo Te Llama?
Alkaline Trio - Agony & Irony
American Music Club - The Golden Age
Amy Macdonald - This Is the Life
Anathema - Hindsight
Anna Ternheim - Leaving on a Mayday
Ascend - Ample Fire Within
ASIO Kids - aero
Attack In Black - Marriage
Auxes - Sunshine
Backyard Babies - Backyard Babies
Beck - Modern Guilt
Ben Folds - Way to Normal
Bison B.C. - Quiet Earth
Black Mountain - In The Future
Blackmail - Tempo Tempo
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
Calexico - Carried To Dust
Callejon - Zombieactionhauptquartier
Capricorns - River, Bear Your Bones
Casket Salesmen - Sleeping Giants
Caspian - The Four Trees
Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
Constantines - Constantines
CSS - Donkey
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Deichkind - Arbeit nervt
Dirty Pretty Things - Romance at Short Notice
Donots - Coma Chameleon
Donovan Frankenreiter - Pass it Around
Down I Go - Tyrant
Dr. Dog - We All Belong
Duffy - Rockferry
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Earthbend - HARMONIA
Eaten by Sheiks - Bold
EL*KE - Häuser Stürzen Ein
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
emirsian - Yelq
Everlast - Love, War And The Ghost Of Whitey Ford
Fall Out Boy - Folie À Deux
Farin Urlaub - Die Wahrheit Übers Lügen
Fear My Thoughts - Isolation
Final Light - To Stop an Exploding Man...
Fire in the Attic - Cum Grano Salis
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
From the Sky - A Warm Place With No Memory
Get Well Soon - Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
H2O - Nothing To Prove
Have Heart - Songs to Scream at the Sun
Heaven Shall Burn - ICONOCLAST
Helms Alee - Night Terror
Herman Dune - Next Year in Zion
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
Hot Club de Paris - Live at Dead Lake
i am the architect - 11
In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
Jaguar Love - Take Me to the Sea
Jud - Sufferboy
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Kettcar - Sylt
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
Klee - Berge versetzen
Klimt 1918 - In Case We'll Never Meet Again
Leech - The Stolen View
Less Than Jake - GNV FLA
Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
Madsen - Frieden im Krieg
Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Have Another Ball!
Metallica - Death Magnetic
MIA. - Willkommen im Club
Misery Speaks - Catalogue Of Carnage
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Motörhead - Motörizer
Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
Mugison - Mugiboogie
Murder by Death - Red of Tooth and Claw
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds
Nada Surf - Lucky
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
Ólafur Arnalds - Variations of Static
Pet Genius - Pet Genius
Pete Philly & Perquisite - Mystery Repeats
Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
Polarkreis 18 - The Colour of Snow
Portishead - Third
Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors
Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Rose Hill Drive - Moon Is The New Earth
Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
Rosenstolz - Die Suche geht weiter
Russian Circles - Station
Scars on Broadway - Scars On Broadway
Sigur Rós - Með Suð I Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Slut - StillNo1
Sons and Daughters - This Gift
Soulfly - Conquer
Sport - Unter Den Wolken
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Sugarplum Fairy - Never Thought I'd Say That It's Alright
Thao - We Brave Bee Stings And All
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - The Cross Of My Calling
The Black Keys - Attack and Release
The Bronx - III
The Dandy Warhols - Earth To The Dandy Warhols
The Dodos - Visiter
The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
The Haunted - Versus
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
The Killers - Day and Age
The Kills - Midnight Boom
The Kooks - Konk
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
The Rascals - Rascalize
The Rumble Strips - Girls and Weather
The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean And The Sun
The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed
The Subways - All or Nothing
The Sword - Gods Of The Earth
The Zutons - You Can Do Anything
These Arms Are Snakes - Tail Swallower and Dove
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV: Air & Earth
Tomte - Heureka
Torche - Meanderthal
Transistor Transistor - Ruined Lives
Travis - Song to Self
Tricky - Knowle West Boy
Trip Fontaine - Dinosaurs In Rocketships
Trivium - Shogun
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Underoath - Lost In The Sound Of Seperation
UNKLE - End Titles... Stories For Film
us christmas - Eat The Low Dogs
Volbeat - Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood
WE - Tension & Release
Wovenhand - Ten Stones

confessions of a would-be hipster "best of" list 1 --there's a lot of music out there.

Featuring:

Mugison
Chairlift
Noah and the Whale
Peter Moren
Emily Wells
Lykke Li
M83
Death Cab for Cutie
Amanda Palmer
She & Him
Elbow
My Brightest Diamond
Martha Wainwright
Cut Copy
Broken Social Scene
Frightened Rabbit
Jenny Lewis
Jamie Lidell
Jens Lekman
Beck

Top 50 Albums 2008 (by Album Name)

I had to list these in alphabetical order...too diverse to actually make a #1 album and a #50 album....


The Airing Of Grievances by Titus Andronicus
Alopecia by Why?
April by Sun Kil Moon
Brighter Than Creations Dark by Drive-By Truckers
Cardinology by Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses
Conor Oberst by Conor Oberst
Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles
Dear Science, by TV on the Radio
Death Magnetic by Metallica
Distortion by Magnetic Fields
Feed the Animals by Girl Talk
Flight of the Conchords by Flight of the Conchords
For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver
Furr by Blitzen Trapper
Glasvegas by Glasvegas
Gossip in the Grain by Ray LaMontagne
The Grand Archives by Grand Archives
Heretic Pride by The Mountain Goats
House With No Name by Horse Feathers
In The Future by Black Mountain
Lie Down In The Light by Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Lust Lust Lust by The Raveonettes
Magnificent Fiend by Howlin' Rain
Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust by Sigur Ros
Midnight Boom by The Kills
The Midnight Organ Fight by Frightened Rabbit
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson by Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
Missiles by The Dears
Mugiboogie by Mugison
The Nigger Tape by Nas + DJ Green Lantern
Nouns by No Age
Only by the Night by Kings of Leon
Oracular Spectacular by MGMT
Robyn by Robyn
Rockferry by Duffy
Rook by Shearwater
Saturdays = Youth by M83
Songs in A&E by Spiritualized
The Stand Ins by Okkervil River
Stay Positive by The Hold Steady
Street Horrrsing by Fuck Buttons
Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8 by Bob Dylan
Tha Carter III by Lil' Wayne
That Lonesome Song by Jamey Johnson
Visiter by The Dodos
Volume One by She & Him
You & Me by The Walkmen
The '59 Soundby The Gaslight Anthem
808s & Heartbreak by Kanye West

Top 5 Small Venue Shows (by date):
Drive-By Truckers@ Mezzanine 02/13
Ministry @ Fillmore 04/02
The Hold Steady @ Mezzanine 07/29
Conor Oberst @ Bottom of the Hill 08/01
The Hold Steady w/Drive By Truckers @ Fillmore 11/24

Top 5 Medium Sized Venue Shows (by date):
Ryan Adams @ Zellerbach Hall 01/28
Magnetic Fields @ Herbst 02/29
Tom Waits @ Orpheum 06/17
Tom Waits @ The Plaza 06/20
Tom Waits @ The Fox 07/05

Top 5 Large Venue Shows (by date):
Iron Maiden @ The Forum 02/19
Kayne West @ ARCO Arena 04/18
Jay-Z w/Mary J. Blige @ Oracle 04/23
Iron Maiden @ Sleep Trai n Concord 05/28
Metallica @ Pepsi Center 11/04

10 Artists Listened to the Most (by playcount):
Tom Waits
Drive-By Truckers
The Hold Steady
Ryan Adams
The National
Radiohead
The Magnetic Fields
Bon Iver
Beck
Cat Power

5 Albums Listened to the Most:
Mule Variations by Tom Waits
For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver
Brighter Than Creations Dark by Drive-By Truckers
Stay Positive by The Hold Steady
Good Girl Gone Bad by Rihanna