Comments on: My favorite albums of 2008 http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/my-favorite-albums-of-2008/ Musings on music from The Gazette's arts & entertainment reporter Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:27:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: kyle black http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/my-favorite-albums-of-2008/#comment-211 kyle black Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:14:12 +0000 http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-211 oh I forgot The Hold Steady- Stay Positve oh I forgot The Hold Steady- Stay Positve

]]> By: kyle black http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/my-favorite-albums-of-2008/#comment-210 kyle black Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:12:47 +0000 http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-210 1. The Gaslight Anthem- The 59 Sound 2. Jesse Malin- On Your Sleeve 3. Tom Gabel- Heart Burns 4. Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue 5. Ryan Adams- Cardnology 6. Mudcrutch- Mudcrutch 7. Jesse Malin- Mecury Retrograde 1. The Gaslight Anthem- The 59 Sound
2. Jesse Malin- On Your Sleeve
3. Tom Gabel- Heart Burns
4. Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue
5. Ryan Adams- Cardnology
6. Mudcrutch- Mudcrutch
7. Jesse Malin- Mecury Retrograde

]]> By: ugboss http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/my-favorite-albums-of-2008/#comment-209 ugboss Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:52:38 +0000 http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-209 Dude, Coldplay? Yikes. 1. Portishead - Third 2. Vampire Weekend - self-titled 3. M83 - Saturdays=Youth 4. Black Kids - Partie Traumatic 5. Sigur Ros - Med suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust 6. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals 7. Marnie Stern - This Is It..... 8. Dodos - Vister 9. The Kills - Midnight Boom 10. Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line Dude, Coldplay? Yikes.

1. Portishead – Third
2. Vampire Weekend – self-titled
3. M83 – Saturdays=Youth
4. Black Kids – Partie Traumatic
5. Sigur Ros – Med suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
6. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
7. Marnie Stern – This Is It…..
8. Dodos – Vister
9. The Kills – Midnight Boom
10. Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line

]]> By: scott brown http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/my-favorite-albums-of-2008/#comment-208 scott brown Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:49:37 +0000 http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-208 oops! i got my wires crossed somehow i said mike ness when i meant shane mcgowan. can't explain that one away i just had a stupid attack! oops! i got my wires crossed somehow i said mike ness when i meant shane mcgowan. can’t explain that one away i just had a stupid attack!

]]> By: scott brown http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/my-favorite-albums-of-2008/#comment-207 scott brown Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:31:58 +0000 http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-207 Melvins-Nude With Boots After taking on a second drummer for their last effort; A Senile Animal, the Melvins seem to have settled inon their new sound. The change has resulted in an entirely new style of songwriting for this band who undoubtedly find relief in that having largely been confined to the sludge metal genre foe most of their 20-year career. It is unfortunate that despite their interweavings with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, they never garnered enough publicity to atract a larger audience. Fan repellant material like the Prick record show that they don't mind being out of the spotlight as they understand that theirs is a different kind of music that doesn't satisfy the radio friendly palate. Go listen to this disc and be amazed at this new product that is redefining the band in their waning years. PS- all this other stuff above is garbage, Emo-love songs (yeah right the world needs more songs abou tlove and loss because we don't have enough of THAT already, throwback themed, "bring-on-the-night" cliche anthem rock, gimmicky happy marriage band,yech! Gabel gets a pass, Bronx?-Cheap Fugazi rip-off wihtout the integrity, Oberst? what can you say that hasnt already been said. The Pope of the Me-music crowd. You know the type "nothing in the world is as important as me and my girl" self-important ego feeding mope-rock YECH! The song featured goes away from that but still isnt very good whats with the "oh cool i can hear them talking and they dont seem to know when the chorus comes up background stuff and that completely unnecesary radio sample thing? thanks but no thanks on that song to nowhere! And if you like to drink Guiness and feel like something youre not then Flogging Molly is for you. so put down that mike ness record andputthis crap on for now. Congratulations! youre irish for a night! try not to talk with an accent after drinking to this stuff all night. Do you love "I'm geting older adult rock with a light country twinge? Well here you go jeny lewis. if i want to hear some fem rock i will go with pj harvey or bjork not this, i'm not ready to become my parents just yet. Laura Marling needs beter songwriters, decent voice but the tempo of the verse is hurried and creates bad tension and then when she starts tripping on the ghost the ghost the ghost i wanted to shoot my computer in the face. NO THANKS! Coldplay-SAFE CORPORATE ARENA-ROCK U2 BLATANT RIP-OFF GABAGE FEST! a gaggle of unoriginal so and so's. Thanks for reading skot's little corner of hatred for "SAFE" music. Aside from the Melvins i would recommend picking upanything be Jesu. great band allthe way from Birmingham, Justin Broadrick's great post-Godflesh project continues to amaze. May the road rise! Melvins-Nude With Boots
After taking on a second drummer for their last effort; A Senile Animal, the Melvins seem to have settled inon their new sound. The change has resulted in an entirely new style of songwriting for this band who undoubtedly find relief in that having largely been confined to the sludge metal genre foe most of their 20-year career. It is unfortunate that despite their interweavings with Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, they never garnered enough publicity to atract a larger audience. Fan repellant material like the Prick record show that they don’t mind being out of the spotlight as they understand that theirs is a different kind of music that doesn’t satisfy the radio friendly palate. Go listen to this disc and be amazed at this new product that is redefining the band in their waning years.
PS- all this other stuff above is garbage, Emo-love songs (yeah right the world needs more songs abou tlove and loss because we don’t have enough of THAT already, throwback themed, “bring-on-the-night” cliche anthem rock, gimmicky happy marriage band,yech! Gabel gets a pass, Bronx?-Cheap Fugazi rip-off wihtout the integrity, Oberst? what can you say that hasnt already been said. The Pope of the Me-music crowd. You know the type “nothing in the world is as important as me and my girl” self-important ego feeding mope-rock YECH! The song featured goes away from that but still isnt very good whats with the “oh cool i can hear them talking and they dont seem to know when the chorus comes up background stuff and that completely unnecesary radio sample thing? thanks but no thanks on that song to nowhere! And if you like to drink Guiness and feel like something youre not then Flogging Molly is for you. so put down that mike ness record andputthis crap on for now. Congratulations! youre irish for a night! try not to talk with an accent after drinking to this stuff all night. Do you love “I’m geting older adult rock with a light country twinge? Well here you go jeny lewis. if i want to hear some fem rock i will go with pj harvey or bjork not this, i’m not ready to become my parents just yet. Laura Marling needs beter songwriters, decent voice but the tempo of the verse is hurried and creates bad tension and then when she starts tripping on the ghost the ghost the ghost i wanted to shoot my computer in the face. NO THANKS! Coldplay-SAFE CORPORATE ARENA-ROCK U2 BLATANT RIP-OFF GABAGE FEST! a gaggle of unoriginal so and so’s. Thanks for reading skot’s little corner of hatred for “SAFE” music. Aside from the Melvins i would recommend picking upanything be Jesu. great band allthe way from Birmingham, Justin Broadrick’s great post-Godflesh project continues to amaze. May the road rise!

]]> By: Chris http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/my-favorite-albums-of-2008/#comment-206 Chris Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:40:06 +0000 http://allthesongs.wordpress.com/?p=179#comment-206 Thanks for the great list. I'll have to check out The Bronx. I love love love that Gaslight Anthem album. A couple of my favorites: Portishead, "Third" Dead Confederate, "Wrecking Ball" Drive-By Truckers, "Brighter Than Creation's Dark" Wolf Parade, "At Mount Zoomer" Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, "Cardinology" Thanks for the great list. I’ll have to check out The Bronx. I love love love that Gaslight Anthem album. A couple of my favorites:

Portishead, “Third”
Dead Confederate, “Wrecking Ball”
Drive-By Truckers, “Brighter Than Creation’s Dark”
Wolf Parade, “At Mount Zoomer”
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals, “Cardinology”

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