Friday, December 26, 2008
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz Segal's Top Albums & Songs of 2008 (For Now, At Least)
Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:22 AM
(SPOILER ALERT!) Here’s my ballot for the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop poll.
ALBUMS
01 Boredoms- Super Roots 9 (Thrill Jockey)
02 The Present- World I See (LOAF)
03 The Mole- As High As The Sky (Wagon Repair)
04 Bird Show- Untitled (Kranky)
05 Valet- Naked Acid (Kranky)
06 Tobacco- Fucked Up Friends (anticon.)
07 Brightblack Morning Light- Motion To Rejoin (Matador)
08 Benga- Diary Of An Afro Warrior (Tempa)
09 NOMO- Ghost Rock (Ubiquity)
10 Bruno Pronsato- Why Can't We Be Like Us (Hello?Repeat)
SINGLES (i.e., songs)
01 Juana Molina- Un Día (Domino)
02 The Mole- Knock Twice (Wagon Repair)
03 Rod Modell- Temple (Plop)
04 Skeletons- Money (Tomlab)
05 Gang Gang Dance- Inners Pace (The Social Registry)
06 Dominique Leone- The Return (Strømland)
07 Matmos- Supreme Balloon (Matador)
08 Earth- Omens And Portents 1: The Driver (Southern Lord)
09 The Cool Kids- What Up Man (Chocolate Industries)
10 Grails- Reincarnation Blues (Temporary Residence)
I showed you mine; now show me yours.
Below are a couple of tracks from the above lists that brightened/heightened my 2008.
Tobacco’s “Berries That Burn”
Grails’ “Reincarnation Blues” (live at the Knitting Factory)
have you checked out the Alps - III. A Type release of the most psychedelic nature....
1. Juana Molina - Un Dia (Domino)
2. The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded (In the Red)
3. Santogold - self-titled (Downtown/Atlantic)
4. Santogold & Diplo - Top Ranking (Mad Decent)
5. She Keeps Bees - Nests (self-released)
6. Vivian Girls - self-titled (In the Red)
7. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue (Warner Brothers)
8. Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight (Yep Roc)
9. M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Mute)
10. Matmos - Supreme Balloon (Matador)
1. MIA - "Paper Planes" (DFA remix)
2. Rodriguez - "Sugar Man" (Cold Fact)
3. Duffy - "Mercy" (Rockferry)
4. El Guincho - "Palmitos Park" (Alegranza)
5. The Fall - "50 Year Old Man" (Imperial Wax Solvent)
"Dig Lazarus Dig" -Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
"Motion To Rejoin" -Brightblack Morning Light
"Another World EP" -Antony and the Johnsons
"Third" -Portishead
"In Rainbows" -Radiohead
"In The Future" -Black Mountain
"Directions To See A Ghost" -the Black Angels
"Lie Down In The Light" -Bonnie Prince Billy
"4" -Dungen
"The Bedlam In Goliath" -the Mars Volta
honorable mentions:
"Guitars From Agadez" -Group Inerane
"Sexuality" -Sebastian Tellier
"Christmas On Mars" -the Flaming Lips
most overrated acts of '08:
Deerhunter (a bunch of intolerable noise)
Kings of Leon (dull as hell; made for mtv intros & outros)
Yelle (extremely annoying vocals that never end)
The Hold Steady (boring white music)
best live shows of '08:
Roky Erickson w/ the Black Angels @ the Showbox
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @ the Showbox
the Spoils @ the Diller Hotel
Brightblack Morning Light @ the Tractor Tavern
Yeasayer @ Sasquatch Festival
the Flaming Lips @ Sasquatch Festival
Dungen @ Chop Suey
Glass Candy @ Chop Suey
Baby Dee @ the Triple Door
Animal Collective - Water Curses EP
Matmos - Supreme Balloon
Portishead - Third
Deerhunter - Weird Era/ Microcastles
Boris - Smile
Earth- The Bees Made Honey in The Lion Skull
Various -WLIB AM: King Of The Wigflip
Thanks for the heads up about Tobacco. I will have to jump on that.
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