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Cokemachineglow.com Top 50 of 2008: For those who hated the Pitchfork list

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Skittleguy

Ring a Bell for me
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/feature/4098/top50albums-2008

50. High Places - High Places
49. Laura Barrett - Victory Garden
48. Luomo - Convival
47. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
46. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
45. Grand Salvo - Death
44. Mount Eerie f/ Julie Doiron and Fred Squire - Lost Wisdom
43. Shearwater - Rook
42. Yellow Swans - Deterioration
41. Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms
40. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
39. Terrible Twos - Terrible Twos
38. Ellen Allien - Sool
37. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
36. Health - Disco
35. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
34. The Breeders - Mountain Battles
33. Autechre - Quaristice
32. The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale EP
31. Hauschka - Fendorf
30. Dirt Dress - Theme Songs EP
29. The Instruments - Dark Småland
28. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
27. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
26. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
25. Danny! - And I Love H.E.R.: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
24. WHY? - Alopecia
23. Kingdom Shore - ...and all the dogs to shark
22. Subtle - ExitingARM
21. Dan Friel - Ghost Town
20. AGF - DANCE FLOOR DRACHEN
19. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
18. HILOTRONS - Happymatic
17. Roommate - We Were Enchanted
16. Lau Nau - Nukkuu
15. Portishead - Third
14. The Hospitals - Hair Dryer Peace
13. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
12. The Dodos - Visiter
11. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
10. Azeda Booth - In Flesh Tones
09. Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
08. Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
07. The Walkmen - You & Me
06. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
05. Invincible - Shapeshifters
04. Women - Women
03. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
02. Black Milk - Tronic
01. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Part One (4th World War)
 
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StoOgE

First tragedy, then farce.
This list is just proof how hard it is to keep up with indie music. Two years ago I was really really into it and bought tons of new albums. I have heard of maybe 10 of those bands.

I'm not saying the music isn't good, I'm sure it is, but it is much easier just to listen to popular shit.
 
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Hootie

Member
...the only artist/band I know on that list is Lil Wayne, and I don't even like his music.

Who the hell are these people?!
 
S

Skittleguy

Ring a Bell for me
And for comparison, here's the Indiepassion list:

1. The Middle East - The Recordings Of The Middle East
2. Sigur Ros - Med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust
3. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
4. Seagull - Goodbye Weather
5. Lost In The Trees - All Alone in an Empty House
6. Vetiver - Thing Of The Past
7. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
8. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
9. Dark Captain Light Captain - Miracle Kicker
10. Ty Segall - Ty Segall
11. Bang Gang - Ghost From The Past
12. Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve - Beyond The Wizards Sleeve Ark 1
13. Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
14. Denison Witmer - Carry the Weight
15. Faded Paper Figures - Dynamo
16. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
17. Elf Power - In a Cave
18. J. Tillman - Vacilando Territory Blues
19. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
20. Ray LaMontagne - Gossip In The Grain
21. Van She - V
22. Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
23. Marching Band - Spark Large
24. State Bird - Mostly Ghostly
25. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
26. Solo - Before We Part
27. The Teenagers - Reality Check
28. Melpo Mene - Bring The Lions Out
29. Empire Of The Sun - Walking on a Dream
30. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Continued
31. {{{Sunset}}} - The Glowing City
32. The American Dollar - A Memory Stream
33. Moi Caprice -We Had Faces Then
34. Neil Halstead - Oh! Mighty Engine
35. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
36. Pelle Carlberg - The Lilac Time
37. Pierre De Reeder - The Way That It Was
38. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
39. Pop Levi - Never Never Love
40. Benoît Pioulard - Temper
41. Bloc Party - Intimacy
42. School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
43. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
44. The Grand Archives - The Grand Archives
45. Megapuss - Surfing
46. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
47. Cocoanut Groove - Madeleine Street
48. Botticellis - Old Home Movies
49. Mercy Arms - Mercy Arms
50. Little Joy - Little Joy
 
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Karma Kramer

Banned
No deerhunter = list fail

If we are posting lists I might as well post Headphone's Commute's list. He mostly focuses on electronic artists... so a lot of the artists are even more obscure... majority of them I haven't heard yet. But the guy has amazing tastes... so eventually I am going to try and get around to listening to most of the stuff listed.

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TIER 1 : ABSOLUTE MUST OF 2008 : TOP 10 (alphabetical order)

Evan Bartholomew - Secret Entries Into Darkness (Somnia)
Hauschka - Ferndorf (130701)
Hecq - Night Falls (Hymen)
Jacaszek - Treny (Miasmah / Gusstaff )
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlandia (4AD)
Library Tapes - A Summer Beneath the Trees (Make Mine Music)
Murcof - The Versailles Sessions (Leaf)
Ólafur Arnalds - Variations of Static (Erased Tapes)
Subheim - Approach (Tympanik Audio)
The Sight Below - Glider (Ghostly)

TIER 2 : THE VERY BEST OF 2008 : TOP 25 (alphabetical order)

Abbasi Brothers - Something Like Nostalgia (Dynamophone)
Autechre - Quaristice (Warp)
Barry Lynn - Balancing Lakes (Planet Mu)
Benn Jordan - Pale Blue Dot (Alphabasic)
Bitcrush - Epilogue In Waves (n5MD)
Blackfilm - Blackfilm (Spectraliquid)
Byetone - Death Of A Typographer (Raster-Noton)
Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words (Kranky)
Clark - Turning Dragon (Warp)
Emanuele Errante - Humus (Somnia)
Evan Marc + Steve Hillage - Dreamtime Submersible (Somnia)
Fennesz - Black Sea (Touch)
Helios - Caesure (Type)
Ital Tek - Cyclical (Planet Mu)
Kettel - Myam James Part 1 (Sending Orbs)
Lights Out Asia - Eyes Like Brontide (n5MD)
Max Richter - 24 Postcards In Full Colour (130701 / FatCat)
Motionfield - Optical Flow (Somnia)
Peter Broderick - Float (Type)
Rudi Arapahoe - Echoes From One To Another (Symbolic Interaction)
Squarepusher - Just A Souvenir (Warp)
Sylvain Chauveau - The Black Book Of Capitalism (Type)
The Flashbulb - Soundtrack To A Vacant Life (Alphabasic)
Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist (Planet Mu)
Wisp - Katabatic (Rephlex)

TIER 3 : THE ESSENTIALS OF 2008 : TOP 40 (alphabetical order)

2562 - Aerial
Aidan Baker And Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie (Alien8)
Alva Noto - Unitxt (Raster-Noton)
Anders Ilar - Sworn (Level)
Another Electronic Musician - Five (m5MD)
BLÆRG - Auspices & Vagaries (Bottle Imp Productions)
Balmorhea - Rivers Arms (Western Vinyl)
Bluetech - Phoenix Rising (Somnia)
Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative (Modern Love)
DJ Hidden - We Are Haunted; The Signs (Prspct) & Past The Flesh; Prayer's End (Killing Sheep)
Daturah - Reverie (Golden Antenna / Graveface)
Digitonal - Save Your Light For Darker Days (Just Music)
Fjordne - The Last 3 Days Of Time (Dynamophone)
Funckarma - Vell Vagranz (n5MD)
Ginormous - At Night, Under Artificial Light (Hymen)
Goldmund - The Malady Of Elegance (Type)
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday (Temporary Residence Limited)
Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow (Darla)
Hecq - Golden Pines (Binkcrsh)
Hol Baumann - Human (Ultimae)
Igorrr - Moisissure (self)
Integral - Rise (Tympanik)
Jasper TX - Black Sleep (Miasmah)
Juxta Phona & Offthesky - !Escape Kit! (Somnia)
Kangding Ray - Automne Fold (Raster-Noton)
Kaya Project - And So It Goes (Interchill)
Machinefabriek - Dauw (Dekorder)
Meat Beat Manifesto - Autoimmune (Planet Mu / Metropolis)
Near The Parenthesis - L'Eixample (n5MD)
Nico Muhly - Mothertongue (Bedroom Community)
Ø - Oleva (Sähkö)
Ott - Skylon (Twisted)
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista (Fonal)
Richard Skelton - Marking Time (Preservation)
Silent Land Time Machine - &hope still (Time-Lag / Indian Queen)
Skyphone - Avellaneda (Rune Grammofon)
Slow Dancing Society - Priest Lake Circa '88 (Hidden Shoal)
Stephan Mathieu - Radioland (Die Schachtel)
The Drift - Memory Drawings (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
William Basinski and Richard Chartier - Untitled 1-3 (LINE)

TIER 4 : HONORABLE MENTIONS AND COMPILATIONS : TOP 50 (alphabetical order)

40Winks - The Lucid Effect (Project: Mooncircle)
Aleph-1 - Aleph-1 (iDEAL)
Amon Tobin - Taxidermia EP (self)
Appleblim - Dubstep Allstars: Vol.06 (Tempa)
Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior (Tempa)
Cardopusher - Mutant Dubstep Vol.2 (Spectraliquid)
Deadmau5 - Tech-Trance-Electro Madness (Mixmag)
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into (Virgin)
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (Southern Lord)
Elite Barbarian - It’s only when you get to the end that it all makes sense (Front & Follow)
End.user - Left (Hymen)
Evol Intent - Era of Diversion (Evol Intent)
Ezekiel Honig - Surfaces Of A Broken Marching Band (Anticipate)
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles (Warp)
Heartthrob - Dear Painter, Paint Me (M_nus)
I Awake - The Core (Ultimae)
Ilar & Hedvall - Melt (Narita)
Interbellum - Over All Of Spain The Sky Is Clear (FSS)
Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood (Nonesuch)
Jérôme Chassagnard - (F)light (Hymen)
Kamran Sadeghi - Through Thickness (Dragon's Eye)
Kelpe - Ex-Aquarium (D.C. Recordings)
Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch - Two Swords (Defcom)
Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto (Touch)
Lustmord - [ O T H E R ] (Hydra Head)
Minilogue - Animals (Cocoon)
Mr Scruff - Ninja Tuna (Ninja Tuna)
Nebulo - Ãvutmã (Hymen)
Noisia - FabricLive. 40 (Fabric)
Peter Broderick - Home (Type)
Philip Jeck - Sand (Touch)
Plastician - Rinse 06 (Rinse)
Port-Royal - Flared Up Port-Royal Remixed (Resonant)
Portishead - Third (Universal)
Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (XL)
Sumner McKane - What A Great Place To be (self)
The Black Dog - Radio Scarecrow (Soma Quality)
The Doubtful Guest - Acid Sauna (Planet Mu)
The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Inside (Barge)
The Herbaliser - Same As It Never Was (Studio !K7)
The Ideal Setback - Dream Dialogue (self)
The Remote Viewer - I Can't Believe It's Not Better (Mobeer)
Valet - Naked Acid (Kranky)
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (XL)
Various - Diaspora: Cottage Industries 5 (Neo Ouija)
Various - Now (Underscan)
Various - Our Sound 2 (Destructive)
Various - The Platinum Series (Metalheadz)
Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted (Kranky)
Zentriert Ins Antlitz - ...No (Tympanik)

TIER 5 : ADDITIONAL READER'S SELECTIONS : TOP 50 (alphabetical order)

Aidan Baker - Book Of Nods (Beta-lactam Rin)
Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (4AD / Kranky)
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold (Rhymesayers)
Auburn Lull - Begin Civil Twilight (Darla)
Beach House - Devotion (Carpark)
Beck - Modern Guilt (XL)
Benoît Pioulard - Temper (Kranky)
Bersarin Quartett - Bersarin Quartett (Lidar)
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Dolores (PIAS)
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular)
Deadbeat - Roots And Wire (Wagon Repair)
Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont. (Kranky)
Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park (4AD)
Distance - Repercussions (Planet Mu)
Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music (Keysound)
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (Fiction)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Bella Union)
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (ATP)
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (Warp)
Gas - Nah Und Fern (Kompakt)
Gregor Samsa - Rest (Own)
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type)
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness (Enemies List Home)
Headhunter - Nomad (Tempa)
Leila - Blood, Looms & Blooms (Warp)
Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound)
M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Virgin / Mute / EMI)
Maybeshewill - Not For Want Of Trying (Field)
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling (Matador)
No Age - Nouns (Sub Pop)
Our Sleepless Forest - Our Sleepless Forest (Resonant)
Pocahaunted - Island Diamonds (Not Not Fun)
Ratatat - LP3 (XL)
Ricardo Villalobos - Vasco (Perlon)
Scuba - A Mutual Antipathy (Hotflush)
Shearwater - Rook (Matador)
Shed - Shedding The Past (Ostgut Tonträger)
Starkey - Ephemeral Exhibits (Planet Mu)
Sun Kil Moon - April (Caldo Verde)
TV On The Radio - Dear Science (4AD)
Tape - Luminarium (Häpna)
The Alps - III (Type)
The Bug - London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
The Daysleepers - Drowned In A Sea Of Sound (Clairecords)
The Dodos - Visiter (Wichita)
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (City Slang / Domino)
Tricky - Knowle West Boy (Domino)
Twine - Violets (Ghostly)
Why? - Alopecia (Anticon / Tomlab)
Zomby - Where Were U In '92? (Werk Discs)
 
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Timber

Member
Karma Kramer said:
If we are posting lists I might as well post Headphone's Commute's list.
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that list is sooooooooooo good and i haven't even heard half the stuff on there. the flashbulb's soundtrack to a vacant life is still my fav album of the year
 
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Mark D

Member
The vast majority of Headphone Commute's list is from the electronic, ambient and new classical genres. In other words, it's the anti-GAF.
 
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7Th

Member
All of these lists need more 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons. A Silver Mt. Zion delivered one of the most powerful vocal performances of the entire year.
 
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wenis

Registered for GAF on September 11, 2001.
FrenchMovieTheme said:
this list sucks bizalls without GNR.

p.s.

i wish i were cool enough to know these bands
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starchild excalibur

Member
You guys must have been comatose for the past 5 years not to have even heard of some of those musicians.

Erykah Badu's been around for a while and Lil Wayne is unavoidable. You don't have to be an indie fuck to have heard of some of these people - you just have to be someone who's actually been awake for part of the past year.
 
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pjberri

Crotchety Old Man
That CMG list has some decent shit on it, but it looks like they're out for attention.



THE WIRE - Best of 2008
50. Sao Paulo Underground - The Principle Of Intrusive Relationships
49. Ellen Fullman & Monique Buzzarte - Fluctuations
48. Sic Alps - US EZ
47. Mark Stewart - Edit
46. Alva Noto - Unitxt
45. Peter Rehberg - Works For GV 2004-2008
44. Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness
43. Murcof - The Versailles Sessions
42. Vajra - Live
41. David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes The Dust
40. Jakob Ullmann - Voice, Books And FIRE 3
39. Toumani Diabate - The Mande Variations
38. Portishead - Third
37. Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters 2
36. Emeralds - Solar Bridge
35. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
34. Harvey Milk - Life... The Best Game In Town
33. Stereo Image - S/T
32. Christina Carter - Masque Femine
31. Malcolm Goldstein - A Sounding Of Sources
30. Terry Riley - The Last Camel In Paris
29. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lions Skull
28. Scorces - I Turn Into You
27. Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
26. Tricky - Knowle West Boy
25. Robert Ashley - Concrete
24. Jandek - Glasgow Sunday 2005
23. Group Inerane - Guitars From Agadez (Music Of Niger)
22. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
21. Lukas Ligeti - African Machinery
20. Stephan Mathieu - Radioland
19. Bill Dixon - 17 Musicians In Seach For A Sound: Darfur
18. Luomo - Convivial
17. Dusk + Blackdown - Margins Music
16. Autechre - Quaristice
15. Kasai Allstars - In The 7th Moon...
14. Eric Chenaux - Sloppy Ground
13. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
12. Ryoji Ikeda - Test Pattern
11. Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
10. The Caretaker - Persistent Repetition Of Phrases
9. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
8. William S Burroughs - Real English Tea Made Here
7. Evangelista - Hello, Voyager
6. The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
5. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
4. John Butcher - Resonant Spaces
3. The Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace
2. Philip Jeck - Sand
1. The Bug - London Zoo
 
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neptunes

Member
I'm suprised @ number the number 2 spot

Black milk has come a long way, from being dilla's understudy, to being really recognized.

I've seen the cool kids and numerous lists, but I don't see wale or 88-keys anywhere
 
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pjberri

Crotchety Old Man
neptunes said:
I'm suprised @ number the number 2 spot

Black milk has come a long way, from being dilla's understudy, to being really recognized.

I've seen the cool kids and numerous lists, but I don't see wale or 88-keys anywhere
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Wale was on Pitchfork's.
 
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Timber

Member
That Evangelista album is really something else

and I've seen that The Fall album pop up in other lists. Smith is unstoppable! To be honest I had no idea their music was still good :lol I haven't heard anything they made past 85 or so.
 
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teepo

Member
Timber said:
That Evangelista album is really something else

and I've seen that The Fall album pop up in other lists. Smith is unstoppable! To be honest I had no idea their music was still good :lol I haven't heard anything they made past 85 or so.
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if you haven't, see her live. it is seriously a mind blowing experience.
 
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Timber

Member
teepo said:
if you haven't, see her live. it is seriously a mind blowing experience.
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just checked the tour dates and she's coming to the netherlands in may, but she's playing on the damn opposite end of the country from where i live. sucks but not a complete deal breaker.

the album is really unique but still it reminds me of late 70s no wave, lydia lunch in particular. which is a very good thing
 
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pjberri

Crotchety Old Man
Yep, that Evangelista album is really great.

The more I look at the list in the OP, the more it sucks.
 
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Flynn

Member
pjberri said:
Yep, that Evangelista album is really great.

The more I look at the list in the OP, the more it sucks.
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Well, I'd kinda skipped over the Badu record. I'll probably grab it now just to see why they put it in the top spot.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
I haven't seen any Ladytron love on these end of the year lists and that's disappointing. I thought Velocifero was really fantastic.
 
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okno

Member
Vox-Pop said:
I don't get the Fleet Foxes love with all these music list.
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I am so, so, so, so sick of them. They're not awful, at all, but they are in no way brilliant. It's just ugh ugh ugh ugh. I went out to lunch at a diner (aptly named Diner) today and they played the album twice in a row. I've had, "I've been swallowing the eyes, been swallowing the eyes, been swallowing the eyes..." in my head all day. ALL DAY.


To those saying these lists are awful: let's see your top 50. I only say that because these lists really do highlight a lot of the decent "popular" indie music that has come out this year. It's kind of a shame that everyone is really only working with what was most hyped up and not really stepping outside of the box and trying to be a little more adventurous, but it's to be expected in this day and age when being "hip" has never been easier.

Also, 'Dear Painter, Paint Me' is the best album of 2008.
 
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