Breyten² ([info]breyten) wrote,
@ 2008-12-01 08:40:00
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Top 50 Albums of 2008

Originally published at breyt. You can comment here or there.

It's the first of December today, which means that it's slowly getting time for some reflection on the past year. So also this year, I will be working towards a list of the music albums that were released this year, and which I consider to be the best. So here's the first step towards such a list. Listed in alphabetical order, and look out for the top 10 at the end of the month.

1. Adele - 19
2. Alanis Morissette - Flavors of Entanglement
3. Alphabeat - This is Alphabeat
4. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer
5. Amy Studt - My Paper Made Men
6. Anna Ternheim - Leaving On a Mayday
7. Beck - Modern Guilt
8. Britta Persson - Kill Hollywood Me
9. Charlotte Sometimes - Waves and the Both of Us
10. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
11. CSS - Donkey
12. Dido - Safe Trip Home
13. Duffy - Rockferry
14. Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
15. Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons To Be Learned
16. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
17. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
18. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
19. Heather Nova - Jasmine Flower
20. Hello Saferide - More Modern Short Stories
21. Jason Mraz - We Sing We Dance We Steal Things
22. Jem - Down To Earth
23. Joan as Police Woman - To Survive
24. Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
25. Keane - Perfect Symmetry
26. Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke
27. Lady Ga Ga? - The Fame
28. Laura Marling - Alas I Can Not Swim
29. Lykke Li - Time Flies
30. Mandi Perkins - Alice in No Man’s Land
31. Maria Mena - Cause and Effect
32. Marit Larsen - The Change
33. Mirah - The Old Days Feeling
34. My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark’s Teeth
35. Morcheeba - Dive Deep
36. Novastar - Almost Bangor
37. Pink - Funhouse
38. Portishead - Third
39. Rachael Yamagata - Elephants
40. Sharleen Spiteri - Melody
41. Shelby Lynne - Just A Little Lovin’
42. She & Him - Volume One
43. Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
44. Simone White - I Am The Man
45. Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
46. The Hush Sound - Goodbye Blues
47. The Long Blondes - Couples
48. The Killers - Day & Age
49. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
50. The Verve - Forth

What do you think?


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[info]ankie
2008-12-01 11:17 am UTC (link)
Well I think "Who killed Amanda Palmer" is an awesome name for an album ;)

I got two cd's this year from things not on your list - Uh huh her's latest and the cd of Natalia Zukerman (.com), I think you might like the latter.

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[info]ankie
2008-12-01 11:18 am UTC (link)
Oh, and I also got Lykke Li ;)

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[info]bakenius
2008-12-01 12:36 pm UTC (link)
As usual, I haven't heard any of these aforementioned albums, therefor I'm looking forward to your new mix this year because it always introduces me to a wide spectrum of - to me - completely new music. :)

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[info]coronanl
2008-12-01 02:28 pm UTC (link)
Adele - 19 agreed!

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[info]breyten
2008-12-01 02:45 pm UTC (link)
Yay! :)

(It'll make the top 10 for sure btw :))

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[info]annawl
2008-12-01 03:00 pm UTC (link)
15. Gabriella Cimli - Lessons To Be Learned

Her name is Cilmi, not Cimli :P

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[info]breyten
2008-12-01 03:07 pm UTC (link)
Fixed the typo! Thanks :)

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[info]ankie
2008-12-01 03:09 pm UTC (link)
BTW is number 50 the worst (because you didn't get more than 50 albums ;) ) or.. how good do you rate it on a scale from 1 to 10?

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[info]breyten
2008-12-01 03:25 pm UTC (link)
No, the order is alphabetical -- the numbers are added just because it makes it easier to count how many items were still in the list -- I got more than 50 albums :)

(eg. lenny kravitz's new album didn't make the list for example -- it's really afwul)

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[info]elisaveta
2008-12-01 05:28 pm UTC (link)
The Ting Tings <3 I love their album, especially the song "keep your head". That reminds me, here at Sint Maarten we have a drink called Ting (see here), is that where they got their name from? ;)

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[info]breyten
2008-12-01 09:49 pm UTC (link)
No, according to their wikipedia entry (we all know the truthness of wikipedia! ;)) from a chinese letter.

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top 50 albums
(Anonymous)
2008-12-19 08:40 am UTC (link)
what a complete wast of time

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