Yes this isn't the music forum, but we're all stoners and listen to music and none of us ever go into the music forum So what are your top albums of 2008 now that there's just over 2 weeks left
1) Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist 2) Boris - Smile 3) Cannabis Corpse - Tube of the Resinated 4) Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
Of Montreal-Skeletal Lamping Mars Volta- Bedlam in Goliath Tha Carter III- Lil Wayne Sleep Well- Electric President
O'Death - Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin Trampled By Turtles - Duluth Wednesday 13 - Skeletons The Wood Brothers -Loaded
wednesday 13- skeletons (go you joker with the good moosic) mindless self indulgence- if Dir en grey-uroboros(#1 billboard heatseekers list in north america, really give this album a chance, its awesome, and not even just because its dir en grey, just cause its awesome)
I waited for Death Magnetic by Metallica to come out for 4 years, and I loved it. Black Ice by AC/DC was pretty good too.
My two favourites of 2008 are.....: Endless boogie - Focus level and Earthless - Live at Roadburn Other ones that I nominate - Dead Man - Euphoria - Graveyard - Graveyard - Nebula - Heavy psych - Jex Thoth - Jex Thoth
The Awesome: Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend(This is probably the best new band I've heard of all year, but it seems to be a love or hate thing, but it's just awesome pop) Seasick - self titled EP(the best psychedelic band you've never listened to, seriously, go look them up on myspace) Jennifer Gentle - Evanescent Land(Jennifer Gentle is the most awesome, improbable, quirky Italian psychedelic band ever, c'mon they take their name from something in a Pink Floyd song) Breeders - Mountain Battles(Not the new Pixies album we're all hoping one day for, but still good) The Kills = Midnight Boom(Not as good as their old stuff, but still damn good) Black Angels - Directions to see a Ghost(Everything the Black Angels do is awesome, maybe they have officially taken the torch from the Velvet Underground, but made it harder and louder) Black Keys - Attack and Release(not as good as the last, but still damn good, less gritty maybe?) Beach House - Devotion(Like Mazzy Star? Listen to these two) Jaymay - Autumn fallin(The darling of the New York anti-folk scene?) The Good: Ac/Dc - Black Ice(There was alot of filler, take like 6 songs off and it'd be flippin awesome, but AC/DC is back and it is flippin awesome) Alice Cooper - Along Came a Spider(I was shocked with this one, I'm a huge Alice Cooper fan and love almost every album, was a bit let down by this one though) Guns n Roses - Chinese Democracy(Chinese Democracy was actually pretty awesome, 14 years of making worth of awesome though? No REM - Accelerate(Nothing spectacular but a solid album Cat Power - Jukebox(It was a really good album, but everything but 1 song was covers) Emilie Autumn - 4'O Clock/Girls Just Wanna Have Fun(2 seperate EPs, both 1/2 really good and 1/2 not so good, take the good from both it'd be one awesome EP) Beck - Modern Guilt(not a big Beck fan, but this was good) Courtney Love - Nobody's Daughter(due for internet release Jan.1st, but from the demos that have been put out so far it seems it'll be alright, still a long way from Hole though)
I really need to stop procrastinating and buy that Jex Thoth. I have one song off it and it really kicks ass, and every so often there is an album that I won't download because I'd rather wait to purchase it; the suspense just makes the initial listen that much more worthwhile. Once I get my financial aid refund for the spring I'll be picking that up along with a couple of other recent doom albums.
