Best Albums of 2008

[JerseySean]

Let us know what you favorite newly released albums of 08 are. I dont have anything I can list yet.

[El Mudo]

http://www.ninebullets.net/wp-images/dbt-new-cd-cover.jpg

[Jujubees2]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007GAEVW.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

My wife got it for me for Valentine's Day and I love it.

[badorties]

the new malkmus (http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Trash-Stephen-Malkmus-Jicks/dp/B0012IWHN2/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203700678&sr=8-1) is pretty good ...

i can't really think of another technical 2008 release -- but, as far as fairly recent releases, the new thurston moore (http://www.amazon.com/Trees-Outside-Academy-Thurston-Moore/dp/B000UZ4FMY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203700719&sr=1-1), les savy fav (http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Stay-Friends-Savy-Fav/dp/B000UVLSVE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203700756&sr=1-1) and radiohead (http://www.amazon.com/Rainbows-Radiohead/dp/B000YXMMAE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203700802&sr=1-1) are great

[JerseyRich]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007GAEVW.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

My wife got it for me for Valentine's Day and I love it.

Ummm...That's about 3 years old now.

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Ummm...That's about 3 years old now.

nice job with the thread

welcome to the board Jersey Sean

[JerseyRich]

the new malkmus (http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Trash-Stephen-Malkmus-Jicks/dp/B0012IWHN2/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203700678&sr=8-1) is pretty good ...

i can't really think of another technical 2008 release -- but, as far as fairly recent releases, the new thurston moore (http://www.amazon.com/Trees-Outside-Academy-Thurston-Moore/dp/B000UZ4FMY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203700719&sr=1-1), les savy fav (http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Stay-Friends-Savy-Fav/dp/B000UVLSVE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203700756&sr=1-1) and radiohead (http://www.amazon.com/Rainbows-Radiohead/dp/B000YXMMAE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1203700802&sr=1-1) are great

In Rainbows is pretty fantastic.

[donnie_darko]

2008 is fairly young, closest i can come is architecture in helsinki, places like this.....

and thats 2007 so i suck.

[JerseySean]

2008 is fairly young, closest i can come is architecture in helsinki, places like this.....

and thats 2007 so i suck.

Yea I really dont even know what to check out. 2007 was strong for me as I had about 10 strong albums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_in_music#Albums_to_be_released

Not very excited about anything here

[EddieMoscone]

I got Radiohead by download in '07, but the proper release was '08, so I'll count it.

And I'll open myself up to the haters and say the new Mars Volta as well...

[PhishHead]

alot of good albums have come out

The Helio Sequence
The Mountain Goats
Death Cab for Cutie's new album will be out
The Postal Service
Punch Brothers
I believe 2 Joseph Arthur albums will be coming out
Weezer
NIN
Black Mountain
Chris Walla
Vampire Weekend
Destroyer
The Black Keys
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yelstin
Spoon (EP)
Atmosphere
Blizten Trapper
AK3 (yea ill take shit for that but I enjoy them)
Jenny Lewis
Madvillain
Muse (this year or next, hasnt been decided)
Rusted Root (has been way to long)


plus a ton of great indie bands always put out records every year.

[JerseySean]

alot of good albums have come out

The Helio Sequence
The Mountain Goats
Death Cab for Cutie's new album will be out
The Postal Service
Punch Brothers
I believe 2 Joseph Arthur albums will be coming out
Weezer
NIN
Black Mountain
Chris Walla
Vampire Weekend

plus a ton of great indie bands always put out records every year.

Give me a list. Need something new.NIn was 2007 May and Weezer hasnt come out yet.

[PhishHead]

Give me a list. Need something new.NIn was 2007 May and Weezer hasnt come out yet.

NiN is coming out with another album in 2008.

The ones out of that last that have already come out is:

The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Vampire Weekend - Self Titled
Chris Walla - Field Manual
Black Mountain - In the Future
Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams (leaked online early)

the rest of the list I posted will be out during the year.

Also new Notwist album will be coming out as well.

edit: Wolf Parade have a new album as well in 2008.

Damn so many bands I am forgetting I have to keep editing.

[Jujubees2]

http://store.lousrecords.com/catalog/jack_johnson-sleep_through.jpg

Wrong cover the first time. This is the one I meant.

My wife got it for me for Valentine's Day and I love it.[/QUOTE]

[The Chairman]

El Mudo's pick is mine.

'Brighter Than Creation's Dark' by Drive By Truckers.

The Chairman

[underdog]

And I'll open myself up to the haters and say the new Mars Volta as well...

I'll agree.

And with Lent going on, we're safe from Gvac's wrath about The Mars Volta.

[TheGameHHH]

http://store.lousrecords.com/catalog/jack_johnson-sleep_through.jpg

Wrong cover the first time. This is the one I meant.

My wife got it for me for Valentine's Day and I love it.[/QUOTE]

i actually think this is Jack's worst album to date. I dig about 5 songs on there and thats it. It's like when Dylan went electric, it just didnt click with a lot of people at first. I'm hoping eventually i fall in love with this album, but for now im indifferent about it.

[EliSnow]

Weezer has a new album coming out?

I thought they were done.

[PhishHead]

Weezer has a new album coming out?

I thought they were done.

nope, new album coming out in the spring.

[EddieMoscone]

Madvillain


FUCKING FANTASTIC!!!

[keithy_19]

It's so premature to talk best albums of 2008 at this point in the year. You could have purchased an album that blew you away, but perhaps down the line in fall 2008 an album will come out that will surpass that easy.

I have several albums I'm looking forward too. The Slakcers-Self Medicated, Thrice-The Alchemy Index III/IV, the new Alkaline Trio record. 2008 could be a very good year for music for me.

[keithy_19]

nope, new album coming out in the spring.

And apparently it's the best album they ever put out. But, I suppose every band thinks that when they are about to release an album.

[PhishHead]

And apparently it's the best album they ever put out. But, I suppose every band thinks that when they are about to release an album.

i havent heard it being called the best ever, i just heard rivers saying it is very experimental and non-traditional weezer.

[JerseySean]

It's so premature to talk best albums of 2008 at this point in the year. You could have purchased an album that blew you away, but perhaps down the line in fall 2008 an album will come out that will surpass that easy.

I have several albums I'm looking forward too. The Slakcers-Self Medicated, Thrice-The Alchemy Index III/IV, the new Alkaline Trio record. 2008 could be a very good year for music for me.

You can update it all year. My problem was that an album hasnt come out in 3 months that I wanna hear. So put your suggestions here

[keithy_19]

i havent heard it being called the best ever, i just heard rivers saying it is very experimental and non-traditional weezer.

All the members of the band have said it's their best work. They are reaching above and beyond things they've done before.

[Chip Vaughn]

Some of you may have had it from its UK release, but it was released in the United States this Tuesday Feb. 19th

http://www.clickmusic.com/upload/flock300.jpg

Bell X1 - Flock

Outstanding...

:thumbup:

[PhishHead]

Some of you may have had it from its UK release, but it was released in the United States this Tuesday Feb. 19th

http://www.clickmusic.com/upload/flock300.jpg

Bell X1 - Flock

Outstanding...

:thumbup:

considering this is from 2005 i dont consider it is new.

But it was one of the better albums of 2005. Paul has a great voice, which never would be known if Damien didnt leave the band.

[donnie_darko]

i dont know how anyone can give any credence to a band saying their newest album is their best work.

every band will say that.

weezers "best work" is far behind them.....really.

[IMSlacker]

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Dengue Fever - Venus on Earth

[riverofpiss]

http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/7795/ghosts400x4004nb8.jpg

My favourite so far.

[GreatAmericanZero]

Chinese Democracy?


it could happen.....

[Andy1807]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SPSUk2PqL._SS500_.jpg
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drj800/j813/j81392hxdrb.jpg

I'm really into these two right now (well, I am listening to Vampire Weekend again. their demos leaked about 5 months ago)

[FunkyDrummer]

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/statusainthood/Consoler.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517JTETmz4L._SS500_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BOTxoVvVL._SS500_.jpg

[furie]

nick cave & the bad seeds

dig lazarus dig

[IMSlacker]

Pick up Blame it on Gravity by Old 97's today.

Don't be an asshole.

[IMSlacker]

Even though Phishy thinks it sucks a bag of dicks, I'm enjoying the new Death Cab for Cutie album, Narrow Stairs, quite a bit.

[hammersavage]

Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotinal Trash
Sounds like early 90's alt rock with a hint of jam too it. Right up my alley.


Only listened to the new Death Cab a couple times so far, like it...

[FunkyDrummer]

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l190/findlovenow/reckoning2copy.jpg

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[bossdjbware]

Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotinal Trash
Sounds like early 90's alt rock with a hint of jam too it. Right up my alley.


Picked it up when it was first released but I've yet to give it a good listenin. Love all his other stuff so there's no doubt I'll enjoy it.

[Donnie Iris]

MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
Vampire Weekend
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Triggers - Smoke Show

[paracetamol flanders]

http://mp3.uzhgorod.name/uploads/posts/2008-03/1205013856_portishead_three.jpg

The new Portishead is a muv!

[JohnWC]

Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (My favorite so far. If you like New Order.. pick this up)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Night Marchers - See You in Magic
The Felice Brothers - Self Titled
Vampire Weekend - ST
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

[FunkyDrummer]

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!" (Anti-)

2. Weezer, “Weezer” (Geffen)

3. Local H, “12 Angry Months” (Shout! Factory)

4. Gnarls Barkley, “The Odd Couple” (Atlantic)

5. Lupe Fiasco, “The Cool” (Atlantic)**

6. Tim Fite, “Fair Ain’t Fair” (Anti-)

7. Saul Williams, “The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust” (Fader) ++

8. The Black Angels, “Directions to See a Ghost” (Light in the Attic)

9. Portishead, “Third” (Mercury)

10. Flight of the Conchords, “Flight of the Conchords” (Sub Pop)

http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/2008/06/the_best_albums_of_2008_so_far.html

[Chris from TX]

Of course this is my pick. From the fourth and last member inducted into 'People We Love Who Live' club. Aimee Mann, "@#%&*! Smilers"
http://i32.tinypic.com/350jr05.jpg

[PhishHead]

Tilly and the Wall - O
Shearwater - Rook

go check those out especially Shearwater

[RoseBlood]

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!" (Anti-)

Love Nick Cave so so much!

Shearwater - Rook

go check those out especially Shearwater

I haven't heard Rook yet but I did enjoy Palo Santo.. for anyone who wants a listen (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OB5EBM8F)

[hammersavage]

M83 Saturdays=Youth
Fleet Foxes Self Titled
My Morning Jacket Evil Urges
Deerhunter Microcastle

all good to great albums. good music year so far...

[NickyL0885]

http://www.drivenfaroff.com/wp-content/2008/03/cinematicsunrise.jpg

[NickyL0885]

http://http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/coldplay-vivalavida.jpg

[NickyL0885]

http://sleevage.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/coldplay-vivalavida.jpg

[FunkyDrummer]

http://www.satriani.com/podcast/Satchafunkilus/images/cover.jpg

[TheGameHHH]

Jason Mraz has a new album out and its pretty bad ass.

[gofurself]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61ItgF-wh0L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31lxK-VnbRL._SL500_AA170_.jpg

[barjockey]

http://re3.yt-thm-a02.yimg.com/image/1/m1/720891110



:bye:care for a bong-hit?
http://re3.yt-thm-a01.yimg.com/image/25/m6/3439013924:smoke:

[Enabler]

http://re3.yt-thm-a02.yimg.com/image/1/m1/720891110



:bye:care for a bong-hit?
http://re3.yt-thm-a01.yimg.com/image/25/m6/3439013924:smoke:


Yes. And Mountain Battles by The Breeders is a good listen. Released in April, I think.

http://www.gigwise.com/artists/Image/breeders.jpg

[burrben]

attack & release - the black keys

consolers of the lonely - the raconteurs

[CruelCircus]

http://image.allmusic.com/13/amg/cov200/drj000/j018/j01848yu084.jpg

Technically released in late 07, but since it's for a worthwhile cause...

Awesome compilation, esp. Disc 1. Track list:
http://www.tipitinasfoundation.org/fats/tracks.htm

[KingGeno]

Strung Out - Blackhawks Over Los Angeles
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000PAAI16.09.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Strung Out has been one of my fav SoCal punk bands for a long time, and their new album is fantastic. Excellent vocals, great guitar and tempo work, and the drums are dynamis as usual.

http://www.strungout.com/
http://www.myspace.com/strungout

[silks]

http://www.diskant.dk/Billeder/Cd%20Covers/L/DanielLanois-HereIsWhatIs.jpg

[IMSlacker]

http://www.switchbladecomb.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/santogold-santogold.jpg

[Grizsly]

Hurm - anyone hear fans of My Morning Jacket? Evil Urges is pretty fuckin' sweet IMO. Just picked up tickets to MSG for New Year's - this is without a doubt the earliest tickets I have ever bought, but considering how fast they've been selling out shows, I think it was a smart move. I've never seen them, but I'm really getting into them these days, and I am psyched to make NYE my first show!

[IMSlacker]

8. The Black Angels, “Directions to See a Ghost” (Light in the Attic)

I love this album.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3160/2483745349_cdcfd854da.jpg

[cheesehead]

Is it too early to cast a vote for the new Sigur Ros?

The english translation is something like: "With a buzzing in our ears we play endlessly"

Really a branching out for them, should provide some great live moments.

[bobstevens4]

The Hold Steady will take 2008!

[TeeBone]

http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Tob9hbJTJB0kTM:http://www.perfectporridge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/stevewinwood9lives.jpg

Very Good

[paulisded]

The new Alejandro Escovedo is excellent.

[FunkyDrummer]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/49/AllHopeIsGone.jpg

Dunno how the album will be, but like both of the new songs.

Album drops on August 26, 2008.

[keithy_19]

Alkaline Trio's Agony and Irony is awesome. Better than Crimson, maybe even better than Good Mourning, though I'll have to listen to it a little bit more before I can say that.

[burrben]

oh, i forgot about She & Him's "Volume One"...very good.

[IMSlacker]

Deastro - Keeper's

http://a777.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/124/m_a214d380fb5933b0adb58ec6c9097d08.jpg

This is a 22 year old kid from Detroit who recorded everything himself in his parents' basement. It's pretty impressive. If you like indie electro-pop you should check it out. Here's his MySpace. (http://www.myspace.com/deastrothetracker)

"The Shaded Forest" is a great song.

[Sue_Bender]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007GAEVW.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

My wife got it for me for Valentine's Day and I love it.

You love it?

Oh. Yeah. 'Cause you're a queer.

[keithy_19]

I was looking forward to the new Slackers album and it is pretty damn good. They rarely dissapoint.

[Reynolds]

Madvillain


New? Madvillainy was 2004

[FunkyDrummer]

Linkety link (http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/lifestyles/1049425,2_5_AU11_LISTENUP_S1.article)

[PhishHead]

New? Madvillainy was 2004

Yes but Madvillainy 2 is coming out later this year as I was posting a list of things to come.

[tonedef04]

the goddamn img code isnt working. this is supposed to be a pic of THE BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES and their album A TOUCH OF SOMEONE ELSE'S CLASS.

http://http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=8503819&MyToken=deb148d6-15ef-4747-b14f-1b1b6c2a20f1

this is the link to their myspace page. i dont know if that works either. but please try to find them, they are an incredible duo, the likes of which you've never heard.

[dino_electropolis]

My fav album of the year:


muledose

www.myspace.com/muledose

these guys are siiiiiiick....lol

[IMSlacker]

I should have posted this one a couple of months ago.

Breathe Owl Breath

Ghost Glacier EP

http://17dots.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/ghost-glacier-ep.jpg

[bobsnin]

http://www.ninebullets.net/wp-images/dbt-new-cd-cover.jpg

I had never heard of them before bonnaroo, but they put on a rad show.

I know it's kinda cliche, but I like the vampire's album.

http://vox2.cdn.amiestreet.com/album-art/Vampire-Weekend-by-Vampire-Weekend_55817_full.jpg

[danner1515]

http://mediapix.ru/pics/e027e5983689688ee1f2e778ee9b7020.jpg

The new Melvins album arrived in the mail yesterday, and I'm listening to it right now. Good stuff. However, I've heard a few tracks from the Jay Reatard album that comes out this month, and what I heard sounded fantastic.

[FunkyDrummer]

http://news.filefront.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/disturbedindestructible.jpg

Good angry workout music...

[allgimpedup84]

Jason Mraz has a new album out and its pretty bad ass.

please, please, please dont take what i say personally. but if you enjoy fruit in your beer, youre an absolute homo. thats just my opinion. i still think youre cool, even if youre a total queer. here's two silly little 'mo's drinking fruity beer together :drunk:


Now I know I'm new at this message board thing, and I also am going to see Jason Mraz in October...but being an avid Jason Mraz fan is quite gay sir. I don't care what type of beer you drink. P.S. - I'm the exception.

[epo]

Now I know I'm new at this message board thing, and I also am going to see Jason Mraz in October...but being an avid Jason Mraz fan is quite gay sir. I don't care what type of beer you drink. P.S. - I'm the exception.

I haven't heard the new Jason Mraz album yet, but I'll wage good money that it isn't the "best" album of 2008. Just a guess from a hetero male.

[allgimpedup84]

I haven't heard the new Jason Mraz album yet, but I'll wage good money that it isn't the "best" album of 2008. Just a guess from a hetero male.

Agreed.

[Sue_Bender]

I don't know if it's the best, but I've enjoyed it tremendously.

http://991.com/NewGallery/Nick-Cave-Dig-Lazarus-Dig--427696.jpg

[TheGameHHH]

Now I know I'm new at this message board thing, and I also am going to see Jason Mraz in October...but being an avid Jason Mraz fan is quite gay sir. I don't care what type of beer you drink. P.S. - I'm the exception.

i gotta agree with you, liking Mraz is prob. a little gay. Is it as gay as fruit in your beer? I submit not, but gay nonetheless.

and i wasn't saying its one of the best albums of 2008, i just said it was bad ass. and it is.

[Sue_Bender]

i gotta agree with you, liking Mraz is prob. a little gay. Is it as gay as fruit in your beer? I submit not, but gay nonetheless.

and i wasn't saying its one of the best albums of 2008, i just said it was bad ass. and it is.


No.


It can't be.


It can't be.

[keithy_19]

h2o-nothing to prove (so good. glad to see new york hardcore is still alive and well)

[EddieMoscone]

The new Nas is pretty fucking great.

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/df/52/f28281b0c8a04c134ed4b110.L.png

[FunkyDrummer]

It's not better than their first one, but still pretty damn good...

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/1034/allornothinglgbu7.jpg

[FunkyDrummer]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3054/2568422388_70351411ea.jpg

[bobstevens4]

I like the new Hold Steady.

[zildjian361]

Staind The Illusion of Progress:devil2::drunk::thumbup:

[CousinDave]

I haven't bought any NEW albums (including downloads) this year. I'll probably get the new AC/DC album even though I hate the idea of buying anything from Wal-Mart.

[FunkyDrummer]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41U0-k7NK3L._SS500_.jpg

[El Mudo]

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drl300/l320/l32018ebfbg.jpg


If only just for "Caroline"....amazing song

[A.J.]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512fQTV0D8L._SS500_.jpg

Rolling Stone 4 out 5 stars

"At 25, I turned out the light/'Cause I couldn't handle the glare in my tired eyes." Those lines in "Goin' Home" bluntly refer to Brian Wilson's famous mental shutdown in 1967, during the sessions for the aborted Beach Boys album Smile. But that bridge is sung by a pitch-perfect choir in a radiant, white-funk song that, like the rest of this record, evokes the healing feeling of the Beach Boys' great Smile-recovery LPs, 1967's Wild Honey and 1968's Friends. A series of compact tunes and spoken reveries written by Wilson with Scott Bennett and original Smile lyricist Van Dyke Parks, That Lucky Old Sun is blatantly nostalgic in its pre-acid California dreaming (the title cover was a 1949 hit for Frankie Laine) and echoes of Wilson's early less-troubled bloom: the surf-side doo-wop of "Good Kind of Love," the deep saxes and vibraphone in "Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl." His voice is drowsy and uneven in the narratives, but he sings with a reborn will, even when the truth hurts. "I wasted a lot of years," Wilson admits in "Oxygen to the Brain" but insists, as the circus horns come in, "I'm filling up my lungs again and breathing life." That Lucky Old Sun lacks the magnificent shock of SMiLE, Wilson's 2004 completion of that '67 album. But it has a natural, hopeful flow that leaves you warm all over. (http://http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/22669026/review/22712650/that_lucky_old_sun)

[toolshed]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41U0-k7NK3L._SS500_.jpg

Kings of Leon X2.

Because of the Times is great. Looking forward to Only by the Night.

[JohnWC]

TV on the Radio - Dear Science

[toolshed]

My Morning Jacket--Evil Urges

[badorties]

TV on the Radio - Dear Science

saw the video, love the song ... can't wait to pick the album up

after hearing randy newman with ronnie, i really enjoyed listening to the new songs

[hammersavage]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41U0-k7NK3L._SS500_.jpg

So far, WOW! Best voice in music today maybe. I've listened to "Sex on Fire" about 50 times over the weekend. Hope it holds up.

Have the new TV on the Radio too. Gave it a quick listen but will hold off til i can get into it to review it.

[toolshed]

So far, WOW! Best voice in music today maybe. I've listened to "Sex on Fire" about 50 times over the weekend. Hope it holds up.



OBTN is a half-great record. The other half is...interesting.

[KingGeno]

Thrice - The Alchemy Index: Vols. I-IV
http://307bodycount.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/thrice-the-alchemy-index.jpg
http://991.com/newGallery/Thrice-The-Alchemy-Index-432177.jpg

Another EXCELLENT set of albums from Thrice. This album is an experiment in different music styles. Some songs are straight-up rock, others are purely instrumental, mixes of digital, and some are complete brass/acoustic. You can tell the difference in sound by the name of the Volume (Fire, Water, Earth, Air). This set starts out flat out in your face and kick ass, and flows into total chill.

Main reason I enjoy Thrice is because the music is heavily influences by religion and mythology. There is a lot of references to lines from the Bible, the Torah, and others sources. A few of the songs are directly about religion (The Messenger being about the frightened thoughts the Apostles had when embarking on the spreading the good word), to persepective views on mythology (Daedalus is the story of his son Icarus' flight and fall to death).

A+ Just good listening.

[EddieMoscone]

TV on the Radio - Dear Science

Co-sign.

I've loved everything they have done so far. Got the album last week and have listen to it probably half a dozen times already.

[ChrisBrown]

M83 Saturdays=Youth
Fleet Foxes Self Titled
My Morning Jacket Evil Urges
Deerhunter Microcastle

all good to great albums. good music year so far...

I would put Fleet Foxes at the top of the list. Even if it isn't your favorite type of music, it sounds like an album rather than a collection of songs.

[FunkyDrummer]

OBTN is a half-great record. The other half is...interesting.

Not sure what they were trying to do with the second half, but the first half could be the best stuff they've ever recorded.

[toolshed]

Not sure what they were trying to do with the second half, but the first half could be the best stuff they've ever recorded.

I mostly agree. The first half are some great songs, show some real development. However, I think they are losing a little of what drew most people to them in the first place. I wish the second half had been a little more stripped-down, southern like Youth and Young Manhood.

[danner1515]

Posting my list in the correct forum this time:

Boston Spaceships - Brown Submarine
Dan Melchior und das Menace - Christmas for the Crows
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
The Melvins - Nude with Boots
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Robert Pollard - Robert Pollard Is off to Business
Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Jay Reatard - Singles 06-07
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Paul Westerberg - 49:00

[FunkyDrummer]

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0ck3gttfMm3Cj/340x.jpg

Loving the Numbness song


Just got this as well...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9d/Dig_out_your_soul.jpg

[JerseySean]

http://news.google.com/news?rlz=1C1CHMF_enUS302&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=chinese+democracy&um=1&imgefp=iH6JIWtbBuUJ&imgurl=media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/11/21/PH2008112101875.jpg

[FunkyDrummer]

'World Cafe' Picks 2008's Top 10 CDs (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97419675)

[santino]

The Gaslight Anthem - '59 Sound

great punk band outta jersey.

[west milly Tom]

"gossip on the grain" Ray lamontagne


"seeing things"
Jakob Dylan