1. MGMT – oracular Spectacular
2. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
3. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
4. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
5. Foals – Antidotes
6. Metronomy – Nights Out
7. Santogold – Santogold
8. Mystery Jets – 21
9. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
10. Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
Rolling Stone
1 TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2 Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs:The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
3 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
4 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
5 John Mellencamp - Life, Death, Love and Freedom
6 Santogold - Santogold
7 Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
8 Beck - Modern Guilt
9 Metallica - Death Magnetic
10 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Last.FM
1. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
2. MGMT – oracular Spectacular
3. Portishead - Third
4. Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV
5. The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing
6. The Kooks - Konk
7. Death Vab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs
8. Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
9. Jack Johnson – Sleep Through The Static
10. Sigur Ros - Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
Uncut
1. Portishead - Third
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
6. Elbow( 听歌) - The Seldom Seen Kid
7. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
8. Nick Cave - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
9. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
10. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
Pitchfork
1. Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
2. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
3. No Age - Nouns
4. Hercules And Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair
5. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
6. DJ Rupture - Uproot
7. Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common Life
8. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
9. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
10. Portishead – Third
Q 1. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
2. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
3. Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
4. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
5. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
6. Duffy - Rockferry
7. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
8. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
9. The Raconteurs – Consolers Of The Lonely
10. Nick Cave – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
The Observer
1. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Amadou And Mariam – Welcome To Mali
3. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
4. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
5. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
6. MGMT – oracular Spectacular
7. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
8. Kanye West – 808s And Heartbreak
9. Portishead – Third
10. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
Metacritic
1. Amadou And Mariam – Welcome To Mali
2. The Bug – London Zoo
3. Plush – Fed
4. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
5. Shugo Tokumaru – Exit
6. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
7. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
8. Nick Cave – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
9. Neil Young – Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968
10. Robyn – Robyn
The Sunday Times
1. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
2. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
3. Paul Weller – 22 Dreams
4. Nick Cave – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
5. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
6. Aidan John Moffat – I Can Hear Your Heart
7. Al Green – Lay It Down
8. Kanye West – 808s And Heartbreak
9. REM – Accelerate
10. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
Blender
1. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
2. Girl Talk – Feed The Animals
3. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
4. Metallica – Death Magnetic
5. Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
6. Robyn – Robyn
7. Of Montreal – Of Montreal
8. Randy Newman – Randy Newman
9. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
10. Fall Out Boy – Folie A Deux
Filter
1. MGMT - oracular Spectacular
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. Dr. Dog - Fate
4. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
5. Foals - Antidotes
6. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
7. She And Him - Volume One
8. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
9. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors
10 The Dears - Missiles
Sasha Frere Jones/《The New Yorker》
1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Portishead - Third
3. The Very Best - Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit are The Very Best
4. Dungen - 4
5. Taylor Swift - Fearless
6. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
7. Ashton Shepherd - Sounds So Good
8. Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior
9. Flying Lotus - L.A. EP 1 x 3
10. Cat Power - Jukebox
Mojo
1 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2 The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
3 Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
4 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
6 The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
7 Glasvegas - Glasvegas
8 The Week That Was - The Week That Was
9 The Bug - London Zoo
10 Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark
Spin
1 TV On The Radio - Dear Science
2 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
3 Portishead - Third
4 Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
5 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
6 Santogold - Santogold
7 Deerhunter - Microcastle
8 Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
9 Coldplay - Viva La Vida
10 MGMT - oracular Spectacular
泰晤士报
1 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2 Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
3 Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
4 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
5 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6 Aidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart
7 Al Green - Lay It Down
8 Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
9 REM - Accelerate
10 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Paste Magazine
1 She & Him - Volume One
2 Sigur Ros - Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
3 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
4 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5 Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
6 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
7 Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
8 Sun Kil Moon - April
9 Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
10 Deerhunter - Microcastle
When not plying his trade in post-rock merchants Anoice, Takahiro Kido creates mesmeric ambient with a dash of modern classical under his own moniker. Fleursy Music is his most recent solo venture, a thrilling combination of melancholic strings and beautiful instrumentation. It is a subtle but insidious creation, a work of invention and originality that sidesteps easy comparison. The gentle undertones pulling the strings behind the scenes provide a comforting and humble approach to Kido's art that never sacrifices the composer's instincts. For the icing on the cake, “Smile Spotter Chronicle” is one of the most emotionally stirring tracks of the year aught eight. (Peter Brennan)
9) Earth |The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
United States Southern Lord
With this, their latest offering, Dylan Carlson’s Earth have easily achieved their most structured effort yet, without once losing the wonderfully loose and barely-reined-in feel that so clearly defines their sound. Cymbals steadily crash as individual instruments work their way to the forefront of the mix, only to unexpectedly meet an oncoming line to harmonize with and fall back down. As irritating a word as it so often is, never has the “organic” nature of the band’s name been so obviously reflected in their music as it is on this record, particularly in the tracks that legendary jazz guitarist Bill Frisell guests on. Everything is at once spontaneous and deliberate, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the constricted freedom of the harmonized guitar lines in “Engine Of Ruin.” I don’t envy Carlson and company the mammoth task of trying to better such an album! (Fred Bevan)
8) Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start | Embers
England Tap 'n' Tin
It was never going to be an easy job to top And The Battle Is Won, but few would deny that Upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start have exceeded all expectations with their devastating follow-up, Embers. It may have been three years in the making, but Upcdownc have clearly spent that time very wisely indeed, creating an album with an altogether more mature sound that adeptly flits between the mellow and heavy ends of the spectrum. Laden with sublimely understated crescendos and with ethereal string and guitar arrangements erupting into ferocious walls of sound, Embers is a work of contrasts – and one which you would be well advised to pay heed to. (Richard White)
In many people’s minds, Iceland is synonymous with bears, ice cold never-ending landscapes, and heartfelt tunes. While this is not far from the truth, with Fordlandia Jóhann Jóhansson manages to take the whole concept and gracefully distort it, creating his own subtle reality. Incredibly cinematic, the album presents a wide palette of fragile melodies that unravel right before our eyes, and it is not long before we become familiar with the album’s ingenuity. Its homely feel prevails, and once this sinks into the listener's consciousness, it is sure to rest there forever. (Diana Sitaru)
6) The Samuel Jackson Five | Goodbye Melody Mountain
Norway Honest Abe
The Samuel Jackson 5 roars back into the spotlight with Goodbye Melody Mountain, as well as a major shift in style from the year-topping Easily Misunderstood. While they keep the same progressive style of song development we all know and love, the sound of the release is more full and proggy than Misunderstood’s more jazzy effort. Make no mistakes, however – the energy level is set to “high” and there’s no stopping these guys. Track after toe-tapping track blaze by, bringing with them exotic new arrangements and relentless force. Tracks like “How to Evade Your Obsessive Shadow” show that The Samuel Jackson 5 will be on the very top of the post-rock scene for a long time, and if their output is as good as Goodbye Melody Mountain, I wouldn’t have it any other way. (Zach Mills)
5) This is Your Captain Speaking | Eternal Return
Australia Self-Released
This is Your Captain Speaking's gig is simple and clean guitar, which they do better than just about anybody. The five tracks on their sophomore release are constructed of wandering arpeggios, constantly evolving guitar repetitions, and melodies which are stacked and compiled until reaching epic and unforeseen climaxes. Many instrumental groups strive to reach the perfect center of balance between engaging melodies and calming soundscapes. Eternal Return’s blend of post-rock instrumentation and ambient structuring reaches this pinnacle and will easily bring pleasure to fans of either genre. This album gets better with age, and it is difficult to find something worthier of guiding us through these cold winter months. (Brenton Dwyer)
There are some albums that set themselves apart just by the way they carry themselves. This is an odd metaphor, but work with me: you can learn a lot about a person, just by how they walk, their posture, certain unmistakable mannerisms that define the person without even speaking to them. Albums have these little identifying traits, too, and the self-titled debut from Germany’s Bersarin Quartett walks with class, with a calm charm that most established bands would find difficult to match. The distinctive synth tones. The ease with which he manipulates song structures, tearing them down, inverting them, or building them back up at precisely the right moment. The calm, measured way in which space is allowed to thrive within the work, rather than being filled to capacity. The way in which ambient tracks are made to filter into melody-based songs, both of which are executed to near-perfection. All of these little traits work to set Bersarin Quartett apart from the rest of the pack from the first listen, and only become more apparent as time goes on. The album is truly the work of a master. (Zach Mills)
3) Neil on Impression | L'oceano Delle onde che Restano onde per Sempre
Italy Denovali
Sometimes albums that aren’t completely innovative seem to strike with an astounding force; Neil on Impression may not bring anything brand new to the music table, but their complex melange of genres and expert blend of string instruments takes them one step closer to compositional perfection. Throughout the album, the listener gets the feeling the band has a strict agenda they stick to, as they flawlessly deliver each note and integrate delicate and sophisticated touches of classical into crisp, utterly powerful, and epic post-rock pieces. For those looking for a sound stripped of all artificiality, be sure not to miss this gem. (Diana Sitaru)
Memory Drawings is The Drift’s masterful exploration of the sensations that memory evokes on us; it’s an ever-expanding sea of trumpet melodies and jazzy drumbeats of a powerful simplicity that match (or even out-match) Do Make Say Think’s folk intuition for music that sounds vibrant, alive, and profound. The conceptual and physical elements of the album mesh flawlessly, resembling a living work of art that transforms and evolves with every additional listen. Drawings, sketches, brushstrokes upon the air – this is music that forces us to look up into the sky and wonder if there’s really an end, a meaning to it all. (David Murrieta)
1) Bohren & der Club of Gore | Dolores
Germany Ipecac
Something about Bohren & Der Club of Gore’s music makes me feel like I’m going quietly mad. Yet on Dolores, faint glimmers of light begin to pierce the isolating haze. Not that the boys from Berlin have gotten all chipper on us, but from the medieval organs on "Staub," to the introspective sax solos on "Still Am Tresin," to the almost triumphant ending of "Welten," barely-there hints of positivity cause one to wonder if all that gloom is really so bad. If Bohren’s previous output evoked hitting bottom on skid row, Dolores suggests that the hung-over bum wakes up and realizes he can still salvage his life—or at least that even a wrecked life has moments of stunning beauty. (Lucas Kane)作者: 亲爱的1969 时间: 2008-12-28 18:47
偶原来巴了个08年上半年十大的吧,现在巴哈下半年的
下半年四星又太多...真是...大概选了一下.........
Damon Albarn---Monkey: Journey to the West
Final Days Society ---Noise Passes, Silence Remains
腰---他们说忘了摇滚有问题
Tiger Lou---A Partial Print
The Aliens---Luna
People in Planes---Beyond the Horizon
Mañana---Interruptions
Lovely Girls Are Blind ---Lovely Girls Are Blind
Primal Scream---Beautiful Future
Oasis---Dig Out Your Soul作者: 小智 时间: 2008-12-29 09:37
啊哈，啊哈哈，这帖子真美好。作者: 尚方翊剑 时间: 2008-12-30 12:23 标题: 费老劲了，估计还有几个大类型才能整理完 08年目测一下，音乐刻了六七十张盘，这是MP3格式的，一张702M的盘平均能装10张专，基本都是08新专，算一下数量也很可观，质量上先不说，因为听得类型还是有限，不好概述。
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在4.folk,songwriter,indie-pop里，第一首是the hood internet把Fleet Foxes的《Ragged Wood》和Beyonce的小亮嗓重新混音，混搭得比较不伦不类但又不难听，原歌在第二首，可以对比一下。因为我现在重头听电，我有的选择了混音后的版本。作者: 王敖 时间: 2008-12-31 16:11 标题: 2008 Blues Music Awards Winners Individual Award Winners
Acoustic Blues - Artist of the Year
Bobby Rush
Blues Band of the Year
Watermelon Slim & the Workers
Contemporary Blues - Female Artist of the Year
Bettye LaVette
Contemporary Blues - Male Artist of the Year
Tab Benoit
Soul Blues - Male Artist of the Year
Bobby Rush
Soul Blues - Female Artist of the Year
Irma Thomas
Traditional Blues - Female Artist of the Year
Koko Taylor
Traditional Blues - Male Artist of the Year
Hubert Sumlin
Blues Instrumentalists
Best Instrumentalist - Bass
Bob Stroger
Best Instrumentalist - Drums
Sam Lay
Best Instrumentalist - Guitar
Bob Margolin
Best Instrumentalist - Harmonica
Kim Wilson
Best Instrumentalist - Horn
Deanna Bogart
Best Instrumentalist - Pedal Steel
Robert Randolph
Award-Winning Recordings
Acoustic Blues Album of the Year
Bobby Rush - Raw (Deep Rush Records)
Best New Artist Debut of the Year
Diunna Greenleaf & Blue Mercy - Cotton Field to Coffee House
Blues Song of the Year
Koko Taylor - "Gonna Buy Me A Mule"
Blues Album of the Year
Watermelon Slim & the Workers - The Wheel Man (Northern Blues)
Blues DVD of the Year
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads (Reprise Records)
Contemporary Blues Album of the Year
Tommy Castro - Painkiller (Blind Pig Records)
Historical Album of the Year
Muddy Waters, Johnny Winter, & James Cotton - Breakin’ It UP, Breakin’ it DOWN (Epic/Legacy Recordings)
Soul Blues Album of the Year
The Holmes Brothers - State of Grace (Alligator Records)
Traditional Blues Album of the Year
Koko Taylor - Old School (Alligator Records)
Special Awards
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player of the Year Award
Honey Piazza
B.B. King Entertainer of the Year Award
Tommy Castro
The Blues Foundation
Blues Grammy Nominations Announced
The 51st Grammys have been announced. They are: Best Traditional Blues Album
The Blues Rolls On - Elvin Bishop [Delta Groove Music]
Skin Deep - Buddy Guy [Silvertone Records]
All Odds Against Me - John Lee Hooker, Jr.[Steppin' Stone Records/CC Entertainment]
One Kind Favor - B.B. King [Geffen Records]
Pinetop Perkins & Friends - Pinetop Perkins & Friends [Stoneagle Music/Telarc] Best Contemporary Blues Album
Peace, Love & BBQ - Marcia Ball [Alligator Records]
Like A Fire - Solomon Burke [Shout! Factory]
City That Care Forgot - Dr. John And The Lower 911 [429 Records]
Maestro - Taj Mahal [Heads Up International]
Simply Grand - Irma Thomas [Rounder Records]
