Best of 2008 - Albums

Bijna was het een geslaagde 1-aprilgrap geworden, maar zelfs daarvoor ontbrak me de nodige tijd. Eerlijkheid gebiedt me te zeggen dat mijn aanpak iets te groots werd bij het opstellen van mijn eindejaarslijstje en dat ik uiteindelijk noch de tijd noch de zin vond om alles te documenteren zoals ik het wou.

Daarom en bijgevolg ziehier hoe ik 4 maand terug terugkeek op het jaar 2008, een degelijk doch weinig uitzonderlijk muziekjaar wat mij betreft.



1. Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Songs - Idle hands | Seven stories underground | Front Street
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Songs - White winter hymnal | Ragged wood | Blue Ridge Mountains
3. M83 - Saturdays=youth
Songs - Kim & Jessie | Skin of the night | Graveyard girl
4. Last Shadow Puppets - The age of the understatement
Songs - The age of the understatement | Standing next to me | Only the truth
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, forever ago
Songs - Lump sum | Skinny love | Re: Stacks

6. TV on the Radio - Dear science
Songs - Dancing choose | Golden age | Family tree
7. Tindersticks - The hungry saw
Songs - Yesterday's tomorrows | The hungry saw | Boobar come back to me
8. Sigur Ros - With a drum in our ears we play endlessly
Songs - Gobbledigook | Inni mér syngur vitleysingur | Festival
9. Lambchop - OH (Ohio)
Songs - Slipped dissolved and loosed | National Talk Like A Pirate Day | Sharing a Gibson with Martin Luther King, Jr.
10. Elbow - The seldom seen kid
Songs - Starlings | Bones of you | Grounds for divorce

11. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus dig!!!
Songs - Dig, Lazarus, dig!!! | Lie down here (& be my girl) | Midnight man
12. MGMT - Oracular spectacular
Songs - Time to pretend | Weekend wars | Kids
13. Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie down in the light
Songs - Easy does it | You remind me of something | You want that picture
14. The Dears - Missiles
Songs - Dream job | Berlin heart | Lights off
15. Portishead - Third
Songs - Silence | The rip | We carry on

16. Duffy - Rockferry
Songs - Rockferry | Stepping stone | Delayed devotion
17. Bloc Party - Intimacy
Songs - One month off | Talons | Ion square
18. Girls in Hawaii - Plan your escape
Songs - This farm will go up in fire | Fields of gold | Road to Luna
19. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
Songs - Cape Canaveral | Lenders in the temple | Milk thistle
20. Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
Songs - Me and Armini | Ha ha | Jungle drum

21. Coldplay - Viva la vida
Songs - Cemeteries of London | Viva la Vida | Violet hill
22. Amanda Palmer - Who killed Amanda Palmer
Songs - Astronaut | Runs in the family | Guitar hero
23. Calexico - Carried to dust
Songs - Victor Jara's hands | Two silver trees | Inspiración
24. The Notwist - The devil, you + me
Songs - Good lies | Where in this world | Boneless
25. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Songs - Mansard roof | A-Punk | The kids don't stand a chance

26. Kanye West - 808s and heartbreak
Songs - Heartless | Love lockdown | See you in my nightmares
27. Beck - Modern guilt
Songs - Gamma ray | Chemtrails | Volcano
28.A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
Songs - The falling sun | Iknow I'll see you | Ocean
29. Okkervil River - The stand ins
Songs - Lost coastlines | Blue tulip | On tour with Zykos
30. Mercury Rev - Snowflake midnight
Songs - Snowflake in a hot world | Butterfly's wing | Dream of a young girl as a flower


2007 - The National - Boxer
2006 - Yo La Tengo - I'm not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
2005 - Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
2004 - The Arcade Fire - Funeral
2003 - The Swords Project - Entertainment is over if you want it

Best of 2008 - Videos

1. Justice - Stress
De plaat, de clip, de controverse,... de spanning is alleszins reëel.

2. Fleet Foxes - White winter hymnal
De vier jaargetijden anno 2008, even eenvoudig als betoverend.

3. Coldplay - Violent hill (politicians version)
Wereldleiders opgevoerd als dansende marionetten, hoe diep is dat niet?

4. Vampire Weekend - A-punk
Perfect voorbeeld van hoe een videoclip de energie en jeugdigheid van de song dient te capturen.

5. Weezer- Pork and beans
Peanutbutterjellytime nog aan toe, welcome to the internetz!

6. British Sea Power - No lucifer
James Ensor zou deze clip vast enig gevonden hebben.

7. Lightspeed Champion - Tell me what it's worth
Kroniek van een liefdesleven gesponsord door...

8. Portishead - We carry on
Hier durven we al eens bang en nerveus van worden.

9. MGMT - Time to pretend
Dat heet dan retro zijn, zonder twijfel de foutste blingloze clip van het jaar.

10. Polyphonic Spree - We crawl
Paint me a flower on the cheek and call me Moonray, de positieve karma straalt je zo tegemoet dat er niet aan te ontsnappen is.

Collectie 08

Het grootste voordeel aan Aalst was dat de dichtstbijzijnde Bilbo zo'n 30 kilometer verder lag. In Gent daarentegen...

Mochten dit jaar toetreden tot de Heilige Kast:

A || Amanda Palmer - Who killed Amanda Palmer | Anathema - A fine day to exit | A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers | Architecture in Helsinki - In case we die

B || Badly Drawn Boy - The hour of bewilderbeast | Balkan Beat Box - Nu Med | Baloji - Hotel Impala | Bat For Lashes - Fur & gold | Beach Boys - Pet sounds | The Beatles - The Beatles | Beck - Modern guilt | Bloc Party - Intimacy | Bob Marley - Legend | Bon Iver - For Emma, forever ago | Bonnie Prince Billy - I see a darkness | Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie down in the light | Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska | Bruce Springsteen - The ghost of Tom Joad

C || Calexico - Carried to dust | Calexico - The black light | Cat Power - The Covers Record | Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 | Chris Isaak - Best of | CocoRosie - The adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn | Coldplay - Viva la vida | Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst | Counting Crows - Recovering the satellites | Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's factory | Creedence Clearwater Revival - Creedence Clearwater Revival | Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy & the poor boys

D || The Dears - Missiles | dEUS - Vantage point | Drive-By Truckers - Southern rock opera

E || Editors - An end has a start | Elliot Smith - Figure 8 | Elliot Smith - XO | Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini

F || Feist - The reminder | Fischerspooner - #1 | Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes | Fujiya & Miyagi - Lightbulbs

G || Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - Searching for the hows and whys | Girls in Hawaii - Plan your escape | The Good Life - Album of the year | Gorillaz - Demon days | Gutter Twins - Saturnalia

I || Iron and Wine - Our endless numbered days | Iron and Wine - The creek drank the cradle

J || Joe Jackson - The collection | Johnny Cash - American IV - The man comes around | Justice - Cross

K || Kanye West - 808s & heartbreak | Kings of Leon - Because of the times | Kings of Leon - Youth and young manhood | Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - The nebulous dreams

L || Lady Linn & her Magnificent Seven - Here we go again | Lambchop - OH (Ohio) | The Last Shadow Puppets - The age of the understatement | Low - The great destroyer

M || M83 - Saturdays = youth | Magnolia Electric Co - What comes after the blues | Magnetic Fields - 69 Love songs | Mano Negra - Best of | Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright | Mercury Rev - Deserter's songs | Mercury Rev - Snowflake midnight | Metallica - ...and justice for all | Metallica - Master of puppets | Metallica - Metallica | Metallica - Ride the lightning | Mogwai - Rock action | Motek - Port sunshine | My Brightest Diamond - A thousand shark's teeth

N || Nada Surf - The weight is a gift | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus dig!!! | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Tender prey | Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your funeral... my trial | The Notwist - The devil, you + me | Novastar - Another lonely soul | Novastar - Novastar

O || The Offspring - Smash | Okkervil River - The stand ins

P || PJ Harvey - Stories from the city, stories from the sea | PJ Harvey - White chalk | Portishead - Third

S || The Scene - Blauw | Sigur Ros - Hvarf/Heim | Sigur Ros - With a drum in our ears we play endlessly | sleepingdog - Naked in a clean bed | sleepingdog - Polar life | Snow Patrol - The final straw | Sonic Youth - Daydream nation | Sons & Daughters - This gift | Soulwax - Leave the story untold | Stars - In our bedroom after the war | The Streets - Original pirate material | The Streets - A grand don't come for free | The Strokes - Room on fire | Supergrass - Diamond hoo ha

T || Tindersticks - The hungry saw | TV on the Radio - Dear science

V || Vampire Weekend - Vampire weekend

W || Weezer - Pinkerton | Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer