50 notdead albums from 08
 

has been a month-long process. I generally follow the "if i could have only one album from 08, what would i choose?" formula... but i also take into consideration: replayability, enjoyability, overall texture, the feel/mood, cohesion, and durability (will i like this album next year?).

1. Flying Lotus__Los Angeles
2. Gang Gang Dance__Saint Dymphna
3. Wavves__Wavves
4. Grouper__Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
5. The Hospitals__Hairdryer Peace
6. The Music Tapes__Music Tapes For Clouds and Tornadoes
7. Grails__Doomsdayer's Holiday
8. Ducktails__ II
9. Clark__Turning Dragon
10. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti__Oddities Sodomies Vol. 1
11. Abe Vigoda__Skeleton
12. Girl Talk__Feed the Animals
13. No Age__Nouns
14. Fennesz__Black Sea
15. Black Pus__Black Pus 4: All Aboard the Magic Pus
16. Excepter__Debt Dept.
17. Samiyam__Rap Beats Vol. 1
18. Growing__All the Way
19. The Goslings__Occasion
20. Arthur Russell__Love Is Overtaking Me
21. Pocahaunted__Island Diamonds
22. Emeralds__Solar Bridge
23. GZA__Pro Tools
24. Bardo Pond__Batholith
25. Vivian Girls__Vivian Girls
26. Lucky Dragons__Dream Island Laughing
27. Stag Hare__Black Medicine Music
28. Wet Hair__The Beach
29. Fire On Fire__The Orchard
30. James Blackshaw__Litany of Echoes
31. Ponytail__Ice Cream Spiritual
32. Eat Skull__Sick to Death
33. Raccoo-oo-oon__Racoo-oo-oon
34. Atlas Sound__Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
35. Ryoji Ikeda__Test Patterns
36. David Grubbs__An Optimist Notes the Dusk
37. Black Milk__Tronic
38. Gary War__New Raytheonport
39. Lil Wayne__Tha Carter III
40. Zach Hill__Astrological Straits
41. The Bug__London Zoo
42. Okay__Huggable Dust
43. Evangelicals__The Evening Descends
44. Deerhunter__Microcastle/Weird Era
45. Our Sleepless Forest__Our Sleepless Forest
46. Magic Lantern__High Beams
47. Crystal Castles__Crystal Castles
48. High Places__High Places
49. Blank Dogs__On Two Sides
50. Beach House__Devotion

I gotta check this wavves business

that album is just a lot of fun. highly rec'd. makes me want to move to sydney and live on bondi in some broke-up beach house with 15 other people and just make music all day. or people who have been to/lived in san diego say it brings some good strong nostalgia

Neat list dave
It's nice to see the Lucky Dragons' album, it's an awesome one. I discovered a bit late, but it's finally in my Top 20 (even though it's not on my thread)

Yes. While, according to recent discussion, the CD probably wouldn't be considered "innovative," :rolleyes: I think that CD more than any other this year made me feel like I was listening to something new. The Reset EP was even better, but 2007 I believe.

I'm glad someone else (on this board) is into that Flying Lotus. Agreed with acoustic that Reset EP maybe better, but yeah, Los Angeles is probably the closest thing you could see him doing to something (insert hipster slang for new or cool) that one would expect form that dude.

P.S., in somewhat the same vein as Flying Lotus, Daedulus' 2008 record is worth giving a listen to. It's not as consistent as the FL release, but the stronger tracks definetly make it a worthwhile listen and purchase.

thx guys.

yeah rdtv, i have the daedelus in mp3 form... i heard some tracks that i liked but overall i don't know yet... i considered it for the list, but ran out of room... it may grow on me.

on fly-lo, yes i love the reset ep too. have you guys heard Raw Cartoons? or Shhh! or the LA EPs? man i really fell in love with this guy this year. i have all his stuff now, and I got onto Samiyam cuz of his track on the LA EP #2 .

very nice choices dave, have you heard the Sun Araw - Beach Head lp? if i ever get round to making a list it'll be in my top 10 i think.

Yeah I'm trying to get the LA EP's one by one to form the whole album, but unfortunately they aren't the easiest things to order from my record shop. It's my understanding that if you buy all the LA EP's then you would have the LA album plus some bonus tracks that make up almost another half album of material. Interesting enough for me I suppose.

very nice list!

I agree with all of that stuff being good shit except for Wavves. I just don't get it on that one.

Good list! And oh man, I realized that I didn't include debt dept. on mine, and it's well deserved. Oh well, here's my list

hey, yeah i have that album... i don't like it as much as everyone else seems to

Yeah, I don't find Beach Head THAT great. It's good stuff for sure, but I don't think it's fantastic. I don't know

it was just lost amongst a crowded field of stoner-pysch-drone jams with beachy feels to me... i much prefer Wet Hair or P-haunt

I like the list. Although, I've never heard Wavves' first album, even though I'd love to! I loved Wavvves!