subversiv's Last.fm Journal

Best Music 2008 (my selection)

Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:51:44 +0000

Best Music 2008 (my selection)

Best Albums 2008 (my selection)
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I didnt try to make a top 10, the list is just generated as the artists appeared in my mind when i started to think what was most impressive for me in the last year. If you want numbers i can try to make a new list.
Comments and of course your lists are as comments welcome :-)

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (2008)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (2008)
Portugal. The Man - Censored Colors (2008)
Lykke Li - Youth Novels (2008)
Foals - Antidotes (2008)
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (2008)
Santogold - Santogold (2008)
Portishead- Third (2008)
Grace Jones - Hurricane (2008)
A.J. Shanti- Baby Beau Blue (2008)
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (2008)
Gustav- Verlass die Stadt (2008)
The Cool Kids - The Bake Sale (2008)

http://www.myspace.com/mgmt
http://www.myspace.com/fleetfoxes
http://www.myspace.com/portugaltheman
http://www.myspace.com/lykkeli
http://www.myspace.com/foals
http://www.myspace.com/crystalcastles
http://www.myspace.com/santogold
http://www.myspace.com/PORTISHEADALBUM3
http://www.myspace.com/gracejonesofficial
http://www.myspace.com/ajshanti
http://www.myspace.com/sigurros
http://www.myspace.com/gustavofficial
http://www.myspace.com/thecoolkids

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Arists and Albums that are not from 2008 but new for me in 2008 and great :-)
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First the Artists that are in general new for me and great than some albums that are little bit older but still worth giving them a try!

Jackson Jackson http://www.myspace.com/jacksonjacksonmusic
Iron + Wine http://www.myspace.com/ironandwine
Magma http://www.myspace.com/magmaofficial
Spiritualized http://www.myspace.com/spiritualized
Cocteau Twins http://www.myspace.com/cocteautwinsmusic

Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold (2006)
Vive la Fête - Jour de chance (2007)
Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi (2007)

http://www.myspace.com/vivelafete1
http://www.myspace.com/batforlashes
http://www.myspace.com/boysnoizemusic

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Honorable Mentions (but kicked from the list (s))
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Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (2008)
The Killers - Day & Age (2008)

http://www.myspace.com/hotchip
http://www.myspace.com/thekillers

77.777 - 23 * 13 - lucky lucky

Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:38:57 +0000

Powermetal :-)

Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:52:45 +0000

somebody has another view on POWERmetal as the other metalheads on rateyourmusic.com :-)

here to find:
http://rateyourmusic.com/genre/power%20metal/6

for people who dont know this web 2.0 site, have a look very nice thing !

Last.fm - Back to the Future ?

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:57:49 +0000

some minutes ago I wanted to check when last.fm updated my overall top artists and it seems they have some time-warp problems :-)

the (re)discoveries 2006 :-)

Thu, 4 Jan 2007 20:39:33 +0000

It got a little bit long with all the youtube windows. The idea behind this blog entry was to bring my discoveries and rediscoveries from the year 2006 to the public.

But not only releases from this year also older stuff I discovered 2006...

If someone is interested in the albums write me a message :-)

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* - Ma'at Mama (2006)
Great Spoken Word meets Hip Hop Album. I dont like the other albums that much but this one is really great.

for some examples of here great album go to:
ursula-rucker.com

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* - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted (2006)

Someone called their sound Toytronic :-). If you see the videos you know why. Very nice electronica, electropop ...

2 Videos Psapp:

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* - Billy Talent II (2006) (first album also okay)

Indierock with much power, when I heard "red flag" I started liking billy talent, check the video beneath

2 videos from Billy Talent - > for people who dont know the sound

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### Releases 2005 ####
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* - La Beat(2005)
Great german electro pop. The other albums are not that godd.
for more infos go to lahengst.com

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* - Picaresque(2005)

Great indie rock with only one outstanding album, the others are boring.

[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SAbyiqlNtE nofollow=yes]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SAbyiqlNtE[/url]

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* - A Healthy Distrust (2005)
One of my favorit underground Hip-Hop Artists.

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* - – Stars of CCTV (2005)
Very nice Indie Rockband.

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* - Employment (2005)
A little bit too much Indie Rock sorry ^^

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* - Rossz csillag alatt született (2005)
One of the easie listening albums of Venetian Snares. He travelled hungary and ofter that trip he learnt to play violin and all tracknames are hungarian. My favorit track is hajnal see the live video with this song:

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* - Nouvelle Vague(2004) (bande apart also nice)
French Bossa Nova Covers of famous Songs, very smooth!

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* - Funeral (2004)
very special band, very chaotic but great music. If you dont know it you really should try it :-). check my favorit song #2 laika:

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* - Dimanche a Bamako (2004)
Two Blind artists from Mali, this album got mixed by manu chao who meet them at a festival and decided to work with them :-)
[url=http://www.amadou-mariam.com/ nofollow=yes]http://www.amadou-mariam.com/[/url]

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* - Deep Cuts (2003)
Great Electro Pop, goodie of 2006

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* – Spirit in the Dark (1970) (I never loved a man that much I love you also great)

old but still very nice. Most famous song of afretha is respect see video:

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* – Highway 61 Revisited (1965)

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* Oma Hans - all 3 albums nearly same quality ^^

German Punk with nice lyrics and punky sound, I like them.
2 songs:
[url=http://tinyurl.com/378cbv nofollow=yes]http://tinyurl.com/378cbv[/url]
[url=http://tinyurl.com/2qwn5g nofollow=yes]http://tinyurl.com/2qwn5g[/url]