Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control - Fever To Tell
Muse - Hysteria - Absolution
The Postal Service - The Distict Sleeps Alone Tonight - Give Up
The Strokes - Room On Fire
The White Stripes - Elephant
Grandaddy - Sumday
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell
Muse - Absolution
The Postal Service - Give Up
Evan Dando - Baby, I'm Bored
Outkast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Bell & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Other
The Strokes pick up the win in 2001, but who will win this one? Remember to include who you are voting for if you vote Other, and if you don't like the main choices then quite simply I don't care so don't bother posting it just write it into your 'Dark Thoughts' book, I'm sure someone will care someday
Albums to just miss out this year included ones by Super Furry Animals, Cat Power, The Shins, Joe Strummer, My Morning Jacket, Blur, The Thrills, Spiritualized, Arab Strap, Snow Patrol, Fountains of Wayne, Explosions In The Sky and The Rapture
Voting Opens Once All The Videos Are Up
The Strokes - 12:51 - Room On Fire
The White Stripes - Sevon Nation Army - Elephant
Grandaddy - Now It's On - Sumday
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control - Fever To Tell
Muse - Hysteria - Absolution
The Postal Service - The Distict Sleeps Alone Tonight - Give Up
Outkast - Hey Ya - Speakerboxxx/Love Below
Evan Dando - All My Life - Baby, I'm Bored
Belle & Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
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Guitar based music pretty much dominated the best of lists I've seen online, with the most notable exception being Outkast who produced two of the best singles of the year.
Toss up between Evan Dando, Belle & Sebastian, the Postal Service and Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs for me. Loved both the Belle & Sebastian album and the Postal Service one, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs had the best song of the year for me (Maps), but Evan Dando takes it for sheer lyrical brillance. Dando just pips Jarvis Cocker to the best wordsmith of the 90s for me, and this album really showcases his fantastic ability to turn a simple day to day occurance into a life changing lyric
Ive gone for Muse ‘Absolution’, great album, narrowly pipping ‘Elephant’. ‘Phantom Power’ by Super Furry Animals worth a mention, as are Funeral for a Friend’s cracking debut ‘Casually Dressed and Deep In Convesrsation’ and ‘Hail To The Thief’ by Radiohead although not their best by a long shot. Kings of Leon's debut too. ‘Maps’, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, love that song.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
Close the polls now! What I suspect to be Grandaddy's best album has raced into an unexpected, though I fear short lived, lead.
Some great tracks on that album: The Group Who Couldn't Say has a delicious reverse to The Sophware Slump's The Crystal Lake, and "Yeah" Is What We Had is possibly the best song, and video about a break-up between lovers.
That question was less stupid, though you asked it in a profoundly stupid way.
Help me, Arthur Murphy, you're my only hope!
Originally Posted by Dodge
Went for Room on Fire
honourable mentions to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs , Kings of Leon , The Darkness and White Stripes
Voted for Sumday by Grandaddy. A very, very fine record.
I know it gets kicked around a lot but Metallicas St. Anger was a standout moment of the year for me too. Two fantastic singles -which I acknowledge do not a fine album make - and invisible kid was pretty good as well. but I thought they took some chances with it and deserve credit for that.
Also Zwans Mary Star of The Sea which for me trumps a couple of Smashing Pumpkins albums.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Forgot about Zwan, some fine moments on that album. Apart from the stupid cover and some daft song titles... St. Anger does get slated a lot, but there were some great songs on it too if you ignore the lack of axe solos.
'Fascists dress in black and go round telling people what to do, where as priests.....'
Other. Streetcore - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros.
They say what about the meek?
I say they’ve got a bloody cheek
This year there was another strikingly fresh and different album out, and that's my vote - Other: Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner.
Don't let the subsequent ridiculous uses of the word 'Da' put you off!
Other notables not already mentioned:
Adam Freeland - Now And Them
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Audio Bullys - Ego War
Not sure of the order but that's certainly the top 5. Next year's best is all dance stuff too.
more bass
I've a feeling dance is gonna start coming to the front of the list as the years creep towards this horrible Year of Our Lord, 2008This year there was another strikingly fresh and different album out, and that's my vote - Other: Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner.
Don't let the subsequent ridiculous uses of the word 'Da' put you off!
Other notables not already mentioned:
Adam Freeland - Now And Them
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Audio Bullys - Ego War
Not sure of the order but that's certainly the top 5. Next year's best is all dance stuff too.
Snow Patrol for me.. O mighty music God
Last edited by Pike B; 18/09/2008 at 4:13 PM.
better put on your helmet...incoming..
I likes a bit of danger me!!better put on your helmet...incoming..
Angie Stone's Stone Love for me. It's a brilliant album. A lot more soulful than what passes for "R'n'B" these days.
I Wanna Thank Ya
OutKast, Nappy Roots and Basement Jaxx all get mentions as well. The OutKast album is pretty good but because of it being a double album, there's inevitably a bit of filler in there which drags it down.
Extratime.ie
Yo te quiero, mi querida. Sin tus besos, yo soy nada.
Abri o portão de ouro, da maquina do tempo.
Mi mamá me hizo guapo, listo y antimadridista.
Pike ol' buddy, yourself and your fellow brother in whinge can vote for whatever bland, music by numbers album you want. It's just when ye start crying about said bland album not being included in the main poll that we have issuesSnow Patrol for me.. O mighty music God
Brother in whinge? Who dat?Pike ol' buddy, yourself and your fellow brother in whinge can vote for whatever bland, music by numbers album you want. It's just when ye start crying about said bland album not being included in the main poll that we have issues
Who's the only other person who wasn't able to grasp the concept of the Other vote? Find that person and you'll find your answer
Kings Of Leon's Youth & Young Manhood gets an honourable mention, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's Take Them On, On Your Own also a decent offering. The Strokes Room On Fire gets the vote.
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