Anyone like to shar what there records of the year would be. There isnt a whole lot coming out in the next months, so I was wondering if anyone had any albums they were leaning on?

1)Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig!
2)Portishead - Third
3)Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
4)Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
5)TV on The Radio - Dear Science
6)She & HIm - Volume 1
7)The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
8)Fucked up - The Chemistry of Commong Life
9)Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
10)Drive By Truckers - Brighter than creations dark

elbow
high places
coldplay
deerhunter
Stephen Malkmus

Kevin, I'm not gonna give my top 10 now, because we will have the Pazz & Jop poll coming up soon and I don't want to influence anybody's opinion.

So ... everybody please vote for the fabulous

FLEET FOXES!!!

I tend to listen to all the new albums I picked up in a year that I really liked over and over in December to really sort out what I think of them, so I'm sure by the end of the year my list will change, but here is the current top tier for me:

1. Portishead
2. Drive By Truckers
3. Hercules and Love Affair
4. Blitzen Trapper
5. The Walkmen
6. Nick Cave
7. Erykah Badu
8. Spiritualized
9. TV On The Radio

Good list

Here's where I stand right now:

1) RACONTEURS "Consolers of the Lonely"
2) CYNDI LAUPER "Bring Ya to the Brink"
3) DIETRICK HADDON "Revealed"
4) DOLLY PARTON "Backwoods Barbie"
5) NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!"
6) MADONNA "Hard Candy"
7) R.E.M. "Accelerate"
8) DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS "Brighter than Creation's Dark"
9) DONNA SUMMER "Crayons"
10) THE AFTERS "Never Going Back to OK"

OK, my previous post was not nice, and not funny either.

Here it is:

1) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3) The Week That Was - The Week That Was
4) Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
5) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6) Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
7) Calexico - Carried To Dust
8) TV On The Radio - Dear Science
9) Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
10) Shearwater - Rook

And bubbling under, struggling in the swampy 11 to 20:

Erikah Badu, Nick Cave, Drive-By Truckers, The Hold Steady, Ladytron, M83, Okkervil River, Benoit Pioulard, R.E.M. and Lucinda Williams.

1 - The Dodos
2 - TV On the Radio
3 - Puppetmastaz
4 - Vampire Weekend
5 - Fleet Foxes
6 - Hercules and Love Affair
7 - She & Him

Still have to listen to Q-Tip, Acorn, Elbow, the Week that Was and Bon Iver ! (and waiting for Kanye too)

Am I the only one who adores The Dodos' Visiter ?

1) Tilly and the Wall- O
2) British Sea Power- Do You like Rock Music?
3) Vampire Weekend- s/t
4) Duke Spirit- Neptune
5) Late of the Pier- Fantasy Black Channel
6) Sons and Daughters- This Gift
7) Glasvegas- s/t
8) Elbow- the Seldom Seen Kid
9) Distortion- Magnetic Fields
10)Fleet Foxes- s/t

(so far)

1. Fleet Foxes - s/t
2. Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
3. Ron Sexsmith - Exit Strategy Of The Soul
4. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
5. Al Green - Lay It Down
6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig!!!
7. Dick Annegarn - Soleil du soir
8. Alain Bashung - Bleu Pétrole
9. Conor Oberst - s/t
10. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music ?

I'm really surprised that people are already making their end of year list while the new Guns'n'Roses "Chinese democracy" is not still not released.

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1- Hercules and Love Affair
2- Fleet Foxes + Sun Giant EP
3- Microcastle
4- Dear Science
5- Lucky Old Sun
6- Vampire Weekend
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The 4 bottom spots are still open for upcoming suprises of 2008. Yet, I am very disappointed by the quality of 2008 so far (same for the movies, imo).

I think this year seems very "dim" compared with 2007 highlights. For example, I liked Hercules very much but it would probably have ranked 5th or something if it had been released last year :)

For me to buy a record that is 'exclusively' released through only one retailer, it would have to be practically Appetite for Destruction caliber.

Usually I'd agree with you, Bill. I've boycotted any album that's ever been released exclusively through a single retailer. But this is Guns 'n' Roses' "Chinese Democracy," only the most time-consuming, expensive, anticipated album of all time. Sure, it won't live up to the hype, how could it? It would have to be "Revolver," "Blonde on Blonde," "London Calling" and "OK Computer" all rolled into one to do that. But nevertheless, for me anyway, it's one not to miss.