Uit de losse pols en van zeer voorlopige aard:

1. Hosomi - Open Silence
2. Anja Lechner, Vassilis Tsabropoulos & U.T. Ghandi - Melos
3. Bvdub - Dreams of Red Chambers
4. The Fun Years - Baby, It's Cold Outside
5. Samoyed - Always from this Point
6. Christopher Bissonnette - Between the Words
7. Aidan Baker/Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie
8. Lawrence English - Kiri no Oto
9. Irezumi - Endurance
10. Milieu - A Warm Wooden Hollow

Na het vluchtig luisteren van zo'n 200/300 cd's en aandachtig luisteren van zo'n 100/120 cd's, hier een overzicht van platen die mijn toplijstje vormen (in willekeurige volgorde - de exacte volgorde bedenk ik liever eind december - omdat cijfers nog kunnen veranderen na vaker luisteren)



Bjorn Norestig - Hello Inside (2008) [sub]pop/rock[/sub]
4/5



Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (2008) [sub]cult/rock[/sub]
4,5/5



Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs (2008) [sub]pop/rock[/sub]
4/5



Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (2008) [sub]rock[/sub]
4,5/5



1. Madrugada - Madrugada (2008) [sub]rock[/sub]
4,5/5



1. Shearwater - Rook (2008) [sub]folk/rock[/sub]
4,5/5



1. The Features - Some Kind of Salvation (2008) [sub]pop/rock[/sub]
4/5



1. The Young Republic - 12 Tales From Winter City (2008) [sub]folk/rock[/sub]
4/5



1. Travis - Ode To J Smith (2008) [sub]pop/rock[/sub]
4/5



1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend(2008) [sub]rock[/sub]
4/5



1. The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely(2008) [sub]rock[/sub]
4/5



1. Matt Costa - Unfamiliar Faces [sub]pop/rock[/sub]
4/5

Verder nog goede platen, maar net een tikkie minder dan bovenstaande:
Phantom Planet - 2008 - Raise The Dead
Islands - 2008 - Arm's Way

Woei!

Lijstje van hier:

1. Shoko Nakagawa - Big Bang!!!
2. Portishead - Third
3. Natural Snow Buildings - Slayer of the King of Hell
4. Heaven in Her Arms - Erosion of the Black Speckle
5. Fuck, the Retarded Girl - Abuse
6. Sawako - Bitter Sweet
7. Utada Hikaru - Heart Station
8. Yasunori Mitsuda - Soma Bringer
9. Raein - Nati da Altri Padri
10. L·M·R·W - Live Edits

Ofzo. Moeilijk. Niet veel platen die zich direct voor het predikaat 'voor de eeuwigheid' in de kijker spelen, maar wel een hoop bijzonders (ook buiten de top 10).

Veel veranderd in 3 maanden

1. Portishead - Third

2. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
3. Minilogue - Animals
4. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
5. Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us
6. The Dodos - Visiter
7. Kraak & Smaak - Plastic People
8. The Roots - Rising Down
9. Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
10. No Age - Nouns

Wel heel er weinig rock voor mijn doen, maar ja nog weinig verassende rockplaten gehoord..

Twee maanden na mijn vorige lijst zijn er een aantal albums bijgekomen en moet de lijst danig aangepast worden. Mijn (nog steeds voorlopige) top-10 van 2008 :

1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
3. David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk
4. Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
5. Novastar - Almost Bangor
6. Duffy - Rockferry
7. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
8. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
9. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
10. Randy Newman - Harps and Angels

dEUS, Milow, the Kooks en R.E.M. zijn eruit gevallen, jammer, maar dan hadden ze een nog beter album moeten uitbrengen.

1. Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan: Book of Angels Vol. 9
2. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
3. Boris - Smile
4. Indian Jewelry - Free Gold!
5. Valet - Naked Acid
6. Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip - Angles
7. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
8. The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
9. No Age - Nouns
10. Bill Frisell - History, Mystery

Belangrijke vermeldingen:
- Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 (de beste plaat van 2008 volgens mij, maar het is geen album)
- Animal Collective - Water Curses (een van de beste platen van 2008, maar het is een EP)

1. The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
2. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
3. Portishead - Third
4. Peter Broderick - Float
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
6. Girls in Hawaii - Plan Your Escape
7. Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
8. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
9. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
10. Bloc Party - Intimacy

Eens een keertje een volledig jaaroverzicht:

1. Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
2. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
3. Sun Kil Moon - April
4. Songdog - A Wretched Sinner's Song
5. Dino Merlin - Ispocetka
6. Somatic Responses - Digital Darkness
7. Nebulo - Ãvutmã
8. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
9. James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes
10. Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

11. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
12. The Young Republic - 12 Tales From Winter City
13. {{{Sunset}}} - The Glowing City
14. Balmorhea - Rivers Arms
15. {{{Sunset}}} - Bright Blue Dream
16. Horse Feathers - House With No Home
17. A Weather - Cove
18. Boris - Smile
19. Russian Circles - Station
20. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

21. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
22. Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms
23. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Lie Down in the Light
24. Opeth - Watershed
25. This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
26. De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig - De Machine
27. Evenlopes - Here Comes the Wind
28. Clark - Turning Dragon
29. Natural Snow Buildings - Laurie Bird
30. The Field - Sound of Light

31. Lenny Kravitz - It's Time For a Love Revolution


Nummers (1 per artiest):

1. Sigur Rós - Festival
2. Okkervil River - Blue Tulip
3. Dino Merlin - Ispocetka
4. Sun Kil Moon - Moorestown
5.Russian Circles - Versus
6. Coldplay - Lovers in Japan / Reign of Love
7. Wolf Parade - California Dreamer
8. Nebulo - Limbes / Coton Poudre
9. {{{Sunset}}} - Gulf of Mexico
10. De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - Wopwopwop (De Tentbakkers)

11. Somatic Responses - Buzzard
12. Boris - Full Song
13. James Blackshaw - Past Has Not Passed
14. Horse Feather - Father
15. Balmorhea - Baleen Morning

Tot nu toe:

01. Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us
02. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
03. Rick Wade - The Good, the Bad and the Deep
04. Move D & Benjamin Brunn - Songs from the Beehive
05. Ellen Allien - Sool
06. The Walkmen - You & Me
07. Shed - Shedding the Past
08. Minilogue - Animals
09. Rudi Arapahoe - Echoes from One to Another
10. Kenny Larkin - Keys, Strings, Tambourines

Update (ik laat verzamelaars en live-albums buiten beschouwing)

01.(01) Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
02.(02) Dwele - Sketches of a Man
03.(03) Duffy - Rockferry
04.(---) John Legend - Evolver
05.(---) Foreign Exchange - Leave it All Behind
06.(08) Van Hunt - Popular
07.(09) Terrence Howard - Shine Through
08.(---) CYNE - Pretty Dark Things
09.(---) José James - The Dreamer
10.(04)Stephanie McKay - Tell It Like It Is




Eervolle vermeldingen voor:

Jamie Lidell - Jim
Al Green - Lay it Down
Novastar - Almost Bangor
Elzhi - The Preface
Mint Conditon - E Life
Lalah Hathaway - Self Portrait
Nneka - No Longer at Ease
J-Live - Then What Happened?
Giovanca - Subway Silence
Amos Lee - Last Days at the Lodge
The Roots - Rising Down
Lizz Wright - The Orchard
Erykah Badu - New AmErykah Pt. One: 4th World War

hmmm... hoop noorse jazz zeg in mijne:

1. The Thing - Now and Forever
2. Atomic - Retrograde
3. Atomic & School Days - Distil
4. Boris - Smile
5. Murcof - The Versailles Sessions
6. Sonic Youth/Mats Gustafsson/Merzbow - SYR 8
7. Marilyn Crispell - Vignettes
8. Spring Heel Jack - Songs & Themes
9. Peter Brötzmann/Michiyo Yagi/Paal Nilssen-Love - Head On
10. Nalle - The Sirens Wave

tegenover de vorige keer

1. Fabio Orsi - Before Long, Before Anyone, the Stars Will Be Walls in My Mind
2. Ellen Allien - Sool
3. Aidan Baker/Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie
4. Valet - Naked Acid
5. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
6. Wouter van Veldhoven - Four Simple Songs for Five Dead Bumblebees
7. Portishead - Third
8. Sonic Youth med Mats Gustafsson og Merzbow - SYR 8
9. Birchville Cat Motel - Gunpowder Temple of Heaven
10. Fennesz - Transition

1. (1) Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
2. (2) Scott Matthew - Scott Matthew
3. (3) Get Well Soon - Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon
4. (4) Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
5. (5) Joan As Police Woman - To Survive
6. (6) Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
7. (7) Songdog - A Wretched Sinner’s Song
8. (-) Little Annie & Paul Wallfish - When Good Things Happen to Bad Pianos
9. (10) Madrugada - Madrugada
10. (9) Portishead - Third

___________5.0___________

1. (1) Boris - Smile

___________4.5___________

2. (2) AmenRa - Mass IIII

___________4.0___________

3. (6) The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
4. (4) TV On The Radio - Dear Science
5. (--) Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
6. (3) The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
7. (--) Jaguar Love - Take Me To the Sea
8. (5) Indian Jewelry - Free Gold!
9. (--) Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
10. (7) Alec Empire - The Golden Foretaste of Heaven

1.Portishead - Third
2.Meshuggah - obZen
3.Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
4.Carl Craig - Sessions
5.The Dodos - Visiter
6.Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
7.Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
8.Ellen Allien - Sool
9.Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
10.Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
11.Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
12.Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
13.TV On The Radio - Dear Science
14.The Do - A Mouthful
15.dEUS - Vantage Point
16.The Field - Sound Of Light
17.R.E.M. - Accelerate
18.Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
19.Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
20.Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

1. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (2008)
2. Ry Cooder - I, Flathead (2008)
3. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins (2008)
4. Jackson Browne - Time the Conqueror (2008)
5. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride (2008)
6. David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk (2008)
7. John Hiatt - Same Old Man (2008)
8. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges (2008)
9. The Mother Truckers - Let's All Go to Bed (2008)
9. The Black Keys - Attack & Release (2008)

Laat ik eens een voorzichtige poging doen:

1. David Grubbs - An Optimist Notes the Dusk
2. Anna Järvinen - Jag Fick Feeling
3. Esther Venrooy and Heleen Van Haegenborgh - Mock Interiors
4. Dead Child - Attack
5. Aidan Baker/Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie
6. AmenRa - Mass IIII
7. Christopher Bissonnette - In Between Words
8. Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge
9. Depth Affect - Hero Crisis
10. Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That

Nog een laatste tussenstand: de volgende komt er rond 31/12

1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (5*)
2. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (4,5*)
3. Sons and Daughters - This Gift
4. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
5. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (4*)
6. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
7. Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
8. Black Mountain - In the Future
9. Opeth - Watershed
10. Black Tide - Light from Above

01 [01] Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
02 [02] Portishead - Third
03 [03] Joan As Police Woman - To Survive
04 [04] Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
05 [05] Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazerus, Dig!!!
06 [---] Brett Anderson - Wilderness
07 [06] Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
08 [08] Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
09 [07] Bonnie "Prince"Billy - Lie Down in the Light
10 [09] Timesbold - Ill Seen Ill Sung

11 [11] Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt
12 [10] dEUS - Vantage Point
13 [12] Bloc Party - Intimacy
14 [13] Tricky - Knowle West Boy
15 [14] Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married, But I've Got Feelings Too

Zoals ik al zei: het kan nog veranderen in verband met de nieuwe releases, dus:

1.Sigur Ros - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
2.Bloc Party - Intimacy
3.Tv On The Radio - Dear Science,
4.Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
5.MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
6.Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
7.The Music - Strength In Numbers
8.Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
9.The Verve - Forth
10.Keane - Perfect Symmetry

Dit zal de vaste eindejaarslijst zijn van mij... of er moet nou nog een echte knaller aankomen, maar dat zal nog wel niet zo zijn.

1. Deerhunter - Microcastle
2. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
3. Portishead - Third
4. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
6. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
7. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
8. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
9. Diplo & Santogold - Top Ranking
10. Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra

Buiten categorie:
Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8

1 Elite - We Own the Mountains
2 Funeral - As Light Does the Shadow
3 Agalloch - The White EP
4 Swallow the Sun - Plague of Butterflies
5 Misery Index - Traitors
6 Kampfar - Heimgang
7 Portishead - Third
8 Sigur Ros - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
9 Bloc Party - Intimacy
10 Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

1. Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill-Gruper
2. Women as Lovers-Xiu Xiu
3. Microcastle-Deerhunter
4. Real Emotional Trash-Stephen Malkmus & Jicks
5. Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra-Micah P. Hinson
6. The Lucky Ones-Mudhoney
7. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
8. Dark Developments-Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power & The Amorphous Strums
9. Another World-Antony and the Johnsons
10. This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That... -Marnie Stern

Ik ga voor een update:

1. Meshuggah - ObZen 4.5*
2. All Shall Perish - Awaken the Dreamers
3. Heaven Shall Burn - Iconoclast
4. Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King

5. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted 4*
6. Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
7. Rotten Sound - Cycles
8. Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
9. Carnifex - The Diseased and the Poisoned
10. Winds of Plague - Decimate the Weak
11. Ill Nino - Enigma
12. Story of the Year - The Black Swan
13. Dark Fortress - Eidolon

14. Hateform - Dominance 3.5*
15. Bullet for My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
16. Annotations of an Autopsy - Before the Throne of Infection
17. With Blood Comes Cleansing - Horror
18. In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
19. Fuck, the Retarded Girl - Abuse

20. Disturbed - Indestructible 3*

Nog op het lijstje:
Aborted, Belphegor, Bleeding Through, Hollywood Undead, Many Things Untold, Metallica, 2x Nine Inch Nails, Slipknot en Sonic Syndicate.

1. Portishead - Third
2. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
3. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
4. Four Tet - Ringer
5. De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - De Machine
6. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
7. Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
8. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
9. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
10. Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms

Aantal erg leuke platen erbij gehoord, dus even nu al een updateje:

1. Fabio Orsi - Before Long, Before Anyone, the Stars Will Be Walls in My Mind
2. Ellen Allien - Sool
3. Aidan Baker/Tim Hecker - Fantasma Parastasie
4. Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
5. Luomo - Convivial
6. Kid Sublime - Rappin' Blak
7. Valet - Naked Acid
8. Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
9. Wouter van Veldhoven - Four Simple Songs for Five Dead Bumblebees
10. Portishead - Third

tussenstand:

1. Portishead – Third
2. Blood Red Shoes - Box of Secrets
3. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
4. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
5. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
6. Deerhunter – Microcastle
7. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
8. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
9. Why? – Alopecia
10. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark

maar eigenlijk té veel 3/3,5*-platen gehoord dit jaar, weinig échte uitschieters...

01. No Age - Nouns
02. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
03. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP
04. Deerhunter - Microcastle
05. Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
06. Hercules and Love Affair - s/t
07. Studio - Yearbook II
08. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
09. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
10. Irezumi - Endurance

1. Portugal the Man - Censored colors
2. Sigur Ros - Med sud...
3. Madrugada - Madrugada
4. Elbow - The seldom seen kid
5. Raconteurs - Consolers of the lonely
6. Last Shadow Puppets - The age of the understatement
7. Headphone - Ghostwriter
8. Secret Machines - Secret Machines
9. Blood Red Shoes - Box of secrets
10.Gutter Twins - Saturnalia

1.Portishead - Third
2.Meshuggah - obZen
3.Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago
4.Carl Craig - Sessions
5.The Dodos - Visiter
6.Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
7.Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
8.Ellen Allien - Sool
9.Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
10.Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
11.Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
12.Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
13.TV On The Radio - Dear Science
14.Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
15.My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth
16.The Do - A Mouthful
17.dEUS - Vantage Point
18.Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist
19.The Field - Sound Of Light
20.Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
21.Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
22.Autechre - Quaristice
23.R.E.M. - Accelerate
24.Shearwater - Rook
25.The Notwist - The Devil, You And Me