Miscellaneous - Albums of the Year

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published: 24 / 11 / 2008

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Our writers and photographers provide their favourite albums, and also favourite gig, of 2008

Peter Allison 1. Hydrogen - Deadly Passions. 2. Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace. 3. Wednesday 13 - F**k It, We'll Do It Live. 4. Devil's Gift - Devil's Gift. 5. Winds - Prominence and Desire. Neil Bailey 1. Seth Lakeman - Poor Man's Heaven. 2. Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won 3. 3 Daft Monkeys - Social Vertigo Favourite Gig - National, Metropolitan University, Leeds, 1st July Aaron Brown 1. Glasvegas - Glasvegas 2. Metallica Death Magnetic 3. Vast- Bang Band Sixx EP 4. Fighting With Wir - Man VS Monster 5. Kills - Midnight Boom Malcolm Carter 1. Jefferson Pepper - American Evolution Vol 2 2. Steve Robinson - Undercurrent 3. Explorers Club - Freedom Wind 4. Jefferson Pepper - American Evolution Vol 1 5. Matthew Sweet - Sunshine Lies 6. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams 7. Teddy Thompson - A Piece Of What You Need 8. Hello Saferide - More Modern Short Stories From Hello Saferide 9. John Henrys - Sweet as the Grain 10. Farrell Spence - A Town Called Hell Andrew Carver 1. Tim Hecker and Aidan Baker – Fantasma Parastasie 2. Endless Boogie – Focus Level 3. Asva – What You Don’t Know Is Frontier 4. Pontiak – Sun On Sun 5. M. Mucci – Under The Tulip Tree 6. Muffler Crunch – Arc 7. Crystal Antlers - EP 8. Sic Alps – A Long Way Around To A Shortcut 9. Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Continued 10. Leviathan – Massive Conspiracy Against All Life John Clarkson 1. Last Harbour - Dead Fires and the Lonely Spark 2. Anna Kashfi - Procurement 3. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Pilgrim Road 4. Kelman - I Felt My Sad Heart Soar 5. Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound 6. Hey Negrita - You Can Kick 7. Twilight Sad - Here It Snowed, Afterwards It Did 8. Viarosa - Send For The Sea 9. Thomas Feiner and Anywhen - The Opiates Revisited 10.Clash - Live at Shea Stadium Favourite Gig - The Fall, Queens Hall, Edinburgh, 12/10/2008 Daniel Cressey 1. Neon Neon - Stainless Style 2. Roots Manuva - Slime and Reason 3. Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride 4. Alec Empire – A Golden Foretaste of Heaven 5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! 6. Pete Molinari – A Virtual Landslide 7. Southern Tenant Folk Union – Revivals, Rituals and Union Songs 8. Micah P. Hinson - Micah P. Hinson and the red empire orchestra Favourite Gig - Neon Neon, Koko, London, October, 29th October and Southern Tenant Folk Union, Buffalo Bar, London, 18th May Dixie Ernill 1. Tindersticks - Hungry Saw 2. Glasvegas - Glasvegas 3. Wedding Present - El Rey 4. Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby 5. Organ - Thieves Favourite Gig - Tindersticks, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 4th October Russell Ferguson 1. Kills - Midnight Boom 2. Presets - Apocalypso 3. Killing Joke - Duende (The Spanish Sessions) 4. Whip - X Marks the Destination 5. Levellers - Letters from the Underground 6. Sugars - The Curse of the Sugars Tommy Gunnarsson 1. Doktor Kosmos – Hallå ? 2. Cloetta Paris – Secret Eyes 3. Magnetic Fields – Distortion Vapnet – Döda Fallet Yazoo – In your room (box set) Favourite Gig - Magnetic Fields, Circus, Stockholm, 29th June Ben Howarth 1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago 2. Drever, McCusker, Woomble - Before the Ruin 3. Randy Newman - Harps and Angels 4. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Pilgrim Road 5.. Drive By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark 6. Shearwater - Rook 7. Jaymay - Autumn’ Fallin 8. Laura Marling - Alas, ICannot Swim 9. Angus and Julia Stone - A Book Like This 10.Lucksmiths - First Frost Favourite Gig - Bruce Springsteen, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, 14th July Adrian Huggins 1. Weezer – The Red Album 2. Moira Stewart – Sweetness, Yes 3. Moha! – One Way Ticket to Candyland 4. Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs 5. Kings of Leon – Only by the Night 6. Mars Volta – Bedlam in Goliath 7. Biffy Clyro – Singles 2001-2005 8. Does It Offend You Yeah? – You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into 9. Jaguar Love – Send Me to the Sea 10.City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love Favourite Gig - Dillinger Escape Plan, Academy 2, Newcastle, 13th February Chris Jones 1. Notwist - The Devil, You and Me 2. M83 - Saturdays = Youth 3. Why ? - AlopeciaB. 4. Fleischmann - Angst is not a Weltanschauung! 5. Spiritualized - Songs in A & E 6. Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior 7. Remote Viewer - I Can't Believe It's Not Better 8 Butcher the Bar - Sleep at Your Own Speed 9. Alias - Resurgam 10.New Year - New Year Jonjo McNeill 1. Bloc Party - Intimacy 2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 3. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid 4. M83 - Saturdays=Youth 5. Spiritualized - Songs In A & E 6. UNKLE - End Titles 7. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling Anthony Middleton 1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! 2. Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue 3. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Pilgrim Road 4. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 5. Brian Wilson - Lucky Old Sun 6. Shearwater - Rook 7. Glasvegas - Glasvegas Favourite Gig - Eels,St James Church, London, 17/1/2008 and Royal Festival Hall, London, 25/2/2008 Chris O' Toole 1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! 2. Xiu Xiu - Women as Lovers 3. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music ? 4. Parts and Labor - Receivers 5. Ladyhawk - Shots Favourite Gig - Acid Mothers Temple, Madame Jojo's, London, 12/8/2008 Jamie Rowland 1. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 2. Monkey - Journey to the West 3. Ballboy - I Worked on the Ships 4. Rory McVicar - Rory McVicar 5. Various - Dreams Come True : Classic First Wave Electro 1982-1987 6. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim Mark Rowland 1. TV on the Radio – Dear Science 2. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend 3. No Age – Nouns 4. Cadence Weapon – Afterparty Babies 5. Adam Green – Sixes and Sevens 6. Cool Kids – The Bake Sale 7. Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping 8. Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea 9. Throw Me The Statue – Moonbeams 10.Week That Was – The Week That Was Maarten Schiethart 1. Kasai Allstars - In The 7th Moon 2. Max Tundra - Parallel Error Beheads You 3. Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior 4. Clark - Turning Dragon 5. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life 6. Melodium - Cerebro Spin 7. Calvin Party - Godard's Girlfriend 8. a.P.A.t.T. - Black and White Mass 9. Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Colour 10. Polysics - We Ate The Machine Dominic Simpson (In no particular order) 1. Spiritualized - Songs in A & E 2. Portishead - Third 3. Windy & Carl - Songs for the Broken Hearted 4. Wooden Shjips - Volume 1 5. Isnaj Dui - Patterns in Rocks 6. Jack Rose - Dr Ragtime and Pals/Jack Rose Favourite Gig - My Bloody Valentine, Roundhouse, London, 22nd June Olga Sladeckova 1. Primal Scream - Beautiful Future 2. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular Favourite Gig - MGMT, Astoria, London, 24th May Kelly Smith Motley Crue - Saints of Los Angeles Kings of Leon - Only By The Night – Kings of Leon McFly - RadioACTIVE – McFly Guns 'n' Roses - Chinese Democracy – Guns n’ Roses You, Me and Everyone We Know - Party For The Grown And Sexy Black Lungs - Send Flowers – Black Lungs 3OH!3 - Want Various - Citizens FOB Mixtape Black Stone Cherry -Folklore And Superstition Fall Out Boy - Folie A Deux Favourite Gig - Foo Fighters, Wembley, 7th June Anthony Strutt 1. Doors - live at the Matrix 67 2. R.EM - Accelerate 3. Cure - 4.13 Dream 4. Primal Scream - Beautiful Future 5. A Place to bury Strangers - Rocket Girl Remaster. Favourite Gig - Leonard Cohen, 02, 17th July Helen Tipping 1. Daft Monkeys - Social Vertigo 2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! 3. Underground Railroad - Sticks and Stones 4. Horrorpops - Kiss Kiss Kill Kill 5. TV Smith - In the Arms of My Enemy Favourite Gig -Levellers with Seth Lakeman, 3 Daft Monkeys, Chumbawamba, Nick Harper and Dreadzone, Arley Hall, Cheshire, 12th July Denzil Watson 1. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer? 2. Young Knives - Super abundance 3. Little Man Tate - Nothing Worth Having Comes Easy 4. Beangrowers - Not in a Million Lovers 5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend 6. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! 7. Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement 8. Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads 9. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music ? 10. Bromheads Jacket - On the Brain

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