the annual paulybee best albums of the year list (2008)
 

i found it real hard to stick down 50... so this year i went for a very personal and accurate top 100 albums of the year..........so here it is...


100.The breeders- maountain battles
99.Fleet foxes- fleet foxes
98.Nine inch nails- the slip
97.M83- Saturdays = youth
96.Bon iver- for emma, forever ago
95.Polysics- we ate the machine
94.Crystal castles- crystal castles
93.Free kitten- inherit
92.Jandek- myth of blue icicles
91.These are powers- terrible seasons
90.Tiger! Shit! Tiger! Tiger!- be your own shit
89.Elbow- this seldom seen kid
88.Kayo dot- blue lambency downward
87.Grails- doomsdayers holiday
86.Hair police- certainty of swarms
85.The notwist- the devil, you and me
84.The kills- midnight boom
83.Boris- smile
82.The bug- London zoo
81.Blood red shoes- box of secrets
80.Sunn o)))- domkirke
79.Don caballero – punkgasm
78.Grouper- dragging a dead dear up a hill
77.Foals- antidotes
76.Jonny greenwood- there will be blood
75.Vivian girls- Vivian girls
74.Burning star core- challenger
73.Prurient- and, still waiting
72.Cranes-cranes
71.Oneda- preteen weaponary
70.Spiritualized- songs in a & e
69.Nurse with wound- huffin rag blues
68.Awesome color- electric aboriginies
67.Neil diamond- home before dark
66.This will destroy you- this will destroy you
65.Autechre- quarstice
64.Parenthietical girls- entanglements
63.wedding present- el rey
62.No age- nouns
61.Religious knives- the door
60.Metallica- death magnetic
59.Fujiya and miyagi- lightbulbs
58.Dj scotch egg- drumized
57.Negativland- thigmotactic
56.Thurston moore- sensitive / lethal
55.Tall firs- too old to die young
54.Crystal stilits- allight the night
53.Elf power- in a cave
52.Hush arbours- hush arbors
51.Clark- turning dragoon
50.Half man half biscuit- csi:ambleside
49.The jimmy cake- spectre and crown
48.Growing- all the way
47.Women- women
46.Merzbow- annica
45.Original silence- the second original silence
44.This bike is a pipe bomb- convertible
43.Monade- monstre cosmic
42.An albatross- the an albatross family album
41.Rolo tomassi- hysterics
40.Stephen malkmus and the jicks- real emotional trash
39.Tv on the radio- dear science
38.Sparks- exotic creatures of the deep
37.Deerhoof- offend Maggie
36.Liquid liquid- slip in and out of phenomenon
35.Flight of the conchords- flight of the conchords
34.Acid mothers temple & the melting paradiso u.f.o.-
recurring dream & the apocalypse of darkeness
33.Aidan john moffat- I can hear your heart
32.Mudhoney –the lucky ones
31.Sun city girls / Jason spaceman- mr lonely
30.Einsturzende neubauten- the jewels
29.Sonic youth / merzbow / mats gustaffson- syr 8
28.Mogwai- the hawk is howling
27.Kimya dawson- alphabutt
26.The hospitals- hairdryer peace
25.Daemian frost- spirito di daemo
24.The fall- imperial wax solvent
23.Hrtk- nostalgia
22.The Dudley corporation- year of the husband
21.Secret chiefs 3- xaphan
20.Abe vigoda- skeleton
19.Waves- wavves
18.Farmers market- surfin u.s.s.r.
17.Halfset- another way of being there
16.Julian cope- black sheep
15.the silver mt zion memorial orchestra & the tra la la la band-
13 blues for thirteen moons
14.Sigur ros- med sud I eyrum vid spilium endalaust
13.Adebisi shank- this is the albumof a band called….
12.Fucked up- the chemistry of common life
11.Thank you- terrible two
10.Suishou no fune- prayer for chibi
9.Ponytail- ice cream spiritual
8.Pivot- o soundtrack my heart
7.Stereolab- chemical chords
6.Gang gang dance- saint dymphna
5.Extra life- secular world
4.Experimental dental school- jane doe loves me
3.Portishead- third
2.Nick cave and the bad seeds- dig!!! Lazarus dig!!!
1.Fuck buttons- street horrsing


thats it....... now discuss!

Only if you discuss mine.

This is a great top Pauly,though I would disagree with some albums (the TV on the Radio one disappointed me, and I can't stand Fleet Foxes) - but hey it's your personnal top and tastes obviously.
Good work man

i agree , thats why they are 39 and 98 respectivly.. its all relative yknow!!!

haha yeah
and anyway i'm really glad to see turning dragon on there, it's a great album.
mogwai's new one as well, it is hated by a lot of people but i find it beautiful

I quite enjoyed Dig Lazarus Dig, but I don't think I'd put it in my top 10. Ditto for the Experimental Dental School album.
I shall definitely need to check out Fuck Buttons

Overall I really like this list though, some really nice inculsions. That Extra Life album appeared pretty high in atsonicpark's list as well, definitely another to check out.

Pauly, I'm not trying to be a jerk here, just curious. In my Top 10 thread you talked about how you didnt like the M83 album much. Yet it appears on yr list. And obviously I can see it's down at #96, but if the lower part of yr list is albums yr not even into, then why make a Top 100? Why not a just narrow it down to Top 50? 20? 10?

because i was arguing the toss with myself on about 80 albums i wanted in so rather than drop 30 i opted to add in 20.. lesser of two evils so to speak.. i could have gone on to 120 for example xiu xiu would have been 101......


i totally forgot the these are powers album...... edited!!!

no Free Kitten?

also.. its not i hate the lower reaches of the list... i am just not as into them as the rest of them.. seriously, i dont expect anyone to understand my logic........

93!

doh!

I really hated INHERIT. I hate to say it, but it's the truth.

cool list...mind if I post mine here?

of course not atari but surely if i get a thread of my own you deserve one too!!!!!! up to you good sir!

Actually Terrific Seasons was 2007 - but the Taro Tarot EP is 2008 on the other hand.
The HTRK album was also released in 2007 :p
but those are nice choices though

ok...... shit.. you are right.... a fuck it!!

ill rejig it later.....

nice teeth scratching enamel stuff.

I only take into consideration what Thurston Moore or other musicians I admire list as their favourite. I'm a hipster like that.

nice job