I'm a gonna tell you how it's gonna be...
Here are the artists and albums that got me through 2008 (alphabetically):
Amy Winehouse - "Back To Black"
*Aqualung - "Strange & Beautiful"
Arctic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" and "Favourite Worst Nightmare"
Band of Horses - "Cease To Begin"
Beach Boys - "Sounds Of Summer"
Ben Folds Five - "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner" and "Whatever & Ever Amen"
*Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - "Big Bad Voodoo Daddy" and "Save My Soul"
*Big D & The Kids Table - "Strictly Rude" and "How It Goes"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club"
*Brand New - "Deja Entendu" and "The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me"
Brian Setzer - "Rockabilly Riot Vol.1: A Tribute To Sun Records" and "Brian Setzer Collection '81-'88"
The Brian Setzer Orchestra - "The Dirty Boogie"
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
Buddy Holly - "The Buddy Holly Collection Vol.1-4"
*Chris Thile - "Deceiver," "How To Grow A Woman From The Ground" and "Not All Who Wander Are Lost"
Circa Survive - "Juturna"
*Coldplay - "Parachutes" and "Viva La Vida"
Copeland - "Eat, Sleep, Repeat"
The Cure - "Galore"
Cursive - "The Ugly Organ" and "Happy Hollow"
Daft Punk - "Discovery"
Damien Rice - "O"
Danzig - "Danzig"
*Death Cab For Cutie - "Narrow Stairs" and "Transatlanticism"
Deftones - "Around The Fur"
The Ghastly Ones - "A Haunting We Will Go-Go"
Gnarls Barkley - "St. Elsewhere"
*Gogol Bordello - "Super Taranta!"
Hank Williams III - "Straight To Hell" and "Risin' Outlaw"
*Harry Connick, Jr. - "Blue Light Red Light"
Horrorpops - "Hell Yeah!" and "Kiss Kiss Kill Kill"
Incubus - "Light Grenades"
Jamie Cullum - "Twentysomething"
Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins - "Rabbit Fur Coat"
*John Mayer - "Continuum"
*Johnny Cash - "Live At Folsom Prison"
Justice - "Cross"
Justin Timberlake - "Future Sex/Love Sounds"
*Kanye West - "Late Registration," "808s and Heartbreaks" and "Graduation"
The Killers - "Sawdust"
*Kings of Leon - "Because Of The Times" and "Only By The Night"
*Led Zeppelin - "IV" and "Mothership"
*Mad Caddies - "Just One More"
The Mars Volta - "De-loused In The Comatorium" and "Amputecture"
*Mike Ness - "Under The Influences" and "Cheating At Solitaire"
Nekromantix - "Life Is A Grave (And I Dig It)"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral"
*Radiohead - "Kid A," "In Rainbows," and "OK Computer"
The Reverend Horton Heat - "The Full Custom Gospel Sounds of The Reverend Horton Heat" and "Holy Roller"
*Rilo Kiley - "Under The Blacklight," "Takeoffs and Landings," and "The Execution of All Things"
*Say Anything - "In Defense of the Genre" and "...Is A Real Boy"
She and Him - "Volume One"
*Social Distortion - "Between Heaven and Hell," "Social Distortion" and "Sex, Love and Rock n' Roll"
Stars - "Set Yourself On Fire" and "In Our Bedroom After The War"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Tiny Music: Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop" and "No.4"
Straight 8s - "Never Return To Me" and "Casualties of Cool"
Stray Cats - "Built For Speed," "Choo Choo Hot Fish" and "Stray Cats"
Sufjan Stevens - "Illinoise"
Tegan and Sara - "The Con" and "So Jealous"
The Ting Tings - "We Started Nothing"
TTC - Batards Sensibles" and "36 15 TTC"
* means that wonderful or terrible things are associated with this album/artist
I think I might have gotten slightly lazy towards the end, but if anyone reads this to finish, I will be impressed.
I love you all and thanks for a great 2008. I hope that 2009 will see more progress and less heartache. By this time in 2009 I should be moved to North Carolina to start fresh. If I made resolutions, it would be to bust ass and graduate supa fast.
Thanks y'all. It's been real.
Amy Winehouse - "Back To Black"
*Aqualung - "Strange & Beautiful"
Arctic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" and "Favourite Worst Nightmare"
Band of Horses - "Cease To Begin"
Beach Boys - "Sounds Of Summer"
Ben Folds Five - "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner" and "Whatever & Ever Amen"
*Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - "Big Bad Voodoo Daddy" and "Save My Soul"
*Big D & The Kids Table - "Strictly Rude" and "How It Goes"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Black Rebel Motorcycle Club"
*Brand New - "Deja Entendu" and "The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me"
Brian Setzer - "Rockabilly Riot Vol.1: A Tribute To Sun Records" and "Brian Setzer Collection '81-'88"
The Brian Setzer Orchestra - "The Dirty Boogie"
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
Buddy Holly - "The Buddy Holly Collection Vol.1-4"
*Chris Thile - "Deceiver," "How To Grow A Woman From The Ground" and "Not All Who Wander Are Lost"
Circa Survive - "Juturna"
*Coldplay - "Parachutes" and "Viva La Vida"
Copeland - "Eat, Sleep, Repeat"
The Cure - "Galore"
Cursive - "The Ugly Organ" and "Happy Hollow"
Daft Punk - "Discovery"
Damien Rice - "O"
Danzig - "Danzig"
*Death Cab For Cutie - "Narrow Stairs" and "Transatlanticism"
Deftones - "Around The Fur"
The Ghastly Ones - "A Haunting We Will Go-Go"
Gnarls Barkley - "St. Elsewhere"
*Gogol Bordello - "Super Taranta!"
Hank Williams III - "Straight To Hell" and "Risin' Outlaw"
*Harry Connick, Jr. - "Blue Light Red Light"
Horrorpops - "Hell Yeah!" and "Kiss Kiss Kill Kill"
Incubus - "Light Grenades"
Jamie Cullum - "Twentysomething"
Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins - "Rabbit Fur Coat"
*John Mayer - "Continuum"
*Johnny Cash - "Live At Folsom Prison"
Justice - "Cross"
Justin Timberlake - "Future Sex/Love Sounds"
*Kanye West - "Late Registration," "808s and Heartbreaks" and "Graduation"
The Killers - "Sawdust"
*Kings of Leon - "Because Of The Times" and "Only By The Night"
*Led Zeppelin - "IV" and "Mothership"
*Mad Caddies - "Just One More"
The Mars Volta - "De-loused In The Comatorium" and "Amputecture"
*Mike Ness - "Under The Influences" and "Cheating At Solitaire"
Nekromantix - "Life Is A Grave (And I Dig It)"
Nine Inch Nails - "The Downward Spiral"
*Radiohead - "Kid A," "In Rainbows," and "OK Computer"
The Reverend Horton Heat - "The Full Custom Gospel Sounds of The Reverend Horton Heat" and "Holy Roller"
*Rilo Kiley - "Under The Blacklight," "Takeoffs and Landings," and "The Execution of All Things"
*Say Anything - "In Defense of the Genre" and "...Is A Real Boy"
She and Him - "Volume One"
*Social Distortion - "Between Heaven and Hell," "Social Distortion" and "Sex, Love and Rock n' Roll"
Stars - "Set Yourself On Fire" and "In Our Bedroom After The War"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Tiny Music: Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop" and "No.4"
Straight 8s - "Never Return To Me" and "Casualties of Cool"
Stray Cats - "Built For Speed," "Choo Choo Hot Fish" and "Stray Cats"
Sufjan Stevens - "Illinoise"
Tegan and Sara - "The Con" and "So Jealous"
The Ting Tings - "We Started Nothing"
TTC - Batards Sensibles" and "36 15 TTC"
* means that wonderful or terrible things are associated with this album/artist
I think I might have gotten slightly lazy towards the end, but if anyone reads this to finish, I will be impressed.
I love you all and thanks for a great 2008. I hope that 2009 will see more progress and less heartache. By this time in 2009 I should be moved to North Carolina to start fresh. If I made resolutions, it would be to bust ass and graduate supa fast.
Thanks y'all. It's been real.