Wheee, my 2008 in music.

[michaelpop]

Here it is, better late than never, I guess. I can't believe there were actually a few of you were who like, "can't wait to see your list, dude!" When it comes to new music, I am seriously lagging these days, but the funny thing is, I don't really care as much as I thought it would. The last time I went record shopping, I mean like, serious record shopping, the kind where you spend an hour or two perusing each bin in the store and just walk around and look at all the displays and staff recommendations and everything, was July, when Lindsey and I did our cross-country trip and I spent lots of money in Austin. I just haven't had the time or the money to do any serious shopping since. I've still picked up records here and there, mostly from Best Buy and Target (tearz), but I haven't gotten lost in a record store and made it rain on clerks in a long, long time.

Basically, I missed out on a ton of stuff this year, but I still managed to buy about 45 new records and from those, I've picked my favoirtes. Most of them, not surprisingly, are from the first half of last year.

My Favorite Records of 2008:






20 - The Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride
19 - The Presets, Apocalypso
18 - Beach House, Devotion
17 - Gentlemen Jesse & His Men, self-titled






16 - The Duke Spirit, Neptune
15 - Spiritualized, Songs in A & E
14 - Be Your Own Pet, Get Awkward
13 - Radiohead, In Rainbows 1






12 - Death Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs
11 - Fleet Foxes, self-titled
10 - The Last Shadow Puppets, The Age of the Understatement
09 - The Whigs, Mission Control






08 - Coldplay, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
07 - The Gutter Twins, Saturnalia
06 - Lupe Fiasco, The Cool 2
05 - The Kills, Midnight Boom






04 - Vampire Weekend, self-titled
03 - Crystal Castles, self-titled
02 - Destroyer, Trouble in Dreams
01 - Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours

1 Released digitally October 10, 2007, physically January 1, 2008
2 Released December 18, 2007