upcoming editorial
Hi everyone! Just a quick word on a couple of upcoming features at eMusic. Tomorrow, we will begin unveiling the 100 Best Albums Ever on the US site (in the UK, Europe and Canada, these will be Top 50 lists, also beginning tomorrow). The results will be posted bit by bit, with the winners not being announced until next Monday. I hope everyone enjoys the results, or at the very least has fun complaining about them!
Also coming up on July 22nd will be the Best Albums of 2008… So Far, these picked by the editors here. We’re still working at cutting down the list (we’re at something like 658 albums now), but it’ll be ready to roll then.
Until then, I’d love to hear from everyone on their guesses for what will make the top ten of the Best Albums Ever poll, and also for your votes for best of the year so far. Thanks!
Nice Calvin & Hobbes nod.
I imagine Arcade Fire’s two albums will make it, but beyond that, I haven’t the foggiest as to what others will like.
For 2008, the Ghost Glacier EP is definitely awesome, but I’ve found one of my favorite albums ever in Murder by Death’s “Red of Tooth and Claw”; I have yet to tire of this masterpiece of vengeance, lust, and pain.
Bon Iver’s “For Emma, Forever Ago”, The Constantine’s “Kensington Heights”, French Kicks’ “Swimming”, and The Mountain Goats’ “Heretic Pride” round out the eMusic offerings I’ve liked the most thus far this year.
Looking forward to the lists and discovering more great new music to add to my ever-growing Saved for Later options.
This post served as a reminder for me to vote (and I just did). Hard question. What made my Top 5 was true as of today. By later today, I might have a whole new slate. And yet another whole new slate tomorrow.
I’d guess that the Top 10 albums will be overwhelmingly indie-rock. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Spoon), Twin Cinema (New Pornographers), Funeral (Arcade Fire), and maybe Untrue (Burial) and Doolittle (The Pixies) and Rubies (Destroyer) on the United States’ list (in the UK, I’d bet on seeing Kala (M.I.A.)).
That’s who I think may be on the list. Who I think should be on the list is a (somewhat) different story. I’d also love to see any of the following: Heart Of The Congos (The Congos), From Here We Go Sublime (The Field), The Lost Album (Lewis Taylor), The Clientele (any disc will do), The Music of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics (Various Artists), Aman Iman: Water is Life (Tinariwen), Dance Hall Style (Horace Andy), The Disintegration Loops, Vol. I (William Basinski), Orchestra of Bubbles (Ellen Allien & Apparat), The Sinking Of The Titanic (Gavin Bryars, Phillip Jeck and Alter Ego), Presents Charles Mingus (Charles Mingus), Alone in San Francisco (Thelonious Monk), The Roots of Chicha (Various Artists) and After Dark (Various Artists from the Italians Do It Better label). Ah, that’s more than 10 already. As I said, hard question.
Very quickly my fav albums of 2008:
Let’s Wrestle - In Loving Memory… (going to see them live tomorrow Yancey!)
Black Francis – Svn Fngrs
Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
Robert Forster – The Evangelist
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
The Wedding Present – El Ray
Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals
Jason I am very, very jealous! Please check back in with the verdict!
I missed the last gig and some mates went without me and rated it. Sloppy and fun was the verdict. If they are as good as the new single I will be well happy… have you heard it? That second song is so so good. Some really mature songwriting. Will let you know how I get on.
Yancey, Let’s Wrestle were amazing… will write more later but everything i hoped for and more
please do, jason! i want to hear more!