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Rolling Stone Albums of the Year: #7 VLV


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Best of 2008

Albums of the year

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/24958695/albums_of_the_year/31

 

 

1 | TV on the Radio: Dear Science

 

2 | Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs — The Bootleg Series Vol. 8

 

3 | Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III

 

4 | My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges

 

5 | John Mellencamp: Life, Death, Love and Freedom

 

6 | Santogold: Santogold

 

7 | Coldplay: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

 

During the sessions for Viva la Vida, Chris Martin consulted a hypnotist to help with the pressure of writing the Great American Rock Album. And it worked. Coldplay got ambitious, calling in Talking Heads and U2 producer Brian Eno, drawing on exotic instruments like Indian tablas and the Persian santur, writing about world events instead of their own feelings, and making music as far-reaching as their global fan base. They ended up with an album that's massively expansive yet intimate enough to incite lighter-waving from London to Tokyo.

 

 

8 | Beck: Modern Guilt

 

9 | Metallica: Death Magnetic

 

10 | Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend

 

11 | Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes

 

12 | Guns n' Roses: Chinese Democracy

 

13 | Blitzen Trapper: Furr

 

14 | Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology

 

15 | The Black Keys: Attack & Release

 

16 | Randy Newman: Harps and Angels

 

17 | B.B. King: One Kind Favor

 

18 | Lucinda Williams: Little Honey

 

19 | Erykah Badu: New Amerykah: Part 1 (4th World War)

 

20 | Kings of Leon: Only by the Night

 

21 | Kaiser Chiefs: Off With Their Heads

 

22 | Jockson Browne: Time the Conquerer

 

23 | Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst

 

24 | Girl Talk: Feed the Animals

 

25 | The Magnetic Fields: Distortion

 

26 | Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch

 

27 | Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun

 

28 | The Knux: Remind Me in Three Days...

 

29 | Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

 

30 | Duffy: Rockferry

 

31 | MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

 

32 | Jamey Johnson: The Lonesome Song

 

33 | Ne-Yo: Year of the Gentleman

 

34 | Stephen Malkmus: Real Emotional Trash

 

35 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

 

36 | The Hold Steady: Stay Positive

 

37 | Nine Inch Nails: The Slip

 

38 | Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Line

 

39 | Taylor Swift: Fearless

 

40 | Jonas Brothers: A Little Bit Longer

 

41 | AC/DC: Black Ice

 

42 | David Byrne and Brian Eno: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

 

43 | Nas: Untitled

 

44 | The Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely

 

45 | Be Your Own Pet: Get Awkward

 

46 | The Academy Is...: Fast Times at Barrington High

 

47 | Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping

 

48 | Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It

 

49 | Hot Chip: Made in the Dark

 

50 | No Age: Nouns

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Haha well, its hard to say that an artist with universal acclaim from critics is terrible, I think its a matter of taste. Personally im not into his music, but I've listened to his album and I think hes got some really clever lyrics. He was also one of the biggest selling artists this year too, can't forget that.

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Haha well, its hard to say that an artist with universal acclaim from critics is terrible, I think its a matter of taste. Personally im not into his music, but I've listened to his album and I think hes got some really clever lyrics. He was also one of the biggest selling artists this year too, can't forget that.

 

basing your opinion on what critics say is lame - if that was the case, we should all be hating on X&Y !

 

and biggest selling artists mean no shit to me, good music is all that matters. always has always will. lil wayne is shit.

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Well, you have to give Lil Wayne credit for weaseling his way into countless songs by countless other artists, most of which are in another genre. And I'm still predicting that he takes the Grammy for Best Album given his acclaim, even if I never once cared for his genre in general, and therefore cannot tell the good from the bad. :P

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Well, you have to give Lil Wayne credit for weaseling his way into countless songs by countless other artists, most of which are in another genre. And I'm still predicting that he takes the Grammy for Best Album given his acclaim, even if I never once cared for his genre in general, and therefore cannot tell the good from the bad. :P

 

it doesn't matter - his texts are ridiculous, his singing cannot be called singing but whining, he is not a musician, and his album is bought by stupid whiny "TRL RIP" teenagers, especially in America.

 

What makes viva la vida a good album is that it is music that moves you. The music that I can listen to , my sister, my father,my mother, my friends, my teachers...So you see who wins. Regardless the genre.

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Singles of the Year

 

1 | Beyoncé — "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"

2 | Santogold — "LES Artistes"

3 | MGMT — "Time to Pretend"

4 | Blitzen Trapper — "Furr"

5 | Lil Wayne — "Lollipop"

6 | Beck — "Gamma Ray"

7 | Estelle feat. Kanye West — "American Boy"

8 | My Morning Jacket — "I'm Amazed"

9 | Coldplay — "Viva la Vida"

Thunderclap tympani! Symphonic swells! Calvary choirs! Coldplay return, stirringly, with their secret weapon, Brian Eno. "I used to rule the world," sings Chris Martin. Used to?

10 | T.I. — "No Matter What"

11 | Rihanna — "Disturbia"

12 | TV on the Radio — "Golden Age"

13 | Ryan Adams and the Cardinals — "Magick"

14 | The BPA feat. David Byrne and Dizzee
      Rascal — "Toe Jam"

15 | Al Green — "Lay It Down"

16 | Young Jeezy — "My President"

17 | The Killers — "Spaceman"

18 | Kid Rock — "All Summer Long"

19 | Guns n' Roses — "Better"

20 | Katy Perry — "I Kissed a Girl"

 

100 list

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/24947047/singles_of_the_year/26

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