Your top 5 albums of 2008, mid-year edition

[Easy Mac]

The thread title really says it all. Looking over my music, my collection is noticeably smaller this year than last. I have 160 songs from this year, but 960 from last year. Perhaps I just bought far more crap last year.

I'd give you mine, but my wife just called, so my list later.

[Noop]

Mine is mostly hiphop but whatever...

1. Lil Wayne - Carter III
2. Rick Ross - Trilla
3. Plies - Definition Of Real

That's where I stop because I can not honestly think of any good albums maybe later this year. I have been listening to Jazz lately so Miles Davis, Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie are all good dudes. Hopefully I can find guys who song the blues and expand into that area of music.

[Arctic Blast]

1. The Roots - Rising Down.
2. Duffy - Rockferry
3. The Black Keys - Attack & Release.
4. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet. (I THINK it qualifies in the timeframe?)

Those are the ones I could come up with off the top of my head, anyway.

[DanGarion]

Wow the only two albums I've bought this year....

Weezer - Red Album
Secondhand Serenade - A Twist In My Story

And the reissued Jimmy Eat World - Bleed America (2 discs).

[Logan]

Wow the only two albums I've bought this year....

Weezer - Red Album
Secondhand Serenade - A Twist In My Story

And the reissued Jimmy Eat World - Bleed America (2 discs).

My sole purchase is Weezer - Red.

[HerRealName]

1. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive - It comes out 7/15 but it's damn near perfect
2. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
3. Times New Viking - Rip it Off
4. Black Keys - Attack + Release
5. Dexateens - Lost and Found

[Easy Mac]

OK, now, on to my top albums:

1. Black Keys - Attack & Release
2. Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster
3. The Dodos - Visiter
4. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend.

[ISiddiqui]

1) The Kills - Midnight Boom
2) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3) Black Keys - Attack & Release
4) The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
5) Gnarles Barkley - The Odd Couple

[Fidatelo]

1) Weezer - Red
2) ??
3) Profit

Wait, what was the question?

[lighthousekeeper]

Haven't bought or even pirated an album in probably 3-5 years. Guess this isn't the thread for me.

[mckerney]

1. Ike Reilly - Poison the Hit Parade

[Young Drachma]

No way I can pick just 5

1. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
2. Devotkcha - A Mad and Faithful Telling
3. Shearwater - Rook
4. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 1
5. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
6. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
7. The Roots - Rising Down
8. Ximena Sarinana - Mediocre

[korme]

Panic at the Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Lil' Wayne - Tha Carter III
Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

[fantom1979]

I am so old I dont even think I could name 5 albums that came out this year until I read this thread.

[korme]

1) The Kills - Midnight Boom
2) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
3) Black Keys - Attack & Release
4) The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
5) Gnarles Barkley - The Odd Couple

Dammit, I need the new Gnarls! I loved St. Elsewhere...

And lots of votes for the Black Key(e?)s, never heard anything they've done, might want to check that out.

[korme]

No way I can pick just 5

1. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
2. Devotkcha - A Mad and Faithful Telling
3. Shearwater - Rook
4. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 1
5. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
6. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
7. The Roots - Rising Down
8. Ximena Sarinana - Mediocre

I've been checking the "what the hell..." thread religiously, don't know how I missed that Devotchka put out a new album, will need to check that as well.

[ISiddiqui]

Dammit, I need the new Gnarls! I loved St. Elsewhere...

And lots of votes for the Black Key(e?)s, never heard anything they've done, might want to check that out.

The Odd Couple is pretty nice. Unfortunately since it doesn't have a hit on the scale of Crazy, it isn't getting as much press.

The Black Keys are a very nice blues rock band who worked with Danger Mouse on Attack & Release.

[PackerFanatic]

I am kind of surprised nobody has mentioned Offspring's new album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace.

It is one of their best efforts.

[Cringer]

I have not bought (or even stolen) new music for about the 3rd or 4th straight year I would say. I hear new stuff on Sirius and that is good enough for me. My top five albums are the same top 5 albums of the last 10 years for me.

[Hurst2112]

The Mars Volta: Bedlam In Goliath
Rush: Snakes and Arrows (live)
Coheed and Cambria: No World For Tomorrow (Oct. 07-close enough)
Opeth: Watershed

Not a lot of music I dug this year so far.

[Calis]

The only two cd's I've bought that were made this year are...

Portishead- Third
Vampire Weekend

I usually find myself about a year behind the times. I tend to buy music in huge splurges. I'm going through most of last year's hyped CD's. I usually every 6 months or so go over to QuestionableContent.net and check either the blog or the forums and look for stuff being talked about and check it out.

[korme]

Calis, the reason I don't slack behind music (not to blame you for waiting, maybe I'm the sucker) is that I tend to buy Cds on their release date because Best Buy always sells new releases on the day of first sale for $10

[Calis]

Calis, the reason I don't slack behind music (not to blame you for waiting, maybe I'm the sucker) is that I tend to buy Cds on their release date because Best Buy always sells new releases on the day of first sale for $10

Yeah I don't do it for any particular good reason, it's just that I tend to be in the mood for new music or not.

I'm sure I would be better off buying brand new.

[AlexB]

Bearing in mind I've not bought a hell of a lot this year, and in no particular order, the three albums that have stood out for me this year:

Does It Offend You, Yeah - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
Los Camposinos - Hold On Now, Youngster...
Tapes N Tapes - Walk It Off