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RTS: The Best of 2008--Albums
Dec. 20th, 2008 08:15 amFirst things first:
I haven't done one of these in a few years, partly due to lack of time, partly due to insufficient interest (not that I hated a lot of new stuff, but let's be honest--I'm not as big a music fiend as I used to be so I wasn't as obsessive), partly due to not having paid as much attention to the music scene. Also, there's the fact that over the course of the last few years, I haven't bought and/or downloaded as much as I normally would.
So in theory:
While my theory of "every year ending in eight has awesomely great music" seems to have been punctured a bit, there were still quite a number of great albums out there. Very few who were OMGAWESOME, but that's no problem. This year I started thinking about why I love 1988's music so much, and it dawned on me that I'd been looking at it in the wrong way. Though I have a deep love for a lot of stuff from that year, thinking back, I didn't own a good amount of it that year--it was either taped from others' collections or off the radio. And even then, out of all the fun albums from that year, there's really only about a dozen, twenty tops, that I still consider favorite albums from that year.
That said:
Unlike 1998's bloviated three-page list of favorite albums from that year (I could easily prune that list down now), I realize I was stretching too far in trying to come up with my Best Of lists. That, and I was putting them together on New Years' Eve out of habit--which makes sense, since I always equate New Years' Eve to end-of-year countdowns on the radio--and over the last few years I've found it harder to try to make these lists due to time constraints, and it always feels like a too-late-after-the-fact thing to do it post-New Years'. Another thing that occured to me was that my end-of-year comps and lists back in the late 80s (and again in the late 90s and early 00s) were actually made a week or so before the end of the year. By now I know that the last few weeks' worth of releases are usually filler (and if they become big hits, they're usually big the following year). So I've stopped being so picky about the rules of who gets on the list. That was just getting overly obsessive.
SO!
Enough with the yapping and navel-gazing about my music obsession. I'll save that for a later post you can skip. :p TIME FOR THE LISTS!
( The New-and-Improved Rockin' the Suburbs Best of List for 2008 )
I'm sure I'll make addenda to this over the course of the next few days, but this is my main list. Hope you enjoyed it! :)
I haven't done one of these in a few years, partly due to lack of time, partly due to insufficient interest (not that I hated a lot of new stuff, but let's be honest--I'm not as big a music fiend as I used to be so I wasn't as obsessive), partly due to not having paid as much attention to the music scene. Also, there's the fact that over the course of the last few years, I haven't bought and/or downloaded as much as I normally would.
So in theory:
While my theory of "every year ending in eight has awesomely great music" seems to have been punctured a bit, there were still quite a number of great albums out there. Very few who were OMGAWESOME, but that's no problem. This year I started thinking about why I love 1988's music so much, and it dawned on me that I'd been looking at it in the wrong way. Though I have a deep love for a lot of stuff from that year, thinking back, I didn't own a good amount of it that year--it was either taped from others' collections or off the radio. And even then, out of all the fun albums from that year, there's really only about a dozen, twenty tops, that I still consider favorite albums from that year.
That said:
Unlike 1998's bloviated three-page list of favorite albums from that year (I could easily prune that list down now), I realize I was stretching too far in trying to come up with my Best Of lists. That, and I was putting them together on New Years' Eve out of habit--which makes sense, since I always equate New Years' Eve to end-of-year countdowns on the radio--and over the last few years I've found it harder to try to make these lists due to time constraints, and it always feels like a too-late-after-the-fact thing to do it post-New Years'. Another thing that occured to me was that my end-of-year comps and lists back in the late 80s (and again in the late 90s and early 00s) were actually made a week or so before the end of the year. By now I know that the last few weeks' worth of releases are usually filler (and if they become big hits, they're usually big the following year). So I've stopped being so picky about the rules of who gets on the list. That was just getting overly obsessive.
SO!
Enough with the yapping and navel-gazing about my music obsession. I'll save that for a later post you can skip. :p TIME FOR THE LISTS!
( The New-and-Improved Rockin' the Suburbs Best of List for 2008 )
I'm sure I'll make addenda to this over the course of the next few days, but this is my main list. Hope you enjoyed it! :)
