jon_chaisson: (Tunage)
So! Did 2008 live up to my theory of years ending in 8's having awesome music? Well, er...not as such. Lots of good stuff, but as I'd said in the last TN:AO post, it seems that around 2007 I'd started backing away from music again and focusing on other things in my life. I suppose that's a good thing in certain ways--it certainly means I'm no longer so obsessive about music as I once was. Lots of things going on this year, personally and politically which took up a lot of my time. On the other hand, after putting this list together, there were a lot of good songs that popped up...perhaps, like 1988 for me, it'll become a great year for music in retrospect. ;)

With that, 2008's cool music below the cut. Surprisingly, I was able to embed most of them this time out!

Look outside at the raincoats coming, say Oh )

Coming up tomorrow...best of 2009! :)
jon_chaisson: (Tunage)
So I'm listening to Live 105's Top 105 of the year, and it's an interesting mix. Unfortunately I missed the first twenty or so songs--I think they started at around 10am, around the time the morning show normally ends--but I can deal. No, really! ;)

The amusing thing is that about half the playlist is packed with songs I've heard of, but I don't remember them ever playing the songs, at least when I listened to the station. Then again, this is a station that tends to play Rage Against the Machine, the Chili Peppers, Sublime and that one MGMT song (the one I'm ambivalent about) every hour on the hour. Once I started paying attention to them, I always thought that the voting on these sorts of countdowns wasn't really rigged, but was more along the lines of the top 20 having a jillion votes each but everything else only getting less than 20 votes. So basically, a top twenty with the rest of the countdown as filler to make the numbers add up to the station's frequency. ;)

More on End-of-Year countdowns soon...I gotta get back to work! :p
jon_chaisson: (Tunage)
...a link via [livejournal.com profile] enjoydivision to stereogum's 2008 music forecast:

http://stereogum.com/archives/stereogums-2008-album-forecast_007552.html

Sadly no Poe listed yet, but there is a new Breeders listed in there... ;)

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