Comments on: Chromewaves' favourite albums of 2008

By: Best Music of 2008

Best Music of 2008 — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:56:26 +0000

[...] Chromewaves Best of 2008 Pitchfork Top 50 Albums of 2008 [...]

By: ChrisD

ChrisD — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:50:39 +0000

Loved the commemorative plates. I’d stay up late to watch the Home Shopping Network if these were on sale.

On a list related note, your list is the first other than my own that I’ve seen include the Rural Alberta Advantage (my #2). Absent from my list as well were Vampire Weekend and Fleet Foxes. Bon Iver split my 10th, and final, spot with Jay Reatard’s Matador Singles ’08, since one technically came out last year and the other wasn’t a proper album.

Liked your list though. Nice to see someone who clearly thinks for themselves!

By: Lars-Christian

Lars-Christian — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:52:06 +0000

One of the “best” (as in one of the ones -I- agree with most) list for 2008 I’ve seen so far, though I would have tried to find a spot for Bon Iver somewhere in there as well (if we’re counting it as a 2008 release).

By: ishmaeldaro

ishmaeldaro — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:35:26 +0000

Pretty good stuff. Chromewaves continues to rock all my motherlovin’ socks.
I couldn’t keep Bon Iver off my list though.

By: tk

tk — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:00:36 +0000

lots of men with facial hair

By: 2008 Favorites

2008 Favorites — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:56:23 +0000

Cool setup Frank. Here’s my faves.

1. Paul Westerberg < 49
2. Drive By Truckers < Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
3. Rivers Cuomo < Alone II
4. Circus Devils < Ataxia
5. Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron & Fred Squire < Lost Wisdom
6. Nine Inch Nails < Ghosts I – IV
7. Hayden < In Field & Town
8. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks < Real Emotional Trash
9. The Mars Volta < The Bedlam in Goliath
10. Marc Ford & The Neptune Blues Club

By: harry

harry — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:49:45 +0000

So glad to see Laura Marling on your list, i loved her album. Another of my favorites was Lightspeed Champion.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:22:14 +0000

Oh, thank gawd. I was beginning to think I was the only person in the world who wasn’t getting the whole Vampire Weekend thing.

By: Mark P

Mark P — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:36:46 +0000

So pleased to Shearwater on there; that was my favorite album of the year, and it has been getting largely ignored. Also a big fan of Sigur Ros and Okkervil River’s albums. Not such a huge fan of Frightened Rabbit. I like Midnight Organ Fight, but frankly found it predictable (soft…soft… oh here’s the build… back to soft…) and the pain a bit contrived. Then again, I totally was suckered by Bon Iver, so….

Give your picks, I imagine you’d like Breathe Owl Breathe — their 30-min EP made it on the lower half of my ten favorite albums — but it doesn’t look like they’ve been covered here.

By: heebiejeebie

heebiejeebie — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:44:31 +0000

This is the first list that I’ve seen in which I share nothing in common with.

Intrigue…

Frightened rabbit frightens me with their yelling and moaning