David from Suicide Squeeze each year posts top 10s from people all over the world. This year, he asked me to contribute mine. I am sure I missed something, but I put together 10 faves of 2008 as well as some highlights from the year. I highly recommend you all check out the top tens as lots of interesting people posted there including folks from Minus the Bear, These Arms Are Snakes, Russian Circles and more. You can find the lists here.
And in case you don’t feel like going through all of the lists, here is my list. Please feel free to post your tops of the year in the comments of this post or on our message board. If we weren’t so busy, I would love to do something like this for our site.
Here are my top 10 releases we didn’t put
1. Austin Lucas “At War With Freak Folks”
2. The Gaslight Anthem “the 59′ Sound”
3. Portugal the Man “Censored Colors”
4. Justin Townes Earle “The Good Life”
5. Mike Hale “Broken With No Hope”
6. Dillinger Four “Civil War’
7. Dr. Dog “Fate”
8. Matt Pryor “Confidence Man”
9. Able Baker Fox “Voices”
10. Human Highway “Moody Motorcycle”
And I didn’t just put Human Highway because this is going on the Suicide Squeeze site. Other notables include:
Favorite Song: Bon Iver “Skinny Love”
Favorite Book: “I Just Want My Pants Back” by David Rosen
Best Shows; “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”, “Metalocalypse”, “Dexter”
Favorite Movie: Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Best Moments: Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground album release show in Seattle, Going to the Fest and having a fucking blast, and having our best year ever after 13 rocky years. I feel really lucky to still be playing this game.
1. Chuck Ragan, Tim Barry,Ben Nichols-”Revival Road”
2. Austin Lucas-”At war with freak folks”
3. Emil Bulls-”The Black Path”
4. Chuck Ragan/Nagel-”Snapshot”
5. Mike Hale-”Broken with no Hope”
6. Tim Barry-”Manchester”
7. Hot Water Music-”Till the Wheels fall off”
8. Kevin Seconds-”Rise up, Isomaniacs”
9. Deichkind-”Arbeit nervt”
10. Pascal Briggs-”Not the one”
Favorite Song: Austin Lucas-”Pigeon Father”
Favorite Book: John Boyne “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”
Favorite Movie: “Into the Wild”
1. Chuck Ragan, Tim Barry, Ben Nichols-”Revival Road”
2. Austin Lucas-”At war with freak folk”
3. Emil Bulls-”The Black Path”
4. Chuck Ragan/ Nagel-”Snapshot”
5. Kevin Seconds-”Rise up, Isomaniacs!”
6. Mike Hale- “Broken with No Hope”
7. Tim Barry-”Manchester”
8. Hot Water Music-”Till the Wheels fall off”
9. Deichkind- “Arbeit nervt”
10. Beatsteaks-”Mit Kanonen auf Spatzen”