Jason Sigal thinks 2008 was Great (mp3s)

Remember 2008? I know I do. Here are the ALBUMS that have stood the test of time for me:
*Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker (Gulcher) // listen to Space Forklift mp3

*Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You (Domino)  // listen to "Orphaned" in real audio

*Lazy Magnet - He Sought For That Magic By Which All The Glory And Mystic Chivalry Were Made To Shine - or - Is Music Even Good? (Corleone Records) (album title of the year?)  // listen to "Masters of Science Fiction" mp3

*Mahjongg - Kontpabb (K Records)  //  listen to "Tell The Police the Truth" mp3

*Brooklyn Academy - Bored of Education (Sowl Productions)  //  listen to "Black Out" in real audio

*Human Eye - Fragments Of The Universe Nurse (Hook Or Crook)  // listen to "Slop Culture" in real audio

*Bird Show - Bird Show (Kranky)  // listen to "BRDDRMS" in real audio

*Lucky Dragons - Dream Island Laughing Language (Marriage Records)  // listen to "Morning Ritual" mp3

*Tommy Jay's Tall Tales of Trauma (Columbus Discount) reissue  //  listen to "I Was There" mp3

*Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika) reissue  //  listen to "This Time Dad You're Wrong" in real audio

My two favorite SONGS of the year:
A) Catatonic Youth - "Control My Gun" from The World's Lousy With Ideas vol.5 (Almost Ready Records) [real audio]
B) Mahjongg - Free Grooverider from the Selector Dub Narcotic 7'' [real audio]

                                                                                                            ...much more nostalgia after the jump

more great songs from 2008:
# La Otracina - Fight For the Night from The Risk of Gravitation CD-R on Colour Sounds [real audio]
# Leaders - Rub You Wrong from the 7'' on Point Wrex  [real audio]
# El Jesus de Magico - Unclean Ghost from 7'' on Columbus Discount Records [real audio]
# Pumice - Heavy Punter from the album Quo on Soft Abuse [real audio]
# The Lindsay* - Band Meeting (mp3) from cd-r demo
# White Drugs - Kleaning Kru (actually from 2007) [real audio]
# Pierced Arrows - Guns of Thunder (mp3)
# Maga Bo feat Xuman - Fire [video]
# The Fall - 50 Year Old Man [real audio]
# Vapid - Do The Earthquake 7'' (Nominal) [real audio]
# Mi Ami - African Rhythms (White Denim) [real audio]
# Pink Reason - Borrowed Time 7'' (Fashionable Idiots) [real audio]

More Great Albums from 2008
Larkin Grimm - Parplar (Young God)
USA Is A Monster - Space Programs (Load Records)
Landed - How Little Will It Take? (Load Records 2xCD) [listen to Times I Despise mp3]
Harry Pussy (Load Records)
A.H. Kraken (In The Red)
Gary War - New Raytheonport LP (Shdwply) [listen to Healthy Living in real audio]
Cause Co-Motion CD (Slumberland)
Oxford Collapse - Bits (Sub Pop) and The Hann-Byrd EP (Comedy Minus One) and [a prolific year!] and Spike of Bensonhurst/Bloopers 7'' (Flameshovel)
Jean Grae - Jeanius
0th - Tammy (Resipiscent)
Black Pus - Black Pus IV: All Aboard the Magic Pus (self released cd-r) [listen to Earth Ain't Enuff (mp3)]
Pumice - Quo (Soft Abuse)
Brown Wing Overdrive - ESP (Tzadik)
Lukas Ligeti - African Machinery (Tzadik) [listen]
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type) [listen to Fishing Bird (Empty Jutted in the Evening Breeze) in Real Audio]
Barnacled - Charles (ESP-Disk) [listen to their live set on WFMU! (blog post w/ mp3s)]
Preggy Peggy and the Lazy Babymakers cd-r Gang Rape of a Short-Bus Rider  (Chocolate Monk) [listen to The Mysticism of My Fucking Sound in Real Audio]
Spires That In The Sunset Rise - Curse The Traced Bird (Secret Eye)
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent (Sanctuary)
Maja S.K. Ratkje - River Mouth Echoes (Tzadik) [listen to "Wintergarden" in Real Audio]
Nothing People - Annonymous (S-S Records)
Nobunny - Love Visions
Sic Alps - US EZ (Siltbreeze)
Thursar - Journe to Jotunheim (Hekaloth) [listen to Hrorek Battles His Friend in real audio]
Kodac - Tibet Tapes
Home Blitz - Weird Wings 12'' (Parts Unknown) (EP of the year!)

COMPILATIONS
Nominal Records' Emergency Room 12'' compilation + photo booklet documenting Vancouver music and venue
XXperiments compilation LP  - Die Stassi (with US Girls, Zola Jesus, Kilynn from Little Claw, Cro Magnon)
AA Records Compilation LP II (AA records master from lathes, whatever that means!)

15 Killer REISSUE-type things (not new music)
Tommy Jay's Tall Tales of Trauma (Columbus Discount) [listen to Old Hemmingway mp3]
Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika)
Ersen - Ersen (Finders Keepers) [listen in real audio]
The Nerves - One Way Ticket (Alive)
Cold Sun - Dark Shadows (World In Sound)
Jean-Pierre Massiera - Psychoses Freakoid (1963-1978) and Psychoses Discoid (Mucho Gusto): Listen to "Bizarre" real audio]
Franco - Francophonic (Stern's Music) [listen to Tika Kondima Na Zolo in real audio]
Hybrid Kids (Cherry Red)
Them - Them (Fallout) [listen to Lonely Weekends in Real Audio]
Wooden Shjips - Vol1 (Holy Mountain)
The Nixe - The Nixe (Polly Maggoo)
Jason Willett - The Sounds of Megaphone Unlimited (MT6 Records) [listen to Song Recorded Immediately Upon Return from X-Ray Eyes tour '96 mp3]
Living Is Hard: West African Music In Britain, 1927-1929 (Honest Jons) listen to Ben Simmons!! What is he doing??
Nigerian Disco Funk Special (Soundway)
1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground (Sublime Frequencies)

I'd like to hear more of these albums
Tropa Macaca LP (Qbico)
Mattress - Heavy Duty (Reluctant)
Andrew Lilles and Daniel Menche - The Progeny of Flies  (Beta-Lactum Ring) [listen to Pupa in Real Audio (14-minutes)]
Give Me Love: Songs of the Brokenhearted, Baghdad 1925-1929 (Honest Jons)
Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace

Great 7''s
Om 7'' (Sub Pop Singles Club)
Titmachine 7'' (S-S)
Billy Bao - Accumulation 7'' -- 10 1-minute variations
Mahjongg 7'' (K Records)
Leaders - Rub You Wrong 7''
El Jesus De Magico Unclean Ghost 7'' (Columbus Discount Records Singles Club)
World's Lousy w/ Ideas series
FNU Ronnies - Meat 7'' (Richie Records)
Catatonic Youth - Piss Scene 7'' (HoZac)

5 Great Live Shows
*Brown Wing Overdrive at Kurt Gottschalk's WFMU-curated Issue Project Room show
*Sightings opening for the Dead C at the Bowery Ballroom
*Car Commercials and Pumice at Cake Shop. Car Commercials' 6-minute set prompted a great conversation on what is the punk
*WFMU Free Music Series at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park
*ATP at Kutsher's Country Club -- no bed bugs!

BEST LIVE SETS AT WFMU (links go to playlist or blog post w/ mp3s)
From my show:
*Barnacled
*Lazy Magnet
*Mudboy and Pumice
*Ryan Jewell
*Chandeliers
*Kurt Vile - I Wanted Everything (mp3) live on Talk's Cheap (full set)
*Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - "Calm Me Down" (mp3) orig the Human Expression, full set

MANY OTHER AWESOME LIVE @ WFMU SESSIONS:
Big Dipper | Cause Co-Motion | Cryptacize | Larkin Grimm  | Mary Halvorson Trio | Indian Jewelry  | Individuals | Killdozer  | Lo Moda  | Los Llamarada | Lucky Dragons | Mors Ontologica (twice!) | Nalle  | Negative Approach  | Nightingales  | The Pets | So Cow  | The Urinals | US Girls | Vivian Girls

my 2008 retrospective radio show (playlist and archive)

Click here for more WFMU 2008 best of lists

Comments

[BrianTurner]

Thurrrrsarrrrrrr

[owen]

kurt vile wins 2008, agreed.

[POSTY McPOSTERTON]

Great voluminous list! Great to see Brown Wing Overdrive in there. It barely missed making my list. I do dig it, though. Reminds me of maybe a less-metal Fantomas or something.

~Dan
http://jazzsick.wordpress.com/

[martinf]

Lucky Dragons "Morning Ritual" doesn't work...

[Jason Sigal]

fix'd, thanks for the heads-up Martin sorry bout that!