2008- The Year in Review
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Album League Table
‘Initmacy’ 9.5
‘Chinese Democracy
‘Only By the Night’
‘Out of Control’ 9
‘Glasvegas’
‘Rock N Roll Jesus’
‘Everything is
Borrowed’
‘Day & Age’ 8.5
‘Death Magnetic’
Block,
‘The Block’
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Varied, daring and most importantly, a bloody great effort. ‘Intimacy’ pips ‘Day & Age’ due to its variety and for the fact that both bands are at the third album -
yet Bloc Party experimented and it paid off.
Single of the Year: Kleerup feat. Robyn, ‘With Every Heartbeat’
Usher feat. Young Jeezy: Love in This Club
Usher may have inspired half of R and B this year, but Kleerup’s engaging electronic beat takes the top prize with Robyn’s soothing vocals making it the comedown track of the year, which was always
going to win a 2008 single prize.
Festival of the Year: Glastonbury ‘08, Reading ‘08
As anyone who watched Jay-Z’s closing set and also The Verve’s ending set will know, Glasto had it all this year, which was just as well for
the thousands who had to watch the start of it in the rain.
Comeback of the Year: The Verve, New Kids on the Block
‘Forth’ was the album most music fans and especially Verve fans were certain would
never happen. But it was well worth the wait and this was well-supported with
adrenalin-fuelled shows including three festivals. The Verve are indeed back.
Worst Album of the Year: Coldplay, ‘Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends’, The Pussycat Dolls, ‘Doll Domination’
Never, ever, ever listen to what the NME tells you, ‘Viva La Vida’ was both Coldplay’s most daring record and most musically dire. Songs that were constructed with
egos almost as big as those who wrote them. Gone is the beautiful simplicity of
the like of
‘Shiver’ and the hair-raising anthems like ‘Square One’, substituted for meaningless guitar solos in baffling whirlwinds of
structureless, rudderless bile.
Essential Tracks of the Year:
Alanis Morrisette, ‘Citizen of the Planet’, Attic Lights, ‘Never Get Sick of the Sea’, Beyoncé, ‘Halo’, Bloc Party, ‘Flux’, Bomb the Bass, ‘Butterfingers’, Britney Spears, ‘Womanizer’, David Holmes, ‘I Heard Wonders’, Dido, ‘It Comes and It Goes’, Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome, ‘Dance Wiv Me’, Duffy, ‘Mercy’, Eric Prydz, ‘Pjanooo’, Estelle feat. Kanye West,
‘American Boy’, Flo-Rida feat. T-Pain, ‘Low’, Gabriella Climi, ‘Sweet About Me’, Girls Aloud, ‘Turn to Stone’, Glasvegas, ‘Stabbed’, Guns N’ Roses, ‘Sorry’, Ice Cube feat. Young Jeezy, ‘I Got My Locs On’, James Morrison feat. Nelly Furtado, ‘Broken Strings’, Kaiser Chiefs feat. Sway, ‘Half the Truth’, Kanye West, ‘Love Lockdown’, Keane, ‘You Haven’t Told Me Anything’, The Killers, ‘Spaceman’, Kings of Leon, ‘Use Somebody’, The Kooks, ‘Shine’, The Last Shadow Puppets, ‘The Age of the Understatement’, Levellers, ‘The Cholera Well’, Little Man Tate, ‘Hey Little Sweetie’, Metallica, ‘The Unforgiven III’, Morrissey, ‘All You Need is Me’, Ne-Yo, Miss Independent, NKOTB- Dirty Dancing, Nickelback, Something in Your Mouth, Oasis, ‘The Shock of the Lightning’, PCD, ‘When I Grow Up’, Sam Sparro, ‘Black and Gold’, Snow Patrol, ‘Lifeboats’, The Streets, ‘I Love You More (Than You Like Me)’, Sugababes, ‘You on a Good Day, The Ting Tings, ‘Shut Up and Let Me Go, The Verve, ‘Rather Be’, Will Young, ‘Grace’
1. Jonas Brothers,
‘A Little Longer’ 3
2. The Pussycat Dolls,
‘Doll Domination’ 4
3. The Cure,
‘4:13 Dream’ 5
= Kaiser Chiefs,
‘Off with Their Heads’
= Slipknot,
‘All Hope is Gone’
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