And so it begins: the first ten of the 2008 My Favorite 100 Albums list. Something like 17 new entries, and nothing’s in the same spot as it was two years ago. Very exciting.
I rather like a lot of the videos I found for these albums (all 100). So be sure to check them out, if you can.
(also, for those paying close attention, note that this is a different 100-91 than was posted on Friday afternoon. things changed.)
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100 |
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Polvo |
1992 |
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Cor-Crane Secret |
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Polvo makes dissonant math rock as catchy as can be hoped for. |
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99 |
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Stevie Ray Vaughan |
1983 |
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Texas Flood |
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Ricocheting around the blues box. |
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98 |
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The Flaming Lips |
1995 |
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Clouds Taste Metallic |
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Playful and raucous psychedelic garage grunge with lyrics from outer space. |
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97 |
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Black Sabbath |
1971 |
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Paranoid |
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Ozzy is the laziest lyricist ever. But everything else is fun. |
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96 |
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Rolling Stones |
1969 |
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Let It Bleed |
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There will always be space in my in-dash CD-player, when you need a little coke and sympathy. |
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95 |
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Peter Gabriel |
1986 |
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So |
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Such pretty songs. Lift your boombox high and proud. |
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94 |
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Belly |
1993 |
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Star |
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Remember this, the next time you feed a tree. |
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93 |
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Rogue Wave |
2005 |
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Out Of The Shadow |
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Neo-folkish lo-fi psyechedelic pop. Sewn up, perfect. |
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92 |
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Scud Mountain Boys |
1996 |
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Massachusets |
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Country-flavored indie-pop melancholy. |
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91 |
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REM |
1982 |
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Chronic Town |
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1,000,000; Stumble; Wolves, Lower; Gardening At Night; Carnival of Sorts |
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For extra geekiness, here’s a little histogram that tracks the number of records on this list, so far, by the year they were released (in five-year intervals):
