Cut from the Team - Top Records of the Last 7 Years

Here's the almost made it but not quite on the Top 100 Albums of the Last 7 Years. What started as a huge list of albums, I had to narrow down to just over 200. Then I had to make very, very tough decisions on cuts. These were the hundred or so albums that almost made the list.

Handsome Boy Modeling School	White People
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness	Fear is on our Side
Kanye West	Late Registration
Air	Talkie Walkie
Amy Winehouse	Back to Black
And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead	Worlds Apart
Apples in Stereo	New Magnetic Wonder
Arcade Fire	Neon Bible
Arctic Monkeys	Whatever People Say I Am
Asobi Seksu	Citrus
Autolux	Future Perfect
Bang Gang	Something Wrong
Battles	Mirrored
Besnard Lakes	Besnard Lakes are the Dark
Blonde Redhead	Misery is a Butterfly
Blood Brothers	Crimes
British Sea Power	The Decline of the British Sea Power
Buck 65	This Right Here is Buck 65
Calexico	Garden Ruin
Coheed & Cambria	Second Stage Turbine Blade
Cold War Kids	Up in Rags
Cut Chemist	Litmus Test
Danger Doom	The Mouse & The Mask
Delgados	Universal Audio
Depeche Mode	Playing the Angel
Digitalism	Idealism
Dinosaur Jr	Beyond
Drive by Truckers	Dirty South
Elliott Smith	From a Basement on the Hill
Emiliana Torrini	Fisherman's Woman
The Faint	Wet From Birth
Faithless	No Roots
Feist	The Reminder
Flaming Lips	At War with the Mystics
Franz Ferdinand	You Could Have it So much Better
Frou Frou	Details
Fujiya & Miyagi	Transparent Things
Futureheads	Futureheads
Ghostland Observatory	delete.delete.ilikemeat
Ghostland Observatory	Paparazzi Lighting
Girl Talk	Night Ripper
Gnarls Barkley	St. Elsewhere
Gorillaz	Demon Days
Gotan Project	Lunatico
Graham Coxon	Love Travels At Illegal Speeds
Headlights	Some Racing, Some Stopping
Helio Sequence	Young Effectuals
Hope of the States	The Lost Riots
Hot Chip	Made in the Dark
Idiot Pilot	Strange We Should Meet Here
Interpol	Antics
IQU	Sun Q
Iron & Wine	The Shepards Wife
Junior Senior	Hey Hey My My Yo Yo
Keane	Hopes and Fears
Kenny Chesney	No Shirts No Shoes No Problem
The Killers	Hot Fuss
KJ Sawka	Synchronized Decompression
Love as Laughter	Laughter's Fifth
Low	The Great Destroyer
Lupe Fiasco	Food & Liquor
MIA	Kala
M83	Before the Dawn Heals Us
M83	Dead Cities
Mars Volta	De-Loused in the Comatorium
Maximo Park	A Certain Trigger
MGMT	Oracular Spectacular
Michelle Branch	Hotel Paper
Modest Mouse	We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Mogwai	Mr Beast
Mono in VCF	Mono in VCF
Muse	Black Holes and Relevations
My Morning Jacket	It Still Moves
My Morning Jacket	Z
N.E.R.D.	In Search Of…
New Pornographers	Twin Cinema
The Pale	Gravity Gets Things Done
Peter Bjorn and John	Falling Out
A Place to Bury Strangers	A Place to Bury Strangers
Polyphonic Spree	Together We're Heavy
Portishead	Third
The Rapture	Pieces of the People We Love
Rihanna	Good Girl Gone Bad
Rogue Wave	Out of th Shadow
The Roots	Game Theory
The Roots	The Tipping Point
Sage Francis	Personal Journal
Sarah Mclachlan	Afterglow
Secret Machines	Now Here is Nowhere
Sigur Ros	()
Snow Patrol	Songs for Polar Bears
Something Corporate	Leaving Through the Window
Sondre Lerche	Two Way Monologues
Sparta	Porcelain
Spoon	Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Stars	Set Yourself on Fire
Starting Line	Say It If You Mean It
Streets	Original Pirate Material
Sufjan Stevens	Seven Swans
Sufjan Stevens	Greetings from Michigan
System of a Down	Hypnotize
Taking Back Sunday	Tell All Your Friends
Thievery Corporation	The Richest Man in Babylon
Thievery Corporation	Radio Retaliation
Tool	10000 Days
TV on the Radio	Return to Cookie Mountain
VHS or Beta	Night on Fire

Anthony's Top Albums of 2008

I'm going to be honest, I am very out of touch with the latest and greatest music. Most of 2008 for me was listening to my favorite records of years past and catching up on music of the past couple of years more than listening to the newest thing out there. I think there's reason for that; I think that this year's crop of music is a bit lacking compared to other years. With that said, here's my short list of my favorite records of the year... only Top 10 this year... instead of my normal 25 to 50 records of the year.

#10  Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride

solid indie rock album from John Darnielle and company. it's amazing that this band has so many albums... 

#9 The Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping

another good low key indie album... check it out!

#8 Portishead - Third

a bit disappointing for me as this was a very long anticipated third album from one of my most favorite groups... but it does show that even after an 11 year hiatus, they still can make high caliber music

#7 The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me

this one really grew on me. another huge favorite band of mine, the notwist, come back with an anticipated return following a semi-disappointing 12 record which followed their masterpiece, Neon Golden. Anyway, this record is solid.

#6 Hot Chip - Made in the Dark

British dance group Hot Chip return with another fun dance album that'll get you "ready for the floor."

#5 Mono in VCF - Mono in VCF

Tacoma, WA band Mono in VCF's moniker sounds a lot like VHS or Beta but that's about the only thing they share musically. This band produces some extroardinarily epic music backed by Bond-like vocals from Kim Miller.

#4 Ladytron - Velocifero

One of my premiere indie electro-rock bands and while this isn't any step forward from their previous album, Witching Hour, being on the same level of quality isn't a bad thing.

#3 TV on the Radio - Dear Science

This NYC band continues to improve with every album. Their style has refined quite a bit and each one of their records has its own flavor. This one might be the most accessible of them all.

#2 The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust

This might be a questionable high ranking album for many, but I just love this Danish band's total self-admitted rip off of Jesus & Mary Chain / Sonic Youth / Velvet Underground. While they share so much of their success and musical direction to those great bands, they do have their own unique character and I just love the simple, poppy, yet melodramatic and engaging sound of each and every one of the songs on this album.

#1 The Drive-By Truckers - Brighter than Creation's Dark

Here's my surprise pick. A southern country rock gem from Georgia's Drive-By Truckers. This band has consistently produced good to great records, and they continue that with this album, which I think explores a bit more and has so many different sounds to it that it's comparable to a You Forgot it in People/Broken Social Scene type album, where no song sounds the same, and there's something for everyone. That is, of course, if you can tolerate the deep southern accents of the 3 vocalists on this record.

the sort of real #1 by technicality --- Radiohead - In Rainbows

This was released with no label on the interwebs in October of 2007, however Radiohead released the official CD-format of this album on January 1st of 2008. Whatever the case, this album is fantastic and another worthy record for the greatest band on Earth.

Music Television

All I have to say is... the best music tv channel is Palladia. There's a ton of great live concerts and all in High Def. It's crazy to think its also owned by MTV because... well... they actually play music!

That's all. Check out that channel if you have it. :D