Time to wrap up the year so here are my various Top Ten favourites in music for 2008.
Top Ten Favourite New Releases:
1- Quest For Fire - Quest For Fire
2- The Age of The Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
3- Skeleton - Abe Vigoda
4- In the Future - Black Mountain
5- The Bake Sale - Cool Kids
6- At Mount Zoomer - Wolf Parade
7- Volume 1 - She & Him
8- Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
9- AIDS Wolf - Cities Of Glass
10- Third - Portishead
Top Ten Favourite Reissues/Remasters
1- Cold Fact - Rodriguez
2- Jesus Of Cool - Nick Lowe
3- Are You Serious? - Van Duren
4- Fathoms Deep - Linda Lewis
5- Searching For The Dolphins - Al Wilson
6- The Truth - D. R. Hooker
7- Ersen - Ersen
8- A Gathering Of Promises - The Bubble Puppy
9- My Griffin Is Gone - Hoyt Axton
10- Fraser & Debolt - Fraser & Debolt
Top Ten Favourite Various Artists Compilations
1- Disco Not Disco: Post Punk, Electro & Leftfield Disco Classics 1974-1986
2- The Rubble Collection: Volumes 1-10
3- Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic, Afro-Rock and Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria
4- Well Hung: Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary, Vol. 1
5- Take Me To The River: A Southern Soul Story 1961-1977
6- Carolina Funk: First In Funk 1968-1977
7- Mighty Super Funk: Rare 45s And Undiscovered Masters 1967-1978
8- African Scream Contest: Raw And Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin and Togo 1970s
9- Blame It On The Dogg: The Swamp Dogg Anthology 1968-1978
10- Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-1979
Top Ten Favourite Record Labels
1- Rev-Ola
2- Kent Soul
3- Dusty Groove
4- Sundazed
5- Secretly Canadian
6- Finders Keepers
7- Jazzman
8- Soundway
9- Drag City
10- Merge
Top Ten Favourite Songs
1- A Milli - Lil Wayne
2- Aly, Walk With Me - The Raveonettes
3- Womanizer - Britney Spears
4- Pow Pow - Gatineau
5- Cliche Hot - Radio Radio
6- Im Now - Mudhoney
7- Leh Jani - Omar Souleyman
8- Tes Cliches Declenches - Pas Chic Chic
9- Sugarman - Rodriguez
10- Seeing Hands - Dengue Fever
Top Ten Favourite Concerts
1- Wolf Parade @ Metropolis
2- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @ Metropolis
3- Quest For Fire and Mudhoney @ Sala Rossa
4- Black Mountain @ Le National
5- The Hold Steady and The Drive-by Truckers @ the Phoenix (Toronto)
6- Abe Vigoda (opening for No Age) @ Sala Rossa
7- King Khan and the Shrines @ Sala Rossa
8- MV & EE with The Golden Road @ Casa Del Popolo
9- Boris @ Sala Rossa
10- TV On The Radio and Vivian Girls @ Metropolis
11- Honourable mention goes to Gilberto Gil who did three songs after a speech for the Brazilian government
That's it, see you all next year?
Top Ten Favourite New Releases:
1- Quest For Fire - Quest For Fire
2- The Age of The Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
3- Skeleton - Abe Vigoda
4- In the Future - Black Mountain
5- The Bake Sale - Cool Kids
6- At Mount Zoomer - Wolf Parade
7- Volume 1 - She & Him
8- Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
9- AIDS Wolf - Cities Of Glass
10- Third - Portishead
Top Ten Favourite Reissues/Remasters
1- Cold Fact - Rodriguez
2- Jesus Of Cool - Nick Lowe
3- Are You Serious? - Van Duren
4- Fathoms Deep - Linda Lewis
5- Searching For The Dolphins - Al Wilson
6- The Truth - D. R. Hooker
7- Ersen - Ersen
8- A Gathering Of Promises - The Bubble Puppy
9- My Griffin Is Gone - Hoyt Axton
10- Fraser & Debolt - Fraser & Debolt
Top Ten Favourite Various Artists Compilations
1- Disco Not Disco: Post Punk, Electro & Leftfield Disco Classics 1974-1986
2- The Rubble Collection: Volumes 1-10
3- Nigeria Rock Special: Psychedelic, Afro-Rock and Fuzz Funk in 1970s Nigeria
4- Well Hung: Funk-Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary, Vol. 1
5- Take Me To The River: A Southern Soul Story 1961-1977
6- Carolina Funk: First In Funk 1968-1977
7- Mighty Super Funk: Rare 45s And Undiscovered Masters 1967-1978
8- African Scream Contest: Raw And Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin and Togo 1970s
9- Blame It On The Dogg: The Swamp Dogg Anthology 1968-1978
10- Nigeria Disco Funk Special: The Sound Of The Underground Lagos Dancefloor 1974-1979
Top Ten Favourite Record Labels
1- Rev-Ola
2- Kent Soul
3- Dusty Groove
4- Sundazed
5- Secretly Canadian
6- Finders Keepers
7- Jazzman
8- Soundway
9- Drag City
10- Merge
Top Ten Favourite Songs
1- A Milli - Lil Wayne
2- Aly, Walk With Me - The Raveonettes
3- Womanizer - Britney Spears
4- Pow Pow - Gatineau
5- Cliche Hot - Radio Radio
6- Im Now - Mudhoney
7- Leh Jani - Omar Souleyman
8- Tes Cliches Declenches - Pas Chic Chic
9- Sugarman - Rodriguez
10- Seeing Hands - Dengue Fever
Top Ten Favourite Concerts
1- Wolf Parade @ Metropolis
2- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds @ Metropolis
3- Quest For Fire and Mudhoney @ Sala Rossa
4- Black Mountain @ Le National
5- The Hold Steady and The Drive-by Truckers @ the Phoenix (Toronto)
6- Abe Vigoda (opening for No Age) @ Sala Rossa
7- King Khan and the Shrines @ Sala Rossa
8- MV & EE with The Golden Road @ Casa Del Popolo
9- Boris @ Sala Rossa
10- TV On The Radio and Vivian Girls @ Metropolis
11- Honourable mention goes to Gilberto Gil who did three songs after a speech for the Brazilian government
That's it, see you all next year?