dylantheairplane
10.01.09 | if this was facebook I would "like" this |
theacademy
10.01.09 | what an awful list no offense 3 and 7 are the only CD's i wouldnt be embarassed to own... |
ImNotATaco
10.01.09 | 8 13 and 14 are nice. |
dylantheairplane
10.01.09 | I enjoyed most of the stuff on here. (hence my "like")
But def. not the best of 08 |
theacademy
10.01.09 | urgh im REALLY embarassed i hated modern guild i meant to say 8 and 3
DEAR SCIENCE = 2008 album of the year |
qwe3
10.01.09 | pretty bad list but 8 is insanely good |
dylantheairplane
10.01.09 | Modern Guilty is nnnniiice |
iarescientists
10.01.09 | pretty homo |
BallsToTheWall
10.01.09 | Only thing I heard here was 3 which was pretty cool. |
YouAreMySilence
10.01.09 | 5, 6, 10, and 15 are sweet albums.
None of them are close to the best of the year though. |
klap
10.01.09 | list is genuine, awesome, though some are a bit ! (15 lol) |
tom79
10.01.09 | might have to agree with the whole bad list thing but that okkervil river album rules |
Curse.
10.01.09 | 8, 10, 13, and 14 are good. 12 is fucking beyond awful. |
hurleyman420
10.01.09 | Like it says in the title, these are my favorites from '08, not the best. I know that they aren't the most critically acclaimed albums of the year, but they are the ones that gave me the most enjoyment. |
theacademy
10.01.09 | you actually just have bad taste...it's alright, man. You should try to branch out to more indie stuff. Check out Hollywood Undead's "Swan Songs"...that came out in 2008 ithink |
Piglet
10.01.09 | needs moar opeth!!
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BSX
10.01.09 | Kudos for #1 |
Knott-
10.01.09 | theacademy are you a troll, or just an imbecile? |
qwe3
10.01.09 | ^ i've been trying to figure that out for awhile. definitely not an idiot, but atrocious taste in music |
SharkEthic
10.01.09 | @theacademy
Giving Limp Bizkit a 5 and The Beatles a 1 speaks worlds of how much you don't have the right to jugde "bad taste" |
hurleyman420
10.01.09 | You honestly have to be a troll, there's no way that you can say that Hollywood Undead is decent. |
theacademy
10.01.09 | dudes, Hollywood Undead are plegendary
also the Beatles are to me what, apparently, Guns N Roses, Kiss, and AC/DC are to the general sputnik population...really, offensively forced onto listeners by fans...forgive me if I don't drink the cool aid
p.s. if u people are so insecure that you need to keep throwing around that 'Troll' then yea, i guess you can call me it.
p.p.s. is 15 Hoobastank or are they just ripping off their retRDED infinity symbol |
qwe3
10.01.09 | the problem with your statement is that the beatles were infinitely better than the bands you just listed academy |
theacademy
10.01.09 | lol |
qwe3
10.01.09 | sorry but its true. there IS a reason they top every major publication's BEST BANDS OF ALL TIME list. of course theyre hugely overrated, but you can't compare them to shit like GNR or ACDC |
theacademy
10.01.09 | then why are AC/DC and GNR almost always just a few spots below them lol
there then MUST BE a reason they are included in every major publication's BEST BANDS OF ALL TIME list... |
qwe3
10.01.09 | they're not though |
theacademy
10.01.09 | i figured. i just dont think its entirely consistent with the way some people talk about other bands...
revolver is an ok album, definitely their best imo... |
Yotimi
10.01.09 | Wait, Academy you actually like 8 (a good album)? I hate AC/DC and Guns 'N Roses but Beatles are essential. Btw, it's not like the infinity symbol is patented and noone can use it but Hoobastank. |
theacademy
10.01.09 | 8 is one of my favorite bands and albums, easily. |
Inveigh
10.01.09 | I think ACDC, GnR AND the Beatles are insanely overrated. ACDC is barely even respectable music really, but Appetite isn't bad for what it is.
It's not that I don't think the Beatles aren't a classic or legendary band, because they are. I just don't understand why people give so much praise to what was basically a fucking BOY BAND with instruments. Obviously, starting with Sgt. Peppers they turned into something more than that, but it doesn't excuse all the screaming, giggling girls that appeared everywhere they went. Are the Backstreet Boys going to be on everyone's top "bands" of all time list in 30 years?
But, on the subject of this list, I'm a big fan of 8, 10 and 14 and 1, 2, 3 and 15 aren't too bad. Not sure if any other than 8, 10 and 14 would be on my top 15 for 2008 list, but those 3 definitely would. |
qwe3
10.01.09 | academy, i mean't they're not always a few places below the beatles.
even then, that's not the point. The Beatles put out around 5 classic, innovative pop/rock albums. you can't belittle that. |
Yotimi
10.01.09 | Awesome, I like Cookie Mountain a little more though. TBH, I don't really like much on this list except 13. |
qwe3
10.01.09 | "I just don't understand why people give so much praise to what was basically a fucking BOY BAND with instruments."
you cannot talk about music ever again. |
Inveigh
10.01.09 | wait, were the Beatles not the first boy band? did i miss something? isn't that basically where the term came from? Otherwise they would call them boy "groups" because the Beatles were the only ones to play their own instruments and write their own songs.. |
theacademy
10.01.09 | @qwe3 they're on enough lists to serve as a logical comparison...
just because you read a million magazines that claim appetite as the best album of all time do you suddenly love it? of course not. I'm also not belittling what the Beatles have done. I couldnt pretend to even think thats possible...I'm just on the record as saying I don't like it lol
@Yotimi LUUUUUUVE COOKIE MOUNTAIN |
Yotimi
10.01.09 | Using your logic Inveigh, every band that consists of only males is a boy band. |
theacademy
10.01.09 | lol Inveigh also has made an interesting yet dramatic parallel between boy bands and the beatles...but also remember that apparently, Justin Timberflake is cool now... |
theacademy
10.01.09 | BSB didn't play instruments (i dont think) ... boy bands like we think of it is just really white boys singing R&B
the boy bands that resemble the beatles are more along the lines of the all american rejects, fall out boy, panic! at the disco...
also i'm not intending to incite anything. Im just naming commercially successful, inoffensive, mainstream pop-rock. |
Poet
10.01.09 | *looks at today's date*
yep, still 2008... |
Inveigh
10.01.09 | wait, where in my logic did you pull that assumption Yotimi?
My logic is that every time I see old footage of the Beatles getting off a plane or entering a concert, there are about 10,000 girls screaming their heads off like it was a Backstreet Boys music video. Also because according to people I've talked to that were growing up in the 1960s, only girls and maybe a few guys that weren't really "rockers" liked the Beatles back then. The Rolling Stones were the way to go.
@theacademy: actually, your Justin Timberlake comparison is pretty accurate. He was in a shitty ass boy band and since he started writing his own lyrics has gained widespread respect (from the likes of the Rolling Stone Magazines and what-not).
But I still don't see where anyone could pull that "every band made up of males is a boy band" from anything I said. My band was made up of all males, and I never saw one girl covering her mouth and screaming at one of our concerts (unless she was genuinely mortified rather than excited).
Think of them as kind of like the Jonas Brothers, haha. Man, people are gonna hate me for this. But sorry, it's how I feel. |
Inveigh
10.01.09 | also, not that in my original comment I said a "boy band with instruments" |
hurleyman420
10.01.09 | I can understand the logic behind the Beatles being a boy band, but only when it comes to the girls going apeshit every time they see them. When it comes to AC/DC, the reason that I like them is because they've been doing jock rock for 30 some years and they do it well, much better than any of the newer bands, such as Hoobastank and Nickelback. |
Inveigh
10.01.09 | ACDC>>>>>Hoobastank/Nickelback |
SharkEthic
10.01.09 | 8 was hugely disappointing to me...Cookie Mountain is fucking brilliant, and Young Liars is pretty much the best EP ever! |
klap
10.01.09 | inveigh, what kind of logic are you using? it's not the beatles' fault they were wildly popular with girls - it's not like that DEFINED their music and made them who they are. boy bands as we think of them (like BSB, n sync, o-town, whatever) are COMMERCIAL products that 1) rarely write their own music 2) are part of a massive marketing campaign that focuses on their good looks rather than their basic music and 3) blow dick. by your logic every band that has screaming females at their concert is a boy band. in that case, you must only like bands where people stand around and awkwardly shuffle their feet while trying hard to avoid eye contact with the opposite sex. i don't understand how you can continue to correlate popularity with FEMALES with musical quality. have you seen video of a rolling stones concert from the '60s? those dudes were fucking drowning in women! if you want the prototypical boy band, check out the fucking Monkees |
Inveigh
10.01.09 | klap4musik, those are all very valid points. Note that I did say the Beatles were a classic and legendary band, and that they did write their own songs while playing their own instruments. But the Beatles were also marketed to females based on sex appeal, that's what made them a boy band. They used sex to sell records to the opposite gender.
The Monkees are the prototypical boy band from that era, very true. But the Monkees were created to capitalize on the popularity of the Beatles (y'know, good looking guys in suits playing "safe" pop-rock for the masses?)
I'm not saying the Beatles suck, but I'm definitely not the first to call them a boy band. I thought that was pretty common knowledge to anyone who has ever watched a documentary on them. |
klap
10.01.09 | ok, i'll roll with this "boy band" designation, as long as it's not referring to the modern type of boy band and it's only used to describe them up to 1966 |
Inveigh
10.01.09 | Oh for sure, anything they did after '66 was not what I'm referring to. And no, not a boy band in the modern sense at all. |
Kashmir09
10.13.09 | I highly disagree with almost every comment on this idiotic thread. The Beatles are certainly not a boy band, how friggen ridiculous. If that's the case, every band who ever made pop rock and consisted of men would be considered a boy band. Fuck the haters telling you that you have bad taste, not an amazing list imo, but I definitely like most of the stuff here. Well done my friend |
