Unfinished Projects

I wasn’t planning to come up with any year-end music lists, because I don’t feel like I really managed to listen to much new music this year. But an email from Joaquin sucked me into it, so I did compile my favorite 2008 releases. Here they are, in no particular order…

• No Age — Nouns (Sub Pop)
• The Lines — Memory Span (Acute)
• Marnie Stern — This Is It… (Kill Rock Stars)
• Crystal Castles — Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
• The Mae Shi — HLLLYH (Team Shi / Moshi Moshi)
• Mika Miko — 666 ep (Post Present Medium)
• Fucked Up — Year of the Pig (What’s Your Rupture?)
• Party Fowl — Party Fowl 7″ (Post Present Medium)
• Various Artists — Messthetics 104 and 105 (Hyped2Death)
• Zach Hill — Astrological Straights (Ipecac)

For some less subjective lists, here are my most-listened artists and tracks of the last year, according to last.fm (only counting things that I played on my computer or iPod, which then got logged, so it doesn’t include any vinyl plays… also, these clearly aren’t all 2008 releases)

Most-played artists
9. Lansing-Dreiden (154)
9. Mika Miko (154)
8. Liliput (163)
7. M.O.T.O. (165)
6. Pinback (172)
5. Shocking Pinks (175)
4. Crystal Castles (195)
3. The Lines (221)
2. Young Marble Giants (264)
1. No Age (273)

Most-played tracks
6. Mika Miko — Take It Serious (14)
6. Crystal Castles — Black Panther (14)
6. The Lines — Nerve Pylon (14)
6. The Lines — Not Through Windows (14)
6. M.O.T.O. — Primeval (14)
6. The Lines — Dance For A Drop Of Blood (14)
6. The Lines — On The Air (14)
5. Nouvelle Vague — This Is Not A Love Song (15)
4. Young Marble Giants — Searching For Mr. Right (16)
2. Young Marble Giants — N.I.T.A. (18)
2. No Age — Ripped Knees (18)
1. Young Marble Giants — Brand-New-Life (20)

Ok, that closes up a pretty slow year for posting. Maybe I’ll pick it up in 2009!