See you on the other side of the year - Episode 21 the Best of 2008

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As this strange year of 2008 creeps to a close, I leave you with one final podcast for the year. For the twenty-first episode I’ll be playing 21 songs from the 21 best albums of 2008, starting at number 21 and ending at numero uno. There’s something creepy about being a slave to music, you learn this innate need to constantly create lists, and this list is every music junkies high.

The podcast is the longest yet in VOE history, and it was a damn hard one to make. Just to cut down to 21 albums became a wrenching decision. Then the rules I set forth had to be followed to the best of my ability:

• The album had to be an LP not EP
• The album had to be released in 2008 (self release does not count if released 2 months prior to 2008)
• No matter what no Deerhoof was allowed to the party. I know I’m supposed to like “Offend Maggie”, but it only offended me. This almost made the cut a few times because I felt like it was supposed to, but lets face it, this album is a puddle of horse piss.
• Once an album is committed to number in Photoshop it was then unable to move in or out of the list.
• If you release your album in December it's a bad move, you’ll never make any lists, especially mine.
• It doesn’t matter if it didn’t dawn on me that Black Mountain actually released “Into The Future” in January 2008, all other numbers were already committed to Photoshop. Seriously though, this would have EASILY been top three for me, if not better. Love it. Buy It. Live it. But yeah...I forgot about it until it was too late, shit.

The best part of these lists is that you as the listener are never going to completely agree, but you may be surprised, or best yet, you may hear something new. Either way, it should be plenty fun.

So cheers to 2008, cheers to President Elect Obama, cheers to you, & cheers to yours.

You do have to listen to the podcast to see who made the grade, but to see who missed the cut, look no further then below.

Honorable Mentions:

• The National - The Virginia E.P.
• The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
• Sun Kill Moon - April
• TV On The Radio - Dear Science
• Nada Surf - Lucky
• Clark - Turning Dragon
•  Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creations Dark
• No Age - Nouns
• Iron Elbows - Words