Music of 2008

It's been a good year for listening to new music.  I found I had purchased more music this year than a few previous years and am pretty happy with almost every choice made.  So here's a quick list of what I felt were some of the best choices of 2008.  Thank you Andy for all the helpful searches and exchanges and First Order Historians for their constant blogging.  Please note that some choices are not new releases in 2008 and just a new purchase within 2008.

Regrets of which I had few

1. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion 
2. (Most of the album) Thief - Sunchild
3. (Most of the album) West Indian Girl - S/T
4. Not finding a Faunts album for sale
5. My job for not allowing me go see more shows
6. Hella (The Ladies) on the wrong days
7. Having to say the band name Loose Fur
8. Not knowing more Scandinavian Languages
9. Still enjoying CAKE

Favorite Purchases of 2008

1. Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
2. Alaska in Winter - Dance Party in the Balkans
3. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
4. Anna Jarvinen - Jag Fick Feeling
5. The Besnard Lakes - S/T
6. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
7. The Clientele - God Save the Clientele
8. Costa Music - Lighter Subjects
9. David Byrne and Brian Eno - Everything that Happens will Happen Today
10. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
11. DeVotchKa - A Mad Faithful Telling
12. Dido - Safe Trip Home
13. Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini
14. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
15. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
16. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
17. Halou - Sawtooth EP
18. Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping
19. Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
20. The Innocence Mission - We Walked in Song
21. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
22. Johann Johannsson - Fordlandia
23. Longwave - Secrets are Sinister
24. Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
25. Mum - Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy
26. The National - The Virginia EP
27. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
28. No Kids - Come into My House
29. The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
30. The Postmarks - S/T
31. Ra Ra Riot - The Thumb Line
32. Ratatat - LP3
33. School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
34. The Sea and Cake - Car Alarm
35. Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
36. Sun Kil Moon - April
37. Tunng - Good Arrows
38. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
39. U.N.P.O.C. - Fifth Colum
40. The Weepies - Hideaway
41. West Indian Girl - 4th & Wall
42. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

Surprised to find something of age that should be purchased

1. Cocteau Twins
2. Julee Cruise
3. David Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
4. Bachman-Turner Overdrive for Karaoke 
5. Phil Collins - No Jacket Required for Karaoke
6. After careful combing through loads of his music Brian Eno
7. Blues Image