Best Ofs - Music

Well its that time of year again, time to reflect on the year gone by....its been kind of a weird week. I had a Prairie Fire shot for the first time at a drunken work xmas party on a Thursday night. I went to see the newly renovated Art Gallery of Ontario which was pretty disappointing actually. I saw a kinda pointless documentary at the usually very reliable Doc Soup. I got my lunch DUMPED on me today by my boss...it was an accident but it was pretty darn shocking and my top, scarf and jeans are covered in tomato sauce.

And of course the best news of all news, the greatest band like ever, fronted by my NUMBER 1 man, Damon Albarn, BLUR is having a 'reunion' concert, the first time the 4 of them have been together since 2000, in Hyde Park in London, UK. Well I got an email with a special code to pre-purchase tickets...the tickets on sale Wednesday morning at 4am Toronto time. And I thought to myself, hey self, 2008 has been horrible, you have an opportunity to start making 2009 the best year ever, just wake up at 3:55am, buy some tickets, and worry about the details later. So, set the alarm, could hardly sleep, got up at 3:55am, logged into ticketmaster.co.uk and GOT 3 TICKETS TO SEE BLUR IN HYDE PARK on July 3rd!! How about THAT!

With this weird mix of new and old, good and bad, I thought, let's get started on my best of lists for this horrible 2008. And I thought, its been pretty hard thinking of good movies, so I'm putting that on hold and starting with the list of best music from 2008...and there is TONS of that!

Best new Bands
Vampire Weekend
Pete and The Pirates
Santogold
Bishop Allen
The Last Shadow Puppets
The Ting Tings
Lykke Li
Black Kids
The Kills
Cut Copy
Late of the Pier

Best Albums
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Off With Their Heads - Kaiser Chiefs
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
We Started Nothing - The Ting Tings
Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs
Youth Novels - Lykke Li
The Odd Couple - Gnarls Barkley
Midnight Boom - The Kills
Little Death - Pete and the Pirates
Konk - the Kooks
In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy
Santogold - Santogold

Best Songs
SWAY - The Kooks
Electric Feel - MGMT
Kids - MGMT
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
I'm Good, I'm Gone- Lykke Li
Breakin Up- Lykke Li
I'm not Gonna Teach your Boyfriend how to Dance - Black Kids
Run- Gnarls Barkley
Salute your Solution - The Raconteurs
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
My Delirium - Ladyhawke
--Pains me to say this but--The Shock of Lighting- Oasis
Love is Noise - The Verve
Wire to Wire - Razorlight
Shut Up and Let Me Go - the Ting Tings
Great DJ - the Ting Tings
Shape of My Heart - Noah and the Whale
Strange Overtones - David Byrne and Brian Eno
Look at Me (When I Rock Wichoo) - Black Kids
Tape Song- The Kills
Last Day of Magic- The Kills
Lucid Dreams- Franz Ferdinand
Never Miss a Beat - Kaiser Chiefs
Ragged Wood - Fleet Foxes
L.E.S. Artistes- Santogold (I like Say Aha better, but no video!
A-Punk - Vampire Weekend (but really the WHOLE album!)
The Age of the Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets (best video for a song this year!)
Chasing Pavements - Adele
Always Where I Need to Be - The Kooks
Oh! Vanity - The Charlatans
Good Days, Bad Days - Kaiser Chiefs
One Day Like This - Elbow
House of Cards - Radiohead
Lights and Music - Cut Copy
Hearts on Fire - Cut Copy
Talons - Bloc Party
Spit at Stars - Jack Penate
Little Bit of Feel Good - Jamie Liddell
Mr Understanding - Pete and the Pirates
Middle Management - Bishop Allen