Favorite 2008 Discoveries

[Kyle]

discoveries:
Grand National http://tinyurl.com/7coxlx
Sun Kil Moon http://tinyurl.com/9jtgup
Stars http://tinyurl.com/7bbe4h
Jem http://tinyurl.com/9zgue9

re-discovery:
Linton Kwesi Johnson http://tinyurl.com/76p26z

cheers,
#!/ben

Jem does a killer version of "Maybe I'm Amazed." My band covered her cover.

[reverber]

Elbow.
Had never heard of them until this year when a friend played "Seldom Seen Kid" for me. I now own all of their albums and am hunting down b-sides, compilations, etc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL4mywCOJXA


Cody

[86atc250r]

I've discovered a ton of new (to me) music I really like since purchasing my first "slim device" and especially in 2008 when I got a few more units and really started using them.

In no particular order (mostly from Radio Paradise & a Pandora station I created), with so much good stuff to discover on the internet I almost never listen to my local library..

Elbow from the above post is one

God is an Astronaut
Morcheeba
Neko Case
Thievery Corporation
Zero 7
Azam Ali (and Niyaz)
Massive Attack & Tricky
Tom Waits (some of his stuff - some is a bit off for my tastes)
Amon Tobin
Calexico

More I'm not currently thinking of. I can listen to RP or Pandora for hours at a time....

[bhaagensen]

Like others I could go on about this, but just of the top of my head... well I filtered some of the very good albums/artists already mentioned as some are already repeated several times.

The Gaslight Anthem (Classic Rock)
Okkervil River (Indie Pop/Rock)
Marnie Stern (Math-rock)
Conor Oberst (Indie Pop)
Loudon Wainwright III (Folk)
Fela Kuti (Hard to say... afro/jazz???)
Shakira (Latin Pop)

I think I'll stop here.