Top 2008 albums/movies/books/gigs/etc

Albums (not in order of preference):

. Boris - Smile
. Bloodbath - Unblessing the Purity EP
. Ladytron - Velocifero
. Umbra Nihil - The Borderland Rituals
. Kazuki Tomokawa - Blue Water, Red Water
. Electric Wizard/Reverend Bizarre Split
. Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
. Opeth - Watershed
. Aarni - Tohcoth
. Sunn O))) - Dømkirke
. Ufomammut - Idolum
. Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9
. MSTRKRFT - Bounce EP
. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

I'll post the other lists later.

Albums

• Superfly - Superfly (seriously)
  
• B'z - Action (I really should get their Best Ultimate Treasure though)

Movies

• The Dark Knight

No books or gigs on my part....

I didn't partake of many albums this year, nor movies, so my list is relatively easy.

Album: Guns n' Roses, Chinese Democracy
Runners up:
MGMT, Oracular Spectacular
Metallica, Death Magnetic
Sigur Ros, Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

Movie: WALL-E
Runners up:
Dark Knight
Iron Man
... there were a lot of other shitty movies I saw that aren't worth mentioning here.

Stickied this thread, and added Music as a new category to the Movies & Books subsection.

I'm a bit allergic to pixar and other cgi animated movies, but Wall-E definitely intrigued me. I haven't seen it yet, but i have to check it out soon.

Everyone feel free to post the disappointments of the year too.

Album: Death Magnetic
Movie: The Dark Knight
Gig: The Who w/ Inward Eye Metallica (sorry Who =)

Album: Alkaline Trio - "Agony and Irony"
Movie: The Dark Knight
Book: (no prize awarded)
Gig: Modest Mouse with Love as Laughter and Man Man. (seriously, Man Man is fucking crazy live)

Album: Death Magnetic (I've yet to pick up Chinese Democracy)
Movies: The Dark Knight, Iron Man, WALL-E (you've got good taste, Wally!)
Book: Berserk Vol. 33

Album: Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell (honestly listen to the classics so it's hard to know this.)

Movies: Dark Knight seems to win, honestly. Iron Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Pineapple Express... haven't seen the new Bond so who knows, and we'll see about The Spirit and Valkyrie on Christmas day, eh?

Book: Sadly my college books take up all that time, and no, a renewed Politics book will not win this. Ever.

edit: forgot best gig..

Gig: The Unseen, by far. Getting to take jager bombs with the lead singer after the show = unforgettable. Oh, and the music was good too. =)

Griffith said:

Movie: The Devils

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Best Ken Russel movie. But not from 2008.

Deci said:

Album: Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell (honestly listen to the classics so it's hard to know this.)

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There's an album I should listen to more. I just felt like I reached my saturation point with Bad Religion.

NightCrawler said:

Best Ken Russel movie. But not from 2008.

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True enough, changed. I wanted to get the name out there though, since The Dark Knight doesn't need any more publicity. =)

I guess I'm screwed on books too, I can't think of anything I've read that was first published this year other than textbooks.

I saw a few gigs in 08.. my favorite would probably be Amon Amarth & Ensiferum.