Who Do Ya Love?

Top Albums for 1st Half of 2008*

(in NO particular order – b/c I generally love all of these)

Beck – Modern Guilt
Vampire Weekend – (s/t)
Fleet Foxes – (s/t)
Black Keys – Attack and Release
The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
The Virgins – (s/t)
The Black Ghosts – (s/t)
Foals – Antidotes
Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
(oops! forgot Girl Talk - Feed the Animals)

*that I own – there is plenty great stuff out there that I still have not gotten around to buying….I’ll catch up by the end of the year maybe

Favorite Songs

(Chronological/Autobiographical for all the Rob Gordon/Fleming, Nick Hornby, John Cusack and High Fidelity kids out there)

Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma
Beck – Inferno
MGMT – Electric Feel
The Black Hollies – Paisley Pattern Ground
Jack Penate – Second, Minute, or Hour
Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin – Glue Girls
Frightened Rabbit – Head Rolls Off
Tapes n Tapes – Hang Them All
The Kooks – Always Where I Need to Be
The Selmanaires – Broken Mirrors in the Mud
She & Him – Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
The Black Ghosts – Anyway You Choose to Give It
We Are Scientists – Lethal Enforcer
Death Cab For Cutie – No Sunlight
The Ting Tings – Great DJ
Foals – Cassius
Black Keys – Strange Times
Jukebox the Ghosts – Hold It In
Phantom Planet – Do the Panic
The Raconteurs – Many Shades of Black
Fleet Foxes – Your Protector
M83 – Graveyard Girl
The Kills – Getting Down
French Kicks – Abandon
The Dodos - Fools
Cut Copy – Lights and Music
The Futureheads – The Beginning of the Twist
My Morning Jacket – Evil Uges & I’m Amazed
Hercules & Love Affair – Hercules Theme
N*E*R*D – Everybody Nose
The Last Shadow Puppets – Standing Next to Me
Mezzanine Owls – Snow Globe
Nine Inch Nails – Discipline
The Hold Steady – Sequestered in Memphis
Beck – Gamma Ray
Dr. Dog – The Old Days
Mates of State – My Only Offer
Chester French – She Loves Everybody
Coldplay – Viva La Vida
The Virgins – Rich Girls
Albert Hammond Jr – Bargain of a Century
The Dutchess and the Duke – Reservoir Park
Throw Me the Statue – Lolita
Blitzen Trapper – Furr
Oxford Collapse – The Birthday Wars
The Walkmen – The Blue Route
Kings of Leon – Crawl

What did I miss? Plenty. I’ve been slacking….let me know what you loved?

Here are the songs I could find on Imeem (doesn't always have em all....)


Here are some videos of songs that Imeem didn't have the song alone


Here is one of my favs of the favs - Chester French (who I tipped earlier this year on here and their song Jimmy Choos - this song is better and makes me eager for their album which may never come out......pleased to know that Connor Farley is also a fan along with Pharell Williams who signed them to his label Star Trak with a Vulcan Nerve Pinch)

did I mention that these 2 are Harvard boys who recorded this in the basement studio at the school radio station....preppy!