Rev Jules posted on December 14, 2008 19:00
Title: Black Ice
Artist: AC/DC
Essential Track: Rock 'n' Roll Train
Title: The Seldom Seen Kid
Artist: Elbow
Essential Track: Grounds for Divorce
Title: Viva la Vida
Artist: Coldplay
Essential Track: Strawberry Swing
Title: Pacific Ocean Blue
Artist: Dennis Wilson
Essential Track: River Song
Title: Oracular Spectacular
Artist: MGMT
Essential Track: Kids
Title: Everything that Happens will Happen Today
Artist: David Byrne / Brian Eno
Essential Track: One Fine Day
In other business...
Music Highlight of 2008: Glen Hansard's Oscar Win for 'Falling Slowly'
Music Lowlight of 2008 (tie): X Factor releasing 'Hallelujah' / Sigur Ros' latest album
Music TV Highlight of 2008 #1: FUR TV
Music TV Highlight of 2008 #2: Jay - Z at Glastonbury
Music TV Lowlight of 2008 #1: Zhang Yimou's choice and use of music in the opening & closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics.
Music Surprise of 2008 #1: 'Chinese Democracy' wasn't the dog everyone predicted it would be
Music Surprise of 2008 #2: Fleet Foxes are not as good as everybody claims
The Sound Waves 'Rumour of the Year': That surfers either want to buy or have the cash to buy holiday homes, as if !
The Sound Waves 'Culture Trend of the Year': i-Pod Envy 3.0, if you don't have an i-Phone, you are nobody, apparently.
The Sound Waves 'Mystery of 2008'; How did McDonalds know we were going back to 1981 in their adverts?
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