21 Dec 2008

My 2008 Wrap Up



So it's that time again when I gather all this year's releases in one basket, look at them closely and fish out those which impressed me and touched me the most. What has derived from this exciting act is the list that looks as follows :

MUSIC-WISE : My TOP 5 Albums of the Year :




STEVEN WILSON - Insurgentes



LUNATIC SOUL - Lunatic Soul



COLDPLAY - Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends + Prospekt's March



COMA - Hipertrofia



NO-MAN - Schoolyard Ghosts


Other great releases include:

ALANIS MORISSETTE - Flavors of Entanglement
AYREON - 01011001
BASS COMMUNION - Pacific Codex
BASS COMMUNION - Haze Shrapnel (With Freiband)
BASS COMMUNION - Molotov And Haze
BASS COMMUNION - Live in Mexico City (With PIG)
BEARDFISH - Sleeping In Traffic PART TWO
BUCKETHEAD - Albino Slug
BUCKETHEAD - Enter The Chicken
BUCKETHEAD - From the Coop
BUCKETHEAD, TRAVIS DICKERSON & BRIAN - The Dragons of Eden
COLDPLAY - Prospekt's March
DAVID BYRNE - Big Love: Hymnal
DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
EDDIE VEDDER - Into The WIld
EPHRAT - No One's Words
DAVID GILMOUR - Live in Gdańsk
GUNS N ROSES - Chinese Democracy
KAYO DOT - Blue Lambency Downward
MADONNA - Hard Candy
MARILLION - Happiness Is the Road
MESHUGGAH - obZen
METALLICA - Death Magnetic
NEAL MORSE - Lifeline
NINE INCH NAILS - Ghosts I-IV
NINE INCH NAILS - The Slip
OMAR RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ - Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fungus
OMAR RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ & JEREMY MICHAEL WARD - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward
OPETH - Watershed
PETER GABRIEL & FRIENDS - Big Blue Ball
PORCUPINE TREE - We Lost The Skyline
PRAXIS - Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)
QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS - The Cosmos Rocks
RADIOHEAD - in Rainbows
REM - Accelerate
RINGO STARR - Liverpool 8
SHERYL CROW - Detours
SIGUR ROS - Me? su? í eyrum vi? spilum endalaust
THE MARS VOLTA - The Bedlam in Goliath
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Across The Universe Soundtrack


MOVIE-WISE MY TOP 6 LISTS :



Across The Universe



Into The Wild




THE DARK KNIGHT




ELEGY



EDEN LAKE




CLOVERFIELD

Plus of course :

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
88 Minutes
Blindness
Burn After Reading
Changeling
Pathology
SAW V
The Bank Job
The Midnight Meat Train
The Oxford Murders
The Strangers
Transsiberian
WALL-E
Wanted


As I was spending way too much time in front of the telly I also have some favorites as far as TV Shows go. Some mindblowing and truly addictive shows are out there such as :





BROTHERHOOD




THE SHIELD


FAMILY GUY





TRUE BLOOD

OK, that's it I gotta get more life next year.

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