Best of ´08 – music

So here´s the list of lists, part 1 category music.

I´m not a friend of a rankings, but of good old ´best-of´lists like in Nick Hornby´s book “High Fidelity”. Actually it´s a good method to fall asleep thinking about new top 5 categories (especially for insomniac guys like me)

This year there are a lot of categories with different numbers of artists named. So less sleep means more categories

Here we go…this is a personal list of music favourites this year. Primarily but not only pretty new stuff.

Tracks of ´08

• In Trains (Angst is not a weltanschauung/CD 2008) by B. Fleischmann
• Free the Dogs (Loving Custodians/CD 2007) by Mauracher
• Sunday ( Colour The Small One/2004) by SIA
• Leucocyte I-IV (Leucocyte /2008) by e.s.t.
• All Alright (Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust) by Sigur Ros
• If Only (Distance and Time  2007)by Fink

Best Album 2008

• Leucocyte by e.s.t.
• The Seldom Seen Kid by Elbow
  
• Angst is not a weltanschauung by B. Fleischmann
• Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust by Sigur Ros
• Loving Custodians by Mauracher
• Vantage Point by dEUs

Best Concerts 2008

• Sigur Ros @ Arena July
• Fink @ frannz Berlin October
• dEUs @ Arena Vienna October
• Fennesz & Stroenen @ Jazzfestival Saalfelden August
• Connie Vallon @ Porgy & Bess Vienna March

Personal “Torture Music” 2008

• I Kissed a Girl by Katie Perry – (approx. 10x in a row Saturdays and Sundays – thank you neighbor)
• All Summer Long by Kid Rock (all summer loooooooooooong)
• Last Christmas by Wham (it´s not my mistake that this song is played everywhere exactly the time these lists have to be written…)

Best Songs in Running Shoes  2008

• Wonderboy by Tenacious D.
  
• Winter (What We Never Were After All) by Múm
• Life in Technocolor ii (!) by Coldplay
• Mistaken for Strangers by The National
• I Will Possess Your Heart ( Narrow Stairs/CD 2008) by Death Cab for Cutie

Best “Help Me Falling Asleep Songs”  2008 (in a positive way)

• Moss Mountain Town by The Album Leaf (like in ´06 and ´07)
  
• All Alright by Sigur Ros
• Ajar by e.s.t.

Best “Hey nice shoes, wanna dance?” Song 2008

• Overpowered by Roisin Murphy
  
• Mr. Big Love by Didi Bruckmayr
  
• Slow by dEUs

Best “Happy Pepi” Song 2008 (no translation on dict.leo.org)

• How the Day Sounds by Greg Laswell
  
• One Day Like This by Elbow
  
• Inní mér syngur vitleysingur by Sigur Ros

Best “Wow! Never Heard Before – Artist” 2008

• Jerseyband – live @ Jazzfestival Saalfelden
• Martin Klein live @ VOTO 08 Die GRÜNEN/Klub Ost
  
• Efterklang live @ Arena February 08
• Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
  

Best “Still Quite on Top on Itunes Lists” in 2008

• Have You Seen Here by Cousteau
• Bad Timing by dEUs
• Here It Comes by Doves (new album April 09!!!)
• Fading maid Preludium by e.s.t.
• We Shall Overcome by Gustav
• Hijomalind by Sigur Ros
• Music by Mauracher featuring the unforgettable voice of Duncan Larkin

For all friends of lists like that have a look at Metacritics.com