Time to look back
Here at BMT we don’t only release a lot of rad stuff, we also enjoy a lot of other releases. In fact, we don’t listen to our own releases at all, because we have so many other things to listen to.
Anyway, here are the lists, brought to you by our staff. Enjoy, discuss, but most important: let us know what your own lists are!
Roos:
Top 10 albums 2008
1. Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!! – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
2. We Were Enchanted – Roommate
3. Dolores – Bohren und der Gore Club
4. Rook – Shearwater
5. Ten Stones – Wovenhand
6. Mt. Ventoux – Roy Santiago
7. A Thousand Shark’s Teeth – My Brightest Diamond
8. Black Sea – Fennesz
9. Caught in the Trees – Damien Jurado
10. April – Sun Kil Moon
Best show 2008
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – HMH, 28 april 2008
Best show 2008
WW III Rocketeer – The Very Sexuals
Top 3 not 2008
1. For Emma, Forever Ago – Bon Iver
2. Neon Golden – The Notwist
3. Hunky Dory – David Bowie
Best film 2008
No Country for Old Man
Best Book 2008
Warme gevoelens en koude rillingen. Over musea en odes aan de saamhorigheid. (”Warm feelings and cold shivers”, a book about museums and other stuff)
Ad de Jong
Best meal 2008
Some vegetarian piece of art with ravioli, carrot, feta, made bu mom and the local grocery.
Best colour 2008
Pink; the colour of the logo of our school.
Melvin -lists are gay, or are they- Wevers:
TOP 15 albums 2008 (random order)
1. Deerhunter – Microcastle
2. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
3. Beach House – Devotion
4. The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
5. Paavoharju – Laulu Laakson Kukista
6. The Gaslight Anthem – The ‘59 Sound
7. Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
8. The Grand Archives – The Grand Archives
9. Extra Life – Secular Works
10. Chairlift – Does You Inspire You
11. Atlas Sound – Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
12. Horse Feathers – House With No Home
13. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
14. Al Green – Lay it Down
15. Lau Nau – Nukkuu
compilations/reissues 2008
Well Hung – 20 Funk Rock Eruptions From Beneath Communist Hungary, Vol.1
African Scream Contest: Raw & Psychedelic Afro Sounds From Benin & Togo 70s
Last Kind Words (1926-1953)
Victrola Favorites – Artifacts From Bygone Days
Eccentric Soul: Twinight’s Lunar Rotation
Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label
GAS – Nah und Fern
Arthur Russell – Love Is Overtaking Me
To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story
best film 2008:
There Will Be Blood
best book 2008:
Philip Roth – Indignation
Bart:
top 15 best albums 2008 (in no order):
0. Guns n’ Roses – Chinese democracy
1. Scarlett Johansson – Everywhere I lay my head
2. Roommate – We were enchanted
3. Holy Sons – Decline of the West
4. Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker – Fantasma Parastasie
5. Fennesz – Black Sea
6. Grouper – Dragging a dead dear up a hill
7. Kathleen Edwards – Asking for flowers
8. Benoit Pioulard – Tamper
9. Scott Tuma – Not for nobody
10. Sleeping States – There the open spaces
11. Sun Kil Moon – April
12. Zomes – Zomes
13. Chad Vangaalen – Soft airplane
14. Mount Eerie – Black wooden ceiling opening
15. Shearwater – Rook
best non 2008:
Gouweouwe: Scott Walker – The Drift, Scott Walker – Scott 4, Roy Orbison – The soul of rock n’ roll
best film 2008: Ghost town
best book 2008: Antjie Krog – Country of my skull
best show 2008: Nick Cave
best song (non) 2008: Paul McCartney – Hope of Deliverance
best meal 2008: Zuurkool
best colour 2008: Wit
Martijn:
Top 10 albums 2008:
1. Portishead – Third (Island)
2. Arthur Russell – Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika/Rough Trade)
3. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
4. The Tallis Scholars – Josquin – Missa Sine nomine & Missa Ad fugam (Gimell)
5. TV On The Radio – Dear Science (4AD)
6. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing (ATP)
7. Kim Doo Soo – 10 Days Butterfly (PSF)
8. El Guincho – Alegranza (Mistletone)
9. Girls in Hawaii – Plan Your Escape (62TV)
10. Ry Cooder – I, Flathead (Nonesuch)
Bubbling under:
Brethren Of The Free Spirit – All Things are from Him, through Him and in Him
Beach House – Devotion
V/A – Filles Fragiles
Black Mountain – In The Future
E.S.T. – Leucocyte
Esther Venrooy & Heleen Van Haegenborgh – Mock Interiors
Frederic Rzewski / Ralph van Raat – The People United Will Never Be Defeated!
Mark Olson & Gary Louris – Ready For The Flood
Mógil – Ró
Extra Life – Secular Works
Best song 2008:
Arthur Russell – Close My Eyes (actually a 1974-song, but now finally on CD)
Best show 2008:
Mount Eerie @ Theater Kikker
Top 3 non 2008:
> Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden (I had the rest of their albums but this one finally on vinyl)
> Barbara – La chanteuse de minuit (fantastic chansonnier, from the late 50s)
> The fact that Mark Olson en Gary Louris are finally back after 13 years! Just when I am right in the middle of my Jayhawks-revival!
Best film 2008:
The Band’s Visit, Eran Kolirin
Best book 2008:
The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
Beste meal 2008:
White fish, South-Corean style, made by my girlfriend!
best colour 2008:
Purple.
Roy:
Top albums 2008:
01. Beach House-Devotion
02. The Shortwave Set-Replica Sun Machine
03. V.O.-Obstacles
04. Deerhunter-Microcastle/Weird Era Continued
05. Of Montreal-Skeletal Lamping
06. The Magnetic Fields-Distortion
07. Anthony & The Johnsons-Another World EP
08. Inara George & Van Dyke Parks-An Invitation
09. Department of Eagles-In Ear Park
10. The Ruby Suns-Sea Lion
Best song 2008:
The Spinto Band-Pumpkin’s And Paisley
Beste show 2008:
Flaming Lips, Haldern
best album non 2008:
1. John Parish-Once upon a little time
2. Big Star-1# Album
3. Os Mutantes-Os Mutantes
4. Isaac Hayes-Hot Buttered Soul
best film 2008:
I’m Not There
