Diario → My 2008 Moments

- Top 10 Artists

Vampire Weekend
Cut Copy
Animal Collective
Conor Oberst
Crystal Castles
TV on the Radio
Feist
Leonard Cohen
Portishead
Radiohead


- Top 10 Albums x2

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
Portishead - Third
Metronomy - Nights Out
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Morgan Geist - Double Night Time
The Dodos - Visiter
Lambchop - OH (Ohio)
Leila - Blood Looms And Blooms
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney - Smith and Blaney
Santogold - Santogold
The Sea and Cake - Car Alarm
Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who can See but Cannot Feel
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
David Holmes - The Holy Pictures
Jape - Ritual


- Top 5 Debuts

Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Santogold - Santogold
Late of the Pier - Black Fantasy Channel
The Little Ones - Morning Tide


- Top 5 Compilations

Junior Boys - Body Language Six
Cousin Cole & Pocketknife - Tambourine Dream
Nina Simone - To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story
Metro Area - Fabric 43
Apparat - Things To Be Frickled


- Top 15 Songs x2

The Magnetic Fields - California Girls
Crystal Castles - Vanished
Cut Copy - Far Away
Santogold - Say Aha
Metronomy - Heartbreaker
The Dodos - Fools
Animal Collective - Water Curses
Hot Chip - One Pure Thought
Vampire Weekend - A-Punk
Late of the Pier - The Bears are Coming
The Little Ones - Tangerine Visions
Leila - Little Acorns (with Khemahl & Thaon Richardson)
Absentee - Boy, Did She Teach You Nothing?
Hercules and Love Affair - Blind (feat. Antony Hegarty)
Herman Dune - My Home is Nowhere Without You
Portishead - The Rip
Atlas Sound - River Card
Buraka Som Sistema - Kalemba (Wegue Wegue) (feat. Pongo Love)
Friendly Fires - Paris
Barbara Morgensten - Come To Berlin (Telefon Tel Aviv Mix)
MGMT - Time to Pretend
Beck - Gamma Ray
Jape - I Was A Man
Black Affair - It's Real
The Black Ghosts - I Want Nothing
The Presets - My People
Bloc Party - Mercury
Bomb the Bass - Butterfingers (feat. Fujiya And Miyagi)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Old Panda Days
David Holmes - I Heard Wonders


- Top 5 Disappointments

The Black Ghosts - Black Ghost
Cansei de Ser Sexy - Donkey
MGMT Live
Whitey not releasing the album he promised in 2008
Madonna - Hard Candy (not even a good single in it)


- Top 5 Live Acts

The Magnetic Fields (Vicar Street, Dublin)
Vampire Weekend (Primavera Sound, Barcelona & The Ambassador, Dublin)
The Little Ones (Upstairs at Whelans)
Leila (Electric Picnic, Stradbally)
Cut Copy (Electric Picnic, Stradbally)


- Top 2 Festivals

Electric Picnic (Stradbally)
Primavera Sound (Barcelona)


- Top 5 Music Videos

Feist - I Feel It All




Late of the Pier - The Bears Are Coming




Björk - Wanderlust




The BPA [ft. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal]: "Toe Jam" [Keith Schofield]




Portishead - The Rip


- Top 5 Movies

Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
Burn After Reading (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen)
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)
In Bruges (Martin McDonagh)


- Most Admired Artist

Portishead: What a return!


- Most Detested Artist

I can't decide between Kings of Leon or The Killers. Hang on, I'll choose Coldplay and their line about ruling the world. How scary!


- Most Memorable Media Moment

Javier Bardem winning an Oscar


- Most Detested Media Moment

The new tax system in Ireland