Tristan's Tunes of 2008 - The Final Line up

Well then, here it is my "Top Tunes of 2008" now I wouldn't be as bold or brave to rank the songs in any kind of preferential order or say which ones are better than others and determine which album is the best one released this year. However I just like to make a "mix CD" with all the tracks that mean something to me and happened to have been released this year and bought by me! So this means that for each of the tracks in the line up I've gone out and bought the proper CD, as you should all do too!


Anyway, enough with the jibbering , if you want to get your hands on a copy of my fave tracks of 2008 then all you need to do is download it from here:


http://www.megaupload.com/?d=S4DQODUB


in that neatly packaged and yet big (143MB) file you'll find the following tunes, along with Youtube clips of each of them so you can see what you're getting:


1 – my morning Jacket – Evil urges


2 – The Hold Steady – Sequestered in Memphis


3 – Fight Like apes – Lend me your face



4 – TV on the radio – Dancing Choose


5 – Vampire Weekend – A-punk


6 – Friendly Fires – Jump into the pool


7 – Cut Copy – Feel the Love


8 – MGMT – Electric Feel
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UtUI5MC9tVM

9 – Wax Stag – Short Road



10 – Hot Chip – Wrestlers


11 – James Yuill – No Pins Allowed


12 – Late of the Pier - Space and the woods



13 – Elbow – Grounds for divorce


14 – Santogold – Lights out


15 – Jamie Lidell – Little bit of feel good


16 – Wood Pigeon – Death By Ninja


17 – Bon Iver – Lump Sum


18 – Fleet Foxes – Oliver james


19 – Noah and the whale - 5 years time


20 – I’m From Barcelona – Paper Planes


21 – Glasvegas – Daddy’s Gones


22 – Los Campesinos – Sweet Dreams Sweet cheeks


So there you have it a selection of songs that have made 2008 such a great year for me generally and musically! So come on, at least give them a listen, you know you want to!

So the big question is, what am I missing????? come on, let me know!!

New York I Love You But You're Freaking Kermit Out!

Kermit singing "New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" by LCD Soundsystem. There are rumors that James Murphy had a hand in this video, if you'll forgive the pun (watch it until the end is all I will say)

Tristan's Tunes of 2008 - Close but no cigar!

Well, well, well. It's nearly the end of the year and like every single magazine and website out there I've been drawing together my favorite tracks of 2008. As with each poll there are those entries you wish you could have put in there but for certain reasons you couldn't. For me these are mostly acts that I knew about but didn't really get into until it was too late, like a couple of the tracks that I'll show you below that were actually released in 2007 but I just didn't get round to checking them out until 2008!
The other reason for them not making it into my tunes of the year is because I didn't get round to buying the cd in the end for one reason or another, let me assure you there were more than a couple purchased so I had to draw the line somewhere.

So then into the list of almost made it's, what better way to kick it off than with M.I.A and Paper Planes:



Did you see the Beastie Boys?? They're in there honest! If the chorus doesn't stick in your head for a couple of hours then there is something really quite wrong with you!

Next up is one of my bands of the last 12 months, Yeasayer, who I've had the luck to see live twice. they do a great line in 21st century twisted electronic folk music with awesome harmonies, weird tag to give a band I know but it'll make sense when you hit that play button. I've given you a link to a special performance they did for a French blog called LaBlogotheque and takes in 2 of their songs called "No Need To worry" and "Red Cave". Honestly, the French Metro has never sounded so good:



The end of the song gets me everytime and I just can't help but smile! Soppy I know but I don't care.

And just for good measure I'm going to give you a couple more clips of them, the first if taken from their performance on Later... In this one Vocalist Chris Keating really reminds me of David Byrne in his movements and performance during the song, plus you gotta love the drummer's tarzan outfit! :)




And then lastly is their other performance for LaBlogotheque:



It's well worth checking out the other post's LaBlogotheque have made as they always do amazing little candid live performance. I really love the ones they didn with Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki and I'm From Barcelona!!

Speaking of Architecture in Helsinki, they have just released a new single which I'm really loving at the moment, but alas it's only available in Australia at the moment and you can't get it over here until 2009! Check out, That Beep, it's got bouncy summer fun written all over it:




Finally, for now we have the supreme M83, who usually release an amazing line in etheral shimmering space pop, but this time for their album Saturdays=Youth they're turned to 80's pop for their inspiration and it's paid off, especially when you listen to songs like Graveyard Girl:



Is it just me of does that video reek of John Hughes and especially the Breakfast club, Ally Sheedy's character springs to mind straight away, only with more graveyards, booze and giant floating dogs heads in space!

anyway that's enough of that I shall return at some point with a full run down of my tracks of the year and let you know why i chose them!

So until then people: