Good morning (I am awake this morning) dear world, and welcome to another extravagant list-tacular event, here on Looks Like Coffee, Tastes Like Juice. The sentence that precedes this one is actually a lie, because this will be Looks Like Coffee, Tastes Like Juice's first New Years in existence! I know, I was excited as well. So, without further adieu, I present to you ... lists.
Top 10 Best Albums of 2008 (Plus Top 10 Runner-ups)
1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Graham Wright - The Lakes of Alberta
3. Okkervil River - The Stand-Ins
4. Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
7. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
9. TV On the Radio - Dear Science
10. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter 3
Honorable Mention: The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash, Beach House - Devotion, Sun Kil Moon - April, Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs, Chad VanGaalen – Soft Airplane)
Runner-Ups
11. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
12. Deerhunter - Microcastles
13. Destroyer - Trouble In Dream
14. Marnie Stern - This Is It ... ect.
15. Women - Women
16. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
17. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
18. Times New Viking - Rip It Off
19. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
20. No Age - Nouns
Top 10 Best Tracks of 2008 (Plus Top 10 Runner-ups)
1. Graham Wright - When I Get There
2. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
3. Fleet Foxes - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
4. Okkervil River - Singer/Songwriter
5. Department of Eagles - No One Does It Like You
6. Chad VanGaalen - Willow Tree
7. Bon Iver - Skinny Love
8. Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
10. TV On the Radio - Dancing Choose
Runner-Ups
11. Sigur Ros - Illgresi
12. Feminine Effects - Of Montreal
13. The War On Drugs - A Needle In Your Eye Number 16
14. Tokyo Police Club - Your English Is Good
15. Raphael Saadiq - Keep Marchin'
16. No Age - Teen Creeps
17. The Mountain Goats and Kaki King - Thank You Mario But Our Princess Is In Another Castle
18. The Magnetic Fields - California Girls
19. Destroyer - My Favorite Year
20. British Sea Power - Waving Flags
Top 5 Best Movies of 2008
1. My Winnipeg - Guy Maddin
2. The Dark Knight - Christopher Nolan
3. Slumdog Millionaire - Danny Boyle
4. The Wackness - Jonathan Levine
5. There Will Be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
Top 5 Best Books That I've Read in 2008 (not written in 2008)
1. 33 1/3 Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Kim Cooper
2. Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins
3. The People Look Like Flowers At Last - Charles Bukowski
4. Oil! - Upton Sinclair
5. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Enjoy the rest of 2008, and I'll see you again tomorrow for the New Years Eve post!
