1 post tagged “new year 2008”

It's New Year's Eve! How are you celebrating tonight?

By posting up these lists! hahaha. I really have no life. 

Anyway. I can go on and on about 2008. But I'll just post up these four lists, then maybe say something at the end. How about that?

2008's albums:

Clearly shows how I am not part of the hipster gang whatsoever. Here are my favourites, in random order:

1. Rogue Squadron- I can has mixtapz? -_-
2. The Last Shadow Puppets- The Age of the Understatement
3. Portishead- Third
4. The Roots- Raising Down
5. Erykah Badu- New Amerykah Part One
6. Hujan- Hujan
7. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes
8. She & Him- Volume One
9. TV on the Radio- Dear Science
10. Oasis- Dig Out Your Soul
11. Estrella- Estrella
12. Sore- Ports of Lima
13. Naif- A Night at Schouwburg
14. Ludacris- Theater of the Mind
15. Gnarls Barkley- The Odd Couple
16. Coldplay- Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
17. Weezer- Red Album
18. Bloc Party- Intimacy
19. Flight of the Conchords- Flight of the Conchords

Should I, or shouldn't include...

• Solange- Sol-Angel and The Hadley St. Dreams
• Jazmine Sullivan- Fearless
• Bunkface- Lesson of the Season
• Everybody Loves Irene- On Second Thoughts, I Might Wanna Change Something
• Jenny Lewis- Acid Tongue

Released in 2008, but I haven't heard it properly yet (shame on me)

• Free Love- Feed us with your love
• Laila's Lounge- Laila's Lounge
• Efek Rumah Kaca- Kamar Gelap
• Guns N' Roses- Chinese Democracy
• Couple- Teenage Disc Fantastic
• Q-tip- The Renaissance
• Joe Flizzow- The President

Major Gigs/Concerts/Festival Attended (Top 9 is in order, the rest is not)

1. Sunburst Music Festival- Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club(Nevermind Incubus, say hello to George Clinton and The Roots)
2. Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival- Singapore (Awesome two day gathering of kick ass DJs)
3. Explosions in the Sky- Ruums (my heart exploded and I don't think I fully recovered)
4. Oasis- Echo Arena, Liverpool (kick ass seats, free of charge and full two hours something of Gallagher brothers)
5. Indie Day Out- MCPA Hall KL (crazy attendance, with people fainting and breaking noses etc)
6. Travis- Carling Liverpool (on the eve of Aidilfitri, no less)
7. The Last Shadow Puppets- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall (pasty yet good looking British boys making beautiful music in a beautiful hall)
8. Jakarta Rock Parade- Senayan, Jakarta (Badly organized lead to poor attendance, but had stellar line-up)
9. Mono- Zouk KL (don't mess with Japanese post-rock musicians)
10. Vox- Esplanade Singapore (Surabaya heart-warming harmonies.. ah bless)
11. Mocca- Zouk KL
12. Goodnight Electric- Ipoh
13. The Bays- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
14. Ida Maria & The Courteeners- LGOS, Liverpool
15. Goldfrapp- LGOS, Liverpool
16. Pendulum- LGOS, Liverpool
17. Noah & The Whale- Bumper, Liverpool
18. The Roots- Manchester
19. MTV Asia Awards- Genting Highland
20. Family Affair II- Singapore
21. Pesta Malam Indonesia 2- Bukit Kiara Equestrian Club
22. KRU's Anniversary Bash- Ruums, KL
23. Rockestra- MCPA Hall, KL
24. KLUE's Urbanscape- KLPAC

What's good 2009?

• Rogue Squadron's 'I can has mixtapz' mixtape
• Jin Hackman's 'Jinius at Work'
• Rogue Squadron's monthly night 'The Bomb Shelter' at Cloth and Clef, KL
• The Rebel Scum's 'Time has Scum'
• Clue to Kalo's 'Lily Perdida'
• Flica's new album
• Yeah Yeah Yeah's new album
• Zeke and the Popo's new album
• Convocation XD
• Blur's reunion
• More concerts (Franz Ferdinand and Oasis and more hopefully)
• Better camera kit 
• More travelling!