Comments on: LB’s Favorite Non-NW Albums of 2008

By: C-Leb

C-Leb — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:35:47 +0000

i think by the end of the month… or wait is that when W-4 forms are due

By: Jules

Jules — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:54:26 +0000

I seriously need to get my act together and write out my 2008 favorites. When is officially too late for 2008?

By: LB

LB — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:03:58 +0000

I dunno, but I’m not sure I would cast them off as “relative unknowns”–they’ve got a pretty big fan base as far as I can tell. I certainly have loved all of their records.

It’s all subjective, of course, but the second half of DS is golden, especially “DLZ” and “Love Dog”.

By: Kevin leDoux

Kevin leDoux — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:08:12 +0000

I gotta say, I’ve been astonished at how many top 10 lists TVOTR has broken into this year. After hearing this years offering from them the first time I simply cast it off with a “Meh.. welp, I guess they’ve jumped the shark.” I might be too wrapped up in their past albums and thus not rating this on a fair scale compared to the rest of the music actually put out this year.

I just found, that compared to TVOTR’s last 2 albums, (Return to Cookie Mountain and ESPECIALLY Desperate Youth and Bloodthirsty Babes) Dear Science, flopped flat as roadkill. Nothing addictive, nothing really working itself into your brain. What WAS the uberprogressive Brooklyn band to me sounded run of the mill. I’m baffled at the newly found worldwide love in the wake of them being relative unknowns. Was it just that it was marketed better? I know that Universal had a hand in promoting it..

hmm…