Thursday, December 18, 2008

PUT THE NEEDLE ON IT!: Tauwan's Top Albums of 2008



08/The Cool Kids/The Bake Sale EP

Meet Mikey. He Rocks. Meet Chuck. He rhymes and crafts beats. Together they’re known as the Cool Kids, and this is their Bake Sale EP, fresh out the kitchen, hot and booming like an 808. Antoine "Mikey Rocks" Reed and Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll keep it fresh by taking it back, placing an emphasis on the rhymes, the beats, and youthful braggadocio of hip-hop’s early days when a diss was as smooth as a sentence out of Billy Dee’s mouth (Peep the brief reminder of one’s swag in A Little Bit Cooler), and knowledge was dropped without you even knowing it. No bombast, no gimmicks, no clutter, just 2 MCs (one playing DJ) “pedaling down the foot hills” with “wheelies on the front” jingling baby, and keeping it hot like a Basement Party. That’s what’s up.
KEY TRACKS: What Up Man/Mickey Rocks/A Little Bit Cooler

  • 9/Conor Oberst/Conor Oberst


  • 10/Vampire Weekend/Vampire Weekend


  • 11/Kanye West/808s and Heartbreak


  • 12/Bon Iver/For Emma, Forever Ago


  • 13/The Black Keys/Attack & Release


  • 14/Hercules & Love Affair/Hercules & Love Affair


  • 15/MGMT/Oracular Spectacular


  • 16/The Kills/Midnight Boom


  • 17/Madonna/Hard Candy


  • 18/Lil Wayne/Tha Carter III


  • 19/Ashlee Simpson/Bittersweet World


  • 20/Santogold/Santogold


  • 21/The Roots/Rising Down


  • 22/Kidz in the Hall/The In Crowd


  • 23/Panic at the Disco/Pretty.Odd.


  • 24/Deerhunter/Microcastle AND Why?/Alopecia


  • 25/Kings of Leon/Only By the Night

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