音樂是這世界上最美好的事

以後，當樂迷們談論起2008年，會不會和談論起1997年的偉大發行如Radiohead《OK Computer》、The Verve《Urban Hymns》、Travis《Good Feeling》、Portishead《Portishead》、Blur《Blur》、Oasis《Be Here Now》、Yo La Tengo《I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One》般的懷念？2008年我們有了The Verve、JAMC和MBV、Portishead的復合與回歸，聽完了Coldplay和Sigur Ros這般令人無比滿意的新碟，接下來，竟然還有未登場的英搖大團......

知名音樂網站Pitchfork公佈了 2008年秋季的預計新發行（轉貼於下），不看則已，看了實在令人暈眩，包括我今天才聽到廣播廣告的Oasis（竟然有廣告，讚耶）、Snow Patrol、Keane、Travis、The Cure，講到這就夠夭壽了，但還沒完：The Flaming Lips、Kaiser Chiefs、Ryan Adams、Cat Power (EP)，很奸詐加歌再重發的則有New Order、Pavement。







講完大咖，比較小咖的也是讓人心跳百分百：穩作本人年終冠軍的The Raveonettes (EP)、Her Space Holiday、Megapuss、Antony and the Johnsons (EP)、Final Fantasy、The Sea and the Cake、The Bird and the Bee，還有甫發行Atlas Sound落落長新專輯名的Bradford Cox，也要推出Deerhunter新作，根據MySpace試聽下來...實在超讚（淚）！

Pitchfork公佈的當然是以北美發行時間為準，其他有漏掉的我想最期待的就是The Radio Dept.《Clinging to a Scheme》了吧！華語部份則有1976，和即將舉辦秘密試聽會的陳珊妮。

我不禁要問：這樣是要叫我們怎麼選2008年終榜呢？

註：2008年流標的像是屢屢放鴿子的Blur重組傳言，還有我超期待的The Postal Service，主唱Ben Gibbard又突然改口說2010年以前都不會有機會，傷心啊。


以下粗體字是特別期待的（以日期排序）：

10-06:

Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006 [Columbia] [UK release]
The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium DVD [Sony BMG] [UK release]
The Clash: The Clash Live: Revolution Rock [Sony BMG] [UK release]
Deerhunter: "Nothing Ever Happened" single [4AD] [UK release]
Duncan Lloyd: Seeing Double [Warp]
Jay Reatard: Matador Singles '08 [Matador] [UK release]
Land of Talk: Some Are Lakes [One Little Indian] [European release]
Lou Reed: Lou Reed's Berlin DVD [Weinstein Company]
Oasis: Dig Out Your Soul [Big Brother] [UK release]
Various Artists: Amazon/Tribe: Songs for Survival [Kensaltown Records] [out now digitally]

10-07:

Agathe Max: This Silver String [Table of the Elements]
Annuals: Such Fun [Canvasback]
Antony and the Johnsons: Another World EP [Secretly Canadian]
Beck/Jay Reatard: "Gamma Ray" single [Interscope]
Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006 [Columbia] [U.S. release]
Car Commercials: Eric's Diary [Soft Abuse]
Castanets: City of Refuge [Asthmatic Kitty]
Catfish Haven: Devastator [Secretly Canadian]
The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium DVD [Legacy] [U.S. release]
Crooked Fingers: Forfeit/Fortune [Red Pig/Constant Artists]
Crystal Antlers: Crystal Antlers EP [Touch and Go, reissue]
Curumin: Japan Pop Show [Quannum]
CYNE: Pretty Dark Things [Hometapes]
Damon Aaron: Highlands [Ubiquity]
Daniel Martin Moore: Stray Age [Sub Pop]
Deerhoof: Offend Maggie [Kill Rock Stars]
Department of Eagles: In Ear Park [4AD]
dj /Rupture: Uproot [The Agriculture]
Earthless: Live at Roadburn [Tee Pee]
EPMD: Scion A/V Remix [Scion] [digital single]
Eulogies: Tempted to Do Nothing EP [Dangerbird]
Ezra Furman and the Harpoons: Inside The Human Body [Minty Fresh]
Fucked Up: The Chemistry of Common Life [Matador]
Grails: Doomsdayer's Holiday [Temporary Residence, LTD]
Gregory and the Hawk: Moenie and Kitchi [Fat Cat]
Hauschka: Ferndorf [Fat Cat]
Her Space Holiday: XOXO, Panda and The New Kid Revival [Mush]
Hot Lava: Lavalogy [Bar/None]
Jake One: White Van Music [Rhymesayers]
Japanese Motors: Japanese Motors [Vice]
Jay Reatard: Matador Singles '08 [Matador]
Jolie Holland: The Living and the Dead [Anti-]
Juana Molina: Un Dia [Domino]
Julian Koster: The Singing Saw at Christmastime [Merge]
Lambchop: OH (ohio) [Merge]
Land of Talk: Some Are Lakes [Saddle Creek] [North American release]
The Little Ones: Morning Tide [Chop Shop]
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's: Animal! [Epic]
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's: Not Animal [Epic]
Marnie Stern: This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That [Kill Rock Stars]
Megapuss: Surfing [Vapor] [out now digitally]
Morgan Geist: Double Night Time [Environ] [out now digitally]
Mt. Eerie, Julie Doiron and Fred Squire: Lost Wisdom [P.W. Elverum and Sun]
The Notwist: "Boneless" 7" [Domino]
Oasis: Dig Out Your Soul [Big Brother] [U.S. release]
Parenthetical Girls: "A Song for Ellie Greenwich" 7" [Tomlab]
The Pretenders: Break Up the Concrete [Shangri-La]
Pretty & Nice: Get Young [Hardly Art]
Rachael Yamagata: Elephants... Teeth Sinking Into Heart [Warner Bros.]
Rig 1: Above the Tree Line West of the Periodic [Team Love]
The Rosebuds: Life Like [Merge]
Slaraffenland: Sunshine EP [Hometapes]
The Spinto Band: Moonwink [Park The Van]
Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra: Secrets of the Sun [Atavistic] [reissue]
The Streets: Everything Is Borrowed [Vice] [U.S. release, out now in the UK]
These Are Powers: Taro Tarot EP [Dead Oceans] [reissue]
These Are Powers: Terrific Seasons [Dead Oceans] [reissue]
These Arms Are Snakes: Tail Swallower and Dove [Suicide Squeeze]
Times New Viking: Stay Awake EP
Various Artists: XL Recordings: The First Chapters [XL Recordings] [out now digitally]
Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls [In the Red] [reissue]
White Savage: "I Prefer Savage" 7" [Flameshovel]
Michelle Williams: Unexpected [Columbia]
Women: Women [Jagjaguwar]
Yo! Majesty: Futuristically Speaking...Never Be Afraid [Domino]

10-13:

El Guincho: Alegranza! [Young Turks/XL] [worldwide release]
Matt Helders of Arctic Monkeys: Late Night Tales [Azuli]
Max Tundra: Parallax Error Beheads You [Domino] [UK release]
Okkervil River: The Stand-Ins [Jagjaguwar] [UK release, out now elsewhere]
Windy and Carl: Songs for the Broken Hearted [Kranky]

10-14:

Ame: Fabric42 [Fabric]
Betty Botox: Mmm, Betty! [Endless Flight]
Bosque Brown: Baby [Burnt Toast Vinyl]
Chandeliers: The Thrush [Obey Your Brain]
Cool Hand Luke: The Sleeping House [Lujo Records]
David Bowie: iSelect: Bowie [Virgin/ EMI]
The Dead C: Secret Earth [Ba Da Bing]
The Decemberists: Always the Bridesmaid: A Singles Series - Volume 1 [Y.A.B.B./Jealous Butcher]
Fuck Buttons: "Colours Move" 12" [ATP]
Genghis Tron: Board Up The House Remixes vol. 1 [Lovepump Unlimited] [vinyl release]
Gojira: The Way of All Flesh [Prosthetic Records]
Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs: Dirt Don't Hurt [Transdreamer]
I'm From Barcelona: Who Killed Harry Houdini? [Mute]
Indian Jewelry: Free Gold [Lovepump Unlimited] [vinyl release, out now on CD]
Kaiser Chiefs: Off With Their Heads [Universal Motown]
Keane: Perfect Symmetry [Island]
Lucinda Williams: Little Honey [Lost Highway]
Menahan Street Band: Make the Road by Walking [Daptone/Dunham]
The Mighty Underdogs: Droppin' Science Fiction [Def Jux]
The Minus 5: Indies Only [Yep Roc]
Nikka Costa: Pebble to a Pearl [Stax]
The Organ: Thieves EP [Mint/604]
Ray LaMontagne: Gossip in the Grain [RCA]
Religious Knives: The Door [Ecstatic Peace]
Rio en Medio: Frontier [Manimal Vinyl]
The Ruby Isle: Night Shot [Kindercore]
Run On Sentence: Oh When the Wind Comes Down [Hush]
Secret Machines: Secret Machines [TSM Recordings]
Shearwater: The Snow Leopard EP [Matador] [digital only]
Stephen Emmer: Recitement [Allegro Music]
T. Raumschmiere: I Tank U [Shitkatapult]
Telepathe: Chrome's On It EP [IAMSOUND]
Tobacco: Fucked Up Friends [Anticon]
Various Artists: 1970's Algerian Proto-Rai Underground [Sublime Frequencies]
Various Artists: Awake, My Soul / Help Me to Sing [Awake Productions]
Various Artists: Johnny Cash Remixed [Compadre Records]
Various Artists: Scion CD Sampler Volume 22: Fool's Gold Remixed [Fool's Gold] [digital release]

10-20:

AC/DC: Black Ice [Columbia; Wal-Mart exclusive in the U.S., HMV exclusive in Canada]
A Place to Bury Strangers: "I Know I'll See You" 7" [Rocket Girl]
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Is It the Sea? [Domino] [UK release]
Gang Gang Dance: Saint Dymphna [Warp] [UK, European, Australian release]
The Last Shadow Puppets: "My Mistakes Were Made for You" single [Domino] [UK release]
The Long Blondes: "Singles" [Angular Recording Company] [UK release]
The Rapture: Tapes [!K7] [European release]
Various Artists: Dreams Come True - Classic First Wave Electro 1982-87 [Domino] [UK release]

10-21:

+ / -: Xs on Your Eyes [Absolutely Kosher]
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead: Festival Thyme EP [Richter Scale/Justice Records] [picture disc 10"]
An Albatross: The An Albatross Family Album [Eyeball]
Anni Rossi: Afton [4AD]
Beach House: "Used To Be" 7" [Carpark]
The Beatles/Cirque du Soleil: All Together Now DVD [EMI] [Best Buy/LOVE Boutique exclusive]
Big Gipp: Scion A/V Remix [Scion] [digital single]
Blithe Sons: The Great Orthochromatic Wheel [Family Vineyard]
Brother JT3: Jelly Roll Gospel [Drag City]
Danielson: "Our Givest (Remix)" 7" [Secretly Canadian]
The Dears: Missles [Dangerbird]
Electric Six: Flashy [Metropolis]
El Guincho: Alegranza! [Young Turks/XL] [U.S. release]
Eric Copeland: Alien in a Garbage Dump 12" [Paw Tracks]
Final Fantasy: Play EP [Slender Means Society/States Rights]
Frightened Rabbit: Liver! Lung! FR! [Fat Cat]
Future Clouds and Radar: Peoria [Tommy Boy]
Gang Gang Dance: Saint Dymphna [The Social Registry] [North American release]
Girl Talk: Feed the Animals [Illegal Art] [CD release, out now digitally]
Heavy Hands: Smoke Signals [Language of Stone]
The High Strung: Moxie Bravo [Park the Van]
Hospital Ships: Oh, Ramona [Graveface]
Hush Arbors: Hush Arbors [Ecstatic Peace]
Kemialliset Ystavat/Sunroof!: Split [Fat Cat]
LaBelle: Back to Now [Verve]
Lake: Oh, the Places We'll Go [K]
Larkin Grimm: Parplar [Young God]
The Last Shadow Puppets: "My Mistakes Were Made for You" single [Domino] [U.S. release]
Lemonade: S/T EP [True Panther Sounds]
Loren Connors: The Moon Last Night [Family Vineyard]
Ludacris: Theater of the Mind [Def Jam]
Mythical Beast: Scales [Language of Stone]
Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping [Polyvinyl]
Parts & Labor: Receivers [Jagjaguwar]
Pit Er Pat: High Time [Thrill Jockey]
Rank Deluxe: You Decide [Fat Cat]
The Raveonettes: EP [Vice] [digital release]
Red Favorite: Red Favorite [Streamline]
RTX: JJ Got Live RaTX [Drag City]
The Sea and Cake: Car Alarm [Thrill Jockey]
Sebastian Grainger: Sebastien Grainger and the Mountains [Saddle Creek]
Shawn Lee & Clutchy Hopkins: Clutch of the Tiger [Ubiquity]
Simon Bookish: Everything/Everything [Tomlab]
So So Glos: Tourism | Terrorism [Green Owl]
Storsveit Nix Noltes/Royal Family: Divorce [Fat Cat]
Times New Viking: Stay Awake 7" [Matador]
White Fang: Pure Evil [Marriage]
White Hinterland: Luniculaire EP [Dead Oceans]

10-27:

Arthur Russell: Love Is Overtaking Me [Rough Trade] [UK release]
Bloc Party: Intimacy [Wichita] [UK physical release, out now digitally]
The Cure: 4:13 Dream [Suretone/Geffen]
Deerhunter: Microcastle [4AD] [UK release, out now digitally]
Goldfrapp: Seventh Tree [Mute] [special edition with DVD] [UK release]
Los Campesinos!: We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed [Wichita Recordings] [UK release]
Optimo: Sleepwalk [Domino] [UK release]
Robert Wyatt: Nothing Can Stop Us (reissue) [Domino] [UK release]
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom (reissue) [Domino] [UK release]
Robert Wyatt: Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (reissue) [Domino] [UK release]
Squarepusher: Just a Souvenir [Warp] [UK release]
Various Artists: Kitsune Maison 6 [Kitsune] [European release]

10-28:

Arthur Russell: Love Is Overtaking Me [Audika] [U.S. release]
Bloc Party: Intimacy [Atlantic] [U.S. physical release, out now digitally]
caUSE co-MOTION!: It's Time! [Slumberland]
Crystal Stilts: Alight of Night [Slumberland]
Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power and the Amorphous Strums: Dark Developments [Orange Twin]
The Cure: 4:13 Dream [Suretone/Geffen] [North American release date]
Deerhunter: Microcastle [Kranky] [U.S. physical release, out now digitally]
Dreamend: The Long Forgotten Friend [Graveface]
Eagles of Death Metal: Heart On [Downtown]
Fight Bite: Emerald Eyes [self-released]
Fredrik: Na Na Ni [Kora]
Lucinda Wiliams: Lu in '08 [Lost Highway] [digital only]
Matthew and the Arrogant Sea: Family Family Family Meets the Magic Christian [Nova Posta Vinyl]
Matthew Dear: Body Language Vol. 7 [Get Physical]
Matthew Herbert Big Band: There's Me and There's You [!K7]
O'Death: Broken Hymns, Limbs and Skin [Kemado]
Red Eyed Legends: Wake Up, Legend [File 13]
Red Snapper: Pale Blue Dot [Lo Recordings]
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology [Lost Highway]
School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms [Ghostly International]
SCSI-9: Easy as Down [Kompakt]
Snow Patrol: A Hundred Million Suns [Geffen]
The Twang: Love It When I Feel Like This [Arena Rock]
Various Artists: Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to the Cure [Manimal Vinyl] (moved to November 11)

November:

Justice: A Cross the Universe CD/DVD [Downtown] [U.S. release]
Kanye West: 808s and Heartbreak [Roc-a-Fella/Def Jam]

11-03:

A Place to Bury Strangers: A Place to Bury Strangers [Rocket Girl] [UK/European release, out now in U.S.]
Low: "Santa's Coming Over" 7" [Sub Pop] [UK/European release]
Parts & Labor: Receivers [Jagjaguwar] [UK release]
White Denim: Exposion [Transmission Entertainment]

11-04:

Absentee: Victory Shorts [Memphis Industries]
All The Saints: Fire on Corridor X [Touch & Go] [vinyl release]
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Drippers EP [self-released]
Cale Parks: Sparklace [Polyvinyl]
Castanets vs. Ero: Dub Refuge [Asthmatic Kitty]
Crystal Antlers: Crystal Antlers EP [Touch & Go] [vinyl release]
The Count and Sinden: "Hardcore Girls" single [Domino]
CSS: "Move" 7" [Sub Pop]
Danielson: Trying Hartz [Secretly Canadian] [anthology]
The Decemberists: Always the Bridesmaid: A Singles Series - Voume 2 [Y.A.B.B./Jealous Butcher]
The End of the World: French Exit [Flameshovel/Pretty Activity]
Free Blood: The Singles [Rong/DFA]
Frida Hyvonen: Silence Is Wild [Secretly Canadian]
Fucked Up: "No Epiphany" 7" [Matador]
Grampall Jookabox: Rope Chain [Asthmatic Kitty]
Hushpuppies: Silence Is Golden [Minty Fresh]
James Yorkston: When the Haar Rolls In [Domino] [U.S. release, out now in the UK]
Johann Johannsson: Fordlandia [4AD]
K-The-I???: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow [Mush]
Kevin Ayers: What More Can I Say... [Reel Recordings] [U.S. and Canadian release]
The Lines: Flood Bank (reissue) [Acute]
Little Joy: Little Joy [Rough Trade]
Low: "Santa's Coming Over" 7" [Sub Pop] [North American release]
Lou Reed: Berlin (Original Soundtrack) [Matador]
Lukestar: Lake Toba [Flameshovel]
Mahjongg: "Free Groove Rider" 7" [K]
Mavis Staples: Hope at the Hideout [live] [Anti-]
Micah Blue Smaldone: The Red River [Immune]
No Age: "Teen Creeps" 7" [Sub Pop]
Past Lives: Strange Symmetry [Suicide Squeeze]
Q-Tip: The Renaissance [Universal Motown]
Skeletons: Money [Tomlab]
The Smashing Pumpkins: If It All Goes Wrong DVD [Coming Home Media]
Travis: Ode to J. Smith [Red Telephone Box/Fontana] [U.S. release, out now in the UK]
Ulaan Khol: II [Soft Abuse]
Wallpaper: On the Chewing Gum Ground [K]
Wild Beasts: Limbo, Panto [Domino] [U.S. release, out now in the UK]
Wilderness: (k)no(w)here [Jagjaguwar]

11-10:

Coldplay - "Lost!" EP [Capitol]

11-11:

Au Revoir Simone: Reverse Migration (remix album) [Our Secret Record Company]
Deer Tick: War Elephant [Partisan]
Denison Witmer: Carry the Weight [The Militia Group]
The Flaming Lips: Christmas on Mars CD/DVD [Warner Bros.]
Los Campesinos!: We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed [Arts & Crafts] [North American release]
Love Is All: A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night [What's Your Rupture?]
Luomo: Convivial [Huume]
Max Tundra: Parallax Error Beheads You [Domino] [U.S. release]
New Order: Brotherhood [Rhino] [expanded reissue, out now in the UK]
New Order: Power Corruption & Lies [Rhino] [expanded reissue, out now in the UK]
New Order: Low-Life [Rhino] [expanded reissue, out now in the UK]
New Order: Movement [Rhino] [expanded reissue, out now in the UK]
New Order: Technique [Rhino] [expanded reissue, out now in the UK]
The Postmarks: By the Numbers [Unfiltered]
The Smiths: The Sound of the Smiths [Rhino]
Various Artists: Perfect as Cats: A Tribute to the Cure [Manimal Vinyl]
Wheat: TBA [Empyrean]

11-17:

Amadou & Mariam: Welcome to Mali [Because Music] [UK release]
The Fireman (Paul McCartney and Youth): Electric Argument [MPL]
Robert Wyatt: Old Rottenhat (reissue) [Domino] [UK release]
Robert Wyatt: Dondestan (Revisited) (reissue) [Domino] [UK release]
Robert Wyatt: Shleep (reissue) [Domino] [UK release]
Robert Wyatt: EPs (box set, reissue) [Domino] [UK release]

11-18:

Alaska in Winter: Holiday [Milan]
Arthur Russell: Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell DVD [Plexifilm]
Asobi Seksu: "Me & Mary" / "Breathe Into Glass" 7" [Polyvinyl]
Barbara Morgenstern: BM [Monika]
Belle and Sebastian: The BBC Sessions [Matador]
Beyonce: TBA [Columbia]
Chris Cornell: Scream [Interscope]
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan: Sunday at Devil Dirt [V2]
Little Boots: Arecibo EP [IAMSOUND]
Joan of Arc: "My Summer-Long High Wipeout" 7" [Polyvinyl]
Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid: NYC [Domino]
Pavement: Brighten the Corners: Nicene Credence Ed. [Matador] [expanded edition of the 1997 LP]
Scott Weiland: Happy in Galoshes [New West]
Senor Coconut: Around the World [Nacional]
Senor Coconut: El Baile Aleman reissue [Nacional]
T-Pain: Thr33 Ringz [Jive/Zomba]
The Who: At Kilburn 77 DVD/Blu-Ray [Image Entertainment]

11-24:

Various Artists: Heroes [Astralwerks] [UK release]

11-25:

Asobi Seksu: Citrus [Friendly Fire] [vinyl release]
The (International) Noise Conspiracy: Cross of My Calling [Vagrant/American Recordings]
Kid Sister: Dream Date [Downtown]
The Killers: Day & Age [Island]
The Rapture: Tapes [!K7] [North American release]
The Raveonettes: Christmas EP [Vice]
Various Artists: "A Colbert Christmas" DVD [Comedy Central Home Entertainment/Paramount]
Various Artists: Heroes [Astralwerks] [U.S. release]

12-02:

Blackout Beach: Skin of Evil [Soft Abuse]
Britney Spears: Circus [Jive]
The Decemberists: Always the Bridesmaid: A Singles Series - Voume 3 [Y.A.B.B./Jealous Butcher]
Scarface: Emeritus [Asylum]

12-09:

50 Cent: Before I Self-Destruct [G-Unit/Shady/Aftermath/Interscope]
Arrington De Dionyso: I See Beyond the Black Sun [K]
B. Fleischmann: Angst Is Not a Weltanschauung! [Morr Music]
Busta Rhymes: B.O.M.B. [Flipmode/Universal Motown]
Cat Power: Dark End of the Street EP [Matador]
Ciara: Fantasy Ride [LaFace]
Charlie Louvin: Sings Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs [Tompkins Square]
DM Stith: Curtain Speeches EP [Asthmatic Kitty]
The Magnificents: Year of Explorers [Mush]
Welcome Wagon: Welcome Wagon [Asthmatic Kitty]

Sometime in 2008:

Common: Universal Mind Control [Geffen]
Dr. Dre: Detox [Aftermath/Interscope]
Guns N' Roses: Chinese Democracy [Best Buy exclusive]
Jay-Z: The Blueprint 3 [Roc-a-Fella/Def Jam]
Kelly Clarkson: TBA [RCA]

2009:

01-06

Glasvegas: Glasvegas [Columbia] [U.S. release, out now in the UK]

01-13:

Late of the Pier: Fantasy Black Channel [Astralwerks] [U.S. release, out now in the UK]

01-20:

A.C. Newman: Get Guilty [Matador]
Benjy Ferree: Come Back to the Five and Dime, Bobby Dee Bobby Dee [Domino]
Telefon Tel Aviv: Immolate Yourself [BPitch Control]

01-27:

The Bird and the Bee: Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future [Blue Note]

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