What were the 80 most important musical recordings, artists, trends, events, and performances of 2008? What were the eight things this year that broke our hearts—or, at least, our ears? We’re happy to announce 80 ’08 (and Heartbreak), Idolator’s year-end overview. The list is below the jump.
Since laziness and/or sanity kept me from hearing every song released in 2008, I won’t claim this is the No. 1 funniest. But it’s gotta be damn close.
Be Your Own Pet seemed to be following a great little trajectory for themselves: release an energetic and appealing debut album on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace! label, build up goodwill, then leak a jaw-dropping song from your sophomore release and wait for it to hit big. But when the album came out, it was short three songs, and worse, two of them were the best on the album. Ecstatic Peace!’s distributor, Universal, which also releases albums by 50 Cent, claimed the lyrics were too violent, and it seemed like an act of sabotage. Though the song made it to release via XL’s Get Damaged EP, it didn’t help matters much, and the band broke up.
After pulling out of the Warped Tour earlier this summer, Nashville punk-terrors Be Your Own Pet have announced that they’ll be breaking up after they play a smattering of festivals in the UK later this month. More »
After pulling out of the Warped Tour earlier this summer, Nashville punk-terrors Be Your Own Pet have announced that they’ll be breaking up after they play a smattering of festivals in the UK later this month. More »
This new clip for Be Your Own Pet’s “The Kelly Affair” (full of implied cannibal transvestite torture porn if you don’t necessarily care for the music) reminded me that: 1.) More »
