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		<title>2008 Music Wrap Up &#8211; Zune Free For Now</title>
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		<dc:creator>Timothy Ford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What better way to honor the fact that I can not listen to the 30Gb of music on my bricked Zune (and for that matter the 30Gb on my wife's as well) than to go over my list of the Good, the Bad, and the WTF music releases of 2008.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What better way to honor the fact that I can not listen to the 30Gb of music on my bricked Zune (and for that matter the 30Gb on my wife&#8217;s as well) than to go over my list of the Good, the Bad, and the WTF music releases of 2008.  Some of these may have fallen on the cusp of 2007/2008, but if their traction was heavy on the 2008 side, that&#8217;s where I placed &#8216;em.  It&#8217;s my blog and at least here I can do as I please.  I explain nothing here as to why I chose what I chose, because I have a lot of things I&#8217;ve been puting off for 2008 and I still have yet to even take a shower today, I&#8217;ve been ringing in the new Year early with spiked coffee, and I am depressed about my bricked Zunes.  I am curious to know what you think of my picks though.  Leave comments on this post with your picks.  I&#8217;m always looking for new music and that is one of the reasons I&#8217;ve loved my Zune Pass so much.  Thanks Andy Leonard (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/AndyLeonard">http://www.twitter.com/AndyLeonard</a>) for the Stefano Barone suggestion!</p>
<p><strong>The Good</strong> <span style="color: #888888;">(Comments to Come.  Time is of the Essence!)</span></p>
<p>Santogold <em>Santogold</em><br />
Beck <em>Modern Guilt</em><br />
Ben Folds <em>Way to Normal<br />
</em>Stefano Barone <em>Particolare#Uno</em><br />
Fleet Foxes <em>Fleet Foxes</em><br />
Death Cab for Cutie <em>The Narrow Stairs</em><br />
The Kooks <em>Konk</em><br />
Robyn <em>Robyn</em><br />
Ray LaMontagne <em>Gossip in the Grain</em><br />
Mogwai <em>The Hawk Is Howling</em><br />
My Morning Jacket <em>Evil Urges<br />
</em>Delta Spirit <em>Ode To Sunshine</em><br />
Metallica <em>Death Magnetic</em><br />
The Black Keys <em>Attack &amp; Release</em><br />
The Raconteurs <em>Consolers Of The Lonely</em><br />
Jenny Scheinman <em>Crossing The Field<br />
</em>Portishead <em>Third</em><br />
Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsallis <em>Two Men With The Blues<br />
</em>The Little Ones <em>Morning Tide<br />
</em>The Walkmen <em>In The New Year</em><br />
TV On the Radio <em>Dear Science</em><br />
Jakob Dylan <em>Seeing Things</em><br />
She &amp; Him <em>Volume 1</em><br />
The Last Shadow Puppets <em>Age of Understatement<br />
</em>Keane <em>Perfect Symmetry</em><br />
The Asylum Street Spankers <em>What? And Give Up Show Biz?<br />
</em>John Mellencamp <em>Life, Death, Love and Freedom</em><br />
Vampire Weekend <em>Vampire Weekend</em><br />
Big Blue Ball <em>Big Blue Ball</em><br />
Albert Hammond Jr. <em>Como Te Lama?<br />
</em>Lindsey Buckingham <em>Gift of Screws</em><br />
Seal <em>Soul</em><br />
Plants and Animals <em>New Kind of Love</em></p>
<p><strong></strong> </p>
<p><strong>The Bad</strong><span style="color: #888888;"> (Snarky Comments a Must!)</span></p>
<p>Chris Cornell <em>Ground Zero</em> &#8211; &#8220;Oh Chris, you have fallen so far!  Timbaland?  WTF?!&#8221;<br />
Hinder <em>Take It To The Limit</em> &#8211; &#8220;Anything by these arrogant bastards, no matter how good will still suck. I&#8217;ve heard your music somewhere before by talented bands. Oh, yeah it was called the 1980s and 1990s.&#8221;<br />
Soundtrack <em>Mama Mia!</em> &#8211; &#8220;Who thought that Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep could sing and where do you get those kind of drugs in the Midwest?&#8221;<br />
Soundtrack <em>Camp Rock</em> &#8211; &#8220;IF @@AGE &lt; 12 THEN Soundtrack + Disney = FAIL&#8221;<br />
Flobots <em>Fight With Tools</em> &#8211; &#8220;Lyric, Beat, Repeat and Repeat and Repeat&#8230;&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>The WTF? </strong><span style="color: #888888;">(The Over-Rated, The Weak Releases By Favorite Artists, The Head-Scratchers)</span></p>
<p>The Killers <em>Day &amp; Age</em> &#8211; &#8220;First release great. Second, um OK. Third, &#8216;Are we human or are we dancers?&#8217; lyric.  WTF?&#8221;<br />
Michael Franti &amp; Spearhead <em>All Rebel Rockers</em> &#8211; &#8220;So happy to hear they had a release this year. So disappointed there are only 2 good songs on it.&#8221;<br />
Snow Patrol <em>A Hundred Million Suns</em> &#8211; &#8220;Disappointing, with a capitalized bold 24 font D.&#8221;<br />
The Hold Steady <em>Stay Positive</em> &#8211; &#8220;I just don&#8217;t get the talk.  A decent bar band maybe, but the new Springsteen?  No, Springsteen is the new Springsteen.&#8221;<br />
Guns N&#8217; Roses <em>Chinese Democracy</em> &#8211; &#8220;Better than I thought it would be.  But Slash is obviously missing from the mix. Axl still can sing though.&#8221;<br />
Def Leppard <em>Songs From The Sparkle Lounge</em> &#8211; &#8220;Making Hinder look better to me.  Oh Pyromania where art thou?&#8221;</p>
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<p><strong>I Stand Corrected</strong> &#8211; (How could I have missed this in my original compilation?)</p>
<p>Barry Mainlow <em>Greatest Songs of the 80&#8242;s</em>  &#8211; I could not even begin to sum up this release in its entirety.  I shoved an awl in my left ear after hearing 5 seconds of &#8220;Never Gonna Give You Up&#8221;.  I was Barry/Rick Rolled by The Manilow himself.</p>
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