Music Gourmets Presents 60 Years of Great Music - 2008

Zeeba Neighba

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Glad we've got 10 years left. My aging brain keeps missing these thread posts, but here we are at another year :)

Welcome to the next year in our "Great Music" series - 2008

Here's the rules:

Each week, we'll introduce a new year from 1957 through 2017. Each member selects an album released in that year with a few lines (or more) on why you picked it/enjoy it. Your selection does not have to be the most important release or the most admired release of that year (though it certainly can be), simply an album that grabs you and that you really love.

However, once an album is selected by a member, you must choose a different album.

Together we will compile quite the canon of "Great Music" and, who knows, maybe inspire each other to check out some new artists (or to revisit old forgotten classics).

This week - the albums of 2008
 
Blitzen Trapper - Furr

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Roy Hargrove - Earfood

Marvelously perfect modern Jazz! This is an unabashed joyous album that makes your toes tap, your heart smile, and your head nod. If I had to place this in a category, I'd say it's the contemporary spirit of a rollicking Cannonball Adderley album, without any obvious intention to be. By the time the band gets to the penultimate tune, a full-throated swaggering swinging embrace of Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home To Me", first-time listeners have to be thinking "WTF, how is this so awesome!".
 
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Dengue Fever - Venus on Earth

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As I said, crazy week and over a week late on my pick for 2008 (gotta work on my 2009 pick too). Looking over my collection, I have surprisingly few from this year (I joined the ol' Music Gourmets in 2009 and my album buying would definitely take a turn upward...dramatically). Still I am shocked never really checked this year out more. Could go with something more typically (for me) like The Raconteurs but always have enjoyed this unique, quirky blend of...um...well as allmusic.com puts it - "homage to that (Cambodia's)pre-Pol Pot cheesy psychedelic-cum-lounge-surf-garage pop sound of the '60s/early '70s

I suspect if Nickyboy was posting in these threads, he would choose this one. He might have been the one to have introduced me to this one. A fun album that I need to break out soon - it's been too long :)
 
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