Disappointment Is So Last Year

is it just me, or was 2008 largely free of musical disappointments? perhaps i’m still basking in a post-plebiscite glow, and this new era of politics is making me delete (or, more likely, forget) flaws and missteps in other realms, like music. or perchance it really was a stellar year. there were exciting endeavors by crystal stilts, deerhunter, fleet foxes, black mountain, mt. eerie and chad vangaalen, not to mention santogold, sic alps, t.i., tv on the radio, okkervil river, bon iver and nick cave. i could go on and on not far from the standouts from 2008 (and people have, over on the all songs blog). so what exactly constitutes a lyrical calamity these days? a bad live acting? can’t we just watch a better show on the internet the next lifetime? and then the next? if a given pusillanimous album comes free on a tuesday, so many other records are released the same date that we can simply buy those instead. better yet, we can just download the compelling songs if the entire account doesn’t measure up to our standards of the horde. it’s correspondent to going to the dentist as a kid and getting the sugar-free lollipop on the way out — we hardly remember any of the discomfort; just the sweet, palliative sweetness. when it comes to music, maybe we’re in a in days of yore of advise-depression. after all, we’re our own djs, with our own playlists and our own song sequences to craft. we can even remix a song, or mash it up with another one, to walk away it more to our delimit. an artistic stumble by our favorite musician no longer equals emptiness and try to find while we wait for their next album; all it means is that we’ll have to tide ourselves over with the non-interrupt, year-honest, every-day-is-christmas spectacle that is the music commerce. plus, the artist that let down us with a sub-not very well album a person month can just upload a redemptive, kick-out-the-jams song to their myspace page two weeks later and voila! they rule! again! all is forgiven. the business side of music may be struggling, but as listeners, we couldn’t be more spoiled. till despite the capital we’ve amassed as fans, were there still musical moments in 2008 that communistic you wanting more? artists, albums, festivals or shows that radical you feeling disappointed even when you distracted yourself with other follies? or has an abundance of mellifluous goodness helped you move on from or give someone the brush-off the underwhelming, even when it came from your favorites?

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