The Time Machine's Most Played Albums Of 2008
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It's the first day of 2009 and we decided to look back at our most played albums on the air for 2008. Everyone argued over a top ten or one hundred list because there were so many choices. We decided that instead of bickering over different music choices (and trust us...this is what we love to do...bicker about movies and music), we would present to you our most played albums on the air last year. This way there was no wiggle room for critical favorites. The funny part was that after the list was completed, everyone gathered around, smiled and agreed that these albums did fill our hearts and souls musically and that's all that matters in the end.
Mike Viola's album "Lurch" from 2007 along with "She's About To Cross My Mind" from The Red Button, Ken Sharp's "Sonic Crayons" and Mandy Moore's "Wild Hope" from the same year continued with heavy spins into 2008. Still rolling along after over two years in heavy rotation was 2006's "Under The Covers Vol. 1" from Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs which continued to get massive airplay into 2008.
In our earlier post about The Bangles being the most played group for the last twenty-five years, it's interesting to note that our most played artist the last five plus years has been singer-songwriter Rachael Yamagata (who coincidently appeared on the Little Monsters 2006 release "All Together Now" performing "Here Comes The Sun" while the Bangles brought their take on the other Beatles classic "Good Day Sunshine") and if she had not released her double album this past year, the top spot would have gone to Kelly Jones and her third album "SheBANG!", which with it's Bangles' like charm, came out of nowhere and dominated the FM dial since the fall.
Erin McCarly's album "Love, Save The Empty" was released officially on December 30th, 2008 which arrived too late for us to give it a shot at airplay so we look forward to her music throughout this upcoming year as we do Bree Sharp's band project with Donnie D called Beautiful Small Machines that we really relished playing on the air during the final weeks of December.
The albums below are actual titles that were released in 2008 that dominated our playlists.
A large number of spins for seventy albums in no particular ranking outside of the first choice.
Let's kick it off with the most played album hands down over any other this past year on "The Time Machine"...
ELEPHANTS...TEETH SINKING INTO HEART
- Rachael Yamagata
SHEBANG!
- Kelly Jones
HARPS AND ANGELS
- Randy Newman
BRING ON THE HAPPY
- Rob Bonfiglio
SHE & HIM - VOLUME ONE
- She and Him
IT'S OKAY TO BE HAPPY
- Smith and Pyle
AQUAVIA
- The Major Labels
MEET GLEN CAMPBELL
- Glen Campbell
VENUS IN OVERDRIVE
- Rick Springfield
CAMP LISA
- Lisa Loeb
BREAK UP THE CONCRETE
- The Pretenders
...IS HOT AND BOTHERED
- Lucy Woodward
ADVENTURES IN STEREO
- Jim Boggia
UNDER THE RADAR
- The Goldbergs
WISELY
- Willie Wisely
GIFT OF SCREWS
- Lindsey Buckingham
ACID TONGUE
- Jenny Lewis
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
- Arden Kaywin
MUDCRUTCH
- Mudcrutch
SYCAMORE MEADOWS
- Butch Walker
RESTLESS
- The Smith Bros.
FREEDOM WIND
- The Explorers Club
RIDIN' THE WAVE
- Laurie Biagini
BEYOND THE SHORES
- Micah Wolf
THE ORCHID HIGHWAY
- The Orchid Highway
@#%&*! SMILERS
- Aimee Mann
JIGSAW DAYS
- The Well Wishers
SLOW & STEADY SEDUCTION: PHASE II
- Anya Marina
ALTERED STATES
- Robin Danar
FROM THE SUN
- Vonda Shepard
THE WORLD FAMOUS HAT TRICK
- Vibeke Saugestad
GOOD DAY
- Priscilla Ahn
MANTRA
- Sheri Miller
WAVES & THE BOTH OF US
- Charlotte Sometimes
HEADING NORTH FOR THE WINTER
- The Wellingtons
OPAL ESSENCE
- Lindsey Yung
NIGHTMARE @ 20,000 WATTS
- Jaimie Vernon
GIRLS ALIENS FOOD
- The Simple Carnival
MODULATIONS
- Chewy Marble
SIMPLE TIMES
- Joshua Radin
POSTSCRIPT
- Jeff Litman
SLEEP IN THE KNOWING
- Cate Kanell
SUNSHINE LIES
- Matthew Sweet
NEW DOG NEW TRICKS
- Michael Carpenter & The Cuban Heels
VAGABONDS
- Gary Louris
STRONGER
- Carlene Carter
CHAMELEON
- Victoria Vox
MELODY
- Sharleen Spiteri
RATTLIN' BONES
- Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson
ELEVEN MODERN ANTIQUES
- Pugwash
PARALLEL PLAY
- Sloan
LITTLE HONEY
- Lucinda Williams
HIDEAWAY
- The Weepies
THE LONG NOW
- Cliff Hillis
EGG SHELLS
- Stratocruiser
MEIKO
- Meiko
LIMITS OF THE SKY
- The Bridges
JUST A LITTLE
- Shelby Lynne
…AND THEN SOME
- Luke Jackson
FULL/FILLED
- Poplord
FLAVORS OF ENTANGLEMENT
- Alanis Morissette
GOD IF I SAW HER NOW
- Thom Hell
GET FREE
- Devi
CURIOUSER
- Kate Miller-Heidke
HELLO...X
- Tristan Prettyman
MOPPING UP KARMA
- Judith Owen
THE JOURNEY TO MIRACLE RIVER
- Amy Holland
CAUSE AND EFFECT
- Maria Mena
ENCOMIUM IN MEMORIAM VOL.1
JAN BERRY OF JAN & DEAN
- Cameron Michael Parkes and Mark A. Moore
HOW TO WALK AWAY
- Juliana Hatfield
WEAPONIZE
- Kay Hanley
STILL BURNIN'
- Batdorf and Rodney
AN INVITATION
- Inara George with Van Dyke Parks
YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER
- Jeremy
BE OKAY
- Ingrid Michaelson
WE SING, WE DANCE, WE STEAL THINGS
- Jason Mraz
BIRD'S EYE VIEW
- Amy Kuney
SAY!
- SKooBER
ROBOTS IN LOVE
- Beautiful Small Machines
THAT LUCKY OLD SUN
- Brian Wilson
Comments (9)
That's one hell of a list..and pretty lookin' too. No doubt in my mind that The Time Machine is the real king/queen of pop.
i LOVE being on this list, man....thanks for diggin' my stuff and playin' it! in good company.
AND........i see Pugwash up there. i've met those guys in Dublin, helped get them placed on a big movie, and i believe they were even part of one of my first MOG posts. love 'em and glad you're spreading the word.
THANKS!
some serious quality in there
and robin, where do i get a copy of your record?
mudcrutch is definitely one of my top albums of the year
since you guys are so close to australia, comparatively of course, how bout spinning some lovetones, powderfinger and you am i
those bands get virtually no love in the states and they're absolutely fantastic
hey Neil. thanks for asking. "Altered States" should still be stocked in a bunch of the usual sources like Best Buy, Borders, Amoeba......stores that still sell CD's!
otherwise, iTunes, Amazon etc. for downloads. check out "Last Goodbye" as well--another MOGGER, Celia Chavez is my vocalist on that one.
You Am I.......LOVE those guys live!! they don't make it to the states that often any more.
By the way......"Do Ya" rocks on Californication!
cool, will definitely pick up a copy, i dug that tune when you posted it, it will be weird and wild to purchase an actual cd, my only remaining option up here on the upper west side is best buy
you am i are amazing live, the real classic rocking article
i long to see the lovetones as well, i told them to swing by nyc when they come to the states as i would love to share a bill with them but i don't think they're hitting the east coast, what a travesty!
so glad you dug do ya! woo hoo! currently finishing up a vid for it.
this i gotta see.........
What a list!
Thanks to your radio station i have head start on a lot of these artists but still a ton more i've yet to discover or hear.
I listen to your radio show whenever i get the chance on saturdays and i have to say i don't like it at all when i miss one.
I heard Robin Danar's 2000 Light Years From Home via you Time Machiners and I've probably said this before but Robin and Rachael own that song now...The Stones may as well give it to them...amazing work on the track Robin and i'm embarrased to say i still need to get my mitts on your record. (i will... i'm promising myself that one!)
An incredible amount of music you people have turned me on to and
a huge thank you for that...
Okay i have to put this up here before i go wandering off god knows where and ask this ....
Hey Michael McCartney! isn't that your name on Rachael Yamagata's new record?
This is beyond cool....hears to you and the Great DJ's on your show!
Thanks for the list. Now that I'm finally caught up with unheard tracks I'm going to start buying CDs again and this list is a great place to start.
Sheri Miller is THE place to start! Love that woman's music.
And of course the Red Button artist is always tops.
(Goes without saying but for some reason i just keep on raving anyway!)