Hi erocksters and Happy New Year! I hope you all enjoyed the "top 10" project erockster undertook with Filter Magazine this year and although it isn't quite as cool as some of the amazing artists who have shared their top 10's with us, I wanted to share my personal top 50 songs of 2008 with all of you.  It was such a fantastic year for music even narrowing it down to 50 was difficult.  I wish you all a year of joy, peace, prosperity and great music!

Tyler's Top 50 Tracks of 2008 (In no particular order)

1) Another World - Antony and the Johnsons

2) White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes

3) Gila - Beach House

4) Half Asleep - School of Seven Bells

5) Agoraphobia - Deerhunter

6) Auntie's Lock - Flying Lotus

7) The Rip - Portishead

8) House of Cards - Radiohead

9) Gobbledigook - Sigur Ros

10) No One Said It Would Be Easy - Cloud Cult

11) City of Electric Light - Chad VanGaalen

12) Skinny Love - Bon Iver

13) Face Down in the Right Town - Earlimart

14) Cascade Kisses - Francois Virot

15) Break - Son Lux

16) Kim & Jessie - M83

17) No One Does It Like You - Department of Eagles

18) Fools - The Dodos

19) Teen Creeps - No Age

20) South of France - Harlem

21) Drop-Out - Times New Viking

22) On My Time - The Muslims (The Soft Pack)

23) Gamma Ray - Beck

24) Time to Pretend - MGMT

25) My Delirium - Ladyhawke

26) Shut Up and Let Me Go - The Ting Tings

27) No Sex for Ben - The Rapture

28) I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance - Black Kids

29) L.E.S. Artistes - Santogold

30) The Healer - Erykah Badu

31) Gettin' Up - Q-Tip

32) Give the Drummer Sum - Black Milk

33) Love Lockdown - Kanye West

34) Cappuccino - The Knux

35) Any Way You Choose To Give It - The Black Ghosts

36) Sunset Blvd - Pacific

37) Collapsing At Your Doorstep - Air France

38) Gross Magik - Tobacco

39) Day N' Night (Crookers Remix) - Kid Cudi

40) Crimewave - Crystal Castles

41) Blind - Hercules and Love Affair

42) We are Rockstars - Does If Offend You, Yeah?

43) Space and the Woods - Late of the Pier

44) Ready for the Floor - Hot Chip

45) Lights & Music - Cut Copy

46) Heartbreaker - Metronomy

47) Paris - Friendly Fires

48) Walking on a Dream - Empire of the Sun

49) Bruises - Chairlift

50) Dead Sound - The Raveonettes

I wanted to say happy holidays to all of our erockster community.  You guys have made this first year of erockster an amazing one.  Your input, your creativity, your energy and ideas have helped to make erockster.com a vibrant online community.  I hope you all have a safe and happy holiday season and I look forward to seeing you all back (and bring your friends and family too) in 2009!  You Rock! - Tyler

 

The weekend is upon us and I thought it might be a nice lead into the weekend to start featuring funny videos on Fridays.  The first installment of funny video Fridays comes from Journey.  This video for Separate Ways (worlds apart) is perhaps the best kind of funny because the comedy is totally unintentional.  I am sure that Steve Perry and the crew thought that this video was important and cutting edge, the benefit of time however allows to realize that really it is just absurd and hysterical.  Get ready to experience a laugh out loud combo of air instrument playing, mullets and moustaches!

 Journey--Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)

The Internets are a buzz after the youtube release of this video:

Several days before it's mystery release on YouTube GB's lead singer Cee-Lo told some press that GB was in the studio recording a new album, the question is whether Mystery Man is a b-side or the first single from the new album.  Either way the video is awesome so check it out!

T.I. has taken over the top position in three different categories over at Billboard magazine this week.  His album "Paper Trail" is currently #1 on the Billboard 200, and he holds  #1 singles in the Digital and R&B/Hip Hop charts with two different tracks!  Besides blowing up the charts T.I. is busy with his MTV reality series set to air in 2009.  The show apparently follows the Atlanta rapper as he finishes his court ordered 1,000 hours of community service and gets ready to sit in jail for a mandatory one year sentence.  The uncharacteristically light sentence for a man convicted of possession and purchase of unregistered machine guns and silencers as well as possession of firearms by a convicted felon has fueled the rumor mills about how T.I. got such favorable treatment. You can read more about the T.I. case and see his mugshot here.   If you want to check out his current chart toppers here they are:

 

1) Live your Life, #1 Digital

2) Whatever You Like, #1 R&B/HipHop