Popshifter‘s Best Of Lists

Published on January 30th, 2009 in: Best Of Lists, Books, Current Faves, Issues, Movies, Music, Retrovirus, Top Five Lists, Top Ten Lists, TV |

Best Of 2008

By Danny R. Phillips

Not all selections are from 2008 but many are; they are in no specific order.

Albums


Justin Townes Earle, The Good Life

Firewater, The Golden Hour

The Dillinger Four, C I V I L W A R

dillinger four civil war

The Dirtbombs, We Have You Surrounded

The Breeders, Mountain Battles

The Gits, Best of The Gits

Hunter S. Thompson, The Gonzo Tapes (five-CD box set)

The Architects, Vice

Kate Nash, Made of Bricks

The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely

Alkaline Trio, Agony and Irony

Movies


What We Do Is Secret (the story of The Germs), directed by Rodger Grossman

Punk’s Not Dead, directed by Susan Dynner

Iron Man, directed by Jon Favreau

Tropic Thunder, directed by Ben Stiller

The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan

halloween poster

A Christmas Story, directed by Bob Clark

Buy the Ticket, Take The Ride: Hunter S. Thompson On Film, directed by Tom Thurman

The Black Keys Live at The Crystal Ballroom (concert DVD), directed by Lance Bangs

Halloween, directed by John Carpenter

Four Christmases, directed by Seth Gordon

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, directed by Alex Gibney

The Complete Monterey Pop Festival—The Criterion Collection, directed by D.A. Pennebaker

The Gits, directed by Kerri O’Kane

Last Days, directed by Gus Van Sant (weird fucking movie that made little to no sense)

Books


Augusten Burroughs, A Wolf at The Table

Jack Kerouac, Big Sur; On The Road (The Original Scroll); Desolation Angels

on the road

Hunter S. Thompson, The Great Shark Hunt

Best Music Writing 2008, Da Capo Press

Everett True, Hey Ho, Let’s Go: The True Story of The Ramones

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Omnibus Press

Robert Graysmith, Zodiac

Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

Mike Evans, The Beats: From Kerouac to Kesey, an Illustrated Journey through the Beat Generation

Lester Bangs, Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste

Suzy Shaw & Mick Farren, BOMP: Saving The World One Record At A Time

George Orwell, Animal Farm

Jim DeRogatis, Milk It!

Pete Hamill, A Drinking Life: A Memoir

The Letters of Allen Ginsberg, Edited by Bill Morgan

Maria Raha, Cinderella’s Big Score

Mikal Gilmore, Shot In The Heart

Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk

Television


House, M.D.

Prison Break

Life

The Office

St. Louis Cardinals Baseball

The Drak Pack, cartoon from my childhood

Burn Notice

Family Guy

Robot Chicken (Star Wars episode, of course)

drak pack


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4 Responses to “Popshifter‘s Best Of Lists”


  1. Noreen Sobczyk:
    February 7th, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    No need to be ashamed about not knowing an album exists – especially since Galas is not exactly mainstream. If you lerned of it via my list I am extremely pleased! You can buy it online or mayspecial order it from your local mom n’ pop shop. I was lucky enough to see her perform two different programs at the Chicago Museum of Modern Art and she was intense and incredible.

    I too have been listening to the Electric Six a lot this year. I haven’t seen Synecdoche, New York and am incredibly interested. I like the music very much. I wonder if Mr Manning ever passes used books along to others. I sure need some self help, but find I can’t help myself. Catnip Dynamite is a gem. I think I will start a band called The Sarah Palin Experience, but not record or play — just stand in close proximity to instruments.

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