The Exclusive Dindastic Year End Music Lists

It's that time of year when everyone gets inundated with all sorts of year end lists. Here at JJHQ, we have received no fewer than 82 lists on a wide variety of topics. As a public service to our loyal readers, JJHQ has reviewd all of the lists and will present only the cream of the crop.

So without further ado, we present you with the 2008 edition of one of our most popular lists, The Dindastic Year End Music Review. These lists are compiled by friend of the blog Dindas. And even more exciting, we present these lists exclusively. Good luck finding them on some other blog.

Records of the Year

1) The Hold Steady - "Stay Positive"
2)My Morning Jacket - "Evil Urges"
3) Kings of Leon - "Only by the Night"
4) Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - "Cardinology"
5) Jenny Lewis - "Acid Tongue"
6) TV on the Radio - "Dear, Science"
7) Conor Oberst - "Conor Oberst"
8) David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
9) The Raconteurs - "Consolers Of The Lonely"
10) Fleet Foxes - "Fleet Foxes"
11) Vampire Weekend - "Vampire Weekend"
12) Drive By Truckers - "Brighter Than Creation's Dark"
13) The Black Keys - "Attack and Release"
14) Black Mountain - "In the Future"
15) Death Cab For Cutie - "Narrow Stairs"
16) Sia - "Some People have Real Problems"
17) Duffy - "Rockferry"
18) Bon Iver - "For Emma, Forever Ago"
19) Q-Tip - "The Renaissance"
20) Metallica - "Death Magnetic"


Shows of the Year
1) Ryan Adams and the Cardinals - The Apollo Theater, NYC - October 31
2) Wilco - Tangelwood, Lenox, MA - August 12
3) Derek and Susan's Soul Stew Revival - All Good Music Festival -
Masontown, WV - July 11
4) Wilco - Schubert Theater - New Haven, CT - February 24
5) My Morning Jacket - Radio City Music Hall, NYC - June 20

Songs of the Year
1) "Jack Killed Mom" - Jenny Lewis
2) "Lord, I'm Discouraged" - The Hold Steady
3) "Magick" - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
4) "Tiger Mountain Peasant Song" - Fleet Foxes
5) "The Girl You Lost To Cocaine" - Sia

The Year End List Extravaganza Continues

Friend of the Blog Schwarter has offered a new list exclusively to the blog. This is the only place on the vast interweb where you will find Schwartzer's Top Twelve Months of 2008. I probably would have ranked June higher than August and October a little lower, but Schwartzer, who owns a surprising number of calendars, clearly knows what he's talking about.

Schwartzer’s Top Twelve Months of 2008

1. November
2. April
3. March
4. May
5. October
6. July
7. August
8. February
9. June
10. January
11. December
12. September

Vintage Year End List

Year end lists are nothing new. People have been compiling such lists for as long as they could count. The earliest evidence of such lists have appeared in the tombs of some Egyptain pharaohs.
As an added year end bonus, we present a vintage year end list. The year was 1920 and an enterprising sportswriter for the Brooklyn Daily Mudflap compiled a list of the greatest names of baseball players who played in the major leagues that year. The list is presented below with a special thanks to friend of the blog Schwartzer.

Top 50 Baseball Player Names (1920)

1. Jigger Statz
2. Greasy Neale
3. Sweetbreads Bailey
4. Gavvy Cravath
5. Ivey Wingo
6. Heinie Groh
7. Hippo Vaughn
8. Chippy Gaw
9. Pickles Dillhoefer
10. Zack Wheat
11. Mack Wheat
12. Shovel Hodge
13. Grover Lowdermilk
14. Ping Bowdie
15. Urban Shocker
16. Amos Strunk
17. Bubber Jonnard
18. Baby Doll Jacobson
19. Dud Lee
20. Lyman Lamb
21. Hal Leathers
22. Pinch Thomas
23. Happy Felsch
24. Chick Shorten
25. Slim Love
26. Chick Fewster
27. Bibb Falk
28. Stuffy McInnis
29. Braggo Roth
30. Mule Watson
31. Nig Clarke
32. Cy Fried
33. Pug Griffin
34. Pie Traynor
35. Rowdy Elliott
36. Eppa Rixey
37. Rabbit Maranville
38. Bunny Hearn
39. Possum Whitted
40. Howdy Caton
41. Sheriff Blake
42. Mutt Wilson
43. Dutch Wetzel
44. Dixie Davis
45. Howie Shanks
46. Fred Merkle
47. Hod Leverette
48. Roxy Walters
49. Max Flack
50. Wally Pipp

Big Changes for 2009

All of the fans of Japanese Jesus have flooded the inbox here at JJHQ with accolades for our 2008 and requests for the blog for the new year. In 2008, Japanese Jesus grew by leaps and bounds with scores of new readers and an incredibly high post count. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the 2008 posts have been mysteriously scrubbed form the internet. (Anybody with any info, please contact JJHQ.) All we are left with are the memories.

Big things are in store for 2009 including new features, exclsuive interviews, JJ merchandise, giveaways, the First Annual Japanese Jesus Retreat, guest bloggers, and much much more.

But 2008 is not over yet, so stay tuned for the exclusive, highly anticipated Dindastic year-end list.