My NY resolution is to listen to some new music... recommendations please

[yogabird]

At a pub quiz recently there was a round on each decade since the 60's.

60's we scored 14/20
70's 16/20
80's 20/20
90's 6/20
00's 0/20

This performance, combined with a newspaper article which said that you need to keep doing and experiencing new things to keep your brain young and to stay in touch and to fend off the dreaded Alzheimers made me realise that 2008 was the time to listen to some new stuff. What should it be?

I like quite a few of the ones on your list (but katie melua...?!)
I am not at all up to date with music, got into the Pixies about a decade too late for example.
I really like Franz Ferdinand - v reminiscent of 80s stuff to my mind.
I also like Hot Chip who are more dancey these days but their first album was really good electro-pop.
I was at the Scottish meet-up and one of their tracks was playing really loud - it as exhilarating (I think everyone else was having a wee tut-tut though )
PJ Harvey is a goddess.

mostly this year i am recommending the arcade fire, hot chip, amy winehouse, rufus wainwright

ah another Hot Chip fan
I love them! (First album though..so eighties somehow)

ah yes, OBVIOUSLY : Wainwright, Winehouse, Eels and Polyphonic Spree.

Can't stand Arcade Fire meself - all that over-emoting... Would give Placebo a swerve too but takes all sorts!

Loving FischerSpooner (think Human League, but kind of 'now'...) and the Flaming Lips (think REM but a bit more, er smiley...)

Not a fan of the arcade fire myself, can't put my finger on why but they just irritate the life out of me, and the fact that they are so hyped.

what about Angelis?

Don;t listen to Katie Melua. Just don't

Nor Clannad. Not if you want some respectability with musos . Everything else on your list you can just about get away with!

Sorry, being evil but i've had enough of school holidays today!

listen to lots of radio shows. radio 2 is quite good and radio london has a show on saturday nights which always covers new music. (you can listen online).

We Are Scientists is a good album. Mr Hudson and the Library are going to be really big this year and Remy Nicole. If you like more dance-y stuff try Groove Armada or Basement Jaxx.

Maybe try reading some music magazines, NME, Q etc.

Are you in London ? because I listen to Robert Elms in the afternoons (12-30 bbc Radio London and get lots of ideas from there.)
I recommend
Arcade Fire
Au Revoir Simone
Killers
Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins
Super Furry Animals/ Gruff Rhys
Caesaria Evora
Madeleine Peyroux
Cansei de Ser Sexy (beware explicit lyrics) - esp Music is my hot hot sex
Camera Obscura
Lemon Jelly
Stereolab

lol at our sunday radio london appreciation ms!

i better not add anyone else lol

Richard Hawley is fab

i also like the scouting for girls album

thinks scouting for girls too much like novelty songs

concludes zippi and lou do not share music tastes lol

I love the Scouting for Girls album!

My recommendations(and they're coming from an oldie - I'm 45):

Jack Johnson
Snow Patrol (Eyes Open)
Keane (Hopes and Fears)
Amy Winehouse
Athlete (Tourist)
KT Tunstall
Corinne Bailey Rae

think listening to teenage boys singing that she's sl ovely song all last term has put me off lol

thats what i like about scouting for girls, it's amusing

how else would the words love lobotomy be brought out into the public, otherwise?

oh but its not suicidally depressing

exactly

Lily Allen.