BEST OF EL OCHO: THE TOP 100 SONGS OF 2008

100
Daddy's Gone - GLASVEGAS

The scotttish rock band lead by James Allan (who looks like a chubby Joe Strummer) have gotten great reviews of their debut album all over Europe.





"Daddy's Gone" sold out and was voted the number two single of the year by NME magazine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSdQxKaBfU


99
Crazy World - J MAJIK & WICKAMAN VS. KATHY BROWN


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STNmsXrriY0



98 TIE


Human- THE KILLERS
Are we human or are we dancer? QUE?????

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6r4KT8-VX0




Gamma Ray - BECK

The great Beck released another great album during this 2008. Modern Guilt was produced by himself and DJ Danger Mouse. This track is an example of that powerful collabo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIBw-lbxtT4

97
Pocketful Of Sunshine - NATASHA BEDINGFIELD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2XcqKaXDIY



96
Green Light JOHN LEGEND FT. ANDRE 3000
AKA the track where John Legend was pimped out by Ice Cold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hd-uklv-5g



95
Midnight Madness - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoaeEAdDv-c




94
New Soul - YAEL NAIM

The first of many songs use by Apple for their gadgets' advertising campaigns. This one is from this complete unknown Israeli - French singer-songwriter. Yael Naim rose to worldwide fame in 2008 thanks to this track.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK_fI8tjNvA&feature=related


93 TIE


This position is tied by 2 songs that I have played in my ipod several times during 2008. Especially when I feel so vulnerable and lonely.

Vive Solo - JUANA MOLINA


Imagine if Tina Fey quit comedy and sang electronics-based folk songs.That's the path Juana Molina took more than 10 years ago in her native Argentina, leaving her job as a TV comedian to pursue experimental folk. Her fifth disc is her most adventurous, combining avant-garde vocals with the atmospherics of Portishead and My Bloody Valentine. With looped guitar, hypnotic percussion and a bit of feedback, the title track sounds like two songs playing at once.

Like Brian Wilson or Kevin Shields, The Latin Bjork pulls off the most out-there material with melodies nearly as accessible as conventional pop.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brZ79TL0Nho



Take me home - THE GILLEMOTS

Beautiful tune by one of my favorite british bands from the last 5 years. Is the kind of song that you wanna hear when you are in a big celebration scene and all of the sudden you feel that you don't belong there or simply you are not in that happy state. You just want to sit, relax and see your loved ones. This was my 2008 Christmas and New Year's eve theme song.

OMG!! I'm such a drama queen!! LOL!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHZIMZUwfmY


92
Just Dance - LADY GAGA FT. AKON & COLBY O'DONIS


This song has been around in the charts for more than 6 months!! I remember that the first time that I hear it was when the Gaga lady perform for the Miss Universe event.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M65zI9LH-as





The song rocketed up the worldwide Top 10 charts in late 2008, got a Grammy nomination for Best Dance Song and became the everybody's jam during the last hours of 2008.


"If you've ever been so high that it's, like, scary, the only way you can deal with it is not deal with it, so you just kind of dance through the intoxication. I wrote the song the day after I had just flew in from New York to L.A., so I was taken very quickly out of my party lifestyle. I wrote it instantly—like it flew out of my body. I'd been working on this album for two-and-a-half years, and I was at a crossroads with my songwriting. I was trying to be so cool with my own music, but I would get better responses when I would write for other artists because I was not trying to be cool. So when I did "Just Dance", that was my way of being like, "just fuckin' write a good song. Stop worrying about what's going to fly in the underground. Worry about writing a great record." Actually, that record ended up being more powerful than any of the songs that I racked my brain writing, and after that, it was an influx of record after record. It was almost like a switch went off in my brain, and I figured out how to write a good pop song"

LADY GAGA

91

Touch My Body - MARIAH CAREY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzxR8OH-fDQ

BEST OF EL OCHO: UNDER THE TOP 100

The TOP 100 SONGS OF 2008 are coming next.

These are the tunes that didn't make the cut (From #125 to #101)

125. TIE

Back Of The Van LADYHAWKE

Ladyhawke is noted as being influenced by 1980s music. The New Zealander could secretly be Kim Wilde’s daughter for all we know. Or maybe Patty Smyth from Scandal—remember her?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhPh6ou8Kbk

Scream TIMBALAND FT. KERI HILSON AND MICHELLE SCHERZINGER

Probably one of the sexiest lyrics of this year. Timba and the girls are so naughty! Makes me wanna spank them!!

Can I have of your cookies? Can I have some of your pie?

Listen to the last part of the album version of this song (starting at 3:58).

STEAMY HOT!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0CCn-7dYSs

124. Love Is A Losing Game AMY WINEHOUSE

Now that Blake is out of jail, We are expecting new material Miss!

123. One Day OPSHOP

Another New Zealand act that caught my attention during this year (They are doing great music over there!!). Beautiful song, sexy singer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX7MktaEMh0

122. Clumsy FERGIE

121. Fools THE DODOS

120. Rise FLOBOTS

The day that Obama won the Presidential Election and while I was walking down Broadway Avenue to Union Square Park I experienced the most spectacular image of overjoyed people in the streets.

This song was playing in my iPod and somehow became the soundtrack of this important day in the history of our country.

RISE, TOGETHER WE RISE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0XmsUlz2hI

119. One Pure Thought HOT CHIP

118. Love Remains The Same GAVIN ROSSDALE

This song unexpectedly became the Gwen Stefani's spouse first top 40 hit in United States since 1995 when his former band Bush scored hits with "Comedown" and "Glycerine." It has since become more successful than Gavin's biggest hits in Bush from the mid 1990s and is now his most successful track.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8Qvm24dbU

117. Hollow Man R.E.M.

I still can't understand how I missed their NYC shows this year. Hopefully I will be Michael's server next time that he visits TABLA. I'll keep my fingers crossed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6liExGgLhY

116. Love Is Noise THE VERVE

Half Teletubby, Half Brit Pop , Love is Noise is the song that marked the big 2008 comeback to this great band from the 90s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmRJo8RQ5sA

115. Love Is The End KEANE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpFumSyEp2w

By far the best song included in their 3rd production. The album is OK. There's nothing like the supreme Hopes and Fears.

114. Happiness GOLDFRAPP

113. Oh My God IDA MARIA

112.

Tree Hugger ANTSY PANTS AND KIMYA DAWSON (From "Juno")

111. Look No Further DIDO

Safe Trip Home, her first album in more than 5 years might be Dido's least adventurous to date, her brand of vanilla soul going down like a warm cup of milk. This song was release as a free download back in August. Ever since that day I felt in love with the haunting sound of this song.

Simply Lovely!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsyskCFfoeA

110. Graveyard Girl M83

109. The Way I Am INGRID MICHAELSON

108. Pork And Beans WEEZER

107. 5 Years Time NOAH AND THE WHALE

The perfect summer song of 2008, remember?

http://cereghinology.blogspot.com/2008/07/perfect-summer-song.html

106. Balloons FOALS

105. Granite PENDULUM

These aussies are bringing Drum and Bass back!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQA1d0QQvf8

104. Strange Overtones DAVID BYRNE AND BRIAN ENO

One of so many great songs included in the album Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. This collection was released on August 18, 2008 it's the first collaboration between the two music geniuses since 1981's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. Byrne and Eno worked on creating the album—a mix of electronic and Gospel music throughout 2007 and early 2008 over e-mail and have used word-of-mouth and Internet sales to market the music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQyusKTAh4

103. Heart of Chambers BEACH HOUSE

102. Courtship dating CRYSTAL CASTLES

The canadian duo music music is easily recognized by their heavy use of samples and distorted female vocals. Their musical style has been described as having "ferocious, asphyxiating sheets of warped two-dimensional Gameboy glitches and bruising drum bombast pierce [the] skull with sheer shrill force, burrowing deep into the brain like a fever".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1svPxH2MbI

101. Lollipop LIL' WAYNE

Album of the Year? Song of the Year? Really?

BEST OF EL OCHO: MUSIC VIDEOS

10.
Womanizer - BRITNEY SPEARS

Forget about Piece of me, the MTV proclaimed Video of the Year (Seriously?)

La Spears made her big 08' comeback with this video that features one of the sexiest characters in a video since Robert Palmer's Addicted to love.





And yeah, naked Britney too...




This clip also includes the biggest mystery of 2008. What does that date on the Womanizer's Blackberry means? (April 20th?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZSLIq6YiRY

9.

Single ladies (Put a ring on it) - BEYONCE

It was about time that Beyonce releases her inside diva!! Hands down the best choreography in a music video this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REHbgBPkvEE

8. Happiness - GOLDFRAPP

When I first watched this clip, it brought me cool memories of the time when I used to play this on and on and on and on... in my brand new Betamax player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ImTo2uqSoE&feature=related

Years later I found out that this Peter Wolf video (former J. Geils Band singer) was inspired by an scene from Bobby Van's movie Take me to Broadway (1953)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bKwsUnd2F0

This year's version by British dance duo Goldfrapp gives you an idea on how stupid that overjoy feeling would make you feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So93Iny2HWI

7. Pork and Beans - WEEZER

Your welcome youtube!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI

6. House of cards - RADIOHEAD

No lights, no cameras, ACTION!! That was basically the concept for this video,, 3-D plotting technologies reconstructed the geometry of Thom Yorke's face and the two directors' houses. Cameras and light are sooo June 2008, so they didn't use those things. The resulting laser-light show is exactly how I pictured "House of Cards" in my head. Ha! No.

Anyway, even if the video's a little too Epcot Center's Journey Into Imagination for your tastes, it's a cool concept.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTFjVm9sTQ

5.

Shut up and let me go - THE TING TINGS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StP-yIQeT2o

This is the one that deserved the MTV Video of the Year, not Britney!!

Made popular by an iPod commercial, the catchy beats of the British duo's tune are complemented by kung-fu moves and angular views.

Worried about finding love? Success? Happiness? Look into the mystical diamond and see the future in this awesome video.

4. Flashing lights - KANYE WEST


Another Spike Jonze's classic!!

I wonder what was the theme for the conception of this clip. Probably F*#% MTV!!

It's so understandable after Kanye's big lost of Video of The Year in 2007.

Well done mate!!





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEccxPPwXmI



3. TIE

Toe Jam - BPA FT. DAVID BYRNE AND DIZZEE RASCAL

http://cereghinology.blogspot.com/2008/07/lets-watch-some-70s-porn_9854.html

A punk - VAMPIRE WEEKEND

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ

2. Who's gonna save my soul now? - GNARLS BARKLEY



Hey MTV! Here's one more for your list of 2008 Hit and Miss.

This video brilliantly describes how devastated you could feel in a "It's not you it's me" conversation. Somehow this year I was not indifferent to this feeling.

http://cereghinology.blogspot.com/2008/08/whos-gonna-save-my-soul-now.html

BEST VIDEO OF THE YEAR

Have you ever asked yourself how the Hammer got his moves? or from who?

19 years later, finally the answer of this question is revealed in this video.

The song is the 08' remix of the massive hit by UTAH SAINTS from 1992. If that female voice sounds familiar to you is because is a sample of Kate Bush's song, Cloudbusting (1985).

Here's to you THE BEST VIDEO OF EL OCHO, is WICKED!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhV8WlMvvGA

Stay tune amigos! There's more Best of El Ocho on the way...

FELIZ NAVIDAD EVERYONE!!!

After a fun and exciting "skype-virtual christmas eve dinner" with my family in Peru, is time for me to wish you a Merry Merry Christmas to all you my friends from this big family that I have in America.

May the beauty of the season brighten up your life and decorate your days with love, smile and happiness!!


FELIZ NAVIDAD AMIGOS!!!

Here's my All Time Favorite Christmas Songs:

10. Merry Christmas everyone - SHAKIN' STEVENS (1985)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF86nM8g8Jw

9.

TIE

Wonderful Christmastime - PAUL McCARTNEY (1979)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWuKimtUEas

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It's the most wonderful time of the year - ANDY WILLIAMS (1963)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNsp5fP7tB4&feature=related

8.Jingle bells rock - BOBBY HELMS (1957)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWXqmukiD3U

7.Happy Xmas (War is over) - JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO (1971)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvNRHrKyaX4

6.White Christmas - BING CROSBY (1942)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1GPxcxrBkI

The oldest song in this countdown, a real classic!

5.Do they know is Christmas? (Feed the world) - BAND AID (1984)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9lKyi0dDM

4.Fairytale in New York - THE POGUES FT. KIRSTY MacCOLL (1987)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff3aoSyYOVs

3.Last Christmas - WHAM! (1984)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3354flS1KJs

2.Feliz Navidad - JOSE FELICIANO (1970)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMtuVP8Mj4o

#1

All I want for Christmas is you - MARIAH CAREY (1994)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8rY0Fyws20

According to The New Yorker, it is "one of the few worthy modern additions to the holiday canon".

And talkin' about canon, Mrs. Cannon would agree with all of us that this song has become a new christmas classic of the last 25 years.

Despite the common misconception that Carey covered this song, the track is an original song written by the then Mrs. Mottola and Producer Walter Afanasieff in 1994.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!

THE BEST OF EL OCHO

According to my computer's media library and my bank account I have downloaded more than 600 songs, taken more than 500 pictures and spent "mucho dinero" in fun stuff during this year.

All these 08' music, images and cool stuff has been an important part of my very own kid, CEREGHINOLOGY blog.

Starting today and until this little puppy turn 1 year old (next January 1st), I'll be reviewing and presenting everything 2008 from the best of music to my favorite moments of the last 12 months.

Get ready, its going to be MASSIVE!!!

PS:
While you wait for the first post of "The best of 2008" here's some dal and rice on me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhv6OxcwK1A

Cheers amigos!!

IN LOVE WITH A CHEF!!!

I have such a big crush on this guy.

His name is Richard Sweeney and I met him 2 weeks ago in a cooking competition on TV.
He's gay, handsome, talented and wants to be TOP CHEF in New York... I just want to buy him a drink (or maybe more than two...)

SO BAD that he is taken already!!!

GRRRR...!!!

GOOD LUCK BIG BEAR!!

AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, RICK IS STILL ROLLING!!!

If you ever ask me what was the first album that I bought with my own money, I will PROUDLY say WHENEVER YOU NEED SOMEBODY by RICK ASTLEY.

It was a warm saturday afternoon, a week before Christmas of 1987. I spent the only 9 intis (peruvian currency of that time) that I had in my piggy bank on this LP that was displayed on the window of a DISCOCENTRO store on Larco Avenue.

More than 20 years after the release of his debut album, Rick Astley has won the 'Best Act Ever' award at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards.




Following a massive internet campaign by fans, Rick won the award in Liverpool but when I found out that the other nominees for this award were U2, Green Day among other mega stars, this definitely sounds like a big joke.

Let's say that I'm happy por him and trust me, whenever the topic is the life and music of the british pop idol, I'm a sucker for him!!


The 42-year-old polled 100 million votes – more than all the night's other winners combined – to snatch the ultimate honour. The event had been well and truly "rickrolled".

For those whose grasp of internet argot begins and ends with the word "google", Rickrolling is the name of the phenomenon that rescued Astley from obscurity and transformed him into an unlikely icon. After years in self-imposed pop exile, the crooner from the Stock Aitken Waterman hit factory found he had a new fan base when pranksters started tricking internet users into watching the video of his 1987 hit 'Never Gonna To Give You Up' by clicking on more enticingly-labelled links.

For example, a surfer exploring a celebrity gossip site might click on a link for Britney Spears' new video and find themselves watching Astley bopping around in a beige trench coat or in over-sized sun-glasses. Since the rickrolling trend began last year, the video has been viewed more than 20 million times on YouTube.

Astley has kept his dignity intact by neither complaining about the prank nor taking his new-found popularity too seriously.

Though ostensibly grateful to those who voted him in, Astley shows signs of tiring of their mischief-making. He refused to attend the awards, leaving gossip blogger Perez Hilton to accept the trophy on his behalf.

Rick has become a lovely joke, but at least, it seems the joke is beginning to wear thin.

As for me, I feel no shame on being fan of an 80's cheesy pop star here. I will definitely Never Gonna Give You Up...

I leave you with the usual All Time Top 10.

RICK ASTLEY'S TOP 10 GREATEST SONGS EVER

10. Take me to your heart, 1988

(From "HOLD ME IN YOUR ARMS")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqQRN5OWgBw

9. She wants to dance with me, 1988

(From "HOLD ME IN YOUR ARMS")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtIS0Qv2U_Y&feature=related

8. Hold me in your arms, 1989

(From "HOLD ME IN YOUR ARMS")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaOjcgq9oXM&feature=related

7. Whenever you need somebody, 1987

(From "WHENEVER YOU NEED SOMEBODY")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtIS0Qv2U_Y&feature=related

6. It would take a strong strong man, 1988

(From "WHENEVER YOU NEED SOMEBODY")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmgB7qVh0-w

5. Hopelessly, 1993

(From "BODY AND SOUL")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o-JeDyFt1U

4. Together forever, 1988

(From "WHENEVER YOU NEED SOMEBODY")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLsJryWc5XE&feature=related

3. Cry for help, 1991

(From "FREE")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfRfPon9vmU&feature=related

2. When I fall in love, 1987

(From "WHENEVER YOU NEED SOMEBODY")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwLL8mBkDxQ&feature=related

NUMERO

1

Never gonna give you up, 1987

(From "WHENEVER YOU NEED SOMEBODY")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edaJP3Lp0Gg

Cheers amigos!!

WELCOME BOSS!!! We've been waiting for you!!

BARACK OBAMA

President of the United States of America

(2009 - 2012)

SOUNDTRACK OF A SITUATION: A CHANGE IS GONNA COME!!

Go O!!!

No... Not you bitch!!

Today, is all about you my good friend...

You go O!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUT1WgHat6I

Cheers amigos!!!

HALLOWEEN 2008... AND FELIZ DIA DE LOS MUERTOS!!

I had a blast, I drank too much!!

Sorry there's not too many text in this post... I'M STILL RECOVERING FROM AN ABSURD NIGHT!

Let the pictures tell the story...

The spooky night started in Brooklyn where POPEYE, THE NAKED CHEF, MR. ROBOTO (Best Costume of the night!!), GIANT ROACH, THE SUMMER CAMP COUNSELOR AND McDREAMY met.




























On our way to the city we found Wayne and Garth on the G train.
















As soon as we arrived in the West Village, Mr Roboto got all the attention. He even was interviewed for a TV station, broke a couple Asian hearts and hang out his cousin Wall-E.

We made it to the parade... Actually we marched in The Greenwich Village Parade.

The 6th Avenue party was full of cheery people. I saw Marilyn Monroe blowing kisses from a window, A giant spider on the Jefferson Market Library tower, the Presidential Candidates watching the parade from a 3rd floor building and let's not forget how flirty I was with that sexy spartan.

Along with McDreamy, this sailor man friend of you decided to hit the gay bars for a couple drinks. The bars were packed and it was so hard to get in. (I'm talking about long lines that were almost 1/2 mile long!!). I decided then to hang out with my amigos of Tabla in our favorite bar LIVE BAIT. (Please notice the drunk Snoop Dogg pounding his pitcher of beer)

We had so much fun and ended up in a club that was playing all Madonna songs.

What can I say? I love my peeps, I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!!

Cheers amigos!!!