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The Best Bands Of 2008 on ANBAD! The List To End Them All!

Jan 1, 2009, 10:40am

The Best Bands Of 2008 on ANBAD! The List To End Them All!

So, for the last week(ish), the usually calm, collected and rational pages of A New Band A Day have been overwhelmed by mouth-frothing excitement in the pathetically masculine pursuit of list forming . The best gigs and albums and the worst, most brain-scrabblingly bile-inducing bands have been dubiously and half-heartedly celebrated in the time honoured end-of-year way. But now the truth. All those other lists were really just teasingly laying the groundwork for the [...]

Tags: Best of 2008

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