Nostalgia.

I was having a brief perusal through my last.fm journal (as you do) and I came across last year's 'best of' music lists. For anyone that's interested, I've posted them in the comments for their respective 2008 counterparts; so the 2007 'top 75 singles of the year' is in the 'top 75 singles of 08''s journal entry.

Also, The Gaslight Anthem's The '59 Sound joins a highly prolific cast of musical genii with its award of 'best album of the year'. Listed below are the LPs that won the accolade in years past, right back to 1994. Granted, I only started doing this in, like, 2004 but there's no harm in being retrospective...

Screenaged Kicks' Albums of the Year: 1994 - 2008

2008: The Gaslight Anthem: The '59 Sound
2007: Bright Eyes: Cassadaga
2006: My Chemical Romance: The Black Parade
2005: Bloc Party: Silent Alarm
2004: Green Day: American Idiot
2003: Muse: Absolution
2002: Interpol: Turn on the Bright Lights
2001: Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American
2000: Idlewild: 100 Broken Windows
1999: Jimmy Eat World: Clarity
1998: Eels: Electro-Shock Blues
1997: Foo Fighters: The Colour and the Shape
1996: Manic Street Preachers: Everything Must Go
1995: Weezer: Weezer
1994: Manic Street Preachers: The Holy Bible

For the statisticians among you, the Manics and Jimmy Eat World are currently the only artists to have had two albums of the year (94/96 and 99/01 respectively). Weezer very nearly did it with Pinkerton in 96, but were just pipped to the post. 2003 was also an extremely close call: in fact, if I could make it a tie between Muse (the winners) and Brand New's Deja Entendu, I would. But I can't.