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Favorite Albums of 2008

Hello,
We thought it would be fun to share with you all, our recently compiled lists of favorite albums from 2008. We’d also love to know what albums you guys loved best, so feel free to post your own lists too!
-mint

breathmint – Top 25
01) Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
02) Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim
03) Beck – Modern Guilt
04) Get Well Soon – Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon
05) Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride
06) Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
07) Tilly & The Wall – O
08) Somone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Pershing
09) of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping
10) Dresden Dolls – No, Virginia
11) Best Friends Forever – Best Friends Forever
12) Ra Ra Riot – The Rhumb Line
13) Fleet Foxes – Sun Giant / Ragged Wood
14) A Perfect Little Angel – Florida
15) Silje Nes – Ames Room
16) Deerhunter – Microcastle
17) CSS – Donkey
18) Rachel Goodrich – Tinker Toys
19) Atlas Sound – Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
20) Ida – Lovers Prayers
21) Megapuss – Surfing
22) Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – Real Emotional Trash
23) Hercules & Love Affair – Hercules & Love Affair
24) Ruby Suns – Sea Lion
25) The Watson Twins – Fire Songs

almostaghost – Top 25
01. TV On The Radio: Dear Science
02. Portishead: Third
03. Beck: Modern Guilt
04. Laura Marling: Alas, I Cannot Swim
05. Death Cab For Cutie: Narrow Stairs
06. Cat Power: Jukebox
07. Q-Tip: The Renaissance
08. Goldfrapp: Seventh Tree
09. Spiritualized: Songs In A&E
10. Lykke Li: Youth Novels
11. Beach House: Devotion
12. The Raconteurs: Consolers Of The Lonely
13. My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
14. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien: Eleventh Hour
15. Brian Eno & David Byrne: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
16. R.E.M.: Accelerate
17. Langhorne Slim: Langhorne Slim
18. Aimee Mann: @#%&*! Smilers
19. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
20. The Black Keys: Attack & Release
21. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
22. Frightened Rabbit: The Midnight Organ Fight
23. Martha Wainwright: I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too
24. The Mountain Goats: Heretic Pride
25. Eugene McGuinness: Eugene McGuinness

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6 Responses to “Favorite Albums of 2008”

  1. cofuture says:
    January 5, 2009 at 9:58 am

    Stuff I’ve enjoyed this year (in no order):

    Beach House – Devotion
    Nomo – Ghost Rock
    The Very Best – Esau Mwangwana & Radioclit are the Very Best
    Deerhunter – Microcastle
    Devotchka – A Mad & Faithful Telling
    Man Man – Rabbit Habits
    Toumani Diabate – The Mande Variations
    Beck – Modern Guilt
    Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
    Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
    Dodos – Visiter
    David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything that Happens Will Happen Today

  2. breathmint says:
    January 13, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    :] hi cofuture! long time never see

  3. M.O.D. says:
    January 21, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    ALSO:
    Jamie Lidell – Jim
    Flight of the Conchords – Flight of the Conchords

  4. unprodan says:
    February 1, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    1. Beck – Modern Guilt
    2. Kaiser Chiefs – Off with Their Heads
    3. Islands – Arm’s Way
    4. Kings of Leon – Only By the Night
    5. Destroyer – Trouble in Dreams
    6. the Futureheads – This is Not the World
    7. Nada Surf – Lucky
    8. Elbow – the Seldom Seen Kid
    9. Phantom Planet – Raise the Dead
    10. Caesars – Strawberry Weed
    11. Supergrass – Diamond Hoo Ha
    12. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Real Emotional Trash
    13. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
    14. Sons & Daughters – This Gift
    15. B.C. Camplight – Blink of a Nihilist
    16. Neva Dinova – You May Already Be Dreaming
    17. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
    18. Weezer – the Red Album
    19. the Streets – Everything is Borrowed
    20. Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s – Not Animal
    21. We Are Scientists – Brain Thrust Mastery
    22. Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer
    23. the Stills – Oceans Will Rise
    24. Cold War Kids – Loyalty to Loyalty
    25. Ra Ra Riot – the Rhumb Line

    Of course I can’t count anything that I haven’t heard, so this may change years from now…

  5. Adam (anbc) says:
    March 7, 2009 at 1:07 am

    Ah heck, here’s my list…

    1 TV On The Radio • Dear Science,
    2 Sam Roberts • Love at the End of the World
    3 Balmorhea • Rivers Arms
    4 Beck • Modern Guilt
    5 Plants & Animals • Parc Avenue
    6 Wolf Parade • At Mount Zoomer
    7 The Welcome Wagon • Welcome to the Welcome Wagon
    8 Fleet Foxes • Fleet Foxes
    9 Gregory & the Hawk • Moenie and Kitchi
    10 Bon Iver • For Emma, Forever Ago
    11 The Dodos • Visiter
    12 Noah and the Whale • Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
    13 The Rural Alberta Advantage • Hometowns
    14 The Raconteurs • Consolers of the Lonely
    15 Man Man • Rabbit Habits
    16 Death Cab for Cutie • Narrow Stairs
    17 William Fitzsimmons • The Sparrow and the Crow
    18 Langhorne Slim • Langhorne Slim
    19 Why? • Alopecia
    20 Horse Feathers • House With No Home

    21 Frightened Rabbit • The Midnight Organ Fight
    22 Hot Chip • Made in the Dark
    23 Los Campesinos! • We Are Beautiful, We are Doomed
    24 Cut Copy • In Ghost Colours
    25 Fuck Buttons • Street Horrrsing
    26 Coldplay • Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
    27 Vampire Weekend • Vampire Weekend
    28 Deerhoof • Offend Maggie
    29 White Denim • Workout Holiday
    30 Ra Ra Riot • The Rhumb Line
    31 {{{Sunset}}} • Bright Blue Dream
    32 Elbow • The Seldom Seen Kid
    33 Sigur Ros • Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
    34 Sun Kil Moon • April
    35 Shugo Tokumaru • Exit
    36 Mountain Goats • Heretic Pride

  6. breathmint says:
    March 7, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    nice… ill have to check out a few of those i skipped / never heard of :]

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