Tuesday, December 30, 2008

2008's Top Album Lists Galore

The 50 Best Albums of 2008 -- Rolling Stone Magazine. TV on the Radio's Dear Science makes it to their top.

Mojo Magazine Top 50 Albums of 2008 Fleet Foxes (band name and album title) is their #1.

The 40 Best Albums of 2008 -- Spin Magazine comes up with a list of ten less and names (again) Dear Science as #1.

Pitchfork Presents -- The 50 Best Albums of 2008 Another win for Fleet Foxes at #1.

The Best Albums of 2008 -- from the editors of eMusic. They name 88 albums and The '59 Sound by The Gaslight Anthem tops their list.

NPR listeners voted for their top 25. . .and the winner is Fleet Foxes.

Amazon puts together a top 100 for Best Music of 2008 with The Kings of Leon's Only By The Night as #1. Amazon also has top 10 and 100 lists for many specific genre's of music.

50 Albums of the Year
named by the Guardian/The Observer in the United Kingdom. Their #1? For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver.

Sigur Ros, Blitzen Trapper, Portishead, Brian Eno/David Byrne, Bob Dylan, MGMT, and Vampire Weekend show up in most of the lists. So how do the critics' choices match up to your favorites?

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