Favorite albums of 2008

[jfg]

I'll swing out my list later this week. What are yours?

[Art Vandelay]

In no particular order (except the first one, which is the album of the year):

Doomtree - Doomtree
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint that S*** Gold
Atmosphere - Sad Clown Bad Spring
Buck 65 - Dirtbike pts 1-3
Cecil Otter - Rebel Yellow
Bernard Dolan - The Failure
Prolyphic and Reanimator - The Ugly Truth
Killer Mike - Pledge Allegiance to the Grind vol. II
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Angels
The Roots - Rising Down
Q-Tip - The Renaissance
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
Vampire Weekend - s/t
Qwel and Kip Killagain - The New Wine
Astronautalis - Pomegranate
The Gigantics - Die Already
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Al Green - Lay it Down

[daullaz]

Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
Jack Johnson - Sleep Through The Static
Atmosphere - When Life Hands You Lemons...
The Fratellis - Here We Stand

[Cleveland Steamers]

Off the top of my head...so many more that I'll probably add.

The Racontuers - Consolers of a Lonely Heart
The Kooks - Konk
Taproot - Long Road Home

[smoovethug]

Nas - Untitled
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds

[jfg]

Alright, I've caught up on what I felt I needed to and nothing beat out these.

1. The Week That Was- ST
2. Fleet Foxes- ST
3. Vampire Weekend- ST
4. Beck- Modern Guilt
5. Rivers Cuomo- Alone II
6. Submarines- Honeysuckle Weeks
7. Thomas Function- Celebration!
8. Metallica- Death Magnetic
9. Lemuria- Get Better
10. Dandy Warhols- Earth to the Dandy Warhols
11. Clinic- Do It!
12. TI- Paper Trail
13. Magnetic Fields- Distortion
14. Jim Noir- ST
15. Islands- Arm's Way
16. Wale- Mixtape About Nothing
17. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks- Emotional Trash
18. REM- Accelerate
19. Madonna- Hard Candy
20. Lil Wayne- Tha Carter III

[thedude]

Tha Carter III was my favorite.

[jfg]

Tha Carter III was my favorite.

I actually knocked that off my list once I realized I forgot Ladyton's new album.

Here's my final list: http://rateyourmusic.com/list/johnfgillson/top_20_albums_of_2008/

[Neato Torpedo]

There hasn't been a single album I'd call "good" since NOFX released Liberal Animation.

[Snakes Gould]

There hasn't been a single album I'd call "good" since NOFX released Liberal Animation.

i hate that type of attitude more than anything else.