The best album of 2008

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In no specific order:

The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement [Anything coming from Alex Turner never disappoints I think]

Oceanlab - Sirens Of The Sea

Al Green - Lay It Down

Armin Van Buuren - Imagine

Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

Benny Benassi - Rock 'N' Rave

These are albums that I can listen to without skipping something.

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Syanide

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Probably Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

or The Killers - Day & Age

or Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death And All of His Friends

and perhaps MGMT - Oracular Spectacular.

I'm kind of surprised that this is the first post that had Coldplay.

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Metallica - Death Magnetic

Nine Inch Nails - The Slip

Mindless Self Indulgence - If

Kings of Leon - Only By The Night

The Kooks - Konk

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid

And as an EP, Combichrist - Frost EP - Sent To Destroy was a pretty ****ing awesome listen, can't wait for Today We Are All Demons later this month.

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Napalm Frog

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Imho, this year was pretty crappy for music. I really did enjoy Heaven Shall Burn's Iconoclast, Weezer's self-titled Red Album, and Ladytron's Velocifero. Oh, and can't forget Death Cab for Cutie's Narrow Stairs. Nothing amazing, but definitely a good listen-to.

EDIT: OMFG, I almost forgot my fav album of the year, I'm stupid. Plants and Animals' Parc Avenue. Canadian indie music ftw!

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shakey_snake

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2008 was a pretty good year in music in my opinion. Here's all my music from this year:

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I spent an excruciating amount of time pairing down and putting these in order, but here they are, my top 10 releases of 2008:

  1. Fleet Foxes: Sun Giant EP
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    Yes, it's "only" an EP, so it may not even be fair to compare it to the other LPs on this list, but, front to back it is IMO the most solid release of the year. All 5 tracks are captivating, haunting, dynamic and just utterly beautiful. The band describes their music as "baroque harmonic pop jams", but I'd be more likely to say it's more like Space Rock meets Americana.
  2. Sigur R?s:Me? Su? ? Eyrum Vi? Spilum Endalaustt>
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    I have no idea how to pronounce that album title, but does it even matter? Sigur R?s does it again. I'm not sure this is the best album that they've had in their career, but their career has been something of a marvel. The oGobbledigookok gets my nod for track of the year and the album just kind of twists, bends and floats along from there. Side 2 mostly floats.
    Fleet FFleet Foxesesi>
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    Yeah, this is the second release from this band in the top three, but it's almost as good. And it runs a full 39 minutes. There's probably more highlights on this album as there aSun Giantnt, but tracks 6 and 11 are a little weak. Still I think it's hard to dislike anything this band has done so far.
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    Maybe I just like my music when the lyrics are unintelligible? Dungen is a Swedish rock band and this album seriously pounds. Jazz-inspired throwback-hard rock has never sounded better.
    Broken Social Scene Presents... Bendan CanSomething for all of Us.....i>
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    No band has probably influenced my musical taste more than Broken Social Scene. There music has always just seemed so right to me that nearly everything else I listen to I compare to them somehowPresents..... series of albums they've been working on are really no different. Brendan Canning writes an awesome bunch of songs here and the band does a great job executing them. It's great to kind of compare this to Kevin Drew&Spirit If..... and kind of see the distinct styles of the band's two primary song writers.
    Ryan Adams & the CardiCardinologygyi>
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    It's always great to hear an album after Ryan Adams has taken some time to put it together. After releasing 3 albums in 2006, the last one was getting a bit slCardinologygy is a return to what I expect from him: Great, dynamic, lyrically blissful, Alt. Country.
    IslArm's wayayi>
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    This is just such a fun, pop-y and lyrically-melodramatic bunch of tracks it would be impossible to leave this of this list. I like to think of Islands as Islands:2000's::The Kinks:1960s. This is an album that makes you want to see the band live.
    Wolf PaAt Mount Zoomereri>
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    Great follow up to their addictive 2005 reApologies to the Queen Maryry. Sometimes you hear albums like that and you wonder if the band can have a successful sophomore album, well Wolf Parade diFine Young Cannibalsls might be the most addictive track of the year not found on the next album...
    Vampire WeeVampire Weekendndi>
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    I probably had more plays from this album during a short period of time than any other this year. Whoever decided to combined "Afro-pop" with "indie rock" made the right choice. I listened to this album until I was sick of it, then you take a break, and then you listen to it a bunch more. This is such a fun, simple album. HEY HEY HEY!
    Black Attack and Releasesei>
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    If you like guitar-based-Blues and Rock, I'm not sure you cannot like how the Black Keys manage to bring the two genre's together. Sometimes I listen to them and the 12 bars can't seems to hold my attention span, other times, it just tastes like eating something rusty, in a good way. It's amazing how they get the songs to opeI Got Minene is a perfect example of this. 2 minutes in you think you have the whole song figured out and then it just expands into something that encompasses your entire head. This is such a special band, and it's a great release by them.

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Purple Haze

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Rise Against - Appeal to Reason

The lone album I keep going back to over and over; just catchy as hell and easily my favorite album from them . Only track I skip is Entertainment, but only because I love the other songs so much I gotta make a cut somewhere.

Honorable Mentions: Metallica - Death Magnetic; M83 - Saturdays=Youth

Songs of the Year IMO: MGMT - Time to Pretend; M83 - Kim & Jessie; GNR - Better

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