It’s that time of the year again when all the music magazines post their favorite albums of 2008 and which artists they are itching to hear their new records in 2009. Here’s a few magazines that I enjoy lists. Do you agree with them? At times, I have to be honest, I did not. And I felt there were a few albums left off Alternative Press’ 2009 Anticipated Album list. I added a few after their list.
Under the Radar – Top 50 Alubms 2008
1. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
2. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
3. The dodos – Visitor
4. Portishead – Third
5. The Duke Spirit – Neptune
6. She & Him – Volume One
7. M83 – Satruday=Youth
8. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
9. Flight of the Conchords – Flight of the Conchords
10. The Dears – Missiles
11. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
12. Deerhunter – Microcastle
13. Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue
14. Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
15. Neon Neon – Stainless Style
16. Okkervil River – The Stand Ins
17. No Age – Nouns
18. R.E.M – Accelerate
19. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
20. Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
21. Love Is All – A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night
22. British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
23. Lykke Li – Youth novels
24. Black Mountain – In the Future
25. Tindersticks – The Hungry Saw
26. Jamie Lidell – Jim
27. Coldplay – Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
28. Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules and Love Affair
29. Pop Levi – Never Never Love
30. Frances – All the While
31. Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
32. Fujiya & Miyagi – lightbulbs
33. Spiritualized – Songs in A&E
34. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
35. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
36. The Walkmen – You & Me
37. Noah and the Whale – Peaceful, the Wolrd Lays Me Down
38. Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping
39. Beck – Modern Guilt
40. Ladytron – Velocifero
41. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrsing
42. Dungen – 4
43. Jim Noir – Jim Noir
44. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
45. The Old Believers – Eight Golden Greats
46. The Verve – Forth
47. The Week That Was – same
48. School of Language – Sea from Shore
49. Hot chip – Made in the Dark
50. Friday Hyvonen – Silence Is Wild
Spin Magazine Top 40 Albums of 2008
1. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
2. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
3. Portishead – Third
4. Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
5. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
6. Santogold – Santogold
7. Deerhunter – Microcastle
8. Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
9. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
10. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
List Continues Here.
Rolling Stone 2008 Albums of the Year
1 | TV on the Radio: Dear Science
2 | Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs — The Bootleg
Series Vol. 8
3 | Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III
4 | My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
5 | John Mellencamp: Life, Death, Love
and Freedom
6 | Santogold: Santogold
7 | Coldplay: Viva la Vida or
Death and All His Friends
8 | Beck: Modern Guilt
9 | Metallica: Death Magnetic
10 | Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
11 | Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
12 | Guns n’ Roses: Chinese Democracy
13 | Blitzen Trapper: Furr
14 | Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology
15 | The Black Keys: Attack & Release
Continues Here.
Alternative Press – Anticipated Albums of 2009
Tegan and Sara – September – just announced!
Green Day
A Day to Remember – February
Against Me! – Fall
All Time Low – Summer
Boys like Girls – Spring
Cartel – Summer
Chiodos – Fall
Circa Survive – Spring
Cobra Starship – February
The Devil Wears Prada – Spring
Envy on the Coast – August
Every Time I die – winter
Gallows – March
Killswitch Engage – Spring
Manchester orchestra – Spring
Mayday Parade – Summer
New Found Glory – March 10
NOFX – April
Panic At the Disco – Spring
Paramore – Summer
Past Lives – Fall
Rival Schools – Early Summer
The Rocket Summer – Summer
Saosin – April
Say Anthing – Summer
Silverstein – April
The Used – February
Taking Back Sunday – Spring
Also w/o Dates:
AFI
Ok Go
Deftones
Social Distortion
U2
Franz Ferdinand
Bruce Springsteen
Regina Spektor
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Rachael Cantu
Arcade Fire
Imogen Heap
-Koop
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