Albums From 2008 That I Really Enjoyed

After the monstrosity that was last year’s year-end top 28 albums list, I’ve found I don’t have the energy to ever do something like that again.

So I plan on taking the ranking out of it (everybody wins and everyone gets a participation ribbon) and just list 10 albums a day from 2008 that I enjoyed until I either run out of albums or get tired.

I’ll keep the same post and just pile each group of 10 on top and click “update.”

Third (and possibly final) batch of 10 great albums from 2008:
Okay, so I got tired. So I’m done. Sue me. (If you’re the RIAA, please ignore the last sentence.) Since this is probably the last installment, I crammed the rest of my “must-haves” all into one list of 10. I was trying to spread them all throughout the list, but whatever, like I said, I’m tired. This takes a lot more work then you would think. Really, it does!

I feel bad leaving out at least two more installments worth of albums, but that’s just how life is. Not fair. And not ideal. “It ain’t all sunshine and rainbows…..”

21. Sigur Ros – Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust (album link)

(an album cover equally cringe and smile inducing. Okay, maybe a bit more cringe.)

Track 4 – “Við Spilum Endalaust”

22. Conor Oberst – Conor Oberst (album link)

(I’m sorry, but this is just more evidence of how self-absorbed this guy is. Good musician though.)

Track 1 – “Cape Canaveral”

23. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals (album link – sold using the “name your own price” price scheme. Really. Go get it now. If you don’t, you’re dumb. Or…umm…stupid.)

Track 5 – “Set It Off” (Seriously, Jay-Z spliced over Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android”?? Doesn’t get any better. Well, until the very next track!)

24. Beck – Modern Guilt (album link)

Track 9 – “Profanity Prayers”

25. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend (album link)

(It doesn’t seem as self-centered when these guys do it though)

Track 9 – “I Stand Corrected”

26. Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs (album link)

Track 2 – “I Will Possess Your Heart”

27. Nada Surf – Lucky (album link)

Track 3 – “Beautiful Beat”

28. The Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride (album link)

Track 4 – “Autoclave”

29. The Feeling – Join With Us (album link)

(Outside of the Polyphonic Spree, I can’t think of a happier band)

Track 11 – “Don’t Make Me Sad”

30. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid (album link)

Track 4 – “Grounds for Divorce”

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Second batch of 10 great albums from 2008:

11. The Levellers – Letters from the Underground (album link)

Track 8 – “A Life Less Ordinary”

12. Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul (album link)

Track 1 – “Bag it Up”

13. Okkervil River – The Stand Ins (album link)

Track 2 – “Lost Coastlines”

14. Phantom Planet – Raise the Dead (album link)

Track 2 – “Dropped”

15. Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely (album link)

Track 3 – “You Don’t Understand Me”

16. Thievery Corporation – Radio Retaliation (album link)

Track 9 – “Beautiful Drug”

17. Kanye West – 808’s and Heartbreak (album link)

Track 6 – “Paranoid”

18. The Verve – Forth (album link)

Track 2 – “Love is Noise”

19. Panic at the Disco – Pretty Odd (album link)

Track 5 – “That Green Gentleman”

20. Keane – Perfect Symmetry (album link)

Track 2 – “Lovers Are Losing”

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Here’s the first installment, coming at you completely at random:

1. The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing(album link)

Track 1 – “Great DJ”

2. Coldplay – Viva La Vida(album link)

Track 7 – “Viva La Vida”

3. The 88 – Not Only… But Also(album link)

Track 3 – “Coming Home”

4. The Fireman (aka Paul McCartney) – Electric Arguments(album link)

Track 6 – “Light from Your Lighthouse”

5. Chemical Brothers – Brotherhood (‘Best of’ compilation)(album link)

Track 1 – “Galvanize (ft. Q-Tip)”

6. Aqualung – 7 Keys(album link)

Track 1 – “7 Keys”

7. Estelle – Shine(album link)

Track 4 – “More than Friends”

8. Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping(album link)

Track 1 – “Nonpareil of Favor”

9. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova – Once (Soundtrack)(album link)

Track 13 – “Say It to Me”

10. Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue(album link)

Track 3 – “The Next Messiah”

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