The 2008 Fav 50

Time for the end of the year list of favorite albums.

1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Deerhunter - Microcastle
3. Old Crow Medicine Show - Tennessee Pusher
4. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6. The Donkeys - Living On The Other Side
7. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
8. Winterpills - Central Chambers
9. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
10. Damien Jurado - Caught In The Trees
11. The Wood Brothers - Loaded
12. Human Highway - Moody Motorcycle
13. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
14. Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park
15. Jackie Greene - Giving Up The Ghost
16. Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
17. Delta Spirit - Ode To Sunshine
18. Steve Wynn - Crossing Dragon Bridge
19. Kelley Stoltz - Circular Sounds
20. Beach House - Devotion
21. Joan Of Arc - Boo Human
22. The Fireman - Electric Arguments
23. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazarus Dig!!
24. The Moondoggies - Don't Be A Stranger
25. The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
26. Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal
27. The Baseball Project - Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes And Dying Quails
28. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
29. The Cure - 4:13 Dream
30. Lila Downs - Shake Away
31. Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
32. Vetiver - Things Of The Past
33. T-Bone Burnett - Tooth Of Crime
34. Barry Adamson - Back To The Cat
35. Robert Forster - The Evangelist
36. The Accidental - There Were Wolves
37. School Of Language - Sea From Shore
37. Santogold - Santogold
38. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
39. Benji Hughes - A Love Extreme
40. Portishead - Third
41. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of Understatement
42. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
43. The Pillbugs - Everybody Wants A Way Out
44. The Dreadful Yawns - Take Shape
45. The Quarter After - Changes Near
46. Hayes Carll - Trouble In Mind
47. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
48. No Age - Nouns
49. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
50. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer


Some great reissues, compilations and findings from the vaults this year

The New Order series of Collector's Editions
The Replacements expanded editions
The Jesus And Mary Chain - The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities
The Lines - Memory Span
The Lines - Flood Bank
Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol. 8, Tell Tale Signs: Rare & Unreleased 1989-2006
R.E.M. - Murmur (Deluxe Edition) Disc 2: Live In Toronto 1983
Neil Young - Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968
The La's - The La's (Deluxe Edition)
The La's - BBC Sessions
Belle & Sebastian - BBC Sessions
The Clash - Live At Shea Stadium
Ry Cooder - The Ry Cooder Anthology: The UFO Has Landed
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (Legacy Edition)
Outrageous Cherry - Wide Awake In The Spirit World: The Best of Outrageous Cherry
King Khan & The Shrines - The Supreme Genius Of King Khan & The Shines
Wooden Shjips - Volume 1
The Grip Weeds - Infinite Soul: The Best of The Grip Weeds
Paul Weller - At The BBC
Portastatic - Some Small History
Golden Smog - Stay Golden, Smog: The Best of Golden Smog
Pavement - Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed.


There was lots of other great music that rocked my world this year so why stop now...

The Dodos - Visiter
Calexico - Carried To Dust
Black Mountain - In The Future
The Explorers Club - Freedom Wind
Bryan Scary - Flight Of The Knife
Giant Sand - ProVisions
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Sigur Ros - Med Sud...
Jamie Lidell - Jim
The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
Dungen - 4
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
Spiritualized - Songs In A&E
The Sea And Cake - Car Alarm
The Kills - Midnight Boom
Mugison - Mugiboogie
Johnny Flynn - A Larum
The Walkmen - You And Me

Lots of music from some old friends too...

John Hiatt - Same Old Man
Beck - Modern Guilt
Glen Campbell - Meet Glen Campbell
Al Green - Lay It Down
Steve Cropper & Felix Cavaliere - Nudge It Up A Notch
B. B. King - One Kind Favor
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
Steve Winwood - Nine Lives
Solomon Burke - Like A Fire
Pretenders - Break Up The Concrete

And these list could keep going on and on...