Monday, December 15, 2008

The Rolling Stone Magazines Best 30 Albums of 2008

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The Rolling Stones Top 500 Albums of All Time is a controversial but very interesting list that many will know but what about their list for the best albums of 2008

This is a readers poll, but if we consider that readers also reflect the magazine its a pretty dire list: Look at the Top Five, Kings of Leon sell out very early in their career, Coldplay (oh God), Guns n' Roses come back from the dead. Thank God for Fleet Foxes, Mars Volta and the surprise brilliance of Girl Talk !

1. The Killers - Day & Age
2. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
3. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
4. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5. Guns n’ Roses - Chinese Democracy
6. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
7. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
8. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
9. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
10. R.E.M. - Accelerate
11. Beck - Modern Guilt
12. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
13. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
14. Metallica - Death Magnetic
15. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
16. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
17. Portishead - Third
18. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
19. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
20. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
21. The Mars Volta - Bedlam In Goliath
22. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part 1 (4th World War)
23. Santogold - Santogold
24. Weezer - The Red Album
25. The Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
26. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cardinology
27. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
28. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
29. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
30. The Verve - Forth

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