Best Albums of 2008 (Finally)

A combination of busyness and laziness meant that I haven't been able to compile a best of 2008 album list for a while, but here it is...

Best Albums of 2008:

1. WHY? Alopecia
2. Born Ruffians, Red Yellow & Blue
3. Bound Stems, The Family Afloat
4. Sigur Ros, Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
5. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
6. M83, Saturdays=Youth
7. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
8. TV on the Radio, Dear Science
9. Hot Chip, Made In the Dark
10. Azeda Booth, In Flesh Tones
11. David Byrne and Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
12. Hercules & Love Affair, Hercules & Love Affair
13. Blitzen Trapper, Furr
14. Erykah Badu, New Amerykah: Part One
15. Blood Red Shoes, Box of Secrets
16. She & Him, Volume One
17. Los Campesinos, We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
18. Evangelista, Hello, Voyager
19. HEALTH, Health/Disco
20. The Ting Tings, We Started Nothing
21. Coldplay, Viva la Vida Prospekt's March Edition
22. The Submarines, Honeysuckle Weeks
23. Chairlift, Does You Inspire You
24. Deerhunter, Microcastle
25. Gang Gang Dance, Saint Dymphna
26. Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles
27. Golden Animals, Free Your Mind and Win a Pony
28. Anathallo, Canopy Glow
29. The Duke Spirit, Neptune
30. Amanda Palmer, Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
31. The Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride
32. Dead Meadow, Old Growth
33. School of Seven Bells, Alpinisms
34. Grand Archives, Grand Archives
35. Darker My Love, 2
36. Duffy, Rockferry
37. Girl Talk, Feed the Animals
38. R.E.M., Accelerate
39. I Was a Cub Scout, I Want You to Know That There Is Always Hope
40. Mogwai, The Hawk Is Howling
41. Nauschka, Ferndorf
42. Lykke Li, Youth Novels
43. Does It Offend You, Yeah?, You Have NO Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
44. The Raveonettes, Lust Lust Lust
45. Hello, Blue Roses, The Portrait is Finished…
46. Glasvegas, Glasvegas
47. Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours
48. Mates of State, Re-Arrange
49. Conor Oberst, Conor Oberst
50. Mirah, The Old Days Feeling
51. Foals, Antidotes
52. Ra Ra Riot, The Rhumb Line
53. The Shaky Hands, Lunglight
54. High Places, High Places
55. The Fireman, Electric Arguments
56. Fall Out Boy, Folle A Deux
57. Plants and Animals, Parc Avenue
58. Metallica, Death Magnetic
59. Kate Nash, Made of Bricks
60. Beach House, Devotion
61. Theresa Andersson, Hummingbird, Go!
62. Okkervil River, The Stand Ins
63. Friendly Fires, Friendly Fires
64. Shearwater, Rook
65. Lydia, Illuminate
66. Marnie Stern, This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
67. Noah and the Whale, Peaceful the World Lays Me Down
68. The Cure, 4:13 Dream
69. Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue
70. Tapes 'n Tapes, Walk It Off
71. The Roots, Rising Down
72. Charlotte Sometimes, Waves & The Both of Us
73. Tilly and the Wall, O
74. UNKLE, End Titles: Stories for Film
75. Patti Smith and Kevin Shields, The Coral Sea
76. Earlimart, Hymn and Her
77. Castanets, City of Refuge
78. Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
79. Ten Kens, Ten Kens
80. Murs, Murs for President
81. The Uglysuit, The Uglysuit
82. Sian Alice Group, 59:59,
83. O'Death, Broken Hymns, Limbs, and Skin
84. Bodies of Water, A Certain Feeling
85. Parts & Labor, Receivers
86. Of Montreal, Skeletal Lamping
87. The Knux, Remind Me in 3 Days
88. Rachael Yamagata, Elephants…Sinking Teeth Into Heart
89. The Walkmen, You & Me
90. Sun Kil Moon, April
91. Santogold, Santogold
92. Lightspeed Champion, Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
93. No Kids, Come Into My House
94. The Last Shadow Puppets, The Age of Understatement
95. Wilderness, (K)no(w)here
96. Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Not Animal/Animal
97. These New Puritans, Beat Pyramid
98. The Hush Sound, Goodbye Blues
99. Bloc Party, Intimacy
100. Shiny Toy Guns, Season of Poison

Honorable Mention

1. Death Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs
2. Kanye West, 808s and Heartbreak
3. The Dodos, The Visiter
4. The Bug, London Zoo
5. Welcome to Mall, Amadou & Mariam
6. The Airborne Toxic Event, The Airborne Toxic Event
7. Nas, Untitled
8. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
9. The Nightwatchman, Fabled City
10. The Hold Steady, Stay Positive
11. Wolf Parade, At Mount Zoomer
12. Abe Vigoda, Skeleton
13. Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid
14. The Academy Is…, Fast Times at Barrington High
15. Chris Walla, Field Manual
16. Fennesz, Black Sea
17. Thrice, The Alchemy Index, Vol. III & IV
18. Panic at the Disco, Pretty.Odd
19. Adele, 19
20. My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges
21. Women, Women
22. Pink, Funhouse
23. Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III
24. Headlights, Some Racing, Some Stopping
25. Man Man, Rabbit Habits