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23 December 2008 (released)
23 December 2008
Once again at this most festive of times Music News journalists turn their back on festivities, lock themselves into a room with only bread and water (ok... booze and crisps) and thrash out the merits or otherwise of the best albums of the year in order to compile our yuletide Top 28 albums of 2008.
Rightly or wrongly or at least the only thing we could remember went a little bit like this:
1. Metallica - Death Magnetic
2. The Gaslight Anthem – Sound of '59
3. AC/DC - Black Ice
4. Stainless Style - Neon Neon
5. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
6. Glasvegas : 'Glasvegas'
7. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
8. Guns 'n Roses - Chinese Democracy
9. Bon Iver - For Emma Ever Ago
10. Portishead – Third
11. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
12. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
13. Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
14. C R Avery – Magic Hour Sailor Songs
15. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
16. The Music - Strength in Numbers
17. Guillemots – Red
18. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
19. Datsuns - Head Stunts
20. British Sea Power - Do you like Rock Music?
21. Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
22. The Tough Alliance - A New Chance
23. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
24. Beck - Modern Guilt
25. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
26. Martina Topley-Bird - The Blue God
27. Rose Hill Drive - Moon is the New Earth
28. The Presets – Apocalypso
Those just outside included:
29. Seasick Steve - I Started Out With Nothing And I still Got Most Of It Left
30. She & Him - Volume One
31. Flogging Molly – Float
32. Engine 7 – Me, But Perfect
33. William Control - Hate Culture
34. Take That - The Circus
35. Viva Stereo - Roar Lion Roar
36. Juliana Meyer - Holding Up The Sky
37. Shearwater – Rook
38. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
39. Willy Vlautin – Northline
40. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
41. Dragonforce – Ultrabeatdown
42. Gojira - The Way of all Flesh
43. Fuck Buttons - Street Horssing
44. Ferraby lionheart – Catch The Brass Ring
45. Damien Jurado - Caught In The Trees
46. Iglu & Hartley - & Then Boom
47. The Gutter Twins – Saturnalia
48. Gill Landry – Ballad of Lawless Soirez
49. Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
50. Eric Bibb – Get on Board
51. The Cure - 4:13
52. Seckou Keita Quintet – the Silimbo Passage
53. Amadou & Mariam - Mali
54. NIN - The Slip
55. Todd Rundgren – Arena
56. Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
57. Witch – Paralyzed
58. Muse - H.A.A.R.P
59. The Sword – Gods of The Earth
60. Otis Taylor – Recapturing the Banjo
61. Rose Kemp - Unholy Majesty
62. Band Of Horses - Band of Horses
63. Issa Bagayogo – Mali Koura
64. Samuel James – Songs Famed for Sorrow & Joy
65. The Futureheads - This is not the World
66. 15 - Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
67. The Rascals - Rascalisation
68. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles
Until next years festive fight commenses, Happy New Year to all!
