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The Best Rock Albums of 2008

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Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan
Best of Rock 2008
(Read the reviews)

    8/10
    7.5/10
  1. Helmut Schafer: Noise As A Language (Kwanyin)
  2. Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing (ATP)
  3. Vivian Girls: Vivian Girls (In The Red)
  4. Dodos: Visiter (Frenchkiss)
    7/10
  5. Billy Bao: Dialectics Of Shit (Parts Unknown)
  6. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend (XL)
  7. Bug: London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
  8. Have A Nice Life: Deathconsciousness (Enemies List)
  9. Pussygutt: She Hid Behind Her Veil (20 Buck Spin)
  10. Jasper TX: Black Sleep (Miasmah)
  11. Beat Circus: Dreamland (Cuneiform)
  12. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes (Subpop)
  13. Christian Fennesz: Black Sea (Touch)
  14. Lindstrom: Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound)
  15. No Age: Nouns (Sub Pop)
  16. Terminal Sound System: Constructing Towers (Extreme)
  17. Alps: III (Type)
  18. Badu: New Amerykah Part One - 4th World War (Motown)
  19. White Denim: Workout Holiday (Full Time Hobby)
  20. Leila Arab: Blood Looms And Blooms (Warp)
Playlist
  1. Vivian Girls: Tell the World
  2. Vampire Weekend: M79
  3. Dodos: Jodi
  4. Florence and the Machine: Kiss with a Fist
  5. White Denim: Let's Talk About It
  6. Bug: Angry
  7. No Age: Sleeper Hold
  8. Vivian Girls: Going Insane
  9. Beat Circus: The Rough Riders
  10. Beach House: Wedding Bell
  11. Fleet Foxes: English House
  12. Vivian Girls: Such A Joke
  13. Portishead: We Carry On
  14. Mountain Goats: Lovecraft in Brooklyn
  15. Drive-By Truckers: Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife
  16. Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal
  17. Leila Arab: Mettle
  18. Dodos: Fools
  19. Late Of The Pier: Broken
  20. Portishead: Machine Gun
  21. Magnetic Fields: Please Stop Dancing
  22. Stephen Malkmus: Baltimore
  23. Hercules And Love Affair: Blind
  24. Magnetic Field: California Girls
  25. Drive-by Truckers: Self-Destructive Zones
  26. Wolf Parade: Soldier's Gun
  27. Leila Arab: The Exotics
  28. Bon Iver: Blood Bank
  29. Lykke Li: Little Bit
  30. Late Of The Pier: The Bears Are Coming
  31. Valet: Fuck It

Extended tracks
  1. Li Jianhong: San Sheng Shi
  2. Fuck Buttons: Race You To My Bedroom/Spirit Rise
  3. Helmut Schafer: Thought Provoking
  4. Pussygutt: She Hid Behind Her Veil
  5. Lindstrom: Where You Go To I Go Too
  6. Hjarnidaudi: March
  7. Jasper TX: Black Sheep
  8. Expo '70: Midnight Stalking/Dawn Of The Black Ohms
  9. Shit And Shine: High Brooms
  10. Mamaleek: Shout On Children
  11. Acid Mothers Temple: Cosmic Soul Death Disco
  12. Matmos: Supreme Balloon
  13. Opeth: The Lotus Eater
  14. Sun Kil Moon: Lost Verses
  15. Fuck Buttons: Sweet Love For Planet Earth
  16. Have A Nice Life: Hunter
  17. Ricardo Villalobos: Minimoonstar
  18. Acid Mothers Temple: Master Of The Cosmic Inferno
  19. Aufgehoben No Process: Jederfursich
  20. Stephen Malkmus: Real Emotional Trash
  21. Motorpsycho: Little Lucid Moments
  22. Angel: Effect Of Discovery, Test, Alarm, Catastrophy
  23. Ascanio Borga: Apnea
Jazz
  1. Carla Bley: Appearing Nightly (Watt)
  2. Dave Holland: Pass it On (Dare2)
  3. Bill Frisell: History Mystery (Nonesuch)
  4. Leo Smith: Tabligh (Cuneiform)

By genre:

Songwriters

Post-rock
Psychedelia

Electronica

Progressive

Punk/hardcore

Dance
Heavy rock

Instrumental

By country:

Britain

Germany
Japan

Rest of Europe
Australia

Canada

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