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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. Li Jianhong: San Sheng Shi (Archive)
  2. Juana Molina: Un Dia (Domino)
  3. Helmut Schafer: Noise As A Language (Kwanyin)
  4. Evol Intent: Era of Diversion (System)
  5. Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing (ATP)
  6. Billy Bao: Dialectics Of Shit (Parts Unknown)
  7. Koen Holtkamp: Field Rituals (Type)
  8. Dodos: Visiter (Frenchkiss)
    7/10
  9. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words: Lost In Reflections (Killer Pimp)
  10. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend (XL)
  11. Bug: London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
  12. Have A Nice Life: Deathconsciousness (Enemies List)
  13. Pussygutt: She Hid Behind Her Veil (20 Buck Spin)
  14. Jasper TX: Black Sleep (Miasmah)
  15. Gnaw Their Tongues: For All Slaves A Song Of False Hope (Burning World Records)
  16. Wavves: Wavves (Woodsist)
  17. Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles (PIAS)
  18. Zebulon Pike: Intransience (Unfortunate Music)
  19. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes (Subpop)
  20. Beat Circus: Dreamland (Cuneiform)
  21. Christian Fennesz: Black Sea (Touch)
  22. Lindstrom: Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound)
  23. No Age: Nouns (Sub Pop)
  24. Terminal Sound System: Constructing Towers (Extreme)
  25. Alps: III (Type)
  26. Ida Maria: Fortress Round My Heart (Waterfall)
  27. Badu: New Amerykah Part One - 4th World War (Motown)
  28. Journey To Ixtlan: Journey To Ixtlan (Aurora Borealis)
  29. White Denim: Workout Holiday (Full Time Hobby)
  30. Nekrasov: The Form Of Thought From Beast (Exotic Corpse)
  31. Leila Arab: Blood Looms And Blooms (Warp)
  32. Evangelicals: The Evening Descends (Dead Oceans)
  33. Mark McGuire: Guitar Meditations (Wagon)
Playlist
  1. Vivian Girls: Tell the World
  2. Vampire Weekend: M79
  3. Dodos: Jodi
  4. Florence and the Machine: Kiss with a Fist
  5. Evol Intent: The Curtain Falls
  6. White Denim: Let's Talk About It
  7. Bug: Angry
  8. No Age: Sleeper Hold
  9. Billy Bao: I Am Billy Bao Right Here Right Now
  10. Vivian Girls: Going Insane
  11. Crystal Castles: XXZXCUZX Me
  12. Beat Circus: The Rough Riders
  13. Beach House: Wedding Bell
  14. Fleet Foxes: English House
  15. Vivian Girls: Such A Joke
  16. Portishead: We Carry On
  17. Mountain Goats: Lovecraft in Brooklyn
  18. Drive-By Truckers: Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife
  19. Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal
  20. Leila Arab: Mettle
  21. Crystal Antlers: Vexation
  22. Dodos: Fools
  23. Late Of The Pier: Broken
  24. Marnie Stern: Transformer
  25. Rebotini: 1314
  26. Portishead: Machine Gun
  27. Magnetic Fields: Please Stop Dancing
  28. Stephen Malkmus: Baltimore
  29. Hercules And Love Affair: Blind
  30. Magnetic Field: California Girls
  31. Drive-by Truckers: Self-Destructive Zones
  32. Wolf Parade: Soldier's Gun
  33. Ida Maria: I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
  34. Leila Arab: The Exotics
  35. Bon Iver: Blood Bank
  36. Lykke Li: Little Bit
  37. Late Of The Pier: The Bears Are Coming
  38. Journey To Ixtlan: Burnt Coyote Teeth
  39. Valet: Fuck It
  40. Evangelicals: How Do You Sleep
  41. Blank Dogs: Spinning
  42. Nick Cave: Albert Goes West
  43. Jay Reatard: Painted Shut
  44. Thao Nguyen: Swimming Pools
  45. Wavves: California Goth
  46. Laura Marling: Night Terror
  47. That Handsome Devil: Rob the Prez-O-Dent

Extended tracks
  1. Li Jianhong: San Sheng Shi
  2. Fuck Buttons: Race You To My Bedroom/Spirit Rise
  3. Helmut Schafer: Thought Provoking
  4. Mark McGuire: Intervals
  5. Black Angels: Never/Ever
  6. Koen Holtkamp: Sky Flowers
  7. Pussygutt: She Hid Behind Her Veil
  8. Lindstrom: Where You Go To I Go Too
  9. Hjarnidaudi: March
  10. Jasper TX: Black Sheep
  11. Juana Molina: Los Hongos De Marosa
  12. Expo '70: Midnight Stalking/Dawn Of The Black Ohms
  13. Shit And Shine: High Brooms
  14. Mamaleek: Shout On Children
  15. Acid Mothers Temple: Cosmic Soul Death Disco
  16. Nisennenmondai: Mirrorball
  17. Eric Glick-Rieman: The Thrust Required to Hover
  18. Matmos: Supreme Balloon
  19. Opeth: The Lotus Eater
  20. Sun Kil Moon: Lost Verses
  21. Fuck Buttons: Sweet Love For Planet Earth
  22. Have A Nice Life: Hunter
  23. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words: Himmelschreibende Herzen
  24. Mark McGuire: A Matter Of Time
  25. Ricardo Villalobos: Minimoonstar
  26. Acid Mothers Temple: Master Of The Cosmic Inferno
  27. Aufgehoben No Process: Jederfursich
  28. Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words: Forgive/Forget/Regret
  29. Stephen Malkmus: Real Emotional Trash
  30. Motorpsycho: Little Lucid Moments
  31. Angel: Effect Of Discovery, Test, Alarm, Catastrophy
  32. Mark McGuire: Night Owls
  33. Ascanio Borga: Apnea
  34. Jabladav: Homeland & Awe
  35. Nekrasov: The Form Of Thought From Beast
  36. Zebulon Pike: The Avian Magi
  37. Chris Connelly: Forgiveness and Exile
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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