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Favorite Alternative Records of 2008

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Thought this would be a fun list. What were you favorite albums of 2008 that relate to Alternative/Modern Rock radio (they can skew active or triple A but just keep it close to the format):

Here are mine in no particular order:

AUGUSTANA – Can’t Love Can’t Hurt
BELL X1 – Flock
BIFFY CLYRO – Puzzle
BLOC PARTY – Intamacy
BON IVER – For Emma, Forever Ago
BUTCH WALKER – Sycamore Meadows
CARY BROTHERS – Who You Are
COLDPLAY - Viva La Vida or Death Of All His Friends
COUNTING CROWS – Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE – Narrow Stairs
ELBOW – The Seldom Seen Kid
FALL OUT BOY – Folie A Deux
FLEET FOXES – Fleet Foxes
FOXBORO HOT TUBS – Stop, Drop and Roll
THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM – The ’59 Sound
GLASSVEGAS - Glassvegas
GNARLS BARKLEY – The Odd Couple
THE HOLD STEADY – Stay Positive
JACK’S MANNEQUIN – The Glass Passenger
KAISER CHIEFS – Off With Their Heads
KINGS OF LEON – Only By The Night
LESS THAN JAKE – GNV FLA
THE LIVING END – White Noise
LUDO – You’re Awful, I Love You
LYDIA - Illuminatea
METALLICA – Death Magnetic
NINE INCH NAILS – The Slip
OASIS – Dig Out Your Soul
PANIC AT THE DISCO – Pretty Odd
THE PINK SPIDERS – Sweat It Out
PORTISHEAD – Third
THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – These Are Good Times People
THE RACONTEURS – Consoler Of The Lonely
RISE AGAINST – Appeal To Reason
SANTOGOLD – Santogold
SCARS ON BROADWAY – Scars On Broadway
SIGUR ROS - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
THRICE – The Alchemy Index, Vol III& IV
VAMPIRE WEEKEND – Vampire Weekend
WEEZER – Weezer (The Red Album)
 
Nice list. Here's some of my favorites from this year:

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Nada Surf - Lucky
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
The Breeders - Mountain Battles
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
One Day as a Lion - One Day as a Lion (EP)
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Beck - Modern Guilt
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint that Shit Gold (Also has my vote for best album title of the year ;D )
 
WBIMDJ said:
Nice list. Here's some of my favorites from this year:

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Nada Surf - Lucky
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
The Breeders - Mountain Battles
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
One Day as a Lion - One Day as a Lion (EP)
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Beck - Modern Guilt
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint that Shit Gold (Also has my vote for best album title of the year ;D )
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I thought the MGMT disc was really overrated. They had a few fun dancy numbers but the rest of it was all just kind of stoner experimental midtempo stuff.
 
Longwave - Secrets Are Sinister
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns

Gun's And Roses - Chinese Democracy ;-)
 
Here are my top 10, no particular order

Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Beck - Modern Guilt
Coconut Records - Nighttiming (came out in '07, but didn't hear it til '08, only on Sirius BTW)
Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Raconteurs - Consoler of the Lonely
M.I.A. - Kala

Jacko
 
REM- Accelerate

Jim White- Transnormal Skipperoo

Calexico- Carried To Dust

Alejandro Escovedo- Real Animal

Lucinda Williams- Honey

Drive By Truckers- Brighter Than Creation's Dark



That's all. A lot of bad music out there! Even Joseph Arthur came out with a dud. Not terrible but not as genius as some of his other work.
 
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