Best Albums of 2008

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1.

Fleet Foxes 

 Fleet Foxes

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"positively stunning. fleet foxes sound like a heavenly folky woodland group on their amazing debut lp. their beautiful harmonies and great instrumentation make it one of the most stellar albums of its kind"  Reply

- jeremih724 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

1,261 charts

Rank Score:

10,209

Rank in 2008:

1

Rank in 2000s:

17

Overall Rank:

127

Average Rating:

 83 (1,616 votes)

Comments:

93

2.

Vampire Weekend 

 Vampire Weekend

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"An odd case for me, this great band. I'm probably in the minority, but to me, their albums have gotten better and better, so by definition this is their least strong album for me. It's a scary thought. Personally, I think if they keep up their craft and dedication, they can be our generation's Be...""An odd case for me, this great band. I'm probably in the minority, but to me, their albums have gotten better and better, so by definition this is their least strong album for me. It's a scary thought. Personally, I think if they keep up their craft and dedication, they can be our generation's Beatles in terms of releasing consistent material. Two more great albums after Modern Vampires and I'll pretty much be sold on that, concerning a single band's peak. Anyway, only after falling in love with their next two albums, do I really appreciate this one. It's the precursor to their evolving sound. So it's hard to deny this album as important."  [+]  Reply

- smrtboi2120 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

936 charts

Rank Score:

6,561

Rank in 2008:

2

Rank in 2000s:

39

Overall Rank:

243

Average Rating:

 81 (1,331 votes)

Comments:

80

3.

Third 

 Portishead

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"This record will be considered off-putting by some, even by Portishead fans still in thrall to their first two, the second of which was over 10 years prior to this. They did make two great ones to begin their recording career in the 90s, but this blows them both out of the water. As great artists...""This record will be considered off-putting by some, even by Portishead fans still in thrall to their first two, the second of which was over 10 years prior to this. They did make two great ones to begin their recording career in the 90s, but this blows them both out of the water. As great artists carry on they challenge themselves to push the envelope. This record does that. It is jarring in places, but that just adds to the overall sense of tension and release. This record is like an aural record of Shakespeare's rising and falling action; I honestly feel it is worthy of such praise. Album of the decade."  [+]  Reply

- ninecurses | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

688 charts

Rank Score:

5,408

Rank in 2008:

3

Rank in 2000s:

45

Overall Rank:

310

Average Rating:

 81 (845 votes)

Comments:

41

4.

Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends 

 Coldplay

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"I really really did not like Coldplay until I heard this album I had turned my nose up at most of the songs I had heard from there first three albums HoweverI bought this album after liking viva la vida the single and violet hill as they intrigued me - and I fell in love with the album The CD cam..."" I really really did not like Coldplay until I heard this album I had turned my nose up at most of the songs I had heard from there first three albums HoweverI bought this album after liking viva la vida the single and violet hill as they intrigued me - and I fell in love with the album The CD came with prospects March (?) EP - which is a masterpiece in its self and which could have been released as a double album I also now love Rush of blood ..... But I am still not keen on XY and parachutes and I really really really can't stand anything post viva la vida ! So trust me when I say I am not trying to sell Coldplay to you , but do give this album a go ! I just wish Coldplay had continued in the musical direction they were going with this album as they could have made some great records"  [+]  Reply

- Bungalowracoon | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (10 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

748 charts

Rank Score:

4,971

Rank in 2008:

4

Rank in 2000s:

53

Overall Rank:

339

Average Rating:

 75 (1,489 votes)

Comments:

114

5.

Deathconsciousness 

 Have A Nice Life

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"This album appeared to me out of nowhere and I love it. I like shoegaze. I'm not sure why but the sound, the atmosphere it creates, it's all so comforting. And yet at times it can be terrifying. The duo of Dan Barrett(Giles Corey) and Tim Macuga makes for a thrilling adventure from beginning to e...""This album appeared to me out of nowhere and I love it. I like shoegaze. I'm not sure why but the sound, the atmosphere it creates, it's all so comforting. And yet at times it can be terrifying. The duo of Dan Barrett(Giles Corey) and Tim Macuga makes for a thrilling adventure from beginning to end. Once the album starts we are introduced to the song, "A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticut". The track name alone lets everyone know they are in for something special. The album proceeds to get darker and produce heavier sounds. The vocals are at first a little hard to get into, but once you really hunker down and listen, you understand how big of a role that plays into the completion and tone of this album. The atmosphere that is created when any song is played on this album just engulfs you."  [+]  Reply

- kinglyostrich | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

373 charts

Rank Score:

4,091

Rank in 2008:

5

Rank in 2000s:

64

Overall Rank:

408

Average Rating:

 81 (444 votes)

Comments:

34

6.

The Seldom Seen Kid 

 Elbow

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"I remember the first time I put on the album I turned it up pretty loud and the horns on Starlings scared the shit out of me... ahaha. FANTASTIC record. Heard it once and fell in love immediately."  Reply

- RoundTheBend | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

456 charts

Rank Score:

3,109

Rank in 2008:

6

Rank in 2000s:

89

Overall Rank:

551

Average Rating:

 78 (588 votes)

Comments:

39

7.

Dear Science 

 TV On The Radio

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"seriously? "fall out boyish"??? what a horrible thing to say. i dont hear it."  Reply

- The Gollux | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

521 charts

Rank Score:

2,861

Rank in 2008:

7

Rank in 2000s:

95

Overall Rank:

588

Average Rating:

 78 (651 votes)

Comments:

37

8.

808s & Heartbreak 

 Kanye West

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"Okay, for those who don’t know the album or didn’t listen to it with a perspective of what was going on in Kanye’s life, this album came in 2008, a year later than Graduation and it featured a major change of direction respect any of his albums that came before. And this is because Kanye was goin...""Okay, for those who don’t know the album or didn’t listen to it with a perspective of what was going on in Kanye’s life, this album came in 2008, a year later than Graduation and it featured a major change of direction respect any of his albums that came before. And this is because Kanye was going through a hell of a year (in the bad sense): he had lost his mother (to whom he was truly connected), separated from his fiancé & surrendered to alcoholism. The first impression you have when listening to this album is the state of devastation you can only assume Kanye was in during that time. It was an artist fully opening his emotions & trying to clean his soul of sadness, sorrow, anger & pain. But for the average hip hop listener of 2008, the emotions coming through the speakers in the form of AutoTune, heavy drums & electric instruments & synthesizers, was nothing they wanted from Kanye. Where were the soul samples (or even the electronic samples of Graduation), the lyrics, the rapping, that warm feeling of albums like College Dropout & Late Registration? Nowhere to be found, so the backlash this album received was enormous. But it just works so well retrospectively, comparing it to Kanye’s subsequent career. I’m not sure fans would have continued to go down the rabbit hole with him, had he stayed fully emerged in the electropop genre. But MBDTF cemented him as a true artist who was unafraid to experiment and pull things from different sounds. The truth is that this album's core aesthetic was like nothing in hip-hop: freshly butchered feelings enumerated in detail, but masked by digital processing; beds of spare synths used to balance a mix of singing and rapping. A masterpiece and a triumph of ahestetics."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

410 charts

Rank Score:

2,793

Rank in 2008:

8

Rank in 2000s:

97

Overall Rank:

605

Average Rating:

 76 (943 votes)

Comments:

66

9.

Microcastle 

 Deerhunter

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"This album is just so fucking cool it's ridiculous. The aura of sounds and psychedelic atmospheres that are created by Bradford Cox and the gang just utterly encapsulates you from the very first listen. Whilst the middle-section of the album loses a little strength, the end picks up to a very str...""This album is just so fucking cool it's ridiculous. The aura of sounds and psychedelic atmospheres that are created by Bradford Cox and the gang just utterly encapsulates you from the very first listen. Whilst the middle-section of the album loses a little strength, the end picks up to a very strong finish."  [+]  Reply

- vinnid127 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

385 charts

Rank Score:

2,249

Rank in 2008:

9

Rank in 2000s:

122

Overall Rank:

765

Average Rating:

 80 (474 votes)

Comments:

23

10.

Only By The Night 

 Kings Of Leon

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"The run from Sex on Fire till Revelry is a relentless flawless streak of mad genius. I dont know how/why i ended up loving those 4 songs so much, but they havent aged a day after all this time and i only love them more with every listen. The rest of the album has eventually grown on me, notion an...""The run from Sex on Fire till Revelry is a relentless flawless streak of mad genius. I dont know how/why i ended up loving those 4 songs so much, but they havent aged a day after all this time and i only love them more with every listen. The rest of the album has eventually grown on me, notion and closer are fine songs, but i am mostly here for those 4 songs. "  [+]  Reply

- Vatsal | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2008

Appears in:

431 charts

Rank Score:

1,980

Rank in 2008:

10

Rank in 2000s:

141

Overall Rank:

864

Average Rating:

 72 (763 votes)

Comments:

44

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Best Albums of 2008 composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	5	1%
Deerhunter	3	0%
Los Campesinos!	2	0%
Amy Winehouse	2	0%
Mount Eerie	2	0%
Indian Jewelry	2	0%
White Denim	2	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	449	45%
	169	17%
	47	5%
	36	4%
	35	4%
	32	3%
	31	3%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	956	96%
Yes	44	4%

Live?	Albums	%
No	972	97%
Yes	28	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	10	1%