2008 Music Lists

As I've done the past two years, I've ranked the albums I acquired this year. The rankings are in no way scientific. I spent about 10 minutes moving stuff around. The top album leads the pack by a large margin. The next few stand out against the rest. But, all in all, these are good albums and the ranking might be different on a different day.

After the list you will find an embedded player with a song from each album (some albums may not be represented because of licensing restrictions). The player comes from lala.com, which is a site I highly recommend. Should you decide to check it out and join up (it's free!), be sure to follow this link (lala.com reference) so I can get credit for referring you.

1. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Pictures And Sound Pictures And Sound
3. Thao We Brave Bee Stings and All
4. Ane Brun Changing Of The Seasons
5. Lisa Piccirillo Momentum
6. Ladyhawke Ladyhawke
7. Adele 19
8. The Weepies Hideaway
9. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
10. The Duhks Fast Paced World
11. Florence and the Machine Dog Days Are Over EP
12. Girl Talk Feed The Animals
13. Shearwater Rook
14. Sigur Rós Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
    
15. TV On The Radio Dear Science
16. Blind Pilot 3 Rounds and a Sound
    
17. Tracy Chapman Our Bright Future
    
18. Cat Power Jukebox
19. Matthew Perryman Jones Swallow the Sea
    
20. Dar Williams Promised Land
21. Death Cab For Cutie Narrow Stairs
    
22. Headlights Some Racing, Some Stopping
    
23. Jem Down To Earth
24. Joan As Police Woman To Survive
    
25. Marching Band Spark Large
    
26. Stars Sad Robots
    
27. Rosie Thomas A Very Rosie Christmas
28. Sia Some People Have Real Problems
29. R.E.M. Accelerate
30. Spokane A Small Commotion
    
31. audiobytes for autobots 2.0
32. What Made Milwaukee Famous The Sugarhill Sessions EP
33. The Real Tuesday Weld eMusic Compilation 2008
34. Wale Mixtape About Nothing

Songs from 2008 Albums

I also collected a good many songs from 19 other albums, but did not get the whole albums. They are ranked below (9-18 are all pretty close and so are listed in alphabetical order), followed by a playlist (some albums may not be represented due to licensing restrictions):

1. Brett Dennen Hope For The Hopeless
2. Brad Barr The Fall Apartment : Instrumental Guitar
3. David Byrne & Brian Eno Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
4. Friendly Fires Friendly Fires
5. Horse Flies Until the Ocean
6. Portishead Third
7. The Rosebuds Life Like
8. TOBACCO F***ed Up Friends
9. Anathallo Canopy Glow
10. Department of Eagles In Ear Park
11. Horse Feathers House With No Home
12. J-Boogie's Dubtronic Science Soul Vibrations
13. Jars Of Clay Closer (EP)
14. My Brightest Diamond A Thousand Shark's Teeth
15. RATATAT LP3
16. School of Seven Bells Alpinisms
17. Starf**ker Starf**ker
18. Whitley The Submarine
19. Of Montreal Skeletal Lamping

Songs of 2008 Partials