I don’t know if this topic will be as popular as last year, but I’ll give it a shot anyway .

Here is where you can start your year-end list and keep track of it until the Final Best Albums of 2008 topic gets posted. Update as much as you want, flaunt your favourites and give mini reviews.

My list as of right now:

1. Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel, Atlas Sound
2. Women As Lovers, Xiu Xiu
3. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
4. Distortions, The Magnetic Fields

Oh hell, I'll bite.

1. The Fleshtones Take A Good Look

This is also the only released in 2008 album I've heard so far.

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Originally posted by crazed:
This is also the only released in 2008 album I've heard so far.

*shocked to my core*

1. Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride


It's the only 2008 album I've heard so far that I like. Tyler Ramsey will probably get more spins, though, so pencil him in for #2 right now.

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Originally posted by Dork:

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Originally posted by crazed:
This is also the only released in 2008 album I've heard so far.

*shocked to my core*

Sorry to shock, but the releases from 1965, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1995 and 1999-2007 (and other years forgotten from songs on v/a collections) came first.

Since I didn't hear Bon Iver until after I posted by top 20 of 2007, I'm counting it as a 2008 release.

01. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
02. Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
03. Beach House - Devotion
04. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
05. Tyler Ramsey - A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea
06. Magnetic Fields - Distortion

Need more time:

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Cat Power - Jukebox
Hello, Blue Roses - The Portrait Is Finished And I Have Failed To Capture Your Beauty...

4 Albums that I've listened to and enjoyed:
Magnetic Fields- Distortion
Xiu Xiu- Women as Lovers
Charlottefield- What Are Friends For
British Sea Power- Do You Like Rock Music?

Ooh, I did want to count Bon Iver as 2008. So my list should go something like

Bon Iver
Mountain Goats

and maybe Tyler Ramsey.

VVVV - Agreed. Couldn't get excited about that album at all. I've heard Los Campesinos, Magnetic Fields, Hello Blue Roses, and British Sea Power, and none of them are really great at all. A disappointing start to a slow-looking year.

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And boy, is Hello, Blue Roses drab. Sydney Vermont has a very boring voice.

hotchip - made in the dark!!! ive never loved soo much as when i first heard this album!! i giggled the whole way mooahahhaha!! unless jesus and satan make a cd together this is the best cd of 2008.

01. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
02. Jonny Greenwood - There Will Be Blood
03. Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
04. Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
05. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
06. Beach House - Devotion
07. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel

Need more time:

Cat Power - Jukebox
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark

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So far, I'd say:

1. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
2. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
3. Vampire Weekend - s/t

The year is so young!

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Originally posted by The Fall of Troy:
So far, I'd say:

1. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
2. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
3. Vampire Weekend - s/t

The year is so young!

But there's already been some very worthwhile stuff produced... nothing nearly on par with Bon Iver, but still solid.

Need more time:

Every album released and unreleased.

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Originally posted by mark f:
Need more time:

Every album released and unreleased.

Yeah, I definitely understand where you're coming from. Pretty soon I won't have enough time to listen to all the new stuff. But most of the stuff on my list now I picked up in November or December, so I've had a while to listen.

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Originally posted by L. R. William Spencer:

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Originally posted by The Fall of Troy:
So far, I'd say:

1. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
2. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
3. Vampire Weekend - s/t

The year is so young!

But there's already been some very worthwhile stuff produced... nothing nearly on par with Bon Iver, but still solid.

Unfortunately, since I refuse to download anything until it's officially released, I haven't heard the new Destroyer or Mountain Goats yet. And, I haven't heard Bon Iver yet, because the self-release was impossible to find and the major release hasn't come out yet.

But, I appreciate all you guys pre-screening all the leaks for me so I know what to get when if officially comes out.

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Originally posted by The Fall of Troy:

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Originally posted by L. R. William Spencer:

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Originally posted by The Fall of Troy:
So far, I'd say:

1. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
2. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
3. Vampire Weekend - s/t

The year is so young!

But there's already been some very worthwhile stuff produced... nothing nearly on par with Bon Iver, but still solid.

Unfortunately, since I refuse to download anything until it's officially released, I haven't heard the new Destroyer or Mountain Goats yet. And, I haven't heard Bon Iver yet, because the self-release was impossible to find and the major release hasn't come out yet.

But, I appreciate all you guys pre-screening all the leaks for me so I know what to get when if officially comes out.

Man, you are denying yourself the opportunity to hear a truly great album from Bon Iver. It's been officially released... why not just pick it up off Mediafire and then buy it when Jagjaguwar releases it in a few months?

I have listened to 12 albums from 2008 thus far. They all will need more listens before I have a definitive opinion on them, but this is my list so far:

1) Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
2) Destroyer - Trouble in Dream
3)Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
4) The Moutain Goats - Heretic Pride
5) Beach House - Devotion
6) British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
7) Blood on the Wall - Liferz
8) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
9) Hello, Blue Roses - The Portrait is Finished and I Have Failed to Capture Your Beauty
10) The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
11) The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
12) The Mars Volta - Bedlam in Goliath

the first 5 on this list seem to have some staying power beyond just the first listen, especially atlas sound. The last 4 on this list I really could care less about. Hello, Blue Roses debut was pretty boring, unoriginal, and the female lead vocals at times grating. The Helio Sequence are just plain and bland, I never have been a big Magnetic Fields fan, and they continue to utilize those cheesy vocals that completely turn me off to them. Bedlam in Goliath, is by far the worst Mars Volta release ever. This band gets worse with every album, they should really break up, plus, I am eager to hear Cedric's solo stuff (from what little has been put out there, on comp's and stuff, it sounds promising).

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Originally posted by L. R. William Spencer:

Man, you are denying yourself the opportunity to hear a truly great album from Bon Iver. It's been officially released... why not just pick it up off Mediafire and then buy it when Jagjaguwar releases it in a few months?

Yeah, I know. I can't wait to hear it.

But, I also know me. Like many people on these boards, I believe an artist should be paid for their works, so I wont illegally download. If I download something thinking that I will buy a copy when it officially comes out, I know I wont do it. Why pay for something when you already have it? I'm a weak person.

So, to resist that temptation, I wont download it until I pay for it.

So far
1.British sea power-do you like rock music? not quite the decline... but still brilliant.
2.Charlottefield-what are friends for
3.black mountain-in the future
4.vampire weekend-s/t
5.the mars volta-bedlam in goliath
6.these new puritans-beat pyramid
7.los campesinos-hold on younsgter now
8.lighstpeed champion-falling of the lavender bridge
9.hot chip-made in the dark
10.laura marling-alas i cannot swim