SIS: The Best of 2008
2008 was the biggest year for music since I was born. Why you ask? Because we finally got to hear what Axl's been up to all these years with that Chinese Democracy record and not one person on the staff included it on their Top 10. Bastards!
Instead, we offer up to you faithful readers the Top 10 lists from the staff members here at Stranded in Stereo. These lists include some of the most substantial, solid, phenomenal albums that made 2008 the year it was. Are you ready to see what we have come up with? Well, you have no choice.
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Rusty Roberts
1. Abe Vigoda / Skeleton / PPM
2. The Dandy Warhols / ...Earth To The Dandy Warhols... / Beat The World
3. The Republic Tigers / Keep Color / Chop Shop/Atlantic
4. Neil Halstead / Oh! Mighty Engine / Brushfire
5. The War On Drugs / Wagonwheel Blues / Secretly Canadian
6. Oxford Collapse / Bits / Sub Pop
7. Cut Copy / In Ghost Colours / Modular
8. TV on the Radio / Dear Science / Interscope
9. Portugal. The Man / Censored Colors / Approaching AIRBalloons
10. Crystal Stilts / Crystal Stilts / Slumberland
Dany Sloan
1. Elle Milano / Acres of Dead Space Cadets / Brighton Electric
2. Mystery Jets / Twenty One / 679 Records
3. Blood Red Shoes / Box of Secrets / Mercury Records
4. Johnny Flynn / A Larum / Lost highway
5. Those Dancing Days / In Our Space Hero Suits / Wichita
6. The Subways / All or Nothing / WEA
7. Rotary Ten / These Are Our Hands / Phantom Sound & Vision
8. FM Belfast / How To Make Friends / World Champion
9. Johnny Foreigner / Waited Up Till it Was Light / Nettwerk
10. Laura Marling / Alas, I Cannot Swim / Astralwerks
Jose Fritz :
1. Bang! Bang! Eche! / Bang! Bang! Eche / Self Released
2. Bark, Hide and Horn / National Road / Boy Howdy Records
3. Encrypt Manuscript / Census / Tone Vendor
4. Die! Die! Die! / Promises, Promises / Saf Records
5. Titus Andronicus / The Airing of Grievances / Troubleman Unlimited
6. Free Blood / The Singles / Rong/DFA
7. Monotonix / Body Language / Drag City
8. Firewater / The Golden Hour / Bloodshot
9. These New Puritans / Beat Pyramid / Domino
10. Alina Simone / Everyone Is Crying Out To Me, Beware / 54º 40’ or Fight!
Kevin Hakansson
1. The Streets / Everything is Borrowed / Vice
2. Vampire Weekend / Vampire Weekend / XL
3. The Gaslight Anthem / The '59 Sound / Side One Dummy
4. Polar Bear Club / Sometimes Things Just Disappear / Red Leader
5. Fleet Foxes / Fleet Foxes / Sub Pop
6. The Loved Ones / Build and Burn / Fat Wreck Chords
7. Annuals / Such Fun / Canvasback
8. Okkervil River / The Stand Ins / Jagjaguwar
9. Dear and the Headlights / Drunk Like Bible Times / Equal Vision
10. My Morning Jacket / Evil Urges / ATO
Miriam Lamey
1. Glasvegas / Glasvegas / Columbia
2. Sons and Daughters / This Gift / Domino
3. The Heys / Young, Bored & Broke / 4 West
4. The Last Shadow Puppets / Age of the Understatement / Domino
5. Kings of Leon / Only by the Night / RCA
6. The Airborne Toxic Event / The Airborne Toxic Event / Majordomo
7. Pete and The Pirates / Little Death / Stolen Recordings
8. Hot Chip / Made in the Dark / DFA/Astralwerks
9. Sigur Ros / Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust / XL
10. Nada Surf / Lucky / Barsuk
Alyce Nicolo
1. Bon Iver / For Emma, Forever Ago / Jagjaguwar
2. Frightened Rabbit / Midnight Organ Fight / Fat Cat
3. Fleet Foxes / Fleet Foxes / Sub Pop
4. She & Him / Volume 1 / Merge
5. Gaslight Anthem / The '59 Sound / Sideonedummy
6. Laura Marling / Alas, I Cannot Swim / Virgin
7. Jenny Lewis / Acid Tongue / Warner Bros.
8. Vampire Weekend / Vampire Weekend / XL
9. Magnetic Fields / Distortion / Nonesuch
10. Santogold / Santogold / Downtown
Eavvon O'Neal
1. Lil' Wayne / Tha Carter III / Cash Money
2. Kanye West / 808s & Heartbreak / Island
3. Deerhunter / Microcastle / Kranky
4. Diplo/Santogold / Top Ranking / Mad Greasy
5. Genghis Tron / Boarding Up The House / Relapse
6. DJ Rupture / Uproot/Wale-Mixtape About Nothing / Self Released
7. Department of Eagles / In Ear Park / 4AD
8. Fucked Up / The Chemistry of Common Life / Matador
9. Sebastian Tellier / Sexuality / Record Makers
10. Cut Copy / In Ghost Colours / Modular
Mike Randall:
1. Fleet Foxes / Fleet Foxes / Sub Pop
2. Blitzen Trapper / Furr / Sub Pop
3. Bon Iver / For Emma, Forever Ago / Jagjaguwar
4. Deerhunter / Microcastle / Kranky
5. Sun Kil Moon / April / Caldo Verde
6. Dr. Dog / Fate / Park The Van
7. TV On The Radio / Dear Science / Interscope
8. Shearwater / Rook / Matador
9. Lambchop / OH (ohio) / Merge
10. Birdmonster / From The Mountains To The Sea / Fader
Justin Porter Stephens
1.Vampire Weekend / Vampire Weekend / XL
2. She & Him / Volume One / Merge
3. Sigur Ros / Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust / XL
4. The Walkmen / You & Me / Gigantic
5. The Long Blondes / Couples / Rough Trade
6. Albert Hammond, Jr. / ¿Como te Llama? / RCA
7. Tullycraft / Every Scene Needs a Center / Magic Marker
8. Santogold / Santogold / Downtown
9. Of Montreal / Skeletal Lamping / Polyvinyl
10. Flight of the Conchords / Flight of the Conchords / Sub Pop
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