8/25/2008

Best (and Worst) Albums Of 2008 - 25/08/08 Update

Portishead - Third
Opeth - Watershed
Meshuggah - obZen
Thrice - The Alchemy Index: Volume III + IV
Cult Of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
Foals - Antidotes
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Sigur Rós - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
R.E.M - Accelerate
Coldplay - Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Why? - Alopecia
Protest The Hero - Fortress
Spiritualized - Songs In A&E
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Baustelle - Amen
Sun Kil Moon - April
The Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Grave
Tears Run Rings - Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never
Le Luci Della Centrale Elettrica - Canzoni Da Spiaggia Deturpata
Beck - Modern Guilt
Muse - Haarp
Ayreon - 01011001
Offlaga Disco Pax - Bachelite
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement
Ufomammut - Idolum
Black Mountain - In The Future
The Niro - The Niro
Mark Lanegan & Isobel Campbell
The Roots - Rising Down
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan: Book of Angels Volume 9
No Age - Nouns
No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
Eluveitie - Slania
Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
Demians - Building An Empire
Klimt 1918 - Just in Case We'll Never Meet Again
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Darkspace - Darkspace III
Coldworld - Melancholie²
Snowman - The Horse, the Rat and the Swan
The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Pete And The Pirates - Little Death
The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
The Dirtbombs - We Have You Surrounded
Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw
Shearwater - Rook
Maybeshewill - Not for Want of Trying
The Black Angels - Directions to See a Ghost
Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure
Quiet Village - Silent Movie
The Whigs - Mission Control
The Black Keys - Attack & Release
Indian Jewelry - Free Gold!
Madrugada - Madrugada
Wire - Object 47
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Alice Cooper - Along Came a Spider
Oneida - Preteen Weaponry
Nosound - Lightdark
Girls in Hawaii - Plan Your Escape
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
The Black Crowes - Warpaint
Murder By Death - Red Of Tooth And Claw
Floggin Molly - Float
Ladytron - Velocifero
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Afterhours - I Milanesi Ammazzano Il Sabato
Devotchka - A Mad & Faithful Telling
Farflung - A Wound in Eternity
Boris - Smile
Mudcrutch - Mudcrutch
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
The Sword - Gods of the Earth
Septic Flesh - Communion
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
The Dodos - Visiter
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
The Daysleepers - Drowned in a Sea of Sound
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Al Green - Lay It Down
Stam1na - Raja
The Indelicates - American Demo
Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Kyte - Kyte
My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
The Pineapple Thief - Tightly Unwound
Uriah Heep - Wake the Sleeper
Errors - It’s Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
Dargen D'Amico - Di vizi di forma virtù
2562 - Aerial
Moonspell - Night Eternal
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
The Walkmen - You & Me
Whitesnake - Good to Be Bad
Dufresne - Lovers
Linea 77 - Horror Vacui
Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Morning
Cat Power - Jukebox
The Raveonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
Ashes Divide - Keep Telling Myself It's Alright
Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow and Blue
American Music Club - The Golden Age
Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
Sparks - Exotic Creatures of the Deep
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!!
A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Joan As Police Woman - To Survive
Get Well Soon - Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon.
Clinic - Do It!
The Music - Strength in Numbers
Dead Meadow - Old Growth
Santogold - Santogold
Judas Priest - Nostradamus
Black Tide - Light From Above
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Tricky - Knowle West Boy
Sevendust - Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow
The Presets - Apocalypso
Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice
Ours - Mercy (Dancing for the Death of an Imaginary Enemy)
Disturbed - Indestructible
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Lenny Kravitz - It is Time For A Love Revolution
The Kills - Midnight Boom
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
James - Hey Ma
Islands - Arm's Way
Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
Nada Surf - Lucky
Excepter - Debt Dept.
Beach House - Devotion
Bloodbath - The Wacken Carnage
Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
Mystery Jets - Twenty One
Danko Jones - Never Too Loud
Jason Mraz - We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things
Jamie Lidell - Jim
Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams
Melvins - Nude With Boots
Brendan Canning - Something for All of Us…
Nas - Untitled
Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
Shinedown - Sound of Madness
10 Years - Division
Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
Sam Sparro - Sam Sparro
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
dEUS - Vantage Point
Duffy - Rockferry
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Elf Power - In a Cave
Deicide - Till Death Do Us Part
Mike Patton - A Perfect Place
Hadouken! - Music for an Accelerated Culture
Thao with The Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings and All
The Young Knives - Superabundance
Sons and Daughters - This Gift
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Pennywise - Reason to Believe
Van Morrison - Keep It Simple
Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Dirty Pretty Things - Romance at Short Notice
Cage The Elephant - Cage The Elephant
Soulfly - Conquer
Norma Jean - The Anti Mother
Tapes 'n Tapes - Walk It Off
The B-52's - Funplex
Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha
Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster
Filter - Anthems for the Damned
City and Colour - Bring Me Your Love
The Courteeners - St. Jude
The Futureheads - This Is Not the World
Millencolin - Machine 15
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
36 Crazyfists - The Tide and Its Takers
Delays - Everything's the Rush
Slut - StillNo1
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
Adele - 19
Mötley Crüe - Saints of Los Angeles
P.O.D. - When Angels & Serpents Dance
We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery
¡Forward, Russia! - Life Processes
Xiu Xiu - Women As Lover
The Pigeon Detectives - Emergency
The Zutons - You Can Do Anything
The Subways - All or Nothing
Sébastien Tellier - Sexuality
Phantom Planet - Raise the Dead
Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
Constantines - Kensington Heights
Candlebox - Into the Sun
Trapt - Only Through the Pain
Bun B. - II Trill
Guillemots - Red
Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk
The Long Blondes - Couples
Pendulum - In Silico
Alanis Morissette - Flavors of Entanglement
The Fratellis - Here We Stand
Chris Walla - Field Manual
Sheryl Crow - Detours
Infadels - Universe In Reverse
The Charlatans - You Cross My Path
The Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground
Albert Hammond Jr. - ¿Cómo Te Llama?
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
The Faint - Fasciinatiion
The Vines - Melodia
Bauhaus - Go Away White
The Breeders - Last Splash
Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static
The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
Ill Niño - Enigma
N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds
Kerli - Love Is Dead
Seth Lakeman - Poor Man's Heaven
Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway
Pepper - Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations
Estelle - Shine
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
3 Doors Down - 3 Doors Down
Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King
One Night Only - Started a Fire
Snoop Dogg - Ego Trippin’
Carolina Liar - Coming To Terms
Gabriella Cilmi - Lessons to Be Learned
Hawthorne Heights - Fragile Future
Panic At The Disco - Pretty. Odd.
Moby - Last Night
The Teenagers - Reality Check
Def Leppard - Songs From the Sparkle Lounge
Journey - Revelation
Story Of The Year - The Black Swan
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
Morcheeba - Dive Deep
Usher - Here I Stand
Secondhand Serenade - A Twist in My Story
The Academy Is… - Fast Times at Barrington High
The Kooks - Konk
In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
Louis XIV - Slick Dogs and Ponies
Bryan Adams - 11
Feeder - Silent Cry
I Was a Cub Scout - I Want You to Know There Is Always Hope
Janet Jackson - Discipline
Cansei De Ser Sexy - Donkey
Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
The Script - The Script
The Feeling - Join With Us
Simple Plan - Simple Plan
The Audition - Champion
Madonna - Hard Candy
Mariah Carey - E=MC²
Ashanti - The Declaration
The Getaway Plan - Other Voices, Other Rooms
Cute Is What We Aim For - Rotation
Bullet For My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
Gavin Rossdale - Wanderlust
Fat Joe - The Elephant in the Room
Rick Ross - Trilla
Natasha Bedingfield - Pocketful of Sunshine
El Canto Del Loco - Personas
Clay Aiken - On My Way Here
Carla Bruni - Comme Ai De Rien N'était
McFly - Radio:Active
Elliot Minor - Elliot Minor
Kids in Glass Houses - Smart Casual
Danity Kane - Welcome to the Dollhouse
Jesse McCartney - Departure
Flo Rida - Mail On Sunday
Katy Perry - One of the Boys
G-Unit - T.O.S Terminate On Sight
Jonas Brothers - A Little Bit Longer
Ashlee Simpson - Bittersweet World
Cinema Bizarre - Final Attraction (2007)
Miley Cyrus - Breakout






The list isn't definitive

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