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The Best Rock Albums of 2008

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Ratings: 10=best rock album ever; 9=masterpiece; 8=buy it now; 7=buy it eventually; 6=buy it if you are a fan
Best of Rock 2008
(Read the reviews)

    8/10
    7.5/10
  1. Helmut Schafer: Noise As A Language (Kwanyin)
    7/10
  2. Bug: London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
  3. Beat Circus: Dreamland (Cuneiform)
  4. Fucked Up: Chemistry Of Common Life (Matador)
  5. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes (Subpop)
  6. Dodos: Visiter (Frenchkiss)
  7. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend (XL)
  8. Christian Fennesz: Black Sea (Touch)
  9. Have A Nice Life: Deathconsciousness (Enemies List)
  10. Lindstrom: Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound)
  11. No Age: Nouns (Sub Pop)
  12. Terminal Sound System: Contructing Towers (Extreme)
  13. Alps: III (Type)
  14. Badu: New Amerykah Part One - 4th World War (Motown)
Playlist
  1. No Age: Eraser
  2. Dodos: Jodi
  3. Portishead: We Carry On
  4. Beat Circus: The Rough Riders
  5. Beach House: Wedding Bell
  6. Fleet Foxes: English House
  7. Mountain Goats: Lovecraft in Brooklyn
  8. Portishead: Machine Gun
  9. Drive-By Truckers: Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife
  10. Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal
  11. Magnetic Fields: Please Stop Dancing
  12. Stephen Malkmus: Baltimore
  13. Magnetic Field: California Girls
  14. Drive-by Truckers: Self-Destructive Zones
  15. Wolf Parade: Soldier's Gun
  16. Bon Iver: Blood Bank
  17. Lykke Li: Little Bit

Extended tracks
  1. Li Jianhong: San Sheng Shi
  2. Helmut Schafer: Thought Provoking
  3. Lindstrom: Where You Go To I Go Too
  4. Shit And Shine: High Brooms
  5. Mamaleek: Shout On Children
  6. Matmos: Supreme Balloon
  7. Opeth: The Lotus Eater
  8. Sun Kil Moon: Lost Verses
  9. Fuck Buttons: Sweet Love For Planet Earth
  10. Stephen Malkmus: Real Emotional Trash
  11. Motorpsycho: Little Lucid Moments
  12. Ascanio Borga: Apnea
Jazz
  1. Carla Bley: Appearing Nightly (Watt)
  2. Dave Holland: Pass it On (Dare2)
  3. Bill Frisell: History Mystery (Nonesuch)
  4. Leo Smith: Tabligh (Cuneiform)

By genre:

Songwriters

Post-rock
Psychedelia

Electronica

Progressive

Punk/hardcore

Dance
Heavy rock

Instrumental

By country:

Britain

Germany
Japan

Rest of Europe
Australia

Canada

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