The Top Albums of 2008
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According to Blender magazine,
the top 33 albums of the year are:
1. Lil' Wayne, Tha Carter III
2. Girl Talk, Feed The Animals
3. TV On The Radio, Dear Science
4. Metallica, Death Magnetic
5. Hot Chip, Made In The Dark
6. Robyn, Robyn
7. Of Montreal, Skeletal Lamping
8. Randy Newman, Harps & Angels
9. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
10. Fall Out Boy, Folie A Deux
11. Death Cab For Cutie, Narrow Stairs
12. My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges
13. Al Green, Lay It Down
14. Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue
15. Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
16. Be Your Own Pet, Get Awkward
17. Conor Oberst, Conor Oberst
18. Ponytail, Ice Cream Spiritual
19. Katy Perry, One Of The Boys
20. Wale, Mixtape About Nothing
21. Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part I: Fourth World War
22. Coldplay, Viva La Vida
23. The Cool Kids, Bake Sale
24. The Roots, Rising Down
25. Santogold, Santogold
26. Usher, Here I Stand
27. Mariah Carey, E=MC2
28. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Real Emotional Trash
29. Raphael Saadiq, The Way I See It
30. Young Jeezy, The Recession
31. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
32. Taylor Swift, Fearless
33. Hayes Carll, Trouble In Mind
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So, do you agree?
What are the best albums of 2008, in your opinion?
Carter 3 number 1? it was good but not best of the year. i see some good ones on there. i counted 13 that ive actually listened to.
my top are in no order except #1
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
Johnny Flynn
Dr. Dog
Lightspeed Champion
Noah & the Whale
Ne-Yo
Panic At the Disco
Vampire Weekend
Priscilla Ahn
the killers
last shadow puppets
Roughly in order but without numbers since I change my mind so often about this type of stuff 
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
The Kills - Midnight Boom
Underground Railroad - Sticks & Stones
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
Santogold - Santogold
Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
Beck - Modern Guilt
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
Spiritualized - Songs In A&E
The Kills are so underrated.
Roughly in order but without numbers since I change my mind so often about this type of stuffMGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
The Kills - Midnight Boom
Underground Railroad - Sticks & Stones
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
Santogold - Santogold
Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
Beck - Modern Guilt
Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
Spiritualized - Songs In A&E
^Lordy - I agree with a hell of a lot of them. That's my list. Matter of fact, I'm listening to Modern Guilt again right now!
And I've just been given the Laura Marling CD to listen to - if she's on your list here, then I think we might be OK!
in fact...
no
i don't agree
with the exception of maybe 4 albums
Tha Carter III?!
give me something to put me out of my misery!
...kidding
No Lady GaGa? 
I swear, I can actually listen to "The Fame" in it's entirety and not get bored with a single track and that dancy music isn't usually what I dig but I dig it.
Why is Mariah Carey in there? Granted I haven't listened to the cd, but I'm going to write it off on the fact that its Mariah 
Death Cab's Narrow Stairs was a disappointment. I'd be hard pressed to find anything redeeming in that album.
I don't really buy into the Vampire Weekend hype either, but I can see why they could make the list.
Vampire Weekend deserve all the hype. they have their own sound.
I give them a lot of credit for developing a unique sound (or being able to mix two different genres) but that doesn't make their music any more appealing than any other band in my books. Hence, why I can understand why they might be on the list but why I won't buy into the hype.
Noooo... Where's Leona Lewis!?
Why is Mariah Carey in there? Granted I haven't listened to the cd, but I'm going to write it off on the fact that its Mariah
I totally agree with you 
agree with the mariah comment re_ed
but im gonna have to agree with matt on vampire weekend