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Top Alternative Rock Albums of 2008

In no particular order here is a list. Please feel free to throw in some names I'm always in the search of great new music.

No Age - Nouns (Dinosaur Jr meets Weezer)
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (really folky but I dig it)
Beck - Modern Guilt
Sigur Rós - Með Suð Í Eyrum Við (possibly my favorite in 08)
Portishead - Third (took a couple listens but I get it now)

Albums I bought and was let down by:

TV On The Radio - Dear Science
I don't mind the album, it's just that Return to Cookie Mountain was so much better.

My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Just didn't sound like MMJ to me. After buying Fleet Foxes recently maybe I'll get into more.

The Black Keys - Attack and Release
A few good tunes, album has too many holes though

Album's I didn't buy or care to buy:

Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Bloc Party - Intimacy
Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
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dgarretson
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Many fine releases this year, all on vinyl:

Dylan: Tell Tale Signs
Matthew Sweet: Shunshine Lies
Calexico: Carried to Dust
John Haitt: Same Old Man
Ray Davies: Workingman's Cafe
Radiohead: In Rainbows
Mercury Rev: Snowflake Midnight/Strange Attractor
Emmylou Harris: All I Intended to Be
Deerhunter: Microcastle
Gutter Twins: Saturnalia
Shearwater: Rook
Steven Malkmus: Real Emotional Trash
Alejandro Escovedo: Real Animal
Zooey Deschanel/M. Ward: She & Him
NIN: Ghosts
Lou Reed: Berlin Live at St. Anns Warehouse

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synthfreek
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Seeing the other lists made me wanna add The Gutter Twins and the Fleet Foxes albums to my list. I LOVE the Burial album but I wouldn't call it alternative rock or 2008.
audiohifila
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does the sigur ros 2008 release really sound much better on vinyl. Not sure if the cd was compressed and from what I have heard in the past the sigur ros vinyl has not been well produced for vinyl
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synthfreek
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Check out this link to an awesome Fleet Foxes track. For fans of Panda Bear and Brian Wilson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE
lush OP
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Hi Audiohifila,

On my system Sigur Ros sounds excellent, warm and open with layers. I do however only own the CD.
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