McQ's Favorite Albums Of 2008

Highest Recommends

1. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver: A floundering young musician retreats into the woods of Wisconsin in deep winter, and emerges three months later with a now legendary singer-songwriter classic. Gorgeous, intimate, desolate, instantly transportive music.

2.     Dear Science – TV On The Radio
3.     Alright, Still – Lily Allen
4.     Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
5.     Fleet Foxes

Strong Recommends

6.     Vampire Weekend 

7.      The Seldom Seen Kid – Elbow

8.     Welcome To Mali – Amadou & Mariam
9.     Robyn 
10.   Neon Bible – Arcade Fire
11.    45:33 – LCD Soundsystem
12.   Kala – M.I.A.
13.   Microcastle/Weird Era Continued – Deerhunter
14.   Harps And Angels – Randy Newman
15.   100 Days 100 Nights – Sharon Jones And The Dap Kings
16.  Crystal Castles (I) 

Solid Recommends

17.  In Ghost Colors – Cut/Copy

18.  Third – Portishead
19.  Accelerate – REM
20.  In The Future – Black Mountain
21.  Real Emotional Trash – Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
22.  The Midnight Organ Fight – Frightened Rabbit
23.  This Gift – Sons & Daughters
24.  Youth Novels – Lykke Li
25.  Seventh Tree – Goldfrapp
26.  Tha Carter III – Li'l Wayne
27.  Saturdays = Youth – M83
28.  Street Horrsing – Fuck Buttons
29.  Stay Positive – The Hold Steady
30.  New America: Part One – Erykah Badu
31.  Santogold 
32.  Hercules And Love Affair 
33.  London Zoo – The Bug
34.  The Chemistry Of Common Life – Fucked Up
35.  Los Angeles – Flying Lotus
36.  Once (Soundtrack) 
37.  Alopecia – Why?
38.  Hold On Now, Youngster – Los Campensinos
39.  A Mad And Faithful Telling – DeVotchKa
40.  Consolers Of The Lonely – The Raconteurs
41.  Med sue I eyrum vid spilum endalaust – Sigur Ros
42.  808s & Heartbreak – Kanye West
43.  Where You Go I Go To – Lindstrom
44.  Made In The Dark – Hot Chip
45.  Only By The Night – Kings Of Leon
46.  St. Dymphna – Gang Gang Dance
47.  Feed The Animals – Girl Talk
48.  Oracular Spectacular – MGMT

49.  Brighter Than Creations Dark – Drive-By Truckers

50.  Visiter – The Dodos

51.  22 Dreams – Paul Weller

52.  Alas, I Cannot Swim – Laura Marling

53.  The Odd Couple – Gnarls Barkley

54.  Volume One – She & Him

55.  The '59 Sound – The Gaslamp Anthem

Mild Recommends

56.  Fantasy Black Channel – Late Of The Pier
57.  Float – Flogging Molly
58.  Saturnalia - The Gutter Twins 
59.  Do You Like Rock Music? – British Sea Power
60. Distortion - The Magnetic Fields
61. The Renaissance - Q-Tip
62. Nouns - No Age
63. Antidotes - Foals
64. Rook - Shearwater
65. Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket
66. The Stand-Ins - Okkervil River
67. Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends - Coldplay
68. Modern Guilt - Beck
69. Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea - Silver Jews
70. At Mount Zoomer - Wolf Parade
71. Skeletal Lamping - Of Montreal
72. Charmed And Strange - YOAV
73. The Golden Age - American Music Club
74. Working Man's Cafe - Ray Davies
75. Midnight Boom - The Kills
76. Stainless Style - Neon Neon
77. Rockferrry - Duffy
78. Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails
79. Black Sea - Fennesz
80. Lust, Lust, Lust - The Ravonettes
81. April - Sun Kil Moon
82. Devotion - Beach House
83. Songs In A & E - Spiritualized
84. Dig Your Own Soul - Oasis
85. Let The Blind Lead Those Who Cannot See - Atlas Sound
86. Rabbit Habbits - Man Man
87. Attack & Release - The Black Keys
88. The Evangelist - Robert Forster
89. Exit - Shogu Tokumaru
90. In Ear Park - Department Of Eagles
91. The Hawk Is Howling - Mogwai
92. The Age Of Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
93. Reality Check - The Teenages