Albums of the year 2008

As always, these are determined by number of plays per track, divided by number of tracks (with anything available for free hyperlinked).

  1. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
  2. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday at Devil Dirt
  3. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Momofuku
  4. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
  5. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
  6. R.E.M - Accelerate
  7. The Charlatans - You Cross My Path
  8. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
  9. The Wind Whistles - Window Sills
  10. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
  11. Bob Mould - District Line
  12. Abscondo - Midnight Snow
  13. Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight
  14. Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
  15. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
  16. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
  17. Black Francis - Svn Fngrs
  18. The Rest - Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour
  19. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
  20. The Killers - Day and Age

See also 2007 and 2006

I’ll be doing a top 20 free/Creative Commons list later today (in theory).

Written on January 1, 2009