The boards have spoken: these are the Top 50 Albums of 2008 according to the DiS messageboard's annual vote.
- Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
- TV on the Radio - Dear Science
- Why? - Alopecia
- Deerhunter - Microcastle
- Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
- Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
- Portishead - Third
- Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
- Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
- No Age - Nouns
- Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
- Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
- Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
- Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
- Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
- Foals - Antidotes
- M83 - Saturdays=Youth
- Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
- of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
- The Walkmen - You & Me
- Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
- Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
- Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
- Sigur Ros - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
- Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
- Beach House - Devotion
- Youthmovies - Good Nature
- MGMT - Oracular Spectactular
- Okkervil River** - The Stand Ins
- Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
- Times New Viking - Rip It Off
- Mystery Jets - Twenty One
- Bloc Party - Intimacy
- British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
- Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
- El Guincho - Alegranza
- Vessels - White Fields and Open Devices
- Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
- Dodos - Visiter
- Boris - Smile
- Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
- Grouper - Dragging a Dead Dear Up a Hill
- The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
- 2562 - Aerial
- The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
- The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
- Neon Neon - Stainless Style
- The Week That Was - The Week That Was
- Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
- Agree? Disagree? At least you can't blame us for this one ;)
god how over rated are johnny foreigner
and why skeletons so low?
Nice to see Earth in there.
No Torche though, boo!
No Hold Steady ?
Criminal.
Pleased to see The Wave Pictures mentioned though
My Lord!
but we have good taste. Heh.
very
and why TVOTR so low?
Good work, us
I officially turned out to quite like the Bon Iver record after my mother played the entire thing on a car journey so I can't even whine about that being boring.
THIS LIST IS GOOD.
Crikey it is a good list, isn't it?
The best one I've seen in fact.
Freaking Bloc Party in there?
with that pile of bollocks. What? Johnny Foreigner?? Has the world gone mad? Bon Iver at No 1? Yeah its good but not that good...
It has flying lotus and the walkmen in it
and for that, I'm happy
That Bon Iver record's gash
And Johnny Foreigner, while quite fun live, are a desperately mediocre band.
moaning about omissions
on a list that we voted on is fucking ludicrous. please stop.
yeah, it's insane
"where is band x?!" LOWER DOWN THE CHART BECAUSE LESS PEOPLE LIKED THEM.
this is a brilliant chart, I want to try buy them all.
Pretty good
Even though you didn't include Frank Turner... I gotta say this is the best one of these lists I've seen so far. At least I've heard of +50% of the albums!
Props for including Mystery Jets too!
oh, I just assumed John Roberts was JohnM
yeah, he needs credit, the work that goes into this list is immense!
Ta for that,
btw
Nah, I'm John Mortimer
John Roberts is Brainlove's 'real' name but I think this is a different guy.
Also: Grouper - Dragging a Dead *Dear* Uphill? I need to improve my proof reading.

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