Artists Pick Their Top 10's of 2008

Honeyhoney
Black Keys- Strange Times
M.I.A.- Kala
Al Green- Lay It Down
The Kooks- Konk
Michael Jackson- Thriller (25th Year Anniversary)
The Roots- Rising Down
Sonya Kitchell- This Storm
Delta Spirit- Ode to Sunshine
Radiohead- In Rainbows
Sia- Some People Have Real Problems

Parenthetical Girls
Dead Science - Villainaire
Au - Verbs
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
Grahm Lambkin and Jason Lescaleet - The Breadwinner
John Maus - Love is Real
Pwrfl Power - Pwrfl Power
El Guincho - Alegranza!
Simon Bookish - everything/everything
Seth Nehil/Matt Marble – Eclipses

Philip Dickey (Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin)
The Mommyheads- You're Not a Dream
Catfish Haven- Devastator
Pete and the Pirates- Little Death
Cindy Woolf- Before Daylight
Drew Danburry- This Could Mean Trouble, You Don't Speak for the Club
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
31 Knots- Worried Well
Headlights- Some Racing, Some Stopping
Weezer- Weezer (Red Album) (first two songs)
Gentlemen Auction House- Alphabetical Graveyard

Luke Wyland (Au)
Stars Like Fleas - (live @ Pianos, NYC 10/23/2008)
Dodos - (live @ the Summit, Columbus, OH 10/11/2008)
Pattern is Movement - All Together
Boredoms - (live @ the Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR 3/20/2008)
Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
Dizzee Rascal - (live @ the Pitchfork Music Fest)
The Bug and Warrior Queen - Aktion Pak
Why I Must Be Careful - (live @ a house show in PDX, 8/2008)
Ah Holly Fam'ly - (live @ Valentine's, PDX, OR ?/??/2008)

Crystal Stilts
V/A - Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days
Randy Newman - Harps & Angels
Eric Copeland - Alien in a Garbage Dump
Comet Gain – “Love Without Lies” b/w “Books of California”
Rail Band - Belle Epoque Volume 2: Mansa
Wooden Shjips - Volume 1
Jack Rose - Dr. Ragtime & Pals/Self Titled
caUSE-coMOTION - It's Time! Singles & EPs 2005-08
Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: Bootleg Series Vol. 8
Henry Flynt - Dharma Warriors

TOBACCO
Longmont Potion Castle - Longmont Potion Castle 6
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Oddities Sodomies
WHY?- Alopecia
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Lunar Testing Lab - Space Program
Dreamend - The Long Forgotten Friend
The Music Tapes - For Clouds and Tornadoes
Boston Spaceships - Brown
Submarine Lone - Lemurian
Dead Meadow - Old Growth

Bell
Pattern Is Movement - All Together
Animal Collective - Water Curses EP
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
High Places - High Places
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
AU - Verbs
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad (Reloaded)
Pierre Laurent-Aimard - Homage a Messiaen

Anthony Gonzalez (M83)
Chairlift - Does You Inspire You
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
No Age - Nouns
Free Kitten - Inherit
James Blunt - All the Lost Souls
Sun Kil Moon – April

Steve Wynn (Baseball Project)
The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
Dungen – 4
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig Lazarus Dig
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks – Real Emotional Trash
REM – Accelerate
Willard Grant Conspiracy – Pilgrim Road
Bonnie Prince Billy – Lie Down in the Light
Eli Paperboy Reed – Roll With You

Patrick Pentland (Sloan)
Cancer Bats - Hail Destroyer
Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Modern Life
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
Mother Mother - Oh My Heart
Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi
Hexes And Ohs - Bedroom Madness
Sloan - Parallel Play

David "Moose" Adamson (Grampall Jookabox)
The Dream - Love Me All Summer, Hate Me All Winter
Ssion - Fool's Gold
Everthus the Deadbeats - John Kill and the Microscopic Lullaby
Beach House – Devotion
Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (Collectors Edition)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part 1 (4th World War)
Everything, Now! - Spatially Severed
Dust From 1000 Years - Natives
RZA - Digi Snacks

Chandeliers
Mahjongg - Kontpab
Killer Whales - SXSW tour CDR
Lazer Crystal - Hot Pink BMX
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
Icy Demons - Miami Ice
Beat Konducta Vol 6 - Dil Withers Suite
Madvillain - Madvillainy 2
Sun City Girls / J Spaceman - Mister Lonely Soundtrack
Count Bass D - Robbed Without A Pistol
Bronze - Calypso Shakedown

Elizabeth Powell (Land of Talk)
Dodos - Visiter
School of Language - Sea from Shore
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Nick Cave And the Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus, Dig!
Bower Birds - Hymns for a Dark Horse
tapes 'n' tapes - Walk it Off
Black Mountain - In the Future
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
Steve Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash

Casey Mecija (Ohbijou)
Beach House - Devotion
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Katie Seltmanis - Join Us
The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
Forest City Lovers - Haunting Moon Sinking
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Bruce Peninsula – “Lift 'Em Up, Jack Can I Ride?” & “Rosie”
The D'urbervilles - We Are the Hunters
Basia Bulat - Oh My Darling
No Kids - Come Into My House

Butch Walker
1969 – Maya
Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
She and Him – Volume One
My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
Conor Oberst –Conor Oberst
Lykke Li – Youth Novels
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Lucinda Williams – Little Honey
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals – Cardinology

Peter Morén
V/A - Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro-Sounds and Nigerian Blues
Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
Frida Hyvönen - Silence Is Wild
Robert Forster - The Evangelist
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Brian Eno/David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Dr. Dog - Fate
V/A - Titan: It's All Pop!
Håkan Hellström - För Sent För Edelweiss

Tristan Wraight (Headlights)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Mates of State - Re-Arrange Us
Headlights - Some Racing, Some Stopping
Evangelicals - The Evening Descends
Grampall Jookabox - Rope Chain
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Little Joy - Little Joy
Portishead - Third
Spiritualized - Songs in A & E
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

Cale Parks
Air France - No Way Down EP
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Icy Demons - Miami Ice
Hot Chip - Made In the Dark
Skeletons - Money
Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me
Girls - “Lust For Life”/”Morning Light” 7"
Quiet Village - Silent Movie
Salem - Water EP
Invisible Conga People - “Cable Dazed” 12"

Adam T. Siska (The Academy Is...)
Jack's Mannequin- The Glass Passenger
Panic at the Disco- Pretty Odd
Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: Bootleg Series, Vol. 8
M83- Saturdays= Youth
The Academy Is... - Fast Times at Barrington High
Butch Walker- Sycamore Meadows
Kings of Leon- Only by the Night
Bloc Party- Intimacy
Albert Hammond Jr- Como te Llama

Chris Chu (The Morning Benders)
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Beach House - Devotion
Deerhunter - Microcastle
The Mumlers - Thickets and Stitches
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
The Walkmen - You & Me
Little Joy - Little Joy
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Animal Collective - "Brothersport"

(LAKE)
Karl Blau - Natures Got Away
Your Heart Breaks - Love is a Long Dark Road (Love is All You Need)
R. Stevie Moore - Meet the R. Stevie Moore
No Kids - Come Into My House
Cryptasize - Dig that Treasure
Arthur Russell - Love is Overtaking Me
Generifus - Solstice Songs
Phil Elverum, Julie Doiron, Fred Squire - Lost Wisdom
Cataldo - Signal Flare
Desolation Wilderness - White Strobing Light

Nicole Atkins
Melvins- Nude with Boots
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
The Parlor Mob - And You Were a Crow
Black Mountain - In the Future
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Dungen - 4
Last Shadow Puppets - Age of Understatement
Benji Hughes- A Love Extreme

Roger O’Donnell
Efterklang - Parades
The Notwist - The Devil, You and Me
Juana Molina - Un Dia
Ghost Bees - Tasseomancy
Miou Miou - Lala Grande Finale
Tujiko Noriko - Solo
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Erin Lang - Foundlings and Strays EP
Castle Music - You Can't Take Anymore
Lettie - Age of Solo

Peter Holmstrom (The Dandy Warhols)
Dead Meadow - Old Growth
Darker My Love - 2
The Raveonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust
The Black Angels - Directions To See A Ghost
Spiritualized - Songs In A & E
The Jesus And Mary Chain - The Power Of Negative Thinking
The Upsidedown - Human Destination
Spindrift - The West
Primal Scream - Beautiful Future
The Duke Spirit - Neptune

Curumin
Buguinha - Vitrola Adubada
Kamau - Non Ducor Duco
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah
Guizado - Phunx
DJ Nutz - Embalo Jovem
DJ KL J - KLJ na batida
Madlib - WLIB AM: King of the Wingflip
Iara Renno - Macunaima
Sonantes - Sonantes
Al Green - Lay It Down

Hercules and Love Affair
Fredo Viola - Red States
M83 – Saturdays = Youth
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
Portishead - Third
Antony and the Johnsons – Another World
Russian Circles - Station
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
MIA - Kala
Jesu/Battle of Mice – Robotic Empire
Acephalix (demo)

Jeremy Black (Apollo Sunshine)
Ratatat - LP3
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
Beck - Modern Guilt
Stereolab - Chemical Chords
Drug Rug - S/T
Viva Viva- Art Sex Death Time
Obsession - Academy Records
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
White Denim - Explosion
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

Colourmusic
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Other Lives - Other Lives EP
Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting (Bonus Disc)
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything (Remaster)
Metallica - ...And Justice for All (Deluxe Edition)
Metallica - Master of Puppets (Deluxe Edition)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River (40th Anniversary Bonus Tracks)
Henry Mancini - Original Album Classics
Terry Riley - The Last Camel In Paris
Conlon Nancarrow - Studies for Player Piano


Daniel Hart (The Physics of Meaning, St. Vincent)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Pattern Is Movement - All Together
Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse
Megafaun - Bury The Square
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Chad Vangaalen - Soft Airplane
Death Vessel - Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us
Blitzen Trapper – Furr

Priscilla Ahn
Benji Hughes - A Love Extreme
Willoughby - I Know What You're Up To
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Charlie Wadhams - Free Up Your Schedule
Ray LaMontagne - Gossip In The Grain
The Brazilian Girls - New York City
The Bird And The Bee - One Too Many Hearts
Amos Lee - Last Days At The Lodge
Al Green - Lay It Down
Willie Nelson/Wynton Marsalis - Two Men With The Blues

The Uglysuit
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Annuals - Such Fun
Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
Sigur Ros - Me Su I Eyrum...
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
The Notwist - The Devil It's You and Me

Goldfrapp
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Bon Iver - For Emma
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
MGMT – “Time to Pretend”
Fleet Foxes – “White Winter Hymnal”
Bon Iver – “Lump Sum”
Grizzly Bear – “Reprise”
Yeasayer – “Sunrise”


Louis Philippe
Mari Persen – “Sweetheart”
Testbild! – “En Gang i Stockholm”
The Heart Strings – “Kids”
Bertrand Burgalat – “Grande Remise”
Inara George & Van Dyke Parks - An Invitation
Orwell – “Le Genie Humain”
Belmondo & Milton Nascimento - Belmondo & Milton Nascimento
The Simple Carnival – “Really, Really Weird”

Cause Co-Motion! Top 10 Songs of 2008
Nodzzz - "In The City (Contact High)"
Crystal Stilts - "Sycamore Tree (I Wanna Know Why)"
Papa Michigan - "Obama"
Bandit Teeth - "Encouragement"
Abe Vigoda - "Skeleton"
Frankie Rose - "Where Do You Run To? (Demo)"
Dwizz & DJ Diamond Kuts - "Salt Pepper Ketchup and Hot Sauce (Remix)"
Oxford Collapse - "Spike of Bensonhurst"
Vivian Girls - "Wild Eyes"
Blood on the Wall - "Hibernation"

Max Tundra's Top 10 Songs of 2008
Ben Butler And Mouse Pad - “Supermotion”
The Chap – “Ethnic Instrument”
Santos Party House - “The Santos Cheer”
WHY? - “Fatalist Palmistry”
Abe Vigoda - “All Night And Day”
Zach Hill - “Toll Road”
High Places - “Vision's The First...”
Sébastien Tellier - “Divine”
Simon Bookish - Alsatian Dog”
She & Him - I Thought I Saw Your Face Today”

Ingrid Michaelson's Top 10 Songs of 2008
Coldplay – “Lost”
Death Cab for Cutie – “Twin Sized Bed”
Greg Laswell – “How the Day Sounds”
Flight of the Conchords – “Mutha'uckers”
Vampire Weekend – “Kids Don’t Stand a Chance”
Brett Dennen – “Make You Go Crazy”
Noah and the Whale – “Give a Little Love”
Bon Iver – “Skinny Love”
Meiko – “Girls with Boyfriends”
Joshua Radin – “One of Those Days”

The Ettes’ Top 10 Songs of 2008
Fabienne Delsol - "Villaine Fille, Mauvais Garcon"
The Selmanaires - "Broken Mirrors in the Mud"
Jay Reatard - "Screaming Hand"
The Black Lips - "Bad Kids"
Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs - "Getting High for Jesus"
Girl Talk - "Feed the Animals"
The Black Keys - "Strange Times"
Pete Molinari - "There She Still Remains"
The Branded - "I Do As I Please"
The Kills - "Last Day of Magic"

Moby's Top 10 Songs of 2008
Silent Servant (Kalon mix) – “Violencia”
Andy Caldwell (Wolfgang Gartner mix) – “Funk Nasty”
Blatta and Inesha (Hijack remix) – “Blow Up”
Hoxton Whores (Tocadisco remix) – “In the Bag”
Kidda (Herve remix) – “Under the Sun”
Machines Don't Care – “Afro Jacker”
AC Slater – “Turn the Music Up”
DJ Sender(Dabruck and Klein remix) – “Operator”
Sandy W – “Bleep”
Miles Dyson – “Anthem”

Thomas Brenneck's Top 10 Songs of 2008 (Menahan Street Band/The Dap-Kings/Budos Band)
Snoop Dogg - "Sensual Seduction"
Kanye West - "Love Lockdown"
Naomi Shelton - "What Have You Done"
Phenomenal Handclap Band - "Baby"
Tammi Terrell - "All I Do Is Think About You" (2008 Bootleg)
Lee Fields and the Expressions - "My World"
Eddie and Ernie - "You Make My Life a Sunny Day"
Flight of the Conchords - "Foux Du Fafa"
Nas - "Fried Chicken"
Teddy and the Mainframes - "Everyone's a Suspect"