Pazz & Jop 2008 list (top 50 only)
1 TV on the Radio, Dear Science
2 Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
3 Portishead, Third
4 Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
5 Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
6 Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III
7 Santogold, Santogold
8 Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago *
9 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
10 Kanye West, 808s & Heartbreak
11 Deerhunter, Microcastle/Weird Era Continued
12 Randy Newman, Harps and Angels
13 The Hold Steady, Stay Positive
14 No Age, Nouns
15 Girl Talk, Feed the Animals
16 My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges
17 MGMT, Oracular Spectacular *
18 Hercules and Love Affair, Hercules and Love Affair
19 Raphael Saadiq, The Way I See It
20 Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
21 Coldplay, Viva La Vida, or Death and All His Friends
22 Los Campesinos!, Hold On Now, Youngster...
23 Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours
24 The Gaslight Anthem, The '59 Sound
25 R.E.M., Accelerate
26 Q-Tip, The Renaissance
27 Drive-By Truckers, Brighter Than Creation's Dark
28 M83, Saturdays=Youth
29 David Byrne & Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
30 She & Him, Volume One
31 Torche, Meanderthal
32 The Walkmen, You & Me
33 Hot Chip, Made in the Dark
34 Frightened Rabbit, The Midnight Organ Fight
35 Kings Of Leon, Only by the Night
36 Alejandro Escovedo, Real Animal
37 Metallica, Death Magnetic
38 Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life
39 Roots, Rising Down
40 T.I., Paper Trail
41 Beck, Modern Guilt
42 Blitzen Trapper, Furr
43 Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Real Emotional Trash
44 Gang Gang Dance, Saint Dymphna
45 Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid
46 Death Cab For Cutie, Narrow Stairs
47 Al Green, Lay It Down
48 Young Jeezy, The Recession
49 The Magnetic Fields, Distortion
50 Vivian Girls, Vivian Girls