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Staff Picks: Top 10 Lists for 2008

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PHOTO OF FLEET FOXES BY LESLIE KALOHI

Now that you’ve seen how the collective list turned out, it’s time to reveal each Scenestar’s individual picks for albums of the year. Lots of diversity amongst the gang, yet we still find a lot of common ground in bands such as Portishead, My Morning Jacket, and of course, this year’s darlings, Fleet Foxes.

So without further musings, check ‘em out and see who you agree with most! Happy Holidays from The Scenestar!

Oscar Rangel, PR Portishead 

1. Portishead: Third
2. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
3. Beck: Modern Guilt
4. School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms
5. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
6. The Presets: Apocalypso
7. My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
8. Darker My Love: 2
9. Kings of Leon: Only By The Night
10. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III

Mychelle Peterson, Chicago Correspondent/WriterFFCover

1.  Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
2.  Spiritualized: Songs in A & E
3.  Elbow: The Seldom Seen Kid
4.  The Black Angels: Directions to See A Ghost
5.  Nine Inch Nails: The Slip
6.  Black Mountain: In the Future
7.  Land of Talk: Some Are Lakes
8.  The Duke Spirit: Neptune
9.  My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
10.  MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

Leslie Kalohi, PhotographerFR

1. Frightened Rabbit: Midnight Organ Fight
2. My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
3. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
4. Black Keys: Attack & Release
5. Calexico: Carried to Dust
6. Kate Nash: Made of Bricks
7. The Kills: Midnight Boom
8. Flight of the Conchords: Flight of the Conchords
9. She & Him: Volume One
10. Rachael Yamagata: Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart

Drew Reynolds, PhotographerLongwave

1. Longwave: Secrets Are Sinister
2. School of Seven Bells: Alpinisms
3. M83: Saturdays = Youth
4. Friendly Fires: Friendly Fires
5. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
6. Love Is All: A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
7. Wild Beasts: Limbo, Panto
8. Tears Run Rings: Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never
9. Portishead: Third
10. The Sea and Cake: Car Alarm

Katie Seaton, WriterSantogold

1. Santogold: Santogold
2. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
3. The Submarines: Honeysuckle Weeks
4. TV on the Radio: Dear Science
5. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
6. The Ting Tings: We Started Nothing
7. Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping
8. Cold War Kids: Loyalty to Loyalty
9. Brazilian Girls: New York City
10. Dr. Dog: Fate

Sophia Portier, WriterOkkervilRiver1

In No Order:
Okkervil River: The Stand-Ins
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down: We Brave Bee Stings and All
No Age: Nouns
Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
The Walkmen: You & Me
Santogold: Santogold
Beach House: Devotion
Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours
Deerhunter: Microcastle

Greg Caruso, WriterBlackMountain

1. Black Mountain: In the Future
2. Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely
3. Dr. Dog: Fate
4. Portishead: Third
5. Kings of Leon: Only By The Night
6. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
7. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
8. My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
9. Hot Chip: Made in the Dark
10. Santogold: Santogold

Adam Storm, WriterTheBreeders1

1. The Breeders: Mountain Battles
2. Deerhunter: Weird Era Cont. (Microcastle Disc 2)
3. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
4. Sigur Rós: Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
5. Glasvegas: Glasvegas
6. Coldplay: Viva la Vida
7. Okkervil River: The Stand Ins
8. Earlimart: Hymn and Her
9. Nine Inch Nails: Ghosts I–IV
10. Titus Andronicus: The Airing of Grievances

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10 responses to “Staff Picks: Top 10 Lists for 2008”

  1. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    My Top Four of 2008
    1. Foals – Antidotes
    2. Years Around the Sun – Inva De Siva
    3. Bloc Party – Intimacy
    4. Water Fai – Girl in the White Dream

    Reply
  2. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    My Top Four of 2008
    1. Foals – Antidotes
    2. Years Around the Sun – Inva De Siva
    3. Bloc Party – Intimacy
    4. Water Fai – Girl in the White Dream

    Reply
  3. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    My Top Four of 2008
    1. Foals – Antidotes
    2. Years Around the Sun – Inva De Siva
    3. Bloc Party – Intimacy
    4. Water Fai – Girl in the White Dream

    Reply
  4. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    My Top Four of 2008
    1. Foals – Antidotes
    2. Years Around the Sun – Inva De Siva
    3. Bloc Party – Intimacy
    4. Water Fai – Girl in the White Dream

    Reply
  5. Mike Avatar
    Mike

    My Top Four of 2008
    1. Foals – Antidotes
    2. Years Around the Sun – Inva De Siva
    3. Bloc Party – Intimacy
    4. Water Fai – Girl in the White Dream

    Reply
  6. El Guapo Avatar
    El Guapo

    This is not a list but deserves Mention:
    Stereophonics-“Pull the Pin” (I know it was released in the UK late 2007 but since no official US release and I didn’t get it til winter 2008, it belongs here-and Leslie included Kate’s Made of Bricks which is also a 2007 release).
    Greg Laswell-“Three Flights from Alto Nido”
    Los Campesinos-“Hold On Now, Youngster…”
    Jenny Lewis-“Acid Tongue”
    Travis-“Ode to Jay Smith”
    the Verve-“Forth”
    Jack Johnson-“Sleep Through the Static”
    Raconteurs–“Consolers of the Lonely”
    Spearhead-“All Rebel Rockers”

    Reply
  7. El Guapo Avatar
    El Guapo

    This is not a list but deserves Mention:
    Stereophonics-“Pull the Pin” (I know it was released in the UK late 2007 but since no official US release and I didn’t get it til winter 2008, it belongs here-and Leslie included Kate’s Made of Bricks which is also a 2007 release).
    Greg Laswell-“Three Flights from Alto Nido”
    Los Campesinos-“Hold On Now, Youngster…”
    Jenny Lewis-“Acid Tongue”
    Travis-“Ode to Jay Smith”
    the Verve-“Forth”
    Jack Johnson-“Sleep Through the Static”
    Raconteurs–“Consolers of the Lonely”
    Spearhead-“All Rebel Rockers”

    Reply
  8. El Guapo Avatar
    El Guapo

    This is not a list but deserves Mention:
    Stereophonics-“Pull the Pin” (I know it was released in the UK late 2007 but since no official US release and I didn’t get it til winter 2008, it belongs here-and Leslie included Kate’s Made of Bricks which is also a 2007 release).
    Greg Laswell-“Three Flights from Alto Nido”
    Los Campesinos-“Hold On Now, Youngster…”
    Jenny Lewis-“Acid Tongue”
    Travis-“Ode to Jay Smith”
    the Verve-“Forth”
    Jack Johnson-“Sleep Through the Static”
    Raconteurs–“Consolers of the Lonely”
    Spearhead-“All Rebel Rockers”

    Reply
  9. El Guapo Avatar
    El Guapo

    This is not a list but deserves Mention:
    Stereophonics-“Pull the Pin” (I know it was released in the UK late 2007 but since no official US release and I didn’t get it til winter 2008, it belongs here-and Leslie included Kate’s Made of Bricks which is also a 2007 release).
    Greg Laswell-“Three Flights from Alto Nido”
    Los Campesinos-“Hold On Now, Youngster…”
    Jenny Lewis-“Acid Tongue”
    Travis-“Ode to Jay Smith”
    the Verve-“Forth”
    Jack Johnson-“Sleep Through the Static”
    Raconteurs–“Consolers of the Lonely”
    Spearhead-“All Rebel Rockers”

    Reply
  10. El Guapo Avatar
    El Guapo

    This is not a list but deserves Mention:
    Stereophonics-“Pull the Pin” (I know it was released in the UK late 2007 but since no official US release and I didn’t get it til winter 2008, it belongs here-and Leslie included Kate’s Made of Bricks which is also a 2007 release).
    Greg Laswell-“Three Flights from Alto Nido”
    Los Campesinos-“Hold On Now, Youngster…”
    Jenny Lewis-“Acid Tongue”
    Travis-“Ode to Jay Smith”
    the Verve-“Forth”
    Jack Johnson-“Sleep Through the Static”
    Raconteurs–“Consolers of the Lonely”
    Spearhead-“All Rebel Rockers”

    Reply

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