Q's Top 50 of 2008

A Q Magazine publicou sua lista dos 50 melhores álbuns de 2008, uma das que mais gostei, até agora. Veja mais detalhes no site da Q.


01 Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night ♫

Like others before them – R.E.M. and Radiohead in recent years – Kings Of Leon are making big rock music to fill big spaces, without resorting to hot air or empty posturing.

MP3: Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire


02 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes ♫
Bewitching harmonies, delicate acoustic interludes and full on rocking made Fleet Foxes the most timeless debut of the year.

03 Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends ♫
Quite simply, it was their Unforgettable Fire. Their first properly great album. U2 arrived next at The Joshua Tree, so expect even better to come.

04 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend ♫
A debut album so stupendously uplifting it should have been available on prescription, achieved by tapping into everything from Oirish folk to Baroque harpsichords.

05 Glasvegas - Glasvegas ♫
In making life-affirming pop out of subjects as dreadful as teenage stabbings, Glasvegas’ was certainly the most pertinent debut album of 2008.

06 Duffy - Rockferry ♫
Of the many contenders to be 2008's “new Amy Winehouse”, none were more successful than Duffy, annihilating all competition with magnificently infectious single Mercy.

07 TV On The Radio - Dear Science ♫
The third album from David Bowie's favourite Brooklyn experimentalists pulled off the tricky feat of pushing boundaries while retaining and attracting listeners. Art rock with a human face.

08 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid ♫
An absorbing, richly textured record that ricocheted between light and shade, the bone-rattling riffs of Grounds For Divorce sitting alongside Weather To Fly’s drifting elegance. It burnt as slowly as its three predecessors but, ultimately, that bit brighter.
Track: One Day Like This

09 The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely ♫
Although released without warning there was nothing rushed about the album itself; a collection of inflammable blues ignited by Jack White’s Zeppelin-shaped riffs. No longer a side project but a classic band in its own right.

10 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! ♫
If ever he was in danged of being viewed with an air of comfortable respectability, this was the antidote. With touches of his Grinderman side-project and The Birthday Party, this was possibly his best in a decade.

11 Sigur Rós - Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
12 Keane - Perfect Symmetry
13 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
14 Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads
15 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
16 Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
17 Adele - 19
18 British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
19 Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
20 The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
21 Razorlight - Slipway Fires
22 The Killers - Day & Age
23 Beck - Modern Guilt
24 The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
25 Metallica - Death Magnetic
26 Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
27 Neil Diamond - Home Before Dark
28 Paul Weller - Dreams
29 AC/DC - Black Ice
30 Portishead - Third
31 Black Mountain - In The Future
32 Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
33 Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
34 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
35 The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
36 R.E.M. - Accelerate
37 Lykke Li - Youth Novels
38 John Mellencamp - Life Death Love & Freedom
39 Santogold - Santogold
40 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
41 Lindsey Buckingham - Gift Of Screws
42 Liam Finn - I'll Be Lightning
43 Joan As Police Woman - To Survive
44 Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
45 Jack Johnson - Sleep Through Static
46 The Verve - Forth
47 Randy Newman - Harps And Angels
48 Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
49 Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be
50 Dido - Safe Trip Home

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