Ten Best CDs of 2008

1. Biffy Clyro "Puzzle"
2. Hercules And Love Affair "Hercules And Love Affair"
3. Bob Mould "District Line"
4. Death Cab For Cutie "Narrow Stairs"
5. The Ranconteurs "Consolers of the Lonely"
6. Firewater "The Golden Hour"
7. Fleet Foxes "Fleet Foxes"
8. The Futureheads "News And Tributes"
9. TV On The Radio "Dead Science"
10. Kings Of Leon "Only By The Night"
11. Bloc Party "Intimacy"
12. The Dears "Missile"
13. Portishead "Third"
14. Joe Jackson "Rain"
15. Kaiser Chiefs "Off With Their Heads"
Sigur R�s "Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust"
Robyn Hitchcock "Shadow Cat"
The Whigs "Mission Control"
Foals "Antidote"
Simon Bookish "Everything/Everything"
The Kooks "Konk"
Apollo Sunshine "Shall Noise Upon"
Gnarls Barkley "The Odd Couple"
Xiu Xiu "Women As Lovers"
Man Man "Rabbit Habit"
Radiohead "In Rainbows"
Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah "Some Loud Thunder"
R.E.M. "Accelerate"
Idina Menzel "I Stand"
Calexico "Carried To Dust"
BoDeans "Still"
Of Montreal "Skeletal Lamping"
Bettye LaVette "The Scene Of The Crime"
Le Savvy Fav "Let's Stay Friends"
Flogging Molly "Float"
The Faint "Fasciinatiion"
Cloud Cult "Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornados)"
The Proclaimers "Life With You"
Colin Meloy "Colin Meloy Sings Live!"
Mark Weigle "Mark Weigle"
Billy Bragg "Mr. Love & Justice"
Flobots "Fight With Tools"
Tokyo Police Club "Elephant Shell"
Flight Of The Conchords "Flight Of The Conchords"
Jackson Browne "Time The Conquerer"
Beck "Modern Guilt"
Sam Sparro "Sam Sparro"
The Fratellis "Here We Stand"
Ben Folds "Way To Normal"
The National "Boxer"
Drive-By Truckers "Brighter Than Creation's Dark"
Nerf Herder "IV"

Best Techno CDs of 2008

1. Chemical Brothers "Brotherhood" (2 CD edition with "Electronic Battle Weapons")
2. Junkie XL "Booming Back At You"
3. Girl Talk "Feed The Animals"
4. M83 "Saturdays = Youth"
5. Hot Chip "Made In The Dark"

Best CD Reissues of 2008

1. Robyn Hitchcock "I Wanna Go Backwards"
2. Whiskeytown "Stranger's Almanac" (Collector's Edition)
3. The Replacements "Hootenanny" (and others)
4. The Apples In Stereo "Electronic Projects For Musicians"
5. Lindsey Buckingham "Live At The Bass Performance Hall"The Lemonheads "It's A Shame About Ray" (Collector's Edition)
The Bravery "The Sun And The Moon Complete"
Carl Craig "Sessions"
The Vines "The Best Of The Vines"
Sixteen Horsepower "Live March 2001"

Worst CDs of 2008

1. Moby "Last Night"
2. Filter "Anthems For The Damned"
3. Miss Kitten "BatBox"
4. Does It Offend You, Yeah? "You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into"
5. Lindsey Buckingham "Gift Of Screws"

Best CD Cover of 2008

1. Xiu Xiu "Women As Lovers"
2. Bob Mould "District Line"
3. Flight Of The Conchords "Flight Of The Conchords"
4. R.E.M. "Accelerate
5. Of Montreal "Skeletal Lamping"

Worst CD Cover of 2008

1. Destroyer "Trouble In Dreams"
2. Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah "Some Loud Thunder"
3. The Dodos "Visiter"

Ten Best Movies of 2008

1. Kenny
2. Synecdoche, New York
3. Milk
4. Slumdog Millionaire
5. Funny Games
6. Kung Fu Panda
7. The Bank Job
8. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
9. Kabluey
10. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Angel-A
Definitely, Maybe
Bolt in 3D
21
Tropic Thunder
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Speed Racer
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hamlet 2
Burn After Reading
Helvetica
The Lives of Others
Enchanted
The Darjeeling Limited
Dan In Real Life
Becoming Jane
The Wrestler
Super High Me

Five Worst Movies of 2008

1. Sleuth
2. Jumper
3. The Happening
4. Bee Movie
5. Hancock
One Missed Call
The Dark Knight
I'm Not There
Quantum of Solace
The X-Files: I Want To Believe
City Of Ember

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