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Don't look back in anger: DiSsers' Top 50 of 2008 announced
john_roberts by John Roberts January 23rd, 2009

The boards have spoken: these are the Top 50 Albums of 2008 according to the DiS messageboard's annual vote.

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  1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
  2. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
  3. Why? - Alopecia
  4. Deerhunter - Microcastle
  5. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
  6. Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
  7. Portishead - Third
  8. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
  9. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
  10. No Age - Nouns
  11. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
  12. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
  13. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
  14. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
  15. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
  16. Foals - Antidotes
  17. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
  18. Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
  19. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
  20. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
  21. The Walkmen - You & Me
  22. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
  23. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
  24. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
  25. Sigur Ros - Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
  26. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
  27. Beach House - Devotion
  28. Youthmovies - Good Nature
  29. MGMT - Oracular Spectactular
  30. Okkervil River** - The Stand Ins
  31. Laura Marling - Alas, I Cannot Swim
  32. Times New Viking - Rip It Off
  33. Mystery Jets - Twenty One
  34. Bloc Party - Intimacy
  35. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
  36. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
  37. El Guincho - Alegranza
  38. Vessels - White Fields and Open Devices
  39. Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
  40. Dodos - Visiter
  41. Boris - Smile
  42. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
  43. Grouper - Dragging a Dead Dear Up a Hill
  44. The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
  45. 2562 - Aerial
  46. The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
  47. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
  48. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
  49. The Week That Was - The Week That Was
  50. Abe Vigoda - Skeleton

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