Product Shop NYC's Top 60 of 2008
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This is the first year that the biggest selling album of the year sold under three million copies and the first year that digital sales outsold hard copies. More major artists have made the move towards self-releasing their albums. Major labels have finally started to adjust to the changing industry by embracing digital formats, early releases and 360 deals.
While this wasn't a mind-blowing or inventive year for music, it did provide some solid releases. Here's our sixty favorite records of the year. Enjoy.
60. 4:13 Dream – The Cure
59. The Slip – Nine Inch Nails
58. Skeletal Lamping – Of Montreal
57. Black Ice – AC/DC
56. The Rhumb Line – Ra-Ra Riot
55. Feed the Animals – Girl Talk
54. Heavenly Bender – Sam Champion
53. Disco – Health
52. Walk it Off - Tapes ‘N Tapes
51. Accelerate – R.E.M.
50. Evil Urges – My Morning Jacket
49. Momofuku - Elvis Costello & the Imposters
48. Modern Guilt – Beck
47. Warpaint – Black Crowes
46. Chemistry Of Common Life - Fucked Up
45. We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - Los Campesinos!
44. At Mount Zoomer - Wolf Parade
43. Off & Away – Rocketship Park
42. New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War – Erykah Badu
41. The Visiter - The Dodos
40. Only By Night - Kings of Leon
39. Brown Submarine – Boston Spaceships
38. Anywhere I Lay My Head – Scarlett Johansson
37. Little Honey – Lucinda Williams
36. Little Joy – Little Joy
35. In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy
34. To Survive - Joan as Police Woman
33. You & Me – The Walkmen
32. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
31. Fate - Dr. Dog
30. Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust – Sigur Ros
29. April - Sun Kil Moon
28. Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
27. Devotion - Beach House
26. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today – David Byrne & Brian Eno
25. Oracular Spectacular – MGMT
24. Home After Dark – Neil Diamond
23. Heretic Pride - The Mountain Goats
22. Third – Portishead
21. Antidotes - Foals
20. Made in the Dark - Hot Chip
19. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
18. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
17. Volume One – She & Him
16. Lie Down In The Light – Bonnie “Prince” Billy
15. Hercules And Love Affair - Hercules And Love Affair
14. Hold On Now, Youngster - Los Campesinos!
13. Songs in A&E - Spiritualized
12. Nouns - No Age
11. At 89 – Pete Seeger
Check out our top ten after the jump.....







