best of: the list

it's long, 111 of the best of 08 SURVEY, available through google spreadsheet here, or below the 'read further' jump.


air france - [no way down]
albert hammond, jr. - [como te llama?]
au - [verbs]
avett brothers - [second gleam EP]
beach house - [devotion]
bird and bee - [one too many hearts]
black francis - [sevvn fingers EP]
black keys - [attack and release]
black kids - [partie traumatic]
bloc party - [intimacy]
bon iver - [for emma, forever ago]
bonnie prince billy - [lay down in the light]
breathe owl breathe - [ghost glacier]
breeders - [mt battles]
brendan canning - [something for all of us]
british sea power - [do you like rock music?]
calexico - [carried to dust]
catpower - [jukebox]
cloud cult - [feel good ghosts]
coldplay - [viva la vida]
conor oberst - [conor oberst]
constantines - [kensington heights]
cool kids - [bake sale]
crystal castles - [crystal castles]
cut copy - [in ghost colours ]
deastro - [keeper's]
death to anders - [fictitious business]
deathcab - [narrow stairs]
deerhunter - [microcastle]
department of eagles - [ in ear park]
dodos - [the visiter]
dr. dog - [fate]
elbow - [seldom seen kid]
earlimart - [hymn and her]
erykah badu - [new amerykah]
evangelicals - [evening descends]
fleet foxes - [fleet foxes]
fleet foxes - [sun giant ep]
francois virot - [yes or no]
french kicks - [swimming]
friendly fires - [friendly fires]
frightened rabbit - [midnight organ fight]
fuck buttons - [street horrrsing]
guns n roses - [chinese democracy]
girl talk - [feed the animals]
headlights - [some racing some stopping]
hercules and love affair - [hercules and love affair]
hold steady - [stay positive]
horse feathers - [house with no home]
hot chip - [made in the dark]
islands - [arms way]
jessica lea mayfield - [with blasphemy so heartfelt]
kanye - [808s and heartbreak]
killers - [day and age]
land of talk - [some are lakes]
lets wrestle - [in loving memory]
lil wayne - [tha carter iii]
lykke li - [youth novel]
m83 - [saturdays=youth]
magnetic fields - [distortion]
man man - [rabbit habits]
marching band - [spark large]
marnie stern - [this is it...]
mars volta - [bedlam in goliath]
mates of state - [rearrange us]
mock orange - [captain love]
mostly bears - [the ed mitchell clinic]
mount eerie - [black wooden ceiling]
mountain goats - [heretic pride]
my morning jacket - [evil urges]
nick cave and bad seeds - [dig lazarus dig]
no age - [nouns]
noah and the whale - [peaceful, the world lays me down]
the notwist - [the devil, you + me]
of montreal - [skeletal lamping]
okkervil river - [the stand ins]
old 97's - [blame it on gravity]
panic at disco - [pretty. odd.]
passion pit - [chunk of change EP]
perhapst - [perhapst]
pete and the pirates - [little death]
plants and animals - [parc avenue]
portishead - [third]
port o'brien - [all we could do was sing]
quinn walker - [laughters an asshole]
r.e.m. - [accelerate]
ra ra riot - [the rhumb line]
raconteurs - [consolers of the lonely ]
raheem devaughn - [love behind the melody]
raveonettes - [lust lust lust]
ruby suns - [sea lion]
ryan adams - [cardinology]
santogold - [santogold]
say hi - [the wishes and the glitch]
she and him - [vol one]
shearwater - [rook]
sigur ros - [med sud…]
silver jews - [lookout mt, lookout sea]
spiritualized - [songs in a and e]
stephen malkmus and the jicks - [real emotional trash]
sun kil moon - [april]
thao nugyen and get down stay down - [we brave bee stings and all]
the airborne toxic event - [the airborne toxic event]
the whigs - [mission control]
titus andronicus - [airing of grievances]
tv on radio - [dear science]
vampire weekend - [vampire weekend]
walkmen - [you and me]
weezer - [red]
why? - [alopecia]
wolf parade - [at mt zoomer]