Your Favorite Albums of 2008


With the year officially ending momentarily, it seemed like the right time to put up the most important year-end list of all: yours. Based on your voting for the past 365 days, we've got a list of your favorite albums based on highest score and most participation.

Obviously, we couldn't just take the highest scores since 5 people loving an album and giving it a 10 isn't necessarily better than 100 people giving it a 9, so we did a little math and creating a weighting factor to adjust the scores to balance out the number of people voting and the raw scores themselves. This list is based on a few hundred thousand votes, so it's hopefully a pretty good representation of your favorite albums of 2008.

Thanks to everyone who registered an account and voted for their favorites. If you aren't happy with the list, go register and make sure your vote is counted next year.

So without further ado, you can click Read More for the top 20.

1.

Gaslight Anthem
The '59 Sound

2.

Dillinger Four
C I V I L W A R

3.

Paint It Black
New Lexicon

4.

The Loved Ones
Build & Burn

5.

Teenage Bottlerocket
Warning Device

6.

Off With Their Heads
From The Bottom

7.

Polar Bear Club
Sometimes Things Just Disappear

8.

Alkaline Trio
Agony & Irony

9.

Less Than Jake
GNV FLA

10.

The Hold Steady
Stay Positive

11.

Have Heart
Songs to Scream at the Sun

12.

H2O
Nothing to Prove

13.

Lemuria
Get Better

14.

NOFX
Backstage Passport [series]

15.

Verse
Aggression

16.

Fucked Up
The Chemistry of Common Life

17.

Pennywise
Reason to Believe

18.

Vampire Weekend
Vampire Weekend

19.

Protest the Hero
Fortress

20.

Smoking Popes
Stay Down