2008 album of the year

Off With Their Heads - Kaiser Chiefs

Runner ups:

Third - Portishead

Death Magnetic - Metallica

I'm not enjoying much iof this decade's music. I couldn't care less who wins album of the year for 2008. Moderators, please don't mod. I really not trying to troll. majadamus

Your post made me lol. A lot.

I doubt Ghosts I-IV will be beaten this year. Samwel_X

The Slip was better IMO.

I doubt Ghosts I-IV will be beaten this year. Samwel_X

The Slip was better IMO.

jachichorro

Very close call, had you asked me a couple of weeks ago I'd agree, but I'm in a Ghosts phase right now. 

Oh, I forgot about that one >_> What about The Slip?DrSponge

As I said I'm going through a Ghosts I-IV stage at the moment. 

Dear Science - TV On The Radio

Its perfect 

Luna - The Aliens

A really fresh and original sound - from what i have seen recently, it is a rarity now a days.

possible candidates for me

Imperative Reaction - minus all

Informatik - beyond

Midnight Syndicate - the dead matter soundtrack

I'm not enjoying much iof this decade's music. I couldn't care less who wins album of the year for 2008. Moderators, please don't mod. I really not trying to troll. majadamus

I agree. Music just aint as good as it once was.

Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs

The Slip - Nine Inch Nails

Hypnagogic States - The Cure

Glasvegas - Glasvegas

There is probably a couple of more I could add, but so far they're my personal choices for AOTY.

• Amon Amarth- Twilight of the Thunder God
• Opeth- Watershed
• Soilent Green- Inevitable Collapse In the Presence of Conviction
• Testament- The Formation of Damnation

Vertebrae by Enslaved. I actually love Enslaved's new direction fusing pink floydish psychadellic influences with black/prog metal.

Also Agalloch's The White EP is pretty amazing as well, so that would be a runner up.

The Slip by Nine Inch Nails.

Also Agalloch's The White EP is pretty amazing as well, so that would be a runner up. Rikardur

This too.

NIN - The Slip

        Ghosts I-IV

The choice is pretty obvious.

For me it's Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder by Cradle Of Filth.

Well, there's been quite a few that I enjoyed this year, so I definitely can't pick just one:

Norther - N

Children of Bodom - Blooddrunk

Kalmah - For The Revolution

The Faceless - Planetary Duality

Psycroptic -Ob(Servant)

Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God

Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

Carnophage - Deformed Future//Genetic Nightmare

Cynic - Traced In Air

Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds

I can't believe no one has mentioned Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust by Sigur Ros yet. I'd post the album art, but it might get me modded.

Stay Positive by The Hold Steady is also pretty amazing.

I really can't decide at the moment. I've liked plenty of albums this year but nothing has blown me away yet. My faves so far are Black Milk's Tronic, Q-Tip's The Renaissance, Portishead's Third, Flying Lotus' Los Angeles, Elzhi's The Preface, and Killer Mike's I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II.

I've been playing a lot of mixtapes as much as albums as well... especially stuff like Kid Cudi's A Kid Named Cudi, Wale's Mixtape About Nothing, Re-Up Gang's We Got It 4 Cheap Vol. 3, Charles Hamilton's On the Outside Looking, etc.

Well there's quite a few, 2008 has been a pretty successful year I'd say.

In Rainbows - Radiohead (came out on CD on January 1st, so I'm counting it)

The Slip / Ghosts I-IV - NIN

HAARP - Muse

Third - Portishead

With A Buzz In Our Ears We Play Endlessly - Sigur Ros  
(I'm not gonna bother typing out the Finnish name for this one)

The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow

Feed The Animals - Girl Talk  
(this one doesn't really stack up as 'album of the year' material compaired to the others on my list but it's definitely one of the most fun/catchy/upbeat things I've heard in a very long time. Not to mention one of the best live experiences you can go to these days)

Falling Off The Lavendar Bridge - Lightspeed Champion

I'll choose a final winner at the end of the year, I'm sure there are more competitors that I didn't think of but these really stand out. 

My faves are

1. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes

2. Imperial Wax Solvent- The Fall

3. Ghost Rock- Nomo

4.Dear Science- TV on the Radio

for me it was Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends by Coldplay, not sure if this will go down well thoughGigagamer2

This is the only one I can really think of

Moonspell - Night Eternal

Kalmah - For the Revolution

Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery

Opeth - Watershed

Fortress by Protest the Hero

Other CD's purchased: 

4:13 Dream by The Cure

Holographic Universe by Scar Symmetry