Like Eric and Dave, I too enjoy compiling end of the year lists, but I don't really bother with individual songs and I have a hard time only choosing ten albums. So here are my 20 favorite records of 2008:

01 Mount Eerie — Lost Wisdom
02 Saviours — Into Abaddon
03 Fleet Foxes — Fleet Foxes / Sun Giant
04 Triclops! — Out of Africa
05 Helms Alee — Night Terror
06 Torche — Meanderthal
07 The Mars Volta — The Bedlam in Goliath
08 Trap Them — Seizures in Barren Praise
09 Akimbo — Jersey Shores
10 She and Him — Volume One
11 Dungen — 4
12 These Arms Are Snakes — Tail Swallower and Dove
13 Of Montreal — Skeletal Lamping
14 Why? — Alopecia
15 Young Widows — Old Wounds
16 31 Knots — Worried Well
17 Dianogah — Qhnnnl
18 Earthless — Live at Roadburn
19 Lil Wayne — Tha Carter III
20 Portishead — Third

One regret of 2008: I met poster artist/bassist of Dianogah Jay Ryan at Flatstock this year and he gave me a copy of the band's new record under the pretense that I was going to write about it, which I never did, even though I enjoyed it thoroughly. So I'm sorry Jay, the record is great. Top twenty great.

What I'm looking forward to most in 2009: Phoenix, Daughters, Battles, Kings of Convenience, and M. Ward. I already snatched a copy of the new Andrew Bird that's coming out in January and it's everything I could have hoped for. 2009 is off to a good start and it hasn't even begun.