Best songs/albums of the year

This is a list based on the views of some of the world's most respected critics, is as 'definitive' a run-down of the year's best albums as you'll find anywhere.

• Best albums of 2008

1. TV on the Radio - Dear science
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. Bon Iver - For Emma, forever ago
4. MGMT - Oracular espectacular
5. Coldplay - Viva la vida or death and all his friends
6. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
7. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
8. Portishead - Third
9. Amadou and Marian - Welcome to Mali
10. Kings of Leon - Only by the night

Spin:

• Best songs of 2008

1. M.I.A. - Paper planes
2. MGMT - Kids
3. Lil Wayne - A milli
4. MGMT - Time to pretend
5. Santogold - L.E.S. artistes
6. Lykke Li - Little bit
7. Duffy - Rockferry
8. TV on the Radio - Golden age
9. Black Kids - I'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you
10. Jamey Johnson - High cost of living
11. The knux - Capuccino
12. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Buriedfed
13. Grizzly Bear - While you wait for the others (Live On KCRW)
14. Young Jeezy feat. Jay-Z - Put on (Remix)
15. Alphabeat - Fascination
16. R.E.M. - Supernatural, superserious
17. Violens - Violent sensation descends
18. Ponytail - Celebrate the body electric, (It Came From an Angel)
19. Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
20. Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus

• Best albums of 2008 (they have 40, but I'll only post the first 10)

1. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
2. Lil Wayne - Tha chapter III
3. Portishead - Third
4. Fucked Up - The chemistry of common life
   
5. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
6. Santogold - Santogold
7. Deerhunter - Microcastle
8. Hot Chip - Made in the dark
9. Coldplay - Viva la vida
10. MGMT - Oracular espectacular

Rolling Stone:

• Singles of the year

1. Beyonce - Single ladies
2. Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
3. MGMT - Time to pretend
4. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
5. Lil Wayne - Lollipop
6. Beck - Gamma ray
7. Estelle - American boy feat. Kanye West
8. Morning Jacket - I'm amazed
9. Coldplay - Viva la vida
10. T.I. - No matter what

• Albums of the year

1. TV on the Radio - Dear science
2. Bob Dylan - Tell tale sings: the bootleg series vol 8
3. Lil Wayne - Tha chapter III
4. My morning jacket - Evil urges
5. John Mellencamp - Life, death, love and freedom
6. Santogold - Santogold
7. Coldplay - Viva la vida or death and all his friends
8. Beck - Morning guilt
9. Metallica - Death magnetic
10. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

NME
1. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
2. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
3. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
4. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
5. Foals – Antidotes
6. Metronomy – Nights Out
7. Santogold – Santogold
8. Mystery Jets – 21
9. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
10. Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires

Uncut

1. Portishead - Third
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
6. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
7. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
8. Nick Cave - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
9. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
10. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams

Last.FM

1. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
2. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
3. Portishead - Third
4. Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV
5. The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing
6. The Kooks - Konk
7. Death Vab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs
8. Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
9. Jack Johnson – Sleep Through The Static
10. Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

Pitchfork

1. Deerhunter – Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.
2. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
3. No Age - Nouns
4. Hercules And Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair
5. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
6. DJ Rupture - Uproot
7. Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common Life
8. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
9. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
10. Portishead – Third

Q

1. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
2. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
3. Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
4. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
5. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
6. Duffy - Rockferry
7. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
8. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
9. Raconteurs – Consolers Of The Lonely
10. Nick Cave – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

The Observer

1. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Amadou And Mariam – Welcome To Mali
3. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
4. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
5. Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night
6. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
7. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
8. Kanye West – 808s And Heartbreak
9. Portishead – Third
10. TV On The Radio – Dear Science

Metacritic

1. Amadou And Mariam – Welcome To Mali
2. The Bug – London Zoo
3. Plush – Fed
4. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
5. Shugo Tokumaru – Exit
6. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
7. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
8. Nick Cave – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
9. Neil Young – Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury House 1968
10. Robyn – Robyn

The Sunday Times

1. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
2. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
3. Paul Weller – 22 Dreams
4. Nick Cave – Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
5. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
6. Aidan John Moffat – I Can Hear Your Heart
7. Al Green – Lay It Down
8. Kanye West – 808s And Heartbreak
9. REM – Accelerate
10. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges

Blender

1. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
2. Girl Talk – Feed The Animals
3. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
4. Metallica – Death Magnetic
5. Hot Chip – Made In The Dark
6. Robyn – Robyn
7. Of Montreal – Of Montreal
8. Randy Newman – Randy Newman
9. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
10. Fall Out Boy – Folie A Deux

Filter

1. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. Dr. Dog - Fate
4. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
5. Foals - Antidotes
6. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
7. She And Him - Volume One
8. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
9. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors
10 The Dears - Missiles

Sasha Free Jones-The New Yorker

1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Portishead - Third
3. The Very Best - Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit are The Very Best
4. Dungen - 4
5. Taylor Swift - Fearless
6. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
7. Ashton Shepherd - Sounds So Good
8. Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior
9. Flying Lotus - L.A. EP 1 x 3
10. Cat Power - Jukebox