Last week, after revealing Rolling Stone’s Top 50 Albums of 2008, we asked the readers to tell us their favorites. As predicted, the Killers fans came out in full force to ensure the band’s third album Day & Age made it to the top of the readers’ list, and it did by a landslide, beating out Coldplay and Kings of Leon. But where did albums by Kanye, Metallica and Chinese Democracy land? Where did the readers rank Rolling Stone’s #1 album, TV on the Radio’s Dear Science? Check out the full list of Readers’ Top 30 Albums of 2008 below.
1. The Killers - Day & Age
2. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
3. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night
4. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5. Guns N’ Roses - Chinese Democracy
6. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
7. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
8. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
9. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
10. R.E.M. - Accelerate
11. Beck - Modern Guilt
12. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
13. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
14. Metallica - Death Magnetic
15. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
16. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
17. Portishead - Third
18. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
19. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
20. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
21. The Mars Volta - Bedlam In Goliath
22. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part 1 (4th World War)
23. Santogold - Santogold
24. Weezer - The Red Album
25. The Drive-by Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
26. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Cardinology
27. Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
28. Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
29. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
30. The Verve - Forth |
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