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DJ Top Ten Lists

DJ Top 10 Lists It's the end of the year and our DJs have picked their Top 10 Albums of 2008. Check out their picks below, and check out what you the listeners voted as the Top 90.3 of 2008 as played on the 2008 Top 90.3 Countdown New Year's Eve day.



Kevin Cole
Kevin Cole's Top Albums of 2008
"Life is like a song. A Hummable song. We'll never stop wishing that we live on in our song. Our hummable song." sings Cloud Cult's Craig Minowa in The Ghost Inside Our House. There wasn't a shortage of great songs in 2008. Great albums might have been harder to come by, as the concept and relevance of the album evolves, that's okay, as long as there are great songs. Some of my favorite albums of 2008 are listed here. In the words of another Craig, Craig Finn of The Hold Steady, "And the sing-along songs will be our scriptures. We gotta stay positive."
  • Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes Buy!
  • Hercules & Love Affair by Hercules & Love Affair Buy!
  • Stay Positive by The Hold Steady Buy!
  • Medd Sud I Eyrum id Spilum Endalaust by Sigur Ros Buy!
  • Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) by Cloud Cult Buy!
  • Dear Science by TV on the Radio Buy!
  • Grand Archives by The Grand Archives Buy!
  • When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold by Atmosphere Buy!
  • Alpinisms by School of Seven Bells Buy!
  • The World Lays Me Down by Noah and the Whale Buy!