Best Records of 2008

This is the time of year when music magazines come out with their "best of the year" lists. I decided I wanted to make my own. However, the catch here is that it's not going to be the best releases of the year, it's going to be the best records I bought this year. Thank god for iTunes. I went in and sorted everything by when it was added, highlighted everything from 2008, made a new playlist from that selection called "2008," and then sorted it by "album by artist." I copy/pasted that list into excel, kept one row for each album, and thus created my master list. So, here's the first wave; the list of every full album I bought this year. I get a lot of my music through eMusic. It doesn't have everything, but it is great place for backfilling catalogs, particularly for punk or indie releases. You'll notice that I tend to go on a binge one artist at a time, collecting all their releases (or replacing things I have on vinyl or CD), and then only listening to that artist for a week or more. 95 releases here to start. I think I'll try to cut it in half for the first two rounds. Comments are very welcome here. Enjoy.