KDHX Top 50 Albums of 2008

Photo by Sara Finke

It’s no small task tracking album spins at 88.1 FM. The variety of the programming means KDHX might air 300 different songs on any given day. But this year, we’ve crunched the numbers and come up with a list of the Top 50 Albums of 2008, as spun on your community radio station in Saint Louis. What was the Number 1 album of the year? Click read more to find out!

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 The Ting Tings

Drive-By Truckers

Magnetic Fields

Beck

The Hold Steady

James McMurtry

Dengue Fever

Hot Chip

Devotchka

Cat Power

Alejandro Escovedo

Vampire Weekend

Dr. Dog

Old 97s

Fleet Foxes

She and Him

Hayes Carll

Calexico

Elvis Costello

Billy Bragg

British Sea Power

Radiohead

R.E.M.

The Raveonettes

Dailey & Vincent

James Hunter

Sons & Daughters

CSS

The Black Kids

TV on the Radio

Corrina Logston

Aimee Mann

Stereolab

Goldfrapp

Ladytron

Bob Dylan

Rough Shop

Silver Jews

Santogold

Emmy Lou Harris

Thao

Clinic

Sam Phillips

Carrie Newcomer

The Black Angels

Gentleman Auction H…

Black Spade

My Morning Jacket

Marah

Apples in Stereo

 We Started Nothing

Brighter Than Creation’s Dark

Distortion

Modern Guilt

Stay Positive

Just Us Kids

Venus on Earth

Made in the Dark

A Mad and Faithful Telling

Jukebox

Real Animal

Vampire Weekend

Fate

Blame It On Gravity

Fleet Foxes

Volume 1

Trouble in Mind

Carried To Dust

Momofuku

Mr. Love and Justice

Do You Like Rock Music

In Rainbows

Accelerate

Lust Lust Lust

Dailey & Vincent

The Hard Way

This Gift

Donkey

Partie Traumatic

Dear Science

Runnin’ Late

#&*! Smilers

Chemical Chords

Seventh Tree

Velocifero

Tell Tale Signs

Here Today

Lookout Mountain, Lookout…

Santogold

All I Intended To Be

We Brave Bee Stings and All

Do It!

Don’t Do Anything

The Geography of Light

Directions To See a Ghost

Alphabet Graveyard

To Serve With Love

Evil Urges

Angels of Destruction

Electronic Projects…

 Columbia

New West

Nonesuch

Interscope

Vagrant

Lightning

M80

EMI

Anti-

Matador

Manhattan

XL

Park the Van

New West

Sub Pop

Merge

Lost Highway

Quarterstick

Lost Highway

Anti-

Rough Trade

Radiohead

WB

Vice

Rounder

Hear Music

Domino

Sub Pop

Almost Gold

DGC

Self-Released

Super-Ego

4AD

Mute

Nettwerk

Columbia

Perdition

Drag City

Downtown

Nonesuch

Kill Rock Stars

Domino

Nonesuch

Rounder

Light in the Attic

Emergency Umb.

Om

Red

Yep Roc

Yep Roc

Methodological note: This Top 50 includes only albums released in 2008. Compilation albums were not included.

And check out the individual KDHX programmer Top Tens.

Posted by | January 19, 2009 | Music | Comment 

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