My Top 12 of 2008
1.  R.E.M. - Accelerate
2.  Belle & Sebastian - The BBC Sessions
3.  The Lolas - Like the Sun
4.  The Pillbugs - Everybody Wants a Way Out
5.  Sloan - Parallel Play
6.  The Lucksmiths - First Frost
7.  The Campbell Apartment - Insomniac's Almanac 
8.  Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - Catnip Dynamite 
9.  Future Clouds & Radar - Peoria
10. The Innocence Mission - Street Map
11. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
12. Nada Surf - Lucky
Splendid older things I discovered this year:
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Paul Williams - Someday Man
Roger Nichols and Paul Williams - We've Only Just Begun
and the Along Comes Mary demo with Curt Boettcher on lead vocals!!!
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