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Spin picks TV on the Radio's <i>Dear Science</i> as their album of the year

12:34 p.m. · December 11, 2008 · by Andrew Winistorfer

For the second time in three years, Spin has chosen a TV on the Radio album as its album of the year. That's not that surprising, considering plenty of magazines have chosen Dear Science as their album of the year (and you guys seem to dig the album in your year-end lists too), but what is surprising is that the Coldplay album somehow found its way into Spin's Top Ten. Seriously, Spin, you know how I know you're gay?

Overall though, Spin's Top 40 Albums of 2008 list is pretty well balanced-- a couple hip-hop albums, a few blog-hypes, and old stand-bys like Nick Cave, Beck, and R.E.M. That's not to say there aren't a few head-scratchers (Black Kids? Kings of Leon, Kate Nash and Duffy?? Guns N' Roses???), but overall it's less beholden to sacred cows than Rolling Stone's list from yesterday. 

Here's the full list, to read blurbs, go here.

40 Chairlift - Does You Inspire You
39 Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
38 Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
37 Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
36 Lykke Li - Youth Novels
35 The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
34 Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
33 El Guincho - Alegranza
32 The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
31 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
30 Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
29 Nas & DJ Green Lantern - The Nigger Tape
28 Metallica - Death Magnetic
27 The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed
26 R.E.M. - Accelerate
25 Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
24 Duffy - Rockferry
23 Kate Nash - Made Of Bricks
22 Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
21 Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
20 Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
19 Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
18 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
17 The Roots - Rising Down
16 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
15 Beck - Modern Guilt
14 Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
13 No Age - Nouns
12 Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 1: 4th World War
11 Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
10 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
09 Coldplay - Viva La Vida
08 Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
07 Deerhunter - Microcastle
06 Santogold - Santogold
05 Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
04 Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life
03 Portishead - Third
02 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
01 TV on the Radio - Dear Science