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The 100 best records of 2008- The Sunday Times, UK

Complete list at http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article5293605.ece

Rock and Pop

1 FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes

2 CUT COPY In Ghost Colours

3 PAUL WELLER 22 Dreams

4 NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

5 BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago

6 AIDAN JOHN MOFFAT I Can Hear Your Heart

7 AL GREEN Lay It Down

8 KANYE WEST: 808s & Heartbreak

9 REM Accelerate

10 MY MORNING JACKET Evil Urges

11 ISOBEL CAMPBELL AND MARK LANEGAN Sunday at Devil Dirt

12 THE KILLERS Day & Age

13 LITTLE JACKIE The Stoop

14 SIGUR ROS Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust

15 ELBOW The Seldom Seen Kid

16 THE DEARS Missiles

17 EMILIANA TORRINI Me and Armini

18 ROOTS MANUVA Slime & Reason

19 PETER BRODERICK Home

20 LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Gift of Screws

New Artists

1 LAURA MARLING Alas, I Cannot Swim

2 THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS The Age of the Understatement

3 CRYSTAL CASTLES Crystal Castles

4 WILD BEASTS Limbo, Panto

5 EUGENE McGUINNESS Eugene McGuinness

6 NICOLE ATKINS Neptune City

7 LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION Falling off the Lavender Bridge

8 LADYHAWKE Ladyhawke

9 NOAH AND THE WHALE Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down

10 THE WEEK THAT WAS The Week That Was

Left-field

1 ONE MORE GRAIN Isle of Grain

2 MATANA ROBERTS The Chicago Project

3 HELENA ESPVALL AND MASAKI BATOH Helena Espvall and Masaki Batoh

4 JOHN EDWARDS Volume

5 DICK GAUGHAN Gaughan Live! at the Trades Club

6 ROBERT FORSTER The Evangelist

7 MARTIN HAYES/DENNIS CAHILL Welcome Here Again

8 THE ADVISORY CIRCLE Other Channels

9 NICK PYNN Afterplanesman

10 WILD BILLY CHILDISH AND THE MUSICIANS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE Thatcher’s Children

World

1 THE GARIFUNA WOMEN’S PROJECT Umalali

2 BUIKA Niña de Fuego

3 WASIS DIOP Judu Bek

4 OTIS TAYLOR Recapturing the Banjo

5 MELINGO Maldito Tango

6 OMARA PORTUONDO/MARIA BETHANIA Omara Portuondo e Maria Bethania

7 ROKIA TRAORE Tchamantché

8 VARIOUS ARTISTS The Complete Motown Singles, Vol 9: 1969

9 MARIZA Terra

10 BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB At Carnegie Hall

Jazz

1 THE NEIL COWLEY TRIO Loud Louder Stop

2 ESPERANZA SPALDING Esperanza

3 MELODY GARDOT Worrisome Heart

4 JONAS KNUTSSON & JOHAN NORBERG Skaren: Norrland III

5 HOWARD ALDEN & KEN PEPLOWSKI Howard Alden & Ken Peplowski’s Pow-Wow

6 VARIOUS ARTISTS Miles from India

7 PATRICIA BARBER The Cole Porter Mix

8 THE BENNIE MAUPIN QUARTET Early Reflections

9 EVAN CHRISTOPHER Django à la Créole

10 NINA SIMONE To Be Free: The Nina Simone Story

Classical

1 MOZART Symphonies Nos 38-41

2 BACH Sacred Arias & Cantatas

3 SCHUBERT Lieder

4 BRITTEN Piano Concerto, Diversions, Young Apollo

5 LULLY Psyché

6 SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME Magdalena Kozena

7 JS BACH Partitas 2-4

8 VIVALDI Amor Profano

9 BIZET Carmen, L’Arlésienne

10 RAVEL, DEBUSSY, FAURE String Quartets

11 JONAS KAUFMANN Romantic Arias

12 SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concertos Nos 1 & 2

13 STEPHEN HOUGH A Mozart Album

14 VERDI Requiem

15 BRITTEN Owen Wingrave

16 HAYDN The Creation

17 WAGNER Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

18 SUSAN GRAHAM Un Frisson français

19 SCHOENBERG, SIBELIUS Violin Concertos

20 ELGAR The Dream of Gerontius

Contemporary

1 PETER MAXWELL DAVIES Ave Maris Stella

2 GEORGE BENJAMIN Into the Little Hill

3 SCHOENBERG Complete String Quartets

4 FREDERIC RZEWSKI The People United Will Never Be Defeated!

5 ALEXANDER GOEHR Little Symphony, String Quartet No 2, Piano Trio

6 KAIJA SAARIAHO Notes on Light, Orion, Mirage

7 HANS WERNER HENZE Symphonies Nos 7 and 8

8 ROGER REDGATE, JAMES CLARKE Works for Piano

9 PETER MAXWELL DAVIES Naxos Quartets Nos 9 and 10

10 COLIN MATTHEWS Five Works

Classical reissues

1 WAGNER Der fliegende Holländer

2 PURCELL Fantasias for the Viols

3 GLUCK Alceste

4 BRUCKNER Symphony No 8

5 ALFRED BRENDEL

6 THE COMEDIAN HARMONISTS

7 BRAHMS Symphony No 1, Double Concerto

8 DAVID OISTRAKH

9 LIONEL TERTIS

10 VERDI La Forza del destino

Re: The 100 best records of 2008- The Sunday Times, UK

Robert Forster is left field? He was in the Go-Betweens! Some of their entries in the main rock/pop section are far more obscure than Robert Forster.