CHARTattack Staff Top 10s Lists

12/23/08 5:00pm

Here are the top 10 (or five) album lists from individual CHARTattack staff members and contributing writers and photographers:

Edward Skira, Publisher
JASON ANDERSON The Hopeful And The Unafraid
THE APPLES IN STEREO Electronic Projects For Musicians
THE BLUE SEEDS The Blue Seeds
THE CLASH Live At Shea Stadium
COLOURMUSIC F, Monday, Orange, February, Venus, Lunatic, 1 Or 13
DARK MEAT Universal Indians Expanded Edition
ELLIOTT BROOD Mountain Meadows
THE GREEN HOUR BAND The Green Hour Band
SARA MELSON Dirty Mind
SERENA MANEESH S-M Backwards

Aaron Brophy, Managing Editor
1. PORTISHEAD Third
2. THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS The Age Of The Understatement
3. D-SISIVE The Book
4. CANCER BATS Hail Destroyer
5. GRAVEYARD Graveyard
6. DAVID VANDERVELDE Waiting For The Sunrise
7. THE MOONDOGGIES Don't Be A Stranger
8. LYKKI LI Youth Novels
9. THE DEARS Missiles
10. SAM ROBERTS Love At The End Of The World

Steve McLean, News Editor
1. FOXBORO HOT TUBS Stop Drop And Roll!!!
2. GARFIELDS BIRTHDAY Let Them Eat Cake
3. GENTLEMAN JESSE AND HIS MEN Gentleman Jesse And His Men
4. THE ONE NIGHT BAND Hit & Run
5. THE BASEBALL PROJECT Volume 1: Frozen Ropes And Dying Quails
6. CARBON/SILICON The Last Post
7. LOS CAMPESINOS! Hold On Now, Youngster...
8. RAYGUN COWBOYS Raygun Cowboys
9. HAYES CARLL Trouble In Mind
10. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS Brighter Than Creation's Dark

Kate Harper, Associate Editor
1. ARKELLS Jackson Square
2. RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS Cardinology
3. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS Forest Of Tears
4. MARTHA WAINWRIGHT I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
5. LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
6. MICHAEL FRANTI & SPEARHEAD All Rebel Rockers
7. HEY ROSETTA! Into Your Lungs (And Around In Your Heart And On Through Your Blood)
8. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend
9. JUSTIN RUTLEDGE Man Descending
10. JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE The Good Life

Jen White, Associate Editor
1. PLANTS AND ANIMALS Parc Avenue
2. BORN RUFFIANS Red, Yellow & Blue
3. WILL CURRIE & THE COUNTRY FRENCH A Great Stage
4. ELLIOTT BROOD Mountain Meadows
5. LOS CAMPESINOS! Hold On Now, Youngster...
6. KAISER CHIEFS Off With Their Heads
7. SLOAN Parallel Play
8. MY MORNING JACKET Evil Urges
9. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Flight Of The Conchords
10. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Narrow Stairs

Chris Burland, Charts Editor
1. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend
2. THE NOTWIST The Devil, You + Me
3. HOPEFUL MONSTER Metatasking
4. MOTORPSYCHO Little Lucid Moments
5. ELLIOTT BROOD Mountain Meadows
6. HILOTRONS Happymatic
7. DAMIEN JURADO Caught In The Trees
8. ELIZABETH SHEPHERD Parkdale
9. THE BICYCLES Oh No, It's Love
10. SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 Seun Kuti & Eygpt 80

Danielle Holke, Interactive Producer
BECK Modern Guilt
VEDA HILLE This Riot Life
FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Flight Of The Conchords
THE NOTWIST The Devil, You + Me
STEREOLAB Chemical Chords
ANI DIFRANCO Red Letter Year
DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
BEN FOLDS Way To Normal
BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago
THE SMITHS The Sound Of The Smiths

Richard Beland, Contributing Photographer
1. ROBERT PLANT AND ALISON KRAUSS Raising Sand
2. AC/DC Black Ice
3. THE RACONTEURS Consolers Of The Lonely
4. THE CURE 4:13 Dream
5. ROMNEY GETTY Ramblin' Girl
6. MY MORNING JACKET Evil Urges
7. METALLICA Death Magnetic
8. THE ROLLING STONES Shine A Light Soundtrack
9. THE BLACK CROWES Warpaint
10. COLDPLAY Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

Scott Bryson, Contributing Writer
1. ADAM & THE AMETHYSTS Amethyst Amulet
2. THE KILLS Midnight Boom
3. DR. DOG Fate
4. CONSTANTINES Kensington Heights
5. JENNY LEWIS Acid Tongue
6. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Narrow Stairs
7. DEERHUNTER Microcastle
8. OLD MAN LUEDECKE Proof Of Love
9. LONGWAVE Secrets Are Sinister
10. SEBASTIAN GRAINGER & THE MOUNTAINS Sebastian Grainger & The Mountains

Keith Carman, Contributing Writer
1. TOXIC HOLOCAUST An Overdose Of Death
2. LORDS Fuck All Y'All Motherfuckers
3. CURSED III: Architects Of Troubled Sleep
4. ARSON ANTHEM Arson Anthem
5. MOTORHEAD Motorizer
6. OUTLAW ORDER Dragging Down The Enforcer
7. D.O.A. Northern Avenger
8. HANK WILLIAMS III Damn Right Rebel Proud
9. FUCK THE FACTS Disgorge Mexico
10. THE SUPERSUCKERS Get It Together!

Shawn Despres, Contributing Writer
1. FUCKED UP The Chemistry Of Common Life
2. GIRL TALK Feed The Animals
3. BORIS Smile
4. THE ROOTS Rising Down
5. CONSTANTINES Kensington Heights
6. BRENDAN CANNING Something For All Of Us...
7. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend
8. MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS Mass Of The Fermenting Dregs
9. THE DEATH SET Worldwide
10. GUNS N' ROSES Chinese Democracy

Evan Dickson, Contributing Writer
1. SEBASTIEN GRAINGER & THE MOUNTAINS Sebastien Grainger And The Mountains
2. GIRL TALK Feed The Animals
3. THE DODOS Visiter
4. EL GUINCHO Alegranza
5. JAY REATARD Singles 06-07

Moya Dillon, Contributing Writer
1. THE RACONTEURS Consolers Of The Lonely
2. ADELE 19
3. COLDPLAY Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
4. JACK JOHNSON Sleep Through The Static
5. KINGS OF LEON Only By The Night
6. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend
7. ERIC HUTCHINSON Sounds Like This
8. DUFFY Rockferry
9. THAO We Brave Bee Stings and All
10. THE VERVE Forth

Aaron Foster, Contributing Writer
1. DEERHUNTER Microcastle
2. BRIAN BORCHERDT Coyotes
3. BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago
4. TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science
5. GLASVEGAS Glasvegas
6. SIGUR ROS Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
7. WOMEN Women
8. M83 Saturdays = Youth
9. BRITISH SEA POWER Do You Like Rock Music?
10. THE DEARS Missles

Cameron Gordon, Contributing Writer
1. LIL' WAYNE Tha Carter III
2. MOGWAI The Hawk Is Howling
3. NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
4. CONOR OBERST Conor Oberst
5. CONSTANTINES Kensington Heights
6. GIRL TALK Feed The Animals
7. FUCKED UP The Chemistry Of Common Life
8. NO AGE Nouns
9. BLACK MOUNTAIN In The Future
10. R.E.M. Accelerate

Caitlin Hotchkiss, Contributing Writer
1. KILL HANNAH Hope For The Hopeless
2. TORCHE Meanderthal
3. INNERPARTYSYSTEM Innerpartysystem
4. BAUHAUS Go Away White
5. THE FAINT Fasciinatiion
6. DIE MANNEQUIN Unicorn Steak
7. PORTISHEAD Third
8. HAWKSLEY WORKMAN Los Manlicious
9. BLACK MOUNTAIN In The Future
10. MOTLEY CRUE Saints Of Los Angeles

Shehzaad Jiwani, Contributing Writer
1. PORTISHEAD Third
2. YOUNG WIDOWS Old Wounds
3. BLACK MOUNTAIN In The Future
4. HARVEY MILK Life… The Best Game In Town
5. CRYSTAL ANTLERS EP
6. CLOUDS We Are Above You
7. THESE ARMS ARE SNAKES Tail Swallower & Dove
8. THE SEA AND CAKE Car Alarm
9. LADYHAWK Shots
10. DEERHOOF Offend Maggie

Aisha Khan, Contributing Writer
1. BORIS Smile
2. PORTISHEAD Third
3. TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science
4. NINE INCH NAILS Ghosts I-IV
5. THE DEARS Missiles

Sarah Kurchak, Contributing Writer
1. D-SISIVE The Book
2. THE WAKING EYES Holding On To Whatever It Is
3. THE DEARS Missiles
4. LIGHTS Lights
5. DANKO JONES Never Too Loud
6. SANTOGOLD Santogold
7. LADYTRON Velocifero
8. BODIES OF WATER A Certain Feeling
9. CSS Donkey
10. WOVENHAND Ten Stones

Jill Langlois, Contributing Writer
1. WINTER GLOVES About A Girl
2. PLANTS AND ANIMALS Parc Avenue
3. CONSTANTINES Kensington Heights
4. FOALS Antidotes
5. KINGS OF LEON Only By The Night
6. SAM ROBERTS BAND Love At The End Of The World
7. THE BLACK KEYS Attack & Release
8. THE STILLS Oceans Will Rise
9. THE COAST Expatriate
10. MOTHER MOTHER O My Heart

Erik Leijon, Contributing Writer
1. WOLF PARADE At Mount Zoomer
2. LIL WAYNE Tha Carter III
3. PLANTS AND ANIMALS Parc Avenue
4. COOL KIDS The Bake Sale EP
5. CUT COPY In Ghost Colours
6. HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR Hercules And Love Affair
7. WINTER GLOVES About A Girl
8. CRYSTAL CASTLES Crystal Castles
9. TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science
10. COEUR DE PIRATE Coeur De Pirate

Jessica Lewis, Contributing Writer
1. PLANTS AND ANIMALS Parc Avenue
2. FOALS Antidotes
3. CUT COPY In Ghost Colours
4. TIM FITE Fair Ain't Fair
5. SHE & HIM Volume One
6. THE TING TINGS We Started Nothing
7. GIRL TALK Feed the Animals
8. SAM ROBERTS BAND Love At The End Of The World
9. WOODHANDS Heart Attack
10. THE DANKS Samples

David Leyes, Contributing Photographer
1. BECK Modern Guilt
2. RUN WITH THE KITTENS Cad Gold, Jr.
3. DAVID WILCOX Boy In The Boat
4. M.I.A Kala
5. KATIE PERRY One Of The Boys

Matt Littlefair, Contributing Writer
1. TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science
2. WOLF PARADE At Mount Zoomer
3. DEERHUNTER Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
4. BORN RUFFIANS Red, Yellow & Blue
5. M83 Saturdays = Youth
6. NO AGE Nouns
7. PORTISHEAD Third
8. DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES In Ear Park
9. VIVIAN GIRLS Vivian Girls
10. PLANTS AND ANIMALS Parc Avenue

Noah Love, Contributing Writer
1. DEERHUNTER Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
2. WOLF PARADE At Mount Zoomer
3. FUCKED UP The Chemistry Of Common Life
4. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
5. PORTISHEAD Third
6. BORN RUFFIANS Red, Yellow & Blue
7. JAY REATARD Singles '08
8. BLACK MOUNTAIN In The Future
9. VIVIAN GIRLS Vivian Girls
10. NO AGE Nouns

Sheena Lyonnais, Contributing Writer
1. THE STILLS Oceans Will Rise
2. ALKALINE TRIO Agony And Irony
3. MGMT Oracular Spectacular
4. THE TING TINGS We Started Nothing
5. THE CREEPSHOW Run For Your Life
6. DEF LEPPARD Songs From the Sparkle Lounge
7. JASON COLLETT Here's To Being Here
8. GOLDFINGER Hello Destiny
9. DIE MANNEQUIN Unicorn Steak
10. SEMI-PRECIOUS WEAPONS We Love You

Natalia Manzocco, Contributing Writer
1. ENTIRE CITIES Deep River
2. THE DRESS WHITES My God, The Shame!
3. BORN RUFFIANS Red, Yellow & Blue
4. THE BICYCLES Oh No, It's Love
5. THE SUPERFANTASTICS Choose Your Destination EP
6. SLOAN Parallel Play
7. NADA SURF Lucky
8. BEN FOLDS Way To Normal
9. LOS CAMPESINOS! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
10. LAURA BARRETT Victory Garden

Jason McLoughlin, Contributing Photographer
1. WEEZER The Red Album
2. CITY AND COLOUR Bring Me Your Love
3. COLDPLAY Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
4. PINK Funhouse
5. KATY PERRY One Of The Boys
6. HELLO BEAUTIFUL Soundtrack For Scenario
7. SAM ROBERTS BAND Love At The End Of The World
8. JACK JOHNSON Sleep Through The Static
9. DIE MANNEQUIN Unicorn Steak
10. PORTISHEAD Third

Andre Mihsin, Contributing Writer
1. NACTMYSTIUM Assassins: Black Meddle, Part 1
2. OPETH Watershed
3. GOJIRA The Way Of All Flesh
4. GUNS N' ROSES Chinese Democracy
5. MESHUGGAH ObZen
6. SAHG SAHG II
7. THE SWORD Gods Of The Earth
8. HELLHAMMER Demon Entrails
9. ARSON ANTHEM Arson Anthem
10. HANK WILLIAMS III Damn Right Rebel Proud

Erik Missio, Contributing Writer
1. TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science
2. THE DEARS Missiles
3. SONS AND DAUGHTERS This Gift
4. ENTIRE CITIES Deep River
5. THE STREETS Everything Is Borrowed
6. DANKO JONES Never Too Loud
7. THE WEEK THAT WAS The Week That Was
8. THE RACONTEURS Consolers Of The Lonely
9. GLASVEGAS Glasvegas
10. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend

Trevor Morelli, Contributing Writer
1. TOKYO POLICE CLUB Elephant Shell
2. THE HOLD STEADY Stay Positive
3. THE RACONTEURS Consolers Of The Lonely
4. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Narrow Stairs
5. KINGS OF LEON Only By The Night
6. RISE AGAINST Appeal To Reason
7. COLDPLAY Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
8. GIRL TALK Feed The Animals
9. ARKELLS Jackson Square
10. MGMT Oracular Spectacular

Alyssa Noel, Contributing Writer
1. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend
2. THE HOLD STEADY Stay Positive
3. KINGS OF LEON Only By The Night
2. ELLIOTT BROOD Mountain Meadows
5. BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago
6. BORN RUFFIANS Red, Yellow & Blue
7. HOT CHIP Made In The Dark
8. JASON COLLETT Here's To Being Here
9. SAM ROBERTS Love At The End Of The World
10. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Narrow Stairs

Quinn Omori, Contributing Writer
1. THE HOLD STEADY Stay Positive
2. CHAD VANGAALEN Soft Airplane
3. BLACK MOUNTAIN In The Future
4. WOMEN Women
5. MARNIE STERN This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That
6. SHE & HIM Volume One
7. NO AGE Nouns
8. LAND OF TALK Some Are Lakes
9. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend
10. TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science

John Papamarko, Contributing Writer/Photographer
1. WOLF PARADE At Mount Zoomer
2. BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago
3. PORTISHEAD Third
4. FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes
5. LOS CAMPESINOS! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
6. M83 Saturday = Youth
7. OKKERVIL RIVER The Stand Ins
8. PLANTS & ANIMALS Parc Avenue
9. CONSTANTINES Kensington Heights
10. TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science

Brian Pascual, Contributing Writer
1. THE WALKMEN You & Me
2. DEERHUNTER Microcastle
3. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend
4. BORN RUFFIANS Red, Yellow & Blue
5. SHE & HIM Volume One
6. NO AGE Nouns
7. TOKYO POLICE CLUB Elephant Shell
8. RA RA RIOT The Rhumb Line
9. LOVE IS ALL A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
10. CRYSTAL STILTS Alight Of Night

Michelle Singerman, Contributing Writer
1. BOB DYLAN Tell Tale Signs — The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
2. AC/DC Black Ice
3. B.B. KING One Kind Favor
4. GUNS N' ROSES Chinese Democracy
5. CONSTANTINES Kensington Heights

James Tennant, Contributing Writer
1 R.E.M. Accelerate
2 KINGS OF LEON Only By The Night
3 FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes
4 BORIS Smile
5 BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago
6 MARDEEN Read Less Minds
7 THROW ME THE STATUE Moonbeams
8 METALLICA Death Magnetic
9 AFTERNOONS IN STEREO The City Is Sleeping
10 CINDERPOP A Lesson In Science

Cheryl Thompson, Contributing Writer
1. NOEL GOURDIN After My Time
2. SEUN KUTI & FELA'S EGYPT 80 Many Things
3. ERYKAH BADU New Amerykah: Part 1 (4th World War)
4. JENNIFER HUDSON Jennifer Hudson
5. KARDINAL OFFISHALL Not For Sale
6. Q-TIP The Renaissance
7. DWELE Sketches Of A Man
8. MARIAH CAREY E=MC²
9. RAPHAEL SAADIQ The Way I See It
10. THE ROOTS Rising Down

Phil Villeneuve, Contributing Writer
1. CUT COPY In Ghost Colours
2. ARIANE MOFFATT Tous Les Sens
3. FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes
4. JASON COLLETT Here's To Being Here
5. JAMIE LIDELL Jim
6. PLANTS AND ANIMALS Parc Avenue
7. PORTISHEAD Third
8. THE RUBY SUNS Sea Lion
9. JAZMINE SULLIVAN Fearless
10. DUFFY Rockferry

Josh Visser, Contributing Writer
1. GUNS N' ROSES Chinese Democracy
2. LOS CAMPESINOS! Hold On Now, Youngster...
3. SIGUR ROS Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
4. PLANTS AND ANIMALS Parc Avenue
5. THE HOLD STEADY Stay Positive
6. BLACK MOUNTAIN In The Future
7. MY MORNING JACKET Evil Urges
8. GIRL TALK Feed The Animals
9. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS Flight Of The Conchords
10. NINE INCH NAILS The Slip

Zack Vitiello, Contributing Writer
1. CUT COPY In Ghost Colours
2. HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR Hercules & Love Affair
3. FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes
4. GIRL TALK Feed The Animals
5. BRENDAN CANNING Something For All Of Us…
6. WOLF PARADE At Mount Zoomer
7. DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES In Ear Park
8. FUCKED UP The Chemistry of Common Life
9. HOT CHIP Made In The Dark
10. M83 Saturdays = Youth

Shannon Webb-Campbell, Contributing Writer
1. FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes
2. RAE SPOON Superioryouareinferior
3. TANYA DAVIS Gorgeous Morning
4. HEY ROSETTA! Into Your Lungs (And Around In Your Lungs And On In Your Blood)
5. SARAH SLEAN The Baroness
6. JILL BARBER Chances
7. HAYDEN In Field And Town
8. STOLEN MINKS High Kicks
9. BRIAN BORCHERDT Coyotes
10. STEREOLAB Chemical Chords

Shannon Whibbs, Contributing Writer
1. FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes
2. ELLIOTT BROOD Mountain Meadows
3. BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago
4. FRIGHTENED RABBIT The Midnight Organ Fight
5. DESTROYER Trouble In Dreams
6. THE BUTTLESS CHAPS Cartography
7. THE WEAKERTHANS Reunion Tour
8. R.E.M. Accelerate
9. LAMBCHOP OH (Ohio)
10. SUN KIL MOON April

Jen Zoratti, Contributing Writer
1. DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Narrow Stairs
2. WOLF PARADE At Mount Zoomer
3. LADYHAWK Shots
4. CADENCE WEAPON Afterparty Babies
5. SEBASTIEN GRAINGER & THE MOUNTAINS Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains
6. STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS Real Emotional Trash
7. MY MORNING JACKET Evil Urges
8. THE HOLD STEADY Stay Positive
9. TAPES 'N TAPES Walk It Off
10. MGMT Oracular Spectacular