Last week some people over at All Music put together a list of all the great music of 2008 just to show that the big biz was not suffering as some have suggested. Now, there is a ton of great music on the list that I love, but then there is the other stuff. Am I so out of element that a) I’ve never even heard of some of these artists and b) I would have chosen a recording of a dying cat over several of these albums? What say you?

American Music Club – The Golden Age
Autechre – Quaristice
Autistic Daughters – Uneasy Flowers
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah, Pt. 1: 4th World War
Beach House – Devotion
The Black Crowes – Warpaint
Black Milk – Caltroit
Black Mountain – In the Future
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?
Cadence Weapon – Afterparty Babies
Los Campesinos – Hold on Now, Youngster…
Chessie – Manifest
Counting Crows – Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Sheryl Crow – Detours
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
Ray Davies – Working Man’s Cafe
Destroyer – Trouble in Dreams
Raheem DeVaughn – Love Behind the Melody
DeVotchKa – A Mad and Faithful Telling
Drive-By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
Liam Finn – I’ll Be Lightning
The Five Blind Boys of Alabama – Down in New Orleans
The Fleshtones – Take a Good Look
Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple
Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
The Gutter Twins – Saturnalia
Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
Howlin Rain – Magnificent Fiend
Alan Jackson – Good Time
Junior Boys – Body Language, Vol. 6
Kelley Polar – I Need You to Hold on While the Sky Is Falling
The Kills – Midnight Boom
Justus Köhncke – Safe and Sound
Charles Lloyd – Rabo de Nube
Shelby Lynne – Just a Little Lovin’
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Real Emotional Trash
The Mars Volta – The Bedlam in Goliath
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
Bob Mould – District Line
Nada Surf – Lucky
Neon Neon – Stainless Style
David “Fathead” Newman – Diamondhead
Panic at the Disco – Pretty. Odd
Connie Price & the Keystones – Tell Me Something
The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely
The Raveonettes – Lust Lust Lust (US Bonus Tracks)
The Ruby Suns – Sea Lion
School of Language – Sea from Shore
Sons & Daughters – This Gift
Kelley Stoltz – Circular Sounds
Otis Taylor – Recapturing the Banjo
These New Puritans – Beat Pyramid
Times New Viking – Rip It Off
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
Larry Willis – The Offering
Xiu Xiu – Women as Lovers
Yip-Yip – Two Kings of the Same Kingdom (CD/DVD)