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Dave Michaels (M-F 6a-10a)
1-MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2-TV On The Radio - Dear Science
3-Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
4-Dr. Dog - Fate
5-The Clash - Live at Shea Stadium
6-Coldplay - Viva La Vida
7-The Black Keys - Attack and Release
8-My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
9-Joseph Arthur and the Lonely Astronauts - Temporary People
10-Ryan Adams - Cardinology

Chris Wienk (M-F 3-9p)
Top Ten Albums
1. Coldplay - Viva La Vida
2. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
3. She & Him - Volume 1
4. Fleet Foxes
5. Ryan Bingham - Mescalito
6. Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers
7. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
8. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
9. Joe Jackson - Rain
10. B-52s - Funplex

Favorite Local 518s from 2008
Matthew Loiacono - Kentucky?=
Railbird - Railbird
Bryan Thomas - 1369 Lights
Katie Haverly - Around the Bend
Charlie Watts Riots
Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned - Passing Time

Top Songs
Brazilian Girls - Good Times
Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go
Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Matthew Loiacono - Only Memory
Bryan Thomas - Muse
Kate Nash - Foundations
Duffy - Mercy
Adele - Chasing Pavements
The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis

Bart (M-F 12n-3p)
1. Hilary Hahn, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Esa-Pekka Salonen - Schoenberg & Sibelius: Violin Concertos
2. Cannibal Corpse - Centuries of Torment (DVD)
3. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
4. Hank Williams III - Damn Right, Rebel Proud!
5. Soilent Green - Inevitable Collapse In The Presence Of Conviction
6. Awkword - See The Light
7. Meshuggah - ObZen
8. The Roots - Rising Down
9. Arsis - We Are The Nightmare
10. Six Feet Under - Death Rituals

Local 518 Favorites
Ironweed - Indian Ladder
Damnation Alley
Nauseage - Nausoween

Aja (Sat 12n-5p)
Albums:
1) Perfect Symmetry - Keane
2) Sam Sparro - Sam Sparro
3) Duffy - Rockferry
4) We Started Nothing - The Ting Tings
5) Narrow Stairs - Death Cab For Cutie
6) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
7) Kaiser Chiefs - Off With Their Heads

Songs:
1) Black & Gold - Sam Sparro
2) Warwick Avenue - Duffy
3) Spiralling - Keane
4) Never Miss A Beat - Kaiser Chiefs
5) Left Behind - Cansei Ser Sexy
6) The Worst Things Beautiful - Ours
7) Sing Along - Virginia Coalition
8) Electric Feel -MGMT
9) Footballer's Wife - Amy MacDonald
10) I Will Posses Your Heart -Death Cab For Cutie

Joyce Jackey (Sun 12n-4p)
Old 97s - Blame it on Gravity
The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Bob Mould - District Line
Newton Faulkner - Hand Built by Robots
Coldplay - Viva la Vida
Big Blue Ball
Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Vampire Weekend
Michael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers
REM - Accelerate
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Jack Johnson - Sleep Through the Static

Wayne Henning (Sun 4-8p)
Neil Halstead – Oh Mighty Engine
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue *
Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Laura Marling – Alas, I Cannot Swim
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Bill Priddle – The Priddle Concern *
Haydn – In Field and Town *
Caledonia – Waiting to Burn *
Nada Surf - Lucky
* = Canadian Artist (Listen to North of the Border, Saturdays at 7p)

Bianca (Sat 5-7p)
Calexico - Carried to Dust
Tift Merritt - Another Country
Fleet Foxes
Glen Campbell - Meet Glen Campbell
All Girl Summer Fun Band - Looking Into It
Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow & Blue
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Vampire Weekend

Mike Guzzo (CRUMBS.net and CRUMBS Cafe)
1. Ben Karis-Nix - We Are Giants Now
2 . Palatypus - Lazaretto
3. Two Gun Man - EP
4. Katie Haverly - Around The Bend
5 . Matthew Loiacano - Kentucky
6. Bryan Thomas - 1369 Lights
7. Acoustic Trauma - Live at the Trauma House
8 . Empire State Troopers - Up State Again
9 . The Erotics - Rubbish
10. 28N - Where Tenses Meet

Greg Haymes (Times Union Music Writer)
FAVE LOCAL CDs of 2008
Ben Karis-Nix's "We Are Giants Now"
Katie Haverly's "Around the Bend"
Bryan Thomas' "One Three Six Nine Lights"
Matthew Loiacono's "Kentucky"
Annie & the Hedonists' "Good Ole Wagon"
The Lee Shaw Trio's "Live in Graz"
Princess Mabel's "Listen Quick 'Cause I Don't Know Much"
Fall Harbor's "Songs from Fall Harbor"
Railbird's "Railbird"
The Black Fuel's "Hell Is Cold"

FAVE NATIONAL CDs of 2008
Sam Amidon's "All Is Well"
Mono in VCF's "Mono in VCF"
Otis Taylor's "Recapturing the Banjo"
Randy Newman's "Harps and Angels"
MGMT's "Oracular Spectacular"
Bob Dylan's "Tell Tale Signs"
The Charles Llod Quartet's "Rabo de Nube"
Nine Inch Nails' "Ghosts, I-IV"
David Byrne and Brian Eno's "Everything That Happens Will
Happen Today"
Raphael Saadiq's "The Way I See It"

(See Greg's article here.)

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Listen to the countdown of the Top 97 Songs of 2008 on New Year's Day!