2008 Listener Poll Results

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2008 Listener Poll Results

Top Albums
Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends – Coldplay
In Rainbows – Radiohead
Narrow Stairs – Death Cab for Cutie
Evil Urges – My Morning Jacket
Modern Guilt – Beck
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today – David Byrne & Brian Eno
Only By the Night – Kings of Leon
Day & Age – The Killers
Accelerate – R.E.M
Skin Deep – Buddy Guy
Consolers of the Lonely – The Raconteurs
Oracular Spectacular – MGMT
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
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Little Honey – Lucinda Williams
Attack and Release – The Black Keys
Gossip in the Grain – Ray LaMontagne
Real Animal – Alejandro Escovedo
A Hundred Million Suns – Snow Patrol
Same Old Man – John Hiatt
Sleep Through the Static – Jack Johnson
Mudcrutch – Mudcrutch aka Tom Petty
Cardinology – Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Weezer (Red Album) – Weezer
Saturday Night & Sunday Mornings – Counting Crows
Dear Science – TV on the Radio
Warpaint – The Black Crowes
Still – BoDeans
Live at Shea Stadium – The Clash

Top Songs
Viva La Vida – Coldplay
I Will Possess Your Heart – Death Cab for Cutie
Sex on Fire – Kings of Leon
Keep the Car Running – Arcade Fire
Electric Feel – MGMT
I’m Amazed – My Morning Jacket
Strange Overtones – David Byrne & Brian Eno
Hard Sun – Eddie Vedder
Walken – Wilco
Gone Gone Gone – Robert Plant & Allison Kraus
Radio Nowhere – Bruce Springteen
Mercy – Duffy
Gamma Ray – Beck
Always a Friend – Alejandro Escovedo
House of Cards – Radiohead
Lost! – Coldplay
Rehab – Amy Winehouse
Read My Mind – The Killers
Best Damn Fool – Buddy Guy
White Winter Hymnal – Fleet Foxes
1234 – Feist
Human – The Killers
Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
You’re the Best Thing – Ray LaMontagne
Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
Underdog – Spoon
Dashboard – Modest Mouse
Radiohead – Bodysnatchers
The Pretender – Foo Fighters
Everybody Knows – Ryan Adams

Top Concerts
Wilco @ Riviera
2/15-15 & 2/18-20
Lollapalooza 2008 @ Grant Park
August 1st – 3rd
Buddy Guy @ Legends
January 3-6, 10-13, 17-20, 23-27, 30-31
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers w/ Steve Winwood @ United Center
July 2nd
Coldplay @ United Center
July 22nd-23rd
Robert Plant & Alison Kraus @ Ravinia
June 18th
R.E.M/Modest Mouse/The National @ United Center
June 6th
Foo Fighters @ Allstate Arena
February 25th
Eddie Vedder @ Auditorium Theatre
August 21-22nd
Death Cab for Cutie @ Jay Pritzker Pavilion/Milennium Park
June 3rd

Best Places to See an XRT Show
Vic Theatre
Chicago Theatre
Metro
Park West
Ravinia
Schubas
Riviera Theatre
House of Blues
Auditorium Theatre
Charter One Pavilion at Northerly Island

Top Movies
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Wall-E
Quantum of Solace
Sex and the City Movie
Slumdog Millionaire
Tropic Thunder
Indiana Jones 4
The Pineapple Express

Top TV Shows
The Office
30 Rock
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Family Guy
2008 Olympic Games
The Colbert Report
Entourage
House
Lost
Saturday Night Live

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