La edición americana de Rolling Stone acaba de publicar también su lista de mejores álbumes de 2008. De su listado llama indiscutiblemente la elección del nuevo disco de rarezas de Bob Dylan como número 2 y el disco de Jonas Brothers como número 40. Además, es uno de los pocos medios que defenderá el ‘Distortion’ de Magnetic Fields.
1. TV on the Radio: Dear Science
2. Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs — The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
3. Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III
4. My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
5. John Mellencamp: Life, Death, Love and Freedom
6. Santogold: Santogold
7. Coldplay: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
8. Beck: Modern Guilt
9. Metallica: Death Magnetic
10. Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
11. Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
12. Guns n’ Roses: Chinese Democracy
13. Blitzen Trapper: Furr
14. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology
15. The Black Keys: Attack & Release
16. Randy Newman: Harps and Angels
17. B.B. King: One Kind Favor
18. Lucinda Williams: Little Honey
19. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah: Part 1 (4th World War)
20. Kings of Leon: Only by the Night
21. Kaiser Chiefs: Off With Their Heads
22. Jackson Browne: Time the Conquerer
23. Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst
24. Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
25. The Magnetic Fields: Distortion
26. Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch
27. Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun
28. The Knux: Remind Me in Three Days…
29. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
30. Duffy: Rockferry
31. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
32. Jamey Johnson: The Lonesome Song
33. Ne-Yo: Year of the Gentleman
34. Stephen Malkmus: Real Emotional Trash
35. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
36. The Hold Steady: Stay Positive
37. Nine Inch Nails: The Slip
38. Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Line
39. Taylor Swift: Fearless
40. Jonas Brothers: A Little Bit Longer
41. AC/DC: Black Ice
42. David Byrne and Brian Eno: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
43. Nas: Untitled
44. The Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely
45. Be Your Own Pet: Get Awkward
46. The Academy Is…: Fast Times at Barrington High
47. Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping
48. Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It
49. Hot Chip: Made in the Dark
50. No Age: Nouns