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Most Disappointing Albums of 2008

Nov 26, 2008, 10:40am

I've noticed a bunch of magazines, websites, and bloggers have been jumping the gun on year-end list season. So I thought I would jump in myself. I've decided to start with what could be a controversial one: most disappointing albums. I decided to go with "disappointing" rather than "worst" because really, there is so much crap out there that it would be nearly impossible to determine what was the crappiest of the crappy. Most Disappointing Albums of 2008 [...]

Artists: Amanda Palmer, Beck, Brett Anderson, Jenny Lewis, Kaiser Chiefs, Kings Of Leon, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, One Day As A Lion, The Pretenders, Stephen Malkmus

Tags: beck, Kings Of Leon, stephen malkmus, jenny lewis, amanda palmer, kaiser chiefs, Brett Anderson, The Pretenders, Best of 2008, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, One Day As A Lion

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