Zzz Records' Best Sellers of 2008

(Local artists noted in red print)

DECEMBER 2008

  1. TV on the Radio "Dear Science"
  2. Pavement "Brighten the Corners: The Nicene Creedence"
  3. Fleet Foxes "Fleet Foxes"
  4. Belle & Sebastian "The BBC Sessions"
  5. The Killers "Day & Age"
  6. Bob Dylan "Tell Tale Signs"
  7. Sigur Ros "Med Sud I Eyrum"
  8. Pixies "Bossanova"
  9. The Envy Corps "Dwell"
  10. Deerhunter "Microcastle"

NOVEMBER 2008

  1. Belle & Sebastian "The BBC Sessions"
  2. The Cure "4:13 Dream"
  3. Of Montreal "Skeletal Lamping"
  4. Lucinda Williams "Little Honey"
  5. Cold War Kids "Loyalty to Loyalty"
  6. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals "Cardinology"
  7. Gang Gang Dance "Saint Dymphna"
  8. The Replacements "Pleased to Meet Me"
  9. Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins "Rabbit Fur Coat"
  10. Smashing Pumpkins "Siamese Dream"

OCTOBER 2008

  1. TV on the Radio "Dear Science"
  2. Ben Folds "Way to Normal"
  3. Lucinda Williams "Little Honey"
  4. Okkervil River "The Stand Ins"
  5. Jenny Lewis "Acid Tongue"
  6. Of Montreal "Skeletal Lamping"
  7. Ray Lamontagne "Gossip in the Grain"
  8. Mercury Rev "Snowflake Midnight"
  9. Mount Eerie "Lost Wisdom"
  10. Jolie Holland "The Living & the Dead"

SEPTEMBER 2008

  1. Okkervil River "The Stand Ins"
  2. Calexico "Carried to Dust"
  3. Mogwai "The Hawk is Howling"
  4. TV on the Radio "Dear Science"
  5. Fleet Foxes "Fleet Foxes"
  6. Conor Oberst "Conor Oberst"
  7. Ben Folds "Way to Normal"
  8. The Dandy Warhols "Earth to the Dandy Warhols"
  9. Kings of Leon "Only by the Night"
  10. Santogold "Santogold"

AUGUST 2008

  1. Conor Oberst "Conor Oberst"
  2. Beck "Modern Guilt"
  3. The Arcade Fire "Funeral"
  4. The Black Angels "Directions to See a Ghost"
  5. Portishead "Third"
  6. Derek Lambert "The Forest Floor"
  7. The Faint "Fascination"
  8. Shearwater "Rook"
  9. My Morning Jacket "Evil Urges"
  10. The Arcade Fire "Favourite Worst Nightmare"

JULY 2008

  1. Beck "Modern Guilt"
  2. Silver Jews "Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea"
  3. Portishead "Third"
  4. Radiohead "In Rainbows"
  5. Jakob Dylan "Seeing Things"
  6. Ingrid Michaelson "Girls & Boys"
  7. Ratatat "LP3"
  8. The Roots "Rising Down"
  9. The Kooks "Konk"
  10. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks "Real Emotional Trash"

JUNE 2008

  1. Weezer "Weezer" (Red Album)
  2. Portishead "Third"
  3. Vampire Weekend "Vampire Weekend"
  4. Coldplay "Viva La Vida"
  5. My Morning Jacket "Evil Urges"
  6. Fleet Foxes "Fleet Foxes"
  7. Animal Collective "Water Curses"
  8. The Black Keys "Attack & Release"
  9. Jakob Dylan "Seeing Things"
  10. The Black Angels "Directions to See a Ghost"

MAY 2008

  1. Portishead "Third"
  2. The Black Keys "Attack & Release"
  3. The Roots "Rising Down"
  4. Death Cab For Cutie "Narrow Stairs"
  5. Bonnie Prince Billy "Lie Down in the Light"
  6. No Age "Nouns"
  7. Vampire Weekend "Vampire Weekend"
  8. The Black Angels "Directions to See a Ghost"
  9. Air Traffic "Fractured Life"
  10. Bon Iver "For Emma, Forever Ago"

APRIL 2008

  1. The Black Keys "Attack & Release"
  2. R.E.M. "Accelerate"
  3. Portishead "Third"
  4. The Sword "Gods of the Earth"
  5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!"
  6. Radiohead "In Rainbows"
  7. The Raconteurs "Consolers of the Lonely"
  8. Silver Mt. Zion "13 Blues For 13 Moons"
  9. Soundtrack "Juno"
  10. Atmosphere "When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That S--- Gold"

MARCH 2008

  1. The Envy Corps "I Will Write You Love Letters if You Tell Me To"
  2. British Sea Power "Do You Like Rock Music?"
  3. Dirty Little Rabbits "Breeding"
  4. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks "Real Emotional Trash"
  5. Radiohead "In Rainbows"
  6. The Nadas "Ghosts Inside These Halls"
  7. Raconteurs "Consolers of the Lonely"
  8. Goldfrapp "Seventh Tree"
  9. Hot Chip "Made in the Dark"
  10. Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"

FEBRUARY 2008

  1. Radiohead "In Rainbows"
  2. The Mountain Goats "Heretic Pride"
  3. Cat Power "Jukebox"
  4. Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"
  5. The Magnetic Fields "Distortion"
  6. Vampire Weekend "Vampire Weekend"
  7. Jack Johnson "Sleep Through the Static"
  8. The Envy Corps "I Will Write You Love Letters if You Tell Me To"
  9. Xiu Xiu "Women as Lovers"
  10. Black Mountain "In the Future"

JANUARY 2008

  1. Radiohead "In Rainbows"
  2. The Envy Corps "I Will Write You Love Letters if You Tell Me To"
  3. The Magnetic Fields "Distortion"
  4. The National "Boxer"
  5. Cat Power "Jukebox"
  6. Original Soundtrack "Juno"
  7. Beirut "The Flying Club Cup"
  8. The National "Alligator"
  9. Black Mountain "In the Future"
  10. Vampire Weekend "Vampire Weekend"