We asked, you voted, and The Hold Steady dominated the 2008 Teenage Kicks Readers Poll, taking the top spot in the album category with Stay Positive, and placing first and third on your list of the year’s top songs.
Dozens voted, 168 albums were nominated, and 138 songs earned mentions. The results speak to the impeccable taste of the best looking readers on the internet. Here are the albums and songs that received a critical mass of votes.
Albumsof the Year 1. The Hold Steady – Stay Positive 2. The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound 3. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend 4 (tie). Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges 6. TV on the Radio – Dear Science 7 (tie). Alejandro Escovedo – Real Animal Felice Brothers – Felice Brothers 9. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals 10. She & Him – Volume One 11(tie). Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!! Kathleen Edwards – Asking for Flowers 13(tie). Blitzen Trapper – Furr Hayes Carll – Trouble in Mind Drive-By Truckers – Brighter Than Creation’s Dark MGMT – Oracular Spectacular 17(tie). Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago R.E.M. – Accelerate Santogold – Santogold Teddy Thompson – A Piece of What You Need 21. Kings of Leon – Only By the Night 22(tie). Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid Shelby Lynne – Just a Little Lovin’ Okkervil River – The Stand Ins 25. Reckless Kelly – Bulletproof 26(tie). Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cardinology Airborne Toxic Event – Airborne Toxic Event The Baseball Project – Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Dr. Dog – Fate Flogging Molly – Float Joe Jackson – Rain The Kooks - Konk Los Campesinos! – Hold On Now, Youngster Mudcrutch – Mudcrutch Pretenders – Break Up the Concrete Raveonettes – Lust Lust Lust Butch Walker – Sycamore Meadows The Whigs – Mission Control 40. Mates of State – Re-Arrange Us
Songs of the Year 1. The Hold Steady – “Sequestered in Memphis” 2. The Felice Brothers – “Frankie’s Gun” 3. The Hold Steady – “Constructive Summer” 4. Black Kids – “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You” 5. Elbow – “Grounds for Divorce” 6(tie). Fleet Foxes – “White Winter Hymnal” R.E.M. – “Living Well is the Best Revenge” 8(tie). Alejandro Escovedo – “Always a Friend” Los Campesinos! – “You! Me! Dancing!” 10(tie). Airborne Toxic Event – “Gasoline” Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!” Nada Surf – “See These Bones" 13. Kings of Leon – “Sex on Fire”
