The Loaf music staff, Snider and Tatangelo, will be issuing our Top 10 albums of the year later this month, but the ball is already rolling. Here are the year-end best-of lists from Time, New York and England's The Guardian. Click on the name of each mag and it'll take you directly to their survey.

Time

1. Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III

2. TV On The Radio, Dear Science

3. Metallica, Death Magnetic

4. Girl Talk, Feed The Animals

5. Vampire Weekend

6. Kanye West, 808s And Heartbreak

7. Santogold

8. Portishead, Third

9. Lucinda Williams, Little Honey

10. Duffy, Rockferry

This article appears in Dec 3-9, 2008.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...