so, here is my list according to my lastfm account
- Tricky – Council Estate
- Leila – Why Should I (feat. Terry Hall & Martina Topley-Bird)
- Does It Offend You, Yeah? – With A Heavy Heart (I Regret To Inform You)
- Portishead – Machine Gun
- Hot Chip – Shake a Fist
- Hot Chip – Wrestlers
- Elbow – Grounds for Divorce
- Hot Chip – Don't Dance

I've been crazy obsessed with "Two Handed Handshake," the last bonus track on Stay Positive, recently. I know it's a cliche to say, but how was a song this good left off the album? Those horns!

You know what? Fuck rankings. Its July. Here's what I'm liking this year.

Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
Ready For The Floor - Hot Chip
Lights & Music - Cut Copy
Raise Me Up - Hercules and Love Affair
Mr. Carter - Lil Wayne (feat Jay-Z)
Blue Ridge Mountains - Fleet Foxes
Chemtrails - Beck
Bixby Canyon Bridge - Death Cab For Cutie
Winter - Dodos
M79 - Vampire Weekend
Machine Gun - Portishead
Electric Feel - MGMT
Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats - Los Campesinos!
Constructive Summer - The Hold Steady
Modern Guilt - Beck

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Yeah, these are the tracks I've been digging this year:
"Stupid Now" by Bob Mould
"Slapped Actress" by the Hold Steady
"California Dreamer" by Wolf Parade
"Zombie Graveyard Party!" by Be Your Own Pet
"When They Come To Murder Me" by Black Francis
"Stormy High" by Black Mountain
"Credit River" by the Constantines
"Untrust Us" by Crystal Castles (this is a wicked track to mix shit over)
"Tiger Phone Card" by Dengue Fever
"Testament" by Disfear
"50 Year Old Man" by The Fall
"Requiem For A Dying Song" by Flogging Molly
"Who's Gonna Save My Soul?" by Gnarls Barkley (again, wicked for mixing)
"Death Goes To The Winner" by Harvey Milk
"Dr. Carter" by Lil' Wayne
"Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats" by Los Campesinos!
"Electric Red" by Meshuggah
"We Call Upon The Author" by Nick Cave
"Teen Creeps" by No Age
"Rising Down" by the Roots w/ Mos Def
"Harper Lewis" by the Russian Circles
"1 Million Died To Make This Sound" by Thee Silver Mount Zion Orchestra and Whatever The Hell We're Calling Ourselves Today
"Total War" by Warbringer
AND
"Good Friday" by Why?
Did that go a little long? My first post. My first bad

Both of the Grizzly Bear songs—"Two Weeks" and "While You Wait for the Others"—are pretty marvelous, if you ask me. The latter was debuted on Conan's show in April and the former on Letterman a week or so ago. They are both highly recommended and are two of 'the best songs of 2008.'

They are choosing an interesting method to get their new material out. There is still no announcement on when the album is coming out but I suspect there will be something stated soon. And besides their touring with Radiohead, premiering the new songs on the late night shows is cool.

Either way, I can't wait for their new album. If the two aforementioned are any indication of how good the album will sound, well, it will be excellent—guaranteed.

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Originally posted by FragileKidA:
Both of the Grizzly Bear songs—"Two Weeks" and "While You Wait for the Others"—are pretty marvelous, if you ask me. The latter was debuted on Conan's show in April and the former on Letterman a week or so ago. They are both highly recommended and are two of 'the best songs of 2008.'

They are choosing an interesting method to get their new material out. There is still no announcement on when the album is coming out but I suspect there will be something stated soon. And besides their touring with Radiohead, premiering the new songs on the late night shows is cool.

Either way, I can't wait for their new album. If the two aforementioned are any indication of how good the album will sound, well, it will be excellent—guaranteed.

Super-dito

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Originally posted by FragileKidA:


If the two aforementioned are any indication of how good the album will sound, well, it will be excellent—guaranteed.

No doubt about it.

My favorites of 2008 are

Glasvegas "Geraldine"
Bombay Bicycle Club "The Hill"
Vampire Weekend "Kids Don't Stand a Chance"
Sons and Daughters "Gilt Complex"
CSS "Jager Yoga"
M83 "Graveyard Girl"
Santogold "Creator"

Here's my top 30 songs list from my blog. No descriptions for each song because I found it difficult to come up with things to say. Anyhow I hope everyone enjoys it:

1. Silver Jews - "Strange Victory, Strange Defeat" - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (9.7)
2. The Tallest Man on Earth - "A Gardener" - Shallow Graves" (9.6)
3. Langhorne Slim - "Collette" - Langhorne Slim (9.6)
4. The Mountain Goats - "Michael Myers Resplendent" - Heretic Pride (9.6)
5. Sun Kil Moon - "Lost Verses" - April (9.4)
6. Okkervil River - "Lost Coastlines" - The Stand-Ins (9.4)
7. A Weather - "Shirley Road Shirley" - Cove (9.3)
8. Silver Jews - "Party Barge" - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (9.1)
9. The Hold Steady - "Magazines" - Stay Positive (9.0)
10. Micah P. Hinson - "The Fire Came Up To My Knees" - Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra (9.0)
11. Laura Marling - "Failure" - Alas I Cannot Swim (9.0)
12. The Burning Hell - "The Second Cigarette" - Happy Birthday (9.0)
13. Noah and the Whale - "Give A Little Love" - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down (8.9)
14. Elliott Brood - "Miss You Now" - Mountain Meadows (8.8)
15. Neil Halstead - "Paint A Face" - Oh! Mighty Engine (8.8)
16. Johnny Flynn - "The Box" - A Larum (8.6)
17. The Dodos - "Winter" - Visiter (8.6)
18. Slim Cessna's Auto Club - "Boom Magalina Hagalina Boom" - Cipher (8.3)
19. Jens Carelius - "Summer Skin" - The First Songs (8.3)
20. A Weather - "Pilot's Arrow" - Cove (8.3)
21. Noah and the Whale - "5 Years Time" - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down (8.3)
22. Fleet Foxes - "Mykonos" - Sun Giant EP (8.3)
23. The Hold Steady - "Lord I'm Discouraged" - Stay Positive (8.0)
24. The Burning Hell - "A Grave Situation Part I" - Happy Birthday (8.0)
25. Jason Anderson - "El Paso" - The Hopeful and the Unafraid (8.0)
26. The Magnetic Fields - "Too Drunk to Dream" - Distortion (7.8)
27. Pickering Pick - "The Ballad of Kevvy and Jenny" - A Twitch Upon the Thread (7.8)
28. King Darves - "She Wants My Song" - The Sun Splits For ... The Blind Swimmer (7.5)
29. Port O'Brien - "Fisherman's Son" - All We Could Do Was Sing (7.5)
30. Breathe Owl Breathe - "Drop and Roll" - Ghost Glacier EP (7.4)

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Originally posted by DrAwesome:
Here's my top 30 songs list from my blog. No descriptions for each song because I found it difficult to come up with things to say. Anyhow I hope everyone enjoys it:

1. Silver Jews - "Strange Victory, Strange Defeat" - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (9.7)
2. The Tallest Man on Earth - "A Gardener" - Shallow Graves" (9.6)
3. Langhorne Slim - "Collette" - Langhorne Slim (9.6)
4. The Mountain Goats - "Michael Myers Resplendent" - Heretic Pride (9.6)
5. Sun Kil Moon - "Lost Verses" - April (9.4)

"Lost Verses" is hands down the best song of 2008 in my opinion. One of the best songs of the 00s too.

I'm going to do something a bit different a list my favorite groups of 3 straight songs on albums from 2008.

1. Plants and Animals: Good Friend - Faerie Dance - Feedback in the Field
---Hard to find a better triplet of songs than this on an album in my whole CD collection.

2. The Dodos: Paint the Rust - Park Song - Jodi
---"Park Song" is a playful tune I often go back to, "Jodi" is arguably the best Dodos song.

3. Sam Roberts: End of the Empire - The Pilgrim - Waking the Dead
---Every song on Love at the End of the World is so replayable so it was hard to chose, but "Waking the Dead" is one my favorites of the year, and the previous 2 are solid.

4. Beck: Chemtrails - Modern Guilt - Youthless
---"Chemtrails" is spooky excellence, "Modern Guilt" is a straight up rock song, and "Youthless" has one catchy bass line.

5. Sun Kil Moon: Lost Verses - The Light - Lucky Man
---Before I get all worn out listening to this album, there's 3 gems to start the album off fantastically. "Lost Verses" is an amazing song.

6. Fleet Foxes: Sun it Rises - White Winter Hymnal - Ragged Wood
7. Takka Takka: Monley Forest Road - Silence - The Takers
8. Death Cab For Cutie: Bixby Canyon Bridgee - I Will Possess Your Heart - No Sunlight
9. The Raconteurs: Consoler of the Lonely - Salute Your Solution - You Don't Understand Me
10. The Accidental: Knock Knock - Wolves - I Can Hear Your Voice
10. Coldplay: Life in Technicolour - Cemetaries of London - Lost!

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3. Sam Roberts: End of the Empire - The Pilgrim - Waking the Dead
---Every song on Love at the End of the World is so replayable so it was hard to chose, but "Waking the Dead" is one my favorites of the year, and the previous 2 are solid.

Man, I love so much of that album. "the Pilgram" is classic.

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Originally posted by anbc:
3. Sam Roberts: End of the Empire - The Pilgrim - Waking the Dead
---Every song on Love at the End of the World is so replayable so it was hard to chose, but "Waking the Dead" is one my favorites of the year, and the previous 2 are solid.

Man, I love so much of that album. "the Pilgram" is classic.

Sam Roberts hasn't disappointed me yet. His debut LP was gold, his follow-up was just as good, if not better, and this definitely has a different feel than Chemical City but he delivered once again.
He doesn't do anything too mind-bending, but what he does do is consistently write great songs, with meaningful lyrics straight from the heart. (And they rock.) A great person too, very socially aware, a funny interview, and unbelievable live.
I could go on and on about this guy, he's nothing but class.

The new Q-Tip song is hot.

Dunno if his new album is gonna be 2008 but damn, I am digging that single.

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Originally posted by Chamberk:
The new Q-Tip song is hot.

Dunno if his new album is gonna be 2008 but damn, I am digging that single.

Is "Gettin' up" his new single? It's pretty hot that one!!

David Byrne and Brian Eno just released a song from their upcoming collaboration available here.

MIA- Paper Planes
MGMT- Electric Feel

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Originally posted by karabear:
MIA- Paper Planes
MGMT- Electric Feel

Both good songs, although "Paper Planes" was a 2007 track.

i love how real music fans were loving that song last year, now it is in a movie and its the number 2 song on itunes...ah the power of corporate america

I only really enjoy that song when I see Seth Rogen doing action hero things to it