The new Death Cab song is really good, I have high hopes for the new album.

Right now I like "Sober Driver" by Dengue Fever. I'm in love with the lyrics and their awesomely overstated melodrama. It's like MacArthur Park without the histrionic vocals.

Some more songs that have caught my attention:

Silver Jews - "Party Barge"*
Silver Jews - "San Francisco B.C."*
Langhorne Slim - "Colette"*
Murder By Death - "Steal Away"
Man Man - Mister Jung Stuffed"*
Jason Anderson - "Colonial Homes"*

Hercules and Love Affair "Blind"
Ting Tings "That's Not My Name"
Trifonic "Lies"
Mobius Band "Digital Love"
Morcheeba "Enjoy the Ride"
Vampire Weekend "Campus"

I'm adding Laura Marling's "Night Terror" and "Shine" to my list of best '08 songs.

In no particular order:

Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife - Drive-By Truckers
That Man I Shot - Drive-By Truckers
Night Terror - Laura Marling
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa - Vampire Weekend
Re: Stacks - Bon Iver

Heron Blue - Sun Kil Moon
Tonight In Bilbao - Sun Kil Moon
The Cut - Benga
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
Heretic Pride - The Mountain Goats

Here Comes Danny - Julie Ocean
Blue Ridge Mountain - Fleet Foxes
Love’s Right Here - Black Spade
True Friends - Black Spade
Rise Rice - Mahjongg

Its Getting Boring By The Sea - Blood Red Shoes
I Am Hip-Hop - Jazz Liberators
Soldier - Erykah Badu
Tattoos And What They Feel Like - Cadence Weapon
Dey Know Yayo - Re-Up Gang

Fatalist Palmistry - Why?
The Puzzle - Ane Brun
Shine - Laura Marling
Silver Moon Ladders - Merz
Presume Too Much - Merz

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Didn't care all that much for the whole Merz album, but the first song, the title track, is great.

"Carolina Drama" by the Raconteurs is my favorite song of 08 so far. "Quarintined" by Atlas Sound it also very good.

I think the new Death Cab song is really boring and overlong. It's almost like they said, "We need to be unconventional, let's write a really long song!" The result is 4 minutes of completely unnecesary intro followed by lackluster indie-pop and uninspired lyrics. Give me the photo album. Give me a rock and roll disc.

My fave songs so far include, but are not limited to:-), the following songs:

Cloud Cult - When Water Comes To Life (The whole album is magic)
The Dodos - Jodi (Actually the whole album is stellar)
Kaizers Orchestra - Bastard Sønn
Times New Viking - Teen Drama
British Sea Power - Waving Flags
The Kills - Goodnight/Bad Morning
Crystal Castles - Black Panther
Jaymay - Gray or Blue
Evangelicals - How Do You Sleep?
Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth
Tapes 'n Tapes - Say Back Something

Actually, there are loads more great songs from 2008, but if I were to include last year's songs, Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal would still top my list. I will never grow tired of it..

The Fall of Mr. Fifths - Why?

Most addictive song of the year.

Awesome lyrics.

Got a top 20 for the first quarter of '08. I'm such a trendsetter:

01. Trifonic - "Lies"
02. Morcheeba - "Enjoy The Ride"
03. Van She - "Cat & The Eye"
04. Headstrong - "Love Calls (Floris de Haan Mix)"
05. Mono In VCF - "Cinch Ring"
06. Ernesto vs. Bastian - "Sound of Soul"
07. The Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want (Soulwax Remix)"
08. Cut Copy - "Hearts on Fire"
09. Cicada - "Same Old Scene (Cicada Remix)"
10. UNKLE - "Restless (Fake Blood Remix)"
11. Lange - "Remember You"
12. AmpLive - "15 Stepz"
13. Big Monster - "Rite of Passage"
14. Siriusmo - "Lastdear"
15. Tocadisco - "Let's Get Down"
16. Hercules & Love Affair - "You Belong"
17. Deepest Blue - "Miracle (Club Mix)"
18. The Micronauts - "Reaction"
19. Clutchy Hopkins - "Love of a Woman"
20. Little Boots - "Stuck on Repeat"

A Weather - "Spiders, Snakes"
Why? - "These Few Presidents"
Timesbold - "Old Hannah"

Adding to my list a couple tracks by the Kills- "Cheap and Cheerful" and "Tape Song".

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Originally posted by Plastic:
A Weather - "Spiders, Snakes"

Love to see another fan here. One of my favorite albums so far this year.

I wanted to mention Bon Iver - "Creature Fear". Beautiful chorus.

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Originally posted by DimsiRupsi:
My fave songs so far include, but are not limited to:-), the following songs:

Cloud Cult - When Water Comes To Life (The whole album is magic)
The Dodos - Jodi (Actually the whole album is stellar)
Kaizers Orchestra - Bastard Sønn
Times New Viking - Teen Drama
British Sea Power - Waving Flags
The Kills - Goodnight/Bad Morning
Crystal Castles - Black Panther
Jaymay - Gray or Blue
Evangelicals - How Do You Sleep?
Fuck Buttons - Sweet Love For Planet Earth
Tapes 'n Tapes - Say Back Something

Actually, there are loads more great songs from 2008, but if I were to include last year's songs, Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal would still top my list. I will never grow tired of it..

I prefer Den andre er meg, but this album has several stand-out tracks.

About half the tracks on Crystal Castles are worthy of mention.

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Kaizers Orchestra - Bastard Sønn


I prefer Den andre er meg, but this album has several stand-out tracks.

Yes, Den Andre Er Meg is absolutely among the stand outs of the album. Maybe the second best track IMO. How do you rate the album in comparison with Maestro? That record made me totally reconsider the group. Before it I thought of them as more of gimmick, while Maestro is probably one of the top 10 Norwegian rock albums of all times. The new one, Maskineri is also quite good, even if it doesn't come close to the magic of Maestro

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "We Call Upon the Author"

Mogwai released a new song called Dracula Family on a cd that was released with Plan B magazine. It is a good track and I love it, but I am a Mogwai fan

Islands - Creeper

It's almost a rival for "Rough Gem" for their catchiest song.