After 6 months of bringing some of the best music of the year it is now time to recognize the top songs that made 2008 great. These are the 10 songs I kept going back to over and over, the 10 songs that have forever made their mark on 2008 and definitely some of the songs I’ll be going back to the most throughout 2009.
1. The Hold Steady – Constructive Summer
2. Titus Andronicus – Upon Viewing Brueghel’s “Landscape With the Fall of Icarus”
3. Okkervil River – Lost Coastlines
4. Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
5. No Age – Teen Creeps
6. The Dodos – Jodi
7. The Raveonettes – Aly, Walk With Me
8. Portishead – Machine Gun
9. Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened
10. Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
I wanted to highlight some of the songs that I chose for the top 51 of 2008 as well so you will hear a couple of songs that you might not have otherwise heard before.
- LivingEars Podcast Volume Six – Best of 2008
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Happy 2009.
Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!
Fuck Buttons – Race You To My Bedroom / Spirit Rise
Air France – Maundy Thursday
Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit – Kamphopo
Arch M – 21st Union
Girls – Hellhole Ratrace
Be Your Own Pet – Becky
Why? – Fatalist Palmistry
Amadou & Mariam – Sabali
Born Ruffians – I Need a Life
Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
Deerhunter – Nothing Ever Happened
Portishead – Machine Gun
The Raveonettes – Aly, Walk With Me
The Dodos – Jodi
No Age – Teen Creeps
Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
Okkervil River – Lost Coastlines
Titus Andronicus – Upon Viewing Brueghel's "Landscape With the Fall of Icarus"
The Hold Steady – Constructive Summer