Best songs and hits of 2008 <3

If I can handle albums and live shows, why shouldn't I be able to handle the core of it all—just a damn good song 🙂

For me, it’s the usual routine, just a collection of radio-friendly hits 😍
Big thanks to Last.fm for the assist 😘

1. Mogwai - The Sun Smells Too Loud

🙏 🙏 🙏

2. The Killers - human
3. Radiohead - Violet Hill
4. Radiohead - Violet Hill
5. Beyoncé - Beyoncé
6. The Killers - Spaceman
7. Jovanott - mezzogiorno
8. Neno i Massimo - Zar Više Nema Nas
9. TV on the Radio - Lover's day
10. Britney Spears - Womanizer 😳

When thinking about things that feel "radio-ready," two tracks immediately come to mind for me: 😳

Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
Little Jackie - The World Should Revolve Around Me

hmmm let's see what we have here...

Why? - Fatalist Palmistry
replicator - baby, i want to terraform your planet
child bite - jewels rules
david byrne & brian eno - strange overtones
bottomless pit - red pen

The best ones, I think:
1. Deerhunter - Nothing ever Happened
2. Animal Collective - Water Curses
3. Jay Reatard - an Ugly Death
4. Stephen Malkmus - Cold son
5. The Notwist - Gloomy Planets
6. Crystal Castles - Crimewave (Crystal Castles vs. Health)
7. Beach House - Gila
8. No Age - Eraser
9. Deerhunter - Dot Gain
10. Portishead - The Rip

My least favorites, maybe:
The Fall - 50 Year Old man 🤮
The Bug - Angry (feat. Tippa Irie) 🙈

How is it even possible to dislike 50 Year Old man 🙂
...

01. M83 - Graveyard Girl / Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
02. neon neon - i told her on alderaan
03. fujiya & miyagi - knickerbockers
04. ryan adams & the cardinals - fix it
05. the b52's - funplex
06. the juan maclean – happy house
07. Mogwai - Batcat (sorry Samuel Murphy6)
08. the magnetic fields - too drunk to dream
09. Adele – Chasing Pavements
10. The Killers – human
11. Foals - Cassius
12. Black Kids – I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend to Dance in Light
13. lack - i want you to call me peter north
14. Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
15. don caballero - punkgasm 🙂

A bit messy and incomplete, but hey, at least it's a happy list:

Lightspeed Champion - Midnight surprise
The Rosebuds - Nica Fox
Islands - The arm
Nada Surf - See these bones
The Lucksmiths - The sobering thaught
Vampire Weekend - A -punk
The Mountain Goats - Heretic pride
Okkervil River - Lost coastlines
Vetiver - To baby

And the absolute anthem of the year:

Why? - Fatalist Palmistry

which, damn them, they didn't even play

Oh shoot, I totally forgot to include the girls - the only one
Maybe they should move up to eighth place instead🙂 thanks Raymond Bailey6😘 <- total dork

legend. :5:

I was just sitting here thinking back to some of these:

Kurt Vile - Freeway
Jay Reatard - Screaming Hand
Nobunny - Chuck Barry Holiday & I Am a Girlfriend
Brat Pack - Shadows
Off Minor - Practice Absence 😍
FNU Ronnies - Meat
Duchess and the Duke - Reservoir Park
M83 - Graveyard Girl
The Wicked Awesomes! - Fighting the Wolf Spirit
Factorymen - The Blouse
Yussuf Jerusalem - We Ain't Coming Back
Harlem - Psychedelic Tits
Silver Jews - Suffering Jukebox
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
The Cure - Only One
Human Eye - Rare Little Creature
Weezer - Pork and Beans
The Gaslight Anthem - High Lonesome

🤷

Primal Scream - Can't Go Back

Amanda Roberts43 said:Primal Scream - Can't Go Back

prodan.
I'm putting my money on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EPHk16mO20

The songs I loved most this year—limiting myself to just one per artist, no specific order:

My Morning Jacket - touch
Fleet Foxes - Kanye West
Kanye West - Paranoid
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
Deerhunter - Agoraphobia
Wayna - Lollipop
Crystal Castles - Air War
Cut Copy - Far away
Beach House - You came to me
TV on the Radio - Family tree
Annie - Songs remind me of you
Vamp Weekend - M79
Beck - Chemtrails
Skin of the Night by M83.
Portishead - The Rip
Katy Perry - hot n Cold
Kylie - in my arms
Snoop Dogg - Sensual seduction
Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor
Madonna - Give It to Me
Radiohead - Violet Hill
Time to pretend by Mgmt.
Animal Collective - Water Curses
Estelle - American Boy
Gabrielle Cilmi - Sweet about me
Amy Macdonald - This is the Life
Rihanna - Britney Spears
Britney Spears - Womanizer
Adele - Chasing pavements
Adele - Chasing Pavements
Adele - June evenings
Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
Antony and the Johnsons - Another World
Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I and II)
Teen creeps
Women - Black Rice
Santigold - ID Engager
Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
Guru Josh Project - Infinity 2008
Eric Prydz - Pjanooo
The Killers - human
el guincho - Kalise
Kings Of Leon - Sex on fire
Shwayze - Buzzin
Bloc Party - Talons
T.I. - Whatever you like
The Bug - Angry
Flying Lotus - Riot
Electrovamp - i don't like the vibe in the vip
Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80'S

I was bored, I guess.😳

aaa third 🤮

EDIT: totally unrelated to the post above 🙏 🙏 🙏

1. Santigold - Lights Out
2. High Places - Sandy feat (7 inch version)
3. Vivian Girls - No
4. Vampire Weekend - Campus
5. Jay Reatard - Fluorescent Gray (Deerhunter cover)
6. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
7. Why? - Fatalist Palmistry
8. Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
9. Lykke Li - Dance Dance Dance
10. The Cool Kids - A Little Bit Cooler

It’s just my take, honestly. He’s definitely skipping over some absolute gems, and maybe the order is a bit messy, but for me, this all feels way too intense...:G

1. Crystal Castles vs. Health - Crimewave
2. Justice - Planisphere
3. Portishead – The Rip
4. MGMT - Kids (wait, was this 2008?)
5. Islands – Creeper
7. Okay – Huggable Dust
7. Foals - Tron
8. Mogwai – I'm Jim Morrison, I'm Dead
9. Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Rockstars
10. M83 – Skin of the Night

Man, what I loved most back in 2008 was...

Like, hands down, Sonny J : handsfree http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d4L4hiSHNw

And then there was MGMT - Kids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIEOZCcaXzE

Solidly good stuff too—Moby - disco Lies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwyPI-zKqRs

I don't even know why I’m so into that guy, The Streets - Everything is Borrowed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8BHL5SWX0Q

Even Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend to Dance in Light http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaa4eGOtrTg

Oh, and honestly, Alicia Keys & Jack White - Another Way to Die http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM5UJvnbbuY wasn't bad at all... though I guess Alicia's got a pretty heavy heart, if you ask me...

So yeah. That’s basically it. Nothing else really stuck with me.

Metallikka - The Day That Never Comes

Jessica Doyle91 said:Metallikka - The Day That Never Comes

Honestly, the absolute worst track ever written.

1. Telepathe – Chrome
2. Dananananaykroyd – Pink sabbath 7''
3. Mogwai – The Sun Smells Too Loud / Batcat
4. Frightened Rabbit – Fast Blood
5. Neon Neon – I Told Her on Alderaan
6. Sally Shapiro – I Know You're My Love (The Juan Maclean Remix)
7. Paavoharju – Kevätrumpu
8. Why? – Close to Me
9. The Long Blondes – Century
10. The Dodos – Jodi
11. The Raveonettes – Young and Beautiful
12. Zazen Boys – The Drifting / Don't Wanna Be with You
13. Distophia – Evil Baroness. Evil Baroness
14. Dan Friel – Ghost Town / Buzzards
15. Golden Error – Hunted
16. Le Tamtam – Metallikka
17. Shocking Pinks – Cutout (Expanding Headband)
18. Plexi 3 – We Know Better 7''
19. High places – Sandy Feat (7'' version)
20. Animal Collective – Water Curses
21. Foals – Cassius
22. Hercules & Love Affair – Blind
23. Health vs Crystal Castles – Crimewave
24. Lack – CPH
25. Shit and Shine
26. The Shaky Hands – A New Parade
27. Tobacco – Gross Magik
28. YACHT – Summer Song / It's Boring 12''
29. Foals – Super Inuit (Split 12'' with Holy Fuck)
30. Lucky Dragons – Givers

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