The best tracks of 2008

[SAI]

The rules: Tracks can be singles, album tracks or B sides, but they must be 2008 releases.
One track per band/artist.

I think 2008 has been an outstanding year for music so far, here's a few reasons why (alphabetical by band / artist)

The Black Angels: You on the Run (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcPVLwS8tr0)

Blood Red Shoes: This Is Not For You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z8nnZuRvrg)

Bon Iver: Skinny Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHyo33XLP24)

Laura Cantrell: Love Vigilantes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q8H5oregX8)

Crystal Castles: Crimewave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbcd3ClWuM)

CSS: Left Behind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIhJC2-UNZA)

The Duke Spirit: Lassoo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmqdXeeYrtY)

Elbow: One Day Like This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hooPU2mdsH4)

Free Blood: The Royal Family (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CJltFIRJwI)

Frightened Rabbit: Good Arms Vs Bad Arms (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKlibntJmTc)

The Grates: Burn Bridges (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbxa6j-WXMs)

The Kills: Last Day of Magic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkEwk7wZVV8)

Ladytron: Black Cat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCWNfO3gCFw)

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip: Angles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkvWOAJeZmM)

Lykke Li: Little Bit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUC0ezAlHwE)

Aimee Mann: Borrowing Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyv8xxDPpLo)

Laura Marling: Night Terror (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bu7CTfMYQw&feature=related)

Neon Neon: I Lust You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4lZqDmCO9c)

The New Sins: It Doesn't Work Like That (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuDVDElLXyQ)

Portishead: Machine Gun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pkeDsG2MKA)

The Raconteurs: Consoler of the Lonely (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saYH8eKuha)

Robyn: Who's That Girl? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdyxEps1uXY)

Seasick Steve: Walkin' Man (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC3rzgprN4w)

The Shortwave Set: No Social (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Yv16AumGw&feature=related)

Sigur Ros: Gobbledigook (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puC0UeWLjM8)

Sons and Daughters: Split Lips (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lySuX3PxSbk)

Tilly and the Wall: Beat Control (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVNycEoGtnQ)

Yelle: Ce Jeu (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoY37T_nv5U)

I'll post some more later, because this is only scratching the surface.

[athf1980]

All Nightmare long by Metallica

[therealjohng]

My pick as thee song of the year: Halfway Home - TV on the Radio


Others:

Juliann Wilding - Cadence Weapon
Goliath - The Mars Volta



I'll be back to edit.

[Cosimo]

for now,

menahan street band - traitor
koushik - nothings the same
flylo - melt
madlib - another bag of bomb
the roots - rising down
mr oizo - z
clark - for wolves crew
gonja sufi - ancestors
department of eagles - teenagers

[Strider]

"42" - Coldplay
"Curs in the Weeds" - Horse Feathers
"Better Than This" - Keane
"Another Way To Die" - Alicia Keys & Jack White
"All Nightmare Long" - Metallica
"If You Fear Dying" - One Day As A Lion
"The Switch And The Spur" - The Raconteurs
"The Snow Leopard" - Shearwater

That's all... for now.

Strider

[Jig Saw 123]

"Love Lockdown"- Kanye West

"Angels on the Moon"- Thriving Ivory

"Violent Hill"- Coldplay

[JackassFan]

Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone
Jack White & Alicia Keys - Another Way To Die
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
Elbow - One Day Like This
Snow Patrol - Take Back The City
Burial - Etched Headplate
Last of the Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement

[echo_bravo]

My pick as thee song of the year: Halfway Home - TV on the Radio




AWESOME choice! So far that is one of my favorites easily.

[Ayestrain]

Doves - The Black Angels
Youthless - Beck
Bells Of Creation - Trail Of Dead
DLZ - TV on The Radio
Wild International - One Day As A Lion
Pale Sun - Darker My Love
Ingenting Ar Sig Likt - Dungen
Seven Stories Underground - The Gutter Twins
Goliath - Mars Volta
Hunter - Portishead
Shiller - Ratatat
For Her Blood - Retribution Gospel Choir
Gobbledigook - Sigur Ros
Yeah Yeah - Spiritualized
Council Estate - Tricky
Clouds Over Earthquake - Wooden Shjips
Between Me and The Ground - Dead Meadow

[SAI]

added several to mine

[HannibalGuy]

Off the top of my head for now:

Jeremy Wallace - Two Busted Legs
Hank Williams III - P.F.F.
Metallica - All Nightmare Long
R.E.M. - Living Well Is the Best Revenge
Ahmad Jamal - Aberesque
Deerhoof - Chandelier Searchlight
Opeth - Burden

[SAI]

Added yet more songs to mine.

[paul calf]

Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone
Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
Elbow - One Day Like This
Last of the Shadow Puppets - The Age of the Understatement

really liked all those would add.

james-hey ma
ladyhawke-in delerium
twisted wheel-you stole the sun
the rifles-the great escape
keane-lovers are losing
noah and the whale-5 years time
vampire weekend-oxford comma

[therealjohng]

31 Ghosts III - Nine Inch Nails
Letting You - Nine Inch Nails

[echo_bravo]

Some really good picks guys. Thanks for sharing them!

Mine are...

1. Beck- "Orphans"
2. TV on the Radio "Halfway Home"
3. TV on the Radio "Crying"
4. Gnarls Barkley "Charity Case"
5. Gza "Pencil"

[athf1980]

Bruce Springsteen-The Wrestler from the movie Wreslter. Is to me the best song of the year.

[redfiretruck]

2008 was amaaaaaaaaaaaazing music-wise! Absolute standouts were...

Circus - Britney Spears
Forever & Always - Taylor Swift (haaaaaaaaaaate you joe jonas!!!)
Just Dance - Lady Gaga
I Hate This Part - Pussycat Dolls
Radio - Sasha Fierce
Paranoid - Kanye West (can't wait for the rihanna radio edit in 2009!!!)
I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry