Best Songs of 2008

Best Songs of 2008

45 For 2008!


Remember the days of 45's? When the single was king? Well this was certainly the year for the return of the song. So many, many great songs, we hardly new where to stop...so we decided to stop at 45. Seems appropriate, don't you think?

This mix fits nicely onto two 80 minute CD's if you want to burn a copy. Makes a nice Christmas gift.

We'll just let the music do the talking. You can pop open this player in a cool little "new window" and see/play the whole mix.  The song list is also printed below or you can download this mix from iTunes Here.

One of our top ten songs of the year is not available on LaLa or iTunes but thankfully it is available as a FREE download! Strange Overtones by David Byrne and Brian Eno

Best Songs of 2008


1."White Winter Hymnal". Fleet Foxes. Fleet Foxes


  1. "Furr". Blitzen Trapper. Furr
  2. "Blind". Hercules and Love Affair. Hercules and Love Affair
  3. "Skinny Love". Bon Iver. For Emma, Forever Ago
  4. "L.E.S. Artistes". Santogold. Creator
  5. "Black Fur". Fredrik. Na Na Ni
  6. "As Tall As Cliffs". Margot and the Nuclear So & So's. Not Animal
  7. "Strange Overtones". David Byrne and Brian Eno. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
  8. "The Forgotten People". Thievery Corporation. Radio Retaliation
  9. "Beggin'". Madcon. So Dark The Con Of Man
  10. "My Mistakes Were Made for You". The Last Shadow Puppets. The Age of the Understatement
  11. "Calling And Not Calling My Ex". Okkervil River. The Stand Ins
  12. "Fools". The Dodo's. Visiter
  13. "Cape Canaveral". Conor Oberst. Conor Oberst
  14. "Canadian Girl". The Walkmen. You & Me
  15. "Lights & Music". Cut Copy. In Ghost Colours
  16. "Hang On". Dr. Dog. Fate
  17. "Shout Me Out". TV On The Radio. Dear Science
  18. "Paper Planes". M.I.A. Kala
  19. "El Gatillo" (Trigger Revisited). Calexico. Carried To Dust
  20. "I'm Amazed". My Morning Jacket. Evil Urges
  21. "Baby I'm Just a Fool". Spiritualized. Songs In A&E
  22. "Agoraphobia". Deerhunter. Microcastle
  23. "Psychotic Girl". The Black Keys. Attack & Release
  24. "Oxford Comma". Vampire Weekend. Vampire Weekend
  25. "Time to Pretend". MGMT. Oracular Spectacular
  26. "Palmitos Park". El Guincho. Alegranza
  27. "Transliterator". DeVotchKa. A Mad and Faithful Telling
  28. "Sequestered In Memphis". The Hold Steady. Stay Positive
  29. "Please Stop Dancing". The Magnetic Fields. Distortion
  30. "Dead Sound". The Raveonettes. Lust Lust Lust
  31. "Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!". Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!!
  32. "Old Enough". The Raconteurs. Consolers of the Lonely
  33. "Gamma Ray". Beck. Modern Guilt
  34. "Sharing A Gibson With Martin Luther King Jr.". Lambchop. OH (ohio)
  35. "Eraser". No Age. Nouns
  36. "Dance, Dance, Dance". Lykke Li. Youth Novels
  37. "Supernatural Superserious". R.E.M. Accelerate
  38. "A Thread Cut With A Carving Knife". Stars. Sad Robots
  39. "Party Barge". Silver Jews. Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
  40. "Disco Lies". Moby. Last Night
  41. "Gobbledigook". Sigur Ros. Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust
  42. "That's Not My Name". The Ting Tings. We Started Nothing
  43. "Music Takes Me Up". Mr. Scruff. Ninja Tuna
  44. "Mexico City". Jolie Holland. The Living & The Dead





--Chelsea Girl. December 15th, 2008