60. Smokin from Shootin, My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges
RIYL: smoky jams, hesitant Rhodes intros, earnest choruses, crescendoed outros
59. One Month Off, Bloc Party, Intimacy
RIYL: riding the thin line between rock and dance, electro tweaks, relationship melodrama, songs that use the word "cuckold"
58. Long Division, Death Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs
RIYL: insistent drums n'bass, acoustic hooks, We Have the Facts And We're Voting Yes, clever math metaphors for relationship difficulty
57. Lost Coastlines, Okkervil River, The Stand Ins
RIYL: bouncy hooks, sailors' duets, Pet Sounds, Patrick O'Brian
56. Shawty Get Loose (Remix), Lil Mama feat. Chris Brown and T-Pain, single
RIYL: spitting rhymes, letting down your hair,Kid Sister, describing how you're getting down as you're getting down
55. Violet Hill, Coldplay, Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
RIYL: piano-driven mope-pop, whispery outros, Brian Eno, d-r-a-m-a
54. You Ran, Ladyhawk, Shots
RIYL: grizzly Canadians, garage guitar builds, not wanting to bother with a song over 2 minutes, having the wind at your back
53. Made in the Dark, Hot Chip, Made in the Dark
RIYL: British soul, sultry guitar licks, Sea Change, philosophically suggestive choruses
52. Rising Down, The Roots feat. Mos Def, Rising Down
RIYL: fat drums, menacing guitar picking, An Inconvenient Truth, Claritin
51. California Girls, The Magnetic Fields, Distortion
RIYL: sheets of distortion, adroit lyrics, listening to Dusty in Memphis on spotty AM radio, burnishing a battle axe
Best of 2008: 60 - 51
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