Notable Songs of 2008

Well it is the end of the year (almost) and people are releasing their lists for the best songs of 2008.
And I'm of course no different except that my annual list of notable songs for 2008 was made at a slight disadvantage this year because I didn't listen to any new music and so didn't know what the notable songs of the year actually were.

I knew of the important albums, like Apocalypso, The Slip, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, stuff like that, but what everyone else was listening to was a different world away at times.

After consulting logs I kept earlier in the year about new releases, checking Last.FM, waiting for rage to announce their best of 2008, I finally compiled the mandatory 4 hours of music to make the list.

So please understand why it is you may have never heard of most of these songs, it is because most of them are free tracks that I acquired from the internet, iTunes singles of the week and other such things. And of course the songs that I heard on Triple J in the small infrequent amounts of time I payed attention.

So without further rambling I present the notable songs of 2008 according to me. Many questions may be asked of this list: what was the song of the year? How many MGMT songs made the list? Which Nine Inch Nails' Ghost made the list? The answers to these questions are Viva La Vida, 1, 28 Ghost IV. However you may wish to read the list yourself so here it is:

As always, the first song is the song of the year, and then they continue in a flowing order for 4 hours.

00:00 Viva La Vida – COLDPLAY
Violet Hill – COLDPLAY
Sex On Fire – KINGS OF LEON
Tessellate – TOKYO POLICE CLUB
Always Where I Need To Be – THE KOOKS
Expectations – CUT OFF YOUR HANDS
Darling I Need Ya – KID CONFUCIUS
Rainbow Kraut – THE JOHN STEEL SINGERS
Mr Hurricane – BEAST
00:30 Half Full Glass Of Wine – TAME IMPALA
Dig Lazarus Dig!!! – NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
White Noise – THE LIVING END
Chinese Democracy – GUNS N’ ROSES
Psychosocial – SLIPKNOT
The Day That Never Comes – METALLICA
01:00 Window And The Watcher – THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
Silhouettic – BIRDS OF TOKYO
Supernatural Superserious – R.E.M.
Sleepwalking – FAKER
The Only One – THE CURE
I’m Outta Time – OASIS
The Festival Song – PEZ
Beautiful Ugly – MUPH & PLUTONIC
01:30 What It’s All About – GIRL TALK
2020 – THE HERD
Clockwork – PHRASE
Got To Do – TZU
Be Bad – LOWRIDER
Sleepwalking – BOOMLA
No Sex For Ben – THE RAPTURE
02:00 Kids – MGMT
Human – THE KILLERS
I’m Not Going To Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You – BLACK KIDS
Run – GNARLS BARKLEY
Neo Violence – THE TOUGH ALLIANCE
Disco Lies – MOBY
Bodytalk 08 Remix – JUNK CIRCUIT
We Are Rockstars – DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH?
02:30 Crimewave – CRYSTAL CASTLES
Paris Is Burning – LADYHAWKE
Lights & Music – CUT COPY
This Boy’s In Love – THE PRESETS
Energy Games Theme ’08 – NOISE BOY
Black Eyes – AMY MEREDITH
Like New – DEERHUNTER
03:00 28 Ghosts IV – NINE INCH NAILS
Discipline – NINE INCH NAILS
Propane Nightmares – PENDULUM
Mercury – BLOC PARTY
Chariots Of Fire – MISSION CONTROL
Ghosts – LADYTRON
The Rip – PORTISHEAD
Ghosts – LAURA MARLING
03:30 Young Love – MYSTERY JETS feat. LAURA MARLING
Start Again – LOVERS ELECTRIC
Open – KAHN BROTHERS
Make You Happy – JOSH PYKE
Porch Dweller – ARMEN FIRMAN
Drawing Smoke – LEROY LEE
Business Time – FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS

If you want a fanciful copy of the properly formatted list then ask for it, at noiseboyNOSPAMartist@yahoo.com with 'notable songs of 2008' as the subject line. (Obviouly you need to remove the no spam part from the address, that just stops spam bots.)

Still to come will be my Hottest 75 list for 2008 and all my thoughts on the Triple J Hottest 100 for the year. So watch this space for the coming month!