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Top 10 of 2008: By the Numbers

by Andrew Hibbard on December 15, 2008

A whole 17 days before the year ends, we did it. We summarized the best our favorite music of 2008 on our humble blog, and its name was Justin Vernon. The Jagjaguwar re-release of Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, our favorite album of the year, made it into six of our nine lists, all [...]

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Top 10 Tracks of 2008 (Part 4)

by Baishi Wu on December 2, 2008

For more of the Top 10 Tracks of 2008 series, click here.
10. Noah & the Whale. “5 Years Time.” I worry that this song, with it’s pleasant whistling and tinkling message of love, will get people to buy more Saturn’s. That would be awful.
9. Sigur Ros. “Gobbledigook.” Departing from their previous soft, instrumental work, Sigur [...]

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Top 10 Tracks of 2008 (Part 2)

by Jessie Tang on November 27, 2008

For the first of the Top 10 Tracks of 2008 series, click here.
10. Estelle featuring Kanye West. “American Boy.” Dare I post this too? Rightly so. Estelle’s social commentary of the male specimen in the U.S.A. is definitely worth a shout out (i.e. our boys are 5’7” and wear baggy jeans, but apparently they pack [...]

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Top 10 Tracks of 2008 (Part 1)

by Kevin Lincoln on November 25, 2008

 
10. Estelle featuring Kanye West. “American Boy.” Leave it to a girl from overseas to sing the best song about Americans this year. And leave it to Kanye to only make it better.
9. Pete and the Pirates. “Knots.” A beautiful piece of guitar pop that will seem longer than its 2 minutes and 14 seconds [...]

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