WXPN Top 100 Songs of 2008

[motely36]

1. Death Cab For Cutie / I Will Possess Your Heart
2. Duffy / Mercy
3. Coldplay / Viva La Vida
4. Ben Folds / You Don't Know Me
5. Black Kids / I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
6. MGMT / Time To Pretend
7. The Felice Brothers / Frankie's Gun
8. David Byrne & Brian Eno / Strange Overtones
9. Kings Of Leon / Sex On Fire
10. Fleet Foxes / White Winter Hymnal
11. Vampire Weekend / Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa
12. Adele / Chasing Pavements
13. The Hold Steady / Sequestered In Memphis
14. The Ting Tings / That's Not My Name
15. Elbow / Grounds For Divorce
16. The Ting Tings / Shut Up And Let Me Go
17. My Morning Jacket / Highly Suspicious
18. Kate Nash / Foundations
19. Alejandro Escovedo & Bruce Springsteen / Always A Friend
20. Raphael Saadiq / 100 Yard Dash
21. Joe Jackson / Invisible Man
22. Vampire Weekend / Oxford Comma
23. Alejandro Escovedo / Sister Lost Soul
24. Kathleen Edwards / I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory
25. The Killers / Human
26. My Morning Jacket / I'm Amazed
27. The Ting Tings / Great DJ
28. MGM T/ Electric Feel
29. Vampire Weekend / Apunk
30. Santogold / L.e.s. Artistes
31. Ray Lamontagne / You Are The Best Thing
32. The Airborne Toxic Event / Sometime Around Midnight
33. Santogold / Lights Out
34. Aimee Mann / Freeway
35. MGMT / Kids
36. Old 97's Dance With Me
37. Amos Lee / Listen
38. Duffy / Warwick Avenue
39. Coldplay / Lost!
40. Dr. Dog / The Ark
41. Kathleen Edwards / Asking For Flowers
42. B52'
s / Funplex
43. Melody Gardot / Worrisome Heart
44. REM / Supernatural Superserious
45. Amos Lee / What's Been Goin' On
|46. The Decemberists / Valerie Plame
47. Firewater / Borneo
48. The Hold Steady / Constructive Summer
49. My Morning Jacket / Evil Urges
50. Jonatha Brooke / There's More True Lovers Than One
51. Vampire Weekend / Walcott
52. Joan Osborne / Cathedrals
53. My Morning Jacket / Thank You Too
54. Coldplay / Violet Hill
55. Bon Iver / Skinny Love
56. Driveby
Truckers / The Righteous Path
57. Cold War Kids / Something Is Not Right With Me
58. The Pretenders / Boots Of Chinese Plastic
59. Michael Franti & Spearhead / Say Hey (i Love You)
60. Jenny Lewis / Acid Tongue
61. Ani Difranco / Smiling Underneath
62. Snow Patrol / Take Back The City
63. Death Cab For Cutie / No Sunlight
64. TV On The Radio / Golden Age
65. Sheryl Crow / Shine Over Babylon
66. Keane / Spiralling
67. The Verve / Love Is Noise
68. My Morning Jacket / Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2
69. Los Campesinos! / You! Me! Dancing!
70. Gnarls Barkley / Run
71. Jenny Lewis & Elvis Costello / Carpetbaggers
72. Ryan Bingham / Southside Of Heaven
73. Brett Dennen / Make You Crazy
74. Lucinda Williams / Real Love
75. Rilo Kiley / Silver Lining
76. Duffy / Stepping Stone
77. Kathleen Edwards / The Cheapest Key
78. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals / Fix It
79. The Black Keys / Strange Times
80. The Raconteurs / Salute Your Solution
81. Conor Oberst / Sausalito
82. Beck / Gamma Ray
83. Ingrid Michaelson / Be Ok
84. Delta Spirit / Trashcan
85. Kings Of Leon / Crawl
86. The Hold Steady / Lord, I'm Discouraged
87. Beck / Chemtrails
88. Jakob Dylan / Something Good This Way Comes
89. Kaiser Chiefs / Never Miss A Beat
90. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds / Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
91. Teddy Thompson / In My Arms
92. Dar Williams / It's Alright
93. Calexico / Two Silver Trees
94. The Raconteurs / Carolina Drama
95. She & Him / Sentimental Heart
96. The Pretenders / Love's A Mystery
97. The Hold Steady / Stay Positive
98. Jack Johnson / If I Had Eyes
99. The Black Crowes / Good Bye Daughters Of The Revolution
100. TV On The Radio / Family Tree

http://www.xpn.org/music-artist/year-in-review/year-in-review-2008-songs

discuss

[guitar man]

1. Black Crowes in at #99

Woo-Hoo!!! At least they made the top 100. :bounce:

Good to see Jakob Dylan and The Pretenders in there too :thumbsup:

[Beaverhausen]

2. WXPN is a great station

I miss listening to it now that I don't live in Philly. Radio in Los Angeles pretty much sucks.

[mvd]

3. True, and their list is a bit better than the RS one

Glad they mentioned "Supernatural Superserious" - that should have been big for R.E.M.

[motely36]

5. Yeah, I am giving up on other stations

probably put all my buttons to 88.5

[bbernardini]

6. You can stream it online at their website. nt

[MrScorpio]

4. Not one of those songs were played on my show

Obviously, WXPN is not a good place to find underground hip-hop, jazz or electronica

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. That's a little bit better.

[ghostsofgiants]

10. A little.

[Forkboy]

8. Jeez, kids today, what with their fire and their wheel!

:P

Good to see Franti on the list. He makes good music, and he's an upstanding person to boot.

As for the rest...who are these people? Can you tell I haven't listened to the radio in about 2 decades? :)

Between the music and the dj's I see no reason to listen to it instead of just playing what I want from my own collection.

[jobycom]

9. No Beyonce!? This list is CRAP!

Seriously, not bad, but not honest, either. It's based on being not the Rolling Stone list, not on an honest assessment. Three by Coldplay? Snow Patrol? And the Black Keys and the Raconteurs are near the bottom?

Still, good list to pick up some tips from.