Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 2008 poll

this is the second to last new year i will do. i have done this for five years covering the 60s through the 2000s and it's coming to a close. i hope it was enjoyed, i tried.

Kim & Jessie or A Milli

also shoutout to Single Ladies obv

MACHINE GUN

DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT DO IT NOW, SAY IT SAY IT SAY IT SAY IT SAY IT SAY IT SAY IT NOW

Kim & Jessie or Agoraphobia, though I'm so pleased to see Dirty Dancing show up here I'd maybe go with that.

ya dig

American Boy no contest.

I'm splitting the vote by going for "The Rip". Now, if "Magic Doors" were on here, ...

Graveyard Girl

Mercy

i'm listening to a Pandora (it's usually Spotify) and ironically "L.E.S. Artistes" is now playing. great song, i had forgotten.

*Pandora station

voted sabali

I don't know a lot of these tbh, the very late 00s marked a relative lack of enthusiasm for new music of me. Probably one of the Portisheads. Dunno why Golden Age is in there, there are like five better songs off that album.

Pour one out for duffy. 2007 had a lot of stuff I liked as a teenager, have fond memories of but would never listen to again but this year is rough. Remember the enthusiasm for glasvegas and elbow in music mags baffling me.

Still love Wearing My Rolex though. Was pretty much the blueprint for making a great grime crossover for a good number of years.

Way better than 2007, like way way better. Hearty lols @ Glasvegas.

Will be one of these: The Rip, Kim & Jessie, Agoraphobia, Nothing Ever Happened, Fever Ray.

There was so much hype for Glasvegas when they first appeared. I couldn't believe how bad they were when I first heard them. Possibly the worst landfill indie band of the whole decade.

Voted for Ready For The Floor ahead of The Rip, Machine Gun, Blind and L.E.S. Artistes. I would have voted for Happy House if it had been included.

2008 is one of my favourite years for music ever. So many brilliant albums released that aren't all represented here. Goldfrapp, Solange, Erykah Badu, Cut Copy, Lindstrom, Wild Beasts, Robert Forster, Jazmine Sullivan, Sebastien Tellier, Ne-Yo, Air France, School Of Seven Bells, Lykke Li, Danity Kane, Ladyhawke, Grace Jones etc.

El Guincho, Azeda Booth, the Mae Shi, Parts & Labor, High Places. Yeah, one of my favorite years as well. But hey, Glasvegas and Mystery Jets were bands that existed as well.

'Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping' was this year as well

My favorite song from this year was Wild Beasts' "This Is Our Lot," but in lieu of that, bring on "In The New Year"

Pretty certain Two Dancer's was 09, but yeah thats probably still my favourite song they've done.

ah yes, good point

At the time I would have vote Blind but have heard it too many times now. So Poker Face, which I've heard even more times but still sounds great.

I used to loathe Poker Face. It's still not my favorite but it's also not the bane of my existence anymore.

Voted Machine Gun because duh

not till the Super Bowl did I realize that "Poker Face" and "Bad Romance" were two separate songs. how bout that

"Bad Romance" is kind of the better version of "Poker Face"

Machine Gun or Wearing My Rolex

either is fine

um "walking on a dream" hellooooo

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital!
My hands are cold!
And I'm on my knees looking for the answer:

Are we human...
or are we dancer?

Probably not voting for it, but I honestly think that's a great lyric.

Almost FPd you for that

That would just prove his point, don't you think?

My old man is in a, ah, senior choir and they do a version of that. I mean, it's a fucking awful lyric, but somehow the massed voices of 20 arthritic elders adds some poignancy.

thanks for doing this bee :)

a milli is soooo good

You are welcome, I had fun with it over the last five years.

8 1089 Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
9 1104 Elbow - One Day Like This
10 1155 Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)

OK...

When you're considering voting for Coldplay, something is seriously up.

all of these are good to great:

1 283 Hercules and Love Affair - Blind
3 601 Coldplay - Viva La Vida
4 643 Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
5 688 Portishead - The Rip
6 710 Portishead - Machine Gun
7 945 Lil Wayne - A Milli
10 1155 Beyoncé - Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)
17 1468 Estelle feat. Kanye West - American Boy
19 1752 M83 - Kim & Jessie
22 1994 Kid Cudi - Day 'N' Nite
23 2448 Duffy - Mercy
29 2874 TV on the Radio - Golden Age
30 3037 M83 - Graveyard Girl
33 3580 Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart
37 3675 Kanye West - Love Lockdown
40 3811 Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart

100% at some if the garbage in here istead of The Healer

That said, this is def The Rip vs. House Jam, with A Milli and Day n Nite as runner ups

"Nothing Ever Happened" gets my vote here.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Had a hard time deciding this one, pulled the trigger and voted "ready for the floor. "

White Winter Hymnal's actually a lot better than I remember it to be. Pretty harmonies, a simple melody, excellent production.. suddenly I feel bad for making all those flannel/beard jokes. Meanwhile "one day like this" really sucks

Oh, I kinda like One Day Like This :( It's not the ninth best song of any year, of course, probably shouldn't be in the top thirty, but I like the sentiment. And the shamelessness. It's like a good Coldplay-song, which I always love, and if Coldplay ever made some I would like them as well.

My top 3 of Coldplay songs is something like One Day Like This, Everybody Changes and Starlight. And I don't like either band that much.

that's fair! I think I was just surprised that it placed so high cause i'm not really a "these lists are wrong, overthrow the canon" kind of person.

The greatest Coldplay songs are all by Anathema

What imago said.

I'll also allow Embrace, just for Scik Mouthy - the Drawn From Memory title-track being a good example

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Whoa, nice.

First double on top in this series, BeeOK? I for one applaud it this year around.

i think so, deserves it too. i would have voted for the winner but knew it wouldn't need my help.

Correct winner

I just can't believe The Rip is 9 years old

There's a single clipped hi-hat towards the end of The Rip that always makes me really want a house beat to kick in over the outro.

geoff barrow basically turned the rip into an epic banger a year later with the horrors' sea within a sea

32 3294 Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses

Probably the worst song to appear on any of these lists.

32 3294 Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses

Probably the worst song to appear on any of these lists.

― Mr. Snrub,

Hmm, I'm not sure about that. 34 3596 Glasvegas - Geraldine

I've changed my mind after listening to One Day Like This again. It's absolutely great and deserved more than one vote. The clash between the rhythm and the floating strings, Coldplay could never do something like that, they've never been able to handle two ideas at once.

Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 2008 poll

not sure how i messed this up: Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 2009 poll

Completely missed this poll somehow. would've given another vote to Machine Gun (it's loads better than The Rip). Some of the stuff here is baffling though. Glasvegas?!