This was a tough list to compile because I seemed to enjoy many different tracks in many different ways on many different days. So rather that saying these are hands down the “Best” songs of 2008, I am going to say they were the songs that I enjoyed the most or found myself hitting repeat on most often.

I should also note that I am considering Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago and MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular to be 2007 releases. So you can rest easy knowing their absence wasn’t purely an oversight. In fact I can emphatically say that if I were considering those albums to be 2008 releases Bon Iver’s “Skinny Love” would easily be my song of the year.

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30. Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire
29. Jamie Lidell – Little Bit of Feel Good (mp3)
28. Cadence Weapon – In Search of the Youth Crew (mp3)
27. Why? – The Hollows (mp3)
26. The Tallest Man On earth – The Gardener (mp3)
25. Abe Vigoda – Dead City/Waste Wilderness (mp3)
24. Conor Oberst – Cape Canaveral
23. The Avett Brothers – Murder in the City (mp3)
22. Cut Copy – Lights & Music (mp3)
21. Ra Ra Riot – Can You Tell
20. Department of Eagles – No One Does It Like You (mp3)
19. Clinic – Tomorrow (mp3)
18. Thao With the Get Down Stay Down – Geography
17. Frightened Rabbit – The Modern Leper (mp3)
16. Animal Collective – Water Curses (mp3)
15. Grouper – Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Sleeping (mp3)
14. The Dodos – Walking (mp3)
13. Spiritualized – Soul on Fire (mp3)
12. No Age – Eraser (mp3)
11. Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal (mp3)

Check out the top 10 after the jump…

10. Langhorne Slim – Rebel Side of Heaven (mp3)
9. Okkervil River – Lost Coastlines (mp3)
8. Deerhunter – Agoraphobia (mp3)
7. Neon Neon – I Told Her on Alderaan (mp3)
6. The Hold Steady – Constructive Summer (mp3)
5. Portishead – Machine Gun (mp3)
4. TV on the Radio – Family Tree
3. Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma (mp3)
2. The Walkmen – In the New Year (mp3)
1. Blitzen Trapper – Furr (mp3)