I should note that some of my favorite discs from the year aren’t represented for various reasons. Sometimes because the whole of the record works better for me personally than individual tracks do, and sometimes just because I couldn’t decide between cuts.
In perusing this year’s “best of” lists, I think a lot of killer stuff is being neglected, so I stretched my mix out over two discs:
2008: Shading Dark Toward the Light
DISC ONE
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Victoria’s Secret by Quiet Village
- Someone’s Gotta Change Your Mind by Lindsey Buckingham
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Taking Tips From the Gallery G by Bound Stems
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Feel the Love by Cut Copy
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Two Daughters And a Beautiful Wife by Drive-By Truckers
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Ponce de Lone Ave. by Butch Walker
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Quiet Houses by Fleet Foxes
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Red Tide by Foxboro Hot Tubs
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Paper Planes by I’m From Barcelona
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Rockferry by Duffy
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These Days by Glen Campbell
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Climbing Up Fire Escapes by Head of Femur
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Working Poor by Horse Feathers
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Pain Song by It’s a Musical
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Bubbles by James
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So Small by Jim Guthrie
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Brand New Start by Little Joy
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Disappear by Pacific!
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Bye Bye Bye by Plants and Animals
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The Show by Lenka
DISC TWO
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Hiroshima (B B B Benny Hit His Head) by Ben Folds
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Go Go Go by the 88
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The Step and the Walk by The Duke Spirit
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What Is Happening? By Alphabeat
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Sleepytime in the Western World by Blitzen Trapper
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Can You Tell by Ra Ra Riot
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Dance ‘til We’re High by The Fireman
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Cellulose Sunshine by Stereolab
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Sweet Darlin’ by She & Him
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You Are the Best Thing by Ray LaMontagne
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Who Are You Now by the Boticellis
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My Mistakes Were Made For You by the Last Shadow Puppets
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Houses by Vetiver
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The Good Old Days by the Lodger
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The Stations by the Gutter Twins
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Straight ‘Til Sunrise by Barry Adamson
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Boy, Did She Teach You Nothing? by Absentee
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Sultan by What Made Milwaukee Famous
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Two Girl Area by Boston Spaceships
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Singing to the Earth (To Thank Her for You) by Apollo Sunshine
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Freeway by Aimee Mann
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Stay Free by Black Mountain
B. Clay Moore 