Best Of 2008: 6 Words For 66 Songs (#45-66)

This is the third and final installment of my favourite 66 songs of 2008.  Tomorrow I’ll post my Top 20 albums.

Again, I didn’t bother to post links to each individual song, but you can certainly find each song here.  Got these up on Rapidshare finally as a .zip file.  Download here.

Once again: no particular order.

45.
“Damn This Feeling”
by Hayden

Depression leaves.  There’s absolutely nothing left.

46.
“Fatalist Palmistry”
by Why?

He’s obsessing over death and fate.

47.
“Ahn”
by Benoit Pioulard

Like it was recorded in space.

48.
“Please Contrete”
by Wye Oak

Personification of TVs and streets.  Bust.

49.
“Far Away”
by cut Copy

The bass line from “Saturday Night”?

50.
“Vision’s The First…”
by High Places

Vocal melody is not easily forgotten.

51.
“We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed”
by Los Campesinos!

Future in fucking?  No fucking future.

52.
“No Excuses”
by Air France

Summer pop never sounded so summery.

53.
“The Snow Leopard”
by Shearwater

Exquisite.  Epic.  Elegant.  Elegiac.  Earth-shattering.

54.
“Dancer”
by Woodhands

Unexpected screaming chorus invites chant-along.

55.
“Group Transport Hall”
by Women

Ends all too quickly for me.

56.
“Palmitos Park”
by El Guincho

A Panda Bear imported from Spain.

57.
“Lost In Yichang”
by HILOTRONS

Underrated band.  Catchy, clever and Canadian.

58.
“Ghosts”
by Laura Marling

Ironically, belief in everlasting love grows.

59.
“Dance Dance Dance”
by Lykki Li

Indie boys given a new crush.

60.
“The Rip”
by Portishead

Ice cold.  Amazing middle amplitude increase.

61.
“Rockist Part 4″
by School Of Language

Ee, ay, eye, oh, you, why.

62.
“This Is Not A Test”
by She & Him

Zooey’s music is better than Scarlett’s.

63.
“Tessellate”
by Tokyo Police Club

To arrange in a checkered pattern.

64.
“Red And Purple”
by The Dodos

Percussion like a WWI machine gun.

65.
“The Grey Estates”
by Wolf Parade

Automobile sing-alongs made better everywhere.

66.
“Wedding In A Wasteland”
by Parts & Labor

Song to have a revolution to.