Talk about your favorite songs from 2008 with the Musicheads

One of favorites of the year has to be The Walkmen & the song, "In the New Year"...there is something about the ragged 60's garage feel melded w/hints of Bob Dylan along with the urgent vocals of singer Hamilton Leithauser that really makes this song work. You add the vintage organ and this songs seems like it was recorded in a gigantic cathedral!

I have to agree with everything that was said about Jenny Lewis on last nights show. She is somethin special! I liked We Have You Surronded by The Dirtbombs just love the energy of it.
But i have to admit that i spent alot of the year listening to old music that was released, reissued, or remastered. live albums by Otis Redding, The Clash and The Replacements catalog stand out to me.

locally (yes my love for minneapolis has no limits) Doomtree's "Drumsticks" and The Heroine Shiek's "Be A Man" are my picks.

First off, I have to vehemently disagree with the Jenny Lewis/Elvis Costello pick. That would've been my pick for worst song of the year. I'm a big Jenny Lewis/Rilo Kiley fan, but I think Elvis sounds awful on that song.

My picks for best song:
"Tight Tee Shirt"-Benji Hughes
"Time to Pretend"- MGMT
"Let Me Go On"- Seabird

there are simply too many to count really but some highlights of this year for me are:
-Cath... by Death Cab For Cutie which is not being played on The Current at all despite it being the second single from Narrow Stairs. Bill, can you explain this??
-Anything off the new Hold Steady record.
-You! Me! Dancing!/Los Campesinos!
-A Ghost To Most/Drive-By Truckers
-Cassius/Foals
-Kids/MGMT
-Get Up/Heiruspecs
-the new Atmosphere disc
-White Winter Hymnal/Fleet Foxes
-Carpetbaggers/Jenny Lewis & Elvis Costello
-California Girls/The Magnetic Fields
-Vampire Weekend's self titled album too

I think if i had to choose 1 song from this year as "Song Of The Year" it'd have to be "Skinny Love" by Bon Iver, I have listened to that song a million times and it never gets old. That whole album is fantastic, the way i found about that song was from the current. Thanks for playing it so much!

Apes and Androids - Riverside, Golden Prize, Johnny and Sarah, Hot Kathy, Radio, Nights of the Week.
Burst - Cripple God, I watched the Silver Rain
Ours - Worst Things Beautiful, Ran Away To Tell the World, Saint, Murder, Get Up
Mutyumu - die Ewige Wiederkunft, prayer
The Stiletto Formal - Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta!, We Are All Muckrakers
Marillion - Half-Empty Jam, Trap the Spark, The Man From the Planet Marzipan, Real Tears For Sale
Wolf ParadeM - California Dreamer, Kissing the Beehive
Bend Sinister - Give in to the Night, Demise
Sculptured - Embodiment
King's X - Go Tell Somebody
Amanda Palmer - Astronaut, Leeds United, Guitar Hero
Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - Pages Written On A Wall. As tall As Cliffs
The Gutter Twins - Circle the Fringes
Annuals - Springtime
The Stills - Rooibos/ Palm Wine Drinkard
Anathallo - The River
The Reign of Kindo - Till We Make Our Ascent, Something in the Way That You Are, Rhythm, Chord & Melody, Hold Out, The Moments in Between

five albums which stand out
Dual, by Julie Fowlis & Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

Gretchen Peters: Northern Lights

Carrie Newcomer: The Geography of Light

Emily Smith: Too Long Away

Kathy Mattea: Coal

Nice call on Skinny Love by Bon Iver for song of the year, Eliot.

Frick, I LOVE all 3 of your picks! They Ray Lamontagne song struck a chord with me the first time I heard it.

Andrew P., I'm glad I'm not the only one who really digs the Dirtbombs! Their set, opening for TV on the Radio, was one of my favorites of the year!

Speaking of TV on the Radio....their tune, "Golden Age" has to be another of my 2008 faves. How about that intro. Sounds like it's straight outta Michael Jackson's "Wanna Be Startin Something!" Amazing song....almost impossible to categorize!

It's a tie between two Fleet Foxes songs for my favorite of the year: White Winter Hymnal and Ragged Wood.
My other favorites are:
Gobbledigook - Sigur Rós
Headshock - Tapes 'n Tapes
If You Want To, You Have To - Dosh
For Emma - Bon Iver
Oxford Comma - Vampire Weekend
Blind - Hercules and Love Affair
In the New Year - Walkmen
Strange Overtones - David Byrne and Brian Eno

I don't know that these were my faves, but of the stuff that was released this year, these are the tunes that got the most spins on my iTunes...

Alejandro Escovedo- Always A Friend
The Hellacopters- Midnight Angels & In the Sign of the Octopus
Kate Tucker & The Sons Of Sweden- Faster than Cars Drive
Kepi Ghoulie- Twelve Hour Town
Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands- Leaving With The Swamptones, She Sleeps Through Sirens Cody's Dream & Cherokee Grove
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! & Today's Lesson

It was a great year for music 2008. I remember seeing Cloud Cult at first ave, X at the Cabooze, Carbon/Silicon at the Varsity, and the Radiators, and George Clinton and Parliment Funkadelic at first ave..
Atmosphere, Cloud Cult, Blitzen Trapper, and Jenny Lewis had great songs..I like 80% of whats on other peoples lists. I had a great year of listening..I missed Bob Mould at first ave, saw Steve Miller, and Joe cocker at Target Center...too many to mention..I like the new Radio Head, and Oasis too..I cant even swing a cat without finding great music this year.

Yes, there was a bunch of GREAT music in 08!

Tim M, looks like we were at many of the same shows.....granted I didn't see the Radiators, but, was at Carbon/Silicon, & Cloud Cult. That X show was one of my favorites of the year!

Eric P, I'm glad I'm not the only one who digs Alejandro!

Eric O, Like your list. Mine is similar!

You know,... I think I honestly have to say that my favorite song of the year might just have to be "The Righteous Path" by the Drive-By-Truckers. totally rockin' and yes, awesome. "Tryin' to hold steady on the righteous path"... If you can't listen to the song, google the lyrics. timely and timeless and so right on.

I really can't give a serious answer for this topic, only because I go through so much newly discovered music and much of it doesn't necessarily come from this year - but I'm sure that's the way it is for most people. And there's just so much to choose from! It's been a great year for music.

But the two songs that come immediately to mind are:

Language City - Wolf Parade

Kim & Jessie - M83

After hearing both of those songs for the first time, I pretty much went out and bought them the day they came out. And both of those albums were DEFINITELY on my Top 10!

I agree with Frick on the two groups, but I'd pick 2 different songs-
The Kills "URA Fever"
The Ting Tings "Shut Up and Let Me Go"

I also agree with the poster about "Oxford Comma" from Vampire Weekend. I didn't like those guys very much at first, but they're music is really catchy...

Oh crap! A huuuuge oversight-
Hot Chip's "Ready for the Floor". That whole "Made in the Dark" album was really good.

Paper Planes, M.I.A, was one of the favorite songs I heard this year, even though it might have been released last year. Swagger like us.

Thanks Music heads for turning me on to some great music this year, I love your show. Have a great New Year.

Six forty Five - Firewater ( my favorite of the year)
Crystal -The Ceasars
I can drink the water - Roger Clyne and the Peace makers
Furr - Blitzen Trapper
Ultraviolet - The B52's
If wishes were Horses - Lucinda Williams
Now I'm A Fool - Eagles of Death Metal
Mexico City- Jolie Holland
Stop - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
Made in the dark- Hot Chip
Great DJ- The ting tings
Notion- Kings of Leon
Alphabet pony - The Kills
And don't forget that awesome Wire album.