Year-end countdown · CFNY 102.1 The Edge · January 1, 2009

102.1 The Edge's Top 102 Songs of 2008

The year-end countdown (January 1, 2009) from CFNY 102.1 The Edge in Toronto, ON ranks 102 songs, with “Pork And Beans” by Weezer at number one. The list features 74 different artists; Foo Fighters has the most entries with three songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Pork And Beans Weezer 38 #1
2 Let It Die Foo Fighters 29 #2
3 Make It Wit Chu Queens of the Stone Age 4 #3
4 Discipline Nine Inch Nails 15 #4
5 Long Road to Ruin Foo Fighters 29 #5
6 Them Kids Sam Roberts 5 #6
7 Believe The Bravery 32 #2
8 The Good Left Undone Rise Against 22 #3
9 Bodysnatchers Radiohead 26 #9
10 Hollow Point Sniper Hyperbole USS 1 #10
11 Given Up Linkin Park 18 #6
12 Volet Hill Coldplay 25 #12
13 Stop! Against Me! 8 #13
14 Viva La Vida Coldplay 65 #1
15 St. Andrews Bedouin Soundclash 3 #15
16 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid The Offspring 44 #1
17 Tessellate Tokyo Police Club 2 #17
18 Hammerhead The Offspring 21 #2
19 Salute Your Solution The Raconteurs 17 #4
20 The Shock Of The Lightning Oasis 15 #17
21 Troublemaker Weezer 19 #7
22 Sleeping Sickness City And Colour 3 #22
23 Re-Education (Through Labor) Rise Against 27 #4
24 This Respirator The Flatliners 1 #24
25 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 82 #1
26 This Suffering Billy Talent 1 #26
27 To A Friend Alexisonfire 1 #27
28 Empty Walls Serj Tankian 20 #10
29 Do It Or Die Die Mannequin 1 #29
30 Believe in Me Sloan 2 #30
31 The Day That Never Comes Metallica 15 #8
32 Always Neverending White Lights 3 #32
33 Take Me To The Riot Stars 1 #33
34 Inside The Fire Disturbed 20 #3
35 Until We Burn In The Sun (The Kids Just Want A Love Song) Bedouin Soundclash 1 #35
36 Paper Planes M.I.A. 43 #2
37 Eulogy The Flatliners 1 #37
38 Waiting City And Colour 1 #38
39 I Don't Care Apocalytica 2 #39
40 Time To Pretend MGMT 51 #1
41 Big Casino Jimmy Eat World 19 #19
42 Shadow of the Day Linkin Park 25 #4
43 Being Here The Stills 2 #43
44 Made Of Stone Spiral Beach 1 #44
45 I Get It Chevelle 10 #16
46 Thrash Unreal Against Me! 18 #15
47 I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab for Cutie 43 #1
48 Civil Twilight The Weakerthans 3 #48
49 Love Is Noise The Verve 7 #43
50 Bleed It Out Linkin Park 31 #5
51 Jigsaw Falling Into Place Radiohead 25 #7
52 The Killer Mobile 1 #52
53 Infected Rides Again 1 #53
54 The Pretender Foo Fighters 78 #1
55 Far Behind Social Distortion 23 #17
56 Well Thought Out Twinkles Silversun Pickups 22 #11
57 Talking to the Walls Finger Eleven 2 #12
58 Human The Killers 36 #6
59 Sky Is Over Serj Tankian 9 #38
60 Weighty Ghost Wintersleep 1 #60
61 Tournament Of Hearts The Weakerthans 1 #61
62 Wild International One Day As A Lion 10 #21
63 Turn Your Back Billy Talent 1 #63
64 Saved By Strangers Die Mannequin 1 #64
65 Club Thing Yoav 1 #65
66 Underground Gob 1 #66
67 Strange Times The Black Keys 12 #63
68 2 and 15/16ths USS 1 #68
69 You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told) The White Stripes 18 #22
70 Graves Tokyo Police Club 1 #70
71 If I Had Eyes Jack Johnson 24 #1
72 Oblivion Wintersleep 1 #72
73 Harmonicas And Tambourines Hot Hot Heat 1 #73
74 The Stone Ashes Divide 5 #36
75 Mother Mary Foxboro Hot Tubs 9 #24
76 Gamma Ray Beck 14 #10
77 Cath Death Cab for Cutie 33 #20
78 Hunger Of Young Attack in Black 1 #78
79 Believe Staind 16 #3
80 I'm A Window Matthew Good 1 #80
81 Hard Sun Eddie Vedder 34 #8
82 Always Where I Need to Be The Kooks 13 #33
83 Bitches in Tokyo Stars 1 #83
84 Never Too Late Three Days Grace 28 #4
85 Chinese Democracy Guns N Roses 4 #64
86 Oh, The Boss Is Coming Arkells 2 #26
87 Queen B Puscifer 4 #67
88 All Empires Fall The Waking Eyes 2 #88
89 Detroit '67 Sam Roberts 1 #89
90 Supernatural Superserious R.E.M. 19 #3
91 Mr. Hurricane Beast 2 #27
92 Straight Lines Silverchair 17 #2
93 1,000,000 Nine Inch Nails 1 #93
94 Falling Down Oasis 2 #94
95 Riot Three Days Grace 6 #10
96 A-Punk Vampire Weekend 44 #6
97 Is There a Ghost Band of Horses 18 #41
98 Hard Feelings The Constantines 1 #98
99 Kids MGMT 66 #1
100 Hold Fast (Sink Or Swim) Black Lungs 1 #100
101 Lost! Coldplay 21 #1
102 One More Time Goldfinger 1 #102

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About this countdown

102.1 The Edge's Top 102 Songs of 2008 was voted by CFNY 102.1 The Edge’s listeners (Toronto, ON) in January 1, 2009. Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Source: Toronto Mike's Blog, "102.1 The Edge's Top 102 Songs of 2008".

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