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Year-end countdown · 102.7 WEQX · 2008

WEQX Top 102.7 of 2008

The year-end countdown (2008) from 102.7 WEQX in Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) ranks 103 songs, with “You Don'T Know Me” by Ben Folds at number one. The list features 80 different artists; Death Cab for Cutie has the most entries with three songs.

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Transcribed from the station's archive page of past Top 102.7 countdowns (positions 1-102, then 102.7). Source is in capitals; case normalised. Corrected 'The Raconeurs' and 'Salute Your Salution'; the Black Kids title is printed truncated with an ellipsis and is written out in full. The station does not say how this year's list was compiled (the 2013-2016 editions were listener-voted).

# Song ListsBest
1 You Don'T Know Me Ben Folds 20 #1
2 Handlebars Flobots 18 #2
3 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 82 #1
4 I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab for Cutie 43 #1
5 Paper Planes M.I.A. 43 #2
6 Electric Feel MGMT 42 #2
7 Kids MGMT 66 #1
8 Viva La Vida Coldplay 65 #1
9 Time To Pretend MGMT 51 #1
10 Oxford Comma Vampire Weekend 21 #10
11 Pork And Beans Weezer 38 #1
12 House Of Cards Radiohead 17 #3
13 Gamma Ray Beck 14 #10
14 Many Shades of Black The Raconteurs 4 #14
15 Rock & Roll Eric Hutchinson 8 #4
16 Shut Up And Let Me Go The Ting Tings 11 #16
17 Human The Killers 36 #6
18 I'm Not Over Carolina Liar 14 #13
19 A-Punk Vampire Weekend 44 #6
20 Let It Die Foo Fighters 29 #2
21 The Kids Don't Stand A Chance Vampire Weekend 6 #21
22 Never miss a beat Kaiser Chiefs 7 #13
23 Lost! Coldplay 21 #1
24 I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You Black Kids 6 #24
25 Cath Death Cab for Cutie 33 #20
26 Love Me Dead Ludo 13 #2
27 Troublemaker Weezer 19 #7
28 Foundations Kate Nash 5 #6
29 Float Flogging Molly 7 #29
30 That's Not My Name The Ting Tings 18 #9
31 Lucid Dreams Franz Ferdinand 3 #31
32 Whatever It Takes Nightwatchman 1 #32
33 Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event 53 #1
34 Don't You Evah Spoon 24 #27
35 Something Is Not Right With Me Cold War Kids 10 #35
36 So Many Nights The Cat Empire 3 #36
37 Love Hurts Incubus 25 #1
38 Volet Hill Coldplay 25 #12
39 Glad It's Over Wilco 1 #39
40 Requiem For A Dying Song Flogging Molly 4 #40
41 Reckoner Radiohead 18 #40
42 27 Jennifers Mike Doughty 15 #15
43 L.E.S. Artistes Santigold 15 #21
44 Mistress Mabel The Fratellis 1 #44
45 I'm Amazed My Morning Jacket 21 #8
46 Map of the Problematique Muse 6 #6
47 Conquest The White Stripes 7 #38
48 Consoler of the Lonely The Raconteurs 3 #41
49 Do you wanna The Kooks 3 #42
50 Oh No You Didn't Wojhan Brothers 1 #50
51 Toe Jam The Brighton Port Authority 1 #51
52 My Medicine Snoop Dogg 1 #52
53 Run Gnarls Barkley 5 #53
54 You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb Spoon 17 #36
55 Take Back The City Snow Patrol 10 #17
56 Make It Wit Chu Queens of the Stone Age 4 #3
57 Little Lover's So Polite Silversun Pickups 7 #57
58 Everything Is Borrowed The Streets 1 #58
59 Spiralling Keane 3 #6
60 Hope Jack Johnson 10 #11
61 Generator The Holloways 1 #61
62 No Sunlight Death Cab for Cutie 8 #9
63 Strange Times The Black Keys 12 #63
64 Salute Your Solution The Raconteurs 17 #4
65 Boots of Chinese Plastic The Pretenders 7 #45
66 Always Where I Need to Be The Kooks 13 #33
67 Funplex The B-52's 10 #42
68 So Hi So Lo Matisyahu 2 #68
69 Mercy Duffy 15 #2
70 One Month Off Bloc Party 3 #66
71 Troublesome Rustic Overtones 1 #71
72 Spaceman The Killers 25 #9
73 Wannabe in LA Eagles of Death Metal 4 #18
74 Got Mine The Black Keys 1 #74
75 Discipline Nine Inch Nails 15 #4
76 Supernatural Superserious R.E.M. 19 #3
77 Non Dairy Creamer Third Eye Blind 5 #21
78 I Owe You a Love Song Shiny Toy Guns 1 #78
79 Stand Tall Dirty Heads 14 #17
80 Going On Gnarls Barkley 5 #52
81 Hammerhead The Offspring 21 #2
82 Waterfall James 2 #82
83 Ulysses Franz Ferdinand 16 #6
84 After Hours We Are Scientists 2 #84
85 Magick Ryan Adams 1 #85
86 Folsom Prison Blues Everlast 2 #63
87 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid The Offspring 44 #1
88 Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors Editors 7 #24
89 Wishing Well Blind Melon 1 #89
90 Dancing Choose TV on the Radio 4 #83
91 2AM Slightly Stoopid 9 #1
92 A Little Bit of Riddim Michael Franti 1 #92
93 Flannigan's Ball Dropkick Murphys 1 #93
94 Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution Black Crowes 6 #2
95 Love Is Noise The Verve 7 #43
96 G.L.O.W. The Smashing Pumpkins 6 #47
97 Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2 My Morning Jacket 3 #68
98 New Soul Yael Naim 5 #22
99 Everybody Get Dangerous Weezer 5 #50
100 Sequestered In Memphis Hold Steady 21 #9
101 Falling Down Oasis 2 #94
102 Where I'm Going Kottonmouth Kings 4 #54
102.7 The Only One The Cure 7 #77

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About this countdown

WEQX Top 102.7 of 2008 was broadcast by 102.7 WEQX (Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany)) in 2008. 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: 102.7 WEQX, "Past Top 102.7 Countdowns".

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