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WVBR Top 93 of 2008

The year-end countdown (2008) from WVBR in Ithaca, NY ranks 93 songs, with “Lost!” by Coldplay at number one. The list features 74 different artists; Coldplay has the most entries with three songs.

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Fan transcription posted 2009-05-28. Spelling fixed: Finger Eleven, The Decemberists, Paul Rodgers, The Kooks, Love Is Colder Than Death, Guns N' Roses, Okkervil River, The Virgins.

# Song ListsBest
1 Lost! Coldplay 21 #1
2 Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution Black Crowes 6 #2
3 No Hiding Place Elvis Costello 2 #3
4 Believe Staind 16 #3
5 Come Around Counting Crows 5 #5
6 New Vibration Collective Soul 1 #6
7 Long Walk Home Bruce Springsteen 3 #7
8 I'm Amazed My Morning Jacket 21 #8
9 No Sunlight Death Cab for Cutie 8 #9
10 Supernatural Superserious R.E.M. 19 #3
11 Cheer Up Boys, Your Makeup Is Running Foo Fighters 1 #11
12 Talking to the Walls Finger Eleven 2 #12
13 Old Enough The Raconteurs 5 #13
14 We Don't Have to Look Back Now Puddle of Mudd 1 #14
15 Rebel Road Edgar Winter 1 #15
16 So Happy Theory of a Deadman 4 #16
17 The Shock Of The Lightning Oasis 15 #17
18 Beautiful 10 Years 8 #18
19 These Are the Days The Exies 1 #19
20 Scare Easy Mudcrutch 6 #20
21 Your Protector Fleet Foxes 1 #21
22 Long Road to Ruin Foo Fighters 29 #5
23 Get Out the Door Velvet Revolver 2 #23
24 Wounded Bird Black Crowes 2 #24
25 Viva La Vida Coldplay 65 #1
26 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 82 #1
27 Jigsaw Falling Into Place Radiohead 25 #7
28 Workin' Them Angels Rush 1 #28
29 Bring the Light The Smashing Pumpkins 2 #29
30 Valerie Plame The Decemberists 4 #30
31 C-Lebrity Queen 1 #31
32 Detroit Waves Matt Nathanson 1 #32
33 Gamma Ray Beck 14 #10
34 Lover of the Bayou Mudcrutch 3 #34
35 Accelerate R.E.M. 1 #35
36 Don't You Evah Spoon 24 #27
37 Let It Die Foo Fighters 29 #2
38 Lost Coastlines Okkervil River 3 #38
39 Girls In Their Summer Clothes Bruce Springsteen 9 #14
40 The '59 Sound The Gaslight Anthem 15 #28
41 Electric Feel MGMT 42 #2
42 Breakdown Seether 11 #21
43 It's Not My Time 3 Doors Down 13 #6
44 We've Got Everything Modest Mouse 8 #44
45 Always Where I Need to Be The Kooks 13 #33
46 Human The Killers 36 #6
47 The Arm Islands 1 #47
48 Two Ways Out Darker My Love 1 #48
49 Red Star Third Eye Blind 2 #49
50 Lucid Dreams Franz Ferdinand 3 #31
51 The World, The People Together (Come On) The Dandy Warhols 1 #51
52 Volet Hill Coldplay 25 #12
53 Cath Death Cab for Cutie 33 #20
54 Constructive Summer Hold Steady 5 #48
55 In The New Year The Walkmen 3 #55
56 Something Good This Way Comes Jakob Dylan 8 #24
57 G.L.O.W. The Smashing Pumpkins 6 #47
58 All I Want Staind 7 #34
59 Pork And Beans Weezer 38 #1
60 Dying is Fine Ra Ra Riot 1 #60
61 Bad Blood Supergrass 1 #61
62 Love Is Colder Than Death The Virgins 1 #62
63 Fort Hood Mike Doughty 2 #63
64 Eye on You Edgar Winter 1 #64
65 That Green Gentleman Panic! at the Disco 2 #65
66 One Month Off Bloc Party 3 #66
67 Hit the Wall Brendan Canning 1 #67
68 The Story of Benjamin Darling Pt 1 State Radio 1 #68
69 Sequestered In Memphis Hold Steady 21 #9
70 Beautiful Beat Nada Surf 1 #70
71 Oh No Andrew Bird 4 #20
72 Abominable Snow Islands 1 #72
73 Hammerhead The Offspring 21 #2
74 House by the Sea Iron and Wine 1 #74
75 I'm Not Over Carolina Liar 14 #13
76 The Last Fight Velvet Revolver 2 #76
77 Always A Friend Alejandro Escovedo 10 #62
78 Better Guns N Roses 1 #78
79 Pale Sun Darker My Love 1 #79
80 How Far We've Come Matchbox 20 2 #33
81 Right Hand on My Heart Whigs 2 #81
82 Calling & Not Calling My Ex Okkervil River 2 #82
83 Dead Sound The Raveonettes 1 #83
84 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid The Offspring 44 #1
85 Hard Sun Eddie Vedder 34 #8
86 Skinny Love Bon Iver 27 #7
87 Throwin' Shapes Minus the Bear 1 #87
88 Confessor Annuals 1 #88
89 Rich Girls The Virgins 3 #32
90 I Get It Chevelle 10 #16
91 Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event 53 #1
92 Your English is Good Tokyo Police Club 4 #64
93 Gotta Be Somebody Nickelback 3 #70

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About this countdown

WVBR Top 93 of 2008 was broadcast by WVBR (Ithaca, NY) 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: We Want Airwaves (fan blog), "WVBR Top 93 of 2008".

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