WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2008

WXPN's year-end Top 100 Songs list from the station's Year in Review 2008 section. Transcribed from the station's page as archived by the Wayback Machine on November 20, 2010; the page does not say how the list was compiled or when it aired. Artist capitalization matched to the usual spelling (Death Cab For Cutie -> Death Cab for Cutie; Mgmt -> MGMT; Mgmt -> MGMT; Ray Lamontagne -> Ray LaMontagne; Mgmt -> MGMT; Rem -> R.E.M.; Drive-by Truckers -> Drive-By Truckers; Ani Difranco -> Ani DiFranco; Death Cab For Cutie -> Death Cab for Cutie; Tv On The Radio -> TV on the Radio; Kings Of Leon -> Kings of Leon; Tv On The Radio -> TV on the Radio).

#	Song	Lists	Best
1	I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab for Cutie	43	#1
2	Mercy Duffy	15	#2
3	Viva La Vida Coldplay	65	#1
4	You Don'T Know Me Ben Folds	20	#1
5	I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance Wi Black Kids	1	#5
6	Time To Pretend MGMT	51	#1
7	Frankie's Gun The Felice Brothers	8	#7
8	Strange Overtones David Byrne and Brian Eno	19	#8
9	White Winter Hymnal Fleet Foxes	26	#9
10	Sex On Fire Kings of Leon	82	#1
11	Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Vampire Weekend	13	#10
12	Chasing Pavements Adele	16	#12
13	Sequestered In Memphis Hold Steady	21	#9
14	That's Not My Name The Ting Tings	18	#9
15	Grounds for Divorce Elbow	13	#15
16	Shut Up And Let Me Go The Ting Tings	11	#16
17	Highly Suspicious My Morning Jacket	1	#17
18	Foundations Kate Nash	5	#6
19	Always A Friend Alejandro Escovedo & Bruce Springst	1	#19
20	100 Yard Dash Raphael Saadiq	9	#20
21	Invisible Man Joe Jackson	3	#21
22	Oxford Comma Vampire Weekend	21	#10
23	Sister Lost Soul Alejandro Escovedo	4	#23
24	I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory Kathleen Edwards	8	#24
25	Human The Killers	36	#6
26	I'm Amazed My Morning Jacket	21	#8
27	Great DJ The Ting Tings	3	#27
28	Electric Feel MGMT	42	#2
29	A-Punk Vampire Weekend	44	#6
30	L.E.S. Artistes Santigold	15	#21
31	You are the best thing Ray LaMontagne	22	#6
32	Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event	53	#1
33	Lights Out Santigold	5	#33
34	Freeway Aimee Mann	7	#32
35	Kids MGMT	66	#1
36	Dance With Me Old 97's	10	#36
37	Listen Amos Lee	4	#21
38	Warwick Avenue Duffy	1	#38
39	Lost! Coldplay	21	#1
40	The Ark Dr. Dog	3	#40
41	Asking For Flowers Kathleen Edwards	6	#41
42	Funplex The B-52's	10	#42
43	Worrisome Heart Melody Gardot	2	#43
44	Supernatural Superserious R.E.M.	19	#3
45	What's Been Going On Amos Lee	3	#45
46	Valerie Plame The Decemberists	4	#30
47	Borneo Firewater	3	#47
48	Constructive Summer Hold Steady	5	#48
49	Evil Urges My Morning Jacket	7	#35
50	Theres More True Lovers Than One Jonatha Brooke	2	#50
51	Walcott Vampire Weekend	2	#51
52	Cathedrals Joan Osborne	1	#52
53	Thank You Too My Morning Jacket	6	#53
54	Volet Hill Coldplay	25	#12
55	Skinny Love Bon Iver	27	#7
56	The Righteous Path Drive-By Truckers	2	#56
57	Something Is Not Right With Me Cold War Kids	10	#35
58	Boots of Chinese Plastic The Pretenders	7	#45
59	Say Hey (I Love You) Michael Franti & Spearhead	28	#2
60	Acid Tongue Jenny Lewis	3	#60
61	Smiling Underneath Ani DiFranco	3	#27
62	Take Back The City Snow Patrol	10	#17
63	No Sunlight Death Cab for Cutie	8	#9
64	Golden Age TV on the Radio	7	#60
65	Shine Over Babylon Sheryl Crow	2	#65
66	Spiralling Keane	3	#6
67	Love Is Noise The Verve	7	#43
68	Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2 My Morning Jacket	3	#68
69	You! Me! Dancing! Los Campesinos!	3	#69
70	Run Gnarls Barkley	5	#53
71	Carpetbaggers Jenny Lewis	3	#71
72	Southside Of Heaven Ryan Bingham	5	#72
73	Make You Crazy Brett Dennen	9	#11
74	Real Love Lucinda Williams	3	#64
75	Silver Lining Rilo Kiley	17	#27
76	Stepping Stone Duffy	2	#72
77	The Cheapest Key Kathleen Edwards	5	#77
78	Strange Times The Black Keys	12	#63
79	Fix It Ryan Adams And The Cardinals	7	#29
80	Salute Your Solution The Raconteurs	17	#4
81	Sausalito Conor Oberst	7	#81
82	Gamma Ray Beck	14	#10
83	Be Ok Ingrid Michaelson	10	#67
84	Trashcan Delta Spirit	8	#45
85	Crawl Kings of Leon	9	#19
86	Lord I'm Discouraged Hold Steady	5	#86
87	Chemtrails Beck	2	#28
88	Something Good This Way Comes Jakob Dylan	8	#24
89	Never miss a beat Kaiser Chiefs	7	#13
90	Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	5	#35
91	In My Arms Teddy Thompson	3	#91
92	It's Alright Dar Williams	6	#47
93	Two Silver Trees Calexico	7	#63
94	Carolina Drama The Raconteurs	3	#94
95	Sentimental Heart She & Him	3	#95
96	Love's A Mystery The Pretenders	6	#63
97	Stay Positive Hold Steady	4	#97
98	If I Had Eyes Jack Johnson	24	#1
99	Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution Black Crowes	6	#2
100	Family Tree TV on the Radio	1	#100