Whoops!

In my last post, I mistakenly referred to the list of songs as "the Best Singles of 2008." To be perfectly honest, though, it should have been called, "A List of My Favorites Songs, Out of All The Songs I've Heard This Year, Excluding Any Genres That I Don't Particularly Care For."

You know, to differentiate my list from all of the real "Best Of" lists, which are of course all-inclusive and completely impartial.

It's the Best (of) Time of the Year!

Yes, it's that time of year when bloggers the world over join together in celebrating how much better their tastes (be they musical, literary, theatrical or otherwise) are than yours. I'm always willing to jump on a bandwagon when it looks like it's going my way, so here is my preliminary list of the best singles 2008 had to offer. This list is arranged alphabetically, as I haven't yet decided which singles were the most important - and also to hide how many times the Mountain Goats show up - but rest assured, there's a numbered list coming soon.

(note to Blogger: formatting tables is about 120 times more difficult than it needs to be.)

Track

Artist

A-Punk

Vampire Weekend

After All (ft. Talib Kweli)

Lupe Fiasco

All Night

Damian Marley

Balance

The Mountain Goats

Believe

The Bravery

The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton

The Mountain Goats

Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa

Vampire Weekend

Ching-A-Ling

Missy Elliot

Evil Urges

My Morning Jacket

Fault Lines

The Mountain Goats

Funplex

The B-52's

Heretic Pride

The Mountain Goats

I Will Possess Your Heart (Radio Edit)

Death Cab For Cutie

Immigrant Punk

Gogol Bordello

In A Cave

Tokyo Police Club

Jesus, Walk with Me (Sound of Arrows remix)

Club 8

Less Talk More Rokk (Album Version)

Freezepop

Let The Drummer Kick

Citizen Cope

Lost Coastlines

Okkervil River

Lovecraft In Brooklyn

The Mountain Goats

Machine Gun

Portishead

Me And Armini

Emiliana Torrini

The Mess Inside

The Mountain Goats

The Modern Leper

Frightened Rabbit

My Moon, My Man (Grizzly Bear remix)

Feist

Old Enough

The Raconteurs

The Places We Lived

Backyard Tire Fire

Poke

Frightened Rabbit

Regret

Wye Oak

San Bernardino

The Mountain Goats

Sax Rohmer #1

The Mountain Goats

Say Hey (I Love You)

Michael Franti & Spearhead

Shitewrecked

Urchin

Starálfur

Sigur Rós

Top Yourself (Album Version)

The Raconteurs

Valerie Plame

The Decemberists

We Got The Power (Love Letter From America)

Born Again Floozies

White Winter Hymnal

Fleet Foxes

Working Class Hero

Exit Clōv

You've Done It Again Virginia

The National

10 Tons Of Dope (Featuring Dillinger)

Sounds From The Ground

Dear Amazon.com MP3 Store:

I just thought you should know that the more you insist that, "Customers Who Bought Items in [my] Recent History Also Bought," Viva La Vida by Coldplay, the less inclined I am to actually listen to or purchase it.

And the same goes double for Nickelback. Seriously, Nickelback?

30 Seconds of Lighting Nerdiness

Strand Lighting dealers, represent!

Dorothy Knows How I Feel

(Click for a read-able version of the strip.)

Dorothy over at "Cat and Girl" captures the feeling I was trying to get across in my last post.

Oh yeah, there was an election this week.

President-elect Barack Obama fist-bumping a five-year-old.

I really don't want to say anything cynical about the guy before he's even in office, so let's just enjoy the photo.

(Click the picture to see a whole series of great shots over at the Boston Globe web site.)