Every song I love in 2008 (a list):

5. Future Islands - "Beach Foam"
from Wave Like Home (Valient Death)

8.0

Jessica had to talk me down from an 8.5

[My review with stream]

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4. Soulja Boy Tell'Em - "Yahhh!"
from souljaboytellem.com (Interscope)
--James Montgomery was the first to point out that he sounds like the Great Cornholio. I think it's the pop record Mike Patton thought Peeping Tom would be.
--Totally better than "Crank That"

--I hope this takes off so 15 year old kids are yelling "YAHHH!" at everyone (including me) in the mall

--I hope this takes off so I can do it at karaoke someday.

--I secretly hope it doesn't take off so it'll be my awesome ironic ringtone in 2018.

[YouTube]

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3. Pelican Vs. Gucci Mane - "Pillz Between The Walls"
www.thehoodinternet.com

If this were a real band, I'd stump for them like a 14-year-old kid downloading a Refused album.

[MP3]

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2. The Apes - "Beat Of The Double"
from Ghost Games (Gypsy Eyes)

Doesn't
know if it wants to be J. Geils Band or Celebration--do you want new
wave or do you want the truth? The coda set things straight (A: Na
na... na na na).

[Rebecca's PTW review with MP3]

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1. Jonny Greenwood - "Prospectors Arrive"
from There Will Be Blood Soundtrack (Nonesuch)

Easily the most "rock" song of all the paranoid hornet's nests and click-clacky Penderecki war drum meditations on There Will Be Blood, maybe Radiohead's "Pyramid Song" rendered in sepiatone. Total headbanger/tearjerker because it's all release, even though it's full of swarms of avant-fare, it keeps hitting you continuously in the tears-in-yr-popcorn cinema-circuit with a melancholy root note that just keeps coming and coming and coming despite all the noise he tries to  swirl around it.

[YouTube]

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