Pitchfork's Top 100 Tracks Of 2008

100 songs clearly cover a number of bases. It's fun seeing bands like Sic Alps on here, though it's difficult to gauge what having the 90th best track of the year means. The songs in the upper decks (75-100) come off like miscellany -- an understandable excuse to include dark horses. It doesn't seem to start mattering much until you get significantly closer to 50. Still, miscellanies are often where the most interesting things happen, at least if you're bored of lists with the same 40 bands on ...

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