THE YEAR IN MUSIC: PART 2 (THE NEW)

(from l-r: Alicia Keys, Estelle, Cool Kids, Lil WayneChico Mann, Menahan St. Band, Q-TipRobin Thicke, Solange Knowles, Mayer Hawthorne, Raphael Saadiq)(This post began life on Side Dishes and has "evolved" since). As I suggested in PART 1, my tastes in 2008 were decidedly retro. Even the new songs I liked still sounded like they were recorded in 1968. But I'm not going to artificially stack my list below to make it seem like I wasn't stuck in some weird throwback mode for most of the year. Here'...

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