Şubat 2003’den buyana İngiltere’de aylık olarak yayınlanan The Word müzik dergisi okuyucularının, 2008 yılında seçtiği yılın en iyi 50 şarkısı.

1. Elbow – One Day Like This
2. Mgmt – Time To Pretend
3. Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
4. Goldfrapp – A&E
5. Elbow – Ground For Divorce
6. Fleet Foxes – He Doesn’t Know
7. Girls Aloud – The Promise
8. Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
9. Sigur Ros – Ara Batur
10. British Sea Power – Waving Flags

11. Bon Iver – Flume
12. Portishead – Machine Gun
13. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – We Call Upon The Author
14. Hot Chip – Ready For The Floor
15. Portishead – The Rip
16. Elbow – The Loneliness Of A Tower Crane Driver
17. Little Jackie – The Whole World Should Revolve Around Me
18. Half Man Half Biscuit – National Shite Day
19. Elbow – Starlings
20. British Sea Power – Starlings
21. Randy Newman – A Few Words In Defence Of Our Country
22. Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name
23. Elbow – The Fix
24. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!
25. The Hold Steady – Sequestered In Memphis
26. Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma
27. Half Man Half Biscuit – Blue Badge Abuser
28. Glasvegas – Geraldine
29. Elbow – Mirrorball
30. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Come On Over
31. The Hold Steady – Lord, I’m Discouraged
32. Paul Weller – Have You Made Up Your Mind?
33. Mia – Paper Planes
34. Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
35. Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
36. Goldfrapp – Clowns
37. Estelle – American Boy
38. Bon Iver – Skinny Love
39. Jenny Lewis & Elvis Costello – Carpetbaggers
40. Death Cab For Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart
41. James Yourston – Tortoise Regrets Here
42. Radiohead – Reckoner
43. Go Home Productions – Finally Did You No Wrong
44. Billy Bragg – I Keep Faith
45. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – More News From Nowhere
46. The Last Shadow Puppets – My Mistakes Were Made For You
47. The Felice Brothers – Frankie’s Gun
48. Chris Difford – Battersea Boys
49. Ladyhawk – Paris Is Burning
50. David Byrne & Brian Eno – Strange Overtones

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