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Bruce Rave (if that's your REAL name) - who'd a thunk a boy from outside Chi-Town would become the A&R man who brought you The Knack & Missing Persons and who blinded you with science?

RAVE’S FAVES OF 2008

MY TOP-TIER ALBUMS OF 2008

3--Elbow—The Seldom Seen Kid

Fleet Foxes—Fleet Foxes

9--Foxboro Hot Tubs—Stop Drop and Roll

8--MGMT—Orangluar Spectacular

7--Procon--Kingmaker

6--Pendulum—In Silico

                5--The Rumble Strips—Girls and Weather

4--Skybombers—Take Me to Town

2--Switches—Lay Down the Law

10--The Ting Tings—We Started Nothing

1--Vampire Weekend—Vampire Weekend

Honorable mention goes to Liam Finn, The Fratellis, and Shiny Toy Guns. 

 

MY ELEVEN FAVORITE AIRPLAY SONGS OF 2008

1)     MGMT—Kids

2)     Switches—Drama Queen

3)     The Ting Tings—That’s Not My Name

4)     The Rumble Strips—Girls and Boys In Love (TV commercial)

5)     The Cribs—I’m A Realist

6)     Foxboro Hot Tubs—Stop Drop and Roll

7)     Devo--Watch Us Work It (TV commercial)

8)     B-52’s--Pump

9)     The Last Shadow Puppets--The Last of the Understatement

10)  Shiny Toy Guns—Ghost Town

11)  The Fratellis—Mistress Mabel

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