Mercy by Duffy

Also up there for me are Grounds for Divorce by Elbow, and Time to Pretend by MGMT

Most of the songs youve all said are pretty unknown to me and to the mainstream. except 4 mercy

Mine would be

Coldplay - Viva la vida (awesome!)
Violet hill
TLSP - Standing next to me
Slipknot - Psychosocial
Kanye west - Homecoming

That's more than only one, if you ask me ...

Anyway, this is what I wrote earlier this year:
That's Mercy from Duffy, of course.

Duffy has to go to #2. New #1 is M79 from Vampire Weekend.

And guess what? Mercy from Duffy is back at the top again.

At this point "Sex On Fire" by Kings of Leon.

WATER CURSES by ANIMAL COLLECTIVE

We Carry On - Portishead

Noah and the Whale - Five Years Time

Portishead - Machinegun or Deep Water

Kanye West - Flashing Lights

Bob Dylan - Girl From the Red River Shore

"Nothing Ever Happened" by Deerhunter

I still like the Drive-by Truckers ("The Righteous Path") but I think with repeated plays Gnarls Barkley "Run" has overtaken it for my 2008 fave.

The Righteous Path!

Puppetmastaz - Boots on the ground/Hallucinate
(those are 2 tracks but we go from one to the other so smoothly that it should count as one).
Best hip-hop song of the year so far, in quite a weak hip-hop year... You think Kanye and Q-Tip will save us, but Puppetmastaz already did (only they're german so no one cares) with their 3rd 4 stars or more album on my ranking (quite impressive since it is their 3rd album )

Sam Roberts- Detroit 67

Kanye West - Street Lights