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Interesting recommendations so far. Sometimes I do like the video, not so much the song itself. In the future, we could do a Pazz & Jop video clip poll as well. 
Great pics sonofsamiam (and Moonbeam too. Andre, I hope that Kate Perry is some other person than Katy Perry but I didn't check ) 
Just kidding I liked that song a little bit.
I have many same bands in my top 50 but different songs. In my opinion best Mogwai song wasn't in their album. It was Devil Rides from Bat Cat EP. Vocals by Roky Erickson.
Shugo Tokumaru's album was released in Japan in 2007 (and I'm not sure is there any single release of Parachute). But I'm going to vote it too (and Bon Iver's Re Stacks which was also released in 2007).
Honorio, how do you embed this box.net player on a post here ?
I couldn't find out
In the 80's references you forgot to mention one band ... (yes, there he is again) ... The Fixx. Scratch the Surface is so much the Fixx. Pretty great indeed. 
Well, both songs got me on the dance floor and they stick like glue in your mind (next morning you wake up and that song is there again...), so in that sense guilty. For the rest, they are quite different as to detest or not detest. 
Wow, wonderful thread, congratulations everyone (although I haven’t got time enough to go in deep with everyone’s list). A special congratulation to Moonbeam, you really got a strong personality in your music tastes (from now on I will call this kind of music “Moonbeamian”, as previously “dumbangelical” or “nicolesque”). And your comments are, as always, great!
Well, these are the first 10 songs that come to my mind. It’s not my Top 10 but nearly. Ladies first:
1. ROKIA TRAORÉ Dounia: precious interaction of electric guitars, n’goni (African lute) and the beautiful voice of Rokia, the talented Mali singer that showed in an interview for Rockdelux that she’s very intelligent too, with lucid opinions about the difficult political situation on Africa.
2. THOSE DANCING DAYS Run Run: sshhh, don’t tell nobody, especially to my wife, but I’m in love with the lead singer of this all-girl band. She’s so cute with her curly hair. And she’s got a nice warm voice too. And they’re Swedish! Please, Henrik, I need her phone number. Won’t you get it for me? Or the number of the keyboard player. Or the guitar player…
3. ERYKAH BADU Honey: excellent singer, excellent song and excellent video clip (made for music nerds like us, wouldn’t you like to play to discover how many album covers you recognize?). Moonbeam, I missed this gem in your list.
4. PORTISHEAD The Rip: this disturbing piece of techno-folk (am I allowed to define it like that?) exemplifies the qualities that has turned the last Portishead into a critics-darling.
5. CHRISTINA ROSENVINGE La distancia adecuada: a veteran lady of the Spanish music scene (she began her career in 1980!) that after her NY trilogy of albums, sung in English and recorded with Lee Ranaldo and Steve Shelley from Sonic Youth, has returned to the lyrics in Spanish with probably her best work. Other recommendable Spanish ladies during 2008 were Russian Red, Klaus & Kinski and Lidia Damunt.
And now the gentlemen:
1. THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS Standing Next to Me: my candidate for song of the year (if nothing within this thread changes my mind). I’ve always been a sucker for British pop, and now there are rough times for this kind of sound. Get in, you’ll get 2 minutes and 20 seconds of pop heaven.
2. SPIRITUALIZED Soul on Fire: Jason Pierce returning to his bizarre gospel hymns after being on the point of death. It’s amazing to see him in the video (at 1’53”
waking up from both a frozen landscape and the hospital bed.
3. BON IVER For Emma: the combination of steel guitar and horns elevates this song to dizzy heights. Strategically placed almost at the end of this gloomy album, it’s like the sunrays through the clouds.
4. NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!: both the resurrection of biblical Lazarus as someone called Larry amidst the convulse XXI Century and the resurrection of Nick Cave with his band after the adventure of Grinderman (with a look that in Spain we call “macarra” and someone at You Tube describes as a 70s porn star).
5. ROBERT FOSTER Let Your Light in, Babe: and another veteran to end the list, the ex-Go-Betweens member letting the light in with a delicious ukulele-based melody. The You Tube video is not official.
And a bonus track with someone that I don’t know if putting inside the gentlemen or the ladies group, so I open a new category. HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR Blind: it was obvious but nobody did it previously: the mirror ball and the electronic beats fitted perfectly with the vocal register of Antony Hegarty, even better that the usual theatrical and gloomy way that he/she uses.
About posting songs:
- John, Jonah, Tim or AJackson, if you want to introduce a link to a You Tube video you just have to write [a href="http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=_8YRx47oylM"]Standing Next to Me[/a] but replacing [ by < and ] by > and you will obtain this: Standing Next to Me. You only have to copy and paste the You Tube link between the " (and obviously change the song title). This is an easy way for us all to access to the songs without the problems of embedding directly the videos (pages that takes a lot of time to charge and all that).
- Nicolas, if you have an account on Box.net and you enter directly in your page you can’t embed the song like I did (and I don’t’ know why!). But if you go to http://www.box.net/lite (that is here) you can upload a file from your computer and then you will obtain a code for embedding the song like I did. Hope this could be useful.
And to add to you, Honorio: If you want to embed a youtube video, not only the link, than you go to that youtube page and copy/paste the embed code that is writen there somewhere, right into the message here.
Like the following video of one of Fleet Foxes' masterpieces Ragged Wood:
And now you know one of my top 5 songs of 2008! 
Mykonos... I didn't know that the Fleet Foxes...
(Kidding of course)
Works great!
Very nice embedding, nicolas, this looks very useful for presenting the poll results later.
I've heard the Toumani Diabate album two times now, it takes a bit to get used to it.
great ! I didn't know if there was a English version
yeah, I've heard it onthe Telerama site, they're great
thanks nj
that song is an old 80-year old man
Can we nominate songs from 1928 ?
Découvrez Henry Thomas!
and please Greg Rumpff, do something to stop that automatic playing 