Top 50 Singles of 2008: #31 - 40

40. Air France - "Collapsing At Your Doorstep"; Etheral, hypnotic, blissfully perfect. It is sort of like a dream, only better. Sorry, it's late I'm light on better things to say then that. But don't be fooled, this is a fantastic song.

39. Vampire Weekend - "Oxford Comma"; I know I spent a lot of 2007-8 hating on Vampire Weekend, but it is impossible to hate on this track, and the more I listen to it the more I warm to it. Basically, I'm saying sorry for the backlash Vampire Weekend.

38. The Ting Tings - "Shut Up And Let Me Go"; The songs from the iPod commercials have always been impossible to ignore but this year seemed to make that even more so as three of those songs appear on this list. This one pretty much launched The Ting Tings to levels they probably shouldn't be at, but this song is sexy, catchy, and cool no matter how you slice it.

37. Usher - "Love in the Club"; This was the summer anthem of 2008! No it wasn't that effing Katy Perry song it was this one and it's tough to beat as far as big old summer anthems go. The song sound amazing and it's made even better by the brashness of Usher's boasts. You can tell he really did learn a shit ton from his buddy R. Kelly.

36. MGMT - "Time to Pretend"; I didn't fall head over heels like a lot of my blogging brethren did for MGMT's debut record, but it's solid and never better then this track right here. Psych rock riffs, sing-a-long lyrics, this is gonna be a karaoke anthem in a couple years.

35. Erykah Badu - "The Healer"; In case you hadn't heard Erykah Badu is gonna save hip-hop for life. Based on this song I'd say she's already on the case and totally gonna do that.....if Lil' Wayne hadn't already.

34. Passion Pit - "Sleepyhead"; If someone made me a song like this for a holiday I'd be a happy camper. I don't know if this dude is still with his girlfriend or not, but even though this certainly isn't a love song he should be getting away with freakin' murder based on the size of his talent.

33. Harlem - "South of France"; Love, love, love the shout along chorus of this tune and the verses ain't half bad either. It's a fantastic garage rock anthem if ever I had heard one.

32. Jay Reatard - "See/Saw"; Talk about awesome garage rock, few are above Jay Reatard in that genre and this may just be the finest of all his singles this year. I particularly love the big finish, "She creeps me out/She crept me in again!", outstanding.

31. No Age - "Teen Creeps"; Not quite the best of the No Age singles this year (that'll be coming later) but a freakin' awesome song! I love the breakdown in this song, so simple just a couple of quick light notes but it sounds so awesome amidst all the thrashing and crashing of the rest of the track. And that fade out is superb.