#15 -- Best Songs of 2008

Nowheres Nigh by Parts & Labor

This song just sounds cool. I don't care what the band is singing about, I just like hearing them sound so friggin' awesome.

This was a year where image was more important that what was actually being said. There was a lot of hot air. This happens every time the U.S. holds an election for President, but this year seemed filled with more hot air than usual.

So what was the 'point' of 2008?

Why to be cool of course. To sound cool. To do the same thing but do it a little differently and call it change. And what's great about this song is that it starts off sounding like something you've heard before, only a little different. It brings energy and the amazing thing is that it manages to build on itself, to become even bigger than the listener ever thought possible.

By the end of the song, these guys are blowing you away because they took the song to a level that you didn't think was possible (it's like the anti-Dr. Dog song).

And in a year where society and the economy was taken to a level never thought possible (good or bad) this song oddly fits. It's bigger and brasher that anyone ever thought.