A very happy New Year to all List readers, and I hope that the flu that seems to have visited my own particular corner of the globe just recently is keeping a respectable distance from yours.
Considering there were only four Lists in the entirety of 2017 the usual "it was 10/20/30 years ago this year" sort of specials didn't make an appearance, and I'm not necessarily going to be looking to do two or three editions' worth of stuff from each of 1988, 1998, etc. this year either.
I did, however, have about an hour and a half's worth of stuff already stockpiled that just all happened to be released in 2008, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to share it with you.
None of this lot should have appeared on a previous List (unless I've erred), which is perhaps surprising in the case of the MJ Hibbett track, appearing as it has on practically every indiepop love song mix CD or playlist I've compiled for almost as long as it's been out; and also in the case of the Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip selection, being the title track of an album I probably played more than any other hip-hop long-player for many a long year.
Elsewhere, it's a particular pleasure to include:
None of this lot should have appeared on a previous List (unless I've erred), which is perhaps surprising in the case of the MJ Hibbett track, appearing as it has on practically every indiepop love song mix CD or playlist I've compiled for almost as long as it's been out; and also in the case of the Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip selection, being the title track of an album I probably played more than any other hip-hop long-player for many a long year.
Elsewhere, it's a particular pleasure to include:
- something by long-time John Peel faves Freiwillige Selbskontrolle, aka FSK (have I remembered correctly that they were the foreign act to record the most Peel sessions?),
- an instrumental from The Magnetic Fields' feedback-driven Distortion concept album,
- two acts in The Zebras and The Electric Pop Group whom I'd have loved to have seen at that year's Indietracks festival had line-up clashes permitted,
- ONSIND, one half of Pity Me's beatingmost heart and conscience Martha,
- an insistent, driving cut from superb Field Music side project The Week That Was, and
- Spain's highly entertaining entry to Eurovision 2008, inexplicably overlooked on here hitherto.
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Click on the video or link to play each tune (links last checked as all working 11/08/2026).
FSK – Nokturn
CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE – Ice Cream Truck
KARINE POLWART – Maid of the Loch
DAN LE SAC vs SCROOBIUS PIP – Angles
WILDBIRDS AND PEACEDRUMS– Chain of Steel
THE MAGNETIC FIELDS –Three-Way
EMPIRE OF THE SUN – Walking on a Dream
THE ZEBRAS – Push Our Way to the Front
THE WEEK THAT WAS –Learn to Learn
MAPLE BEE – No Place
DAVILA 666 - Tú
FOSCA – Confused and Proud
KITTY, DAISY AND LEWIS –Polly Put the Kettle On
THREATMANTICS – Big Man
RODOLFO CHIKILICUATRE - Baila el Chiki Chiki
ONSIND – Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
BEACH HOUSE – Heart of Chambers
THE ELECTRIC POP GROUP – This is the Town
MJ HIBBETT & THE VALIDATORS – It Only Works Because You’re Here
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