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All Songs Considered

Our No. 1 songs: 2008

All Songs Considered

NPR

Music

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

What songs take us back to 2008? Robin Hilton and Stephen Thompson recall a pretty folk-heavy year with lots of groundbreaking debuts.

Note: This is a recurring feature in celebration of the show's 25th anniversary. A shorter version of this episode ran earlier in the year.


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0:00.0

It's All Songs Considered. I'm Robin Hilton here with New Music Friday and Pop Culture Happy

0:05.1

Hour host, Stephen Thompson. It is so good to be here, Robin. Let's just get right to it. We're looking

0:10.2

back at the past 25 years of all songs considered talking about our number one songs from each year.

0:16.6

We're up to 2008 on this episode, and I'm going to let you go first here, Stephen,

0:21.2

because I know, I know exactly what you're going to pick

0:25.2

is your number one song for 2008.

0:27.6

I mean, if you just think about the year 2008

0:31.2

and the show all songs considered.

0:34.6

And Stephen Thompson.

0:35.8

And certainly my...

0:37.3

But I was not the only one who loved this song. I know exactly what you're going to pick, by the way. You know, like, there's no question. There's no question. Thank you. The

0:57.0

I'm going to

0:58.0

I'm going to

1:00.0

I'm going to Come on, skinny love just last a year

1:19.5

To pour a little salt we were never here

1:26.6

My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my.

1:33.3

Staring at the sink of blood across beneath you. yeah yeah my love to wreck it all

1:51.0

could out on ropes

1:56.0

and let me fall

1:59.0

my my

2:00.0

my my my my my yeah I mean, this record changed a lot of music.

2:09.7

Like, this record ushered in a lot of different sounds.

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