Y-Rock Year-End Poll (2008): Staff Picks
Y-Rock Year-End Poll 2008

Jim McGuinn, Program Director

1. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You
2. Ting Tings - Great DJ
3. TV on the Radio - Golden Age
4. Elbow - Grounds For Divorce
5. Spiritualized - Soul On Fire
6. The Hold Steady - Sequestered In Memphis
7. MGMT - Time to Pretend
8. Firewater - Borneo
9. My Morning Jacket - Thank You Too
10. Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!

Josh T. Landow, Operations Manager/Host

1. MGMT - Time To Pretend
2. Nine Inch Nails - Discipline
3. TV on the Radio – Golden Age
4. We Are Scientists – After Hours
5. The Verve - Love Is Noise
6. Phantom Planet – Do The Panic
7. Santogold – Say Aha
8. Coldplay – 42
9. Ben Folds – Hiroshima (B-B-Benny Hit His Head)
10. Electric Six – Dirty Ball

Joey O., Music Director/Host

1. Santogold – L.E.S. Artistes
2. The Raconteurs – Carolina Drama
3. R.E.M. – Horse To Water
4. Nine Inch Nails – Discipline
5. Phantom Planet – Do The Panic
6. My Morning Jacket – Highly Suspicious
7. The Ting Tings – That's Not My Name
8. Ben Folds – You Don't Know Me
9. TV On The Radio – Dancing Choose
10. Tom Gabel – Anna Is A Stool Pigeon

Adam Blyweiss, Circuit Host/Saturdays 8pm-12am

1. The Whigs - Right Hand on My Heart
2. The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
3. Portishead - Machine Gun
4. The Presets - This Boy's in Love
5. Santogold - Shove It
6. Nine Inch Nails - Demon Seed
7. Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
8. School of Seven Bells - Half Asleep
9. Vampire Weekend - I Stand Corrected
10. Kanye West - Love Lockdown

Adrienne, Sundays 11am-3pm

Top 10 in Alphabetical Order
1. Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
2. Bell X1 - Rocky Took a Lover
3. The Cure - Freakshow
4. Editors - The Racing Rats
5. The Futureheads - The Beginning of the Twist
6. Innerpartysystem - Don't Stop
7. [ism] - Sacred Cows
8. Ours - The Worst Things Beautiful
9. The Presets - My People
10. The Secret Machines - Atomic Heels

Amy Miller, Thursdays 4-8pm

1. MGMT - Time To Pretend
2. Dead Confederate - The Rat
3. Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
4. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
5. Death Cab For Cutie - Cath...
6. The Whigs - Right Hand On My Heart
7. Ben Folds & Regina Spektor - You Don't Know Me
8. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
9. Conor Oberst - Cape Canaveral
10. Ida Maria - Oh My God

Andre, Fridays 3-7pm

1. TV On The Radio - Crying
2. Amanda Palmer - Oasis
3. My Morning Jacket - Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Pt. 2
4. Final Fantasy – The Butcher
5. Nine Inch Nails – 1,000,000
6. We Are Scientists – Chick Lit
7. Goldfrapp – Happiness
8. Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Dawn of the Dead
9. Black Kids – I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You
10. Mike Doughty - I Just Want The Girl In The Blue Dress To Keep On Dancing

Andy "Wild Card" Davis, Fill-Ins

1. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges
2. TV On The Radio – Crying
3. Hot Chip – Wrestlers
4. Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
5. Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance
6. MGMT – Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
7. Dr. Dog – The Breeze
8. Black Landlord – Mind Of Matter
9. Fujiya and Miyagi – Uh!
10. Santogold – L.E.S. Artistes

Ben Tracy, Tuesdays 9am-12pm

1. Portishead - Machine Gun
2. Jay Reatard - See Saw
3. Bloc Party - Mercury
4. Foals - Balloons
5. TV On The Radio - Golden Age
6. MGMT - Time To Pretend
7. Nine Inch Nails - Echoplex
8. Cut Copy - Lights & Music
9. Wolf Parade - Soldier's Grin
10. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones

Billy D, Saturdays 12-4pm

1. MGMT - Electric Feel
2. Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
3. Dr. Dog - The Old Days
4. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You
5. Weezer - Pork & Beans
6. Beck - Gamma Ray
7. Coldplay - Lost!
8. Cut Copy - Far Away
9. Little Joy - No One's Better Sake
10. Does it Offend You , Yeah? - We are Rockstars

Casey, Wednesdays 5-8pm

1. The Gaslight Anthem - Great Expectations
2. The Whigs - Right Hand On My Heart
3. The Ting Tings - Great DJ
4. MGMT - Time To Pretend
5. The Hold Steady - Sequestered In Memphis
6. My Morning Jacket - Touch Me I'm Going To Scream, Part 2
7. The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
8. Ben Folds - You Don't Know Me
9. We Are Scientist - After Hours
10. Yeasayer – 2080

Cat, Tuesdays 7-10pm

1. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
2. Vampire Weekend - M79
3. The Kooks - Always Where I Need To Be
4. MGMT - Electric Feel
5. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
6. Dr Dog - The Ark
7. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Dawn of the Dead
8. Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You
9. Albert Hammond Jr - GfC
10. Man Man - Top Drawer

Eric Schuman, Fridays 11am-3pm

1. Sparks - I Can’t Believe That You Would Fall For All The Crap In This Song
2. The Magnetic Fields - Please Stop Dancing
3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - We Call Upon The Author
4. The Last Shadow Puppets - Only The Truth
5. Vampire Weekend - One (Blake’s Got A New Face)
6. Elvis Costello & The Imposters - Harry Worth
7. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Baltimore
8. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Wanted For Life
9. Clinic - Corpus Christi
10. The Raveonettes - Blush

Heather, Tuesdays 4-7pm

1. The Ting Tings- Shut Up And Let Me Go
2. Band of Horses- No One's Gonna Love You
3. Ours- The Worst Things Beautiful
4. Cold War Kids- Something Is Not Right With Me
5. My Morning Jacket- I'm Amazed
6. Coldplay- Violet Hill
7. The Whigs- Right Hand On My Heart
8. We Are Scientists- After Hours
9. The Kooks- Always Where I Need To Be
10. The Moldy Peaches- Anyone Else But You

Jake Rabid, Y-Rock Philly Local Host/Sundays 7-11pm

1. The Black Keys - Strange Times
2. The Hold Steady - Sequestered In Memphis
3. Foxboro Hot Tubs - Mother Mary
4. Nine Inch Nails - Discipline
5. The Dandy Warhols - The World Come On
6. Beck - Gamma Ray
7. Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire
8. Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Posses Your Heart
9. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
10. Phantom Planet - Do The Panic

Y-Rock Philly Local Top 10
1. The War On Drugs - Arms Like Boulders
2. Prowler – Holy Most
3. Brass – The Sky Electric
4. Like A Fox – Night Person
5. Black Landlord – Dear God
6. Photon Band – Thinkin’ Bout Choo
7. The Cordova Academy Glee Club – How To Speak Hip
8. Fishstick – High School
9. Adam & Dave's Bloodline – Runt
10. Chicky – Maybe, It’s Digital

Jared Styles, Fridays 8-11am

1. My Morning Jacket - I'm Amazed
2. Santogold - Creator
3. Glasvegas - Geraldine
4. Little Joy - Brand New Start
5. She & Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
6. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
7. The Killers - Human
8. Kanye West - Love Lockdown
9. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
10. MGMT - Time To Pretend

John Bartol, Thursdays 9am-12pm

1. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
2. Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire
3. Jack Penate - Second, Minute or Hour
4. Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
5. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You
6. MGMT - Electric Feel
7. Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart
8. Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right With Me
9. The Hold Steady - Sequestered In Memphis
10. The Ting Tings - Great DJ

Liz Romaine, Wednesdays 6-10am

1. Keane - Spiralling (album version)
2. Kate Nash - Foundations
3. Weezer - Troublemaker
4. Mike Doughty - I Just Want the Girl in the Blue Dress to Keep on Dancing
5. The Hold Steady - Sequestered in Memphis
6. REM - Supernatural Superserious
7. Death Cab for Cutie - I will Possess Your Heart (album version)
8. The Verve - Love is Noise
9. The Streets - I Love You More (Than You Love Me)
10. Ben Folds/Regina Spektor - You Don't Know Me

Liz Scott, Saturdays 9am-12pm

1. Jotto - Young in the City
2. The Spinto Band - Summer Grof
3. Santogold - Lights Out
4. Brazilian Girls- Good Time
5. The Raconteurs - Old Enough
6. Death Cab For Cutie- Cath...
7. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
8. Vampire Weekend - Bryn
9. Good Old War - Coney Island
10. Throw Me The Statue - Lolita

Matt McGrath, Mondays 7-10pm

1. The Kills - URA Fever
2. Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
3. The Ting Tings - Shut Up and Let Me Go
4. Oasis - The Shock of the Lightning
5. Coldplay - Lost!
6. Kate Nash - Pumpkin Soup
7. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You
8. We Are Scientists - After Hours
9. The Verve - Love is Noise
10. Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

Marco, Fill-Ins

1. Jenny Lewis - The Next Messiah
2. Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
3. Flogging Molly – Float
4. Duffy – Warwick Avenue
5. Blitzen Trapper - Fur
6. Vampire Weekend – The Kids Don’t Stand a Chance
7. Katy Perry - Hot and Cold
8, Cold War Kids - Something Is Not Right with Me
9. Death Cab for Cutie - Cath
10. Paramore – Misery Business

Matt Summers, Sundays 3-7pm

1. My Morning Jacket - Highly Suspicious
2. The Raconteurs - Carolina Drama
3. Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
4. MGMT - Time To Pretend
5. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
6. We Are Scientists - After Hours
7. Pattern is Movement - Right Away
8. Raveonettes - Aly, Walk With Me
9. Beck - Chemtrails
10. Jack Penate - Second, Minute, or Hour

Melanie Shellhammer, Wednesdays 1-5pm

1. Sigur Ros - Within Me A Lunatic Sings
2. Dr. Dog - Heart It Races
3. The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
4. Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
5. We Are Scientists – After Hours
6. The Decemberists - Valerie Plame
7. Ra Ra Riot - Ghost Under Rocks
8. The Whigs - Right Hand on My Heart
9. Ray LaMontagne – Meg White
10. Jukebox the Ghost – Good Day

Mike, Fill-Ins

1. Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire
2. The Gutter Twins - Idle Hands
3. TV On The Radio - Golden Age
4. We Are Scientists - Chick Lit
5. MGMT - Time to Pretend
6. Low Vs Diamond - Heart Attack
7. Doest It Offend You, Yeah - Dawn Of The Dead
8. Ladytron - Ghosts
9. Ghostland Observatory - Dancing On My Grave
10. Black Kids - Hurricane Jane

Ramon "el Rock" Martinez, Y-Rock Internacional Host/Saturdays 4-8pm

1. Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
2. M83 - Kim & Jessie
3. MGMT - Kids
4. Ra Ra Riot - Ghost Under Rocks
5. Love Is All - Big Bangs, Black Holes and Meteorites
6. The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
7. Little Joy - Keep Me In Mind
8. Dead Confederate - The Rat
9. CSS – Rat Is Dead (Rage)
10. I'm From Barcelona - Paper Planes

Y-Rock Internacional Top 10
1. Lori Meyers – El Secreto Mejor Guardado
2. Ximena Sariñana – Mediocre, Sintiendo Rara, Normal
3. Zoe – Reptilectric
4. Mint – White Line
5. Monte Negro – Don’t Let Me Down
6. Bang Gang – The World Is Gray
7. Monareta – La Batalla de Boyaca
8. O Rappa – Ostia
9. Ana Laan – Me Echaras de Menos
10. Manolo Garcia – No Estes Triste

Rob Huff, Saturdays 12-4pm

1. Cut Copy - Lights and Music
2. Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor
3. Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes
4. TV on the Radio - Crying
5. Portishead - Machine Gun
6. Sigur Ros - Within Me A Lunatic Sings
7. MGMT - Time to Pretend
8. Lykke Li - Breaking it Up
9. Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
10. Okkervil River - Lost Coastline

Rob Wilcox, Mondays 2-6pm

1. Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Long Division
3. It's A King Thing - Old Hobbies
4. Johnny Foreigner - Eyes Wide Terrified
5. The Spinto Band - Summer Grof
6. Mock Orange - Song in D
7. Elvis Costello - Turpentine
8. Neil Halstead - Paint A Face
9. Ra Ra Riot - Can You Tell
10. Vampire Weekend - A-Punk

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