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In 2007, for the first time, I posted a list of my favorite free and legal MP3s of the year. It worked out pretty well, so I'm doing it again in 2008.

In this list-crazy culture of ours, I have been wary of lists. I definitely don't like to position my picks as the "best" of the year--not just because it's a bit presumptuous to say that just because you like something it's therefore the "best." The more salient reason why it's really hard for me to say a certain group of songs or albums are the year's best is because there's no way I can listen to enough of what's come out in a given year to know for sure, even if I were presumptuous enough to claim that my favorites are in fact the best.

(I don't think anyone, really, in this day and age can listen to enough of what comes out in a given year to say they know what's truly the best. But obviously mine is a minority opinion on the matter.)

I have selected 20 MP3s, and have broken them into two lists--a top 10, and then 10 more. Each list has its own media player, as you'll see. While I have attempted to place them in some semblance of an order, understand that these are all good songs; far better to focus on listening to them than worrying about whether this one is rated "higher" than that one.

The songs are listed in full beneath each media player. There, if you click on a song's title, it will take you directly to the MP3. If you click on the word "more" after the title, you'll be taken to the original TWF entry, where you can read a description.

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