The 100 Best Singles of 2008

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"Spaceman"   BY THE KILLERS

Brandon Flowers rediscovers fun on this Bowie-esque romp, an oddly exuberant ode to alien abduction. The bridge is as funky as it is grandiose.

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"All Summer Long"   BY KID ROCK

The redneck-in-chief gets an assist from the indomitable "Sweet Home Alabama" hook. "It was 1989/My thoughts were short/My hair was long," he sings. Ain't much changed.

Is it a love song? Or a career confessional? No matter: A welter of power chords and Axl Rose's banshee howl render such questions moot.

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"I Kissed a Girl"   BY KATY PERRY

Girls Gone Wild, the song. The sexuality is questionable — lesbianism, guys love it! — but you can't argue with a chorus so big it reached Number One in more than 20 countries.

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