favorite songs of 2008, #24 of 30: the rosebuds' "bow to the middle"

I love the Rosebuds, and it's this love that allows me to forgive. Frankly, their last two albums - last year's Night of the Furies and this year's Life Like - have been fairly mediocre, but even still, in each one there've been these glittering moments that have made them nonetheless worthwhile. I'm still waiting for something as consistently good as Birds Make Good Neighbors, but until then: