THE TOP 100 SONGS OF 2007 ------------------------- 1. Paper Planes - M.I.A. Kala (XL/Interscope) 2. Icky Thump - THE WHITE STRIPES Icky Thump (Third Man/Warner) 3. Don't Let Him Waste Your Time - JARVIS COCKER Jarvis (Rough Trade) 4. Beautiful Girls - SEAN KINGSTON Sean Kingston (Beluga Heights/Koch/Epic) 5. North American Scum - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Sound Of Silver (DFA/Capitol) 6. Almost Ready - DINOSAUR JR. Beyond (Fat Possum) 7. No Pussy Blues - GRINDERMAN Grinderman (Mute/Anti-) 8. A Postcard To Nina - JENS LEKMAN Night Falls Over Kortedala (Service Sweden/Secretly Canadian) 9. Rehab - AMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black (Island UK .06/Universal Republic) 10. Just As You Are - ROBERT WYATT Comicopera (Domino) 11. If This Ain't Love (Don't Know What Is) - NICOLE WILLIS & THE SOUL INVESTIGATORS Keep Reachin' Up (Light In the Attic) 12. Someone Great - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Sound Of Silver (DFA/Capitol) 13. Debriefing - VIC CHESNUTT North Star Deserter (Constellation) 14. The Opposite Of Hallelujah - JENS LEKMAN Night Falls Over Kortedala (Service Sweden/Secretly Canadian) 15. Stronger - KANYE WEST Graduation (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) 16. To The East - ELECTRELANE No Shouts No Calls (Too Pure) 17. Sugarbaby - KRISTIN HERSH Learn To Sing Like A Star (Yep Roc) 18. High - NEW MODEL ARMY High (Attack Attack) 19. Budos Rising - THE BUDOS BAND The Budos Band II (Daptone) 20. Keep The Car Running - ARCADE FIRE Neon Bible (Merge) 21. I'm Not There - SONIC YOUTH I'm Not There Original Soundtrack (Sony) 22. Tonight I Have To Leave It - SHOUT OUT LOUDS Our Ill Wills (Bud Fox Sweden/Merge) 23. Myriad Harbour - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Challengers (Matador) 24. Young Folks - PETER BJORN AND JOHN Writer's Block (V2 Scandinavia .06/Almost Gold) 25. Our Velocity - MAXIMO PARK Our Earthly Pleasures (Warp) 26. Grip Like A Vice - THE GO! TEAM Proof Of Youth (Memphis Industries UK/Sub Pop) 27. Fluorescent Adolescent - ARCTIC MONKEYS Favourite Worst Nightmare (Domino) 28. The Underdog - SPOON Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge) 29. Can't Tell Me Nothing - KANYE WEST Graduation (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) 30. Take Care The Road You Choose - RICHARD THOMPSON Sweet Warrior (Shout Factory) 31. Tasmanian Pain Coaster - EL-P I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux) 32. Shake It Off - WILCO Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch) 33. Lip Gloss - LIL MAMA 12" single (Jive) 34. Here Comes The Phantom - THE CLIENTELE God Save The Clientele (Merge) 35. 23 - BLONDE REDHEAD 23 (4AD) 36. Goin' To Acapulco - JIM JAMES & CALEXICO I'm Not There Original Soundtrack (Sony) 37. Take Me To The Riot - STARS In Our Bedroom After The War (Arts & Crafts) 38. He Keeps Me Alive - SALLY SHAPIRO Disco Romance (Diskokaine Austria/Paper Bag) 39. If Silence Means That Much To You - EMMA POLLOCK Watch The Fireworks (4AD) 40. Ex-Guru - THE FIERY FURNACES Widow City (Thrill Jockey) 41. Hatchet - LOW Drums And Guns (Sub Pop) 42. All Cleaned Out - ELLIOTT SMITH New Moon (Kill Rock Stars) 43. Walking For Two Hours - THE TWILIGHT SAD Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (FatCat) 44. Diamond Dancer - BILL CALLAHAN Woke On A Whaleheart (Drag City) 45. Valentine - RICHARD HAWLEY Lady's Bridge (Mute) 46. Tears Dry On Their Own - AMY WINEHOUSE Back To Black (Island UK .06/Universal Republic) 47. Umbrella - RIHANNA FEATURING JAY-Z Good Girl Gone Bad (SRP/Def Jam) 48. Carry On Up the Morning - BABYSHAMBLES Shotter's Nation (Regal/Parlophone/EMI UK/Astralwerks) 49. 100 Days, 100 Nights - SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone) 50. Earth Intruders - BJORK Volta (Atlantic) 51. Lionkiller - CASS MCCOMBS Dropping The Writ (Domino) 52. Now, Now - ST. VINCENT Marry Me (Beggars Banquet) 53. Familj - DUNGEN Tio Bitar (Subliminal Sounds Sweden/Kemado) 54. Down Boy - YEAH YEAH YEAHS Is Is (Dress Up/Interscope) 55. Frozen Gtr - THURSTON MOORE Trees Outside The Academy (Ecstatic Peace!) 56. Make A Plan To Love Me - BRIGHT EYES Cassadaga (Saddle Creek) 57. The Rhinohead - VON SUDENFED Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino) 58. Nothin No - DAVID VANDERVELDE The Moonstation House Band (Secretly Canadian) 59. Heartbreak - CELEBRATION The Modern Tribe (4AD) 60. Box - TOKYO POLICE CLUB Smith (Paper Bag) 61. Ordinary People - NEIL YOUNG Chrome Dreams II (Reprise) 62. Dashboard - MODEST MOUSE We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (Epic) 63. An End Has A Start - EDITORS An End Has A Start (Epic/Kitchenware/Fader) 64. Do I Disappoint You - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Release The Stars (Geffen) 65. Absurd Heroes Manifestos - ARTHUR & YU In Camera (Hardly Art) 66. Melody Day - CARIBOU Andorra (Merge) 67. Kookaburra - JOHN VANDERSLICE Emerald City (Barsuk) 68. White Hole - CHRISTINA ROSENVINGE Continental 62 (Smells Like) 69. Fake Empire - THE NATIONAL Boxer (Beggars Banquet) 70. Mobile Communication - BRAKESBRAKESBRAKES The Beatific Visions (Rough Trade) 71. Phantom Limb - THE SHINS Wincing The Night Away (Sub Pop) 72. For Reverend Green - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam (Domino) 73. Walk Around - GHOSTFACE KILLAH The Big Doe Rehab (Def Jam) 74. While You Were Sleeping - ELVIS PERKINS Ash Wednesday (XL) 75. Bomb.Repeat.Bomb. - TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS Living With The Living (Touch And Go) 76. Ruby - KAISER CHIEFS Yours Truly, Angry Mob (B-Unique UK/Universal Motown) 77. 15 Step - RADIOHEAD In Rainbows (self-released) 78. Stop And Think It Over - MARY WEISS Dangerous Game (Norton) 79. Silver Lining - RILO KILEY Under The Blacklight (Warner) 80. Free Radicals Lament - OAKLEY HALL I'll Follow You (Merge) 81. Livin' In The Future - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Magic (Columbia) 82. Home Again - EDWYN COLLINS Home Again (Heavenly/EMI UK) 83. In The Human World - MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC CO. Sojourner (Secretly Canadian) 84. Wonderlust King - GOGOL BORDELLO Super Taranta! (Side One Dummy) 85. No One - ALICIA KEYS As I Am (J) 86. Civil War - JOE HENRY Civilians (Anti-) 87. The Songs That We Sing - CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG 5:55 (Because Music France/Vice) 88. Threshold Apprehension - BLACK FRANCIS Bluefinger (Cooking Vinyl) 89. Pump Up The Volume - ART BRUT It's A Bit Complicated (Banana/Fierce Panda UK/Downtown) 90. Seize The Day - ADAM FRANKLIN Bolts Of Melody (Hi-Speed Soul) 91. Wolves - PHOSPHORESCENT Pride (Dead Oceans) 92. The Past Is A Grotesque Animal - OF MONTREAL Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl) 93. Business Time - FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS The Distant Future (Sub Pop) 94. There She Goes Again - RICHARD LLOYD The Radiant Monkey (Parasol) 95. The Dance - P.G. SIX Slightly Sorry (Drag City) 96. Harvest (Within You) - CLINIC Visitations (Domino UK .06) 97. Push - PHAROAHE MONCH FEATURING SHOWTYME, MELA MACHINKO & TOWER OF POWER Desire (SRC/Universal Motown) 98. Green Fields - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN The Good, The Bad And The Queen (Parlophone/EMI UK/Virgin) 99. You Can't Hold The Hand Of A Rock And Roll Man - OKKERVIL RIVER The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar) 100. 1234 - FEIST The Reminder (Cherrytree/Interscope) The Top 10 EPs Of 2007 ---------------------- 1. YEAH YEAH YEAHS - Is Is (Dress Up/Interscope) 2. TOKYO POLICE CLUB - Smith (Paper Bag) 3. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS - The Distant Future (Sub Pop) 4. BEIRUT - Lon Gisland (Ba Da Bing!) 5. THE WOMBATS - The Wombats (KIDS In America) 6. ARCTIC MONKEYS - Brianstorm (Domino) 7. BRITISH SEA POWER - Krankenhaus? (Rough Trade) 8. MATT POND PA - If You Want Blood (Altitude) 9. LAVENDER DIAMOND - The Cavalry Of Light (Matador) 10. DEERHUNTER - Fluorescent Grey EP (Kranky) David Rawson