FAVORITE SONGS 2007
I’ll compile your new favorite songs (updated weekly) here on this master list of the year’s faves.
Since Y.N.F.S. didn’t start until Tues., Oct. 9, 2007, the list starts with an alphabetized rundown of 201 faves for all of the weekdays I missed in 2007. Songs from posts since then will show up at the bottom.
Why? Because obsessing over lists of music is fun. Right? Lists! Lists! Lists!
THE FIRST 201 WEEKDAYS:
1990s - “See You At The Lights” [listen] [buy]
1990s - “You’re Supposed To Be My Friend” [listen] [buy]
1990s - “You Made Me Like It” [listen] [buy]
Yummy Fur’s John McKeown makes the rest of the neo-dance-punkers look like wankers with this toss-off.
Air Waves - “Shine On” [listen] [buy]
Air Waves - “Waiting Game” [listen] [buy]
Akon - “Don’t Matter” [sample & buy]
This is just where we begin with the busiest Senegalese-American on the pop charts.
Amy Winehouse - “Back To Black” [sample & buy]
Amy Winehouse - “Me and Mr. Jones” [sample & buy]
Amy Winehouse - “Rehab” [sample & buy]
“What kind of fuckery is this?”
Ana Egge - “Apple Tree” [sample & buy]
Andrew Bird - “Fiery Crash” [listen] [buy]
Apples in Stereo - “Can You Feel It? [listen] [buy]
Apples in Stereo - “Sun is Out” [listen here] [buy here]
Apteka - “The Sheet” [download]
Arcade Fire - “Antichrist Television Blues” [sample & buy]
Arcade Fire - “Keep The Car Running” [sample & buy]
Arcade Fire - “Intervention” [sample & buy]
Atmosphere - “Sunshine” [download]
Aubrey Debauchery - “Double Negative” [download]
Augustana - “Boston” [listen] [buy]
Can you resist an overexposed ‘Laguna Beach’ montage ballad? You are better than me.
The Avett Brothers - “Shame” [listen] [buy]
Balkan Beat Box - “Hermetico” [download]
Israeli-Balkan-Middle Eastern-Brooklyn party rap.
The Ballet - “In My Head” [download]
Band of Horses - “Is There A Ghost” [download]
Basia Bulat - “Before I Knew” [listen]
The Bastard Fairies - “Guns and Dolls” [download]
The Bastard Fairies - “Memento Mori” [download]
Bear Hunter - “Action/Reaction” [listen] [sample & buy]
Bear Hunter - “Basement 98” [sample & buy]
Bill Callahan - “Sycamore” [sample & buy]
Bishop Allen - “Butterfly Nets” [sample & buy]
Bishop Allen - “Click Click Click Click” [download]
Bishop Allen - “Like Castanets” [sample & buy]
Bishop Allen - “Rain” [download]
Black Before Red - “Goddess in Trauma” [download]
Black Before Red - “Matagorda” [download]
Black Before Red - “Teenage America” [download]
Black Before Red - “Underneath Gold” [download]
Black Kids - “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You” [download]
Black Lips - “Cold Hands” [here]
The Paisley Revolution is rumbling.
Blitzen Trapper - “Country Caravan” [sample & buy]
Blitzen Trapper - “Jericho” [download]
Blitzen Trapper - “Wild Mountain Nation” [listen & buy]
The best in Pacific-Northwest-southern-rock.
BOAT - “I Really Think You Should Rethink Your Life” [sample & buy]
Bodies of Water - “Our Friends Appear Like The Dawn” [sample & buy]
Bone, Thugs ’N’ Harmony (ft. Akon) - “I Tried” [listen] [buy]
Born Ruffians - “Hummingbirds” [listen]
Bottom of the Hudson - “Beehive” [download]
Bowerbirds - “In Our Talons” [listen & buy album]
Bowerbirds - “My Oldest Memory” [listen & buy album]
Brazos - “Feeding Frenzy” [download]
Brazos - “Travel” [download]
Bright Eyes - “Reinvent The Wheel” [sample & buy]
Busdriver - “Casting Agents & Cowgirls” [listen & buy album]
Cajun Dance Party - “The Next Untouchable” [listen] [label]
Capgun Coup - “Bobby Chops and The Do-Gooders” [download]
The Cave Singers - “Seeds of Night” [download]
Chris Bathgate - “A Flash of Light Followed By [download]
Chris Bathgate - “Serpentine” [sample & buy]
Your new favorite voice.
Christina Aguilera - “Candyman” [sample & buy]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - “Emily Jean Stock” [buy album]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - “Satan Said Dance” [listen] [buy album]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - “Some Loud Thunder” [buy album]
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - “Underwater (You And Me)” [download]
Colbie Caillat - “Bubbly” [listen] [buy]
You’re going to want to strangle a kitten. But in a good way.
Common - “The Game” [listen] [buy album]
The Cool Kids - “One Two” [listen & buy]
“It’s the new black version of the Beastie Boys…”
Damian Weber - “Rickshaw” [download something else here]
Dan Bryk - “She Just Wants To Get High” [ website ]
Dan Deacon - “The Crystal Cat” [download]
Deadstring Brothers - “Silver Mountain” [sample & buy]
Deerhunter - “Hazel Street” [sample & buy]
Deerhunter - “Strange Lights” [sample] [buy]
Deerhunter - “Wash Off” [sample] [buy]
Dinosaur Jr. - “Almost Ready” [download]
Dinosaur Jr. - “Been There All The Time” [sample & buy]
Dizzee Rascal (ft. Lily Allen) - “Wanna Be” [sample & buy]
Do Make Say Think - “The Universe!” [listen] [buy]
Dr. Dog - “Alaska” [sample & buy]
Dr. Dog - “My Old Ways” [download]
Emily Loizeau - “Boby Cheri” [Listen]
Emma Pollock - “Acid Test” [listen] [buy]
Erin Lizardo - “In My Mind All Day” [listen]
The Everybodyfields - “Don’t Turn Around” [sample & buy]
The Faintest Ideas - “You’re Beautiful” [sample & buy]
Feist - “1234” [listen] [buy]
Feist - “I Feel It All” [sample & buy]
The Felice Brothers - “Ballad of Lou The Welterweight” [download]
Foreign Born - “Union Hall” [listen] [buy]
The Forms - “Knowledge In Hand” [download]
Frankel - “Thermostat” [listen] [buy]
Bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce … “la, la, la…”
Grinderman - “Honey Bee (Let’s Fly To Mars)” [sample & buy]
Grinderman - “No Pussy Blues” [listen] [buy]
Unh!
Gwen Stefani - “Sweet Escape” [listen] [buy]
Oh Akon, you are the sun.
Handsome Furs - “Sing Captain” [sample & buy]
Harlem Shakes - “Carpetbaggers” [listen] [buy]
HEALTH - “Crimewave” [download]
Imperial Teen - “Shim Sham” [listen] [buy]
Japanther - “Challenge” [sample & buy]
Je Suis France - “California Still Rules” [download]
Je Suis France - “That Don’t Work That Well For Us” [download]
John Vanderslice - “White Dove” [download]
Jonquil - “Sudden Sun” [listen] [buy album]
Josh Ritter - “Rumors” [sample & buy]
Idaho. Piano.
Kanye West - “Champion” [sample & buy]
Kanye West - “The Glory” [sample & buy]
Kelly Willis - “Success” [sample & buy]
Kissaway Trail - “61” [listen] [buy]
Kissaway Trail - “Smother + Evil = Hurt” [listen] [buy]
Kissaway Trail - “Tracy” [listen] [buy]
Les Savy Fav - “What Would Wolves Do? [listen] [buy]
Lil Mama - “Lip Gloss” [listen] [buy]
The Limes - “Morning, Noon and Night” [download]
Lord Kossity (ft. Chico & Nicky B.) - “Hotel Room” [listen]
French rap for Ibiza all-nighter.
Los Campesinos - “Frontwards” [sample & buy]
Los Campesinos - “Please Don’t Tell Me To Do The Math” [download]
Los Campesinos - “We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives” [download]
Los Campesinos - “You! Me! Dancing!” [listen & buy]
Lucky Soul - “Get Outta Town” [listen] [buy]
Macy Gray - “Strange Behavior” [sample & buy]
Marla Hansen - “A Friend Indeed” [download]
Maroon 5 - “Wake Up Call” [sample & buy]
Sure he’s probably a jerk, but doesn’t that make the song more sexy? More sexy!
The Melody Function - “Anne Maria” [listen]
The British have invaded Lexington, KY.
Matt Pond PA - “Taught To Look Away” [sample & buy]
Matt Pond + Neko Case.
M.I.A. - “Bird Flu” [sample & buy]
M.I.A. - “Hit That”
M.I.A. - “Mango Pickle Down River” [sample & buy]
M.I.A. - “Paper Planes” [sample & buy]
M.I.A. w/Timbaland - “Come Around” [sample & buy]
Michael Lee - “The Jealous Type” [download]
Mika - “Grace Kelly” [sample & buy]
Mika - “Love Today” [listen] [buy]
Misha - “Summersend” [listen] [buy]
Mutya Buena - “Real Girl” [listen]
Ex-Sugababe samples Lenny Kravitz.
My Teenage Stride - “Reception” [sample & buy]
My Teenage Stride - “To Live and Die At The Airport Lounge” [download]
The National - “Fake Empire” [listen] [buy]
The National - “Mistaken For Strangers” [listen] [buy]
The National - “Start a War” [sample & buy]
The New Pornographers - “My Rights Versus Yours” [download]
No Age - “Everybody’s Down” [listen] [buy]
No Age - “My Life’s Alright Without You” [listen] [buy]
Nord Express - “Tripleplay” [download]
Oakley Hall - “All The Way Down [sample & buy]
Oakley Hall - “No Dreams” [listen] [buy]
Oh No! Oh My - “The Party Punch” [sample & buy]
Okkervil River - “John Allyn Smith Sails” [listen] [buy]
Okkervil River - “Love To A Monster”
Okkervil River - “Unless It Kicks” [listen] [buy]
The Pack - “Vans” [listen] [buy]
Palliard - “Still” [download]
Palomar - “Bury Me Closer” [listen & buy]
Papercuts - “Take 227th Exit” [sample & buy]
Pelle Carlberg - “Clever Girls Like Clever Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls” [download]
Peter, Bjorn and John - “Young Folks” [listen] [buy]
Peter Walsh - “Take Me Down In The Night” [listen] [buy]
Rich Boy - “Throw Some D’s” [sample & buy]
Rihanna (ft. Jay-Z) - “Umbrella” [listen] [buy]
Ra Ra Riot - “Each Year” [listen] [buy]
Regina Spektor - “Music Box” [sample & buy]
Robyn - “Konichiwa Bitches” [sample & buy]
Rogue Wave - “Lake Michigan” [listen] [buy]
Rykarda Parasol - “Janis, Don’t Go Back [sample & buy]
Säkert - “Sanningsdan” [listen & buy] [listen, while driving]
Sea Wolf - “Ses Monuments” [sample & buy]
Sea Wolf - “You’re A Wolf” [listen] [buy]
Sean Kingston - “Beautiful Girls” [video] [buy]
Sean Kingston - “Me Love” [video] [buy]
The Shaky Hands - “Summer’s Life” [listen] [buy]
The Shins - “A Comet Appears” [sample & buy]
The Shins - “Turn On Me” [listen] [buy]
The Shout Out Louds - “Tonight I Have To Leave It” [listen] [buy]
This one is The Cure, and The Cure is still really, really good.
Silversun Pickups - “Lazy Eye” [listen] [buy]
The Sinister Turns - “The Last Time” [download]
Sister Vanilla - “What Goes Around” [sample & buy]
It’s the Jesus and Mary Chain, if the Reid brothers had a sister, and their sister sang in this band, and they played in this band with her.
Sloan - “Listen To The Radio” [listen] [buy]
Sloan - “Who Taught You To Live Like That?” [listen] [buy]
Toronto’s answer to the question: “Is there anyone making music like Big Star used to?”
Sonny J - “Can’t Stop Movin’” [listen] [buy] [watch] [watch more]
Spoon - “The Underdog” [sample & buy]
Spoon - “You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb” [listen] [buy]
St. Vincent - “Now. Now.” [listen] [buy]
From Polyphonic Spree to Sufjan Stevens to solo career of Annie Clark.
Sunset Rubdown - “Upon Your Leopard, Upon the End of Your Feral Days” [download]
Taken By Trees - “Too Young” [listen] [buy]
Peter, Bjorn, John and Victoria.
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - “The Sons of Cain” [listen] [buy]
The Thermals - “Pillar of Salt” [download]
Tim Armstrong - “Into Action” [listen] [buy]
Times New Viking - “Teenage Lust” [listen] [buy]
Stay up late and break some stuff.
Titus Andronicus - “Albert Camus” [listen] [buy]
Titus Andronicus - “Titus Andronicus” [listen] [buy]
“Your life is over! Your Life is over! Your life is over!”
Turbo Fruits - “Know Too Much” [sample & buy]
Unnatural Helpers - “Earwax” [download]
Vampire Weekend - “APunk” [listen]
Vampire Weekend - “The Kids Don’t Stand A Chance” [website]
Vampire Weekend - “Oxford Comma” [listen]
Vampire Weekend - “Walcott” [listen & watch]
Virgin of the Birds - “You Haven’t Talked To Tara” [listen] [buy]
Welcome - “All Set” [listen] [buy]
Holy what tha’?
The White Stripes - “Icky Thump” [sample & buy]
White Williams - “New Violence” [listen] [buy]
Wilco - “The Thanks I Get” [listen] [buy]
Wilco - “What Light” [listen] [buy]
“If you like singing a song/ and you want other people to sing along/ Just sing what you feel/ Don’t let anyone say it’s wrong…”
ONE NEW FAVORITE SONG A DAY, FIVE DAYS A WEEK SINCE OCT. 9, 2007:
-10/09/07: Vampire Weekend - “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa”
-10/10/07: Sugababes - “About You Now”
-10/11/07: Blackball False, Truth! - “Knives Chau Luvs, LCD”
-10/12/07: Killed By Bears - “I’ll Be Back May, So Long”
-10/15/07: Brazos - “Mary Jo”
-10/16/07: Deadstring Brothers - “Meet Me Down At Heavy Load”
-10/17/07: Emma Pollock - “Adrenaline”
-10/18/07: Vampire Weekend - “Mansard Roof”
-10/19/07: Los Campesinos - “The International Tweexcore Underground”
-10/22/07: The Go! Team - “Doing It Right”
-10/23/07: MGMT - “Time To Pretend”
-10/24/07: Taken By Trees - “Lost and Found”
-10/25/07: Dusty Rhodes and the River Band - “Dear Honey”
-10/26/07: Cheyenne - “The Whale”
-10/29/07: MIKA - “Lollipop”
-10/30/07: The Pack - “In My Car”
-10/31/07: Meredith Bragg - “My Absent Will”
-11/01/07: The Mae Shi - “Run To Your Grave”
-11/02/07: Miracle Fortress - “Have You Seen Your Dreams”
-11/05/07: The Wombats - “Let’s Dance To Joy Division”
-11/06/07: Woodpigeon - “That Was Good But You Can Do Better”
-11/07/07: Tim Williams - “Novel”
-11/08/07: Red Pony Clock - “Don’t Forget Who Your Friends Are”
-11/13/07: Estelle - “Wait A Minute” & Magda Sinit - “Mista, Notice Me”
-11/14/07: Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - “100 Days, 100 Nights”
-11/15/07: The Futureheads - “Broke Up The Time”
-11/19/07: The Hives - “Tick Tick Boom”
-11/20/07: Matthew Mercer - “Idiosynchronicity”
-11/21/07: The Silver Seas - “The Country Life”
-11/22/07: Great Northern - “Home”
-11/26/07: Chris Bathgate - “Do What’s Easy”
-11/27/07: Chris Bathgate - “Every Wall You Own”
-11/28/07: Neil Young - “The Way”
-11/29/07: Tim Gilbertson - “Get Going”
-12/06/07: Lykke Li - “Tonight” & Henri Faberge & The Adorables - “Goddamn Light” & Cotton Jones Basket Ride - “Had Not a Body” & Colourbook - “Lung Fung”
-12/18/07: Parts & Labor - “Fractured Skies” & Amerie - “Gotta Work” & Panda Bear - “Bros” & Nico - “Little Stone” & Eux Autres - “Gratte-Ciel” & Micky Green - ”Now It’s Gone” & Red Track Jacket - “ee does it comma write”
