Top 25 Songs of 2007
While I enjoy looking back at the songs and albums that got me through another year, the actual posting is quite time consuming. So time consuming that I’m not able to include a little blurb about each song. However, I’m sure I don’t need to explain why these songs made it in the top tier. Many are similar and some may be out of order in your opinion.
I’ll just do a quick synopsis of the top songs. The number one song is “Scythian Empire” because it has stuck with me through thick and thin. If I was in my car, walking to work or just hanging out in the apartment cooking, I could put that album and that song on and have all the stress and worries be lifted off of my back. And I put “Someone Great” in front of “All My Friends”, even though it was the latter that kicked my ass during their live show in Boston, because the recorded version of “Someone Great” is so perfect and well crafted that it’s above and beyond the best track, in my opinion, on Sound of Silver. “Fake Empire” is the perfect representation of Boxer, an album well worth a top slot if not the top slot for album of the year.
So without further ado, here is the list.
25. Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings - “100 Days, 100 Nights”
Listen:
Download: Track above recorded at KCRW Live. Download this track and others from this set over at The Smudge of Ashen Fluff
24. Richard Hawley - “Lady’s Bridge”
Listen:
Download: Find this track at Sneakmove.com
Buy Album: From Amazon (US) (UK)
23. Wilco - “Impossible Germany”
Listen:
Download: Find this track over at Music for Kids Who Can’t Read Good
Buy Album: From Amazon (US)
22. John Vanderslice - “White Dove”
Listen:
Download: Find track above at The Sound of Marching Feet
Buy Album: From Amazon (US)
21. Thurston Moore - “Silver>Blue”
Listen:
Download: Get various tracks from the Hype Machine (HERE)
Buy Album: From Ecstatic Peace! (Here) or From Amazon (US)
20. Chromeo - “Bonafied Lovin”
Listen:
Download: Get the above track over at Fuck Yeah! Go Team!. Download “Needy Girl” legally from Vice Records (Here)
Buy Album: From Amazon (US)
19. Feist - “1234″
Listen:
Download: Get the above track from Mr. Mammoth
Buy Album: From Amazon (US)
18. The National - “Slow Show”
Listen:
Download: Get above track from Anyones Guess
Buy Album: From Amazon (US)
17. The Shins - “Phantom Limb”
Listen:
Download: Get above track and more from the Sub Pop Record media page for The Shins (HERE)
Buy Album: From Sub Pop Records (Here)
16. Yeasayer - “2080″
Listen:
Download: Get the above track from Ear Farm
Buy Album: From Amazon (Here)
15. Justice - “Phantom”
Listen:
Download: Get the above track from Allan’s World Music. Listen to the entire Cross album (Here). Download a bunch of legal mixes from Vice’s MP3 blog (Here).
Buy Album: From Amazon (US)
14. Jens Lekman - “Kanske Ar Jag Kar i Dig”
Listen:
Download: Find songs by Jens over at the Hype Machine (Here). Download “The Opposite of Hallelujah” and “Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo” legally from Secretly Canadian (HERE).
Buy Album: From Amazon (US)
13. Radiohead - “House of Cards”
Listen:
Download: Get the above track from Merry Swankster.
Buy Album: Get the discbox of In Rainbows (HERE). In Rainbows is no longer available online for download. It will be available on a shelf near you on December 31st through XL Recordings outside the U.S. and on January 1st through TBD Records.
12. LCD Soundsystem - “All My Friends”
Listen:
Download: Get the above track from Good Weather For Airstrikes.
Buy Album: From Amazon (US)
11. Beirut - “Nantes”
Listen:
Download: Get the above track from Anyones Guess. Watch the Vincent Moon video for Nantes (HERE) and the all the other tracks off of the Flying Club Cup (HERE)
Buy Album: From Amazon (US)
See the Top 10 After the Jump
ShakeAFist…
If you haven’t already got them, and don’t know the password, “Shakeafist” is the access code to getting your hands on tickets to see the boys from Hot Chip at the new Highline Ballroom in Manhattan.
Get your tickets - HERE (Show is sold out. You can try calling the venue to see if there is more to come as this was an online presale - 212-414-5994. But don’t fret, they won’t leave us hanging here in the states for too long.)
For El Rey Show - GO HERE (same pass code)
It was officially announced yesterday that Hot Chip will be playing two shows in the US in February in the midst of their UK Tour. The two shows will be played at the Highland Ballroom in NYC and El Rey Theatre in L.A.
Watch the video for “Ready for The Floor“, the first single of their new album, Made In The Dark - Watch the video: HERE
Download: “Ready For The Floor (Soulwax Remix)” (MP3 from Indie Waves)
Confirmed Hot Chip tour dates:
12-21 London, England - Transit (DJ set only) *
02-02 New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
02-04 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theater
02-14 Leicester, England - Leicester University $
02-15 Leeds, England - Leeds University Union $
02-16 Manchester, England - Manchester University $
02-18 Portsmouth, England - Pyramid Centre $
02-19 Oxford, England - Oxford Academy $
02-20 Norwich, England - Norwich U.E.A. $
02-22 Wolverhampton, England - Wulfrun Hall $
02-23 Preston, England - 53 Degrees $
02-24 Bristol, England - Academy $
02-26 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC $
02-27 Newcastle, England - Newcastle University $
02-28 Brighton, England - Corn Exchange $
02-29 London, England - Brixton Academy $
05-09-11 Rye, England - Camber Sands Holiday Centre (ATP vs. Pitchfork) ^
* With Basement Jaxx (dJ set), Grovesnor
$ With Matthew Dear
^ See all the ATP vs. Pitchfork bands: HERE
We’ve got our tickets and to show you how excited we are, here is the New Edition video for “Cool It Now“:
