Your Songs Of 2007

[Nurse Dunkley]

I can't be the only one who's really very sad and likes doing these at the end of the year? It started of as a top ten, but ended up as 24:

24. Fans - Kings of Leon
23. The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf
22. Not Over Yet - Klaxons
21. Boombox (LA RIOTS REMIX) - Kylie
20. Closer - Travis
19. Leave Me Alone (I'm Lonely) - Pink
18. If You Go - Sophie Ellis Bextor
17. Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
16. Here (In Your Arms) - Hellogoodbye
15. Catch You - Sophie Ellis Bextor
14. Be Mine - Robyn (yes, I'm 2 years late with this but the album was released here this year so it's OK)
13. 2 Hearts - Kylie
12. Golden Skans - Klaxons
11. Me & My Imagination - Sophie Ellis-Bextor
10. With Every Heartbeat - Robyn/Kleerup
9. All I Need To Know - Emma Bunton
8. Call The Shots - Girls Aloud
7. Today The Sun's On Us (RICHMANN REMIX) - S.E.B (uk.youtube.com/watch?v=duMBLnvUEEw)
6. The One - Kylie
5. Paper Planes - M.I.A.
4. Flux - Bloc Party
3. Read My Mind - The Killers
2. Song 4 Mutya - Groove Armada Ft. Mutya
1. Our Velocity - Maximo Park


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[Rad]

Should this be in pop culture really?

I kept to singles, cos like I'm all traditional.

And I just totally copied and pasted from my blog.


20. The White Stripes - You Don't Know What Love Is
Even if the 'you don't know what love is, you just do as you're told' refrain cut a bit close to the bone.

19. Rihanna - Umbrella
The only act with two singles in the top 20. This strode all over the floods like a colossus and though it was outsold by Mika and Leona, it is this song that defines Britain's 2007.

18. Maroon 5 - Won't Go Home Without You
The album was a bit of a non-event, but the singles were pretty good. And this was so sweet it made me sing out loud to it every time.

17. Arctic Monkeys - Flourescent Adolescent
The album was nowehere near as amazing as their first - but then few albums are. It still had its highlights, including this one.

16. Rihanna - Shut up and Drive
She had class like a 57 Cadillac, and who were we to argue when she made such awesome driving music?

15. Take That - Shine
OK, so its overuse on adverts and soundtracking TV shows quickly got tired, but it was nonetheless a bona fide classic. Good work, lads.

14. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Fast approaching the point where nearly every song off the album has been a single, this was the best of those released in 2007. Let us put the X Factor cover of it behind us once and for all.

13. The Klaxons - Golden Skans
The album did not deserve the Mercury, but this single was a total stormer.

12. Girls Aloud -Call the Shots
The second single from Tangled Up took a bit of time to get into your system, but once it did, you couldn't help but love it. As evidenced by its current chart run.

11. Freemasons feat Bailey Tzuke - Uninvited
Regular viewers will know that when this first emerged, I was nonplussed. Dance up an obscure Alanis track? Err, right. Yet it worked. Really bloody well. I think I prefer it to the original now.

10. KT Tunstall - Hold On
Well, Drastic Fantastic has so far had about 10% of the plays its predecessor got on my stereo after I got it, but this song was properly ace.

9. Kanye West - Stronger
Well, this one took its time to become loved by me. But I was won over, as usual with Mr West. His new single still has not convinced me, mind.

8. Kylie Minogue - 2 Hearts
Not the strongest track to launch X (which took over two weeks to arrive, lest we forget), but a thumping good tune, nonetheless. Had she released The One or No More Rain, she'd probably win this chart.

7. Scissor Sisters - She's My Man
Awesome Elton John-style stomper from Ta-Dah. Should have been the second single, not the third. And I never figured out why they didn't release I Can't Decide on the back of the Who finale.

6. Kings of Leon - Fans
The best track on Because of the Times by miles (although On Call is pretty neat, too). Great.

5. Robyn - With Every Heartbeat
Yes, it did get a bit annoying and a bit wearing. But if you put the overplayed-ness aside, it was actually a flipping awesome tale of love lost, set to a great beat. Loved it.

4. Soulsavers - Revival
Heard this randomly one night on Zane Lowe's show and fell in love with it. Just beautiful.

3. Bloc Party - The Prayer
'Tonight make me unstoppable'. And for a moment, they truly were. One of those anthems that just can't fail to send goosebumps down the spine.

2. Sugababes - About You Now
Yyou couldn't fault this single. I love everything about it.

1. Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
Yes, technically it was out in 2006 (and that's when I first heard it) but its rerelease this year (on the back of Skins, but let's gloss over that) made is stratospheric. Now, I know it got boring because it was everywhere, and for that reason, it almost made number two or three. But in ten, fifteen, twenty years time, which song from 2007 is going to get me on the dancefloor as a most undignified middle-aged woman who should know better? Exactly. The album was ace, too.

[coxy1979]

Ooooh I love doing these...

1. Song 4 Mutya - Groove Armada
2. Gimme More - britney
3. Green Light - the Freemasons mix of Beyonce
4. Umbrella - Rihanna
5. Tears Dry On Their Own - Amy Winehouse


I could go on but you get the gist...

[pauliepoos]

My song of the year is We're All In The Dance by Feist, from the Paris Je T'aime soundtrack.

A close second is Girls Aloud's Call The Shots, with Kylie's The One in third.

[The Moog]

A great year for songs and singles, my favorites are:

Berlin - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Kill - 30 Seconds To Mars
Tell me where it hurts - Garbage
Atlas - Battles
Behave - Charlotte Hatherley
Fans - Kings of Leon
This old town - Graham Coxon & Paul Weller
Feeling Free - Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators
Head - The Cooper temple clause
When Under Ether - PJ Harvey
Lights go out - Client
Little Favours - KT Tunstall
Had Enough - The Enemy
Tarantula - Smashing Pumpkins
Umbrella - Rhianna
Big Wheel - Tori Amos
Your love alone is not enough - Manic Street Preachers
One More Chance - Candie Payne
Dashboard - modest mouse
Dogging sisters - headland
evil has never - Union of knives
Little star - Kelis
Charming the flames/if you fail we all fail - Fields
Nightjoy - Kubichek!
Keep the car running - Arcade Fire
This is a song - Magic Numbers
Starlight - Muse
Goodbye Mr A - The Hoosiers
Running Away - The Polyphonic Spree
Bleed It Out - Linkin Park
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi - Radiohead
You're Too Beautiful - Ooberman
What's a Girl to Do? - Bat for Lashes
Add your light to mine - Lucky Soul
Black & Gold - Sam Sparro
Sleep Deprivation - Simian Mobile Disco

[thelovelykate]

Some excellent choices here good people of lowculture! Off the top of my head some of mine (in no order):

Girls Aloud - Call the Shots - class song and I like anything with a bit of woo-oohing in it.
Kanye West - Stronger
Bloc Party - The Prayer- I normally think Bloc Party are pretty wank but I loved this.
Timbaland - The Way I Are - I love the bassline on this and I love the girl's voice as well.
Kings of Leon - My Party - more woo-ing.
Artic Monkeys - Brianstorm
Amerie - Gotta Work

[schmindie]

Some songs I've loved this year...

Kings of Leon - Charmer
Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No!
Bloc Party - Flux
30 Seconds To Mars - The Kill
Idlewild - No Emotion
Aly & AJ - Potential Breakup Song
Ash - Polaris
The Cribs - Men's Needs
Maximo Park - Our Velocity
+44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating
Serj Tankian - Empty Walls
Fall Out Boy - The Take Over, The Breaks Over
Groove Armada - Song 4 Mutya

[LoveMusic]

I can't really think of a proper list.

However i have fallen in love with Amy Winehouse - again, Christina Aguilera and Rufus Wainwright.

[The Moog]

mortalwombat said:

Ash - Polaris
+44 - When Your Heart Stops Beating

Ooo I forgot about those ones. Polaris was a great song. Shame the rest of the album was so dull.

[schmindie]

I will also add "No Cars Go" by Arcade Fire (although I'm not 100% sure it came out this year), because I bloody love it.

[gravedigger]

Ooh-er, difficult.

I have to disagree about Favourite Worst Nightmare, I think it's better than Whatever People Say- Do Me A Favour is one of my favourite songs EVER. It was an album full of A Certain Romances, and to me that's a good thing. I suppose it just depends on what you want out of the Arctic Monkeys. I want something to satisfy my Ken Loach complex. And it bloody well did it.

I thought Air Traffic's album was terrific. And I saw them live, which was IMMENSE. So that's on there, probably I Can't Understand. Even if it makes me feel like Jo Vile-y.

I'll agree with Read My Mind by the Killers, because it got played at a friend's funeral, and thus it probably means more to me than any song has ever before.

Basically the entirety of the new Radiohead album (I paid! A fiver! I'm going to heaven!), especially Videotape and House of Cards.

Beirut! Can't go without Beirut. Along with Barricade by Stars, and Mr Wainwright's Tulsa. Um, Don't Fear by Maps. Even though it makes me sad. I think that's the point, probably.

And Kylie. Always Kylie. The One/In My Arms/Magnetic Electric.

And End of the World by Ash.

This is hard, because this year I decided to go through my boyfriend's record collection (chucking half of it out, might I add), and it's all full of the Velvet Underground and Nico and the Rolling Stones and Elliott Smith. It's like living with Wes Anderson. I'm drowning in 60s grooves, man. Which is alright, seeing as I'd do just about anything to be Margot Tenenbaum. But I don't feel very up to date. I'm waiting for Billie Holiday to make a come back. Then we'll see who's down with the kids. I'm nineteen, what's happening to me?

[fused]

In no particular order:

Paramore- Misery Business
Biffy Clyo- Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies
The Holloways- Generator
Rihanna- Umbrella
30 Seconds To Mars- The Kill
Arctic Monkeys- Brianstorm
Sugababes- About You Now
Amy Winehouse- Tears Dry On Their Own
Pigeon Detectives- I'm Not Sorry
The Gossip- Standing In The Way Of Control
Bloc Party- Flux
Wombats - Kill The Director
Funeral For A Friend - Into Oblivion (Reunion)
Manic Street Preachers featuring Nina Perrson - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
New Young Pony Club- Ice Cream
Reverend And The Makers - Heavyweight Champion Of The World
Kanye West featuring T-Pain- Good Life
Goo Goo Dolls- Before It's Too Late
Aly & AJ - Potential Breakup Song
Nerina Pallot- Learning To Breathe
Shop Boyz- Party Like A Rockstar
Kelis featuring Cee-Lo- L'il Star
Bat For Lashes- What's A Girl To Do?
Little Man Tate- House Pary At Boothys
Just Jack- Starz In Their Eyes
Lovebugs featuring Lene Marlin- Avalon
Serebro- Song No.1
Cherry Ghost- Roses

[booers]

I made my friends a CD of 19 of my fave songs of the year (and bought Christmas cards that were the perfect size to hold a CD inside them!). Here is what was on it, complete with witty write up that went with it:

Amy Winehouse – You Know I’m No Good
This should have been on my CD last year but I hadn’t fully ‘got’ Back to Black in time. Old Wino sings about how she can’t be trusted as she’s a dirty old slag – something I can fully relate to.

Sugababes – About You Now
2007 saw The Babes return with their first proper album since ‘new’ babe Amelle joined. The last 60 seconds of this song has the amazing feat of not only being one of the best 60 seconds of any song released this year, but also being better than all of the Sugababes singles since Overload put together.

Natalie Imbruglia – Be With You
Taken from her premature and embarrassingly sparse singles collection Glorious, this is a lovely up-tempo and slightly retro sounding song that shows that there is more to her than just Torn. If only the rest of the world would realise this.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor – If You Go
The standout track from her third album Trip The Light Fantastic was written and produced by Girls Aloud and Sugababes collaborators Xenomania. Apparently she hates the song as the collaboration experience was not good. She is a posh fool.

Gwen Stefani – Early Winter
Why this hasn’t had a full single release is beyond me. It’s The Sweet Escape’s Cool. Written by that bloke from Keane, it’s a mid-tempo yet heartbreaking ballad about a relationship coming to an end, described by a friend as “Don’t Speak Part II but better”. And there’s no Akon on there either – bliss.

Kleerup feat. Robyn – With Every Heartbeat
I downloaded this in January when it was Kleerup feat. Robyn and not the other way round. At the time my relationship was going up shit creek, so the line “we can keep trying but things will never change” sends shivers down my spine. A modern classic.

Fergie – Glamorous
Despite my hatred of all things Black Eyed Peas I adore this song. I even like Ludacris’s rap. What’s going on?! Highly ironic that the Queen Munter of pop herself should be singing about glamour, but at least she references reminiscing ‘bout the days when she had a moustache (i.e. yesterday before she had it bleached).

Margaret Berger – Get Physical
The Norwegian Idol 2 runner up released her amazing album Pretty Scary Silver Fairy in late 2006 and this is my favourite song off it. Next year’s Robyn – mark my words. (technically a 2006 release, but who's checking?)

Linda Sundblad – Pretty Rebels
Another Swede. Linda is fab and her album Oh My God! is a fantastic electro pop album. This little ditty is about young glam celebs with my fave rhyming couplet of the year – “flamboyant peacocks straight out of detox”. Again, also possibly a 2006 release.

M.I.A. – XR2
The only person who can make good pop that sounds like noise, and noise that sounds like pop, M.I.A. returned with her second album Kala. Not as instant as her debut, Arular, but it featured some top tunes such as this. Funky beats and mad trumpets – what more can you ask for? Some people think she’s stupid but she’s not.

Roisin Murphy – Let Me Know
That weird bird from Moloko. She released her second album Overpowered which was far dancier and poppier than her debut solo effort. It seemed to go unnoticed – a shame when it’s a very good album. This is my fave on it.

Girls Aloud – Girl Overboard
With an album as good as Tangled Up I didn’t know which song to choose to go on here. I went for this corker. Similar in style to Something Kinda Oooh it’s Girls Aloud doing what they do best – i.e. not ballads.

Siobhan Donaghy – Medevac
Shiv returns! After approximately 12 people bought her debut album I thought that was the last we’d see of the former Sugababe. I thought wrong. Ghosts is an excellent album with obvious influences from Massive Attack and Kate Bush. This haunting and dramatic song is, bizarrely, named after medical evacuation units. Those same 12 people alone bought the new album.

Just Jack – Starz In Their Eyes
Not a great year for male vocalists for me, but this is one of the few I loved. A cracking tune about the Steve Brooksteins and Michelle McManuses of the world, (and hopefully Leona too soon enough, bleeding bitch).

Groove Armada & Mutya Buena – Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control)
Great song, Mutya - shame about the album. Having seen my ex's new hideous boyfriend "that's who has replaced me, what a diss" has even more meaning. My CD is the only album of 2007 containing Keisha, Heidi, Amelle, Siobhan and Mutya together. A true exclusive!

Nerina Pallot – Peg
A cover of the old Steely Dan classic – the one that De La Soul sampled on their tune Eye Know. Produced by electrogeek Richard X, this is perfect pop. I have no idea what it’s all about but I love it. It’s your favourite non-charting single.

Take That – Shine
Little Markie Owen takes lead vocals on the reformed and returned Take That, and manage to get their 10th number one single out of it, proving Patience wasn’t a fluke. After the huge flop that was Rudebox Robbie must be feeling a bit of a twat right now.

All Saints – Chick Fit
A return to pop, a massive flop, and a subsequent drop. If only the Saints had released this as their comeback single instead of Rock Steady it may have all been a happier ending for them.

Kylie Minogue – Wow
The standout track from X and the next single after the disappointing 2 Hearts. It’s Love At First Sight meets Holiday - catchy chorus, disco beats and space age noises - this is what Kylie is all about, not faux Goldfrapp. Wa-wa-wa-wow indeed.

[al]

1. Alterkicks - Good Luck
2. Rooney - When Did Your Heart Go Missing?
3. Ghosts - Stay The Night
4. Sugababes - About You Now
5. Kelis - Lil Star
6. Paolo Nutini - New Shoes
7. Mr Hudson & The Library - Ask The DJ
8. Spice Girls - Headlines
9. Klaxons - It’s Not Over Yet
10. Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance

I'd have included album tracks as most of you have, but it's actually just a copy 'n' paste of the Top Ten Singles I'd already put together on my blog.

(BTW, if anyone wishes to question the inclusion of Headlines, I cordially invite you aaaahtside.)

[Rad]

Was Lil Star this year? It feels ages ago.

[somethingbiblical]

I put numbers but then I realised that I can't really put it in an order, I like them all. Kate Nash is still number one though.

1. We Get On - Kate Nash
THAT's how people really respond to rejection. "I don't even have an opinion on that tramp that you are still seeing".

2. About You Now - Sugababes
My friend said "You'll like this the second you hear it", and I did.

3. Handle Me - Robyn
Makes no fucking sense but that's no bad thing.

4. The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf
Amazing colourful fun.

5. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
Finally, an X Factor contestant that seems to eventually release a single, albeit almost a year after winning it. Brilliant song, shame about the album.

6. Before I Fall To Pieces - Razorlight
This was technically last Christmas but I only heard it this year. It was all I had in my head at T in the Park.

7. Fluorescent Adolescent - Arctic Monkeys
The song that finally made me forget about my "I resolutely refuse to listen to the Arctic Monkeys cause everyone goes on about them and I really don't care" phase.

8. Fidelity - Regina Spektor
Just lovely.

9. New Romantic - Laura Marling
Making folk cool, if weird.

10. The Sex Has Made Me Stupid - Robots In Disguise
Please just watch this video, robohumping:

[richdidnt]

Well I think everyone has mentioned most of these but my favourite songs of the year would be (in order):

M.I.A - Jimmy
Mika - Happy Ending (Songs that shouldn't be playing when you're getting dumped, oh well at least it makes it memorable!)
Girls Aloud - Girl Overboard (My fave Girls Aloud track yet)
Feist - 1234 (until it was on that itunes ad and everyone loved it)
Sugababes - Never Gonna Dance Again (just for the fact I imagine a Big Music Video for this with SCD men with the babes)
Girls Aloud - Call the Shots
Kelis - Lil Star
Calvin Harris - Acceptable in the 80's
Regina Spektor - Fidelity
Super Mal feat. Luciana - Bigger than Big (It's like what Shampoo would be like if they smoked 50 fags a day and were still around)

[[james]]

Christ Booers, your list is about 80% of what mine would be. Based on iTunes I only seem to have listened to Roisin, Robyn, Kylie and Girls Aloud this year (as I have been harping on about in every post today it seems).

Richdidnt - I love Bigger Than Big. I first heard it the week the sun came out in July and makes me think of getting drunk in daylight (which is a nice change). Plus 'I'm so wet for you' is the sluttiest compliment a girl can give.

[El Capitan]

A lot of my favourites have already been suggested Christ knows how many times, so I'll add:

Walk Away - Funeral For a Friend
Stitches - The Dykeenies
Big Casino - Jimmy Eat World

[trixie]

I'm rather late, but these are mine (taken straight off my blog):

Axwell “I Found You” : A mad mesh of 90s piano, soulful vocals and 00’s rave, this year’s ultimate dance anthem.

Robyn “Konichiwa Bitches” : I thought Robyn was mad releasing this as her first single. Unaccessible and not a fair representation, but now I understand it’s quite simply brilliant. A real grower, cute lyrics and a throbbing bassline help make it a dancefloor stomper.

Kate Nash “Foundations” : Maybe my favourite. This teenage ode was a perfect singalong hit, not least for it’s amusing pronunciations and it’s ‘let’s act out the song’ factor. Kate co-hosted hit40uk one afternoon and was lovely. Still not boring.

Bloc Party “Flux” : An unexpected late entry, this sounds like Bloc Party listened to “Valentine” by The Delays and ramped it up a gear. Soaring and brilliant to dance to as well as shout “WE NEED TO TAAALK” at the top of your voice.

Rihanna “Umbrella”: A strange, brilliant song that stayed at #1 for the most number of week’s since Wet Wet Wet. Not an obvious #1 but one that cemented my belief that sometimes the buying public does know what they’re doing.

M.I.A “Jimmy”: Completely and utterly amazing, but slightly tarnished by the fact that it’s actually just a cover of an old Bollywood.

Fedde Le Grand vs Ida Corr - “Let Me Think About It” : Described as someone else perfectly as “wonky parping”.

Groove Armada “Song 4 Mutya”: A far greater song that Mutya deserved, this should have been #1. It did nowhere near as well as it should, thanks, in no small part to the unimaginably bad video.

Amy Winehouse “Back To Black”: The standout track on the album of the same name.

Aly & AJ “Potential Break Up Song”: Swirly, sugary pop from two American Christian sisters. One of many random songs I convinced people into playing on national radio (not the weirdest though). Somehow it charted and I can just about get away with djing with it!

[Muinimula]

In no order:
Mika - Grace Kelly
Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes
Mason vs Princess Superstar - Perfect (Exceeder)
Rufus Wainwright - Between My Legs
Bjork - Earth Intruders
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me And My Imagination
Robyn & Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat
Darren Hayes - On The Verge Of Something Wonderful
Sugababes - About You Now
Mark Ronson ft Amy Winehouse - Valerie
Girls Aloud - Call The Shots

[LoveMusic]

muinimula said:

In no order:
Mika - Grace Kelly
Just Jack - Starz In Their Eyes
Mason vs Princess Superstar - Perfect (Exceeder)
Rufus Wainwright - Between My Legs
Bjork - Earth Intruders
Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me And My Imagination
Robyn & Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat
Darren Hayes - On The Verge Of Something Wonderful
Sugababes - About You Now
Mark Ronson ft Amy Winehouse - Valerie
Girls Aloud - Call The Shots

I sqealed at seeing this! Best song ever from the best artist ever!

[Muinimula]

lovemusic said:

I sqealed at seeing this! Best song ever from the best artist ever!

Nothing beats I Don't Know What It Is (which is my favourite song by anyone ever), but it was definitely the highlight of Release The Stars.

[LoveMusic]

muinimula said:

lovemusic said:

I sqealed at seeing this! Best song ever from the best artist ever!

Nothing beats I Don't Know What It Is (which is my favourite song by anyone ever), but it was definitely the highlight of Release The Stars.

I love that one too, i find it really hard choosing a favourite track. One day is Art Teacher..I'm not ready to love..nobody's off the hook. Very hard.

[bennnn]

I no order:

Girls Aloud - Damn
Girls Aloud - Call the Shots
Sophie Ellis Bextor - If You Go
Sophie Ellis Bextor - Catch You
M.I.A - Paper Planes
M.I.A - Jimmy
Kelis - Lil Star
Mutya & Groove Armada - Song For Mutya
Mark Ronson - Stop Me
Bjork - Earth Intruders
Bjork - Declare Independence
Booty Luv - Some Kinda Rush
Aly and Aj - Potential Break Up Song
Britney - Gimme More
Robyn - With Every Heartbeat