The 50 Best Songs of 2007

So, I made a three-disc collection of my 50 Favorite Songs of 2007 to hand out as Xmas gifts. I was going to make an Imeem playlist, but half the songs aren’t up there. So, go and make your own. And Merry Christmas.

Disc One:
1 “Is There A Ghost” – Band of Horses [Cease to Begin]
2 “Don’t Swim, Float” – Harry Manx & Kevin Breit [In Good We Trust]
3 “Dhoom Taana” – Abhijeet & Shreya Ghoshal [Om Shanti Om soundtrack]
4 “Jimmy” – M.I.A. [Kala]
5“Declare Independence” – Bjork [Volta]
6 “Woody Woodpecker” – Dan Deacon [Spiderman of the Rings]
7 “Crack Addicts in Love” – Baby Elephant [Turn My Teeth Up]
8 “Fake Angel Skin” – Summerbirds in the Cellar [Druids]
9 “Cherries in the Snow” – Elk City [New Believers]
10 “Black Sabbath” – Snares [Sabbath Dubs]
11 “Spaceship Broken – Need Parts” – Pelican [City of Echoes]
12 “Horn of the Unicorn” – History [Ghosts in the City]
13 “Mob Rule” – Robert Wyatt [Comicopera]
14 “Are You Leaving Me (demo)” – Aretha Franklin [Rare & Unreleased]
15 “Stop Your Crying” – Spiritualized [Live “Acoustic Mainlines,” Boston]
16 “Sun Dance” – Tomahawk [Anonymous]
17 “Tonite” – Spacebar [Our Fight]

Disc Two:
1 “Atlas” – Battles [Mirrored]
2 “Slither” – Anoushka Shankar & Karsh Kale [Breathing Underwater]
3 “Glassy” – Sona Family f/Hard Kaur [DJ Rekha’s Basement Bhangra]
4 “New Jack” – Justice [Cross]
5“Budos Rising” – The Budos Band [The Budos Band II]
6 “Almost Ready” – Dinosaur Jr. [Beyond]
7 “Thinktank” – Airiel [The Battle of Sealand]
8 “Stars” – Ulrich Schnauss [Goodbye]
9 “Coloring the Void” – M83 [Digital Shades, Vol. 1]
10 “The Life & Death of Aurora Montgomery” – Giddy Up Helicopter
11 “Gates of Chaos” – Raz Mesinai’s Badawi [Unit of Resistance]
12 “Gladius” – Oh No [Dr. No’s Oxperiment]
13 “Aaja Nachle” – Sunidhi Chauhan [Aaja Nachle soundtrack]
14 “My Little Japanese Cigarette Case” – Spoon [Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga]
15 “Middle Distance Runner” – Sea Wolf [Leaves in the River]
16 “Dark Dark Leaves” – The Sugar Oaks [Red Grapes in the City]
17 “Just What I Needed” – Heather Greene [Two Dollar Dress]

Disc Three:
1 “Satai Nova” – Voice of the Seven Woods [Voice of the Seven Woods]
2 “F.U.N.K.” – Prince [iTunes single]
3 “Sitar Ride” – Madlib [Beat Konducta in India]
4 “Bombay Deewana” – Hard Kaur [Supawoman]
5“Cash” – Sunidhi Chauhan [Cash soundtrack]
6 “Fractured Skies” – Parts and Labor [Mapmaker]
7 “Invertebrate” – Bela Karoli [Furnished Rooms]
8 “Getaway Car” – The Attack [demo]
9 “Stop Wasting My Time” – The Draft [Digital EP]
10 “City of Refuge” – Alvin Youngblood Hart [The Great Debaters soundtrack]
11 “I Can See A Lot of Light In You” – His Name Is Alive [Firefly Dragonfly]
12 “Boogie Drums Eldoradio Livemix” – Les Faux [Ethnique Electrique]
13 “Mast Kalander” – Rehan & Sajid Khan [Heyy Babyy soundtrack]
14 “Stone Fox” – The Country Slashers [Love, Lost & Found]
15 “So Low, So High” – Maps [We Can Create]
16 “Untitled Instrumental #3” – Sly & the Family Stone [There’s a Riot Goin’ On reissue]

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