The 50 Best Songs of 2007
December 21, 2007 by Jason Ferguson
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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Sly & the Family Stone is my favorite on the list. And I do love lists.
Some good picks there man!
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