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Here are a list of the top rated Songs of 2007. Taken from the below lists, the number represents the amount of lists it appears in and the brackets represent the amount of #1 places achieved.
1. Rihanna feat Jay-Z- Umberella 28 (8)
2. Justice - D.A.N.C.E. 23 (2)
3. Amy Winehouse - Rehab 18 (5)
4. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends 17 (4)
5. Klaxons - Golden Skans 15 (3)
6. Battles - Atlas 15
= Kanye West - Stronger 15
8. Modest Mouse - Dashboard 13 (1)
9. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum 12 (1)
10. Grinderman - No Pussy Blues 12
11. Feist - 1234 11 (2)
12. Animal Collective - Peacebone 11
= Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running 11
14. M.I.A. - Paper Planes 10 (1)
15. M.I.A. - Jimmy 10
= UGK ft.OutKast - International Players’ Anthem 10
= Bright Eyes - Four Winds 10
= The White Stripes - Icky Thump 10
19. 50 Cent - I Get Money 9
= Björk - Earth Intruders 9
= Kanye West - Can’t Tell Me Nothin’ 9
= Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! 9
= M.I.A. - Boys 9
= Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent 9
= Kate Nash - Foundations 9
= Robyn - With Every Heartbeat' 9
27. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life 8
= Roisin Murphy - Overpowered 8
= Spoon - Yr Cherry Bomb 8
= Arcade Fire - Intervention 8
= Dan Le Sac - Thou Shalt Always Kill 8
= Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough 8
= Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position 8
34. Jay-Z - Roc Boys (Ant The Winner Is..) 7 (1)
35. The National - Fake Empire 7
= R. Kelly - I'm a Flirt (Remix) 7
= Mika - Grace Kelly 7
= Peter, Bjorn & John feat. Victoria Bergsman - Young Folks 7
= !!! - Heart of Hearts 7
= Caribou - Melody Day 7
= Kanye West [ft. T-Pain] - Good Life 7
= The National - Mistaken For Strangers 7
= Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe 7
= Arcade Fire - No Cars Go 7
= Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around.../...Comes Around 7
= Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm 7
47. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great 6
= Lil Mama - Lip Gloss 6
= My Chemical Romance - Teenagers 6
= Panda Bear - Bros 6
= Dizzee Rascal - Sirens 6
= Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver 6
= Shins - Phantom Limb 6
= Soulja Boy - Crank That 6
= Timbaland - The Way I Are 6
= Babyshambles - Delivery 6
= Kings Of Leon - Charmer 6
58. Band Of Horses - Is There A Ghost? 5
= Foo Fighters - The Pretender 5
= Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend 5
= Spoon - The Underdog 5
= Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place 5
= Animal Collective - Fireworks 5
= New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour 5
= Alicia Keys - No One 5
= Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good 5
= M.I.A - Bamboo Banga 5
= Wilco - Impossible Germany 5
= Cold War Kids - Hang Me Up To Dry 5
= Mark Ronson - Stop Me 5
= Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours 5
72. Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors 4 (2)
73. Maximo Park - Our Velocity 4 (1)
74. Digitalism - Pogo 4
75. Kylie Minogue - 2 Hearts 4
76. Vampire Weekend - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa 4
77. White Stripes - You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told)4
78. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass 4
79. Bat for Lashes - What's a Girl to Do? 4
80. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You 4
81. Dude N Dem - Watch My Feet 4
82. Matthew Dear - Deserter 4
83. Yeasayer - 2080 4
84. Britney Spears - Piece of Me 4
85. Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder 4
86. Rich Boy - Throw Some D's 4
87. Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining 4
88. T-Pain - Buy U a Drank 4
89. Beirut - Nantes 4
90. Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control 4
91. Kings of Leon - On Call 4
92. View - Same Jeans 4
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Cool, Gizmo! Do you have a spreadsheet showing which songs appeared in which lists? That would help me A LOT in my 2007 songs summary.
Kanye West is just i mix-up with the Daft Punk song, how can that be so high. Man I hate rap.
Is 1234 really much better than My Moon My Man?
it is not "better"
it is more acclaimed
That's why I hate Kanye West.
He's great at picking samples, but he's a mediocre rapper. So a lot of his songs do sound great. But his contribution to his songs represents very little of the actual quality.
Stronger is a good song, not because Kanye wrote a good song, but because Daft Punk wrote a good song.
Gold Digger is a good song, because a blues guy wrote a good song.
listened to umbrella five times on MTV and can´t whistle to it still. So it can´t be a good tune. no melody - no hookline - no lyrics. north american scum.
Umbrella has a better melody, better hooks, and better lyrics than North American Scum.
Possibly, not really, and definitly not.
North American Scum barely has a melody or a hook, and certainly neither of them are remotely catchy. Umbrella mostly consists of drawn out melodic phrases, and combines a great melodic hook with a strong rhythmic hook.
As far as the lyrics, more self-conciously "artistic" does not equal better. Umbrella is a simple statement of solidarity, but it derives much of its power from its simplicity. Scum is Murphy at his self-parodic worst. It sounds like he's trying to make something that sounds like an LCD Soundsystem song which is about the worst way to go about music-making possible. Going from Losing My Edge to Daft Punk... to Scum, talk about diminishing returns! And even Edge is kind of embarrassing at this point He's much better when he's not trying to be funny.
And don't take me as someone who hates LCD, Silver was one of my favorite albums of last year, but Scum is one of the worst things he's ever done. There are better lyrics and melodies and hooks all over the LCD album, and for that matter, the Rihanna album too.
honestly, rihanna's song was my top most ANNOYING song of 07 lol
Henrik,
Lost my USB with all the info but found it again, so hope to have it for you by the end of the week.
As for 'Umbrella' it certainly lacks the punch Hey Ya and Crazy had when they topped the polls.
There was no definitive best song that eclipsed others this year. My opinion has varied from 'Jimmy' 'Paper Planes', 'All My Friends' and D.A.N.CE. All quality I'll think you'll agree.
That's great Gizmo!