At long last, my choices for the 10 Best Songs of 2007. I’ve kept this list to one song per artist, and that made the top 10 especially hard, since about half of these songs came from albums with a number of Top 10-worthy songs on them. Also, any one of these songs might have ended up at #1 at various points during the year, and since compiling my initial list the songs in the top 10 have changed position a few times. But here’s my final list, the ten songs that I loved to itty-bitty pieces this year. I’ll probably regret the order of the top 10 the minute I hit the Publish button but that’s how it goes. As it is I already regret leaving a couple of things off the Top 101 altogether.
Some of the songs in the top 10 were mega-hits. Some of them are still pretty obscure to most people. At least four of them are over a year old (one’s actually from an album that came out two years ago), but try not to get too hung up on details. Just listen and enjoy.
(PS–I’ll be counting down the top 25 live on the radio tonight at midnight EST. 88.1 FM in Providence and here on the information superhighway. The show will be archived at the website, too, so you can listen to it any time after that as well.) (more…)
