Monday, December 17, 2007

Top Songs of 2007 - Victor 9K



Here's my list:

20) Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe
The prototype for electronic music in 2007.

19) Dinosaur Jr. - Almost Ready
I am sure there's a 14 year old kid in Detroit, wearing an Interpol shirt, who hears this song and thinks "Fuck this bullshit, 1993 was awesome!"

18) Underworld - Glam Bucket

God-awful title aside, it's been a while since I've dug an Underworld song this much.

17) R. Kelly - I'm A Flirt
How is it that a song promising infidelity and alpha male dominance over me is so damn fun?

16) Hans Zimmer - Drink Up Me Hearties Yo Ho
Hate if you must, but the film score is a great medium for taking you through many moods. Guilty pleasure pick.

15) Justin Timberlake - SexyBack (Tyler Fedchuk Mix)
This is everything a great remix should be - a little playful, a little irreverent to the original spirit of the song, and most importantly, it puts a smile on your face and makes you feel joyful

14) Chromatics - Runnin Up That Hill
So incredibly good. But then I heard the Kate Bush original, which is better. Still, one of the year's best.

13) A-Trak - Get on My Pony
Hugely danceable, but that deep soldier voice chant dumps testosterone into your system, stimulating the rawk zone of your brain without sacrificing your dignity (see: Creed, Linkin Park).

12) Dan Deacon - Wham City
After spending a good portion of the year watching The Wire, it's got me thinking that something great is happening in Baltimore.

11) Muscles - Hey Muscles, I Love You
The sonic capture of that moment when a really great party peaks and everyone tries to hold on as tight as they can to the feeling.

10) Rihanna - Umbrella
Rihanna's jam is sexy in the way that nothing is really sexy anymore, langorous and you have to give it about 30 extra points when you realize how it's got a full, unique sound in a pop landscape where that is about as useful as the ability to play an instrument.

9) Shystie - New Style Remix
The mid-point breakdown with reversed vocals is perfect, just perfect. I want to send "Wish You Were Here" postcards from it.

8) King Kahn & the Shrines - Welfare Bread

Makes me want to own a stoop in Brooklyn in 1967.

7) Le Loup - Fear Not
A little bit folksy, a little bit ethereal, and [full disclosure of bias] one of the best things DC has going for it.

6) Tigercity - Powerstripe
This is such a welcome introduction to the record that follows - it warms you to a sound and a place that requires you to check your edge and cynicism at the door.

5) Miami Horror - Don't Be On With Her
"I keep thinking that if Justice was fun then this is what they’d sound like" - not my quote, but Bullseye!

4) Sunset Rubdown - The Mending of the Gown
"This one's for Maggieee. This one's for Sal." Perhaps the peak of the year.

3) LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
This one wins the Most Likely to Provoke Strong Feelings of Nostalgia In The Future Award.

2) Menomena - Wet & Rusting
Enjoying this song is like experiencing a novel, article or documentary whose strength comes from the integration of seemingly dissonant ideas. It's like a Pynchon novel or an early Godard film. And the video makes me cry a little.

1) The Knife - Heartbeats
I know it came out in '06, but shit if I'm not going to recognize one of the best songs ever. It's #2 on the All-Time list behind Naive Melody.

Other notable jams of 2007 in the comments...

27 comments:

Victor9000 said...

Other notable jams that deserve recognition:
A Place to Bury Strangers - To Fix the Gash in Your Head
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Amiina - Rugla
Apparat - You Don't Know Me
Arcade Fire - Intervention
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Battles - Leyendecker
Battles - Tonto
Bent - Stay Out All Night
Best Fwends - Skate or Live (Goto80Mix)
Blitzen Trapper - Sci-Fi Kid
Bloc Party - Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
BSS Presents Kevin Drew - Tbtf
Crystal Castles - She Fell Out/Untrust Us/1983
Cyndi Lauper/Dizzee Rascal - Girls Just Want to Fix Up Dragonette - I Get Around (Van She Vocal Mix) Feist - 1234 Feist - My Moon My Man
Flight of the Conchords - Hipopopotamus v. Rhymenocerous Flight of the Conchords - Inner City Pressure Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City Grizzly Bear/The Knife - Heartbeats (PARRKA mashup) Handsome Furs - What We Had Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver Iron & Wine - Innocent Bones Jens Lekman - The Opposite of Hallelujah Jose Gonzales - Heartbeats Justin Timberlake - Love Stoned Kanye West - Stronger
Kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone(Crystal Castles Remix)
LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing! M.I.A. - 20 Dollar Miami Horror - Music Sounds Better With You Misha - Summersend Modest Mouse - Dashboard Modest Mouse - We've Got Everything Muscles - Hey Muscles I Love You Muscles - Ice Cream Muscles - Sweaty
R. Kelly/Broken Social Scene - I'm A Flirt (Shoreline) Radiohead - Reckoner Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep Deprivation
Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula Soho Dolls - Trash the Rental (Crystal Castles Remix) Teddybears - Punkrocker
The Black Kids - Hit the Heartbreaks
The Field - Silent
The Mae Shi - Run to Your Grave
The National - Fake Empire
The National - Mistaken For Strangers
The National - Start a War
The Tough Alliance - 1981
The Twilight Sad - Cold Days From the Birdhouse
Tokyo Police Club - Citizens of Tomorrow
Yeasayer - 2080
Yeasayer - Get In the Sunrise
Young Galaxy - Outside the City
And lest my omissions be taken as inadvertent, I want to go on record as having considered this year's offerings from Justice, Animal Collective, Panda Bear, Deerhunter and Spoon in compiling this list.

Whatevs said...

Holy fuck Vic. Way to deliver on your He Promise. Any chance you could deliver these in a single zip file for everyone?

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