Top Songs of 2007

This list is alphabetical, this isn't a sport and I'm not Casey Kasem.

* Blitzen Trapper - Futures & Folly (from Wild Mountain Nation)
Maybe its that they remind me of the band Home. Maybe they just write great songs and have nice arrangements. Whatever the case, good stuff.

* Future Of The Left - Suddenly It's A Folk Song (from Curses)
Curses is probably my most listened-to album of last year. This track is probably my favorite although it was difficult to choose just one.

* No Age - Everybody's Down (from Weirdo Rippers)
The part where the drums come in is why I like rock music.

* The Octopus Project - Truck (from Hello, Avalanche)
This song could easily absorbed into half the TV commercials made the same way that "Such Great Heights" has been. I mean this as a compliment.

* Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe (from The Stage Names)
I am emotionally moved by this song. I don't listen to it and feel like its about me, but I do feel involved with it somehow. Great songwriting.

* Silkworm - Lily White & Cherry Red (from Chokes!)
This is from SKWM's final EP (which actually came out in late-2006). Tragically, drummer Michael Dahlquist was killed with two of his friends in Chicago when a despondent woman tried to kill herself by crashing her car into his. A documentary about Silkworm is coming out soon.

* Soccer Team - Traffic Patterns ( from 'Volunteered' Civility & Professionalism)
Thanks to The Best Show for turning me on to this song. "Cavity Called Home" is also really good.

* Spoon - The Underdog (from Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
If you had told me in 1996 that my favorite Spoon song would immediately bring Paul Simon to mind, I'd have said to take off your crazy pants. Britt Daniel's blossoming songwriting and Jon Brion's amazing production needs to be paired more in the future.

* Tough and Lovely - Just When I Thought (from Teardrops)
Another band that I found from The Best Show. I don't know much about them other than that they are from Columbus, OH and this song is beautiful.

* Wilco - Impossible Germany (from Sky Blue Sky)
The song could be an instrumental and it would still be on this list even though the lyrics and vocals are both outstanding. If this is "Dad-Rock" (worst rock journo term ever, by the way), then load up my minivan with more of it please.