i still haven't heard that umbrella song. hmm, should today be the day?

man, i still hate 1234 tho.

10. Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe
9.
8.
7. Stronger
6.
5. Someone Great
4. 1234
3. Paper Planes
2. Umbrella
1. All My Friends


???

Um, yes.

UGK
Rihanna
Battles
Justice
Feist
M.I.A.

There's a spoon song somewhere in there.

edit: I think.

I missed the end of the last page and was thinking and just did not know what to think for a moment

Having said that Modest Mouse also eatz ballz

Okkervil? really?

Dashboard covering El Scorcho totally should have topped this list.

10. Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe
9.
8. Atlas
7. Stronger
6. D.A.N.C.E.
5. Someone Great
5. 1234
4. Paper Planes
3. International Players Anthem
2. Umbrella
1. All My Friends

Those Teenage Hopes

#10.




Feist – 1 2 3 4 / 1 2 3 4 (Van She Technologic Remix)
(5512 Points, 31 Votes, One #1 Vote)

US Chart Position: #8

UK Chart Position: #8

SOMB Says: You wouldn't think you're about to hear one of the lushest pop songs of the year by the way she strolls in murmuring a few integers, but then it's not like Feist was gonna shout to make sure you're paying attention. Instead, she glides through with the ease and cool of the first day of spring. Strings soar and horns flourish and Feist skips along carefree as a socialite at the bottom of her first cosmo, staying aloof but still having a ball. – Duff.

Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Singles Lists: "Let It Die" (#88 of 2004), "Inside and Out" / Ewan Pearson Dub (#38 of 2005)

Ranked Highest By: Tracy Jacks (#1)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: The Reminder

^^ Same here (reg. dashboard)

Shit dude, I have no idea.


My predictions are already looking terrible as fuck.

just kidding... but with that choice I could sense how absolutely lost and confused you felt. it was a real moment of understanding.

"Hung Up" really got that high on our list? I thought "Mushaboom" would have been the one.

#9.




Battles - Atlas
(6384 Points, 30 Votes, Two #1 Votes)

US Chart Position: n/a

UK Chart Position: n/a

SOMB Says: Everything is industrial. Every instrument is tweaked and altered until it sounds like anything but. Even the vocals are alien, intercepted transmissions from ancient foreign broadcasts. Most of all, it is machine. At the 4-minute mark the soft, wrenching groans of some monstrous mechanical beast enters.
The song chugs like a coal black train. It has pistons of quick & infallible metals. It is pure diesel and hydraulics.
And the drums. My god, how the drums persist. – Raleigh

Ranked Highest By: unterwasser, Plate (#1)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Mirrored

Even after my blurbage? You cad.

Did we skip #9?

Nice write-up, Raleigh.


(listening to "Umbrella" for the first fucking time right now. ARRRGGGGHHHH this is great. I'm an idiot.)

Seriously, with like the last 20 choices I have said, "Why didn't I vote for that!"

I am also coming to the realization that Freeway's "Take it to the Top" is not going to make it.

ay, that somb guy is on check please right now, during the countdown, go figure.

No, I just hadn't updated my word document since I fixed something on the spreadsheet.

That's why Chrono can't think of it.

...



do you guys just go out of your way to be totally disconnected from popular culture?

Now it's my turn to say, "Ugh."

And here it goes.

UGH, Battles. Why is that shit in our TOP TEN SINGLES LIST, of all places.

Also, one thing that you might not have known about me:

I am genuinely excited for the placement of "Int'l Players Anthem." Now there's a top ten single of 2007, if there ever was one, which there clearly is, thankfully. Fuck you.

@ Capt.

Na, You're always a good read, but you could of wrote a novel and I still wouldn't be liking Sophie Ellis-Bextor.


GREAT #9. This is my favourite TV performance of the year btw.

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I know right? I have probably heard that dude's takeoff of "Umbrella," ---> "Cinderella" more than most other radio hits this year. In other words, Umbrella was inescapable this year. (who was it that did the acoustic rendition of it?)

Also, this list is seriously lacking T-Pain.

Since OJ Had Isotoners

#8.




Kanye West - Stronger
(6919 Points, 30 Votes, Two #1 Votes)

US Chart Position: #1

UK Chart Position: #1

SOMB Says: I don't know if any song was more explosive this year and oddly foreshadowing.... the lyrics "I Need You Right Now" connotes the trouble he's experiencing in his life. In a world where hip hop artists rely on guest stars left and right, Kanye handles this song alone....well, with a little help from Daft Punk. I only wish i could've been there in Europe when he shouted this song to the crowd after his mother's death and the crowd was giving him love right back. – Hero

Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Singles Lists: "Jesus Walks" (#10 of 2004), "Slow Jamz" (#16 of 2004), "All Falls Down" (#44 of 2004), "The New Workout Plan" (#51 of 2004), "Diamonds From Sierra Leone" / Remix (feat. Jay-Z) (#82 of 2005), "Heard 'em Say" / "Touch The Sky" (#69 of 2005), "Gold Digger" (#7 of 2005), "Drive Slow" (#67 of 2006)

Ranked Highest By: Alkaline Drown, MattDrufke (#1)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Graduation

No. It's a choice of time. I can only be committed to so much music, only got so much time. So I invest my time into what I think is dearest to me and end up missing some great stuff along the way. I listen to a LOT of music - like everyone here - but I miss a TON of it, even the obvious stuff. No posturing, no pretention, no elitism, I just don't find myself listening to the radio very often cause the only radio I have is in my car and I always have something new on my ipod I want to listen to.

Totally forgot to vote that for Worst Singles of the Year list.

Well, had I not downloaded Good Girl Gone Bad, I never would have heard the song, apart from various peers of mine singing the chorus throughout their day-to-day lives.

Sorry.

EDIT: Michael K. post = OTM.

And UGK being higher than "Stronger"... go SOMB. Sure, I don't know shit about "that kind of music," but something tells me that it's only a good thing.

I think there were multiple acoustic Umbrellas including one by Rihanna herself

Wow, i was expecting this top five (in regards to "Stronger"). hmm...

As said many times, what a great list.

ah okay, I can understand that.still, "umbrella" was everywhere, it's kind of shocking that you could go this long without hearing it

I must've voted for 8 different T-Pain singles and only 2 placed.

Bartender
Buy U a Drank
Shawty
I'm So Hood
Low
Pop Lock and Drop it Remix

Did not place.

I've done a lot more driving than normal this year, and have given into listening to the radio. Hence my ridiculous love for "Kiss Kiss," by Chris Brown. Which, literally, whenever I get into car I can find within five minutes.

Twilight: Agreed. Especially cause it's SO FUCKING GOOD. (agreed on that UGK song, Paves. Luckily, that I heard.)

hearing this "Bros" for the first time.

I voted for all of those except "Low", "Buy U A Drank" was my #1. I also voted for "Kiss Kiss" .

Well if you don't listen to radio or watch MTV it'd be possible (not to hear Umbrella). I don't listen to radio at all these days, the first time I heard I heard Umbrella was in a club. So I got lucky with it. This is why the singles poll is brilliant. Its like a snapshot of all the best mainstream stuff of the year that I have most probably missed out on.

Easy As A B C, Simple as 1 2 3
Get Down With UGK, Pimp C, B U N B

#7.




UGK – International Players Anthem (I Choose You) (feat. OutKast)
(7506 Points, 26 Votes, Five #1 Votes)

US Chart Position: #70 / #12 R&B and Hip-Hop Songs

UK Chart Position: #10

SOMB Says: How come Kanye's always being praised for rapping about his emotions meanwhile UGK have quietly released the most heart warming song of the year? Andre 3000 is a young man deciding to grow up and settle down with the woman he loves, all the while his friends try to talk him out of it. Cliché riddled? Perhaps, but it's certainly not something explored in rap too often. The Three 6 Mafia-produced track gives 'dre over a minute to set up the story before the classic beat drops and everyone gets their turn to offer up their opinions. Marriage doesn't come without its warning, "ask ask Paul McCartney, the lawyers gettin' sloppy." But in the end Andre's buddy's heed his advice and choose someone themselves as Bun B proposes, "I'll show you shit you've never seen. The 7 wonders of the world, and I can make you the 8th if you wanna be my girl." – Wolfgang

Ranked Highest By: Pinkerton, Midnight_Vulture, The Luscious Phil, UselessRocker, gil-scott heroin (#1)

Can Be Most Easily Found On: Underground Kingz

Dang.

EDIT: Reason #1,245,843 why the UK charts are better.

ASK ASK PAUL MCCARTNEY
THE LAWYERS GETTIN' SLOPPY

EDIT: Ha, ha, shit, I didn't even see that blurb. Awesome line, nonetheless.

I'm THRILLED that UGK placed so high. Good job SOMB.

Oh snap, of course I voted for Kiss Kiss too. I should've done the Two Step Remix as well. That makes 10, after my edits and figuring it all out.

Heh, this is the first I've ever hear of these guys. Five #1 votes, wow.

Thought this was going top 5. Great track.