“Time” Spent 2007 In Rehab

Time was so smitten by the Amy Winehouse that makes music–rather than the Amy Winehouse that fuels gossip rags–that they went ahead and named Back To Black and “Rehab” the best album and best single of 2007. As for the rest of the mag’s 2007 faves, Time‘s all-things-to-all-people approach to listmaking means these are probably the most self-consciously “eclectic” lists so far, making sure to squeeze in one hip-hop pick, one teenpop record, one radio rock staple, etc. Both of the Top 10s are after the jump, but here are a few thoughts on the magazine’s non-Winehouse choices.

THE GOOD: Tokenistic Time offers little in the way of curveballs, but it’s still kinda weird (in the good way) to think that the electronic prog of Battles’ Mirrored is getting play in the magazine of choice for your more staid medical/dental waiting rooms. THE BAD: We refuse to believe there weren’t three better rock songs released this year than a Radiohead album cut, “Hey There Delilah,” and something by the Fratellis. Anyone? Help us out here. THE WHAAAA? We were gonna start bitching about Feist showing up in both the singles (at No. 2!) and albums list (at No. 3!), but then we clicked on the embedded YouTube link for “1-2-3-4” and before you knew it we were curled up and drooling on the keyboard with visions of shiny unitards dancing in our heads.

Albums 1. Amy Winehouse, Back To Black 2. Radiohead, In Rainbows 3. Feist, The Reminder 4. Miranda Lambert, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 5. LCD Soundsystem, Sound Of Silver 6. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga 7. Battles, Mirrored 8. Robert Plant And Allison Krauss, Raising Sand 9. M.I.A., Kala 10. Kanye West, Graduation

Songs 1. Amy Winehouse, “Rehab” 2. Feist, “1-2-3-4” 3. Rihanna, “Umbrella” 4. LCD Soundsystem, “All My Friends” 5. Radiohead, “Jigsaw Falling Into Place” 6. 50 Cent, “I Get Money” 7. Plain White T’s, “Hey There Delilah” 8. Manu Chao, “Me Llaman Calle” 9. Aly And AJ, “Potential Breakup Song” 10. The Fratellis, “Baby Fratelli”