“Rolling Stone” Thinks Jay-Z Owned 2007

jharv | December 14, 2007 10:30 am
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Rolling Stone has named the most recent comeback from the (for the time being anyway) president of Def Jam the No. 1 single of 2007. And at No. 2… Randy Newman. (We give up.) At least Lil Wayne placed ahead of the Boss. (Bet that made for some fun editorial meetings.) The full 100 is after the jump, but first our thoughts on a list that ranks a Conor Oberst track ahead of 95 other songs.

THE GOOD: UGK just sneaks into the Top 10. Soulja Boy trumps the Arcade Fire. (More of an ideological victory than an aesthetic one, admittedly.) A handful of oddballs (Liars’ bleak joke at the expense of the Reid brothers, CRS’ low-key Yorke-freaking posse cut) do their best to liven things up a mix of iTunes top-sellers and Paste-y faves. THE BAD: But it isn’t the make-weight Billboard pop filler or the old-dude rock that sinks this list so much as its complete lack of taste. That Kid Rock’s execrable “So Hott” is included is baffling enough, let alone that RS thought it was better than 62 other songs this year. It’s not even a decent Kid Rock song! At least they had enough taste/sense to stick Fergie and Nickelback down at Nos. 96 and 100, respectively. THE WHAAAA? Speaking of which, listen to me very carefully: Rolling Stone called Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry” a “modern day version of ‘I Will Survive.'” I can’t say it any better than Matos did: “NO NO NO NO NON ON ON ONO NONONO.”

1 “Roc Boys” Jay-Z 2 “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country” Randy Newman 3 “Umbrella” Rihanna 4 “D.A.N.C.E.” Justice 5 “Four Winds” Bright Eyes 6 “Dough Is What I Got” Lil Wayne 7 “Rehab” Amy Winehouse 8 “Long Walk Home” Bruce Springsteen 9 “Boyz” M.I.A. 10 “Int’l Player’s Anthem” UGK 11 “Stronger” Kanye West 12 “Gunslinger” John Fogerty 13 “The Past Is a Grotesque Animal” Of Montreal 14 “I Get Money” 50 Cent 15 “Piece of Me” Britney Spears 16 “You Got Yr Cherry Bomb” Spoon 17 “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” Radiohead 18 “Icky Thump” The White Stripes 19 “1234” Feist 20 “All My Friends” LCD Soundsystem 21 “Crank That” Soulja Boy 22 “Keep the Car Running” Arcade Fire 23 “Teenage Love Affair” Alicia Keys 24 “What Goes Around . . . Comes Around” Justin Timberlake 25 “Teenagers” My Chemical Romance 26 “Same Girl” R. Kelly and Usher 27 “Silver Lining” Rilo Kiley 28 “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Miranda Lambert 29 “The People” Common 30 “LDN” Lily Allen 31 “Don’t Matter” Akon 32 “When Under Ether” PJ Harvey 33 “Backed Out on the . . .” Kevin Drew 34 “Are You Alright?” Lucinda Williams 35 “Girlfriend” Avril Lavigne 36 “Situation” 1990s 37 “Throw Some D’s” Rich Boy 38 “So Hott” Kid Rock 39 “Guitar” Prince 40 “Old News” Dr. Dog 41 “Just Fine” Mary J. Blige 42 “This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” Fall Out Boy 43 “Us Placers” CRS 44 “Bleed It Out” Linkin Park 45 “Halloweenhead” Ryan Adams 46 “Do You Feel Me” Anthony Hamilton 47 “The Pretender” Foo Fighters 48 “Kiss Kiss” Chris Brown feat. T-Pain 49 “Makes Me Wonder” Maroon 5 50 “The Heart Gently Weeps” Wu-Tang Clan 51 “Killing the Blues” Robert Plant and Alison Krauss 52 “Pressing On” John Doe 53 “Black Mags” The Cool Kids 54 “I-95” Fountains of Wayne 55 “Hold On” KT Tunstall 56 “Lip Gloss” Lil Mama 57 “Men’s Needs” Cribs 58 “Grip Like a Vice” The Go! Team 59 “Let It Go” Keyshia Cole 60 “Make It Witchu” Queens of the Stone Age 61 “Down Boy” Yeah Yeah Yeahs 62 “The Last Fight” Velvet Revolver 63 “Buy U a Drank” T-Pain 64 “The Magic Position” Patrick Wolf 65 “White People for Peace” Against Me! 66 “Big Shit Poppin'” T.I. 67 “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” Vampire Weekend 68 “Tambourine” Eve 69 “Seahorse” Devendra Banhart 70 “Bed” J. Holiday 71 “Impossible Germany” Wilco 72 “You! Me! Dancing!” Los Campesinos! 73 “100 Days, 100 Nights” Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings 74 “Comfy in Nautica” Panda Bear 75 “Phantom Limb” The Shins 76 “Go Getta” Young Jeezy 77 “Chelsea Dagger” The Fratellis 78 “The Songs That We Sing” Charlotte Gainsbourg 79 “Myriad Harbor” New Pornographers 80 “Stop Me” Mark Ronson 81 “Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe” Okkervil River 82 “Ultimate” Gogol Bordello 83 “The State of Massachusetts” Dropkick Murphys 84 “The Crystal Cat” Dan Deacon 85 “It’s Me, Bitches” (Remix) Swizz Beatz 86 “Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car” Iron and Wine 87 “Dashboard” Modest Mouse 88 “Computer Camp Love” Datarock 89 “I Wish That I Could See You Soon” Herman Dune 90 “Threshold Apprehension” Black Francis 91 “Freak Out” Liars 92 “Mistaken for Strangers” The National 93 “Is There a Ghost” Band of Horses 94 “2 Hearts” Kylie Minogue 95 “Satan Said Dance” Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 96 “Big Girls Don’t Cry” Fergie 97 “Honey Bee (Let’s Fly to Mars)” Grinderman 98 “Wild Mountain Nation” Blitzen Trapper 99 “Never Again” Kelly Clarkson 100 “Rockstar” Nickelback

The 100 Best Songs Of 2007 [Rolling Stone]