Adrien Begrand
Adrienne Day
Al Shipley
Alan Light
Alan Wiley
Alec Foege
Alena Kastin
Alex Abramovich
Alex Macpherson
Alex Rawls
Alfred Soto
Alicia Kachmar
Allison Levin
Allison Stewart
Ally Brown
Althea Legaspi
Alvin Aqua Blanco
Amy Duchene
Amy Phillips
Anders Smith Lindall
Andrea Weiss
Andreas Gevaert
Andrew C. Bradick
Andrew Casillas
Andrew Dubbin
Andrew Gaerig
Andrew Gilstrap
Andrew Hamlin
Andrew Iliff
Andrew Nosnitsky
Andy Battaglia
Andy Greenwald
Andy Hermann
Andy Kellman
Ann Powers
Annie Holub
Anthony Miccio
Arye Dworken
Austin L. Ray
Barry Bruner
Barry Walters
Ben Heller
Ben Sisario
Benjamin Lukoff
Bernardo Rondeau
Bill Holdship
Bill Lamb
Bill O'Neill
Bill Pearis
Bo Pogue
Bob Grossweiner
Bob Ham
Bob Mehr
Brandon Soderberg
Brent Baldwin
Brent Burton
Brett Sokol
Brian Cullman
Brian Glaser
Brian Howe
Brian Orloff
Brian Raftery
Brian Turner
Britt Robson
Brock Phillips
Bryan Whitefield
Cameron Macdonald
Carl Wilson
Caryn Ganz
Casey Rae-Hunter
Ceclie Cloutier
Chad Radford
Charles A. Hohman
Charles Aaron
Charles Leonard
Chris Barton
Chris Burlingame
Chris DeLine
Chris DeVille
Chris Gaerig
Chris Harris
Chris Heim
Chris Herrington
Chris Molanphy
Chris Neal
Chris Nelson
Chris Ryan
Chris Steffen
Chris Toenes
Chris Willman
Christian John
Christopher Bahn
Christopher Boeckmann
Christopher Gray
Christopher Hickman
Christopher R. Weingarten
Christopher Randle
Christopher Smith
Chuck Eddy
Corey Apar
Corey du Browa
Cortney Harding
Cristina Black
D. Strauss
Dan Gibson
Dan Kois
Dan MacRae
Dan Ruccia
Dan Weiss
Dan Wolovick
Dana Bos
Daniel Durchholz
Daphne Carr
Daryl Berg
Dave de Sylvia
Dave Gil de Rubio
Dave Heaton
DaVe Lipp
Dave Morris
Dave Segal
David Adler
David Dacks
David Drake
David Marchese
David Moore
David Raposa
David Sprague
Del Cowie
Derek Miller
Dominic Umile
Dominique Leone
Don Allred
Donna E. Brown
Dorian Lynskey
Doug Mosurock
Doug Wallen
Douglas Wolk
Duncan Greive
E.J. Friedman
Edd Hurt
Elisabeth Donnelly
Elisabeth Vincentelli
Emily Zemler
Eric Demby
Eric Elbogen
Eric Grandy
Eric Harvey
Eric Miller
Eric Weisbard
Erik Gonzalez
Ethan Padgett
Evan Serpick

Glenn Dixon
Glenn Gamboa
Glenn McDonald
Grant Alden
Greg Kot
Heather Phares
Ian Cohen
Ian Mathers
J. Anthony Ware
J. Edward Keyes
J. Gabriel Boylan
J. Niimi
J.R. Taylor
J.T. Ramsay
Jack Rabid
Jalylah Burrell
James Cantiello
James Cobo
James Hale
James Hunter
James Montgomery
Jaron Birkan
Jason Crock
Jason Doctor
Jason Ferguson
Jason Gross
Jay Ditzer
Jay Ruttenberg
Jeanne Fury
Jeff Jackson
Jeff Klingman
Jeff Miller
Jeff Vrabel
Jennifer Kelly
Jennifer Vineyard
Jess Harvell
Jesse Fox Mayshark
Jesse Jarnow
Jessica Suarez
Jill Menze
Jim Fouratt
Jim Kopeny
Jimmy Draper
Job de Wit
Jodi Shapiro
Joe Tangari
Joel Heng Hartse
John Brodeur
John Davidson
John Everhart
John Kenyon
John M. Cunningham
John Matson
John Mulvey
John Seroff
Johnny Walker (Black)
Jon Caramanica
Jon Dolan
Jon Young
Jonah Bayer
Jonah Weiner
Jonathan Bradley
Jonathan Lundeen
Jonathan Perry
Jordan Sargent
Jose Silva Lopes
Joseph McCombs
Josh Bis
Josh Jackson
Josh Langhoff
Josh Love
Josh Modell
Josh Timmermann
Joshua Alston
Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
Justin Chun
Justin Cober-Lake
Justin F. Farrar
K. Leander Williams
K. Ross Hoffman
Kandia Crazy Horse
Kara Manning
Kate Richardson
Kate Silver
Kathy Fennessy
Katie Hasty
Keith Harris
Ken Tucker
Kerry Dexter
Kevin Dolak
Kevin John
Kevin O'Donnell
Kim Ruehl
Kimberly Chun
Kory Grow
Kristal Hawkins
Kurt B. Reighley
Kurt Gottschalk
Kyle Ryan
L. Kent Wolgamott
Lawrence Lui
Lawson Fletcher
Leonard Pierce
Lindsey Thomas
Liz Riley
Lola Emanuelli
Lyman Grover

Mark Baumgarten
Mark Jenkins
Mark Richardson
Martin De Leon
Marty Brown
Matt Cibula
Matt Diehl
Matt Glazebrook
Matt Rodbard
Matt Sebastian
Matt Shaer
Matt Tyson
Matthew Berlyant
Matthew Gasteier
Matthew Perpetua
Matthew Pollesel
Maura Johnston
Max Read
Megan Romer
Michael Barclay
Michael Byrne
Michael Crumsho
Michael Daddino
Michael Deeds
Michael Endelman
Michael F. Gill
Michael Gallucci
Michael Lach
Michael Mannheimer
Michael McLaughlin
Michael Pelusi
Michael Pollock
Michael Rabinowitz
Michael Robbins
Michaela Drapes
Michaelangelo Matos
Mikael Wood
Mike Atkinson
Mike Barthel
Mike Cimicata
Mike Grimes
Mike McGonigal
Mike Powell
Mike Rubin
Milena Dazed
Mordechai Shinefield
Mosi Reeves
Nate DeYoung
Nate Knaebel
Nate Patrin
Ned Raggett
Nick Marino
Nick Minichino
Nick Southall
Norman Brannon
Otis Hart
Patrick McNally
Patrick Wall
Paul Cox
Paul M. Davis
Paul Parreira
Paul Scott
Pete Bland
Peter Blackstock
Peter S. Scholtes
Phil Freeman
Phil Gallo
Phil Overeem
Philip Sherburne
Preston Jones
Rachel Shimp
Rahne Alexander
Ray Hogan
Rebecca Raber
Reed Fischer
Rich Juzwiak
Richard Cromelin
Richard Gehr
Richard Guerrero
Rick Mitchell
Rickey Wright
RJ Smith
Rob Michaels
Rob O'Connor
Rob Sheffield
Rob Simonsen
Rob Trucks
Robbie Mackey
Robbie Whelan
Robert Christgau
Robert Loerzel
Robert Morast
Robert Myers
Robin A. Rothman
Rodney J. Greene
Roque Strew
Ross Raihala
Roy Trakin
Ryan Dombal
Ryan Kuo
Ryan Muldoon

Sean Fennessey
Sean Manning
Sean-Michael Yoder
Sebastian Hernandez
Seth Mnookin
Shane Harrison
Simon Reynolds
Simon Vozick-Levinson
Spencer Patterson
Stacey Anderson
Stefan Shepherd
Stephen Deusner
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stephen Thompson
Steve Erickson
Steve Forstneger
Steve Hochman
Steve Kiviat
Steve Klinge
Steve Knopper
Steve Reynolds
Steve Terrell
Stevie Kaye
Tal Rosenberg
Thomas Golianopolous
Thomas May
Tim Cain
Tim Ellison
Tim Grierson
Tim Sendra
Tobias Carroll
Tobias Rapp
Todd Burns
Todd Martens
Tom Ewing
Tom Hullhttp://pop.idolator.com/334543/ballot-zach-smith
Tom Lane
Tom Thornton
Tony Fletcher
Trevor Fisher
Trish Bendix
Tyler Wilcox
Wesley Verhoeve
Whitney Pastorek
Will Hermes
Will Spitz
Will York
William B. Swygart
William C. Lipold
William Ruhlmann
Yancey Strickler
Zach Smith

TRACKS
1. Jay Z/Lil Wayne - Hello Brooklyn

REISSUES
1. Various Artists - People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Songs of Disaster 1913-1938 (Tompkins Square)
2. Laurie Anderson - Big Science (Nonesuch)
3. Various Artists - World Brazilian Classics 7- What's Happening In PERNAMBUCO (Luaka Bop)
4. Aretha Franklin - Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (RhinoHandmade)
5. David Bowie - Box (ISO/Columbia)

ARTISTS
1. Lupe Fiasco
2. LCD Soundsystem
3. Tunng
4. Kanye West
5. Diplo

TRACKS
1. Klaxons - Gravitys Rainbow
2. White Rabbits - The Plot
3. Maximo Park - Our Velocity
4. Editors - Escape The Nest
5. Rakes - When Tom Cruise Cries
6. Patrick Wolf - Bluebells
7. New Pornographers - Myriad Harbor
8. Parts & Labor - Knives & Pencils
9. Pharoahe Monch - Push
10. Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddam

REISSUES
1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2. Magazine - Real Life
3. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth & Collected Works
4. Joy Division - Closer
5. Pylon - Gyrate +

ARTISTS
1. Burial
2. Radiohead
3. Apparat
4. Yeasayer
5. Black Moth Super Rainbow

TRACKS
1. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
2. Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
3. Battles - Atlas
4. Black Lips - Bad Kids
5. Animal Collective - For Reverend Green
6. Babyshambles - Deft Left Hand
7. Digitalism - Pogo
8. Dizzee Rascal - Sirens
9. The Horrors - Count In Fives
10. Bill Callahan - Diamond Dancer

REISSUES
1. v/a - Downtown 81

ARTISTS
1. James Murphy
2. Amy Winehouse
3. Kanye West
4. Thom Yorke
5. Bradford Cox

TRACKS
1. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
2. Spoon - The Underdog
3. Tegan and Sara - The Con
4. Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
5. Battles- Atlas
6. Architecture in Helsinki - Heart It Races
7. Shearwater - Red Sea, Black Sea
8. Mark Ronson ft. Lily Allen - Oh My God
9. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
10. Rufus Wainwright - Do I Dissapoint You

REISSUES
1. Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different
2. v/a - Home Schooled: The ABCs of Kid Soul
3. Led Zeppelin - Mothership
4. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True Deluxe Edition()
5. v/a - Johnny Greenwood Is The Controller

ARTISTS
1. Radiohead
2. LCD Soundsystem
3. Daft Punk
4. Justice
5. Sufjan Stevens

TRACKS
1. Rihanna featuring Jay-Z - Umbrella
2. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
3. Against Me! - Thrash Unreal
4. UGK featuring OutKast - Int'l Player's Anthem
5. Mark Ronson featuring Lily Allen - Oh My God
6. Avril Lavigne - I Can Do Better
7. Rich Boy - Throw Some D's
8. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
9. Arcade Fire - Intervention
10. Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah

ARTISTS
1. Lil' Wayne
2. Kanye West
3. Against Me!
4. LCD Soundsystem
5. Daft Punk

COMMENTS
Special shout-out to R. Kelly for the two most ridiculous songs of the year, "The Zoo" and "Sex Planet." Any chance those songs are admissible in court?
2008 is the year of "Chinese Democracy!"

TRACKS
1. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
2. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
3. The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
4. Bright Eyes - Four Winds
5. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
6. Spoon - The Underdog
7. Feist - 1234
8. Prince - Guitar
9. Bjork - Earth Intruders
10. Wu-Tang Clan - The Heart Gently Weeps

ARTISTS
1. Radiohead
2. Amy Winehouse
3. iPod commercials
4. The Arcade Fire
5. M.I.A.

TRACKS
1. Feist - "1234"
2. Devo - "Work It"
3. Horsebox - "Stupid Parts of Town"
4. Morphine Berry - "Ghost in the Mirror"
5. Adub n Lil Chase - "Johnny Get Your Gun"

ARTISTS
1. Feist
2. Britney Spears
3. Gogol Bordello
4. Meshell Ndegeocello
5. Marcel Khalife

COMMENTS
The news of course is not that radio's dead but that it's not missed — most of my listening was done in supermarkets, during commercials, before movies, in online videos, and even a few CDs. Not a bad way for sound to permeate life and cream to rise to the top, like those cultures who have no word for "art" because it's already what's painted on your tent and carved on your dinner-bowl and tattooed on ya face.

Following the mad-hermit-in-the-woods model of remote celebrity, the Poetry Scores collective got my attention with a booklet-and-enclosed-CD called Go South for Animal Index, based on journalist Stefene Russell's oracular poem about Native American deities and several generations of industrial and military murder by radiation. On the music portion, the poem is extruded and permuted like scientific samples or the chant of a post-apocalyptic cult. Shortwave drones serve as a robot chorus, like obsolete instruments playing themselves or strummed by the fading whirlwind of nuclear tests. In between, organic song structures somehow push up through the wasteland. These guys have no website or store, but can be emailed at poetryscores@yahoo.com — try it; pony-express is the new wi-fi.

Morphine Berry's "Ghost in the Mirror" video had the arch-rustic tangled roots they keep telling us to expect from Dylan; haunted hobo pastiche from a studio hovel in Hoboken, NJ, gives global-war death
its due and chases some spectres away. [http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=19754932]

Bringing awkward back was Horsebox's "Stupid Parts of Town" video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6t-IFl8PSw] — classic gimmickry with animated gig handbills singing at you from every London streetcorner, and the most viral tune yet from my favorite heirs to Brit-jingle.

Surely the greatest work of performance art this century so far was Britney's somnambulant VMA act, seen by most as a reproduction (in endless not-so-instant replay) and short-circuiting the celebrity machinery in the only way left, which is to truly not care about it. For this staggering amount of money and staging to be expended while the only person it's all for sleepwalks through it like any of the rest of us shambling from cubicle to coffee-machine was the kind of thing to make even Warhol sorry he's dead. One point Kathy Griffin and Dr. Phil could agree on was perplexity at how Britney could forget her softwear yet again on the ride out, though of course, this is her new encore — it got her so much attention the first time that she left it in the show. And for this generation the show, unlike the underpants, must stay on.

Some artists, of course, have real problems, and even more cause to think twice about thanking God at awards shows — like Marcel Khalife, who kept reminding the West of the majesty of Arab culture while trying to remind theocratic censors in the Middle East of artists' inalienable rights to free expression. Some people just can't win. But some ideas eventually will.

If programmed playlists insist on making me a captive audience, I might as well be an audience someplace I chose to be — like at the movies, where old wine went down well from new bottles, including Sabbath's original "Iron Man" on the trailer for the comic-book flick of same name (a perfect storm of pop free-association), while groovin' to the credible robo-funk of the new Devo song on the Dell ad before
"Talk to Me" came on made me feel, okay, 42 again. But still.

"The world is blowing up and all you people really wanna do is sing old commercial songs," exclaimed Uncle Floyd, the no-budget public-access pioneer, at a surreal nostalgia gig in a rotting New Jersey ballroom (with potato chips). Right you are, Unc, and 20 years from now all we'll wanna sing is Feist's iPod-ad song. Surrendering now saves a lot of time.

In a decade where it takes The Wall Street Journal to spill the beans about the Bush and bin Laden families' business ties and congressional Democrats to authorize an imperial war, it makes sense that the Bowie-curated High Line Festival would be an underwhelming run-through of the official fringe (Arcade Fire! Polyphonic Spree!) while the mad genius of Bowie's fellow New Yorkers Gogol Bordello would be showcased to six billion people by bleedin' Madonna. But I'd like my smug certainties back, thanks.

Pharaoh's Daughter's album-launch gig was a fitting communion with my tribal Jewish traces, a musical devotion in a concrete-club cave. The album, included as a souvenir with the ticket price since the
post-copy-protection revolution will be performed, not broadcast or recorded, makes a relic to cherish.

Speaking of formats and traditions flung up in the air, always count on Rasputina's Melora Creager to intercept whatever soundwaves are bouncing back to us from Alpha Centauri in a given year to sift like
scattered tiles and tell the world's fortune — in this case, inexplicably-impassioned Laura Nyro-style showstoppers and a strange obsession with the Mutiny on the Bounty story that seems determined to
kill whatever was left of nautical-adventure fandom after Pirates 3. Of course the retro fervor and warrior-chic are exhumed advisedly. Rasputina run through the usual, inexhaustible catalogue of
how-far-we-haven't-come, with odes on 19th century climate change, child armies medieval and modern, and other ills delivered in a seance's-worth of dialects and personae for an unhinged outsider
art-rock opera of dead-end times. Designed to stay in style, alas.

We're writers, so why pretend that some of the year's best rock and hip-hop wasn't in print? Image Comics' Phonogram (about a sound-based sorcerer struggling to stop the zombie rebirth of Britpop and clear the way for someone else's youth), by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, and Chris King's pre-published prose novel The Cricket That Didn't Sing (about a cottage reality-TV empire based on
exploiting/extolling obese rappers and counterculture transsexuals) blasted the filmscores of my dreams.

With two whole weeks to go until Project Runway came back, The Salt-N-Pepa Show rode in to give my life meaning. I won't tell the Writers' Guild, but to call this show unscripted is an insult to the spices' always-on-stage poise and button-pushing. Especially since what they've really done is killed the reality show and brought back the variety show, with an improbable sit-skit each week (S tries to
matchmake for P; P has to move in with S as odd-couple hell on earth ensues; etc.) followed by a thematic excuse to perform an old hit — "Express Yourself" after a tense pastoral encounter-group session,
"Let's Talk About AIDS" for a Lifebeat benefit, "Push It" for a Jena 6 protest trip (the parents requested it, okay?!). Ten years ago they left us wanting more, and homies, this is it.

Period bard Richard Thompson soldiered on preserving the lost culture of a bygone world — not the Middle Ages, I mean, but about 1971, in the days before folk-rock, glam and metal completely parted company. Some people paint the same landscape over and over (lookin' at you, Jagger), while some find their way back to the actual fields and bring in a timeless harvest (Mr. Thompson, take as long as you like).

Blessed are the cult stars, for their altars will never be so tall as to be toppled — reaping 15 years of glory by resisting 15 minutes of fame, Meshell Ndegeocello seems to be enjoying imagination eternal, and it's a divine inspiration to those who've kept the faith. Her newest album issued more sonic sacraments from the shaman of soul. Shawoman? Anyway.

"Johnny Get Your Gun" [http://www.universalartists.net/category.jhtm?cid=3] served as a good news source while John Stewart's on hiatus — a white rap, but what better medium to convey that colonization leads to misery? In this case, an eloquently unspeakable oral history of working-class kids consumed in Iraq. And yes, a cousin of mine wrote it, but what should that matter if we're all Friends?

Paul McCartney tried to counteract the caffeine in many a Starbucks customer's purchase, but that wasn't me; I went for the somewhat stronger culture clash in Angelique Kidjo's Djin Djin, letting it be coffeehouse music since there's now about three Starbuckses between me and any of the nearest remaining record stores. Following her reliable recipe of simply acting like you've already won, Kidjo held forth at everyone's mall and Main Street with one of her most hardcore roots albums yet, including nary an English word and some daring rural textures and ritual cadences amidst the trademark pop-funk and duets with Western-pop "guests," most of whom she wipes up the floor with. The struggle is over, but continues to spectacular effect anyway, god bless her...

Those of us who would record the true heartbeat of music have a lot more lifting to do with the loss of critic and culture-sage Tom Terrell to cancer on November 29, 2007. A master word-improviser and a perfect-pitched soul. He'll never feel gone.

TRACKS
1. Feist - 1234
2. The National - Apartment Story
3. The New Pornographers - Challengers
4. Modest Mouse - Missed the Boat
5. The White Stripes - Rag and Bone
6. Spoon - The Underdog
7. Rilo Kiley - Close Call
8. The Shins - Phantom Limb
9. The Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
10. Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!

ARTISTS
1. The Arcade Fire
2. Radiohead
3. Feist
4. Timbaland
5. The National

TRACKS
1. Kanye West f/T-Pain - Good Life
2. Burial - Archangel
3. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
4. La Priest - Engine
5. Digitalism - Pogo
6. K-Os - Sunday Morning
7. Erykah Badu - Honey
8. Feadz - Edwrecker
9. Kid Sister - Control
10. Klaxons - Golden Skans

REISSUES
1. Miles Davis - The Complete On the Corner Sessions
2. V/A - Transformers: The Movie 20th Anniversary Soundtrack

ARTISTS
1. Justice
2. Andre 3000
3. M.I.A.
4. A-Trak
5. The Cool Kids

TRACKS
1. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
2. Battles - Atlas
3. Stars - The Night Starts here
4. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
5. Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Alone is Not Enough
6. Those Dancing Days - Hitten
7. Plastiscines - Loser
8. Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
9. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
10. Stars - Take Me to the Riot

REISSUES
1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Megadeth - Warchest
3. Various Artists - The Heavy Metal Box
4. Nightwish - End of an Era
5. Black Sabbath - The Best of Black Sabbath: The Dio Years

ARTISTS
1. The Dillinger Escape Plan
2. M.I.A.
3. Battles
4. Jesu
5. Jens Lekman

TRACKS
1. Cass McCombs - That's That
2. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
3. Shocking Pinks - This Aching Deal
4. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
5. Lavender Diamond - Oh No
6. The New Pornographers - Challengers
7. Matthew Dear - Pom Pom
8. Kate Nash - Foundations
9. The Field - The Little Heart Beats So Fast
10. Wilco - You Are My Face

TRACKS
1. Swizz Beatz - It's Me, Bitches
2. R. Kelly featuring T.I. and T-Pain - I'm A Flirt (Remix)
3. UGK featuring Outkast - Int'l Players Anthem
4. Paramore - Misery Business
5. Keyshia Cole featuring Missy Elliott and Lil Kim - Let It Go
6. Playaz Circle featuring Lil Wayne - Duffle Bag Boy
7. Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
8. Kelly Rowland featuring Eve - Like This
9. Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
10. Fantasia - When I See U

ARTISTS
1. Pimp C
2. T-Pain
3. Swizz Beatz
4. Lil Wayne
5. Danjahandz

COMMENTS
My biggest frustration with this poll and others like it is that dammit, 10 isn't enough. At least give me the option of 20! The rest of my lists:

Albums
11. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
12. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
13. Kenna - Make Sure They See My Face
14. Beanie Sigel - The Solution
15. Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre
16. Travis Morrison - All Y'All
17. Kanye West - Graduation
18. Cassidy - B.A.R.S.: The Barry Adrian Reese Story
19. Talib Kweli & Madlib - Liberation
20. Camp Lo - Black Hollywood
21. Trans Am - Sex Change
22. Rich Boy - Rich Boy
23. Jay-Z - American Gangster
24. Styles P. - Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman)
25. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
26. Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
27. The Nels Cline Singers - Draw Breath
28. Swizz Beatz - One Man Band Man
29. Keyshia Cole - Just Like You
30. Alicia Keys - As I Am
31. Mary Timony Band - The Shapes We Make
32. Styles P. - The Ghost Sessions
33. Eddie Vedder - Music For The Motion Picture Into The Wild
34. Playaz Circle - Supply & Demand
35. Consequence - Don't Quit Your Day Job
36. Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long
37. T.I. - T.I. Vs. T.I.P.
38. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
39. Statik Selektah - Spell My Name Right: The Album
40. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
41. Trill Entertainment presents - Survival Of The Fittest
42. Enon - Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds
43. Twista - Adrenaline Rush 2007
44. Rasputina - Oh Perilous World
45. They Might Be Giants - Cast Your Pod To The Wind
46. Redman - Red Gone Wild: Thee Album
47. Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars
48. Kelly Clarkson - My December
49. Hurricane Chris - 51/50 Ratchet
50. Elliott Smith - New Moon

Singles
11. Crime Mob - "Circles"
12. Linkin Park - "Bleed It Out"
13. Kanye West f/ Dwele - "Flashing Lights"
14. Cassidy f/ Swizz Beatz - "Drink N My 2 Step"
15. 50 Cent - "I Get Money"
16. DJ Khaled f/ Akon, T.I., Rick Ross, Fat Joe, Birdman and Lil Wayne - "We Taking Over"
17. Foo Fighters - "The Pretender"
18. Natasha Bedingfield - "I Wanna Have Your Babies"
19. Fall Out Boy - "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"
20. Alicia Keys - "Like You'll Never See Me Again"
21. R. Kelly f/ Usher - "Same Girl"
22. Diddy f/ Keyshia Cole - "Last Night"
23. Mary J. Blige - "Just Fine"
24. Kanye West f/ T-Pain - "Good Life"
25. Beyonce - "Get Me Bodied"
26. T.I. f/ Wyclef Jean - "You Know What It Is"
27. Hurricane Chris f/ Big Poppa of Ratchet City - "Hand Clap"
28. Bobby Valentino - "Anonymous"
29. Rihanna - "Don't Stop The Music"
30. Matchbox Twenty - "How Far We've Come"
31. DJ Jazzy Jeff f/ Peedi Peedi - "Brand New Funk 2007"
32. Young Jeezy f/ R. Kelly - "Go Getta"
33. Gym Class Heroes f/ Patrick Stump - "Clothes Off"
34. The Game f/ Kanye West - "Wouldn't Get Far"
35. Chris Brown f/ T-Pain - "Kiss Kiss"
36. Swizz Beatz - "Money In The Bank"
37. Avril Lavigne - "Hot"
38. John Legend - "Another Again"
39. Fergie f/ Ludacris - "Glamorous"
40. Ja Rule f/ Lil Wayne - "Uh Oh"
41. The Fixxers - "Can U Werk Wit Dat?"
42. Papa Roach - "Forever"
43. My Chemical Romance - "Teenagers"
44. T-Pain - "Church"
45. DJ Unk - "2 Step"
46. Eve - "Tambourine"
47. Freeway f/ Jay-Z - "Roc-A-Fella Billionaires"
48. Fall Out Boy - "I'm Like a Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)"
49. Nickelback - "Rock Star"
50. Fergie - "Clumsy"
51. Foxx f/ Lil Boosie and Webbie - "Wipe Me Down (Remix)"
52. Mika - "Grace Kelly"
53. T.I. f/ Alfamega and Busta Rhymes - "Hurt"
54. Eddie Vedder f/ Corin Tucker - "Hard Sun"
55. Rich Boy f/ Polow Da Don and Keri Hilson - "Good Things"
56. Beanie Sigel f/ R. Kelly - "All Of The Above"
57. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Hump De Bump"
58. Common f/ Lily Allen - "Drivin' Me Wild"
59. Bow Wow f/ T Pain and Johnta Austin - "Outta My System"
60. Birdman f/ Lil Wayne - "Pop Bottles"
61. 50 Cent - "Amusement Park"
62. Keyshia Cole f/ Amina - "Shoulda Let You Go"*
63. Fall Out Boy - "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race"
64. Nicole Sherzinger f/ T.I. - "Whatever You Like"
65. Relient K - "Must Have Done Something Right"
66. Muse - "Starlight"
67. Musiq - "Buddy"
68. Paul Wall f/ Jermaine Dupri - "I'm Throwed"
69. Justin Timberlake - "Until The End Of Time"
70. Incubus - "Dig"
71. Fabolous f/ Swizz Beatz - "Return of The Hustle"
72. Jay-Z - "Roc Boys (And The Winner Is...)"*
73. Gwen Stefani - "Early Winter"
74. Rich Boy - "Let's Get This Paper"
75. Chamillionaire f/ Slick Rick - "Hip Hop Police"*
76. Wyclef Jean f/ Akon, Lil Wayne and Niia - "Sweetest Girl (Dolla Bill)"
77. Puddle of Mudd - "Famous"
78. Smashing Pumpkins - "That's The Way My Love Is"
79. Mike Jones - "Turnin' Headz"
80. Flo Rida f/ T-Pain - "Low"
81. Nelly Furtado - "All Good Things (Come To An End)"
82. Katharine McPhee - "Love Story"
83. N.O.R.E. f/ Swizz Beatz and J-Ru$$ - "Set It Off"
84. Common f/ Dwele - "The People"
85. Papa Roach - "Time Is Running Out"
86. Audioslave - "Revelations"
87. The Eagles - "How Long"
88. Foo Fighters - "Long Road To Ruin"
89. Amerie - "Gotta Work"
90. Daughtry f/ Slash - "What I Want"
91. Trey Songz - "Wonder Woman"
92. Tiffany Evans f/ Ciara - "Promise Ring"
93. Kanye West, Rakim, Nas and KRS One - "Classic"
94. Saigon f/ Swizz Beatz - "C'mon Baby"
95. Queens of the Stone Age - "Sick Sick Sick"
96. Taylor Hicks - "Heaven Knows"
97. Dashboard Confessional - "Stolen"
98. Three 6 Mafia f/ Chamillionaire - "Doe Boy Fresh"
99. Saliva - "Ladies & Gentlemen"
100. Justin Timberlake - "What Goes Around...Comes Around"

ARTISTS
1. Bob Dylan
2. Radiohead
3. Amy Winehouse
4. Lil' Wayne
5. Carrie Underwood

TRACKS
1. Tegan & Sara - The Con
2. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
3. Panda Bear - Take Pills
4. The National - Fake Empire
5. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
6. Brandi Carlile - The Story
7. Magic Numbers - Take A Chance
8. Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running
9. Rihanna - Umbrella
10. The Lodger - Many Thanks For Your Honest Opinion

REISSUES
1. Weakling - Dead As Dreams
2. Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different
3. Traveling Wilburys - The Traveling Wilburys Collection
4. Sarolta Zalatnay - Sarolta Zalatnay
5. Selda - Selda

ARTISTS
1. Tegan & Sara
2. Panda Bear
3. Patrick Wolf
4. Radiohead
5. Alison Krauss

COMMENTS
2007 was the year of the MP3.

TRACKS
1. Britney Spears - Gimme More
2. Paul McCartney - Nod Your Head
3. Mason Jennings - If You Need a Reason
4. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Gone, Gone, Gone
5. Feist - 1234
6. Foo Fighters - Summer's End
7. Jay-Z - Blue Magic
8. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
9. John Fogerty - Creedence Song
10. The Who - The Real Me (Philadelphia Spectrum, 12/04/73, Wolfgangsvault.com)

REISSUES
1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
3. David Byrne - The Knee Plays
4. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
5. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth & Collected Works

ARTISTS
1. Radiohead
2. Jay-Z
3. Spoon
4. Feist
5. Ryan Adams

TRACKS
1. Jens Lekman - A Postcard To Nina
2. The National - Fake Empire
3. Beirut - Elephant Gun
4. Radiohead - Reckoner
5. Panda Bear - Bros
6. Andrew Bird - Plasticities
7. Bright Eyes - Four Winds
8. Jason Anderson - July 4, 2004
9. Amy Winehouse - Tears Dry On Their Own
10. M.I.A. - Bamboo Banger

ARTISTS
1. Sufjan Stevens
2. YACHT
3. Dan Deacon
4. Miranda July
5. Anton Corbijn

COMMENTS
Albums I might have put on my list had I heard them/had more time to get to know them:

Yeasayer-"All Hour Cymbals"
Stars of the Lid-"And Their Refinement of the Decline"
Samara Lubelski - "Parallel Suns"
No Age- "Weirdo Rippers"
The Field- From Here We Go Sublime
Battles- "Mirrored"
Sigur Ros - "Hvarf/Heim"
Elliott Smith - "New Moon"
The Black Lips - "Good Bad Not Evil"
Caribou - "Andorra"
Fridge - "The Sun"
The Clientele - "God Save the Clientele"
Bon Iver- "For Emma, Forever Ago"
Handsome Furs- "Plague Park"
Amiina- "Kurr"
The Rosebuds: "Night of the Furies"
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists- "Living With the Living"
LCD Soundsystem- "Sound of Silver"
Mount Eerie: "Mount Eerie Pts. 6 & 7"
Ola Podrida: "Ola Podrida"

TRACKS
1. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
2. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
3. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
4. John Cale - All My Friends
5. The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
6. John Fogerty - Creedence Song
7. The Black Lips - Bad Kids
8. Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
9. Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
10. Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere

REISSUES
1. Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On/Fresh/Small Talk
2. Aretha Franklin - Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul
3. Cachao - Cuban Jam Sessions in Miniature
4. Lakim Shabazz - The Ol' School Flava Of Lakim Shabazz
5. Joe Bataan - Young, Gifted, & Brown

ARTISTS
1. James Murphy
2. Craig Finn
3. Jason Moran
4. John Fogerty
5. Bruce Springsteen

TRACKS
1. Rihanna ft. Jay-Z - Umbrella
2. T2 ft. Jodie Aysha - Heartbroken
3. Aly & AJ - Potential Break-Up Song
4. Cassie - Is It You?
5. Ame - Balandine
6. Lloyd - Get It Shawty
7. My My - Fast Freeze
8. Ciara - Like A Boy
9. Trina - Single Again
10. Gucci Mane ft. Lil' Kim & Ludacris - Freaky Gurl (remix)

ARTISTS
1. Britney Spears
2. Polow Da Don
3. Cassie
4. T2
5. Lil' Wayne

TRACKS
1. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
2. Kanye West - Stronger
3. M.I.A. - Boyz
4. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
5. Peter Bjorn & John - Young Folks
6. Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
7. The National - Fake Empire
8. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
9. Britney Spears - Gimme More

REISSUES
1. v/a - The Cosimo Matassa Story
2. Pylon - Gyrate Plus
3. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
4. ESG - A South Bronx Story

ARTISTS
1. LCD Soundsystem
2. M.I.A.
3. Spoon

TRACKS
1. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
2. Ne-Yo - Because of You
3. Kanye West - Stronger
4. Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
5. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
6. Ciara - Like A Boy
7. CRS - Us Placers
8. Prince - Chelsea Rodgers
9. Paul McCartney - Ever Present Past
10. Justin Timberlake - LoveStoned/I Think That She Knows

ARTISTS
1. Lil Wayne
2. M.I.A.
3. LCD Soundsystem
4. Miranda Lambert
5. Kanye West

COMMENTS
Although I past the thirty-year mark three years ago, 2007 marked the time when I first noticed how aging had affected my listening. The imaginative leaps necessary for great criticism got longer, even as my sympathy expanded. Dubstep and The Field remain out of reach, but Beanie Siegel and Lil Wayne seemed funnier, their pleasures more lasting.

My favorite records mapped worlds beyond themselves, results notwithstanding. I almost left off Kala from my list even though I put more effort into it than any other record; indeed, I still think the middle stretch is a wheeze, especially the number that sounds like Musical Youth's 1983 Donna Summer collaboration. But the strength of those volcanic beats said more about the vertiginous cosmopolitanism of M.I.A.'s ambitions than her lyrics, which still read like "1999" fuck-during-the-apocalypse. The exception: "Paper Planes" — rueful and heavy in equal measure, a beguiling mix of tones and tints.

But my favorite album was created by a sensibility whose old enough to recognize that chaos and love need not exist as a binarity. Like a thistle growing out of a pile of shit, Robert Wyatt's Comicopera imagined a world in which intentions have consequences, whether it's a man and woman figuring out what to do next after realizing their compatibility or a terrorist about to blow up a crowded building. Wyatt's never-more-ethereal falsetto extends compassion. For all her shrewdness, M.I.A. have only pointed in this direction. At my age suggestiveness isn't good enough. Neither is overstatement like Arcade Fire's. Watch Miranda Lambert, though: this sharpie may know a lot about careening towards love and doom, but getting your two Gretchen Wilson-esque barnburners out of the way at the beginning of the album suggests she knows how music works too.

COMMENTS
Comments are fun!

TRACKS
1. Noisettes - Don't Give Up
2. M.I.A. - World Town
3. Spoon - Don't You Evah
4. The New Pornographers - Go Places
5. Against Me! - Thrash Unreal
6. The Hives - Try It Again
7. Feist - 1234
8. The White Stripes - Little Cream Soda
9. Justice - Tthhee Ppaarrttyy
10. Paulson - Calling On You

ARTISTS
1. M.I.A.
2. Justice
3. Spoon
4. Against Me!
5. The White Stripes

COMMENTS
There are, of course, a lot of albums I should have listened to, and didn't, and a lot of albums I did listen to and neglected to include. I like to think that the 500+ other critics taking this poll would form a pretty good sampling of what I missed. I want to reach up there and fuck up the order over and over again, but this is what made me feel the least uncomfortable sticking with, and, as it draws nearer and nearer to midnight (when all our proverbial coaches turn back into pumpkins), this is what it's going to be. 2007 did not wow me as I expected to be wowed. There were really great albums, but there was also a lot of stuff from artists I really love that just left me bored. But that is what next year is for.

TRACKS
1. Maria Taylor - A Good Start
2. Feist - 1234
3. Mandy Moore - Extraordinary
4. Chris Brown - Wall to Wall
5. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You
6. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
7. Kanye West - Stronger
8. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
9. Babyshambles - Deft Left Hand
10. The Shins - Phantom Limb

REISSUES
1. V/A - Stax Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration
2. U2 - Joshua Tree (remastered)
3. Dolly Parton - Jolene
4. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same

ARTISTS
1. Arcade Fire
2. Kanye West
3. Rihanna
4. Timbaland
5. M.I.A.

TRACKS
1. M.I.A. - Jimmy
2. Battles - Atlas
3. My Teenage Stride - Chock's Rally
4. Kanye West ft. Dwele - Flashing Lights
5. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
6. Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dancing!
7. Ulrich Schnauss - Medusa
8. Caribou - Niobe
9. Miracle Fortress - Have You Seen In Your Dreams
10. Yeasayer - 2080

REISSUES
1. The Fire Engines - Hungry Beat
2. Betty Davis - Betty Davis

ARTISTS
1. Radiohead
2. LCD Soundsystem
3. Burial

TRACKS
All my Friends — LCD Soundsystem
Someone Great — LCD Soundsystem
Boyz — M.I.A.
Stronger — Kanye West/Daft PUnk
D.A.N.C.E. — Justice
Turn on You — Shins
Fake Empire — The National
1 2 3 4 - Feist
Our life is not a movie — Okkervil River
The Chills — PB&J

ARTISTS
The Hood Internet
2007: a year to dance your ass off. May the trend continue
Rhino's Brit Box compilation: the mixtape I never had time to make
Smog Veil Records: for going "green" with their operations, from its live/workspace to its releases
Iceland Airwaves

TRACKS
1. 50 Cent - I Get Money
2. Kanye West - Stronger
3. Common - The People
4. Jay-Z - Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)
5. Timbaland - The Way I Are
6. Ghostface Killah - Barrel Brothers
7. Playaz Circle - Duffel Bag Boys
8. DJ Khaled - We Takin Over
9. Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
10. Soula Boy - Crank Dat (Soulja Boy)

ARTIST
1. Kanye West
2. Amy Winehouse
3. Jay-Z
4. Lil Wayne
5. 50 Cent

TRACKS
1. Spoon - Underdog
2. Interpol - Heinrich Maneuver
3. Modest Mouse - Dashboard
4. The Shins - Phantom Limb
5. Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around...Comes Around
6. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
7. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
8. Paramore - Misery Business
9. Brandi Carlile - The Story

ARTISTS
1. LCD Soundsystem
2. Spoon
3. Band of Horses
4. Justin Timberlake
5. Amy Winehouse

TRACKS
1. Rihanna - Umbrella
2. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
3. Fall Out Boy - Hum Hallelujah
4. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
5. Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
6. Stars - Take Me to the Riot
7. Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe
8. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
9. Shout Out Louds - Tonight I Have to Leave It
10. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends

REISSUES
1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2. Betty Davis - Betty Davis / They Say I'm Different
3. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth and Collected Works
4. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures / Closer / Still
5. Pylon - Gyrate

ARTISTS
1. Timbaland
2. Patrick Stump
3. Lil Wayne
4. Rihanna
5. Miranda Lambert

TRACKS
1. Battles - Atlas
2. Rihanna ft Jay-Z - Umbrella
3. Modest Mouse - Dashboard
4. Kanye West -Stronger
5. Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks
6. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
7. Spoon - The Underdog
8. Wilco - Impossible Germany
9. Kenny Chesney - Don't Blink
10. Josh Ritter - The Right Moves

TRACKS
1. Feist - 1234
2. Spoon - The Underdog
3. The New Pornographers - Challengers
4. Dan Wilson - Hand on My Heart
5. Fountains of Wayne - Michael and Heather at the Baggage Claim
6. Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun
7. Jill Sobule - San Francisco
8. Michael Penn - Walter Reed
9. The Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
10. Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight

REISSUES
1. Heartworn Highways V/A - Heartworn Highways
2. Arthur Alexander - Lonely Just Like Me: The Final Chapter

ARTISTS
1. Jill Sobule
2. Jen Trynin
3. Rilo Kiley
4. Fiest
5. Michael Penn

COMMENTS
Most of the artists on my ballot, while popular, aren't really mainstream. In a better world they would be, and the mainstream would be better for it. Right now the mainstream seems to be more about selling trendy product than making truly good music.

I cheered when The Shins, Spoon, and Arcade Fire debuted in the Top 5 on the Billboard album chart. The Shins' "Phantom Limb", Eddie Vedder's cover of "Hard Sun", and Arcade Fire's "Keep the Car Running" got mainstream airplay, as did Feist with the wonderful "1,2,3,4", also featured in a TV iPod ad.

Independent artists of all genres are putting out inspiring music. The Nields put out one of the best folk albums I've heard all year. Today's indies have the power to change the face of music, just as garage did inthe 60s, punk in the 70s and grunge in the 90s. We need that kind of change again — a new Nirvana, a new Beatles, a new Janis Joplin. The albums and artists I listed here give us signs of hope. More has to happen, like the FCC ruling that commercial radio stations must play at least some indie music. A change will come, sooner than later, I hope. And it will be wonderful.

TRACKS
1. Radiohead - Nude
2. The Arcade Fire - Intervention
3. Beirut - Nantes
4. Trentemoller - Moan (Trentemoller Remix)
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Make It With Chu
6. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
7. Arctic Monkeys - Do Me A Favour
8. Interpol - The Heinrich Maneuver
9. Shakira - Despedida
10. Calle 13 & Orishas - Pa'l Norte

REISSUES
1. Daft Punk - Alive 2007
2. Soulwax - Most of the Remixes

ARTISTS
1. Radiohead
2. The Arcade Fire
3. Beirut
4. Digitalism
5. Timbaland

COMMENTS
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TRACKS
1. David Bazan - Let Down
2. The Apples in Stereo - Same Old Drag
3. Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
4. Spoon - The Underdog
5. The Avett Brothers - Shame
6. Jakob Olausson - What Will Tomorrow Bring
7. Wilco - Hate it Here
8. Peter, Bjorn & John - Objects Of My Affection
9. Jens Lekman - You Can Call Me Al
10. Iron & Wine - Resurrection Fern

ARTISTS
1. The National
2. Radiohead
3. Daft Punk
4. LCD Soundsystem
5. Jens Lekman

TRACKS
1. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
2. Janelle Monae - Violet Stars Happy Hunting!
3. Calle 13 - Pal Norte
4. Bjork - Earth Intruders
5. Rihanna ft. Jay-Z - Umbrella
6. Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
7. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
8. Rilo Kiley - Silver Lining
9. Battles- Atlas
10. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing

ARTISTS
1. LCD Soundsystem
2. Calle 13
3. Radiohead
4. Amy Winehouse
5. Arcade Fire

TRACKS
1. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
2. LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
3. Feist - 1234
4. Battles - Atlas
5. Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
6. The Shins - Australia
7. Art Brut - Pump up the Volume
8. The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
9. Jens Lekman - A Postcard to Nina
10. The Clientele - Bookshop Cassanova

REISSUE
1. The Traveling Wilburys - The Traveling Wilburys Collection

ARTISTS
1. Stevie Wonder
2. David Bowie
3. Feist
4. The New Pornographers
5. Led Zeppelin

TRACKS
1. LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
2. UGK feat. Outkast - Int. Player's Anthem (I Choose You)
3. Young Buck - Get Buck
4. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
5. The National - Fake Empire
6. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
7. Matthew Dear - Deserter
8. Kanye West feat. T-Pain - The Good Life
9. Rich Boy - Throw Some D's
10. Kalabrese feat. Guillermo Sohyra - Hide

REISSUES
1. The Trees Community - The Christ Tree
2. John Fahey - Sea Changes & Coelacanths
3. Betty Davis - Betty Davis
4. Miles Davis - The On the Corner Sessions
5. Johnny Lunchbreak - Appetizer/Soup's On

ARTISTS
1. Panda Bear
2. LCD Soundsystem
3. Kanye West
4. Lil Wayne
5. Glass Candy