Rolling Stone's Top Single Of The Year Is Not "Umbrella"
Sorry Ri, you don't get to claim the top spot this year, even though "Umbrella" will go down as this annum's "Hey Ya"/"Crazy"/big-time pop jam. Rolling Stone's we-love-everything-but-country countdown doesn't even give the Barbados bombshell's syllabic stutterer the #2 slot -- that belongs to ... actually we'll preserve the drama. But not at the top spot, 'cause we're pretty sure that was awarded in a way to give everybody a chance to say "and the winner is ... Hov!" So fine, we said it. At 100, there's bound to be some nice inclusions, so we'll say that up front, and save the bitching for the other side...
100 "Rockstar" - Nickelback
99 "Never Again" - Kelly Clarkson
98 "Wild Mountain Nation" - Blitzen Trapper
97 "Honey Bee (Let's Fly To Mars)" - Grinderman
96 "Big Girls Don't Cry" - Fergie
95 "Satan Said Dance" - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
94 "2 Hearts" Kylie Minogue
93 "Is There A Ghost" - Band Of Horses
92 "Mistaken For Strangers" - The National
91 "Freak Out" - Liars
90 "Threshold Apprehension" - Black Francis
89 "I Wish That I Could See You Soon" - Herman Dune
88 "Computer Camp Love" - Datarock
87 "Dashboard" - Modest Mouse
86 "Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car" - Iron & Wine
85 "It's Me, Bitches (Remix)" - Swizz Beat
84 "The Crystal Cat" - Dan Deacon
83 "The State Of Massachusetts" - Dropkick Murphys
82 "Ultimate" - Gogol Bordello
81 "Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe" - Okkervil River
80 "Stop Me" - Mark Ronson
79 "Myriad Harbor" - New Pornographers
78 "The Songs That We Sing" - Charlotte Gainsbourg
77 "Chelsea Dagger" - The Fratellis
76 "Go Getta" - Young Jeezy
75 "Phantom Limb" - The ShinsSo "Same Girl" makes it and not "Same Dude"? Fine, but Bright Eyes with one of the top 5 singles of the year? (Backing the wrong indie boat on that one.) "Make It Wit Chu" is an old Desert Sessions song so, while not exactly a 2007 tune, we understand and endorse the decision of whoever lobbied for it. Some bones thrown to kids like you! and me! with the exclamatory "You! Me! Dancing!" by Los Campesions!, some Panda Bear, Blitzen Trapper, etc. And then some bones thrown to people they think are like you and me (we stand by CYHSY despite the mostly meh second album but "Satan Said Dance" has no business being here, not even if the list was curated by a blogger mentally stuck in '05 like Andy Richter is in '85 -- oh and Merry Ludachristmas!). And yes, "Umbrella" was bested by Randy Newman's return to Sail Away-style polemicizing. If only Rihanna too had written a New York Times op-ed piece about "Umbrella" this would've all turned out differently. Next year! You better watch your ass Paul Krugman, Krugman, Krugman, eh eh eh...
74 "Comfy In Nautica" - Panda Bear
73 "100 Days, 100 Nights" - Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
72 "You! Me! Dancing!" - Los Campesinos!
71 "Impossible Germany" - Wilco
70 "Bed" - J. Holiday
69 "Seahorse" - Devendra Banhart
68 "Tambourine" - Eve
67 "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" - Vampire Weekend
66 "Big Shit Poppin'" - T.I.
65 "White People For Peace" - Against Me!
64 "The Magic Position" - Patrick Wolf
63 "Buy U A Drank" - T-Pain
62 "The Last Fight" - Velvet Revolver
61 "Down Boy" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
60 "Make It Witchu" - Queens Of The Stone Age
59 "Let It Go" - Keyshia Cole
58 "Grip Like A Vice" - The Go! Team
57 "Men's Needs" - The Cribs
56 "Lip Gloss" - Lil Mama
55 "Hold On" - KT Tunstall
54 "I-95" - Fountains Of Wayne
53 "Black Mags" - The Cool Kids
52 "Pressing On" - John Doe
51 "Killing The Blues" - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
50 "The Heart Gently Weeps" - Wu-Tang Clan
49 "Makes Me Wonder" - Maroon 5
48 "Kiss Kiss" - Chris Brown (Feat. T-Pain)
47 "The Pretender" - Foo Fighters
46 "Do You Feel Me" - Anthony Hamilton
45 "Halloweenhead" - Ryan Adams
44 "Bleed It Out" - Linkin Park
43 "Us Placers" - CRS
42 "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race" - Fall Out Boy
41 "Just Fine" - Mary J. Blige
40 "Old News" - Dr. Dog
39 "Guitar" - Prince
38 "So Hott" - Kid Rock
37 "Throw Some D's" 36 "Situation" - 1990s
35 "Girlfriend" - Avril Lavigne
34 "Are You Alright" - Lucinda Williams
33 "Backed Out On The..." - Kevin Drew
32 "When Under The Ether" - PJ Harvey
31 "Don't Matter" - Akon
30 "LDN" - Lily Allen
29 "The People" - Common
28 "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" - Miranda Lambert
27 "Silver Lining" - Rilo Kiley
26 "Same Girl" - R. Kelly and Usher
25 "Teenagers" - My Chemical Romance
24 "What Goes Around..." - Justin Timberlake
23 "Teenage Love Affair" - Alicia Keys
22 "Keep The Car Running" - Arcade Fire
21 "Crank That" - Soulja Boy
20 "All My Friends" - LCD Soundsystem
19 "1234" - Feist
18 "Icky Thump" - The White Stripes
17 "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" -Radiohead
16 "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb" - Spoon
15 "Piece Of Me" - Britney Spears
14 "I Get Money" - 50 Cent
13 "The Past Is A Grotesque Animal" - of Montreal
12 "Gunslinger" - John Fogerty
11 "Stronger" - Kanye West
10 "Int'l Player's Anthem" - UGK
09 "Boyz" - M.I.A.
08 "Long Walk Home" - Bruce Springsteen
07 "Rehab" - Amy Winehouse
06 "Dough Is What I Got" - Lil Wayne
05 ""Four Winds" - Bright Eyes
04 "D.A.N.C.E." - Justice
03 "Umbrella" - Rihanna
02 "A Few Words In Defense Of Our Country" - Randy Newman
01 "Roc Boys" - Jay-Z
Posted at 9:31 AM in Year-End List
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Sorry but when was that 12 minute long Of Montreal song ever a single? More so than Heimdalsgate? Weird I say... Just plain weird.
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This list triggered my gag reflex. #15..... Nuff said.
It's funny how the lists funnel from terrible to right on as the publication goes from mainstream to obscure respectively. Mainstream implies a larger budget which should imply the creme-de-la-creme of the talent pool. Conversely it looks like Ryan Seacrest is resonsible for both the rolling stone and spin best of lists. One was written on a Tuesday and the other a Saturday, again respectively. One is better than the other but still just another day of the week.
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CRANK THAT...FUCKING CRANK THAT IS ON THE LIST?
Oh wait, this is rolling stone nothing to get upset about.
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I am surprised that Rolling Stone put Vampire Weekend on the list. Not an insult to the band, but to the mag.
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Hey, they've got Datarock.
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I really don't follow what exactly gets released as singles when ... but this makes no sense at all. Several songs on this list aren't even in the top few tracks on their respective albums.
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weird... because this list is surprisingly kind of decent. i expected daughtry at #1 or some shit. if anything the list suffers from choosing the wrong song from the artist... "same girl" but no "i'm a flirt"?! "stronger" instead of "the good life"?! "the past is a grotesque animal" instead of... well, ANYTHING else on that album?! I do have to admit that "Roc Boys" was probably my favorite single of the year though. and as much as i love "comfy in nautica", that single came out in 2005. "carrots" or "take pills" would make more sense.
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this list is awful. how are you gonna have britney spears and 50 cent in your top 20? to have panda bear in the 70s and of montreal in the top 20 is pretty strange, along with roc boys at #1. the remix with jadakiss and beanie sigel is gonna be crazy. there are some really good songs on there though, t-pain and kid rock are the cream of the crop.
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how on earth could anything OTHER than "umbrella" be the single of this year. It seems like this list was mostly compiled at random. Kid Rock? Clap Your Hands? Hey at least it's "diverse," albeit in a totally idiotic way.
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x3 Satan Said Dance [Live]
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I do have to agree that without crank that I would have never have known to
"Super Soak Dat Ho"
OR
"Get Me Some Bathin Apes"
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Kid Rock? Really? And T-Pain pains me. there, I said it. Anywhere on that list. Bad call, bros.
And wasn't LDN 06?
But that being said, "Lip Gloss" should have been higher.
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shit, glad to see patrick wolf and some others... but behind avril lavigne and fall out boy? rolling stone is just mtv's brother, fucking lack of good taste. and what the hell is Brit doing there...
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i must be tired, for a second i thought i saw soulja boy ahead of arcade fire. sheer nonsense.
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Stronger at #11? Why does the Man always have to hold Kanye down?
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I love the new M.I.A. album but "Boyz" as a top 10? I guess they haven't actually ever listened to M.I.A., just saw it was the first single.
And they choose Weird fishes over Bodysnatchers? And "Our life is not a movie or maybe" over "unless its kicks"?
And four winds is the 5th best song of the year???? That must make "We are nowhere, and it's now" the best song of all time.
But then they still manage to track down classics like Cherry Bomb, Mistaken for Strangers, Crystal Cat, and All My Friends. I really wish I knew how things worked at the Stone.
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I just wonder which of thes artists smoke Camels by implication.
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Delightful that you yanks are starting to pay attention to the very fine Herman Düne, but that song was released in early 2006, wasn't it?
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They got the list.... 45% agreeable popularity-wise.
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RS is and has been trying so desperately hard to stay cool and relevant. Too bad its as big of a piece of shit as Spin (which has been a piece of shit since like 2000). What happened to good music mags?
Sidenote- Who else can't WAIT until all these fucking lists are done?
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I think everyone is missing a very salient point here.
The fact that Nickleback can still make it anywhere on ANY list is absolutely mindblowing.
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Did you know that Nickleback are still the biggest selling modern rock band on earth? Sold nearly 7 million copies of their new record. How insane is that? I didn't even know they still existed.
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Hey, "We Are Nowhere, And It's Now" *IS* the best song in the world!
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Rolling Stone is still being published?
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"Reasonable Doubt" and "The Blueprint" = Jay-Z albums
"American Gangster" = a Gay-Z album
Seriously, I would even consider that crap a step down from Kingdom Come, which says a lot.
On another note: Real Talk > Same Girl
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Fuck rihanna. umbrella has 3 syllables and yet she finds a way to extend it to having more syllables than the word has letters. and who the fuck sings about "me and my um-ber-el-la" if i saw some panhandler on the street playing a wooden crate, a harp, and singing that song while waving an umbrella on a cloudless day....welll that might make since to me...but were talking a bunch of mindless fucks actually enjoyed that song?
what the fuck america?
and fuck rolling stone
if this list doesn't make them lose all credibility, then lets back track to there top 100 guitarists of all time list. What bunch of fucking idiots.
Fuck!
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This list was made by a group consisting of 50% hipsters and 50% idiots with guns who aren't entirely unreasonable.
"RANDY NEWMAN AT #2. *bang* WRITE IT!"
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OMG, teh RS r so diverse, they have a little bit of everything. Rock, rap, pop, R&B, I don't see how you can hate it! American music at it's best!
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OMG, teh RS r so diverse, they have a little bit of everything. Rock, rap, pop, R&B, I don't see how you can hate it! American music at it's best!
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where the fuck is The Dream's Shawty Is A Ten?
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kid rock? but no "smell yo dick"? this is bullshit.
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WTF?! I know its not the master prime of the music (sarcasm at the top!) but not putting Umbrella (ella ella) in first is just be blind (well, deaf)!!! I heard so many times in the radios etc that I got sick!!
Good to dance but thats it and with moderation!!!
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SHUT THE FK UP EVERYBODY STOP COMPLAINING ITS THEIR FKING LIST IF YOU DONT LIKE IT GET THE FK OUT OF HERE AND STOP EXPRESSING YOUR USELESS OPINION... AND THESE ARE SINGLES, REMEMBER, THEY WERE THE ONES THAT WERE ACTUALLY 'RELEASED' AND IF THE SONGS YOU ARE SAYING SHOULD BE A SINGLE HERE WERE NOT RELEASED AS A SINGLE THEN YOU ARE FKING STUPID.
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