Rock and Reel

100 Favorite Songs: 40-31

40. The Velvet Underground- Sister Ray

39. The Jesus and Mary Chain- Just Like Honey

38. Broken Social Scene- 7/4 (Shoreline)

37. Pavement- Silent Kit

36. Aretha Franklin- A Change is Gonna Come

35. Radiohead- Let Down

34. Roxy Music- Love is the Drug

33. U2- Wake Up Dead Man

32. Beastie Boys- Sabotage

31. Bob Dylan- Brownsville Girl

See 30-21

See 20-11

See Also: My 100 Favorite Songs of All Time (2 years ago), My 100 Favorite Songs of the Decade (2 years ago), Top 10 Songs Of Each Hall of Fame Inductee Class: 1986-Present (2 years ago)

Top 10 Albums of 2007

1. Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Listen: “You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb”

2. Dinosaur Jr.- Beyond

Listen: “Crumble”

3. Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago

Listen: “Flume”

4. Kanye West- Graduation

Listen: “Can’t Tell Me Nothing”

5. Various Artists, I’m Not There

Listen: “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” by Antony and the Johnsons

6. Jens Lekman- Night Falls Over Kortedala

Listen: “The Opposite of Hallelujah”

7. The White Stripes- Icky Thump

Listen: “Icky Thump”

8. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible

Listen: “Intervention”

9. Radiohead- In Rainbows

Listen: “All I Need”

10. Brandi Carlile- The Story

Listen: “The Story”

Honorable Mention: Andrew Bird’s Armchair Apocrypha, Kevin Drew’s Spirit If…, Flobots’ Fight With Tools, Lil Wayne’s Da Drought 3, Modest Mouse’s We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, The New Pornographers’ Challengers, Josh Ritter’s The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter, The Swell Season’s Once: From the Motion Picture

Updated: January 13, 2012