The 100 Best Songs of 2007

65 "White People for Peace"
Against Me!
How the hell do you turn a line like "Protest songs, in response to military aggression" into a catchy chorus? These Florida punks figured it out and cooked up a rousing call to arms for leftists everywhere.

66 "Big Shit Poppin'"
T.I.
Over an action-packed, guitar-specked synth beat, the Atlanta MC drops rhymes both gritty and speedy. If this can't get you going on the treadmill, you're in trouble.

67 "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa"
Vampire Weekend
New York prepsters take Eighties revivalism to a logical, if not previously foreseen, conclusion, biting off a big chunk of Paul Simon's Graceland for an indie-Africa fusion. Over a blissed-out Soweto groove, the It band of the season serenades a girl into Louis Vuitton, reggaeton and Peter Gabriel.

68 "Tambourine"
Eve
Swizz Beatz sets off firecrackers, bottle rockets and Eighties boombox beats. Eve leads the shake-shake-shake party chants all the way "from da hood to Dubai."