“If You Keep Losing Sleep” by Silverchair should absolutely be on this list. It is probably the best song by the band. That omission aside, this list is a bit off in general.

Fuck Nickelback. They are one of the worst bands on the radio and they don’t need to be honored, let alone covered at all.

Because after all…there is that one DEFINITIVE list that we will all agree upon…from California, to Chicago, to New York City, all the way over to China. This one however I guess isn’t going to be it, but if you’d like to post your all-mighty list, I’d love to read it.

Wow, Nickleback and Avril Lavigne make the list, yet “Brianstorm” by Arctic Monkeys and any of the singles off “Baby 81″ by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club don’t. This list is pretty weak.

Not much of a list compared to the first page of your top 500 of all time.

I am dissapointed Rolling Stone would waste their last spot on the shittiest band ever.

Not saying I could make an all-mighty list. I wouldn’t even attempt to. The best I could do is a personal itunes playlist of my favorite songs of the year. All I am saying is that there are a good deal of pretty mediocre songs on this list that could be replaced. For instance, humor or not, Nickelback should never make a best of list for anything…ever.

Britney?? C’mon RS…I can only guess you’re hyping her out of sympathy for the record industry.

‘Piece of Me’ is godawful. I’m not buying the ‘Britney’s-so-bad-she’s-cool-i n-an-ironic-way’ bullshit. Give it up.

Even the top 40 dj’s here sound apologetic and embarrassed for having to play her.

Just saying this list contains a good deal of mediocre songs. For instance, Nickelback should never make a best of list for anything, ever. I wasn’t saying I could make a definitive list, but thanks for making that assumption.

wow I thought for sure the foo fighters were going to be number 1 or 2 oh wait your the guys who think rihanna and soulja boy should get grammys and nickelback brit and avril are great I totally forgot about that. THIS LIST SUCKS

I seriously hope this list is a joke.
Britney? Avril? Soulja Boy? Nickelback? Even the Jay-z song, even though it is good should not be number 1.

Here are some songs that should be on that list:

Up the cuts, and Thrash Unreal by Against me

Radio Nowhere – Sprinsteen

Teddy Picker and Flourescent Adolescent by Arctic Monkeys

Antichrist television blues – Arcade Fire

Shadowplay – The Killers

Hard to live in the city – Albert Hammond Jr.

Marriage – Attack in Black

Timebomb – Beck

(fork and knife) – Brand new

Hard sun – Eddie Vedder

Feist – My moon my man

Come alive – foo fighters

Jimmy eat world – big casino

Joel Plaskett emergency – Nothing more to say

Good Life – Kanye West

Capital G – NIN

The shins – Australia

…most of those songs are better than at least half of your list, and thats just off the top of my head.

I remember last years list was much better than this and I actually found some good songs I’ve never heard before.

This list is just pathetic.

A lot of the songs on this list are from good albums but arent really the best songs on the albums. some songs that i believe deserve to be on the list (in the rock genre, anyway):

antichrist television blues by arcade fire
a sentence of sorts in kongsvinger by of montreal
flourescent adolescent by arctic monkeys
timebomb by beck
livin’ in the future by bruce springsteen
tick tick boom by the hives
knocked up or ragoo by kings of leon
revival by soulsavers
if you keep losing sleep by silverchair
turnin’ on the screw by queens of the stone age
nude or jigsaw falling into place by radiohead

If this is the so-called best of the year, then I guess 2007 was the weakest year for music ever. Absolute garbage!

talking to yourself?

pretty weak list indeed…some of the songs chosen were not even the best songs on the albums….is this supposed to best SONGS? seems like best
SINGLES?

There are some good songs on the list but for the most part, they are total crap and songs people will forget a few years from now. Too many flavor of the month type artists.

WHAT?! Where’s Arctic Monkeys? Silverchair? Ian Brown?! Babyhambles??!!! Aw, come on, you can’t overlook their “Delivery” (although that’s not the BEST song they’ve ever written.) And Brown’s “Illegal Attacks” or just maybe the whole album? Or, what, it’s cool to give Britney a place? RS, I’m sure she knows you feel sorry for her without the honors..
One more step, and you’ll cross the line into total pop-mainstream.
And I don’t if we’d be able to save you – we just might lose you. You’re certainly losing readers..

I have read Rolling Stone religiously for the past couple of years now and have also paid close attention to your website but I have to admit I have lost all respect for your company after reading this list. I cannot believe what I’m seeing. “Umbrella” in the top three of the WHOLE year? Give your heads a shake and return to reality. I thought you were a rock and roll magazine.

Your number 1 song is a run-of-the-mill rap song about how great the rapper thinks of himself and his crew. #3 is a tremendously annoying pop song done by a beautiful woman through layers of pro-tools enhancements. I give you some credit for putting Randy Newman at number 2. Too bad, nobody has heard it this year. Top songs of the year should reflect what people was listening to and feeling about the times. I know there wasn’t very much consensus this year. It’s getting harder to keep track of what people are really listening to and getting with all the illegal downloading. Since you are primarily a music magazine, not to slight you excellent political and social reporting, you need to find a way to get a better pulse on what people are interested in.

I know putting a list like this together is a thankless job. It would be nice to see a music list with some cojones. You could have repeat entries by great artists. Only one song from Lucinda Williams and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss collaboration album? Also, put more deserving songs on the list that didn’t get the mainstream attention it deserves. Do you really honestly believe that Britney Spears and Fergie have done songs that deserves to be in any top 100 song list?

Overall, this list looks like a first draft of a year end list. Instead, of a well researched and debated Top 100 songs list.

“Overall, this list looks like a first draft of a year end list. Instead, of a well researched and debated Top 100 songs list.”

Well, Fuuuuck You!

fuck kanye west and jay’z

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Hey, the truth hurts. I’ll stand by with what I said in my previous post. Honestly, an album track by a supposedly retired rapper that doesn’t say anything different from the million other rap songs is the number one song this year. You deserve the criticism that you are going to receive from this list.

re: JP | 12/15/2007, 4:47 pm EST

“Hey, the truth hurts. I’ll stand by with what I said in my previous post.”

Oh, will you just fucking shut up? RS didn’t say it, I did! Do you think RS has time to waste on your wet-brained ass?

Seriously, you are a waste of space. If you disagree with me, then state your case why you don’t agree with what I’ve posted. Don’t hide behind other people’s monikers. Also, telling other people to shut up, because you don’t like what they said is immature. You have the nerve to flame other people. Where is your take on the Rolling Stone’s list? Are you afraid that some other nitwit will flame you, because you have stated an opinion that they might disagree with? If you don’t have an opinion about it, then get out of my face and everyone elses. This is a place for opinions, not for mindless spammers.

Shut up, you whiner. I didn’t take the time to read your whole schpeel, because I couldn’t care less! You’ve wasted your time.

It appears to me by your response that I wasn’t nearly as mean as I should’ve been!

“Don’t hide behind other people’s monikers”

LMFAO! That’s funny coming from you!