Welcome to the wonderful world of VH1! Your list is sooo cutting edge.... you should be very proud! Eddie Vedder, The Shins, Brandi Carlile? Are you asking for the Gilmore Girls DVD set for Christmas? I hope so! Don't miss that new Will Smith movie... I heard the soundtrack is terrific!

thats not very nice. i like this list of lists

jesus. that was harsh. just because artists are commercially successful doesn't necessarily disqualify them from actually being good.

i love that fleet foxes song! thanks for making me remember it

alli arnold, don't be so elitist.

at kyle and stella:
that fleet foxes song is incredible. i remember sitting in the bumbershoot press room and hearing it over and over again. it put me at ease despite the hours of clocked in time walking around and around and around seattle center catching every act. the ff were definitely one of my bumbershoot faves. i caught them at block party but left two songs in to catch whoever was at the mainstage...against me? bumbershoot was my real first full on experience. the lyrics on white winter hymnal are gorgeous. i absolutely can not wait until the album comes out, it's going to be a winner!

VH1's top 40 songs list (taken from Idolator and contains, if my quick scan is accurate, one song on Imaginary Stella's list):

40. Kanye West f/T-Pain - Good Life
39. The Killers - Read My Mind
38. Regina Spektor - Fidelity
37. Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
36. Matt Kearney - Undeniable
35. Bruce Springsteen - Radio Nowhere
34. Natasha Bedingfield - Love Like This
33. Avril Lavigne - When You're Gone
32. Robin Thicke - Lost Without You
31. Maroon 5 - Wake Up Call
30. Linkin Park - What I've Done
29. Lifehouse - First Time
28. Feist - 1234
27. Nickelback - Rockstar
26. Fergie - Clumsy
25. Timbaland f/OneRepublic - Apologize
24. Daughtry - Home
23. Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
22. Alicia Keys - No One
21. Pink - Who Knew
20. Foo Fighters - The Pretender
19. Elliot Yamin - Wait For You
18. Ludacris f/Mary J. Blige - Runaway Love
17. Matchbox 20 - How Far We've Come
16. Amy Winehouse - Rehab
15. Gwen Stefani f/Akon - The Sweet Escape
14. Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats
13. The All-American Rejects - It Ends Tonight
12. Bon Jovi - You Want To Make (A Memory)
11. Colbie Caillat - Bubbly
10. Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around...
9. Nickelback - If Everyone Cared
8. Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
7. Nelly Furtado - Say It Right
6. Kanye West - Stronger
5. Maroon 5 - Makes Me Wonder
4. Rihanna f/Jay-Z - Umbrella
3. Pink - U+Ur Hand
2. Daughtry - It's Not Over
1. Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry (Personal)

I’m sorry, but I don’t think it’s elitist to expect more than Paramore, Modest Mouse or Brandi fucking Carlile from a so called music critic. Stella, it wouldn’t kill you to dig a little deeper than your average Endfest lineup next year.

You go out of your way to diss the Modest Mouse album, and yet Dashboard is one of your top songs? How ridiculous is that? Maybe try to be semi-consistent next time around.

Re: Randy at 8,

I think you can love a song but still be disappointed by the whole album overall. This year I loved Lavender Diamond's "Open Your Heart" enough that it made my best-of list for the year (which I'll post soon), yet the rest of the album didn't appeal to me whatsoever.

"I think you can love a song but still be disappointed by the whole album overall."

Sure, I can see that. I just don't see the point of specifically putting down an album that has one of your favorite songs of the year on it. Hell, any album that has even ONE song that I want to hear over and over again would never go on my shitlist; not with all the albums out there that are totally forgettable.

And presuming igStella is/was a big Modest Mouse fan, picking Dashboard as her favorite song just seems... odd. It's easily the poppiest and least typically Modest Mouse song on the disc, clearly made to be a single, like Float On off GNFPWLBN. March Into The Sea, Fire It Up, Florida, Missed The Boat, We've Got Everything and especially Invisible are all so much better; full of angst and alienation, i.e. classic Modest Mouse. (Mind you, I really like Dashboard too!)

Schoolyard Heroes ranked above Modest Mouse.

Are you fucking kidding?

I guess Stella picked that song because she likes it. Since taste is subjective, how can you tell her she's wrong? She's simply reporting on the things that appealed to her and didn't appeal to her this year. What makes something appealing to one person and not to another? Who knows.

And so continues the great indie debate...

For me 2007 was about two albums:

Blonde Redhead - 23
The Sea & Cake - Everybody

What about the Feral Children's "Second to the Last Frontier"?

That's my favorite NW album of 07.

I agree with Dave F. Feral Children seem to be the forgotten child on favorite nw album lists. They truly are my favorite band. Second to the Last Frontier is everything that a great album should be. Fun, innovative, catchy. I have listened to it from start to finish more than should be humanly possible.

-raven russell

I agree with Dave and Raven! Where is the Feral Children on these lists? That album really is one of the top 5 NW albums this year...

but I have a feeling it'll end up people's '08 lists! :)

true that dave.

-raven russell