2007: Overlooked

In anticipation of the annual year-end list (coming the final two weeks of this month), here is a collection of overlooked songs not included in last year's list. This is a recognition of tracks released in 2007 that either got a raw deal at the time or simply weren't heard until after the calendar changed.

"Failure" - Ian Ball
"It's About Time" - Barcelona
"Don't Bother Me" - The Blakes
"Vice Rag" - A.A. Bondy
"In Our Talons" - Bowerbirds
"In the Night" - Basia Bulat
"To Build a Home" - The Cinematic Orchestra
"Nothing/Nowhere" - Clare & the Reasons
"Art Isn't Real (City of Sin)" - Deer Tick
"Pogo" - Digitalism
"Need Your Needs" - Georgie James
"Foundations" - Kate Nash
"Away Away" - Northern State
"Wizard Flurry Home" - Mariee Sioux
"You Made Me Like It" - 1990s

100 Favorite Songs of 2007: 10-1

1. "Skinny Love" - Bon Iver
2. "Heart It Races" - Architecture in Helsinki
3. "Wolves at Night" - Manchester Orchestra
4. "Welcome Home" - Radical Face
5. "Jigsaw Falling Into Place" - Radiohead
6. "Nothin' No" - David Vandervelde
7. "You're a Wolf" - Sea Wolf
8. "1234" - Feist
9. "Nothing's Lost" - Patrick Park
10. "Icky Thump" - The White Stripes

100 Favorite Songs of 2007: 25-11

11. "The Underdog" - Spoon
12. "2080" - Yeasayer
13. "The Plot" - White Rabbits
14. "Wet and Rusting" - Menomena
15. "Trumpets" - Zookeeper
16. "My Mind" - Portugal. The Man
17. "Shaker" - Tulsa
18. "Outside the City" - Young Galaxy
19. "Despite What You've Been Told" - Two Gallants
20. "Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe" - Okkervil River
21. "No One's Gonna Love You" - Band of Horses
22. "Back in Your Head" - Tegan and Sara
23. "D.A.N.C.E." - Justice
24. "Fake Empire" - The National
25. "Golden Skans" - Klaxons

100 Favorite Songs of 2007: 40-26

26. "Rain" - Bishop Allen
27. "Fire Fire Fire" - Dappled Cities
28. "Men's Needs" - The Cribs
29. "Grip Like a Vice" - The Go! Team
30. "Impossible Germany" - Wilco
31. "Wild Mountain Nation" - Blitzen Trapper
32. "Now, Now" - St. Vincent
33. "Killing for Love" - Jose Gonzalez
34. "Hallie" - Mobius Band
35. "A Sunday Smile" - Beirut
36. "What We Had" - Handsome Furs
37. "Tonight" - Hard-Fi
38. "Lake Michigan" - Rogue Wave
39. "D is for Dangerous" - Arctic Monkeys
40. "Grace Kelly" - Mika

100 Favorite Songs of 2007: 55-41

41. "The Next Untouchable" - Cajun Dance Party
42. "Again & Again" - The Bird and The Bee
43. "Heretics" - Andrew Bird
44. "Sugar Assault Me Now" - Pop Levi
45. "Each Year" - Ra Ra Riot
46. "23" - Blonde Redhead
47. "The Heinrich Maneuver" - Interpol
48. "Boy With a Coin" - Iron & Wine
49. "Sun in an Empty Room" - The Weakerthans
50. "Silver Lining" - Rilo Kiley
51. "To Die in LA" - West Indian Girl
52. "The Opposite of Hallelujah" - Jens Lekman
53. "Fraulein" - Pale Young Gentlemen
54. "The Magic Position" - Patrick Wolf
55. "Killing the Light" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

100 Favorite Songs of 2007: 70-56

56. "Winged / Wicked Things" - Sunset Rubdown
57. "Cancel On Me" - Bombay Bicycle Club
58. "In the Words of the Governor" - Sufjan Stevens
59. "Ball of the Dead Rat" - The Teeth
60. "Hey Eugene" - Pink Martini
61. "On Call" - Kings of Leon
62. "Heart Made of Sound" - SoftLightes
63. "National Anthem of Nowhere" - Apostle of Hustle
64. "North American Scum" - LCD Soundsystem
65. "People Have a Way" - Matt Pond PA
66. "Imaginary Girl" - The Silver Seas
67. "Listened On" - Lightning Dust
68. "Hospital Rooms Aren't for Lovers" - Bear Colony
69. "Atlas" - Battles
70. "Sunrise" - Doveman

100 Favorite Songs of 2007: 85-71

71. "Rich Girls" - The Virgins
72. "Australia" - The Shins
73. "The Bomb" - New Young Pony Club
74. "Our Velocity" - Maximo Park
75. "Intervention" - Arcade Fire
76. "New Violence" - White Williams
77. "The Ritz" - Office
78. "Energy" - The Apples in Stereo
79. "Double Vision" - The Ponys
80. "Stitch Me Up" - Minus Story
81. "Your Rocky Spine" - Great Lake Swimmers
82. "I Still Remember" - Bloc Party
83. "Touch Up" - Mother Mother
84. "Believe" - The Bravery
85. "Screendoor" - Illinois

100 Favorite Songs of 2007: 100-86

86. "Get Up, Get Out" - The Rosebuds
87. "Knowledge in Hand" - The Forms
88. "Underneath the Night Sky" - Young Love
89. "That Summer, at Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy" - The Twilight Sad
90. "Low Bay of Sky" - Richard Youngs
91. "Break" - The Cinematics
92. "Like I Do" - Minipop
93. "Trashcan" - Delta Spirit
94. "Blood Red Blood" - Voxtrot
95. "Let Her Go" - The Lodger
96. "When I Say Go" - The 1900s
97. "Get Mad" - Kyle Andrews
98. "A House is Not a Home" - Field Music
99. "Bookshop Casanova" - The Clientele
100. "We're From Barcelona" - I'm From Barcelona