Year-End Round-Up: Part 2

The Best of 2007 Album List is on the horizon, but until that big reveal, here's the 34 songs, in alphabetical order by title, that I really dug this year. Yeah, I know it's a ton of songs. I tried to whittle it down. Honest. Enjoy the YouTube linkage.

--"Almost Ready," Dinosaur Jr (Beyond)
--"Before The Money Came," Bettye LaVette (The Scene of The Crime)
--"Brass Ring," Broken West (I Can't Go On, I'll Go On)
--"Bigger Hole to Fill," The Hives (The Black and White Album) ▲
--"C.I.A," Ted Leo & the Pharmacists (Living With The Living)
--"Can You Feel It?," Apples in Stereo (New Magnetic Wonder)
--"Gone Gone Gone," Robert Plant & Alison Krauss (Raising Sand)

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--"Halloween Head," Ryan Adams (Easy Tiger)
--"Hold Me In The River," The Brakes (The Beatific Visions)
--"I Discovered America," Graham Parker (Don't Tell Columbus) ▲
--"Ill-Placed Trust," Sloan (Never Hear The End Of It)
--"Impossible Germany," Wilco (Sky Blue Sky)
--"In The Modern World," Jesse Malin (Glitter In The Gutter)

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--"Knocked Up," Kings of Leon (Because of the Times)
--"Long-Limbed Girl," Nick Lowe (At My Age) ▲
--"Money For The Heart," Cheeseburger (Cheeseburger)
--"Myriad Harbour," New Pornographers (Challengers)
--"No Hidden Path," Neil Young (Chrome Dreams II)
--"No Pussy Blues," Grinderman (Grinderman)
--"Queen Of The Scene," Deadstring Brothers (Silver Mountain)

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--"Radio Nowhere," Bruce Springsteen (Magic)
--"Rag & Bone," White Stripes (Icky Thump) ▲
--"Rentacrowd," Len Price 3 (Rentacrowd)
--"Satellite Radio," Steve Earle (Washington Square Serenade)
--"Siberian Angel," Ginger (Yoni)
--"Sudden Crown Drop," Mitch Easter (Dynamico)
--"Skylon," Gruff Rhys (Candylion)

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--"The Moneymaker," Rilo Kiley (Under the Blacklight)
--"The Picture," Son Volt (The Search)
--"The Underdog," Spoon (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
--"The Wolf," Shooter Jennings (The Wolf) ▲
--"They Were Kings," Heavy Trash (Goin' Way Out With Heavy Trash)
--"Thrash Unreal," Against Me! (New Wave)
--"What Is Rock?," Turbonegro (Retox)