The Underdog - Spoon
Can You Feel It? - The Apples in Stereo
Because I'm Awesome - The Dollyrots
Changing Colours - Great Lake Swimmers
Skulls & Flesh & More - The Fields
Oh, MJ! - The Little Ones
The Thief & The Heartbreaker - Alberta Cross
No One's Gonna Love You - Band of Horses
And I Remember Every Kiss - Jen Lekman
Hustler - Simian Mobile Disco
An End Has a Start - The Editors
Almost Ready - Dinosaur Jr.
Rag and Bone - The White Stripes
Teardrop - Jose Gonzalez
1 2 3 4 - Feist
Dashboard - Modest Mouse
Mistaken For Strangers - The National
I Still Remember - Bloc Party
Paper Planes - M.I.A.
Don't Ask Me To Be Friends - Teddy Thompson
I Gaer - Sigur Ros
Time to Get Away - LCD Soundsystem
To Fix the Gash in Your Head - A Place to Bury Strangers
The Part Where You Let Go - Hem
Click, Click, Click, Click - Bishop Allen
Two - Ryan Adams
The Night Starts Here - Stars
A Strange Education - The Cinematics
Tenement Teeth - Pela
You Want the Candy - The Raveonettes
Closer - Travis
Hold Music - Architecture in Helsinki
Breakin' Up - Rilo Kiley
When You're Gone - Avril Lavigne
Get It On - Grinderman
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
Intervention - Arcade Fire
Polish Poem - Chrysta Bell
These two mix CDs represent only one of the BigYawn editors' (CJ) picks for best songs of 2007. But energized by the web advances in recent years that makes practically every song on our list easily available in some form, we just wanted to share ... even though you'll probably listen out of order and negate our painstaking attention to track flow and transitions. That's ok, we'll live. Enjoy!
Also, we've loosened our restriction on using fan-made videos (some instances will be more apparent than others.) If only every song had an official video or concert clip with decent sound quality ...
(And yeah, we know, Avril Lavigne. It reminds us of all those cheesy ballads from our youth. Stop judging us.)