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'Tis the season for lists, and the latest comes from the venerable Rolling Stone magazine. The magazine has published what they describe as the 100 Best Songs of the Year and selections include tracks from: AFI, My Chemical Romance, Mastodon, Green Day/U2, Raconteurs, Fall Out Boy, Sonic Youth, Be Your Own Pet, Dropkick Murphys, The Coup, Flaming Lips and Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

  1. "Crazy" - Gnarls Barkley
  2. "Steady As She Goes" - The Raconteurs
  3. "Ridin'" - Chamillionaire
  4. "What You Know" - T.I.
  5. "Vans" - The Pack
  6. "Thunder on the Mountain" - Bob Dylan
  7. "Smile" - Lily Allen
  8. "Wamp Wamp (What It Do)" - Clipse with Slim Thug
  9. "Dimension" - Wolfmother
  10. "Ooh La La" - Goldfrapp
  11. "World Wide Suicide" - Pearl Jam
  12. "Read My Mind" - The Killers
  13. "Free Radicals" - The Flaming Lips
  14. "Ghetto Story" - Cham
  15. "Miss Murder" - AFI
  16. "You Only Live Once" - The Strokes
  17. "Welcome to the Black Parade" - My Chemical Romance
  18. "Ain't No Other Man" - Christina Aguilera
  19. "Get Myself Into It" - The Rapture
  20. "The Long Way Around" - The Dixie Chicks
  21. "SexyBack" - Justin Timberlake
  22. "Tell Me Baby" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  23. "Fidelity" - Regina Spektor
  24. "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live" - Bruce Springsteen
  25. "When the Sun Goes Down" - Arctic Monkeys
  26. "Province" - TV on the Radio
  27. "Capillarian Crest" - Mastodon
  28. "Level" - The Raconteurs
  29. "Smiley Faces" - Gnarls Barkley
  30. "Over & Over" - Hot Chip
  31. "The Clock" - Thom Yorke
  32. "Do It To It" - Cherish
  33. "Chill Out Tent" - The Hold Steady
  34. "When You Were Young" - The Killers
  35. "Summersong" - The Decemberists
  36. "SOS" - Rihanna
  37. "Strange Apparition" - Beck
  38. "Gin & Milk" - Dirty Pretty Things
  39. "Dance, Dance" - Fall Out Boy
  40. "Incinerate" - Sonic Youth
  41. "Me & U" - Cassie
  42. "Origin of Species" - Chris Smither
  43. "Tony the Beat" - The Sounds
  44. "Hustlin'" - Rick Ross
  45. "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)" - Chris Brown
  46. "Hang Me Up to Dry" - Cold War Kids
  47. "Cheer It On" - Tokyo Police Club
  48. "He Said, She Said" - Shawnna with Ludacris
  49. "Chasing Cars" - Snow Patrol
  50. "My Love" - Justin Timberlake
  51. "Black Sweat" - Prince
  52. "Makedamnsure" - Taking Back Sunday
  53. "O Valencia!" - The Decemberists
  54. "Kilo" - Ghostface Killah
  55. "Nausea" - Beck
  56. "Promiscuous" - Nelly Furtado with Timbaland
  57. "Love Me or Hate Me" - Lady Sovereign
  58. "Idlewild Blues" - Outkast
  59. "Bossy" - Kelis with Too $hort
  60. "Phenomena" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  61. "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" - CSS
  62. "Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep)" - The Rakes
  63. "The Funeral" - Band of Horses
  64. "Put Your Records On" - Corinne Bailey Rae
  65. "Penny on the Train Track" - Ben Kweller
  66. "Ballad of Bitter Honey" - Eef Barzelay
  67. "Deja Vu" - Beyonce with Jay-Z
  68. "Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts" - Arctic Monkeys
  69. "Trouble" - Jay-Z
  70. "I Gotcha" - Lupe Fiasco
  71. "Let Me Know" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  72. "Louisiana " - The Walkmen
  73. "Pushover" - The Long Winters
  74. "Just Drums" - Tapes 'N Tapes
  75. "Before He Cheats" - Carrie Underwood
  76. "Fire Department" - Be Your Own Pet
  77. "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" - "Weird Al" Yankovic
  78. "That's How I Got To Memphis" - Solomon Burke
  79. "It's Going Down" - Yung Joc with Nitti
  80. "I'm Free" - Pimp C
  81. "Temperature" - Sean Paul
  82. "London Bridge" - Fergie
  83. "Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further" - Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint
  84. "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage" - Panic! At the Disco
  85. "Well Thought Out Twinkles" - Silversun Pickups
  86. "The Saints are Coming" - Green Day and U2
  87. "U +UR Hand" - Pink
  88. "The Greatest" - Cat Power
  89. "Show Me" - John Legend
  90. "Britney's Silver Can" - James Kochalka Superstar
  91. "Buttons" - The Pussycat Dolls
  92. "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" - Dropkick Murphys
  93. "Saving Grace" - Tom Petty
  94. "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" - Lil' Wayne and Birdman
  95. "Don't Feel Right" - The Roots
  96. "If I Was in El Dorado" - Oakley Hall
  97. "Automatic Lover" - Teddybears
  98. "Take Control" - Amerie
  99. "Baby Let's Have a Baby Before Bush Do Somethin' Crazy" - The Coup with Silk E
  100. "Skinny Boy" - Amy Millan