by Aubin Paul
'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.
- "Crazy" - Gnarls Barkley
- "Steady As She Goes" - The Raconteurs
- "Ridin'" - Chamillionaire
- "What You Know" - T.I.
- "Vans" - The Pack
- "Thunder on the Mountain" - Bob Dylan
- "Smile" - Lily Allen
- "Wamp Wamp (What It Do)" - Clipse with Slim Thug
- "Dimension" - Wolfmother
- "Ooh La La" - Goldfrapp
- "World Wide Suicide" - Pearl Jam
- "Read My Mind" - The Killers
- "Free Radicals" - The Flaming Lips
- "Ghetto Story" - Cham
- "Miss Murder" - AFI
- "You Only Live Once" - The Strokes
- "Welcome to the Black Parade" - My Chemical Romance
- "Ain't No Other Man" - Christina Aguilera
- "Get Myself Into It" - The Rapture
- "The Long Way Around" - The Dixie Chicks
- "SexyBack" - Justin Timberlake
- "Tell Me Baby" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Fidelity" - Regina Spektor
- "How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live" - Bruce Springsteen
- "When the Sun Goes Down" - Arctic Monkeys
- "Province" - TV on the Radio
- "Capillarian Crest" - Mastodon
- "Level" - The Raconteurs
- "Smiley Faces" - Gnarls Barkley
- "Over & Over" - Hot Chip
- "The Clock" - Thom Yorke
- "Do It To It" - Cherish
- "Chill Out Tent" - The Hold Steady
- "When You Were Young" - The Killers
- "Summersong" - The Decemberists
- "SOS" - Rihanna
- "Strange Apparition" - Beck
- "Gin & Milk" - Dirty Pretty Things
- "Dance, Dance" - Fall Out Boy
- "Incinerate" - Sonic Youth
- "Me & U" - Cassie
- "Origin of Species" - Chris Smither
- "Tony the Beat" - The Sounds
- "Hustlin'" - Rick Ross
- "Yo (Excuse Me Miss)" - Chris Brown
- "Hang Me Up to Dry" - Cold War Kids
- "Cheer It On" - Tokyo Police Club
- "He Said, She Said" - Shawnna with Ludacris
- "Chasing Cars" - Snow Patrol
- "My Love" - Justin Timberlake
- "Black Sweat" - Prince
- "Makedamnsure" - Taking Back Sunday
- "O Valencia!" - The Decemberists
- "Kilo" - Ghostface Killah
- "Nausea" - Beck
- "Promiscuous" - Nelly Furtado with Timbaland
- "Love Me or Hate Me" - Lady Sovereign
- "Idlewild Blues" - Outkast
- "Bossy" - Kelis with Too $hort
- "Phenomena" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" - CSS
- "Work, Work, Work (Pub, Club, Sleep)" - The Rakes
- "The Funeral" - Band of Horses
- "Put Your Records On" - Corinne Bailey Rae
- "Penny on the Train Track" - Ben Kweller
- "Ballad of Bitter Honey" - Eef Barzelay
- "Deja Vu" - Beyonce with Jay-Z
- "Bigger Boys and Stolen Sweethearts" - Arctic Monkeys
- "Trouble" - Jay-Z
- "I Gotcha" - Lupe Fiasco
- "Let Me Know" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- "Louisiana " - The Walkmen
- "Pushover" - The Long Winters
- "Just Drums" - Tapes 'N Tapes
- "Before He Cheats" - Carrie Underwood
- "Fire Department" - Be Your Own Pet
- "Trapped in the Drive-Thru" - "Weird Al" Yankovic
- "That's How I Got To Memphis" - Solomon Burke
- "It's Going Down" - Yung Joc with Nitti
- "I'm Free" - Pimp C
- "Temperature" - Sean Paul
- "London Bridge" - Fergie
- "Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further" - Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint
- "The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage" - Panic! At the Disco
- "Well Thought Out Twinkles" - Silversun Pickups
- "The Saints are Coming" - Green Day and U2
- "U +UR Hand" - Pink
- "The Greatest" - Cat Power
- "Show Me" - John Legend
- "Britney's Silver Can" - James Kochalka Superstar
- "Buttons" - The Pussycat Dolls
- "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" - Dropkick Murphys
- "Saving Grace" - Tom Petty
- "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" - Lil' Wayne and Birdman
- "Don't Feel Right" - The Roots
- "If I Was in El Dorado" - Oakley Hall
- "Automatic Lover" - Teddybears
- "Take Control" - Amerie
- "Baby Let's Have a Baby Before Bush Do Somethin' Crazy" - The Coup with Silk E
- "Skinny Boy" - Amy Millan