1 "Roc Boys"
Jay-Z
And the winner is. . . Hov! This is black superhero music, circa 2007: Jay-Z goes to the movies and comes back with an even better film in his head, with a song that plays like the Copacabana scene in GoodFellas translated into hip-hop. The most triumphant sound anyone came up with all year, this track makes you fly in more ways than one.
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嗯，优胜者是…Hov大约是2007年黑人超级英雄的音乐：Jay-Z看了美国黑帮并由此得到灵感创作了这首歌，就像是GoodFellas（《好家伙》）中的Copacabana改编成了hip-hop的风格。整个2007年最成功的声音，这首"Roc Boys"可以让你用不同的方式在音乐的天空中翱翔。
2 "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country"
Randy Newman
"Let's drop the big one and see what happens." That was Newman's advice twenty-five years ago in "Political Science." But on this farewell to the American empire, it turns out we dropped the big one on ourselves: "The leaders we have/While they're the worst that we've had/Are hardly the worst this poor world has seen." Bush: not as bad as Stalin. Don't you feel better?
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“丢下这个大的，看看会发生什么。”这是Newman在25年前"Political Science"中的忠告。但是这个对美国的辞别让丢下的大块砸到了我们自己身上：“现在当政的总统/是所有总统中最差的/几乎是这个可怜的世界上所能听闻的最差的。” 布什回应道“至少比斯大林好”你感觉好点了吗？
3 "Umbrella"
Rihanna
This year's "Crazy," as in the sleeper hit that becomes the world's favorite song. And then just keeps getting more popular, until everybody can hear that robot voice chanting "ella ella ella, ay ay ay" in their sleep. The guitars are prime Eighties studio rock, while the green-eyed lady on the mike sings like the Cranberries.
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今年的疯狂之作，从让人昏昏欲睡的催眠曲一跃成为人们最喜欢的歌曲。时至今日变的越来越流行，每个人在临睡前都会听到那段像机器人声音的简短旋律"ella ella ella, ay ay ay"。吉他由最好的Eighties studio rock承担，而这位有着绿色眼睛的歌手在麦克前很有Cranberries（小红莓乐队）的感觉。
4 "D.A.N.C.E."
Justice
The breakout tune from the hypercool Paris dance label Ed Banger (run by Daft Punk's manager) is a blast of glitter-disco joy, with a rubbery bass line and an insistent children's chorus demanding that you "do the dance!" Just try to say no!
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这个空灵的声音出自让人亢奋的巴黎独立舞曲厂牌Ed Banger（由Daft Punk的经理管理），掀起了一阵绚丽的迪斯科风，歌曲中充满弹性的贝司和重复的童生合唱让你不禁跟着歌曲摇摆！让你欲罢不能！
5 "Four Winds"
Bright Eyes
The lyrics evoke W.B. Yeats; the music, J.C. Mellencamp. No song better captured our current sense of looming apocalypse than this one, which also makes a case for Conor Oberst as one of the best — and bravest — lyricists out there: "The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Koran's mute/If you burned them all together, you'd get close to the truth."
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歌曲的歌词让人想起了W.B. Yeats（耶茨），旋律则使人想到了J.C. Mellencamp。其他歌曲都不能像"Four Winds"一样呈现现在海市蜃楼般的启示。这首歌曲还是Conor Oberst最好的、最勇敢的最品之一：圣经使人盲目，律法让人充耳不闻，可兰经让人沉默/如果你把他们全都烧掉，就会更接近真相。”
6 "Dough Is What I Got"
Lil Wayne
Insanely prolific (or maybe just insane), the self-proclaimed Best Rapper Alive works his down-South magic over a jazzy sax sample and proves his sub-zero flow can make the shy girls horny and the fly girls corny.
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Lil Wayne是疯狂的多产艺人（或者说只是有点精神失常），自称是现世最好的说唱歌手。他制作了具有魔力的南方爵士萨克斯小样，以此来证明他的sub-zero flow可以让害羞的姑娘变的狂野，让轻浮的女孩变的朴素。
7 "Rehab"
Amy Winehouse
Not since Eminem has a pop song hit with this subversive force: The contrast between the retro production and the defiantly slurred chorus is hilarious at first — then heartbreaking.
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自Eminem后以来从没有一首流行歌曲可以拥有如此颠覆性的力量：歌曲的开头部分热闹非凡，怀旧的风格和圆滑音的合唱形成鲜明的对比然后带给人的是令人心碎的感觉。
8 "Long Walk Home"
Bruce Springsteen
In a song that sums up the American moment better than any presidential candidate has managed, the darkness on the edge of town creeps into Main Street — and we're left to figure out what went wrong. And if the chorus leaves some hope that we'll regain what we've lost, the E Street Band's martial blare somehow guarantees it.
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在这首歌曲里概括了现在美国比过去任何一个总统候选人都好的现状，城镇边缘的黑暗蔓延到了主要的大道，并且我们被留下来找出不对劲的地方。如果歌曲里的合唱给我们以希望可以重新得到失去的东西，那么E Street Band威武的奏鸣就是那希望的担保。（此简介中，多为对歌词意境的阐述）
9 "Boyz"
M.I.A.
A dutty-rock jam about riding with your girls, calling out the dude version of "How many ladies in the house?" Except M.I.A. turns those shout-outs into a global-capitalism survey: "How many no-money boys are crazy . . . how many start a war?"
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一首dutty-rock风格的歌曲，与你心怡的女孩出行，用花花公子般的口吻大声叫喊“屋里有多少女孩”。除了这些之外，M.I.A.还把这首歌曲变成了全球资本主义影响的调查：“有多少穷小子躁动狂热…又有多少开始了战争？”
10 "Int'l Player's Anthem"
UGK
Before his sudden death, Pimp C celebrated his release from jail with the posse cut of the year: Houston's reigning hip-hop duo with fellow Dirty South crews Three 6 Mafia and OutKast.
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在Pimp C的猝死之前，他还与一群唱片界的人，包括统治休斯顿hip-hop的Dirty South和Three 6 Mafia组成的二人组合，OutKast庆祝自己重获自由。
11 "Stronger"
Kanye West
Robot funk is the new soul loop! With his futuristic, Daft Punk-fueled synthfest, Kanye declares he's down with hipster America's obsession with French dance music.
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Robot funk是新的灵魂的循环。歌曲中用到了充满未来感的Daft Punk-fueled电子合成器，Kanye坦承自己对爵士乐和法国舞曲的痴迷如同生了病一般。
12 "Gunslinger"
John Fogerty
Armed with Creedence-y twang, Fogerty turns Bush's love for Wild West demagoguery against him, yearning for some frontier justice to tame the "wild-eyed bunch" running the country.
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用Creedence-y的弦声武装起来，Fogerty把Bush的爱转变成了对自己的西部蛮荒地区的谣言，他渴望公平正义可以驯服那些狂暴的人，让正义贯穿在乡村之中。
13 "The Past Is a Grotesque Animal"
Of Montreal
The best Bowie homage to mention Georges Bataille since . . . ever? Ever! Almost twelve minutes of emotional turmoil, with an intense krautrock groove full of synths and guitar. Kevin Barnes chronicles the details of a young love gone very, very bad.
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最为出色的Bowie在任何时候都对Georges Bataille顶礼膜拜？是的！在这将近12分钟的情感风暴中，有着强烈的实验音乐的特点，电子合成和吉他充斥其中。Kevin Barnes讲述了年轻的爱是怎样变坏的细节。
14 "I Get Money"
50 Cent
This over-the-top celebration of stanky richness was one of the strongest radio hits of 2007, thanks to its grinding beat, nickel-plated hooks and 50's pile-driving rhymes.
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由于歌曲中有碾压的鼓点，像镍币一样的符尾和50 Cent充满节奏的韵律，这首庆祝暴富的歌曲成为了2007年电台最常播放的经典之一。
15 "Piece of Me"
Britney Spears
Britney gets a pissed-off synth rocker to match her shaved head as she eviscerates the tabs one by one. Proof that she's got a soul — and the right producers to construct it for her.
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Britney用合成的暴怒摇滚来配合她的光头，因为她要一个一个的突出歌曲中的标签。证明她领悟了制作人为她量身打造的"Piece of Me"的深意。
16 "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb"
Spoon
Britt Daniel's sandpaper voice meets a reconstituted Motown groove built on riffing saxes, a spry dance beat and loads of reverb.
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Britt Daniel充满质感的嗓音与建立在萨克斯重复段上的“汽车城”节奏（指一种节拍强而 慢的节奏和布鲁斯舞曲）完美融合，歌曲中有活泼的舞曲鼓点和加载的电子混响。
17 "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"
Radiohead
Just what nobody expected from Radiohead at this late date: a love song, with Thom Yorke singing like he's been spending quality time with his Al Green records.
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没有人奢望Radiohead在这么晚的时候还会推出一首爱情歌曲，Thom Yorke的唱腔好像他在享受与Al Green唱片合作的珍贵时光。
18 "Icky Thump"
The White Stripes
Wondering why there were so few great guitar riffs this year? Turns out Jack White used 'em all up in this song.
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想想为什么今年出色的吉他重复段这么少？答案是Jack White在"Icky Thump"里把它们都用光了。
19 "1234"
Feist
It starts with an acoustic guitar and lyrics that could have been written by Sesame Street's Count von Count. But then come the horns, banjo, pianos, choir and finger snaps — adding up to '07's world-conquering jam.
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歌曲以原声吉他开始，歌词肯定是Sesame Street的Count von Count写的。但是接下来的萨克斯管，五弦琴，钢琴，唱诗班和响指融合起来就成了07年极受欢迎的歌曲。
20 "All My Friends"
LCD Soundsystem
Seven minutes of electro disco that capture the ecstatic bliss of a perfect drug-fueled night and the bittersweet comedown that follows. Heartstring-pulling and party-starting all at once
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7分钟的电子disco乐，就像抓住了一个可以放肆嗑药、让人心醉神迷的赐福之夜然而紧紧跟随的是苦乐参半的的失落感。马上拉动你的心弦开始party时间吧。作者:
tjzzz 时间: 2008-11-7 09:53
