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Do you want to see the NME's top 50 tracks of 2007? Do you? Do you? You DON'T?? Then don't click below the cut eh?

50 Biffy Clyro - Living Is A problem Because Everything Dies
49 Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
48 QOTSA - Sick, Sick, Sick
47 Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
46 Richard Hawley - Tonight The Streets Are Ours
45 Black Lips - Bad Kids
44 CSS - Off The Hook
43 Kate Nash - Foundations
42 The Enemy - It's Not OK
41 MIA - Boyz
40 The Horrors - She Is The New Thing
39 Late of The Pier - Bathroom Gurgle
38 Lightspeed Champion - Galaxy Of The Lost
37 The White Stripes - Icky Thump
36 The Hives - Tick Tick Boom
35 Bloc Party - The Prayer
34 XX Teens - Darlin'
33 Cold War Kids - Hang Me Out To Dry
32 Those Dancing Days - Those Dancing Days
31 Gallows - Abandon Ship
30 Does It Offend You, Yeah? - Let's Make Out
29 Jarvis - Don't Let Him Waste Your Time
28 Björk Earth Intruders
27 Howling Bells - Low Happening
26 Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running
25 Kings of Leon - Charmer
24 The Gossip - Standing In The Way of Control
23 Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
22 Klaxons - It's Not Over Yet
21 SFA - Run Away
20 Dizzee Rascal - Sirens
19 Santogold - LES Artistes
18 Hadouken! - That Boy That Girl
17 MIA - Jimmy
16 Arctic Monkeys - Fluorescent Adolescent
15 Battles - Atlas
14 Black Lips - O Katrina!
13 Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
12 Foals - Hummer
11 Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
10 LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
9 Arcade Fire - Intervention
8 Foals - Mathletics
7 Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
6 The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
5 Rihanna - Umbrella
4 The Teenagers - Homecoming
3 The Cribs's - Men's Needs
2 Glasvegas - Daddy's Gone
1 Klaxons - Golden Skans

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Here are the ones where I've not even heard of the band - what sort of thing do they do? ("Go and look on Youtube grandad")

The Ting Tings
Foals
Santogold
Howling Bells
Those Dancing Days
XX Teens (one X away from ungoogleability, phew)
Lightspeed Champion (this is a wikipedia band meme thing isnt it)
Late Of The Pier

You're not missing anything.

At least they had the decency to put Los Campesinos! in the top 50. Wrong song though.

Foals are bleepy and guitars and ting and once got a glass in the face onstage from a mate who used to go out with one of them.

Santogold sounds interesting - Bjork recommended her in that Observer thing.

The list is terrible obv. I hope T2's success is going to usher in a NEW ERA which will purge our lives of this shit, hopefully w/ the aid of knives.

Good songs there: 'Umbrella', 'Back To Black, 'Jimmy', 'Earth Intruders'. How anyone can think 'Sirens' is better than 'Pussyole' is beyond me.

Might be the video? The actual song grew on me a lot but video aside it's nowhere near Pussy'ole. (Or "Flex")

I feel a bit sorry for Lethal Bizzle as his brazen selling out seems to have had zero traction!

Howling Bells - kind of droney but tuneful guitar rock, Low Happenign is a good tune (released in 2006), boring live.

Lightspeed Champion. Dev from pseudo trendy no-marks Test Icicles (ugh) going solo and acoustic and all serious like. Quite bad.

Late of the Pier. From somewhere in the midlands. Guitars with some bleeps/beats thrown on top. Pretty weak.

dere god, I'd forgotten the Ice Testicles.

My friend who loves Kristin Hersh and Kate Bush rates Howling Bells, so I think they are that sort of thing.

At least 'Umberella' is in the top five. The kids are not lost!

I didn't think I knew the Tings Tings but 'That's Not My Name' is actually a quite catchy slab of novelty indie with a 'My Sharona' beat behind it. Not entirely unpleasant, if a bit irritating.

XX Teens came up at work once. The rest haven't, so I can only assume they weren't played on the radio at all, or have very good publishing deals.

At least 4 of them have received heavy rotation on 6music/ evening Radio 1/2.

Not that I think that means they're actually any good, obv, in case you thought that was my point...

ting tings: that "that's not my name" single is STUPIDLY catchy, i seem to recall singing it for most of glastonbury. will have to find it for future poptimism i reckons.

foals: gtry indie noncesense

santogold, howling bells, those dancing days: NO idea

XX teens: previously xerox teens, nu rave shoreditch electro stuff

lightspeed champ: heard OF but no idea rly

late of the pier: ???

Those Dancing Days are very very highly recommended from me. In fact I posted about them on ITG before they'd even released anything. Also the Howling Bells song is really good, but I don't like their others much. The singer of The Ting Tings used to be in a very good band called Dear Eskimo, but her new group is just OK in my opinion - still it's good to see her doing well.

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