Best Albums of 2007

[metalicajaymz]

facts are to follow

25. Guitar - Dealin With Signal and Noise
24. Phosphorescent - Pride
23. Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
22. Apparat - Walls
21. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

20. Secret Mommy - Plays
19. Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
18. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
17. Baroness - The Red Album
16. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

15. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
14. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
13. Times New Viking - Present the Paisley Reich
12. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
11. PJ Harvey - White Chalk

10. Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
9. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
8. Ludvico Treatment - Romanticism
7. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
6. Gravenhurst - The Western Lands

5. Dizzee Rascal - Maths and English
4. Half Cousin - Iodine
3. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. The National - Boxer
1. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond

[Zorg]

If you liked Times New Viking, you should check out Factums. The two bands are label mates, and I actually think Factums are a bit better. Though both bands are awesome.

[Anus Invader]

Dirty Projectors bbblllooowwwssss

and weve had like five of these threads

but basically Air, Other Men, Battles, and some other stuff

[A Dead Modernist]

i disagree

[metalicajaymz]

Dirty Projectors bbblllooowwwssss

and weve had like five of these threads

but basically Air, Other Men, Battles, and some other stuff
1. no

2. no we didn't

3. no

[Anus Invader]

yea and Low too i think Drums and Guns might be my favorite Low album

and yeah we did, like we had one a couple months ago and then i made one and then someone made another and now this

also there was way more interesting music put out this year than Dino J

i havent heard half the stuff on your list and ill check some out but yea

[Eliminator]

um what we didn't have any threads like this

[pixiesfanyo]

holy **** tony this is a terrible terrible list.

Alcest?

lol.

[metalicajaymz]

holy **** tony this is a terrible terrible list.

Alcest?

lol.
pretty good album

yea and Low too i think Drums and Guns might be my favorite Low album

another pretty good album but if it's your favorite Low album then why are you alive

[Anus Invader]

another pretty good album but if it's your favorite Low album then why are you alive

...

anyways here

http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=537906

too lazy to find the others, the search feature is ****ing garbage

heres my revised list that i posted on another forum

Air - Pocket Symphony
Battles - Mirrored
Other Men - Wake Up Swimming
Your Infamous Harp - Prah Suomafni Ruoy
Low - Drums and Guns
Sole and the Skyrider Band - s/t
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
Savath & Savalas - Mañana
Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo

i'm sure there's other stuff i'm forgetting but yea

[metalicajaymz]

that's September actually

the end of the year comes in December

[Anus Invader]

yeah there were a couple throughout the year

there was one after that one but i cant even go and look at my posts on other accounts or search anything. i mean i really dont care i was just saying

[A Dead Modernist]

Top 10 of 2007:

1. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
2. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
3. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
4. Ghastly City Sleep - Ghastly City Sleep
5. Tera Melos - Drugs to the Dear Youth
6. Do Make Say Think - You, You're History in Rust
7. Time of Orchids - Namesake Caution
8. Radiohead - In Rainbows
9. Battles - Mirrored
10. White Flight - White Flight

Other:
Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan - pullhairrubeye
Tarter Lamb - Sixty Metonymies
Bjork - Volta
The Kidcrash - Jokes
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Caribou - Andorra

changed up Top 5 a bit and #10 is interchangable with anything in "Other" depending on my mood.

[YourBiggestFan]

LCD Soundsystem's newest was probably my favorite record of the year.

I think I may be the only one who liked Voxtrot's album, but I'm alright with that.

[sweboy]

Pretty disappointed in some of the '07 releases but here's mah top 10:

1. Badgerlore - We Are all Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits
2. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
3. Mariee Sioux - Faces in the Rocks
4. Jerry Johansson - Next Door Conversations
5. KTL - 2
6. Sunn O))) - Oracle
7. Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
8. Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
9. GHQ - Crystal Healing
10. Dungen - Tio Bitar

[Krash100]

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
- Their best album in years

[Bukowski]

13. Times New Viking - Present the Paisley Reich

excellent album!

I might attempt this, but probably not. I like Sweboy's list, plenty good stuff on there.

[Tangy zizzle]

facts are to follow

25. Guitar - Dealin With Signal and Noise

23. Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
22. Apparat - Walls



18. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
17. Baroness - The Red Album


15. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

13. Times New Viking - Present the Paisley Reich

11. PJ Harvey - White Chalk


7. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

2. The National - Boxer


Some great ones Nacho. ****in' good work on the Baroness album especially. Great, great record.

[Bukowski]

I'm gonna check that out, they're playing near me late January. Never heard of 'em before now though.

[Tangy zizzle]

Great band. I kinda see 'em as a Mastodon & Planes Mistaken for Stars type band but with something goin' on that's entirely their own.

[Anus Invader]

forgot this: k-os - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco

fresh to deathhhhhhhhh

[pixiesfanyo]

Great band. I kinda see 'em as a Mastodon & Planes Mistaken for Stars type band but with something goin' on that's entirely their own.

I think it is the fact that they don't suck like those bands.

[Robert Crumb]

Albums

1. Burial - Untrue
2. Angels of Light - We Are Him
3. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
4. UGK - Underground Kingz
5. The National - Boxer
6. Devin the Dude - Waitin' to Inhale
7. Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments
8. Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back
9. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
10. Tenniscoats - Tan-Tan Therapy
11. Euros Childs - Bore Da
12. Sean Price - Jesus Price Supastar
13. Sunburned Hand of the Man - Fire Escape
14. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
15. Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From the Ash

Songs

1. Burial - Archangel
2. Panda Bear - Bros.
3. Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
4. Animal Collective - Fireworks
5. Bill Callahan - Diamond Dancer
6. UGK - International Player's Anthem
7. Candie Payne - All I Need to Hear
8. Mary Weiss - Don't Come Back
9. The National - Squalor Victoria
10. Jesu - Conqueror
11. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings - I'm Not Gonna Cry
12. Battles - Tonto
13. Nick Lowe - Hope For Us All
14. Angels of Light - Goodbye Mary Lou
15. Mavis Staples - My Own Eyes

Or something. I should probably get back and reevaluate some of these rap albums I've got sitting around. Mostly, I couldn't get it up for rap this year. The only stuff I was interested in is the fun stuff. Devin the Dude and UGK get on the list on account of their consistency when I needed something nice to drive to. I can't really justify Sean Price over Pharoahe Monch, but it is what it is, son.

The only stuff I've left on my hard drive to listen to are Deer Tick and Stars of the Lid. I'm not really itching to listen to either though, honestly. Kudos to Shelter From the Ash, Robert Wyatt, The Postmarks, every Numero comp released this year that I got my hands on, Grizzly Bear EP, Old Time Relijun and a couple dozen other songs scattered around on a couple dozen albums. So on so forth.

[Anus Invader]

9. Yes Savy Fav - I Was Gonna Put This Up But I Forgot
11. Cornelius - Sensuous is from 2006


yea

[Robert Crumb]

Ah, goddamn late American releases.

[Anus Invader]

"Music" came up on shuffle earlier today. i was eating lunch. a philly cheesesteak.

yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Robert Crumb]

I played "Music" on my show last week. Great tune.

[Anus Invader]

also does the intro to the Equestrian on Let's Stay Friends not make you think of Jesus Lizard every time? especially when i wasn't familiar with the album yet, like i'd tihnk it was on shuffle and played Jesus Lizard

[Montana]

1. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
2. Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whaleheart
3. Battles - Mirrored
4. MIA - Kala
5. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
6. Cloud Cult - Meaning of 8
7. CocoRosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn
8. Brother Ali - Undisputed Truth
9. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ask Forgiveness
10. Soulsavers - It's not how hard you fall, it's where you land
11. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
12. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
13. Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls
14. The Chemical Brothers - We are the Night
15. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga

I guess.

[Jawaharal]

Fireworks for my top song this year or the Ratatat remix of Alright by Memphis Bleek.

[Aeaon]

The new Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Interpol, Dinosaur Jr., and White Stripes albums were awesome.

[AlienEater]

1. Dinosaur Jr

yeah

[WhoMadeCookies]

1. Jens Lekman-Night Falls Over Kortedala
2. Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam
3. Radiohead-In Rainbows
4. LCD Soundsystem-Sound of Silver
5. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
6. Beirut-The Flying Club Cup
7. Okkervil River-The Stage Names
8. YACHT-I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real
9. Vampire Weekend- Blue CD-R
10. Of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
11. Black Kids-Wizard of Ahhs
12. Spoon-Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
13. M.I.A.-Kala
14. The National-Boxer
15. Andrew Bird-Armchair Apocrypha
16. Battles-Mirrored
17. Daft Punk-Alive 2007
18. Aesop Rock-None Shall Pass
19. Menomena-Friend and Foe
20. A Place To Bury Strangers-S/T

Letdowns:
1. Saul Williams-The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
2. The Shins-Wincing The Night Away
3. Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
4. New Pornographers-Challengers
5. A lack of great hip-hop records
6. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists-Living With The Living
7. Voxtrot-S/T
8. Bright Eyes-Cassadaga
9. Ween-La Cucaracha
10. Panda Bear-Person Pitch (Am I the only one who didnt like this?)

[Zmev]

Am I the only one who didnt like this?

Nope.

[Zorg]

25. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
24. Supersilent – 8
23. Kanye West – Graduation
22. Amon Tobin - Foley Room
21. Radiohead – In Rainbows

20. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
19. Besnard Lakes - Are the Dark Horse
18. Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
17. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
16. Oxbow – Narcotic Story

15. World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland
14. Black Dice – Load Blown
13. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
12. Shape of Broad Minds – Craft of the Lost Art
11. Jesca Hoop – Kismet

10. The Clientele - God Save The Clientele
9. The National Lights - The Dead Will Walk, Dear
8. Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover
7. M.I.A – Kala
6. Deer Tick - War Elephant

5. Times New Viking – Present the Paisley Reich
4. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
3. A Place to Bury Strangers – A Place to Bury Strangers
2. Factums – Alien Native
1. The National – Boxer

[Zmev]

Right now

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Air - Pocket Symphony
Blonde Redhead - 23
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Battles - Mirrored
Feist - The Reminder
A Wilhelm Scream - Career Suicide

[Kyle]

Pretty good list DMD, but seriously that Gravenhurst album is so dull. Also the Interpol one I thought was a let down for the most part.

My favorites...

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Future of the Left - Curses
The National - Boxer
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Justice - I can't do the synmbol.
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (how is this not on more lists)
Battles - Mirrored
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now

[pixiesfanyo]

Pretty good list DMD, but seriously that Gravenhurst album is so dull. Also the Interpol one I thought was a let down for the most part.

My favorites...

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Future of the Left - Curses
The National - Boxer
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Justice - I can't do the synmbol.
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (how is this not on more lists)
Battles - Mirrored
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
Scout Niblett - This Fool Can Die Now

oh so you read pitchfork i take it?

[sweboy]

pixiesfanyo: +3 indie points

[Bukowski]

I reckon this is my top 20, in no order whatsoever.

OM - Pilgrimage
Jesu - Conqueror
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Times New Viking - Present The Paisley Reich
Sleeping People - Growing
Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from the Ash
Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Deerhoof - Friend Opportnity
Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (just recently heard this but it's so good it's in)
Liars - Liars (although not as good as DND)
Rhys Chatham - Crimson Grail
Justice - I can't do the symbol either
A Place to Bury Strangers – A Place to Bury Strangers
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Battles - Mirrored
Sunn O))) - Oracle
Dead C - Future Artists
Grinderman - Grinderman

stuff I still haven't heard for some reason:

Blonde Redhead - 23
Low - Drums & Guns
Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Time of Orchids - Namesake Caution

[Kyle]

oh so you read pitchfork i take it?Amongst other review sites, yes. Most of the albums I mentioned have been praised pretty much everywhere though, so whatever point you were trying to make doesn't really stand up.

[Thanks]

Okay I'll do one.

[Thanks]

This stuff was great, good, or decent, I thought.

Säh - 06/06
Sycamore Smith - Baboon
Hell Town Trio - Raw Waters, Rough Seas
Hair Police - The Empty Quarter
Blonde Redhead - 23
Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Feist - The Reminder
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
The Kidcrash - Jokes
Charles Mingus - Cornell 1964
Akimbo - Navigating the Bronze
Old Time Relijun - Catharsis in Crisis
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Holy **** - LP
Black Dice - Load Blow

[Tangy zizzle]

Top 20 in no real order:

Icarus Line - Black Lives at the Golden Coast
Liars - Liars
Baroness - The Red Album
The National - Boxer
Die!Die!Die!Die! - Promises Promises
Earthless - Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky
Grinderman - Grinderman
Turzi - A
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
QOTSA - Era Vulgaris
Devestations - Coal
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Enon - Grey Geysers Carbon Clouds
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
The Boggs - Forts
Blood Meridian - Liquidate Paris
King Khan & His Shrines - What Is?!
UNKLE - War Stories
The Intelliggence - Deuteronomy

Been a very mean year for music.

[Robert Crumb]

That Earthless album was pretty good, forgot all about that one.

I'll probably catch **** for this, but that Times New Viking album would have been better if it weren't for the production values. And I'm not one to make a fuss about that stuff usually. For whatever reason though, it rubs me wrong.

[WhoMadeCookies]

Did anyone like the new Wilco album? Ive had it since May and am yet to sit down and actually listen to it

[Time]

It really only has one memorable song (Impossible Germany) and a couple other good ones. It was a letdown for me.

[WhoMadeCookies]

Yeah, it tops my "Albums That I Didn't Really Listen To By Bands That I Really Like", and from what I did hear, it sounded like a big letdown

[Catchthe22]

This stuff was great, good, or decent, I thought.

Säh - 06/06
Sycamore Smith - Baboon
Hell Town Trio - Raw Waters, Rough Seas
Hair Police - The Empty Quarter
Blonde Redhead - 23
Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Feist - The Reminder
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
The Kidcrash - Jokes
Charles Mingus - Cornell 1964
Akimbo - Navigating the Bronze
Old Time Relijun - Catharsis in Crisis
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Holy **** - LP
Black Dice - Load Blow


wtf, you from the UP?

[Thanks]

Yeah dude, it's Alex.

[tomwaits4noman]

Ok had this list.... now having second thoughts

1. Battles- Mirrored
2. Radiohead - In rainbows
3. Grinderman - Grinderman
4. PJ Harvey- White Chalk
5. Kings of Leon - Because of the times

Ok changing it

1. Battles- Mirrored
2. Radiohead - In rainbows
3. Einsturzende Neubauten- Alles Wieder Offen
4. Grinderman - Grinderman
5. PJ Harvey- White Chalk

[A Dead Modernist]

Ive only had one good listen to Daft Punk - Alive, but its up there in my Top 10 and Jana Hunter - There's No Home if it counts as 07.

[Milestogo05]

Poison'd!!!

[Tangy zizzle]

nobody liked the Turzi, Icarus Line, Intelligence or Boggs albums?

NOONE?

[Anus Invader]

Turzi was cool but it sounds like an sweaty acid trip where i'm in a circus

or something. it makes me feel a little bit uncomfortable

[samariah]

i did not hear all of it but what i did hear did not really do much for me

i need to expand my vocab

[Doctor D.]

Turzi was cool but it sounds like an sweaty acid trip where i'm in a circus

or something. it makes me feel a little bit uncomfortable

That sounds way too good.

Because of that, I'm defintely gonna check them out now.

[The Stig]

Tony is the new Dinosaur Jr. that good? In comparison to their other stuff how does it sound?

[Liebensaft]

New Dinosaur Jr. sounds surprisingly similar to their older releases. It's pretty good stuff. If you like their other albums, you'd probably enjoy this one.

[perriwinkle]

That sounds way too good.

Because of that, I'm defintely gonna check them out now.

i think youll love it, it's French psychedelica

it's perfect music for exactly that mood and tone

[tracyjacks]

arcade fire - neon bible
spoon - ga ga ga ga ga
radiohead - in rainbows
the 'i'm not there' soundtrack
lcd soundsystem - sound of silver
justice - (cross)
grinderman
the good, the bad and the queen
iron & wine - the shepherd's dog
the national - boxer
panda bear - person pitch

biggest surprises of the year:

philippe cohen solal: solal presents the moonshine sessions. i was kind of expecting this to suck and be basically french dude trendifies country the way gotan trendified tango, french style. but it's so much better than gotan, which was pretty formulaic and repetitive. really beautiful, delicate album (though it does have some country kitch touches, like crickets)

ween - la cucaracha: a few good songs but overall left me pretty indifferent.

rufus wainwright - release the stars: also surprisingly mediocre.

[sweboy]

Pretty disappointed in some of the '07 releases but here's mah top 10:

1. Badgerlore - We Are all Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits
2. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
3. Mariee Sioux - Faces in the Rocks
4. Jerry Johansson - Next Door Conversations
5. KTL - 2
6. Sunn O))) - Oracle
7. Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
8. Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
9. GHQ - Crystal Healing
10. Dungen - Tio Bitar

Also I gots to give a shout out to the following negroes:

Charalambides - Likeness
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Blood of Kingu - De Occulta Philosophia
Sunburned Circle - The Blaze Game
Om - Pilgrimage
Meg Baird - Dear Companion
Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird on the Water
Spacious Mind - Gentle Path Highway
Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between
Mammatus - The Coast Explodes

[Doctor D.]

i think youll love it, it's French psychedelica

it's perfect music for exactly that mood and tone

Not quite wht I had in mind for a circus acid experience, but it's really really good nonetheless.

[Zebra]

ween - la cucaracha: a few good songs but overall left me pretty indifferent.

I had high expectations for that album and I unfortunately feel the same way. Nothing really stands out amongst the whole album, it really sounds like a half-assed version of Quebec. For the record, "Shamemaker" and "The Fruit Man" are just dreadful.

[Zmev]

+ Spiritwalker + Your Party

[Eliminator]

why would someone have high expectations for that album

[Doctor D.]

I really really really like it. It's not their best, ganted, but I think it's a good solid album.

[Figure8]

my top 25ish in no order.

Seabear "The Ghost That Carried Us Away"
The Shins "Wincing the Night Away"
Panda Bear "Person Pitch"
Rufus Wainwright "Release the Stars"
Andrew Bird "Armchair Apocrypha "
Patrick Wolf "The Magic Position"
The National "Boxer"
Les Savy Fav "Let's Stay Friends"
Iron and Wine "The Sheperd's Dog"
Blonde Redhead "23"
Pinback "Autumn of the Seraphs"
Elliott Smith "New Moon"
Radiohead "In Rainbows"
Of Montreal "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?"
Jens Lekman "Night Falls Over Kortedala"
CocoRosie "The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn"
Dinosaur Jr. "Beyond"
Spoon "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"
Do Make Say Think "You, You're a History in Rust"
65daysofstatic "The Destruction of Small Ideas"
Page France "and the Family Telephone"
Devendra Banhart "Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon"
Sunset Rubdown "Random Spirit Lover"
Explosions in the Sky "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone"
Okkervil River "The Stage Names"
Black Moth Super Rainbow "Dandelion Gum"
Art Brut "It's a Bit Complicated"