It's that time of year again...Your Top 5 albums of 2007

[denialorcoped]

Name your Top Five albums of 2007, and one favorite non-2007 album you discovered this year:

2007 top 5:

1. Iron & Wine - Shepard's Dogh
2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3. Mattias Gustavsson - Look There's Life on Earth
4. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus
5. Radiohead - In Rainbows

best discovery:

The Clean - Anthology 1 & 2

There u have it, who's next?

[DrPanda97]

1. Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective
2. Spiderman Of The Rings - Dan Deacon
3. EP - High Places
4. Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman
5. Hissing Fauna - of Montreal

Best Discovery in general -
High Places

[Mutineer]

1. Bodies of Water - Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink
2. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
3. Piebald - Accidental Gentlemen
4. Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Men
5. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?


Discovery thing: The Polyphonic Spree - The Beginning Stages of...

[stompclapclap]

no real order, except the first two are definitely at the top

-animal collective "strawberry jam"
-mgmt "oracular spectacular"
-dan deacon "spiderman of the rings"
-panda bear "person pitch"
-múm "go go smear the poison ivy"

hissing fauna was all right, but i really only enjoyed it live.

also, best discovery: frog eyes "the folded palm"

[peacebone]

Magik Markers - Boss
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Headdress - Turquoise
Akron/Family - Love is Simple
500mg - Apocatastisis

I first heard Hissing Fauna in 06, so it doesn't really count for me.

[GoldenGiven]

1. Capstan Shafts "Environ Maiden"
2. CYHSY "Some Loud Thunder"
3. ENON "Grass Geysers....Carbon Clouds"
4. Panda Bear "Person Pitch"
5. the Redwalls " s/t "

ugh, "wincing the night away" was really horrible, and i'd like to think i'm the Shins biggest fan

John Sebastian (ex-Lovin Spoonful) "Welcome Back" what a wonderful discovery

[ionnic1]

Discoveries:

1. The Happy Mondays - Thrills n' Pills n' Bellyaches
2. David Bowie - Low
3. New Order - Technique
4. OV Wright - Nickel and a Nail
5. Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin on

New album: The Hissing Fauna

There were a bunch of pop and rock albums I listened to in 2007 but honestly very little moved me deeply this year so I'd rather name 5 albums I played out and one new release.

[pinocchio]

His Name Is Alive - XMMER
His Name Is Alive - Sweet Earth Flower Tribute
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
The New Sound of Numbers - Liberty Seeds
The Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder

[pinocchio]

and i guess my honorable mention would be strawberry jam

[lou2ser]

The New Sound of Numbers - Liberty Seeds


Released October 2006. :)

[pinocchio]

ah fuck

[lou2ser]

(in alphabetical order)

Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Fishboy - Albatross: How We Failed to Save the Lone Star State with the Power of Rock and Roll
Robert Pollard - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love
Phosphorescent - Pride
A Hawk and a Hacksaw and The Hun Hangár Ensemble

[pinocchio]

phosphorescent is sweet. that dude owns.

[happymike]

cats on fire - providence complains
electrelane - no shouts no calls
pylon - gyrate plus
electro group - good technology
bearsuit - OH:IO (released in the uk in 07)

[uncle eggma]

both the new apples and of montreal records were on rolling stone's top 50 albums of the year (28 and 41 respectively).

[aaron]

1. robert wyatt - comicopera
2. panda bear - person pitch
3. animal collective - strawberry jam
4. mount eerie - mount eerie, pts. 6 & 7
5. fiery furnaces - widow city

best discovery:

moondog - s/t

[tito00]

Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective
Pride - Phosphorescent
Beach House - Beach House
Person Pitch - Panda Bear
Gengis Kahn VS Sarah Cat - Walking The Cow

And I should add swell's last album, but i haven't listened to it, only a few songs

[Spikyfred]

I'm doing a top 12 because there was a lot of good music this year

of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Fishboy - Albatross: How We Failed to Save the Lone Star State with the Power of Rock and Roll
The Clientele - God Save The Clientele
Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like This
Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8
Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta
The Hat Company - Fair Weathered Friends
Page France - ...And The Family Telephone
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
The Shaky Hands - The Shaky Hands

[Soma]

1. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
2. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
3. Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
4. Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of The Decline
5. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum

[patrock]

1. Person Pitch-Panda Bear
2. Spiderman Of The Rings - Dan Deacon
3. OCDJ's New Album
4. Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman
5. Hissing Fauna - of Montreal

[Aqualad]

i'll just post my top albums from other places

derek webb - the ringing bell
tenniscoats - tan-tan therapy
tenniscoats - totemo aimasho
shugo tokumaru - exit
ai aso - chamomile pool
afrirampo - suutobreakor
sawako - madoromi
ging nang boyz - i don't wanna die and hikari(although both b-sides aren't that great)
waterdeep - heart attack time machine
melt banana - bambis dilemna
boris w/ michio kuriahara - rainbow
bomb the music industry! - get warmer
lsd march - constellation of tragedy

[little_airport]

the motifs - away (lost in found)
electro group - good technology (clairecords)
fireflies - goodnight stars, goodnight moon (music is my girlfriend)
celestial - dream on (skipping stones)
slgtm - fill up the room (krecs)

[Qza11]

1) The Meaning of 8 - Cloud Cult
2) In Rainbows - Radiohead
3) Boxer - The National
4) Collage of Impressions - The Poison Control Center
5) The Stage Names - Okkervil River
6) Are We Not Horses? - Rock Plaza Central (2007 US Release)
7) The New Magnetic Wonder - Apples
8) The Flying Club Cup - Beirut
9) New Moon - Elliott Smith
10) Hissing Fauna - Of Montreal
11) The Twilight Sad - 14 Autumns & 15 Winters

[BigBlackSmoke]

Adrian Orange & Her Band- self titled
Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
Wild Billy Childish and the Musicians of the British Empire
Explosions in the Sky- all of a sudden I miss everyone
J Dilla- ruff draft
Phosphorescent- Pride
Bill Callahan- Woke on a Whaleheart
Greg Ashley- Painted Garden
Oh Sees- Suck Blood
Panda Bear- Person Pitch

[hockywierdo]

i labored over my best of list today and cant order my bottom 5 of 10 but i have my top 5!

ALBUMS:
Beirut- Flying Club Cup
Kevin Drew- Spirit If..
New Pornographers- Challengers
Page France- ...and the Family Telephone
Mum- Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy

EP's/SINGLES:
Los Campesinos!- Sticking Fingers into Sockets
Flight of the Conchords- The Distant Future
Bright Eyes- Four Winds
The Shins- Phantom Limb
Annuals- Big Zeus/Los Campesinos!- International Tweexcore Underground

honoralbu mention albums (5-10ish)
Shins- Wincing the Night Away
Jens Lekman- Night Falls over Kortedala
St. Vincent- marry me
Polyphonic Spree- The Fragile Army
Five Score and Seven Year Ago- Relient K
Feist- The Reminder
Apples in Stereo- New Magnetic Wonder

BEST Sampler: Arts and Crafts Sampler Volume 4 (UGH SO MANY GOOD SONGS AND BSIDES!!!)

albums i didnt get or didnt find great but supposedly were:
Of Montreal- Hissing Fauna
Arcade Fire- Neon Bible (one or two ok songs and one good song at most)
LCD Soundsys- Sound of Silver
Radiohead- In_Rainbows

Best song not on a record or official release but still fully mastered and released through soundtrack or sampler: Cocaine Skin- Kevin Drew and Heart it Races- Dr. Dog and Flare GUn- Final Fantasy

[Mutineer]

LCD Soundsystem and Radiohead suck shit, yeah. Hissing Fauna is great, though it kind of drags like 3/4 in.

[mikehattem]

Mine (in no order and not exactly 5 either):

Hissing Fauna - Of Montreal
...And the Family Telephone - Page France
Boxer - The National
The Search - Son Volt
Some Loud Thunder - CYHSY!
Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
We Were Dead... - Modest Mouse

Honorable Mentions:
A Good Enough Day - Royal Wood
Wincing The Night Away - The Shins
Challengers - The New Pornographers
New Magnetic Wonder - AIS
Four Winds (EP) - Bright Eyes
Night Falls Over Kortedala - Jens Lekman

[raydavies02]

best record of the year 2007:

jarvis - jarvis cocker

the other 2 decent records released this year:

comicopera - robert wyatt
can cladders - the high llamas

the semi-decent record of the year:

widow city - the fiery furnaces

best discoveries of the year:

the rubber room - porter wagoner
three piece suite - jack nitzsche
tears of joy - don ellis
the afro-eurasian eclipse - duke ellington
the complete solo piano music - maurice ravel
love you - the beach boys
inner space: the lost film music - sven libaek
john, the wolf king of L.A. - john phillips

[Gotham]

1. Hissing Fauna...- Of Montreal
2. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
3. In Rainbows - Radiohead
4. All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone- Explosions In The Sky
5. The Flying Club Cup - Beirut

[mikehattem]

I don't know, I tried to like Panda Bear and the Animal Collective records but they just never clicked. I enjoyed Neon Bible but I felt a bit disappointed however that's probably more due to my own expectations than the record itself. The same thing goes for Widow City. I think its the same thing with Jens' record. I loved the EPs and though NFOK is a cool record it just wasn't what I was expecting. And that's not a bad thing. For what he wanted to do with it, he did it very well.

Which one of these "records of the year" have you really given an honest shot but just never clicked?

[jefferoo]

-the tuss: rushup edge
-the tuss: confederation trough
-elliott smith: new moon
-dungen: tio bitar
-mont de sundua
-urban legends: of lost days
-r kelly: double up
-pink floyd: piper @ the gates reissue
-high on fire: blessed black wings
-of montreal: Icons, Abstract Thee

[funeralpudding]

Which one of these "records of the year" have you really given an honest shot but just never clicked?

Spoon "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"
a bit over-produced

Fiery Furnaces "Widow City"
They've gotten too into weirdness for weirdness's sake with all the sounds they pile into their records, and they've lost the ability to write the simple hooks that make "Gallowsbird's Bark" the most consistently listenable FF album. They've always been great live, though, I read someone say "Widow City" songs live were better than the album, I don't doubt that at all


also, it's good to wait to make a list, that way you get to read everybody else's and see what you haven't heard yet. Shugo Tokumaru was a good find (on the lists of aqualad and Cornelius)

edit: not on Cornelius's, that was Yurayura Teikoku I was thinking of. good stuff

[Mutineer]

Which one of these "records of the year" have you really given an honest shot but just never clicked?

That boringass Radiohead album.

[patman?]

Or, almost everything anyone's mentioned here.

[uncle eggma]

i have heard way less than half the stuff mentioned. i'm also shocked by how much of it i haven't even heard OF.

[gonzo]

panda bear - person pitch
of montreal - hissing fauna are you the destroyer
deerhunter - cryptograms/flourescent grey ep
the ponys - turn the lights out
lcd soundsytem - sound of silver
liars - liars
animal collective - strawberry jam
battles - mirrored
apples in stereo - new magnetic wonder
the willowz - chataqua
warlocks - heavy deavy skull lover
brian jonestown massacre - my bloody underground

[starman]

Top 10 Albums of 2007 (no order)

Fishboy - Albatross: or how we failed to save the lonestar state
The Poion Control Center - Collage of Impressions
Page France - . . . and the Family Telephone
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer?
Bearsuit - OH:IO
The National - Boxer
Loney, Dear - Loney, Noir
Andrew Bird -Armchair Apocrypha
MGMT -Oracular Spectacular
Cloud Cult - The Meaning of 8

Top 5 EPs/Singles of 2007

5. Flight of the Conchords - The Distant Future
4. Arizona - Fameseeker and the Mono
3. De Novo Dahl -Shout
2. Bright Eyes - Four Winds
1. of Montreal - Icons, Abstract, Thee

Overrated albums : Radiohead, Arcade Fire, The Shins, M.I.A., M.I.A., M.I.A., M.I.A. ( I hate her), LCD Soundsystem, Smashing Pumpkins, and several other letdowns.

[jefferoo]

Radiohead should be put to sleep. They are dining music now.

[starman]

They should be put to sleep, they did it enough to me.

[jefferoo]

nyuk nyuk

[G]

http://rateyourmusic.com/list/gec/2007__albums

[horseface]

nurse and soldier - marginalia
arthur and yu - in camera
future of the left - curses
papercuts - can't go back
deerhunter - cryptograms/fluorescent grey

[quixoticgoat]

my list is boring (edit: by boring i mean that its predictable. i didn't branch out too much this year)

of montreal - hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
deerhoof - friend opportunity
yacht - i believe in you. your magic is real.
poison control center - collage of impressions
bjork - volta
architecture in helsinki - places like this
madlib - beat konducta vol 3-4: in india
hanson - the walk

[Mutineer]

This thread needs more Bodies of Water.

[JackAttack]

1. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
2. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
3. Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
4. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
5. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers

[TheMarvelousMr.Milk]

1. of Montreal - Hissing Fauna/Icons, Abstract Thee (Made my year)
2. MGMT - Oracular spectacular (There's only two songs here that aren't amazing)
3. Dr. Dog - We All Belong (There's about four songs on here that I can't get enough of)
4. White Stripes - Icky Thump (really great songs spread throughout)
5. Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder (Half of it is great, half is skippable)
6. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam (I love Peacebone and For Reverend Green, but the rest is sort of blah)
7. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (Fun, But the songs are twice as long as they should be)

Those are all of the 2007 albums I bought. I've spent the rest of the year buying older stuff.

[rogersbowne]

No Particular Order:
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (Great from Start to Finish)
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Just Drink some Whiskey and Stare at Colored Lights)
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (A Sit Down album)
Handsome Furs - Plague Park (Poppy and catchy at first Casio beat)
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder (Unique in itself, too bad they're boring live)

Bonus:
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (Great dance music)
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall (Good ole' Neil and a Piano)

[damonin]

radiohead - in rainbows
dinosaur jr - beyond
the shins - wincing the night away

[gonzo]

i'm surprised to see people list wincing the night away... it was easily my most disappointing album of the year. i found it very blah.

[Aqualad]

I agree.

[Saint_Kitten_Kisser]

Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna and Patrick Wolf's Magic Position are the only two albums I can imagine myself listening to for a long time.

[damonin]

i disagree!

[Freek]

1 of montreal - hissing fauna
2 prince - planet earth
3 spinvis - goochelaars en geesten
4 apples in stereo - new magnetic wonder
5 moss - the long way back

[jaimi]

Haha, so I love The Con by Tegan and Sara to an embarrassing extent.
The only other three I really got into are all reissues. Static Disposal by Debris', holy shit. Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants. And Gyrate Plus by Pylon. I don't think that counts though. I haven't really been paying attention to new music all that much. (I've still got to check out the Grant McLennan reissues, too.)

As far as singles, "Shenkie" by De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig all the way.

[DaveKent]

robert wyatt - comicopera

This is incredible. I had never listened to him, but I bought that yesterday on a whim. I've listened to it three times since.

[uncle eggma]

no joke! wyatt's a genius! pick up rock bottom, ruth is stranger than richard, cuckooland, old rottenhat, shleep, and solar flares for you. everything he's done is brilliant. the soft machine ( his early band) albums are fantastic 60's avant pysch jazz.

[DaveKent]

Awesome, I was hoping for a list like that.

[nach_heart]

1. oM - Hissing Fauna
2. Best Friends Forever - Romance Conflict Adventure
3. Brunettes - Structure and Cosmetics
4. Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
5. Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like This

[EllertTremorControl]

2007 Albums I've probably listened to the most:
the Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, are you the destroyer?
the Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
the White Stripes - Icky Thump
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Albums I haven't picked up yet but am sure I'd love:
thurston moore - trees outside the academy
múm - go go smear the poison ivy
mgmt - oracular spectacular
melt banana - bambis dilemna
wilco - Sky Blue Sky
brian jonestown massacre - my bloody underground

[JoeJustJoe]

The Besnard Lakes ....Are The Dark Horse
Birds of Avalon - Bazaar Bazaar
Robert Pollard - Coast To Coast / Standard Gargoyle Decissions
Caribou - Andorra
Kevin Drew - Spirit If
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Explosions in The Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Panda Bear - Person Pitch (I really didn't want to like this but couldn't help myself)
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
Dr. Dog - We All Belong
Blitzen Trapper - WIld Mountain Nation
Sunset Rubdown - Randon Spirit Lover
Folklore - The Ghost of H. W. Beaverman

[quixoticgoat]

2. Best Friends Forever - Romance Conflict Adventure

totally

[Tilde]

Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
The Hood Internet vs The Pack Mixtape
Dr. Dog - We All Belong
Band of Horses- Cease to Begin
Andrew Bird- Armchair Apocrypha