Favourite albums of 2007 - It's that time of year

[Jan]

In no particular order, they are:

Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Cold War Kids ~ Robbers and Cowards
Charlotte Hatherley ~ The Deep Blue
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
Smashing Pumpkins ~ Zeitgeist
The Cribs ~ Men's Needs Women's Need Whatever
Future of the Left ~ Curses
PJ Harvey ~ White Chalk
St. Vincent ~ Marry Me
Clutch ~ From Beale Street to Oblivion

My favourite albums that I bought this year are:

The Cars - The Cars
Dusty Springfield ~ Dusty in Memphis
The Replacements ~ Let it Be
Aretha Franklin ~ Lady Soul
Big Star ~ Third/Sister Lovers
Rites of Spring ~ Rites of Spring

[katie]

released in 2007:

of montreal - hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
pink mantis - pink mantis
new pornographers - challengers
modest mouse - we were dead before the ship even sank

discovered in 2007:

rilo kiley - more adventurous
the boy least likely to - the best party ever
the smiths - strangeways, here we come
elliott smith - from a basement on the hill
the decemberists - picaresque
the elected - sun, sun, sun
the dresden dolls - the dresden dolls
silversun pickups - carnavas

[ifihadahifi]

Best of 2007 so far:

[guseldorph]

album of the year:
THE NATIONAL - BOXER
srsly. 12 perfect songs.

honorable mentions:
andrew bird - armchair apocrypha
bjork - volta
wilco - sky blue sky
okkervil rivier - the stage names
iron & wine - the shepherd's dog


oh and that one that i downloaded for free by a band with too much money on their hands.

[NerfHerder]

1. Ween - La Cucaracha
2. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
3. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
4. Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
5. Clutchy Hopkins - The Life of Clutchy Hopkins
6. The Aliens - Astronomy for Dogs
7. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!
8. Kanye West - Graduation
9. Santa Dads - Anima Mundi
10. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
11. Flight of the Conchords - The Distant Future

Also of note is my discovery of Ween. Ween is an incredibly talented band, people. They are the chameleons of music. The two main members, Gene and Dean Ween, make some of the wildest and most inventive music I've ever heard. They can play the most spot-on satire of smooth jazz, accompanied with a story about the most perfect lameo dinner party. Other songs nail German techno (including a German countdown) while really explaining friendship.

"A friend's a friend who knows what being a friend is -- talking, with a friend. As friends we were always so close but so far away. Friends in life are special, do you want me as your special friend? 'Cause you're the friend that I've been searching for."

GERMAN TECHNO, PEOPLE! I have NEVER seen anyone hear this song and not dance at least a little.

They have incredible guitar solos, too, like on King Billy when the guitar SPEAKS as the King himself!

Course, they have just sweet ass rock songs, too. Songs that get your head not only bobbin' but rockin. With My Own Bare Hands, on the new album, details what you can do with your hands. Things like cutting the grass, replicating a man from someone else's DNA, you know, all the basics.

If any of you would like some Ween, I would be more than happy to oblige. Also, this is a thread about the best albums of the year and I've just wrote a ton on Ween. Ooooooooooooooops. Well, chalk another one up for them. They inspire passionate digressions.

[roach]

1. Ween - La Cucaracha
2. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
3. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
4. Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings
5. Clutchy Hopkins - The Life of Clutchy Hopkins
6. The Aliens - Astronomy for Dogs
7. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!
8. Kanye West - Graduation
9. Santa Dads - Anima Mundi
10. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
11. Flight of the Conchords - The Distant Future

Also of note is my discovery of Ween. Ween is an incredibly talented band, people. They are the chameleons of music. The two main members, Gene and Dean Ween, make some of the wildest and most inventive music I've ever heard. They can play the most spot-on satire of smooth jazz, accompanied with a story about the most perfect lameo dinner party. Other songs nail German techno (including a German countdown) while really explaining friendship.

"A friend's a friend who knows what being a friend is -- talking, with a friend. As friends we were always so close but so far away. Friends in life are special, do you want me as your special friend? 'Cause you're the friend that I've been searching for."

GERMAN TECHNO, PEOPLE! I have NEVER seen anyone hear this song and not dance at least a little.

They have incredible guitar solos, too, like on King Billy when the guitar SPEAKS as the King himself!

Course, they have just sweet ass rock songs, too. Songs that get your head not only bobbin' but rockin. With My Own Bare Hands, on the new album, details what you can do with your hands. Things like cutting the grass, replicating a man from someone else's DNA, you know, all the basics.

If any of you would like some Ween, I would be more than happy to oblige. Also, this is a thread about the best albums of the year and I've just wrote a ton on Ween. Ooooooooooooooops. Well, chalk another one up for them. They inspire passionate digressions.

they also get chicks to she their boobies at shows.


ro"spinal meningitis got me down"ach

[NerfHerder]

they also get chicks to she their boobies at shows.

True! I saw six different girls flash at least once at their show in CBus a couple months ago.

[Irock]

I heard the guys from Ween on NPR last week.

Then yesterday they profiled Fallout Boy Guy and he was acting like boys wearing eye makeup was sooo cutting edge and actually said he wished he were gay and then they made me listen to that Panic! At The Disco song.

[sam]

Ween = Piss Up a Rope = Genius

[Phyllis]

i'm going by what my itunes says (and too lazy to do a google search) so if some of these weren't released in 2007 then sry. but i'm pretty sure they all were.

in no order:

Blonde Redhead - 23
Tegan and Sara - The Con
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
Felix da Housecat - Virgo Blakto And The Movie Disco
Freezepop - Future Future Future Perfect
Interpol - Our Love to Admire
Kent - Tillbaka Till Samtiden
The Mary Onettes - The Mary Onettes
Eisley - Combinations
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
The National - Boxer
New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom

i think that covers it.

oh, i forgot, one more:
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice

[Dutch]

Easy Top 3:

the Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
M.I.A. - Kala
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Easy top contenders:

Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars

Also great, but I've only so far heard a little, or it's starting to grow on me, or it was supposed to be the greatest thing ever and was just okay, or awesome live, but I haven't heard the record yet:

Amy Winehouse
Animal Collective
Architecture in Helsinki
Beirut
Common
Dan Deacon
Grizzly Bear
Iron and Wine
Lions
Loney, Dear
New Pornographers
Panda Bear
Patti Smith
St. Vincent
Stars
the White Stripes

Underwhelming:

Bjork (I never thought I'd say it)
Justice
Menomena

Truly, finally discovered this year:

Sonic Youth
Ween
Yoko Ono
Girl Talk

Still Listening to from last year:

Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Danielson - Ships

[guseldorph]

i just realized nobody (including me) has said the obvious.

SPOON.

that is all.

[aquaphase]

i just realized nobody (including me) has said the obvious.

SPOON.

that is all.

That's because it's a suck album from a suck band.

war eagle.

[aquaphase]

Shit I liked this year
The Queers - Munki Brain
Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell
The Crash That Took Me - Orchestrated Kaleidoscopes
Built To Spill - You in Reverse
Tim Armstrong - A Poet's Life
Golgol Bordello - Super Taranta!
Big D & the Kids Table - Strictly Rude
and a whole mess of other old-school stuff that really wasn't released in 2007 (or even the 21st Century).

Shit I should have liked this year, but am not sure about
Bad Brains - Build a Nation

[Dutch]

i just realized nobody (including me) has said the obvious.

SPOON.

that is all.

That's because it's a suck album from a suck band.

war eagle.

THANK YOU!!!