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[TheFuriousWombat]

Every time I try to listen to the National I zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz wait what just happened

I really couldn't have put it better myself. I listened to Alligator and didn't think it was very good at all. I saw them open for the Arcade Fire and thought they were boring. I listened to Boxer (several times...I really did try) and didn't find a single song to be anything more than mediocre. What am I doing wrong here?

[amok]

What am I doing wrong here?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and run with 'continuing to listen to a band you evidently don't like.'

[yossarian07]

10- Battles-Mirrored
9- Wilco- Sky Blue Sky
8- The Weakerthans- Reunion Tour
7- Andrew Bird- Armchair Apocrypha
6- Okkervil River- The Stage Names
5- Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew- Spirit If...
4. Feist- The Reminder
3. Radiohead- In Rainbows
2. Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
1. The National- Boxer

[Johnny C]

Here are twenty good albums released this year.

Wax Mannequin - Orchard And Ire
Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
The Ponys - Turn The Lights Out
A Place To Bury Strangers - s/t
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Kanye West - Graduation
Justice - †
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray Rock
Future Of The Left - Curses
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Grinderman - s/t
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Battles - Mirrored
Coconut Records - Nighttiming

I think this is the list I want to make. Limiting it to twenty bites, though, and I don't think I actually could narrow it down to ten.

[minkles]

This is very much subject to change, but as of now I'd say:

1. Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
2. Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3. Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
4. Radiohead- In Rainbows
5. Aesop Rock- None Shall Pass
6. The National- Boxer
7. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
8. Of Montreal- Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
9. Panda Bear- Person Pitch
10. Justice- "Cross"
11. Wilco- Sky Blue Sky
12. Les Savy Fav- Let's Stay Friends
13. The Shins- Wincing the Night Away
14. Feist- The Reminder
15. Deerhoof- Friend Opportunity
16. Jens Lekman- Night Falls Over Kortedala
17. Okkervil River- The Stage Names
18. Mice Parade- Mice Parad
19. The New Pornographers- Challengers
20. Dinosaur Jr.- Beyond

[mryen]

Nice lists people!

So I haven't listened to enough 2007 music yet to make a list, and I'll probably come back with one sometime in January after I receive (fingers crossed) the CDs I've asked for.  But I'm pretty damn sure the list will start like this
1. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
2. Radiohead, In Rainbows
3. Iron and Wine, The Shepherd's Dog

There's a good chance that Neon Bible will be at #4, but I can't say, and I don't know about other people but I was kind of disappointed in both Andrew Bird and Beirut this time around; I hate to say it, but the earlier stuff is just so much better.

PS: Props to whoever put Niggy Tardust up, I love that one.
PPS: Haven't heard disc 2 of In Rainbows yet?  Go here: radioheadinrainbows.blogspot.com.  Hopefully that will save this post.

[TheFuriousWombat]

Props to whoever put Niggy Tardust up, I love that one.

.......................wow

[mryen]

Guess I should've posted that in the Guilty Pleasures thread.

[est]

A dozen in alphabetical order because I suck at making decisions!

Amon Tobin, Foley Room
Bag Raiders, Fun Punch EP
Bang Gang DJs, Light Sound Dance
Bonde do Role, Bonde do Role with Lasers
Daft Punk, Alive 2007
edIT, Certified Air-raid material
Holy Fuck, Holy Fuck EP
Justice, †
Kavinsky, 1986 EP
Muscles, Guns Babes Lemonade
New Young Pony Club, Fantastic Playroom
Simian Mobile Disco, Attack Decay Sustain Release

[imagist42]

PPS: Haven't heard disc 2 of In Rainbows yet?  Go here: radioheadinrainbows.blogspot.com.  Hopefully that will save this post.

Holy crap "Down Is the New Up" is a ridiculously good song. "Last Flowers" is really nice, too.

[CmonMiracle]

For some reason most of 2007's music is a blur but when I bite down and think about it, I can find some favorites (will re-post with final list after Jamaica)

Tiny Masters of Today - Bang Bang Boom Cake
Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Kanye West - Graduation
Arrah And The Ferns - Evan Is A Vegan
The Softlightes - Say No! To Being Cool, Say Yes! To Being Happy
Bottomless Pit - Hammer of the Gods
Carla Bruni - No Promises
Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
Candie Payne - I Wish I Could Have Loved You More
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
The Loose Salute - Tuned to Love
Caribou - Andorra
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
Jesca Hoop - Kismet
The Loose Salute - Turned To Love
Maia Hirasawa - Though, I'm Just Me
Minus Story - My Ion Truss
We All Have Hooks For Hands - The Pretender
Lost In The Trees - Time Taunts Me
All Smiles - Ten Readings Of A Warning
Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away

[Skibas_clavicle]

I dunno, I'm surprised I haven't seen people list Rilo Kiley's Under The Blacklight. I couldn't put that album down for like a month. I personally also really enjoyed Andrew Bird's new one.

[Tom]

I haven't yet got a copy of Under the Blacklight and at most 5 people have mentioned Armchair Apocrypha in their lists, i'm one of them.

PPS: Haven't heard disc 2 of In Rainbows yet?  Go here: radioheadinrainbows.blogspot.com.

Thankyou, I've been looking for MK1 and MK2.

[imagist42]

Thankyou, I've been looking for MK1 and MK2.

...why?

(Serious question, I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing about them because they seem like filler junk that make the already disjointed disc even more disjointed to me.)

[Tom]

i hadn't heard them.

[Wayfaring Stranger]

I was severely disappointed with Under the Blacklight.  I liked More Adventurous so much and I felt let down after I heard the new one.  Some catchy songs, but I didn't think it cut the mustard.

[SeanBateman]

More Adventurous  was hella mad mediocre, I thought, compared to the rest of their work.

Under The Blacklight was good.

[Tom]

I've only heard More Adventurous and The Execution of All Things. The latter is by far the better, Lewis and co. seem to work/sound better when they have a concept.

[SensoryOssuary]

Ordering is very rough...

1. Frank Pahl - Songs of War and Peace
2. Odd Clouds - Cleft Foot Of The Woods
3. Kemialliset Ystävät - Untitled
4. Death Ambient - Drunken Forest
5. Paul Metzger - Deliverance
6. Group Doueh - Guitar Music From The Western Sahara
7. Demons - Frozen Fog
8. Jandek - Manhattan Tuesday
9. Derek Bailey - Standards
10. Daniel Higgs - Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot

[SensoryOssuary]

Manhattan Tuesday is my favorite of them because Jandek plays a Korg (set to an organ pad), and it ends up being somewhat more musical than his guitar playing... and the line-up is a dream if you're into the avant-garde; Loren Mazzacane Connors on guitar and Chris Corsano on drums.

Austin Sunday and Glasgow Monday are also good. All three of them are 2 CDs. Haven't heard any of the others...

[october1983]

So, I finally thought about this, and in no particular order, here are 10 of my favourites:

Panda Bear - Person Pitch
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Feist - The Reminder
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
Holy Fuck - EP (I've yet to listen to the LP, for some reason)
Battles - Mirrored
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

I'm sure I missed some, and there're a few albums from bands I really like that I either didn't quite enjoy enough to put in the top 10 this year (Radiohead and the New Porn, for instance, failed to really wow me this year), or that I haven't really listened to yet (Holy Fuck's EP, or the new Sunset Rubdown record).

[KvP]

Alright people, I have a question. Somebody just told me that Justice's Cross is the best album of 2007. Surely, it's a fun enough album, but there have been better albums just in the electronic category out this year. What album can I use in retort to shame him? help me QC forums I need to look cool.

I will formulate a personal best of list for this year, but it probably won't be as pretty as any of yours.

[TheFuriousWombat]

The Holy Fuck LP blows "+" out of the water.

[Tom]

Sound of Silver

[Ballard]

Kavinsky's Mini LP (though Wikipedia now lists it as Dead Cruiser. odd)

[mryen]

Sound of Silver

seconded.  Also judging from jeph's constant orgasming, Daft Punk's Alive 2007, though my copy is still in the mail.

As for In Rainbows, the second disc, to me, rivals the first in quality and if Radiohead was (were?) really as cool as people like to think they would've released it the same way disc 1 was released.  I do love "Down is the new up" as well as "Bangers and Mash" which is just fun.

[jeph]

Alright people, I have a question. Somebody just told me that Justice's Cross is the best album of 2007. Surely, it's a fun enough album, but there have been better albums just in the electronic category out this year. What album can I use in retort to shame him? help me QC forums I need to look cool.

I will formulate a personal best of list for this year, but it probably won't be as pretty as any of yours.

The best way to shame him is to go "oh, I keep confusing Justice for Digitalism and Boys Noize and Simian Mobile Disco BECAUSE THEY ALL SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME."

Alternately, you can just remind him of that fucking Uffie track and he will burst into tears.

† is indeed a very good album, but I'd rank Gabriel Ananda's Bambusbeats or the Field album over them.

[JimmyJazz]

Man, I totally forgot about Grinderman.  A rather superb side-project for Nick Cave, hearing him play guitar on the is a rare pleasure.

[KvP]

Thanks all. I told off his unibrow-having gay ass, imparted him with some knowledge. He'll think twice next time he feels the desire to voice an opinion.

1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
3. Menomena – Friend & Foe
4. Holy Fuck - Holy Fuck LP
5. The Tuss - Rushup Edge (I'm including here the more melodious unreleased tracks from the myspace page. Sue me)
6. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
7. Little Brother - Get Back
8. High on Fire – Death in this Communion
9. Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me
10. Radiohead - In Rainbows

Obviously, pretty heavy on the stuff I've been given through this board. And In Rainbows is a placeholder. It's good and all, but all I need is another something to grab me and it's out.

[MobyDickhole]

1. Efterklang- Parades
I love this album. Everytime I think I can describe it I listen to it again and discover how incorrect my description is

2. Holy Fuck-LP
I saw that someone else said it beat +... SOOO true. Justice has nothing on these guys. NOTHING.

3. Apparat- Walls
I sent out a message to everyone I knew when I found this album. I was probably unable to speak for a couple hours as well.

4. Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden I miss Everybody
 You know, I can't really tell one Explosions in the Sky album from the other, but they are so damn good.

5. Menomena- Friend and Foe
If their music doesn't sell you on their act, their sense of fun will.

6. Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
Animal Collective put out one of the most challenging records of the year but holy shit is it good.

7. Battles- Mirrored
What can you say about Battles except WOW. I wasn't convinced on this album until I saw their live act. After that I was sold.

8. Radiohead- In Rainbows
They're radiohead. What can I say that the fanboys haven't already?

9. Do Make Say Think- You, You're History in Rust
I haven't listened to this album as much as I feel I should have this year, but it is REALLY freaking good.

10. Beastie Boys- The Mix Up
Yes. The Beastie Boys made my top 10. Not necessarily because this album was WAY better than the other stuff to come out this year, but ecause it BLEW my expectations out of the water. ... maybe it's cuz i just started listening to this album, but it is really good, If you haven't given this one a chance, do yourself a favor and download it immediatly.

(this is not necessarily my list for the best of '07, just the ones I enjoyed the most)

Other Favorite albums of the year:
of Montreal/The Field/ The New Pornographers/Jens Lekman/ Stars/ Architechture in Helsinki/ The National/ Okkervil River/ Prints/ Stars of The Lid/ Blackfield/
Apples in stereo/ Eisley/ Shout Out Louds/ Immaculate machines/ Laura Veirs/ Northern State/ Sigur Ros/ pg.lost/ The Rumble Strips/ A LOT MORE

Song Suggestion:
If you haven't heard the song Clouds by 'The Rumble Strips', I suggest you change that.

Favorite Find of the Year:
They didn't release anything this year, but my favorite find of the year is 'Detektivbyran'...
If you haven't heard them, imagine if a music box could play itself. Now imagine that music orchestrated and you have a good feel for the band. I have not met anyone who hasn't been floored by them.

[KickThatBathProf]

The Holy Fuck LP blows "+" out of the water.

Agreed. 
This is also true for The Field and Burial

[StaedlerMars]

No one has mentioned the new Manu Chao album. Is this because it's not good, or has just no one heard it?

I liked what he has come out with before.

As for lists: I have no idea what has come out this year or earlier. I could give a list of artists I discovered this year which I liked. That would be quite extensive.

[TheFuriousWombat]

You know, I can't really tell one Explosions in the Sky album from the other, but they are so damn good.

Not on topic really but you may or may not be happy to hear that, based upon recent interviews with the band, AoaSIME is, for them, the culmination of their work to this point. The next album is apparently going to sound very different (in what way, they are not saying).

[onewheelwizzard]

I just discovered a 2007 album that is fabulous and worthy of my personal top 10 list.  it's "The Stolen View" by Leech, and it's in the Sendspace thread.

[MobyDickhole]

You know, I can't really tell one Explosions in the Sky album from the other, but they are so damn good.

Not on topic really but you may or may not be happy to hear that, based upon recent interviews with the band, AoaSIME is, for them, the culmination of their work to this point. The next album is apparently going to sound very different (in what way, they are not saying).

I can't wait. I haven't heard anything, but I seriously doubt that they'll do anything that blows.

[jeph]

They're selling their drums and guitars and all taking up the clarinet.

[mberan42]

Top Whatever of Whenever

Albums
10. Wintersleep – Welcome to the Night Sky
9. Liars – Liars
8. Explosions in the Sky – All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
7. Parts and Labor – Mapmaker
6. Sigur Rós – Hvarf/Heim
5. Panda Bear – Person Pitch
4. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
3. Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
2. Daft Punk – Alive 2007
1. The National – Boxer

Tracks
5. Animal Collective – For Reverend Green
4. Band of Horses – Is There a Ghost
3. The National – Slow Show
2. Dan Deacon – Wham City
1. LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends

Shows
5. Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s (with Canada and Page France) – Beat Kitchen, March 19th
4. The Decemberists (with the Grant Park Orchestra) – Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, July 18th
3. The Wrens – Belmont Art & Music Festival, June 24th
2. The Decemberists – Long of It – The Vic, October 28th
1. Art Brut / Hold Steady – Metro, October 31st

Honourable Mentions
Albums: LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver; Arcade Fire – Neon Bible; The Field - From Here We Go Sublime; Maserati – Inventions for the New Season; Do Make Say Think – You, You’re a History in Rust; Justice - †; Dan Deacon – Spiderman of the Rings
Singles: Band of Horses – Is There a Ghost; Underworld – Beautiful Burnout; Do Make Say Think – A Tender History in Rust; Sigur Rós – Hafsol (even though it’s not a new song)
Shows: Pitchfork Music Festival 2007

(x-posted from my never-used lj)

[RedLion]

(In no particular order)

Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!

Arcade Fire - The Neon Bible

Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob

Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Magic

Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Tom Waits - Orphans : Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards

[jeph]

I think I'ma put my official list (with pictures and opinions and such) up on the QC music blog this week.

I'll do a Top 10 Songs post tonight, in fact!

[Johnny C]

I somehow managed to forget Dirty Projectors.

As penance I will spend the next week dining exclusively on steel wool.

[valley_parade]

They're selling their drums and guitars and all taking up the clarinet.

I heard they sold their guitars and bought turntables.

[amok]

3. Iron & Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
1. The National – Boxer

I like your style.

Personally this year I've enjoyed (not ranked or limited to any particular number).

- ^ Iron & Wine and The National
- Airiel - The Battle Of Sealand
- Radiohead - In Rainbows
- Goon Moon - Licker's Last Leg
- QOTSA - Era Vulgaris
- Depreciation Guild - In Her Gentle Jaws
- His Name Is Alive - Xmmer
- The Most Serene Republic - Population
- Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away
- Ted Leo - Living With The Living
- Low - Drums & Guns
- mind.in.a.box - Crossroads
- Painbastard - Borderline
- Ashbury Heights - Three Cheers For The Newly Deads
- Akanoid - Cocktail Pop
- Soman - Mask
- Syrian - Alien Nation
- Assemblage 23 - Meta
- VNV - Judgement
- Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious
- Fantazja - Help Yourself
- Rupesh Cartel - Disco and the what not
- Neuropa - The Blitz
- Null Device - Excursions
- Boy Is Fiction - Boy Is Fiction
- People Press Play - People Press Play
- Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
- Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
- Jatun - Jatun
- Caribou - Andorra
- Concise - Revive
- Efterklang - Parades
- Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
- Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement...
- Conelrad - Function Creep

And that's just the really good stuff. 2007 has been good.

[onewheelwizzard]

- Goon Moon - Licker's Last Leg

Can you upload this in the Sendspace thread?  I completely forgot about the whole project and I never thought that it might've already been released.  I'm a huge Chris Goss fan so I really want to hear how this turned out.

[ImRonBurgundy?]

HURR I GO 

TOP 10 ALBUMS:

10. The Ergs!- Upstairs/Downstairs
Dirtnap Records
I'm trying to figure out exactly why I like this album so much, and I can't figure it out.  All it is is a collection of poppy, catchy punk songs (plus a country number) played by a bunch of bespectacled Hüsker Dü nerds.  Actually, that's pretty endearing.  I guess I like it because I see a bit of myself in it?


09. Nothington- All In
B.Y.O. Records
Lead singer Jay Northington's gravelly voice rings out just as loud and thrashy as the guitars on this, their debut album, lending serious muscle to a sound that borrows freely from modern punk heroes like Jawbreaker and Social Distortion.  Hell, it's nothing new, but drat if it ain't fun.


08. Gogol Bordello- Super Taranta!
SideOneDummy Records
While this album's production seems a bit reined in compared to Steve Albini's aid in sonic experimentation on their previous effort, 2005's stellar Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike, this is still another brilliant addition to the Bordello's catalog.  From the lyrically clever "Supertheory of Supereverything" to the epically triumphant "Forces of Victory", this album is a blast of sheer joy right into your pants.


07. The Gaslight Anthem- Sink or Swim
XOXO Records
These Jersey boys put the well-worn strains of whiskey-soaked melodic punk through a Springsteen filter, resulting in something that sounds a bit like alt-country stars Lucero, but harder and faster.  This band has the potential to be huge.


06. Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Temporary Residence Limited
It's soaring, epic, evocative, and arresting, all in one.  Another wonderfully enjoyable piece of work from these guys.


05. Chuck Ragan- Los Feliz and Feast or Famine
SideOneDummy Records
I'm combining these two albums into one, because they don't really seem like two separate albums as much as they do two sides of the same coin.  Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music explores his acoustic, folky side.  The first album, Los Feliz, is a recording of a live show in an intimate setting of Chuck and his wife Jill's own friends and family.  The second, Feast or Famine, is a more polished studio record, featuring guest performances from some of Chuck's best musical friends.  Both are highly recommended.


04. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists- Living With the Living
Touch-and-Go Records
Ted Leo knocks out another quality album, as is his wont.  While most of the tracks focus on his finely honed style of exuberant indie rock songs anchored by his humble guitar heroism, Ted does make some room to stretch his legs a bit, dabbling in reggae ("The Unwanted Things"), and Fugazi-inspired post-hardcore ("Bomb. Repeat. Bomb.").  This album is certainly a grower, and at the end of the day I think it might be some of his best work yet.


03. Fake Problems- How Far Our Bodies Go
Sabot Productions
Fake Problems apparently took a few cues from the World/Inferno boys and girls in putting together this collection of twangy folk punk tunes, as this album is chock full of charging brass and devilish fiddles (especially on "Maestro of This Rebellious Symphony", one of the standout tracks).  I think this might even rival Against Me!'s Reinventing Axl Rose for the title of "best album in the entire genre".


02. The World/Inferno Friendship Society- Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre's Twentieth Century
Chunksaah Records
A concept album about the life and times of actor Peter Lorre, this album grabbed me from the overture (yes, there's an overture, and it is glorious) and didn't let go until the final waltz.  The whole thing plays like some sort of bizarro musical.  Awesome.


01. The Weakerthans- Reunion Tour
Epitaph/ANTI- Records
The Weakerthans have been one of my favorite bands for a while now, and this album serves to bring into focus just why.  The most effective songs on this album are essentially character sketches exploring themes of loss and loneliness.  As told from various points of view, such as that of a businessman who suddenly finds himself valueless ("Relative Surplus Value"); gender-reassignment experiment subject David Reimer, moments before his suicide ("Hymn of the Medical Oddity"); and a lost cat ("Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure"), these vignettes are at once beautiful and emotionally resonant.  Album of the year for me.

RUNNERS-UP!:
Bomb the Music Industry!- Get Warmer (Quote Unquote/Asian Man Records) (It's FREE!)
Polysics- Karate House (Ki/oon Records/Sony Music Japan)
Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic Records)
The Depreciation Guild- In Her Gentle Jaws (self-released) (It's FREE!) (Thanks, amok!)

TOP 5 EPs/SPLITS/7"s:

01. Bomb the Music Industry!/O Pioneers!!! Split EP (Quote Unquote Records) (It's FREE!)

02. The Riot Before- So Long, The Lighthouse EP (Quote Unquote Records) (It's FREE!)

03. Anamanaguchi- Power Supply EP (8bitpeoples) (It's FREE!)

04. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists- Mo' Living EP (Touch-and-Go Records)

05. Shorebirds- Shorebirds 7" (ex-Jawbreaker/ex-Latterman/Olympia, WA)(self-released)

ALBUMS I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE DUG IF I HAD HEARD MORE OF THEM:
American Steel- Destroy Their Future (Fat Wreck Chords)
Les Savy Fav- Let's Stay Friends (French Kiss Records)
Sundowner- Four One Five Two (Red Scare Records)
Eastern Youth- Chikyu no Ura kara Kaze ga Fuku (Which translates roughly to something like The Wind Blows From the Reverse Side of the Earth) (VAP, Inc.)
Sage Francis- Human the Death Dance (Epitaph Records)
The Aggrolites- Reggae Hit L.A. (Epitaph/Hellcat Records)

DISAPPOINTMENTS:
Against Me!- New Wave (Sire Records/Warner Bros.) (Most of the songs were just flat-out boring.)
Smoke or Fire- This Sinking Ship (Fat Wreck Chords) (I liked this album, but it wasn't as fist-pumpingly rad as Above the City or Worker's Union.)

[valley_parade]

Top....THIRTY!

1. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
2. Sundowner - Four One Five Two
3. Sigur Ros - Hvarf/Heim
4. Frank Turner - Sleep Is For The Week
5. Radio Lxmbrg - Because Of The Times
6. Digitalism - Idealism
7. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
8. Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion
9. Future Of The Left - Curses
10. Wintersleep - Welcome To The Night Sky
11. Cock Sparrer - Here We Stand
12. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
13. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
14. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Living With The Living
15. The Rosebuds - Night of The Furies
16. New Pornographers - Challengers
17. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
18. Call Me Lightning - Soft Skeletons
19. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
20. Tiger Army - Music From Regions Beyond
21. Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest Of Times
22. Radiohead - In Rainbows
23. imadethismistake - Tomorrow, We Start New
24. Dungen - Tio Bitar
25. Low - Drums & Guns
26. 3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up The Blades
27. Holy Fuck - Holy Fuck EP
28. Minus The Bear - Planet Of Ice
29. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
30. Against Me! - New Wave

Honorable mention: Boris/Merzbow - Rock Dream. I got the album this morning, after I posted my list.

[anditsdiscontents]

WARNING: Being that I am fucking pov-struck and also lack a fast internet connection most of the time, I didn’t listen to heaps and heaps of whole albums of new music this year. I apologise. Hence, therefore and thusly, I reserve the right to chuck in stuff that wasn’t released this year, making it a stupidly personal ‘top albums’ list. A lot of these are actually 2006 releases that I only got very late last year or early this year and which became a part of my consciousness only this year. One album was released nowhere near this year but HAD to be included, just because. The list is also influenced a bit by who I saw live, and whatever personal crap I was going through and how both those things helped me understand what each album was trying to achieve.
Ahem.

Albums of 2007 that were great

1.   The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
2.   Radiohead – In Rainbows
3.   Ghosts Of Television – Bi-Gong-Xin and City Of Painless Childbirth (I’ll bunch together these two excellent EPs from a local Sydney band)
4.   Future Of The Left – Curses
5.   Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
6.   Blueline Medic - 42:19


Albums from 2006 that I only really listened to or loved this year, for various reasons
 
Brand New – The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
Envy – Insomniac Doze
The Drones – Gala Mill
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America (only just got it, and something about how very very hetero it is shits and/or depresses me, but damned if it isn't really good)

Honourable mention for being the album I discovered and probably listened to the most this year(?)

Cursive - Domestica

[Ballard]

5.   Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City

I'm sorry but no amount of excuses can make this album good. It was wretched. Absolutely terrible.

[valley_parade]

I quite liked Silent Alarm, but I've gotta agree with you, Gene. Disappointment city.

[amok]

Can you upload this in the Sendspace thread?  I completely forgot about the whole project and I never thought that it might've already been released.  I'm a huge Chris Goss fan so I really want to hear how this turned out.

More than happy to. I'll try and do it now; if not I'm pretty tied up all weekend so it might take a few days, but will get on it at some point. Fantastic album.

[Blank_Jebus]

i know most people won't care for this but one of my favorite albums of this year just came out...

"Somewhere in the Between"- Strretlight Manifesto