I haven't been listening to enough music this past year. I always like to look at best of the year lists and figure out what I missed, and this year I missed just about everything, it would seem. My top 10 list is really obvious. It's safe indie. I didn't buy many cd's this year, and several of them were back catalogue anyway.
Anyway, My top 10 this year, of albums I actually own and so can actually suggest that they are good:
1. Radiohead: In Rainbows
2. The National: Boxer
3. Stars: In Our Bedroom After the War
4. Bloc Party: A Weekend in the City
5. Blonde Redhead: 23
6. The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
7. Bjork: Volta
8. Caribou: Andorra
9. Wilco: Sky Blue Sky
10.Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Honorable Mention:
Sigur Rós: Hvarf/Heim
Gogol Bordello: Super Taranta!
The White Stripes: Icky Thump
The ones that I have but I haven't listened to enough yet to determine whether they're good or not:
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
Feist: The Reminder
Bright Eyes: Cassadaga
The Good, The Bad & The Queen: The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Kevin Drew: Spirit If...
Artists I have always liked in the past but haven't heard the 2007 albums from:
Beirut: The Flying Club Cup
Iron and Wine: The Shepherd's Dog
Air: Pocket Symphony
The New Pornographers: Challengers
Liars: Liars
Amon Tobin: Foley Room
The Concretes: Hey Trouble
Dinosaur Jr.: Beyond
Wu Tang Clan: 8 Diagrams
Grinderman: Grinderman (Nick Cave)
Art Brut: It's a Bit Complicated
Interpol: Our Love to Admire
Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Nine Inch Nails: Year Zero
Beck: The Information
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Ask Forgiveness
Rivers Cuomo: Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
The Hives: The Black and White Album
"Best Of 2007" albums I haven't heard yet (or have only heard singles from):
Justice: + (that's supposed to be a cross)
Kanye West: Graduation
Bruce Springsteen: Magic
Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
Battles: Mirrored
Panda Bear: Person Pitch
M.I.A.: Kala
LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
Grizzly Bear: Friend EP
Burial: Untrue
Jay-Z: American Gangster
The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
Les Savy Fav: Let's Stay Friends
Okkervil River: The Stage Names
Jens Lenkman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
Other 2007 (not generally "best of") albums I'd like to hear:
Band of Horses: Cease to Begin
Menomena: Friend and Foe
St. Vincent: Marry Me
Rihanna: Good Girl Gone Bad
Frog Eyes: Tears of the Valedictorian
Great Lake Swimmers: Onigiara
Simian Mobile Disco: Attack Decay Sustain Release
!!!: Myth Takes
Deerhunter: Cryptograms
Deerhoof: Friend Opportunity
Black Lips: Good Bad Not Evil
Dirty Projectors: Rise Above
Health: Health
Dizzee Rascal: Maths + English
Besnard Lakes: The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse
Honeydrips: Here Comes the Future
Timbaland: Timbaland Presents Shock Value
So, if you have heard any of these albums, let me know what you think.
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