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Here's a list of some of my favorite tracks from 2007, in particular order...
North American Scum - LCD SoundsystemCato as a Pun - Of Montreal
Tonight I Have To Leave It - Shout Out Louds
Don't You Evah - Spoon
Fake Empire - The National
See You At The Lights - 1990s
23 - Blonde Redhead
The Golden State - John Doe
Four Winds - Bright Eyes
Los Cruzados - Elk City
You Know I'm No Good - Amy Winehouse
Cheer It On - Tokyo Police Club
Can't Tell Me Nothing - Kanye West
Intervention - The Arcade Fire
Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe - Okkervil River
Yea Yeah - Matt & Kim
You're A Wolf - Sea Wolf
Is There A Ghost - Band Of Horses
Shim Sham - Imperial Teen
Ruby Room - Foxboro Hot Tubs
Kingdom Of Doom -The Good, The Bad & The Queen
Plasticities - Andrew Bird
Now Now - St. Vincent
Sleeping Lessons - The Shins
Cold Hands - Black Lips
Hang Me Out to Dry - Cold War Kids
The problem is that the list won't fit on a CD, so I'll have to pair this down a bit before burning my year end mix. What to do?
My actual favorite track of the year is Of Montreal's The Past is a Grotesque Animal. It clocks in at 11:53-- A bit long for a mix...
My favorite album of the year: Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna edges out Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga.
...that work together as a mix and fit on one CD. Here's this year's edition of my year end CD:
Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn & John
Yankee Bayonet - Decemberists
Way Out - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Fake Tales of San Francisco - Arctic Monkeys
Louisiana - The Walkmen
The President is Dead - Okkervil River
Wooden Heart - The Features
Please Visit Your National Parks - Oxford Collapse
Wold Like Me - TV on the Radio
Here I Come - The Roots
Idlewild Blue - Outkast
Cellphone's Dead - Beck
Could We - Cat Power
Star Witness - Neko Case
Sexy Back (acoustic) - James Eric
Paradise - Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
Darling, Please Come Home - Math and Physics Club
Collarbone - Fujiya and Miyagi
Ever Fallen In Love - Nouvelle Vague
Bearing Witness - Eric Anderson
A few notes:
I'm a sucker for male/female vocal exchanges (see first two songs - it started out as three in a row, but the Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan song just didn't fit - which is too bad)
I'm a sucker for over wrought acoustic versions of songs that took themselves too seriously in the first place (see James Eric's Sexy Back - if you haven't heard this, go download it at: http://jameslaczkowski.com/covers.shtml). Also check out Nina Gordon's amazing version of Straight out of Compton - http://www.ninagordon.com/media (scroll down to bottom right of page).
The last song is by a good friend who cancer took too soon in 2006. It is an acoustic version of an old Dreams So Real song. It is NOT in the same category as the acoustic songs above.
I didn't dig too much "street" rap this year.
Mostly uptempo guitar rock did the trick this year for me this year. That's usually the case.
One of my favorite songs this year was Morrissey's "Life is a Pigsty" - it was too long to fit on the CD and it sucked all of the joy out anything played next to it. So it got dumped. Give it a listen on headphones sometime though if you get a chance.
In no particular order:
My Top 10 Favorites:
Cat Power - The Greatest
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of Broken Seas
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say...
Elvis Costello & Allen Touissant - The River in Reverse
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
The Roots - Game Theory
The Beatles - Love
Would have made the list, but I ran it into the ground...
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Was vaguely disappointed by...:
Yo La Tengo - I'm not afraid of you...
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Come Back Album:
Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormenters (Life is a Pigsty turned up to 11 is a primer in angst)
Can't wait to hear more from:
Peter, Bjorn, and John
I didn't get the fuss over:
The Hold Steady
I meant to spend more time with the new albums by:
Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen
Dixie Chicks
Pearl Jam
Pernice Brothers
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thats quite a list there my friend... i wish you lots of musical love in the new year!
MOG Meter
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great list!