albums of the year

[Gilly]

I forgot that Dr. Dog and Blonde Redhead came out this year. Add those to my faves.

[masterofsparks]

A couple more to add to my list (I'm not sure on some of these release dates - some may be 2006 and I'm too lazy to check right now):

Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Living With the Living
The Brought Low - Right on Time
Shame Club - Come On
Teeth of the Hydra - Greenland
Jay Reatard - Night of Broken Glass 12"
Baroness - Red Album
Rwake - Voices of Omens
Dungen - Tio Bitar
Five Horse Johnson - The Mystery Spot
Comets on Fire - Avatar

[paul]

2007 has been a good year for 12"s and singles though.  Avalanches...

wait, whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut?

[Beth]

Colleen-Les ondes silencieuses
Dan Deacon-Spiderman of the Rings
Panda Bear-Person Pitch (everyone loves that one)
James Blackshaw-The Cloud of the Unknowing
Dirty Projectors-Rise Above
Arcade Fire-Neon Bible

It's weird, I feel like every other year I was able to name a ton more albums than this. either I'm tired, bitter, or getting harder to please. or all three.

[Martin]

2007 has been a good year for 12"s and singles though.  Avalanches...

wait, whuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut?

They tease-released one single through their website called Ray of Zdarlight earlier this year - but alas, no new album yet. Get the track here.

[Tim K in DC]

T.L. + The Rockstarmacists - I'm Living With The Living And You'll Die Without It

Now, why didn't I think of that??

Maybe because you were too busy making a great fucking album... (seriously, TL, you helped provide a substantial part of the soundtrack that made my 2007 bearable)

[A.M. Thomas]

Panda Bear- Person Pitch

Record of the year, anyone?

Prolly.

[Gilly]

Count me out of the Panda Bear/Animal Collective love fest.

[Beth]

Count me out of the Panda Bear/Animal Collective love fest.

I don't like anything animal collective has done since "Sung Tongs" but I feel like Panda Bear has really kept the things I liked about animal collective going.

[Forrest]

Count me out of the Panda Bear/Animal Collective love fest.

There's no reason to lump the two records together. I didn't really dig the new Animal Collective record, but I thought the Panda Bear record was stellar. Alas, it is with a heavy heart that I will strike your name from the love fest page, Gilly.

Maybe next year?!

[Gilly]

We'll see. I might have a "thing" next year...

[Josh]

I liked the Love of Diagrams EP I got when they opened for Ted Leo in Miami.

[dave from knoxville]

Finally, here's my list.

First off, I only know Animal Collective through the NPR concert they did in September or October

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14564305

I listened to it three time, trying to learn to like it, since people who I respect love them, but it never worked. Where's a better place to start? (I have one on order, something about Strawberries.)

Secondly, I am listing CDs here that were new to me in 2007, but if I was going to list my favorite 2007 releases, with a couple of exceptions, I would have to wait until 2011.


Pop/Rock/Whatever we're calling it

Bob Dylan - Modern Times (sorry Tom)
Ben Folds - Rockin the Suburbs (sorry Tom)
Keane - Under the Iron Sea (just assume that "sorry Tom" is a given from here on)
Ray Lamontagne - Til the Sun Turns Black
Scott Walker - The Drift (an awful lot like picking at a scab, but I couldn't stop)
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Zero 7 - The Garden
Willie Nelson - The Complete Atlantic Sessions
Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors
Marshall Crenshaw - The Definitive Pop Collection
Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock and Roll
Built To Spill - You in Reverse
Eric Sanko/Skeleton Key Sampler from a New Zealander I barely know who calls himself Anzac
Hot Chip - Coming On Strong
Frank Zappa - Trance/Fusion
Erin McKeown - Sing You Sinners
Chris Thile - Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Sufjan Stevens - Greetings From Michigan
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Sly and the Family Stone - Stand
Roger Manning - The Land of Pure Imagination
Television - Marquee Moon
Aimee Mann - Bachelor Number 2
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
Cat Power - The Greatest
Comets of Fire - The Avatar
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
The Magic Numbers
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (me and Andy from Knoxville are both obsessed with "The Knights of Cydonia")
Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Do Something Inappropriate To You
Crowded House - Time On Earth




Jazz/Blues
Weather Report - Forecast (Box Set)
Buddy Guy - Can't Quit the Blues
John Lee Hooker - Hooker (Box Set)
Miles Davis - King of Blue
Andy Milne - Dreams and False Alarms
Terence Blanchard - A Tale of God's Will





I have admitted to Stan that I am a big prog-rock geek, but I think I have heard it all, so that stuff's limited in my goodpile for this year.

Finally, anybody that made it this far, there's a terrific Steve Albini interview on this week's Sound of Young America. You are only allowed to listen to it when you turn in your recap of this week's TBSOWFMUWTS to Omar, but it's worth your hour; he's really funny, and he's got a philosophy of music that goes hand in hand with most FOT sensibilities. But ONLY after you've completed your FOT duties, young ones!

[samir]

Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (me and Andy from Knoxville are both obsessed with "The Knights of Cydonia")

Buddy Guy - Can't Quit the Blues

1. Dave, have you seen the video for Knights of Cydonia? It's wonderful and ridiculous.

2. Didn't Buddy Guy die, in the "blues igloo"?

[dave from knoxville]

I had never seen it, but we just watched. We're still laughing.

If there's a sequel. I hope he has to go into the jungle to flush our some no-gooders, with his smooth karate moves, his robot, and mostly his beautiful lady and her magic disc.