Let's start talking Best Album of 2007.

[Smartly Pretty]

Sound of Silver

Every Scene Needs a Center

Graduation

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Neon Bible

 

I think Neon Bible is only a dissapointment in comparison to Funeral. Funeral was just so awesome that Neon Bible was bound to fall short of it. I still enjoyed it a ton. Also, I don't really have an ear for rap, and I can't actually gauge who's talented and not, but I really like Kanye West. Like, a lot.

[Retard Girl]

i only bought two albums in 2007

 

Metallica's ...And Justuce for All

 

and

 

tool's 10,000 days.

 

 

 

only the tool cd was made in this last year. i think. or was that 2006? shit, i'm so far behind with this shit

[Nighthawk]

What do your kids listen to? That's the real gauge of what's popular.

 

I remember when my brother was a kid it was all Backstreet Boys and N'SYNC and shit. I gave him a little chiding punch on the arm... and then another... and then things got a little hazy, he had to live with a foster family for a while... but when I woke up he was listening to Black Sabbath and Cannibal Corpse, so it worked out in the end.

[Retard Girl]

my kids aren't old enough to know this shit yet. they listen to metal because i do XD

 

though the seven year old likes We Didn't Start the Fire, and the five year old loves the Mercedes Benz song.

[Nighthawk]

When I was five, I listened to Madonna and Foetus. No shit, Foetus. JG Thirlwell. And of course Motley Crue and Guns N Roses. But I was cooler than most kids.

 

Well, not about the Madonna... but otherwise.

[cbacon]

Top ten are pretty safe. Some at the bottom may be interchangeable since i liked them but need a few more spins over the break.

 

1. M.I.A. – Kala

2. Radiohead – In Rainbows

3. Feist – The Reminder

4. Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

5. Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

6. The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible

7. The National - Boxer

8. Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light

9. Matthew Good – Hospital Music

10. Kanye West – Graduation

11. Handsome Furs – Plague Park

12. Rilo Kiley – Under the Blacklight

13. Stars – Our Bedroom After the War

14. Bright Eyes – Cassadaga

15. Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew – Spirit If …

16. Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover

17. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position

18. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam

19. The Weakerthans – Reunion Tour

20. The New Pornographers – Challengers

21. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver

22. The Field – Here We Go From Sublime

23. Okkervil River – The Stage Names

24. Spoon – GaGaGaGaGa

25. Emma Pollock – Watch the Fireworks

26. The Go! Team – Proof of Youth

27. Beurit – Flying Cup Club

28. Interpol – Our Love To Admire

29. Blonde Redhead – 23

30. Tegan and Sara – The Con

31. Most Serene Republic – Population

32. The Shins – Wincing the Night Away

33. Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – Living with Living

34. Iron and Wine - Shepard’s Dog

35. Kate Nash – Made of Bricks

36. Joel Plaskett Emergency – Ashtray Rock

37. The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Summers, Fifteen Winters

38. Frank Turner – Sleep is for the Week

39. Against Me! – New Wave

40. Menomena – Friend and Foe

41. Marissa Nadler – Songs III

42. Apostle of Hustle – National Anthem of Nowhere

43. The Besnard Lakes = The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse

44. Band of Horses – Cease to Begin

45. Jay-Z – American Gangster

46. The Smashing Pumpkins – Zeitgeist

47. !!! – Myth Takes

48. Editors – An End Has A Start

49. EL-P – I’ll Sleep When Your Dead

50. Jesca Hoop – Kesmit

[MFer]

I must be out of touch, cuz I've never heard of roughly 3/4 of the artists listed in this thread.

 

I'm not much of a CD buyer, but out of the ones I've purchased this year, I'd say American Gangster is the best.

[Annabelle]

putting matt good ahead of handsome furs or even kanye west shows your silly canadiana bias. that aside, cbacon's list is pretty frustrating.

 

edit i know handsome furs are canadian but only canadians tolerate matthew good's melodramatic overproduced radiohead knock-off "i'm controversial" shtick. fuck he sucks.

[Guest My Pal, the Tortoise]

A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal

 

What did you think of this? I like it quite a bit, but it's not something I feel the urge to listen to very often. That might change with the weather though, since it seems like it'd be perfect walking-around-in-the-snow music.

It is!

[Lord of The Curry]

putting matt good ahead of handsome furs or even kanye west shows your silly canadiana bias. that aside, cbacon's list is pretty frustrating.

 

edit i know handsome furs are canadian but only canadians tolerate matthew good's melodramatic overproduced radiohead knock-off "i'm controversial" shtick. fuck he sucks.

 

Matt Good is controversial? You're foolin' yourself.

[Annabelle]

i ain't foolin myself that this has been his attempt for the past 10 years. is he? of course not. feueding with our lady peace aint controversial although it was the greatest thing he's ever done. and the strange days video. holla.

[cbacon]

nah despite being spotty at parts the new album is good. I put it above the Handsome Furs simply because I listened to it more, so yeah, maybe a little bias. Kanye's record wasn't as consistent as his previous records. Dunno what he was thinking on Drunk and Hot Girls.

[Mik]

I just got the zip files of the top 100 singles from Pitchfork off of stereogum. Lots of stuff I haven't heard before - lots of stuff that's a bit too electronic for me.

 

I know this doesn't necessarily belong in this thread but nowhere else to put it really.

 

If you're interested... don't know how long the files will be up.

[cbacon]

cool thanks Mik

[Lord of The Curry]

i ain't foolin myself that this has been his attempt for the past 10 years. is he? of course not. feueding with our lady peace aint controversial although it was the greatest thing he's ever done. and the strange days video. holla.

 

Aside from shit-talking Raine Maida (and really, who hasn't?) your attempt at a response isn't really convincing. Care to reference anything specific?

[Guest My Pal, the Tortoise]

"Umbrella" is at #5, lest you think Pitchfork is 2 indie 4 u. I mean, yeah, I think it's a good song once you get past the self-aggrandizing jackass at the beginning, but I just like ragging on them for that sort of thing.

[Annabelle]

i ain't foolin myself that this has been his attempt for the past 10 years. is he? of course not. feueding with our lady peace aint controversial although it was the greatest thing he's ever done. and the strange days video. holla.

 

Aside from shit-talking Raine Maida (and really, who hasn't?) your attempt at a response isn't really convincing. Care to reference anything specific?

 

why are you being so petulent about this? fucking baby.

 

here's one link full of complaints over an incident in regina. like i said, he tries to be more controversial than he is. hence the "i hear matt good is a real asshole" tshirts he had made a few years back. he loves the attention. at least back when he was a suicidal pill popping egomaniac. is he still?

 

http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2001/02/1605.cfm

 

 

[BUTT]

"Umbrella" is at #5, lest you think Pitchfork is 2 indie 4 u.

As though putting it that high on the list wasn't a calculated stance in order to refute accusations of snobbery. Besides which, it features Jay-Z and indie dudes have been riding his jock for years. Fuck, he's got a song on that list at #10. (Am I the only one who finds it funny to see the nerdy-as-hell Pitchfork writers non-ironically referring to him as "Hova" as though their casual use of his nickname gives them some sort of street cred?)

 

That said, it is a good song.

[Edwin MacPhisto]

They got the pretty inevitable song of the year, right. I really don't think I like Kala as much as most people, though.

[cbacon]

Yeah i can get behind Umbrella

[PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH!]

Umbrella's not really as good of a song as past "hey we like pop music too!" inclusions. I mean, it's all right, but it's not on the level of, like, "My Love" or "Hey Ya." It seems like they just said, "Well, it was the biggest pop song of the year. Guess we better put it in the top 5!" It's not even the best "mainstream" song on the list.

[BUTT]

I just realized that Czech was probably making fun of Pitchfork's populist stance with regards to their number five song rather than using it to support an argument against their snobbery. Whatever, though, I stand by the general message of my post.

[Guest My Pal, the Tortoise]

I liked your post. I thought it was great. You were like "indie dudes have been riding his jock for years" and I was like "yeaahhhhhh."

[Giuseppe Zangara]

I'm thinking about given each another go, but the appeal of both Strawberry Jam and Person Pitch are lost on me. I only concern myself with this because I thought so highly of Sung Tongs and like scattered moments throughout the rest of the AC-related catalog.

[Guest My Pal, the Tortoise]

I thought it was okay, but I don't really revisit it all that much other than "Peacebone."

[Giuseppe Zangara]

Also, jeez, Pitchfork, do something about the layout. Whatever reason they have for not trumpeting their year-end album lists like they once did—around this time just a couple of years ago, the top 50 was the feature attraction; if you wanted to go to the main site, you had to click another link—surely it's better than shunting it off to the lower right of the screen and having the middle (which most people notice first thing) be week-old album reviews.

[Giuseppe Zangara]

I thought it was okay, but I don't really revisit it all that much other than "Peacebone."

You ever check out Sung Tongs? I think it's their best album by far. I can up it elsewhere if you want.

[Guest My Pal, the Tortoise]

I've had it for a few weeks and haven't gotten around to listening to it

[Smartly Pretty]

Up it anyway, plz.

[Guest My Pal, the Tortoise]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2npout