Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" Sound of Silver is the best album of 2007, too, but you knew that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cbacon 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 I'd go with Fake Empire Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 This thread's gonna include a lot of songs I don't know, as I'm not much better at keeping up with new stuff than I am at keeping up with radio-friendly garbage. That said, I also feel very strongly about !!!'s "Must Be the Moon," though its parent album, Myth Takes, isn't a threat to my meager list of favorites from this year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
snuffbox 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lt. Al Giardello 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 Morning News and Evening News by Chamillionaire Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Man Who Sold The World 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 Everyone knows Feist "1, 2, 3, 4" is YOUR 2007 Song Of The Year Because IPod said so. In all seriousness: Anthony Hamilton "Do You Feel Me" That song just came out, and I'm getting a soul jazz feel to it. Probably one of the best pure song songs I've heard all year. Just music for your ears. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AntiLeaf33 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 Haven't really heard a lot of good songs on the radio this year. Iguess "The Pretender" is the best song from this year that I can think of, even though it really isn't anything special Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Black Lushus 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 It may not be the BEST song, but I like Interpol's "The Heinrich Manuever" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 The title track to Deerhunter's Cryptograms is another favorite; "Lake Somerset" from that same album is also fantastic. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" Yep, that's it. About dead even is UGK and Outkast's "International Player's Anthem," my favorite rap song in forever. Strong runner-up consideration granted to M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" and Animal Collective's "Fireworks" and "Peacebone," which are possibly a little higher in my estimation than they need to be since both were fantastic live. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Gym Class Fallout Report post Posted October 25, 2007 "All My Friends" is probably the one, but let me also nominate "On and On and On," as well as "Heartbreak" by Celebration. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Perfxion 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" Yep, that's it. About dead even is UGK and Outkast's "International Player's Anthem," my favorite rap song in forever. That song would be my favorite of the year if Pimp C doesn't drag it down with his pointless bars. They also could have a classic with the "Walk It Out Remix" but Jim Jones and UNK drag that song into the gutter. Hard to say what would be "Best" but my favorite three tracks were: "You" by Lloyd, "What Goes Around...Comes Around" by Justin Timberlake, and "Do You" by Ne-Yo. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Smartly Pretty 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 Everyone knows Feist "1, 2, 3, 4" is YOUR 2007 Song Of The Year Um, that's actually a good song. It's not the best of 2007, but it's by NO means a bad song. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 About dead even is UGK and Outkast's "International Player's Anthem," my favorite rap song in forever. That song would be my favorite of the year if Pimp C doesn't drag it down with his pointless bars. Pimp's verse is miles better than that weak shit Big Boi spits at the end. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Exslade ZX 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 So I have to ask...(Seeing as three people said it) What exactly are the reasons for nominating "All My Friends" as Best song? Just Youtubed it, and all I can really say about it, is that it's an, Interesting, choice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coffin Surfer 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 "On A Friday"-Blaqk Audio One of the better edgy pop anthems I've heard in some time. Prime Prince doesn't have anything to worry about but damn impressive none the less. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 So I have to ask...(Seeing as three people said it) What exactly are the reasons for nominating "All My Friends" as Best song? Just Youtubed it, and all I can really say about it, is that it's an, Interesting, choice. Great keyboard loop that takes a lot of time to really develop. Sublime backing track that never lets up, very Krautrock-cool. Overall, the music breathes and goes in the right direction every time there's a chance for it to take a fork. Genuinely impassioned singing, deeply affecting semi-surreal but extremely earnest and personal lyrics. Gorgeous hook. The whole song is one giant, perfect crescendo. Also, if you're watching in on youtube, you might be watching the 5-minute edit, which lacks some of the impact of the epic 7-minutes plus album track. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Gym Class Fallout Report post Posted October 25, 2007 Don't bother explaining things to Exslade. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 That was more for me than him. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Gym Class Fallout Report post Posted October 25, 2007 I go out of my way to invoke krautrock in discussions, so I see what you were doing there. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mfn 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 The Hives - Tick Tick Boom The Redwalls - Hangman Kings Of Leon - Arizona Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Weapon Of Choice all my nominations... i can't pick just one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PUT THAT DICK IN MY MOUTH! 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 The best summation of what makes "All My Friends" so unbearably great was written on cokemachineglow way back in January when the song first leaked Here’s how it starts: eighty seconds of minimalist pianos clattering against one another, shimmering deftly before falling into line and forming a two-note structure over minimal bass and hi-hats. Here’s how it ends: the same elements, but six minutes later tumbling over one another, gushing heroic steam, careening at lightning speed but taking the listener too, and James Murphy out of breath but still pushing words out, begging, “If I could see all my friends tonight,” to devastate the listener while he’s -- the music much bigger than him -- tingling with nostalgia and heartbreak and that moment when you inexplicably laugh really hard after crying really, really hard. It’s some intense, heart-ringing shit. Would it be callous to hate it? LCD Soundsystem set out to make an anthem with “All My Friends,” and while it’s intensely personal, making explicit mentions to, um, being in LCD Soundsystem, it’s still resolutely transcendental, still knows how to swing a Doc Marten right in the torso of the most jaded indie kid, lines emerging like, “I wouldn’t trade one stupid decision / For another five years of life.” It’s hopeless and furious and beautiful sentiment, a tug back into the pubescent mindset that caught fire with a little alcohol and music and girls and a joint or two in the very early morning. All of which understandably sounds pretty Chris Carrabba, but LCD pare down the music to a core contingent of sounds for maximum emotive power, and Murphy’s lyrics build not into a “fuck my parents” explosion but into a more subtle, mature inversion, fearing the end of that bleary way of living, of that community that keeps him alive and of the stone-sober 3 a.m. realization that the fun part of life is over: “And with a face like a dad and a laughable stare / You can sleep on the plane or review what you said / When you’re drunk and the kids look impossibly tan / You’ll come over and over, hey, I’m finally dead.” And so that line that bears the song’s title, panted over and over after seven minutes of dread, is eulogistic -- not celebratory but revelatory, and ardently, profoundly sad. There’s more that I could say about this track, but you, readers, will probably say it all to each other anyway beneath a case of PBR. In other words: Here, indie world, is your “Baba O’Riley.” Hate it at your own risk. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 I'm going to have to say "Gimme More". It's Britney, bitch. Or else Dethklok's "Mermaider". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ripper 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends" Yep, that's it. About dead even is UGK and Outkast's "International Player's Anthem," my favorite rap song in forever. That song would be my favorite of the year if Pimp C doesn't drag it down with his pointless bars. They also could have a classic with the "Walk It Out Remix" but Jim Jones and UNK drag that song into the gutter. I agree with this post. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
snuffbox 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 "All My Friends" is probably the one, but let me also nominate "On and On and On," as well as "Heartbreak" by Celebration. I lived near the Celebration for awhile. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLAGIARISM! 0 Report post Posted October 25, 2007 I've already said my piece on 'All My Friends' and this thread was it, so yeah, Matt is slightly off the pace here. Correct, mind. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
luke-o 0 Report post Posted October 26, 2007 Kate Nash - Foundations Hadouken! - Liquid Lives Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted October 27, 2007 I saw Celebration live once; I was able to stand one song before me and my friend stepped out on the patio. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Smartly Pretty 0 Report post Posted October 27, 2007 I agree with you guys on the "All My Friends" front, but I think "Intervention" by Arcade Fire at least deserves a mention in this thread. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted October 27, 2007 Nah. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
