Best of '07

My plan for this post was to get a bunch of my friends to make lists and post them all here, but I only was really able to ask my friend Jason for his list. So here is Jason and Brenda's list as well as my list.

Jason G's Top Records

Top buys released in 2007 based on entire album played all the way through

(in no particular order)

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Metric - Grow Up and Blow Away
Stars - In the Bedroom After the War
Modest Mouse - We were Dead Before the Ship even Sank
The National - Boxer
Jens Lekman - Night Falls over Kortedala
Editors - An End has a Start
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Jeremy Enigk - The Missing Link
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Beirut - The Flying Cup Club

Brenda's input
Pipettes - We are the Pipettes
Feist - The Reminder
Iron and Wine - Shepherd's Dog
Au Revoir Simone - The Bird of Music
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

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Andy's Top Ten Records of 2007:

10. The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters

9. Wilco Sky Blue Sky

8. Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

7. The Sea and Cake Everybody

6. Pinback Autumn of the Seraphs

5. Battles Mirrored

4. The Arcade Fire Neon Bible

3. Menomena Friend and Foe

2. Radiohead In Rainbows

1. The National Boxer

Honorable Mention:

-The Clientele God Save the Clientele

-Apostle of Hustle National Anthem of Nowhere

-Feist The Reminder

-The Six Parts Seven Casually Smashed to Pieces

-Aereogramme My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go

-Low Drums and Guns

-Panda Bear Person Pitch

Just Purchased That May Have Made the List Had I Had More Time With Them:

-Múm Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy

-Iron and Wine Shepherd’s Dog

-Caribou Andorra

-Minus the Bear Planet of Ice

-Stars of the Lid And Their Refinement of the Decline

-Sleeping People Growing

Have a Couple Tracks That I Like, But Disappointing Overall:

-Interpol Our Love to Admire

-The New Pornograpers Challengers

-Stars In Our Bedroom After the War

-Kevin Drew Spirit If…

-Mobius Band Heaven

-Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Not Feeling As Much As Some People:

-LCD Soundsystem The Sound of Silver

-Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

-Justice †

Also Rans:

-The One AM Radio This Too Will Pass

-El-P I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead

-Warm in the Wake Gold Dust Trail

Records From 2006 that really hit me in 2007:

-Snowden Anti-Anti

-Clipse Hell Hath No Fury