Grant's Top Ten

2007 Top 10:

1) Radiohead - In Rainbows
2) Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
3) Amon Tobin - Foley Room
4) Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated
5) LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
6) Spoon - GaGa...
7) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
8) Black Lips - Good Bad not Evil
9) Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
10) Dizzee Rascal -Maths + English

Honorable Mention:
Elliott Smith - New Moon


Top 3 albums that Timbaland made so much worse in 2007:
1) Bjork - Volta
2) M.I.A. - Kala
3) Timbaland - Shock Value

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Kyle's Top Ten one Worst

Tops

10.  Band of Horses
9.  Animal Collective
8.  New Pornos
7.  Menomena
6.  The Good, the Bad, and the Queen
5.  Battles
4.  Patrick Wolf
3.  Okervil River
2.  Spoon
1.  The National

Worst of All Categories (topping My Humps of a previous year)

Soulja Boy

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Bryan's top picks

Because of my underexposure to new music and overexposure to pure science, I will have to try something different this year.  I’m going to let the statistics speak for themselves without dolling them up with artificial subjectivity purely for street cred.  Here is what iTunes tells me I listened to the most this year:

 

Bryan’s Tops circa 2007

 

1. The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
2. Radiohead – In Rainbows
3. Damon Albarn and Co. – The Good, The Bad, The Queen
4. The Chemical Brothers – We Are the Night
5. Underworld – Oblivion with Bells
6. Jarvis Cocker – The Jarvis Cocker Album
7. The Smashing Pumpkins – Zeitgeist
8. Beck – Timebomb (single)
9. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Some Loud Thunder
10. Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity

 

Honorable mentions:

 

Fiest – The Reminder

Studio – Yearbook 1

Wilco – Sky Blue Sky

 

You might observe that I need a special weighting feature to rearrange the albums in an order that prioritizes fast movers which came onto to the 2007 scene late (Underworld) above those which have been out for awhile (The Shins).  I will let you know when I have developed such a weighting feature.  Additionally, I will tell you that every album beyond Sky Blue Sky falls under the category 4 listens or less (noise level). The most listens (maximum signal) goes to The Shins with only 18 plays.  As my signal/noise ratio is quite low this tells you that I didn’t listen to music nearly as much as I should have. Lastly, I will also comment that I didn’t like “We Are the Night” that much but I obviously kept listening to it desperately wanting to enjoy it...

 

Thanks for sharing everyone,

B

 

 

 

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Rob's Tippy Top Tens/ 2007

Due to the release of several boss albums between December 15-31 2006, I decided to hold off on listing my 2007 Tops until the end of the calendar year. Apologies to the new Lupe Fiasco (released Dec. 18, 2007), here are my Top 10:

10. Wincing The Night Away/ The Shins
9. Transparent Things/ Fujiya & Miyagi
8. A Weekend in The City/ Bloc Party
7. In Rainbows/ Radiohead
6. Alive 2007/ Daft Punk
5. Cease to Begin/ Band of Horses
4. Our Earthly Pleasures/ Maximo Park
3. Ga x5/ Spoon
2. Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?/ Of Montreal
1. Sound of Silver/ LCD Soundsystem//

Others of Note I Really Liked:

Eponymous/ The Good, The Bad, & The Queen
Let's Stay Friends/ Les Savy Fav
The Magic Position/ Patrick Wolf
We Were Dead Before We Even Released This Record/ Modest Mouse (feat. Sean Primley)

Looking Forward to in '08:

New Franz
New Sufjan
New Vampire Weekend
Bonin' my new Wife
Reading more of Wade's novel submissions
Time with E-Dog
Time with my dog
More Adam
Stickin' it to the man, my new Wife

Mickey, thanks for hosting this; Micah, fun seeing you at Trivia, Last but not least, I'd like to thank the Lord for my music taste. Without Him, well, I'd rather not think about that. Think about that, haters.

-Rob

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