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The Best Songs of 2007
'Tis the season for making lists and checking them twice. In my case, I checked more times than I care to mention. Selecting the tracks for this year's "Nice" list wasn't simply a matter of grabbing the songs with the highest play counts in my iTunes, otherwise just five or six artists would dominate. I had to be a bit more evenhanded. There were just a few standout albums in 2007, and they were albums that overflow with many of the year's most memorable tracks.
30. Hot Springs - Bacteria
29. Blonde Redhead - 23
28. The Hood Internet - Absorb the Lip Gloss (Lil Mama vs. Marnie Stern)
27. Courtney Tidwell - Eyes Are At The Billions
26. Hot Chip - My Piano
25. Feist - Sea Lion (Chromeo Remix)
24. Menomena - Muscle n' Flo
23. Caribou - Melody Day
22. Deerhunter - Like New
21. Radiohead - Bodysnatchers
20. Liars - Plaster Casts of Everything
19. The Besnard Lakes - Devastation
18. Battles - Atlas
17. The National - Mistaken for Strangers
16. M.I.A. - Bird Flu
15. !!! - All My Heroes Are Weirdos
14. The Willowz - Evil Son
13. Kanye West - Can't Tell me Nothing
12. Beirut - Elephant Gun
11. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
10. Andrew Bird - Spare-Ohs
9. The National - Fake Empire
8. Feist - I Feel It All
7. LCD Soundsystem - All Of My Friends
6. Arcade Fire - Black Wave/Bad Vibrations
5. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
4. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
3. Les Savy Fav - The Equestrian
2. Radiohead - Reckoner
1. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Did I miss anything? What were your favourites of 2007?
Photo by katielips. For last year's list click here.
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Panda Bear- Comfy in Nautica
Basia Bulat - Snakes and Ladders
Fugitives - Headlines
Handsome Furs - What We Had
Joel Plaskett Emergency - Fashionable People
I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
Good list. Definitely got me on Arcade Fire's Black wave/bad vibrations, listen to it a lot.
To add to your list, I would go with:
Matthew Good--Black Helicopter
Talib Kweli--Give 'em Hell
Great list...mine wouldn't be complete without:
"Ed is a Portal" by Akron/Family
"+81" by Deerhoof
"Nicoman" by Gang Gang Dance
"Kool Aid River" by Secret Mommy
"Indestructible Life!" by Old Time Relijun
"2080" by Yeasayer
"Soft Death" by Yura Yura Teikoku
How about something off of the new Weakerthans record?
My comment didn't get approved, so I'm going to try again.
Isn't this a LOCAL blog? Isn't this blog mainly about VANCOUVER?
Where are the local bands?!?!??!!?
Bands that released records or singles in 2007:
The Evaporators, Shapes and Sizes, The Doers, Greenbelt Collective, OKVancouverOK, The Winks, Bison, Pride Tiger, Black Mountain, Octoberman, Mohawk Lodge, Collapsing Opposites, Hot Loins, Mutators, Shearing Pinx, New Pornographers, Swan Lake, .....i had a way longer list, but you deleted it.
Sigh, I love Vancouver and sure wish you did too.
what about tv on the radio?
i am slightly obsessed with "someone great". good top pick; it's been popped on to a few of my end-of-year mixes so far!
also, am i the only person on the planet who can't get into blonde redhead? i'll check that song out, and i may be a convert.
this list sucks.