My Favorite Stuff from 2007

I don't like it when people say "Best of 2007" etc. Like they would know. Nobody listened to everything. So this is more like "best of what i heard in 2007." Not such a bad year for music, really. Several albums were serious contenders for best of the year. In the end I went with Panda Bear’s “Person Pitch” as the best of the bunch. It’s the one that was most rewarding to me upon multiple listens.

Lots of old favorites offered up solid new records and a few new bands made their mark. If you were willing to look there was plenty of stuff to keep your attention. In a world of “indie-rock” car commercial jingles and disposable downloads, here is what we call the real deal. These are records that are worth your time. Have yourself a nice little sit down with these and really absorb the music. Not enough people do that anymore, y’know.

I'm gonna try and post some of my favorite songs of the year in "the jam" section if i can figure it out. Damn this crazy technology. Ben must feel like he accidentally asked somebody's grandpa to do this thing.

Best LP’s

1. Panda Bear- Person Pitch

2. Caribou- Andorra

3 Electrelane- No Shouts, No Calls

4 Big Business- Here Come the Waterworks

5 Dinosaur Jr.- Beyond

6 The Angels of Light- We Are Him

7 Do Make Say Think- You, You’re a History in Rust

8 PJ Harvey- White Chalk

9 Liars- Liars

10 Arthur and Yu- In Camera

11 Black Moth Super Rainbow- Dandelion Gum

12 Low- Drums and Guns

13 Shellac- Excellent Italian Greyhound

14 Pissed Jeans- Hope for Men

15 Thurston Moore- Trees Outside the Academy

Honorable Mention: Band of Horses- Cease to Begin, Battles- Mirrored, Vic Chesnutt – North Star Desserter, Madlib- Beat Konducta 3 & 4, Les Savy Fav- Let’s Stay Friends, El- P- I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, Magik Markers- Boss, Om- Pilgrimage, Beirut- The Flying Club Cup, Celebration- the Modern Tribe, Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam, The National- Boxer, Ghost- In Stormy Nights, Dalek- Abandoned Language, Miss Alex White- Space and Time

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Girl Talk- Night Ripper: I know it came out in 2006. I still don’t "get it."

BEST SINGLES/EPs

Tyvek- Summer Burns double 7”

Homostupids- Glow 7”

Jay Reatard- Night of Broken Glass 12”

No Age- Assorted 7”s and 12”s that make up Weirdo Rippers CD

Built To Spill- They Got Away 12”

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Yo La Tengo- I can Hear the Heart

Radiohead- OK Computer

Will Oldham- Joya

Pavement- Brighten the Corners

Karp- s/t LP

Godspeed You Black Emperor- f@@##

Portishead- s/t

Superchunk- Indoor Living

Stereolab- Dots and Loops

Blonde Redhead- Fake Can be Just as Good

Guided by Voices- Mag Earwhig

Helium- The Magic City

Ween- the Mollusk

Elliott Smith- Either / Or

Mike Watt- Contemplating the Engine Room

Trans Am- Surrender to the Night

Three Mile Pilot- Another Desert

Karate- In Place of Real Insight

Smart Went Crazy- Con Art

TEN SONGS 2007

Tyvek- Frustration Rock

Jay Reatard- Night of Broken Glass

Caribou- Melody Day

Panda Bear- Comfy in Nautica

No Age- My Life’s Alright Without You

Low- Murderer

Black Moth Super Rainbow- Forever Heavy

Homostupids- Apeshit

Beirut- Cliquot

Electrelane- The Greater Times

Liars- It Fit When I was a Kid

BEST OF AKRON 2007

Hell’s Information- Rad Battle

Trouble Books- Distortion Pedal

Gabe Schray- Softest Service

Talons- Honey Gold

Low in the Sky- We’re All Counting on You, William