Year-End Critics' Polls '07

Sharon Jones at only #45 in Paste? Josh Rouse only at #71? Recount!

Mordechai, aren't you aware that R&B is only good when made by relics and retroists?

Oh, so I'm not the only one who found SFJ's pieceMordechai Shinefield's post totally wrong and even a little disingenuous? THE BIG STATEMENT ABOUT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC AND RACERIHANNA was neither convincing or big.

Mags that pay attention to metal will be giving big props to Wolves in the Throneroom Two Hunters (Southern Lord).

<sticks out tongue at Alex in Baltimore> Phphhhtt.

You poptimist you...

What is going on with these early lists, people? Hissing Fauna showing up in the mid 20s? And New Magnetic Wonder only making it to 66? This is an outrage!

I know, right.

Quick, someone tell SFJ the news!

Since its inception, Metacritic has provided a cross-section of reviews from a carefully-screened group of the most respected critics

Decibel: Where nobody gives a flying fuck about In Rainbows
Satan bless Decibel and their metal-lovin' ways.

40 - Grave In The Sky - Cutlery Hits China: English For The Hearing Impaired
39 - Trap Them - Sleepwell Deconstructer
38 - Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
37 - Year of No Light - Nord
36 - Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men
35 - Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde
34 - Torche - In Return
33 - Between the Buried and Me - Colors
32 - Evoken - A Caress Of The Void
31 - Destroyer Destroyer - Littered With Arrows
30 - Down - III: Over The Under
29 - Engineer - The Dregs
28 - Rwake - Voice Of Omens
27 - Architect - All Is Not Lost
26 - Obliteration - Perpetual Decay
25 - Dax Riggs - We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love
24 - Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks
23 - Rosetta - Wake/Lift
22 - Magrudergrind - Rehashed
21 - Machine Head - The Blackening
20 - Caina - Mourner
19 - Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today
18 - The End - Elementary
17 - Melt-Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
16 - Graf Orlock - Destination Time Tomorrow
15 - Bergraven - Dodsvisioner
14 - Moonsorrow - Viides Luku/Havitetty
13 - Pelican - City Of Echoes
12 - The Red Chord - Prey For Eyes
11 - Deathspell Omega - Fas-ite Maledicti In Ignem Aeternum
10 - A Life Once Lost - Iron Gag
09 - High on Fire - Death Is This Communion
08 - Portal - Outre
07 - Witchcraft - The Alchemist
06 - Neurosis - Given To The Rising
05 - Baroness - The Red Album
04 - Jesu - Conqueror
03 - The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
02 - Watain - Sworn To The Dark
01 - Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb

Uncut
I love LCD Soundsystem to death. They rocked hard when I saw them, when they blew M.I.A. off the stage. But the new one is just a bit too inconsistent. It looks like some of their staff agree with me that the new Arctic Monkeys is far better than their first. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and Wilco are predictable entries (is Tweedy old enough to be called a geezer yet?), and White Chalk and Comicopera are surprisingly challenging albums that high on an Uncut list. Voice of the Seven Woods is an interesting guitar album I'd never heard of before. They must not let Simon Reynolds vote anymore, otherwise at least Burial and Pinch would be on there, representing dubstep.

1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
3. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
4. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
5. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
6. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
7. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
8. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
10. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
11. Björk - Volta
12. Battles - Mirrored
13. Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
14. M.I.A. - Kala
15. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
16. Grinderman - Grinderman
17. Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!
18. Voice of the Seven Woods - Voice of the Seven Woods
19. Feist - The Reminder
20. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
21. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
22. Babyshambles - Shotters Nation
23. Rilo Kiley - Under the Brightlight
24. Lessavy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
25. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
26. Manu Chao - La Radiolina
27. Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade
28. Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars
29. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse
30. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen
31. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
32. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
33. Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water Is Life
34. The National - Boxer
35. Bill Callahan - Woke on a Whaleheart
36. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
37. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
38. The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
39. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
40. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
41. Justice - †
42. Richard Thompson - Sweet Warrior
43. Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers
44. Maps - We Can Create
45. Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge
46. Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
47. Nick Lowe - At My Age
48. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
49. Ry Cooder - My Name Is Buddy
50. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond

Q Magazine
It's nice to see Soulsavers and Field Music here, as they aren't on many lists yet. I haven't heard of Cherry Ghost, will have to check them out. They have Klaxons, but no Maximo Park, The Rakes, Good Shoes or The Maccabees. If Q doesn't champion them, who will? Guess it'll have to be NME or lil' ol me.

1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
2. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
3. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
5. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen
6. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
7. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
8. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
9. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
10. Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars
11. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
12. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
13. Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
14. Cherry Ghost - Thirst for Romance
15. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
16. Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers
17. Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
18. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
19. Björk - Volta
20. The Rumble Strips - Girls and Weather
21. Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
22. The Coral - Roots & Echoes
23. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
24. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
25. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
26. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
27. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
28. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
29. Roìsìn Murphy - Overpowered
30. The National - Boxer
31. Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land
32. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
33. Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
34. M.I.A. - Kala
35. Hard-Fi - Once upon a Time in the West
36. Common - Finding Forever
37. Robyn - Robyn
38. Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High
39. Joni Mitchell - Shine
40. Field Music - Tones of Town
41. Keren Ann - Keren Ann
42. The Enemy - We'll Live and Die in These Towns
43. Patrick Watson - Close to Paradise
44. Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
45. Lucinda Williams - West
46. Sigur Ròs - Hvarf-Heim
47. Kate Nash - Made of Bricks
48. Justice - †
49. Jamie T - Panic Prevention
50. Stereophonics - Pull the Pin

man i really wish i could participate in the idolator pop critics poll but i'm not a critic (as i don't have an outlet for any of my writing), just an ilxor/enthusiastic music listener and fan with opinions that need to be heard :(

"Hail Satan!"

xp

ilx will have its own poll this year, won't it?

Good luck trying.

ILX will have ONE MILLION polls this year.

37. Robyn - Robyn

this should be much higher, but in 2007 it's just really old.

ilx will have its own poll this year, won't it?

-- Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, December 4, 2007

yeah, it should. someone always puts something together...

i volunteer Bee OK for the job

MOJO Best of 2007
I do like Neon Bible more than the first Arcade Fire album, but it's still spotty. Like the last Killers album, its homages to Springsteen are both clumsy and charming. The result is a merely decent album, but happens to appeal to a broad enough spectrum that it's sitting near the top of almost every list. So again the more interesting stories are buried below the top 10s. Actually there's not much of interest there either in MOJO's list, at least until #40. Plant/Krauss, Lowe and Young are the requisite geezer entries after The Boss. I haven't heard the Joni Mitchell, Pissed Jeans, Linda Thompson, Seasick Steve, Willy Mason, Edgar Jones, Amiina or Gravenhurst.

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
4. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
5. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
6. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - The Good, The Bad & The Queen
7. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
8. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
9. Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
10. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
11. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
12. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
13. Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars
14. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
15. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
16. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
17. Field Music - Tones of Town
18. Grinderman - Grinderman
19. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
20. Nick Lowe - At My Age
21. Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
22. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
23. Efterklang - Parades
24. Björk - Volta
25. Joni Mitchell - Shine
26. Pissed Jeans - Hope for Men
27. Linda Thompson - Versatile Heart
28. The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
29. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
30. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy
31. Gruff Rhys - Candylion
32. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
33. Seasick Steve - Dog House Music
34. Willy Mason - If the Ocean Gets Rough
35. Bettye LaVette - The Scene of the Crime
36. Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water Is Life
37. Edgar Jones and The Joneses - Gettin' a Little Help
38. The Besnard Lakes - Are the Dark Horse
39. Battles - Mirrored
40. Yoko Ono - Yes, I'm a Witch
41. Amiina - Kurr
42. Gravenhurst - The Western Lands
43. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
44. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
45. Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
46. Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground
47. Edwyn Collins - Home Again
48. Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation
49. Voice of the Seven Woods - Voice of the Seven Woods
50. Alasdair Roberts - The Amber Gatherers

That list is horrible. Does MOJO realize there's this relatively new thing called HEAVY FUCKING METAL?

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Afropop.org top 10

Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective “Wátina” (Cumbancha) (Belize)
Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba “Segu Blue” (Out There Records) (Mali)
Caetano Veloso “Cê” (Nonesuch) (Brazil)
Dee Dee Bridgewater “Red Earth” (Emarcy) (USA)
Erol Josué “Régléman” (High Times Records/Mi5 Productions) (Haiti)
Puerto Plata “Mujer de Cabaret” (iASO Records) (Dominican Republic)
Ricardo Lemvo “Isabela” (Mobiato Music) (Congo)
Sergio and Odair Assad “Jardim abandonado” (Nonesuch) (Brazil)
Vusi Mahlasela, “Guiding Star” (ATO Records) (South Africa)
Youssou N’Dour, "Rokku Mi Rokka (Give and Take)" (Nonesuch) (Senegal)

Largehearted Boy is keeping track of the year-end lists in this post:

http://www.largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2007/11/2007_online_bes.html

-- three handclaps, Saturday, November 17, 2007 12:44 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

So, who will Pitchfork pick for their album of the year?

My guess: In Rainbows.

(If that's wrong it will be Sound of Silver, Person Pitch, or Strawberry Jam.)

25. Joni Mitchell - Shine
26. Pissed Jeans - Hope for Men
27. Linda Thompson - Versatile Heart

a pissed jeans folkie sandwich. i think linda's going on my top 10. that's a good record.

these polls are pretty much interchangeable aren't they. why don't these rags just club together and give us one list and be done with it. nice to see alasdair roberts scrape through in the mojo poll though. i liked that album.

speaking of which…

2007's best albums

As voted by the Guardian's music writers

Friday December 7, 2007
The Guardian

1 LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
2 Radiohead: In Rainbows
3 The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
4 MIA: Kala
5 Klaxons: Myths of the Near Future
6 Kings of Leon: Because of the Times
7 Grinderman: Grinderman
8 Battles: Mirrored
9 PJ Harvey: White Chalk
10 Feist: The Reminder
11 Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
12 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
13 The Felice Brothers: Tonight at the Arizona
14 Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
15 Les Savy Fav: Let's Stay Friends
16 The Good, the Bad & the Queen: The Good, the Bad & the Queen
17 Britney Spears: Blackout
18 Bruce Springsteen: Magic
19 Josh Ritter: The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
20 El-P: I'll Sleep When You're Dead

There's starting to be a disturbing lack of Hissing Fauna appreciation.

Just when you couldn't think it could get any worse, it's the Guardian music poll.

It was a bad year.

it was a great year. too many lists are ignoring apparat and mary timony, though

Yeah, that Mary Timony album is growing on me.

The Decibel list shows it was a great year, unfortunately other publications see fit to put Yoko Ono and Britney Spears on their lists.

metal is shit

^^^stfu, prejudice is the fucking worst

Great call dumbass.

x post

So, who will Pitchfork pick for their album of the year?

My guess: In Rainbows.

(If that's wrong it will be Sound of Silver, Person Pitch, or Strawberry Jam.)

i wouldn't be surprised at all if it's Sound of Silver. I could see Kala there, as well. (I haven't even heard either of these records).

For some reason I don't think they'll pick In Rainbows, nor will Strawberry Jam be it... the former seems too obvious, and the latter doesn't seem to have a huge consensus behind it. I don't know though, this is coming from someone who checks out 95% of any given year's albums a year or two after their release dates.

The top fifty I submitted to be totted-up for the Stylus poll;

1. Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position
2. Electrelane – No Shouts No Calls
3. Caribou – Andorra
4. Battles – Mirrored
5. Acoustic Ladyland – Skinny Grin
6. 65daysofstatic – The Destruction Of Small Ideas
7. LCD Soundsystem – The Sound Of Silver
8. Stars Of The Lid – And The Refinement Of Their Decline
9. Studio – West Coast
10. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
11. Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
12. !!! – Myth Takes
13. Six.By Seven – If Symptoms Persist Kill Your Dr
14. Working For A Nuclear Free City – Businessmen And Ghosts
15. Two Lone Swordsmen – Wrong Meeting 2
16. Panda Bear – Person Pitch
17. Bjork – Volta
18. Apparat – Walls
19. The Field – From Here We Go Sublime
20. Menomena – Friend And Foe
21. PJ Harvey – White Chalk
22. The Tuss – Rushup Edge
23. Von Sudenfed – Tromatic Reflexxions
24. Ulrich Schnauss – Goodbye
25. The Clientele – God Save The Clientele
26. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
27. L’imparfait Des Langues – Louis Sclavis
28. Do Make Say Think – You, You’re A History In Rust
29. Two Lone Swordsmen – Wrong Meeting
30. Ash – Twilight Of The Innocents
31. Strategy – Future Rock
32. The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters
33. Miracle Fortress – Five Roses
34. Super Furry Animals – Hey Venus!
35. Pharoahe Monch – Desire
36. Matthew Dear – Asa Breed
37. Fraud – Fraud
38. Floratone – Floratone
39. Siobhan Donaghy – Ghosts
40. Queens Of The Stone Age – Era Vulgaris
41. Radiohead – In Rainbows
42. Grinderman – Grinderman
43. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
44. Basquiat Strings – Basquiat Strings
45. Kanye West – Graduation
46. Rufus Wainwright – Release The Stars
47. Bill Callahan – Woke On A Whaleheart
48. The National – Boxer
49. Phosphorescent – Pride
50. The Good The Bad & The Queen – The Good The Bad & The Queen

Is it this Stars Of The Lid record THAT good, Nick?

The Clash Magazine Rock/Indie
1. Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times
2. Cold War Kids - Robbers And Cowards
3. Arcade fire - Neon Bible
4. Jamie T - Panic Prevention
5. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
6. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
7. Radiohead - In Rainbows
8. The Enemy - We'll Live And Die In These Towns
9. Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
10. Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation

Leftfield Albums
1. Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior
2. Battles - Mirrors
3. Apparat - Walls
4. New Young Pony Club - Fantastic Playroom
5. Skream - Skreamism III
6. MIA - Kala
7. Mum - Go Smear The Poison Ivy
8. Matthew Dear - As Breed
9. Tunng - Good Arrows - Full Time Hobby
10. Maps - We Can Create

Alternative Albums
1. Feist - The Reminder
2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
3. Radical Face - Ghost
4. Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
5. Iron And Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
6. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apochrypha
7. Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday
8. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
9. Richard Swift - Dressed Up For The Letdown
10. Carbon/Silicon - The Last Post

Their categories are pretty muddled. They should have just done a top 50. I'll be checking out Benga, Apparat and Carbon/Silicon this weekend.

That Rock/Indie one is frightful.

Here's the New York Post Drowned In Sound's:

1: LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver
2: Battles – Mirrored
3: Panda Bear – Person Pitch
4: M.I.A. – Kala
5: Jamie T – Panic Prevention
6: Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
7: Liars – Liars
8: No Age – Weirdo Rippers
9: Radiohead – In Rainbows
10: HEALTH – Health
11: Deerhunter – Cryptograms
12: The National – Boxer
13: Les Savy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends
14: Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass
15: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Some Loud Thunder
16: The Maccabees – Colour It In
17: Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
18: Klaxons – Myths Of The Near Future
19: Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
20: The Shins – Wincing The Night Away
21: Grinderman – Grinderman
22: Blonde Redhead – 23
23: PJ Harvey – White Chalk
24: Efterklang – Parades
25: Justice – Cross

26: Black Lips – Good Bad Not Evil
27: Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity
28: Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury
29: Field Music – Tones Of Town
30: Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
31: The Cribs – Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
32: !!! – Myth Takes
33: Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
34: Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
35: Electrelane – No Shouts, No Calls
36: Thurston Moore – Trees Outside The Academy
37: Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
38: Future of the Left – Curses
39: dälek – Abandoned Language
40: The Sea & Cake – Everybody
41: Mathew Sawyer and the Ghosts – Blue Birds Blood
42: Eugene McGuinness – The Early Learnings Of…
43: Von Südenfed – Tromatic Reflexxions
44: Prefuse 73 – Preparations
45: Pinback – Autumn Of The Seraphs
46: of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer
47: Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals
48: The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
49: Jen Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
50: Feist – The Reminder

Unsurprisingly, I didn't vote on that.

Or else it would have read:

1: LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver
2: Battles – Mirrored
3: Panda Bear – Person Pitch
4: M.I.A. – Kala
5: Jamie T – Panic Prevention
6: Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
7: Liars – Liars
8: No Age – Weirdo Rippers
9: Radiohead – In Rainbows
10: HEALTH – Health
11: Deerhunter – Cryptograms
12: The National – Boxer
13: Les Savy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends
14: Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass
15: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Some Loud Thunder
16: The Maccabees – Colour It In
17: Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
18: Klaxons – Myths Of The Near Future
19: Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
20: The Shins – Wincing The Night Away
21: Grinderman – Grinderman
22: Blonde Redhead – 23
23: PJ Harvey – White Chalk
24: Efterklang – Parades
25: Justice – Cross

26: Black Lips – Good Bad Not Evil
27: Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity
28: Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury
29: Field Music – Tones Of Town
30: Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
31: The Cribs – Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
32: !!! – Myth Takes
33: Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
34: Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
35: Electrelane – No Shouts, No Calls
36: Thurston Moore – Trees Outside The Academy
37: Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
38: Future of the Left – Curses
39: dälek – Abandoned Language
40: The Sea & Cake – Everybody
41: Mathew Sawyer and the Ghosts – Blue Birds Blood
42: Eugene McGuinness – The Early Learnings Of…
43: Von Südenfed – Tromatic Reflexxions
44: Prefuse 73 – Preparations
45: Pinback – Autumn Of The Seraphs
46: of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer
47: Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals
48: The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
49: Jen Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala
50: Majik Most - You Got Jokes

Kinda surprised not to see Map of Africa anywhere. Didn't people like that?

Kinda surprised not to see Map of Africa anywhere.

This disc got panned almost everywhere I read reviews of it (for representative samples, see the Pitchfork and Stylus reviews). I liked some songs on it -- e.g., Map of Africa and Plastic Surgery -- but I totally see why the disc wasn't well-received overall.

15: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Some Loud Thunder

Did anyone talk about this one even a week after it came out? The first track was the only good one, the production was terrible, and it was such a step down from the first record; I have no desire to hear it again (except for the title track, which is brilliant.)

I'm kind of surprised that White Chalk is doing so well on many of these lists. It didn't do much for me, unfortunately; probably a first for any "real" PJH album.

Yeah, I have White Chalk and it isn't doing much for me either. "The Mountain" is nice, but after a few listens it just comes off as overblown and I need to wait a while before listening to it again. Decent album, but eh.

In ten years you will all come to appreciate Some Loud Thunder for the expectation-smashing masterpiece it is.

Prefix
50 Wu-Tang Clan: 8 Diagrams
49 Digitalism: Idealism
48 Soulsavers (with Mark Lanegan): It’s Not How Far You Fall, It’s How You Land
47 Jesca Hoop: Kismet
46 The Brunettes: Structure & Cosmetics
45 Bill Callahan: Woke on a Whaleheart
44 Boris featuring Michio Kurihara: Rainbow
43 Electrelane: No Shouts, No Calls
42 Little Brother: Getback
41 Nina Nastasia and Jim White: You Follow Me
40 Dan Deacon: Spiderman of the Rings
39 Beirut: The Flying Club Cup
38 Blonde Redhead: 23
37 Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation
36 Baroness: The Red Album
35 Amiina: Kurr
34 Cass McCombs: Dropping the Writ
33 Klaxons: Myths of the Near Future
32 Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog
31 Deerhoof: Friendship Opportunity
30 Burial: Untrue
29 Dragons of Zynth: Coronation Thieves
28 Justice: Cross
27 Liars: Liars
26 Fennesz: Cendre
25 Robert Wyatt: Comicopera
24 Sean Price: Jesus Price Superstar
23 Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
22 Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
21 El-P: I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
20 Low: Drums and Guns
19 The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
18 PJ Harvey: White Chalk
17 Battles: Mirrored
16 Caribou: Andorra
15 Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
14 Okkervil River: The Stage Names
13 Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
12 Deerhunter: Cryptograms
11 Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
10 Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
09 Andrew Bird: Armchari Apocrypha
08 Pharoahe Monch: Desire
07 Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
06 Kanye West: Graduation
05 The National: Boxer
04 Panda Bear: Person Pitch
03 LCD Soundsystem: Sound Of Silver
02 Radiohead: In Rainbows
01 M.I.A.: Kala

yea that brainwashed list is awesome

xpost - why was I under the impression that brainwashed was no more? evidently my memory's reports of its death were greatly exaggerated.

Great list, Brainwashed; thanks Fastnbulbous.

NPR is running more indie-rock top 10s on their site if you're interested.

i hope the nina nastasia/jim white record gets some year-end love. that might be my fav record this year.

BMG Music Club sez:

https://webspace.utexas.edu/sdb55/criticspicks.png

You must be new here. WE THE BEST, MAN!

*jumps off the fucking bridge*

Reminds me, I gotta use some more of my BMG Music Service $5.99 coupons (last was M.I.A.) I've left most of my lists in their original form, (orig *published* form, that is, like with P&J's glitches).Maybe some Songs Of The Year to be blogged later. But for now, here's my Nash Scene ballot, with links to my reviews added (re those on PTW, of course you can still stream and, in some cases still download songs from ballot entries)Entries not so Nashvegas this year(although somewhut). Also a lot of comments added, starring Charlie Daniels, Billie Holiday, Johnny Bush, Jon Langford & Sally Timms, Paul Newman & Piper Laurie, Pam Tillis, the Staples Singers, Sugarland, Michelle Shocked, Ashley Monroe, Hope Partlow, and a cast of thousands:
http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com

loooooooooool hoos

musicnerd | Posted on Nov 1st, 2007

in a year where so few good albums came out, (seriously I find it hard to even think of 15 true contenders for classics) Of Montreal at 27 is just uncalled for.

oops wrong thread