I've been toying with the idea of reviving my blog life. It's been pathetic and suffering for quite some time. There's all sorts of goodness floating around in my head and journals from the last year or two. I've been letting them "marinate in my head" to quote a less than stellar metaphor from a Bible study teacher I know. I'll put those on the grill later.
Today, as I sit alone at my house watching college football games, my blog life is gonna go all Frankenstein. Today, I deliver what was for me the Best of 2007.
One note: I began working on this back when my friend Ian first sent me his list. There were several albums when I compiled my list of 2007 albums that I felt deserved a bit more attention than I'd given them. Actually, there are still a few that deserve similar treatment, but time has expired for 2007. The list must be finalized.
Top 15
1 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
2 Radiohead - In Rainbows
3 Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
4 The National - Boxer
5 Waterdeep - Heart Attack Time Machine
6 Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
7 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
8 Jose Gonzalez - In Our Nature
9 Feist - The Reminder
10 Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
11 Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin
12 Lyle Lovett - It's Not Big It's Large
13 Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
14 The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
15 The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse
The OK (and may have deserved more PT) But Not Top 15 Material, At Least Not Tonight (alphabetical)
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Andrew Osenga - Letters To The Editor, Volume I (The only EP on my list and only because my name's in the liner notes.)
Andy Gullahorn - Reinventing The Wheel
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Caedmon's Call - Overdressed
The Cobalt Season - In Search Of A Unified Theory
Eluvium - Copia
Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday
Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Lost In The Trees - Time Taunts Me
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Over The Rhine - The Trumpet Child
Pela - Anytown Graffiti
The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
Rickie Lee Jones - Sermon On Exposition Boulevard
Robbie Seay Band - Give Yourself Away
Travis - The Boy With No Name
The One Album I Heard and Didn't Like And Probably Never Will
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
That's it. 2007 summed up in a blog post. The interweb is an amazing thing. You can take an entire year and sum it up just like that. 2008 has some big shoes to fill. I honestly don't think it's possible. Especially after seeing Stereogum's list of 2008 albums.
2007, I hope it was as good for you as it was for me.
Aw you didn't like Hissing Fauna? You have no heart! It's required that you jump around like a fool when listening to the album. Then you might like it better (perhaps because of the loss of brain cells)
Posted by: Brad | January 03, 2008 at 11:50 AM
blog friends?
Posted by: Kelsey | January 05, 2008 at 07:55 PM