Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2007 poll

Voted Spoon. I like this list much better than the 2006 list.

some great stuff on here, but it was 'Hissing Fauna' that impressed me the most at the time. It's the pinnacle of Of Montreal's career by far.

Maybe Of Montreal. But I've only heard like 2 or 3 of these because I am an old who is also an out of touch.

Something about the music of this decade needing to be reassessed yaddayadda etc.

I mean, there was some good music released in 2007, but this list (as are most of the '00s lists) is terrible.

Voting for Person Pitch, contender for my favourite album of the whole decade. I also really love these:

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Burial - Untrue
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Kanye West - Graduation
PJ Harvey - White Chalk

Biggest disappointment: Hissing Fauna

Should be on the list instead of Bon Iver or whatever:
Baroness - Red Album
The-Dream - Love/Hate
Studio - West Coast
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Jesu - Conqueror

Where the fuck is Da Drought 3

Mirrored is still brilliant. Can't believe I've been listening to it for almost a decade :(((

Mirrored is still brilliant. Can't believe I've been listening to it for almost a decade

Preferred that comment with with the sad smiley tbh

Jens Lekman by an absolute mile. One of my favourite albums of all time. Love that guy so much we named our cat after him.

Plenty of other good albums on the list (Kala, In Rainbows, Sound of Silver, Ga Ga Ga Ga, Graduation, White Chalk, From Here We Go Sublime) but loads of omissions as usual. Britney, Electrelane, Roisin Murphy, Amerie, Glass Candy, Sally Shapiro, Tracey Thorn, Pantha Du Prince, Charlotte Hatherley and The-Dream should all be on there.

Kala without question, but I like these as well:

2 120 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
5 284 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
11 633 Battles - Mirrored
15 875 Kanye West - Graduation

The first half of that MGMT album was good. Really good. They were going to be massive!

I often make weird mistakes like that when I'm trying to surreptitiously post things at work xxxp

The first half of that MGMT album was good. Really good. They were going to be massive!

― TARANTINO! (dog latin)

The second album is so much better.

I voted for Graduation because Austin called it "manure." Also, it's probably the Kanye record I have the most emotional attachment to, and the last one before he became the fame monster he is today.

C R A Z Y

E X

G I R L F R I E N D

^^^

This stuff seems better than 05 and 06.

The Field for me, though at the time I would have chosen Of Montreal.

1 89 Radiohead - In Rainbows
2 120 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
3 146 Burial - Untrue
5 284 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6 310 The National - Boxer
28 1718 Okkervil River - The Stage Names
^^all classics

voting Okkervil

also cld we maybe somehow enough w the "waaaw these records peopel love are so shite"

but those records you love

those records

they do not please me

would've voted for mirrored but prefer the earlier stuff on the eps (lol)

voted person pitch, although it's pretty (actually very )frontloaded.

I have listened to in rainbows multiple times and can't remember anything about it.

strawberry jam is a very bad ac record

xp I'm cool w you not liking those records and I know that "oh those records are so shite" means "I don't like them" just feel like perhaps it's not the best way of discussing

ya i was really into battles at the time of its release but their eps were just way better -- tonto!

person pitch is another decent one

there's actually quite a few decent releases here

voted radiohead tho

voted the field over miranda

Crazy Ex Girlfriend

my answer is hissing fauna but i voted okkervil river because i figured no one else would

15 875 Kanye West - Graduation
More aural manure from one of the most offensive human beings in existence.
15 875 Kanye West - Graduation
More aural manure from one of the most offensive human beings in existence.
15 875 Kanye West - Graduation
More aural manure from one of the most offensive human beings in existence.
15 875 Kanye West - Graduation
More aural manure from one of the most offensive human beings in existence.
15 875 Kanye West - Graduation
More aural manure from one of the most offensive human beings in existence.
15 875 Kanye West - Graduation
More aural manure from one of the most offensive human beings in existence.

Ha, I wonder what brimstead thinks of Kahne West?

Stupid auto correct

21 1355 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Hated it with a passion. Thought it was a cynical attempt by the band to abandon all the new fans gained by Yankee Hotel Foxtrot/A Ghost is Born by going soft rock. I was put off by what I perceived as a bland and "safe" sounding album. It would not have been a very uncommon thing for me to say that Wilco was my favorite band in the expectations leading up this album. When it was finally released, it just sounded so anti-climactic and faceless. It was one of the most disappointing things I remember feeling as a music fan. Over the years, though, I did give it another chance and now I find it to be melodically fantastic, sublimely moody and probably the band's most personal work. It now stands as a personal classic and my favorite Wilco album.

Yes yes yes ten times yes to that.

i think a lot of us were excited to see what nels cline would add to the music and how he would influence the music writing

in concert, wilco were sounding much more lively and were totally rocking out, so when they recorded such a bland album, it was pretty surprising

the lyrics are also really plain and direct

i like a couple tracks but it's not an album i really listen to

i like kanye i was just singling that quote out for its awfulness

I see.

brimstead, you're a smart guy, what the hell are you doing defending Kanye?

i like his music? what a strange question!

you like his music? well, it seems austin was mistaken, he thought you were a smart guy! you see, only stupid people like the music of kanye west.

sorry brimstead, don't kill the messenger, but you must be some kind of stupid guy.

if you'd like to try to be a smart guy, please try to wrap your mind around the sea and cake. it will be hard at first, but you may get there eventually, I'll be pulling for you

the funny thing is aural manure is actually a real good thing, so is being offensive. so considering that kaney is deservedly Acclaimed

hating kanye is such a challenging and idiosyncratic position

ga ga ga ga ga

here my garbage dump of riveting opinions

1 89 Radiohead - In Rainbows - good album, last few songs are the best iirc
2 120 LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver - i can get down with this, a couple songs excepted. much prefer 45:33.
3 146 Burial - Untrue - i can get down with this too! better than the first one
4 223 M.I.A. - Kala - never heard this album which is absurd because i <3 paper planes very much
7 349 Panda Bear - Person Pitch - i like this a lot
8 414 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - the singing is really really bad. but these guys were rad on SNL at the time, iirc, it was like dexys or something
9 503 MGMT - Oracular Spectacular - "electric feel" is p dope
10 597 Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - this is pretty epic, iirc. respect.
11 633 Battles - Mirrored - great chops, bad vocals iirc (or maybe they're instrumental? idk something just didn't sit right)
12 670 Justice - † - "waters of nazareth" is dope, not feeling the rest of this. ed banger sucks, mostly.
15 875 Kanye West - Graduation - it pleases meh
16 976 Feist - The Reminder - the bee gees cover owns
19 1170 The Field - From Here We Go Sublime - prefer the earlier eps (yeah yeah).. too much filler here. love track three and the one that samples fleetwood mac.
21 1355 Wilco - Sky Blue Sky - nels kline is a boss! he sounds like john cipolina on this album! it's kinda boring but does have some fun guitar stuff.

16 976 Feist - The Reminder - the bee gees cover owns

Isn't that on her previous album?

re: feist, i've had the privilege of watching a shit-ton of sesame street the last couple years, if you haven't tuned in lately or at all, popular musicians will often come round to cover their own songs, twisting the lyrics 'round for the toddler set (goo goo doll's "slide" becomes "pride", it's about elmo feeling good about himself for tying his shoes, among other things) anyway feist's re-imagining of "1 2 3 4" is the only instance I can think of where the artist actually managed to improve their own song, for the children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ9WiuJPnNA

probably should have voted feist over battles, ah well

I won't clutter this thread further with a youtube embed of the goo goo dolls but "pride" is fantastic, well worth seeking out, it starts out:

elmo whisper in my ear
I really want to hear
the things you did today
that satisfied you

and then elmo takes over! it's a duet.

just occurred to me that elmo does not whisper the next, or any verse, wasted opportunity

I've never heard of any of these bands. Are they good?

Person Pitch, or Untrue. Probably the latter for the impact it had on me at the time, even though far more likely to listen to Person Pitch.

Is there going to be a 'quite National' vote? I loved Boxer at the time, but it seems the 'oldest' on that list, somehow.

had to give it to jens

xp - I meant 'quiet National' vote, as in like 'quiet Tories' or whatever the appellation was at the last election in the UK. Yes, I am comparing the National to the Tory party.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Almost forgot to vote. Of Montreal of course.

glad I read all the choices, was poised to vote In Rainbows til I saw Miranda.

Went with MGMT cause that's the only one I remember listening to more than once. Totally missed that Of Montreal album, I assume it's good but not one of their best.

it actually is the best, by a long shot

The Mary Onettes

between kanye, spoon and jens for me

― you think Lou Bega gave up after Mambo Number One??? (voodoo chili), Wednesday, August 10, 2016 8:47 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ok, there are a few more albums that are pretty great on the list that don't quite reach the heights of those three:

In Rainbows
Kala
Feist
Okkervil
Of Montreal

I even like that Beirut album--Nantes holds up

Frobisher, that one is, by far, their best.

you'd think Strawberry Jam and Person Pitch would split the AC vote, but i'll bet Person Pitch is in the top three. I can't wait for the biography/oral history of AC to be written so I can know what it was like within the band when Person Pitch placed higher on every year end list in 2007.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

poor Arcade Fire

Neon Bible might be the most disliked album they made so no big surprises there?

really? i know people prefer funeral but neon bible is better than reflektor and the suburbs, yea?

I think they're all crud.

I think they got worse with each album. There's some good stuff on Neon Bible but it was a big step down from Funeral. The latest two albums were so dull I can barely remember anything about them.

High five to the other three Jens voters.

'No Cars Go' is probably the only Arcade Fire song I ever liked.

the title track is one of my favorites by them. i think it's a strong album, and it's more fun to go back to it now because Funeral has been overplayed and overexposed rotten.

High five to the zero Bon Iver voters, thank god.

poor Arcade Fire

Eh, it has their best song ("Antichrist Television Blues") but otherwise its pretty dull.

you'd think Strawberry Jam and Person Pitch would split the AC vote, but i'll bet Person Pitch is in the top three. I can't wait for the biography/oral history of AC to be written so I can know what it was like within the band when Person Pitch placed higher on every year end list in 2007.

― flappy bird, Monday, August 15, 2016 6:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I always wonder if bands care about year end list placings.

I'm sure there was a lot of tense noodling going on

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