list your current 5 favorite tracks of 2007

Oner Ozer-Red Cabaret
Estroe-Driven
Solomun and Stimming-Feuervogel
Zander VT-Then and Before (Redshape's Present Mix)
Ame-Fiori

But to name 5 is so difficult for me, I like most of the other dance picks above too and could probably name at least 40 tunes I think are of a very very high standard that I really love.

Red Cabaret is my favourite tune of the year though, for definite. I love playing it out with a real passion.

Oh and late contender, Ink and Needle's "Seven" is incredible.

Electrelane - The Greater Times
Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape
Gwen Stefani - 4 In The Morning (Thin White Duke Mix)
The Field - Silent
Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life

but I have a lot of catching up to do.

Was 2006 worse than 1985? (which would make it the absolute worst ever) I think only time will tell.
-- billstevejim, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:49 (Yesterday) Link

can someone explain what was so bad about 1985 (this was the year i was born so i obviously didn't experience it, but it seems to me that a lot of great records, some of my favorites, came out this year -the fall, this nation's saving grace; replacements, let it be; husker du, zen arcade; meat puppets, II...right?)

Don't know if I can, but it was rubbish. In light of the 2000s, it doesn't seem anywhere near as bad as it did at the time. I actually lost interest in music, and it only came back in '86.

Lots of great records come out in every year, but mid-decade years have been ... less obviously good since the 60s.

You started a thread about how great 1975 was, didn't you!

I have become obsessed with 1975

You'll be wanting that name sorted, I expect...

I was obsessed, for exactly the reasons I mention, not because it was "great" as such.

Y'know, fuck great.

Years.

I couldn't find your reasons... I'm disappointed you're no longer obsessed.

No, I am still obsessed! My reason for being obsessed was that it was not obviously great! The history of greatness got in a mess and it made more interesting to find records to love.

Ah, I see. Glad you're still obsessed. Me too.

2006 was a great year for music, just a shitty year for music trends. I guess this must be a better year for trends, because so many of you are so happy so far!

Young Buck - Get Buck
Rihanna - Umbrella
Mari Boine - Vuoi Vuoi Me (Henrik Schwarz Mix)
Panda Bear - Good Girl/Carrots
Ashley Tisdale - Be Good To Me

Next Few:

Ne-Yo - Because Of You
Aly & AJ - Potential Break-Up Song
The Studio - Self-Service
It - Woman In Toilet (Stefan Goldmann Mix)
R Kelly - I'm A Flirt
Lloyd - Get It Shawty
Jacek Sienkiewicz - Good Luck
Panda Bear - Good Girl/Carrots

Grinderman – No Pussy Blues
Miranda Lambert - Guilty in Here
The National - Green Gloves
Gretchen Wilson - If You Want a Mother
Kleerup ft. Robyn – With Every Heartbeat

Mari Boine - Vuoi Vuoi Me (Henrik Schwarz Mix)

yes!!!

heh, Tim it looks like you must really love Good Girl/Carrots!

LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Bjork - Innocence
Frog Eyes - Caravan Breakers, They Prey On The Weak And The Old
MIA - Boyz

"heh, Tim it looks like you must really love Good Girl/Carrots!"

Ha ha I do! I burnt a copy of the album whcih accidentally played "Good Girl/Carrots" twice in a row and I didn't realise at first and thought it was an awesome trick.

tim may i ask if u heard the polow mix of ciara 'get up' in the end

Sourcing now - rob any recommendations are always welcome!

Of the ones not mentioned ("Lip Gloss" is probably my #1 at this point)

Natasha - "Hey Hey Hey"
Linda Sundblad - "Lose You"
Dollyrots - "Because I'm Awesome"
Rihanna FEAT. LIL MAMA - "Umbrella" (much better version!)
Aly and AJ - "Potential Break Up Song"

everything else is just music

duh:
electrelane - greater times, trick daddy - tuck ya ice, gui boratto - beautiful life

and:
frightened rabbit - the modern leper live
crystal castles - knights
riton - hammer of thor
new ruins - book lung
soko - i'll kill her

love love love the pterodactyl, times new viking, and rune lindbaek tracks.

Fuck a top 5. I am ten times too BOSS OCD for that shit. My top 50 singles so far:

!!! - Heart of Hearts
Air - Once Upon a Time
Salem al-Fakir - Dream Girl
The A'z - Yadadamean
Natasha Bedingfield - I Wanna Have Your Babies
Beyonce - Beautiful Liar
Bjork - Earth Intruders
Os Cacadores - Dona Gigi
Calle 13 - Tango del Pecado
Cassidy - You Already Know
Kelly Clarkson - Never Again
Cribe Mob - Rock Yo Hips
Dizzee Rascal - Sirens
Enter Shikari - Anything Can Happen In the Next Half Hour
Eve - Tambourine
Fall Out Boy - Thanks for the Memories
Fulanito - Mira
Good Charlotte - Take Your Hands Off My Girl
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
Charlotte Hatherley - I Want You to Know
Ivy Queen - Que Lloren
Mike Jones - Mr. Jones
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Kelis - Lil' Star
R. Kelly - I'm a Flirt
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Ludacris - Slap
Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
Lloyd - Get It Shawty
Stephen Marley - The Traffic Jam
Mason vs. Princess Superstar - Perfect Exceeder
M.I.A. - Hit That
Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
Mistah F.A.B. - Ghost Ride It
Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism
Omarion - Beg For It
Pink - U + Ur Hand
Prodigy - Return of the Mac (New York Shit)
Rich Boy - Throw Some D's
Rihanna - Umbrella
Sterling Simms - Nasty Girl
Trey Songz - Wonder Woman
Three 6 Mafia - Doe Boy Fresh
Timbaland - Give It to Me
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around Comes Around
Trick Daddy - Tuck Ya Ice
UGK - The Game Belongs To Me
Wes Fif - Haterz
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

b-b-b-bb-b-b-b-b-b-bb-b-b-b-b-bump

re: "get it shawty" which has appeared on a few of these lists.
am i the only one who thinks that "you" is a vastly superior song?

"You" does not a damn thing for me, but there are some who agree with you around here.

Hmm, my two favorites so far are definitely "Ohio the Homeland" by Suzy Mangion and "Silently" by Blonde Redhead.

Moonbeam - Eclipse - played loud on my sennheisers = brain party; when the beat drops back in about halfway through, its like YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Popnoname - No Doubt - this is also a banger after the kinda weak intro

Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life

Onur Oezer - Red Cabaret - crazy dread-inducing horns (and strings), like Jaws gliding into the party, fin poking up through the crowd, then Jaws starts dancing his shark ass off wtf, and then he's like, 'hey, where'd everybody go?'

Owusu & Hannibal - Whats it about SOME GRLS JUS TEEAR IT APAAART

Battles - Leyendecker

in the interest of checking some of these out i put them into an excel file and tried to edit out comments/names etc to save paper.. results are kind of neat, if you're into that kind of thing:

!!! - "Myth Takes"
!!! - Bend Over Beethoven
!!! - Heart of Hearts
!!! - must be the moon (emperor machine remix)
!!!, "Heart of Hearts"
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
air - mer du japon
Air - Once Upon a Time
Alejandro Sanz feat. Shakira - Te Lo Agradezco, Pero No
Aly & AJ - Potential Break-Up Song
Aly and AJ - "Potential Break Up Song"
Ame - Fiori
âme - fiori
Ame-Fiori
amerie - "gotta work"
Amerie - "Take Control"
Amerie- “Crazy Wonderful”
Amp Fiddler. "Ridin"
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
and i'm thinking the new hello saferide song when i hear it properly but for the 'mo i'll go with...
Anthony Cruz - Empecé A Llorar
Apparat - "Fractales (Extended Rave Mix)"
apparat - useless information
Apples In Stereo - "7 Stars"
Apples In Stereo - Seven Stars
Arcade Fire - "No Cars Go"
Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues
Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running
Ashley Tisdale - Be Good To Me
Audio Club - Somethin' Serious
Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend
B.G. Chopper City Boyz - Make Em Mad
baby oliver - hypochondriac
Battles - "Atlas"
battles - "atlas"
Battles - "Atlas"
Battles - "Tonto"
battles - atlas
Battles - Atlas
Battles - Atlas
battles - atlas
battles - atlas (dj koze rmx)
Battles, 'Atlas'
Beyonce - Beautiful Liar
Bjork - Earth Intruders
Bjork - Innocence
bloc party - i still remember
Blonde Redhead - 23
Blonde Redhead, "23"
Bone Thugs... - "Wind Blow"
Boss Hogg Outlawz - Recognize a Playa
Calle 13 - Tango del Pecado
Calle 13 - Tango del Pecado
Cassidy - You Already Know
Charlotte Hatherley - I Want You to Know
chelonis r jones - i don't know (herbert rmx)
chelonis r jones - i don't know (herbert rmx)
Chinese Democracy (leak)- Guns N' Roses
chunking - slow it down
Ciara, 'I Proceed'
Cinematic Orchestra "To Build A Home"
Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan pearson mix)
Cribe Mob - Rock Yo Hips
crystal castles - knights
david lynch - the ghost of love
Deerhoof - "+81"
Deerhoof - Perfect Me
Devin the Dude ft. Snoop Dogg & Andre 3000, "What a Job"
Dinosaur Jr - Almost Ready
diskjokke - "flok i farta" (or, er, actually 'anything else by')
Dizzee Rascal - Sirens
Dollyrots - "Because I'm Awesome"
dub pistols - rapture
Efdemin - Lohn & Brot
electrelane - greater times, trick daddy - tuck ya ice, gui boratto - beautiful life
Electrelane - The Greater Times
Enter Shikari - Anything Can Happen In the Next Half Hour
estroe - driven
Estroe - Driven
Estroe-Driven
Eve - Tambourine
Fall Out Boy - Thanks for the Memories
Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race
Faze Action - in the trees carl craig remix
faze action 'in the trees' cc remix
Feist - My Moon My Man
feist - past in present
Field Music - "Closer at Hand"
Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers
Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers
frightened rabbit - the modern leper live
Frog Eyes - Caravan Breakers, They Prey On The Weak And The Old
Fulanito - Mira
Fulanito - Sabado en la Noche
Fulanito - Tante Manza
Good Charlotte - Keep Your Hands Off My Girl
Good Charlotte - Keep Your Hands Off My Girl
Good Charlotte - Take Your Hands Off My Girl
Gowns - "White Like Heaven"
Grinderman - "No Pussy Blues"
grinderman - "no pussy blues"
grinderman - no pussy blues
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
Groove Armada ft Mutya - Out Of Control (Song 4 Mutya)
Gui Boratto - "Beautiful Life"
Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
Gui Boratto, "Beautiful Life"
Gwen Stefani - 4 In The Morning (Thin White Duke Mix)
Gwen Stefani - The Sweet Escape
hilary duff - dignity
I'm a Flirt (remix)- R. Kelly feat. T.I., T-Pain
Interpol - "The Heinrich Maneuver"
It - Woman In Toilet (Stefan Goldmann Mix)
Ivy Queen - Que Lloren
Jacek Sienkiewicz - Good Luck
Jamie T, 'Calm Down Dearest'
je suis france - wizard of points
junior biys - fm (tensnake rmx)
Justice - "D.A.N.C.E."
justice - b.e.a.t.
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around Comes Around
Kalabrese - Auf Dem Hof
kaos - "panopeeps"
Kathy Diamond- “I Need You”
Kelis - Lil' Star
Kelley Polar - Chrysamthemum
kelley polar - rosenband (magic tim's instrumental)
Kelley Polar- “Chrysanthemum”
Kelly Clarkson - Never Again
Kerri Chandler, "In the Morning (Main Raw Vocal)"
lcd - "all my friends"
lcd - "all my friends"
lcd 'freak out / starry eyes'
LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends"
lcd soundsystem - "all my friends"
LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends"
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
lcd soundsystem - freak out
lcd soundsystem - freak out/starry eyes
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
lcd soundsystem - someone great
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
LCD Soundsystem, 'All My Friends'
LCD SS "Someone Great"
lee douglas (as "doug le sound") 'break wind' edit
lil mama - "lip gloss"
Lil Mama - "Lip Gloss"
Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
'lil wayne- black democrat
Lil'Mama - Lip Gloss
Linda Sundblad - "Lose You"
Lindstrom and Solale "Let's Practice"
lindstrom/solale 'let's practise'
Lloyd - Get It Shawty
Lloyd - Get It Shawty
lloyd ft missy elliott & yung joc - get it shawty (rmx)
Los Campesinos - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
Ludacris - Slap
Ludacris "Slap"
M.I.A. - Hit That
Madagascar (leak)- Guns N' Roses
Mari Boine - Vuoi Vuoi Me (Henrik Schwarz Mix)
Mason vs. Princess Superstar - Perfect Exceeder
matthew dear - dom & sherri
matthew dear - don and sherri
Maximo Park, 'Our Velocity'
McFly - Transylvania
MIA - Bird Flu
MIA - Bird Flu
MIA - Boyz
Mike Jones - Mr. Jones
mims - "this is why i'm hot (dancehall remix)"
mims - this is why i'm hot
Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
Mims - This Is Why I'm Hot
Mims, "This Is Why I'm Hot"
Miranda Lambert - "Gunpowder & Lead"
Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Miranda Lambert - Down
misstress barbara - barcelona
Mistah F.A.B. - Ghost Ride It
Modest Mouse "Dashboard"
Motiivi Tuntematon- “I Don’t Feel Good (When You’re Not Around)”
Natasha - "Hey Hey Hey"
Natasha Bedingfield - I Wanna Have Your Babies
nelly furtado - say it right
Nelly Furtado/Timbaland - Promiscuous Girl
Nelly Furtado/Timbaland - Promiscuous Girl
new ruins - book lung
ne-yo - "chill"
Ne-Yo - Because Of You
Ne-Yo "Because Of You"
Ne-Yo, "Because of You"
nick hoeppner - violet
Nightcats- “Inside”
nine horses - money for all
Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism
Of Montreal - "Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse"
Of Montreal - "Suffer For Fashion"
Of Montreal - Suffer For Fashion
Omarion - Beg For It
Oner Ozer-Red Cabaret
onur oezer - red cabaret (overture)
OOIOO - "EYE MIX 2"
Os Cacadores - Dona Gigi
Ost & Kjex - Milano Mungolian
Over It- Jordan Pruitt
Panda Bear - Good Girl
Panda Bear - Good Girl/Carrots
Panda Bear - Good Girl/Carrots
Panda Bear - Good Girl/Carrots
Pantha Du Prince - "Saturn Strobe"
Pantha du Prince - Florac
pantha du prince - saturn strobe
Panther - Secret Lawns (Quarterbar Remix)
Partial Arts - Trauermusik
Pascal Feos - Bring the Beat Back
Peven Everett, "Stuck"
Pink - U + Ur Hand
Popnoname - No Doubt
Prodigy - Return of the Mac (New York Shit)
Pterodactyl - "Polio"
R Kelly - I'm A Flirt
r. kelly - "I'm a Flirt (remix)"
R. Kelly - I'm a Flirt
R. Kelly feat. T.I., T. Pain - I'm a Flirt (Remix)
R. Kelly feat. Usher - Same Girl
Redman - "Put It Down"
redman - "put it down"
Redman - Put It Down
Redman - Put It Down
rich boy - throw some ds
Rich Boy - Throw Some D's
rich boy -"throw some d's"
rihanna - "umbrella"
Rihanna - Umbrella
Rihanna - Umbrella
Rihanna - Umbrella
Rihanna f. Jay-Z - "Umbrella"
Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - Umbrella
Rihanna FEAT. LIL MAMA - "Umbrella" (much better version!)
rihanna ft jay-z - umbrella
rihanna ft jay-z - umbrella
Rihanna ft Jay-Z - Umbrella
riton - hammer of thor
riton 'hammer of thor'
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
rune lindbaek - "afrika"
Rush - "Far Cry"
Salem al-Fakir - Dream Girl
Sebbo - Beirut Boogie
Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye"
sly mongoose - bad pulse
soko - i'll kill her
solomon - feuervogel
solomun & stimming - feuervogel
Solomun and Stimming-Feuervogel
spoon - ghost of you lingers
Stephen Marley - The Traffic Jam
Sterling Simms - Nasty Girl
Stevie Wonder, "My Love Is On Fire (DJ Spinna Remix)"
strongo hate
Strongo: "bottom five"? Do you mean the next five after the top 5?
Ted Leo/Rx "The Sons Of Cain"
The A'z - Yadadamean
The Fall - "The Wright Stuff"
The Field - Silent
The High Llamas - "The Old Spring Town"
The Hold Steady - Stuck Between Stations
The Sea and Cake - "Exact To Me"
The Studio - Self-Service
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Three 6 Mafia - Doe Boy Fresh
threshold house boys choir - intimations of spring
Timbaland - Give It to Me
Times New Viking - "Teenage Lust"
tracey thorn - raise the roof (beyond the wizard's sleeve re-animation)
Trans Am - First Words
Trey Songz - Wonder Woman
Trick Daddy - Tuck Ya Ice
UGK - The Game Belongs To Me
Umbrella- Rihanna feat. Jay-Z
usda - white girl
Villalobos - "Fiz. Zie." (late to the party, I know, but this hasn't left my head for like two months).
Wes Fif - Haterz
White Stripes - "Icky Thump"
Yo Majesty "Club Action"
Young Buck - Get Buck
Young Buck - Get Buck
Zander VT-Then and Before (Redshape's Present Mix)
Zeigeist - Chasing Your Shadow All Around

and mine would be:

modest mouse - steam engenius
white stripes - icky thump
bjork - declare independance
lily allen - alfie
of montreal - bunny aint no kind of rider

That's more than 5 songs. You lose.

Oh wait, I can't read. sorry

that's mean :( you're confused by my lack of capitals, maybe? i broke my arm and am only able to type w/my left.

just to validate your outrage:
bright eyes - four winds

Umbrella, Atlas and All My Friends are totally winning.

I was referring to the huge 200 song list.. I thought someone posted that as their 5 just to be stupid and I didn't see what was written before it.

Mathhead - Drop It (Drop The Lime Dynasty of Fury Remix)
Sinden - Beeper
Justice - D.A.N.C.E (TvParty Remix)
Hadouken! - Liquid Lives
MIA - Bird Flu

oh, fair enough. i like some songs so much i listed them 10 times! ;)

oh crap, and yoko ono w/peaches - kiss kiss kiss

Transylvania - McFly
This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race - Fall Out Boy
Acceptable in the 80s - Calvin Harris
Like A Boy - Ciara

and one of:
505 - Arctic Monkeys
I'm a Flirt - R Kelly

Oh, scratch those last two - I fancy something untouchable instead:

Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5

i want a re-do:

white stripes - icky thump
bjork - declare independance
bright eyes - four winds
yoko - kiss kiss kiss remix
timbaland w/fob - one and only

Ted Leo- "The Unwanted Things"
Manic Street Preachers-"Underdogs"
Arctic Monkeys- "D Is for Dangerous"
Klaxons- "Golden Skans"
LCD-"North American Scum"

i don't know. i hate music, especially recent music. i guess it's something like this, though.

1. pleasure - "uptown"
2. rosy parlane - "part three" [from 'jessamine']
3. rosy parlane - "part two" [from 'jessamine']
4. rosy parlane - "part one" [from 'jessamine']
5. lucky soul - "give me love"

oh shit, that rosy parlane album's from last year. nevermind, i guess i only like two songs this year.

bump

Do people still enjoy "Atlas" as much as they did a few months ago? I still think it's way boring.

three faves:
'92 Subaru - fountains of wayne
are you alright - Lucunda
nature of the experiment - tokyo police club

O no i potentially share three of my faves with the lex. Need some guitars back in my life.

I still love Atlas, but I probably prefer Race In off the same record.

Focus Group - Soho/ St. Ives/ Tangier
Melt Banana - Cracked Plaster Cast
Queens of the stone age - Turning On the Screw
Tin Hat - The Comet
Tuss - Last Rushup 10

Do people still enjoy "Atlas" as much as they did a few months ago? I still think it's way boring.

if only it built things up to a really mad climax or plateau instead of just sort of not really going anywhere for the last few minutes

Strongo: "bottom five"? Do you mean the next five after the top 5?

arrgh is this EVER getting a UK release

Do people still enjoy "Atlas" as much as they did a few months ago? I still think it's way boring.

yes.

fredugolon 6 - the tuss
what a job - devin the dude
away - tren brothers

Currently:
1. Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - Umbrella
2. R. Kelly feat. T.I., T. Pain - I'm a Flirt (Remix)
3. Lloyd feat. Lil Wayne - You
4. Lil Mama - Lip Gloss
5. Mahjongg - Those Birds are Bats

Still Fighting:
Kelly Clarkson - "Never Again"
M.I.A. - "Boyz"
Elliott Yamin - "Whiter Shade of Pale"
Lil Wayne - "La La La"
Mighty Infamous - "Turn the Radio Off"
Aly & AJ - "Potential Breakup Song"
Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson - "The Way I Are"
some others?

like "Jimmy"!

Blonder Redhead - 23
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
Low - Murderer
Shellac - The End of Radio
Stars of the Lid - December Hunting for Vegetarian Fuckface

* Blonde Redhead - 23

Interpol: The Heinrich Manuever
Amerie: Take Control
Electrelane: To The East
Justin Timberlake: LoveStoned
Amerie: Gotta Work

this has felt like a strange yr in that it started out really strong, and has just kind of slowly diminished into whateverness. i'm not paying any less attention, but nothing in the last couple months (since "umbrella") has really moved me, with the possible exception of the Amerie single (which i don't care enough for to list).

Kleerup ft. Robyn, "With Every Heartbeat"
Rihanna, "Umbrella"
Mims, "This is Why I'm Hot"
M.I.A., "Hit That"
Lloyd, "Get it Shawty"

actually, i'd maybe replace lloyd with "u + ur hand," the impact in 2007 of which took me by surprise. i like that silversun pickups song too.

Try as I might, I can't get it below six:

Late December - Maria McKee
Matadjem Yinmixan - Tinariwen
Out Of Control (Song 4 Mutya) - Groove Armada ft Mutya Buena
Sideshow - Rufus Wainwright
Take Control - Amerie
The Dancing - June Tabor

Yea for including that Tinariwen
song! It's a great disc.

Ne-Yo "Because Of You"
The National "Ada"
Rob Crow "Taste"
Rhianna "Umbrella"
Yo Majesty "Club Action"

1. Rihanna - Umbrella. Jumping on the bandwagon, but it's a great little single.

2. Lil Mama - Lip Gloss. I'm sure this will wear off by the end of the year (pretty repetitive), but it's got a nice little thing going for now.

3. Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks. I have to succumb to this track.

4. Ryan Adams - Two.

5. Wilco - What Light.

Not like I've heard all that much this year.

LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends"
Gui Borrato - "Beautiful Life"
R. Kelly - "I'm a Flirt (Remix)"
Kalabrese - "Not the Same Shoes"
M.I.A. "Paper Planes"

Hardly one who has heard it all but I still threw this together, relatively quickly at that. All techno/house barring ghost hardware - I should probably listen to more non-dance music maybe? - and with the exception of "W", this is probably not correct at all. Beirut Boogie hasn't really held up that well since it's glorious first week.

1. Cobblestone Jazz - W
2. Pantha Du Prince - Saturn Strobe
3. Estroe - Driven
4. Sebbo - Beirut Boogie
5. Burial - Ghost Hardware

honorable mentions go to

Move D - Got Thing
Will Saul - Pause
Ame - Enoi
Chic Miniature - Kimono
Richard Reagh - P-Song (Mikael Stavostrand Remix)
Kalabrese - Not The Same Shoes

Possibly also Sweet Decay by Gabriel Ananda, but I only first heard it a week ago, Len Faki - Rainbow Delta if it wasn't as proggyish as it is, and maybe Orion by Oner Ozur, just for being a great track. And mark my words, there will be no Fueuervogel in this list.

Poem Rocket - Muse Thrower
Part Chimp - Bring Back the Sound (from Cup)
My Teenage Stride - Terror Bends
Konki Duet - Daylight Song (close enough to 2007)

Can't think of a 5th at the moment.

Couldn’t do it in 5; struggled to get down to 10. In no particular order:

1. Wilco – Impossible Germany
2. The New Pornographers – Failsafe
3. Low – Murderer
4. Studio – Self Service
5. Louis Philippe – Born Beautiful
6. Apparat – Headup
7. Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey
8. Bjorn Torske – Loe Bar
9. Tinariwen – Matadjem Yinmixan
10. Cobblestone Jazz – Put De Lime In De Coconut

Spoon and Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem and Kathy Diamond and Map of Africa and The Clientele and The Twilight Sad could easily be on my list, too. Hard question.

matthew dear - don and sherri
justice - d.a.n.c.e.
lcd soundsystem - someone great
my my - fast freeze
rihanna - umbrella

Timbaland- The way I are; Rihanna- Umbrella; Justin Timberlake- Lovestoned; Amy Winehouse- Rehab; Mark Ronson- Stop me.

Umbrella is getting some serious love up in here, up in here.

Rihanna - Umbrella
M.I.A. - Jimmy
Booty Luv - Don't Mess With My Man
Junior Senior - Can I Get Get Get
Chungking - Itch & Scratch

Atlas
Don't You Evah
Bluebells
The Lighthouse
All My Friends
White Peak / Dark Peak

That's 6. Fuck it.

battles: "atlas"
kanye west: "stronger"
lcd: "all my friends"
plies/t-pain: "shawty"
winterkids: "tape it"

(next 5: 50/justin: "ayo technology", eve: "tambourine", amerie: "gotta work", get him eat him: "2x2", lil jon/fabo/gucci mane: "i'm a j")

This has become extremely difficult.

1) is definitely Ulrich Schnauss - Medusa
2) 65DOS - White Peak/Dark Peak
3) As it's gonna be released for the first time this year, Working For A Nuclear Free City - Nancy Adam Susan
4) Six.BySeven - Radio Silence
5) Eluvium - Indoor Swimming At The Space Station

Low - Belarus
Strategy - Running on Empty
James Blackshaw - Running to the Ghost
Explosions in the Sky - Catastrophe and the Cure
Grails - Dead Vine Blues

Gregor Tresher & Guy Gerber - Open the Gates
Megan Rochelle - My Mistake
Feist - My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Classic Mix)
T-Pain feat. Yung Joc - Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')
Hiem - Clubscene Popscene (A Just Us Diskopop Version)

Antena - Joppo & Eno (Pink Alert rerub)
Sophie Ellis Bextor - If You Go
Electrelane - The Greater Times
Chromatics - Running Up That Hill
Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars (Ewan Pearson Objects In Space Remix) - wish they'd release this on vinyl

LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Queens Of The Stone Age - Misfit Love
Amerie - Crush
Electric Six - Dance Pattern
Ne-Yo - Because Of You

Amerie - "Crush"
Ne-Yo - "Because of You"
The National - "Mistaken For Strangers"
Maroon 5 - "Makes Me Wonder"
Arctic Monkeys - "Fluorescent Adolescent"

Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - Umbrella
Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson - The Way I Are"
Chungking - Itch & Scratch
Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive
Kylie Minogue - In My Arms

7v07 - "77boadrum"
chromatics - "running up that hill"
lcd soundsystem - "starry eyes"
soft circle - "ascension"
battles - "atlas"

Sally Shapiro - He Keeps Me Alive
Caribou - Niobe
Chromatics - Running Up That Hill
Robin Allender - Green Wound
Panda Bear - Comfy in Nautica

Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars (Ewan Pearson Objects In Space Remix) - wish they'd release this on vinyl

Oh, that's great. Last time I checked it was digital-only. Thanks, haitch.

A Studio - Out There
A Mountain of One - Freefall
Breakage - Shroud
Commix - Be True
23Hz and Numaestro - Galleon Dub

It's inevitable:

1. Umbrella
2. -lla
3. -lla
4. -lla
5. Ey ey ey ey ey ey

LCD Soundsystem Freak Out OR Sound of Silver OR both.
Four Seasons/Pilooski Beggin'
Chromatics In the City
Justice DANCE
Studio Self Service OR Out There
Joakim Lonely Hearts (The Loving Hand remix)

That's 6. Or 8.

Hang on.

The Gui Boratto one that sounds like Mandarine Girl. That too.

That's 7. Or 9. Damn.

And that Douglas Sound Breakwind is great, but I only heard it once on Beats in Space and now it's sold out everywhere. But that too!

Haha, caek may have some major problems with me, but one of his is in mine!

Here, then, is the October update:

1) Oceansize - Savant
2) Caribou - Niobe
3) Ulrich Schnauss - Medusa
4) WFANFC - Nancy Adam Susan
5) 65DOS - White Peak/Dark Peak

with a bonus:

6) Studio - Origin

45'33" came out this year right?

nope, 45'33" was last year

Blonder Redhead - 23
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Low - Murderer
Spoon - The Underdog

Blonde*

I love how most people just ignored the "current" part of the original post...."Umbrella" is so played out at this point, it's not as exciting as it once was.

1. "Cross the Dancefloor" - Treasure Fingers
2. "Shine A Light" (Demo) - Madonna
3. "Arcade Robot" - Boys Noize
4. "Monkey Cage" - FdH
5. "In the city" - Chromatics

But it's "currently" my favourite, which is what I assume was meant.

songs that come to mind right now:

1. T.I. - "Big Shit Poppin"
2. A Place to Bury Strangers - "To Fix the Gash in Your Head"
3. Feeding Fingers - "Fireflies Make Us Sick"
4. Chemical Brothers - "A Modern Midnight Conversation"
5. Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson - "The Way I Are"

this is probably way off though

"Umbrella" will never grace any of my top 5 lists btw

07 was a bummer

i think it was totally an albums bummer but there were still some awesome singles

my fave 5 songs released this year:

1. kubichek - method acting
2. stopstarts - mentor
3. dears - you and i are a gang of losers
4. pull tiger tail - let's lightning
5. misty's big adventure - i can't bring the time back

lol indie

Worst year ever. So bad that even Ween made a shitty album.

1. Kanye - "Champion"
2. Kanye - "Stronger"
3. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - "Beggin' (Pilooski mix)"

I can't think of two others worthy of this list.

uh

i've posted to this thread a couple times before, but without looking at what i've posted before - here's the top 5 tracks that come to mind right now (and i'm drunk soooooo that might play into my choices):

Blonde Redhead / 23
Caribou / Niobe
Grinderman / No Pussy Blues
Low / Murderer
Spoon / The Underdog

So. . . is there any established consensus on until when is it to early to have a finalized best of list for the year, because I'm getting really ahead of myself and kind of, uhhh, forgot theres still a month and a half left of the year left (and as it goes, December tends to be the best month of the year music-wise for me).

Hmm... This could be fun.

Jack Penate - Torn on the Platform
Soko - I'll Kill Her
Boat - (Im a) Donkey for Your Love
Kings of Leon - Fans
The Mountain Goats - Commandante

At least thats what I came up with in the last five minutes. May change with thought.

so weird that i don't know most of the music on this thread. guess i have officially lost touch with 'indie' music.

right now:
Burial- Archangel
Jichael Mackson- Grass is Always Greener
Len Faki- Odyssee I
Tiger Stripes- Hooked
Gowns- White Like Heaven

yeah, i feel really bad for anyone who didn't get into dance music this year

dinky - horizontal
dop - dopamen feat noze
siobhan donaghy - don't give it up (carl craig dub)
shackleton - blood on my hands (villalobos mix)
kollektiv turmstrasse - tristesse

i feel like an idiot high-lighting five tracks because its such a tiny random selection out of soooooo much great stuff from this year

project pat & 3-6 mafia - dont call me no mo
ugk & slim thug, vicious & mddl fngz - take tha hood back
charon don feat rah digga & lil scrappy - up in here
8ball & mjg - turn up the bump
webbie & boosie - independent

lcd "all my friends"
plies/t-pain "shawty"
battles "atlas"
lil jon/fabo/gucci mane "i'm a j"
kanye west "stronger"

project pat & 3-6 mafia - dont call me no mo

first ever ilm mention of this, right? hard to believe even by recent standards

oh nm i see it now

Narrowing it down to five's going to be hard, but here goes:

Joe Henry - Our Song
Stereo Total - Mehr Licht
Arthur Verocai - Abertura
Prefuse 73 - I Knew You Were Gonna Go
Kal - Komedija

Seriously this was a difficult endeavor and all the albums these songs are featured on a are so remarkably good.

Honorable Mentions (Yea I know, it's cheating...)

Tujiko Noriko - Gift
Gino Sitson - Bamisphere
Richard Galliano - Gnossienne #3
Dr. Dog - Keep a Friend
Esbjorn Svensson Trio (E.S.T.) - Goldwrap

There's a ton more that I didn't get to mention. 2007 was very memorable year for music, at least from my vantage point.

Cheers, you krazee ILMers

- Clifton

M.I.A. - "XR2"
Lucinda Williams - "Come On"
Radiohead - "Videotape"
Jacques Coursil - "La Chanson D'Atar"
Thrillpillow - "Secret Agent"

keep the car running- arcade fire
'92 subaru - fountains of wayne
are you alright? - Lucinda
the bleedin clown - manu chao
alcohol - gogol bordello
in no particular order

without much consideration, just literally what I have listened to loads:

Electrelane - The Greater Times
Prodigy - Mac 10 Handle
Coki - Spongebob
Junior Boys - Like A Child (c2 remix)
Styles P & AZ - The Hardest

But anticipating loads of albums still to come, esp. rap (beans, wu, styles, nas(?), ghost(?) )

Dude N' Nem, "Watch My Feet"
Rich Boy, "Throw Some D's"
Calle 13, "Tango del Pecado"
Salem al-Fakir, "Dream Girl"
Mac Dre, "Ghost Ride It"

plies/t-pain "shawty"

-- J0rdan S., Saturday, November 17, 2007 12:40 PM (Saturday, November 17, 2007 12:40 PM) Bookmark Link

^^^banworthy

Uh, fuck. Mistah FAB, not Mac Dre. I'm tired.

you must be if ur figure 'throw some d's' qualifies for a 2007 thread

I first heard it around mid-December and it peaked in poularity this spring, so why the fuck not?

I give no credence to literal release dates.

Oh, this was about songs new to the year?

I just posted what my most listened to/favorite songs of the year were.

6. the dream "shawty is a ten"

esophagus: That's perfectly fine. Ignore the pedant.

burial - archangel
tony allen - ole (mortiz von oswald remix)
soul capsule - waiting 4 a way
mala - alicia
stl - my home

i think it was totally an albums bummer but there were still some awesome singles

Yo, I love singles. Where are these awesome singles? Enlighten me please.. withdrawal is painful.

official and what hit picks 9/25

project pat & three 6 mafia - dont call me no mo
webbie & boosie - independent
percee p - raw heat
t.i. & jeezy - paper chasin
styles p & az - the hardest
nwa - chin check (mighty mi remix)
army of the pharaohs - strike back
gorilla zoe & big gee - battlefield
charon don feat rah digga & lil scrappy - up in here
yo gotti & allstar - wit a strap

-- and what, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 16:50 (1 month ago) Link

I just realised this.

1) Cardiacs - Ditzy Scene
2) Oceansize - Savant
3) Caribou - Niobe
4) Ulrich Schnauss - Medusa
5) WFANFC - Nancy Adam Susan

Bonus track - The Fiery Furnaces - Right By Conquest

Testify.

Right by Conquest is great. The chord progression in the chorus is so perfect that the only way I can describe it is 'correct': 'yes, that is the correct chord progression'.

styles p & az - the hardest

^^^^^^^

i hadn't heard any of the songs on louis' list. the caribou one is nice. i didn't know you were into such "epic" rock, louis. the clip of that oceansize song sounds like snow patrol (not nec a bad thing).

Lou1s = ph34r teh prog

i have no idea wtf that says. "fear the prog"? that cardiacs song is pretty proggy. it was okay. i turned it off when the singer came in.

Right By Conquest is the best "let's make out, NOW" song I've heard in a long, long, long time. There's something unutterably lusty, funky even, about those elastic keyboard noises at the start, something both playful AND triumphant about the melody (it brings both epic battle-anthem and love-ballad to mind), and that chorus marries said epic chord-progression to some actually brilliant coming-of-age sex lyrics. The right levels of pouty defiance, blooming eroticism, and fearful imagery are struck. The live-sounding rock drums, pounding like lovers, are the icing on the cake.

Jordan, I'm an absolute fiend when it comes to long-form pieces! That Oceansize song may sound superficially like Snow Patrol in that both are slow, elegiac, guitar-driven indie, but believe me, hear the whole thing and there's no comparison at all. Oceansize are after something far subtler, far grander, and far more original. Like I said in the other thread, it's practically a symphonic movement, structurally unpredictable, and ever-shifting. Also, many peoples' initial Cardiacs reaction is one of repulsion. It takes time. Go back to 'em at some point. You'll surprise yourself. That song merely happens to bone more or less everything else I've heard this year, in a fairly comprehensive fashion. They do things with melody, harmony, rhythm and structure that nobody can understand on first listen.

Hahaha, compare and contrast this list, made in May:

65DaysOfStatic 'White Peak/Dark Peak'
The Electric Soft Parade 'Woken By A Kiss'
Eluvium 'Indoor Swimming at the Space Station'
The Wildhearts 'Bi-Polar Baby'
Battles 'Atlas' (well, duh)

Hmm. Not a single survivor! Six By Seven 'Radio Silence' was in there for a while as well, but I now think 'Diplomatique' is the best track on that album. Another late runner that failed to make the cut is Patrick Wolf, 'Overture'.

ok i wantto make a list right now~

dalek - stagnant waters
boredoms - livwe!!
battles - rainbows
fiery furnaces - wicker whatnots
kevin ayers - friends and strangers

really this whole list should be battles tracks
I am also hugely anticipating the new cardiacs album but i don't know if anything from the single really fucks me in the ear right now the way their music usually does. I need a full-length to play over and over again before i get to that stage :( hurry up guys :(

Top 5:
Battles-Atlas
Kings of Leon- Fans
M.I.A.-Paper Planes
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Burial-Archangel

Close:
A Place To Bury Strangers - To Fix the Gash in Your Head
Bright Eyes- Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed)
Animal Collective - Chores
Panda Bear- Bros
LCD Soundsystem -Someone Great
Deerhunter -Cryptograms
Sunset Rubdown- The Mending of the Gown
!!! - Must Be The Moon
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
White Stripes - Little Cream Soda

this has been a really good year actually

I find it so hard to remember things like this.

I'm gonna say

1. Britney Spears - Radar
2. M.I.A. - Come Around
3. Jana Hunter - Palms
4. No Age - My Life's Alright Without You
5. Marnie Stern - Put all your eggs in one Basket and then watch that Basket!!!

Close: Burial - Archangel,
Black Dice - Kokomo,
Eric Copeland - Dinca,
Electrelane - The Greater Times,
Róisín Murphy - Primitive

For now.

Shit, that doesn't even include any LCD Soundsystem (watch the tapes, all my friends)

I decided yesterday I prefer the song after Archangel.
xp

1. Britney Spears - Radar

this is my fav song on the album. i'm surprised more ppl aren't talking about it.

You know that bit where she goes "I don't think you know" and then her voice goes all multitracky for "KNOW". Best music moment of the year for me. Maybe.

1. Radiohead - "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"
2. Ryan Adams - "Two Hearts"
3. Apostle of Hustle - "The Naked and Alone"
4. LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends"
5. Dan Deacon - "The Crystal Cat"

Is there a 2008 version of this?

we're three months into 2008, what are your five favorite singles so far?

ta