Forget Pitchfork, Here's My Top 50 of 2007

if you know me then you know i have trouble picking which socks to wear, so picking 50 of my favorite albums from 2007 was a painful task. although after i post this, i'm sure i'm going to want to change it, i am content with my list right now and if i wait any longer it will be 2009.

i choose these 50 albums from a group of about 125 and i made four rules to help me narrow my search. 1) i cannot be affiliated in any with the artist or album in anyway. if i didn't do this i would have Helms - Secret Doors as numbers 1-25, then everything else from our label and friends. 2) i have to had listened to and own the entire album. this was really tough because i desperately wanted to add Ólöf Arnalds - Vid Og Vid, but my friend at 12 Tonar hasn't sent it to me yet. 3) it had to be a LP. in some cases i added some EPs with the full length releases on the list, but it is the Top 50 Albums. 4) it had to be an album consisting of mostly new material. elliott smith's New Moon is obviously one of my favorite albums, but as a die-hard fan i already owned the material that was on the release.

so here they are. love them, hate them, or never heard of them. let me know what you think and if you want add your own lists. oh yeah, they are in alphabetical order.



adamHMR's Top 50 of 2007


1) Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass
2) Amiina – Kurr
3) Amon Tobin – Foley Room
4) Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam

5) Arcade Fire – Neon Bible

6) Band of Horses – Cease to Begin

7) Bat For Lashes – Fur and Gold

8) Battles –Mirrored

9) Bill Callahan – Woke On A Whaleheart

10) Burial – Untrue

11) Caribou – Andorra

12) Cornelius – Sensuous

13) Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity

14) Deerhunter – Cryptograms/Fluorescent EP

15) Dinosaur Jr. – Beyond

16) Dirty Projectors – Rise Above

17) Efterklang – Parades/ Under Giant Trees EP

18) El-P – I’ll Sleep When Your Dead

19) Eluvium – Copia

20) Elvis Perkins – Ash Wednesday

21) Fiest – The Reminder

22) Health – Health

23) Jens Lekman – Night Falls Over Kortedala

24) Justice – Cross

25) K-the i??? – Broken Love Letter

26) LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver

27) Les Savy Fav – Lets Stay Friends

28) Liars – Liars

29) M.I.A. – Kala

30) Menomena – Friend or Foe

31) Modern Life Is War – Midnight In America

32) Mount Eerie – Mount Eerie Pts. 6 & 7

33) No Age – Weirdo Rippers

34) Okkervil River – The Stage Names

35) Panda Bear – Person Pitch

36) Radiohead – In Rainbows

37) Robert Wyatt – Comicopa

38) Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

39) St. Vincent – Marry Me

40) Stars of the Lid – And Their Refinement and Decline

41) Subtle – Yell & Ice

42) The Bowerbirds – Hymns for a Dark Horse

43) The Field – From Here We Go Sublime

44) The National – The Boxer

45) The Postmarks – The Postmarks

46) The Shins – Wincing the Night Away

47) Thurston Moore – Trees Outside the Academy

48) Trap Them – Sleepwell Deconstructor/Séance Prime EP

49) Vampire Weekend – Blue CDR

50) Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals