Top 10 Per Year
 

Yeah that's right, I'm going to go from 2007 backwards. Get ready bitches.


10. The Raveonettes "Lust Lust Lust (2007)"
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Less Ronettes, more Jesus and Mary Chain. I'm saddened by the lack of attention this received but considering how (not so) good Pretty in Black was I can understand it, sort of. Check it out and while you're listening to them look at how amazing their influences are. The Smiths, The Clash, The Cramps, My Bloody Valentine, Jesus and Mary Chain, Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, Primal Scream, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Suicide, Atari Teenage Riot, etc. Where I'm going with this is uh you can't go wrong raiding their mixed tapes.
Favorite Song: Black Satin

MySpace.com - THE RAVEONETTES - NEW YORK CITY & LOS ANGELES, BABY! - Other / Other / Other - www.myspace.com/theraveonettes

Wow, epic.
Is there going to be any limit to this? Are you going to be reviewing 13th century medieval folk music?

It's going to go back to cavemen banging rocks.

Good luck with 1983 & 1974

You'll need it :thumb:

Maybe I'll shorten it to 5 in some cases <.<

I had a thought of doing something somewhat similar to this. There was an unfixable problem though-I'm lazy.

I wouldn't be too lazy, i just haven't heard enough music.

Well stop being so lazy D: <

1974!!!??

Are you deaf. There was a lot of great music in 74. The years that sucked were 85-88

9. Säkert! "Säkert! (2007)"
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This album took me awhile to get into. It's Hello Saferide's Anika but singing in her native Swedish tongue which I could tolerate because she had such a fantastic cutesy twee sound but a huge part of the charm of Hello Saferide was lines like "Damn I wish I was a lesbian / So I could fall in love with you." so what do I do when I can no longer hear such shakespearian verses? Open freetranslator? No! I try and enjoy it anyway D: And after playing Introducing...Hello Saferide to death I came to enjoy it anyway. Fun story I know.
Favorite Song: Vi kommer att dö samtidigt

MySpace.com - Säkert! - SE - Pop / Hawaiian / Healing & EasyListening - www.myspace.com/sakert

Depends if you're into prog & classic rock or not

I'm not and neither is Ethan unless he's really good at hiding it.
And a lot of the greatest indie albums came out in 85-88

lol @ me liking prog and classic rock :laughing:

Well I will just have to help him out when he gets to 1974.

8. Radiohead "In Rainbows (2007)"
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"Like most Radiohead fans I was completely caught off guard by there being a new Radiohead album but I stayed up really late to download In Rainbows anyway. I remember putting it on repeat as soon as I had it then quickly dropping off to bed and waking up to In Rainbows, which is the greatest way to start off your day. Everytime I listen a new track jumped out on me, though after many listens i've decided Reckoner is my favorite past favorites that stuck for awhile were House of Cards, Videotape and All I Need.

I really don't have much to say on this album even though I love it so much which is odd. My first thoughts upon listening were "In Rainbows has replaced my right hand."" - Ethan a week or so after hearing In Rainbows.

I'm sorry you had to read such vulgar claims as it replaced my right hand. I've since learned that Patrick Wolf will always hold that place.
Favorite Song: Reckoner

MySpace.com - radiohead - www.myspace.com/radiohead

I love this idea and will steal it, but change it just a little bit.

When did JayJamJah come back?

7. Eluvium "Copia (2007)"
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I could go on about the choruses of strings, brass, organs and the amazing ambiance, and how delicate and amazing the neo-classical arrangements are and be like every other reviewer who reviewed this album going on about the compositional genius but instead I'm going to tell you this is probably one of the most relaxing and beautiful albums I've ever heard. Songs like Radio Ballet are breathtaking.
Favorite Song: Radio Ballet



MySpace.com - Eluvium - Portland, Oregon - Ambient - www.myspace.com/eluviumtaken

im going to love seeing you try to put 6 albums better than In Rainbows for 2007.

The Good The Bad and the Queen - listen to this album, i will eat my shirt if it doesn't make your top 10. It is by a band with the same name, a supergroup made up of the bassist from The Clash, the guitarist from The Verve, Singer from Blur/Gorillaz, and the drummer from Mali Music.

It's not on here or even on my top 25. I listened to it and how unremarkable it was really kind of surprised me given the line-up and producer.

6. Best Friends Forever "Romantic Conflict Adventure (2007)"
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This album is like delicious pop heroin it really is. Wow that sums up my thoughts on this album, when Catie showed me it I kept playing it and still keep playing it and yeah!
Favorite Song: Eisenhower is the Father



MySpace.com - best friends forever - Minneapolis, Minnesota - Pop / Indie / Progressive - www.myspace.com/bestfriendsforeverandfriends

i have no idea what you just said here, could you rephrase?

Um...The Good, The Bad and the Queen isn't on my top 10 of 2007. It wouldn't be on my top 25 either. I listened to it and how unremarkable it was surprised me. Because of who was in the line up and because Danger Mouse produced it.

ooooh ok, thanks for clearing that up.
now that that has been said.

WHAT?
what about it was bad?

I didn't say it was bad it just didn't strike as interesting at all.

I've added this to my basket on amazon

you've guided me to a good record here Ethan

It's funny looking at his myspace

he's touring all these great European cities

Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Brussels, Amsterdam
and then you get to
Butlins Holiday Centre - Minehead


LOL Brilliant I had to laugh

saw Butlins on Okkervil River's tour schedule as well once

Two Kc albums that year. Hmm? Yah, Best Friends Forever rocks.

Minehead certainly does sounds glamorous...=x

5. The Kidcrash "Jokes (2007)"
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Probably one of the best emo albums of the past 10 years and probably one of the most creative emo albums ever. They blend that spazzy math sound in the ways of Off Minor with Slint and some midwest indie influences thrown in. It's amazing.
Favorite Song: Turtlelephant



MySpace.com - kidcrash - Other - www.myspace.com/thekidcrash

kidcrash kick ass.

4. Okkervil River "The Stage Names (2007)"
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This album is like a giant biographical awesome movie with its songs about cult pornstar Shannon Wisley to poet John Berryman. Will Sheff weaves you an album of stories, scenes and clever pop culture references that most screen writers would jump up and down for; the way he seems to paint a sonic movie is brilliant and the rest of the band show themselves much more dynamic and cohesive than ever before which results in one of their finest albums to date. It rocks, it weeps, it dances, welcome to the Stage Names.
Favorite Song: John Allyn Smith Sails



MySpace.com - Okkervil River - Austin, TEXAS - Folk / Indie / Rock - www.myspace.com/okkervilriver

3. Elliott Smith "New Moon (2007)"
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Yeah man this is a post-humus album that doesn't blow from the greatest artist ever. Do I need to say more? No I don't think I do, it's number 3 because it's not my favorite album by him and I don't want to be predictable and because I'd already played over half these songs to death before this was released which made for an awkward listen to be honest. But for someone who's never heard his unreleased stuff before and only his studio work this is a good purchase. I mean I did play the songs to death after all.
Favorite Song: I'm not going to choose



MySpace.com - Elliott Smith - Rock / Pop / Acoustic - www.myspace.com/elliottsmithnewmoon

Elliot Smith = Great, but overrated as hell.

2. Jens Lekman "Night Falls Over Kortedala (2007)"
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This is one of the most joyous, clever, best chosen samples, funnest and just awesomest pop albums ever and it's come very close to being number 1 in fact at times it was and at times it ties but right now I think it's number 2. I don't see how you could hate him, unless you A. like bad music music. B. have no soul. Oh and for the record ukuleles rule.
Favorite Song: A Postcard to Nina



MySpace.com - Jens Lekman - SANTA FE, New Mexico - Down-tempo - www.myspace.com/thesongsofjens

I don't hate it, but the more i listened to it the more i got bored of it. That doesn't happen often!

He has one of those faces you want to repeatedly stomp on.

On this site maybe, but in the music world I think he is vastly underrated.

New Moon was a great compilation, but Elliott would have probably hated it.
Whatever (Folk Song in C) for instance, it had no significant meaning other it being a song he wanted to record. There's a reason these songs didn't make it onto any of his albums.

Favorite song from it is probably New Monkey, his Big Star cover was pretty banging, too.

Well that version is one you'd get bored of because it's so stripped down and only lovely a few times but the studio version is <3

I meant the album :D

Well you have no soul then D: <