Mid - Year Bests for 2007

[Relaxer]

There's been some good records this year. I was surprised how much I ended up liking the Winehouse and Stripes discs. I could see the Monkeys disc moving up to Great, as I feel like it gets better and deeper every time I listen to it (which is how I felt about the 1st one).
 
 Great:
 Battles
 White Stripes
 Fratellis
 Amy Winehouse
 Arcade Fire
 
 Good:
 Good Bad & Queen
 Pissed Jeans
 Gallows
 1990s
 Dino Jr
 Arcade Monkeys
 Klaxons
 National
 Wilco
 Panda Bear
 
 Ehhhh:
 LCD SS
 Feist
 Kings of Leon
 NIN
 Shins

[Brian_Wallace]

You have good taste, relaxer.  I agree with almost everything.  I'd move "The Good, The Bad & The Queen" record up to "great" and the Kings of Leon album up to "good" but that's nitpicking.
 
 Brian

[BookerT]

Originally posted by Brian_Walalce:
  You have good taste, relaxer.

man, ain't that the kiss of death right there.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

1. Wilco
 2. Amy Winehouse
 3. Spoon
 4. Nick Lowe
 5. Feist
 6. Pela
 7. Dolorean
 8. Seu
 9. Eleni Mandell
 10. Apples in Stereo

[slappy]

4hero
 Wilco
 Black Francis
 Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators
 The New Pornographers
 Mavis Staples
 Klaxons
 
 Want to like but not feeling it...
 Happy Mondays
 Dizzee Rascal
 Battles
 Chemical Brothers

[ratioci nation]

Andrew Bird
 brakesbrakesbrakes (although maybe that is 2006)
 Menomena - Friend and Foe
 GBV - Live from Austin
 the National Lights - The Dead Will Walk, Dear
 The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

[azaghal1981]

Some of my favs not mentioned yet in no particular order:
 Animal Collective
 deerhoof
 pantha du prince
 Merzbow/O'Rourke/Giffoni
 Von Sudenfed
 Distance
 Last Step (venetian snares)
 Besnard Lakes
 Âµ-Ziq
 Apparat
 Boris (rainbow)
 Cornelius
 Dan Deacon
 Ghost
 Gui Boratto
 Kettel
 Liars
 Low
 Nels Cline Singers
 Papercuts
 Pole
 Raccoo-oo-oon
 Shellac
 Soft Circle
 Thurston Moore
 Ween
 Bjork
 Amon Tobin
 Cloud Cult
 Deerhunter
 Do Make Say Think
 Caribou
 Growing (2006?)
 Ulrich Schnauss

[xneverwherex]

maximo park - love love the new album!
 same goes for the cinematics.

[azaghal1981]

Did the Jarvis Cocker disc come out in 06 or 07?

[kookiemnstr8]

I love the Of Montreal record.

[azaghal1981]

Yeah me too. Not sure how I forgot to list that one.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Maybe you were being selective in what you were putting on your list. smiley
 
 

Originally posted by azaghal1981:
  Yeah me too. Not sure how I forgot to list that one.

[ggw]

Clearly I haven't listened to enough 2007 music.
 
 The Ponys
 Radio Moscow
 Vietnam
 
 The new White Stripes is alright.  The latter half better than the first, in my opinion.
 
 The new Interpol sounds like Interpol, but nothing about it has grabbed me like their previous albums.
 
 The new Burning Brides album has been a bit of a disappointment.  I bet it will sound great live, but it finds their melange of styles tilting a bit too much to the heavy-rock side (and I have nothing against heavy rock).
 
 I haven't heard the new Spoon yet, but the Post's glowing review today has piqued my interest.
 
 2007 is still the Year of the Disppointing Follow Ups - see the Shins, Voxtrot, Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands....

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

You can hear the Spoon here:
 
 http://www.mergerecords.com/gagagajuke/
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Clearly I haven't listened to enough 2007 music.
 
 The Ponys
 Radio Moscow
 Vietnam
 
 The new White Stripes is alright.  The latter half better than the first, in my opinion.
 
 The new Interpol sounds like Interpol, but nothing about it has grabbed me like their previous albums.
 
 The new Burning Brides album has been a bit of a disappointment.  I bet it will sound great live, but it finds their melange of styles tilting a bit too much to the heavy-rock side (and I have nothing against heavy rock).
 
 I haven't heard the new Spoon yet, but the Post's glowing review today has piqued my interest.
 
 2007 is still the Year of the Disppointing Follow Ups - see the Shins, Voxtrot, Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, Clap Your Hands....

[DeathFromAbove1979]

Klaxons
 White Stripes
 Arctic Monkeys
 Queens of the Stone Age
 Amy Winehouse
 Justice