2007: The Year In Music

All is quiet on New Year's Day. A world in white gets underway.
I want to be with you be with you night and day.
Nothing changes on New Year's Day.



Twenty Albums From 2007
20. Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It
19. Silver Sun - Dad's Weird Dream
18. Anton Barbeau w/ Su Jordan - The Automatic Door
17. Broken West - I Can't Go On, I'll Go On
16. Foreign Films - Distant Star
15. Shake Some Action!
14. The Pearlfishers - Up With The Larks
13. Crowded House - Time On Earth
12. Rogue Wave - Asleep At Heaven's Gate
11. New Pornographers - Challengers
10. Fountains of Wayne - Traffic & Weather
9. Mitch Easter - Dynamico
8. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
7. Future Clouds & Radar
6. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
5. Field Music - Tones Of Town
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - Living With The Living
2. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
1. The National - Boxer

Five 2007 Reissues:
1. Robyn Hitchcock - I Wanna Go Backwards
2. Moby Grape - Listen My Friends!
3. Judee Sill - Live in London
4. Sandy Denny - BBC Sessions 1971-1973
5. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

Close but No Biscuit:
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Cindy Lee Berryhill - Beloved Stranger
   (CLB's first album in 12 years, and I really wanted to like it).

Caribou - Andorra
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
I've come to view Beach Boys comparisons as red flags. These albums are on lots of best of year lists, and they both have a BW "vibe", but I don't hear any "songs".

Happy 2008, everyone!