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After taking a nice little break for the holidays to cool my jets and unwind, it’s refreshing to start off the new year with a new energy and passion to blog. I tend to always get burnt out every once in a while, so hopefully this will begin a great and (hopefully) consistent 2008. I figured I would start everything off with one final list from 2007 of our favorite songs, since I vaguely promised I would post it shortly after our albums list.
This was an extremely difficult process to trim down to the 30 songs you see below, as my master list contained at least 80 songs or so. Almost all of these I still listen to on a somewhat daily basis, as they’ve stood the test of being as every bit of enjoyable as the very first time I heard them. As always, feel free to comment with your opinions, favorites and whatever else you feel like saying.
“Plasticities” :: Andrew Bird
“There Are Too Many Birds” :: Arthur & Yu
“Snakes and Ladders” :: Basia Bulat
“Listening Man” :: The Bees
“For Agent 13″ :: The Besnard Lakes
“Whatever You Want” :: Club 8
“To The East” :: Electrelane
“Fire Escape” :: Fanfarlo
“A Paw In My Face” :: The Field
“Need Your Needs” :: Georgie James
“Falling Slowly” :: Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
“Beautiful Life” :: Gui Boratto
“Second Song” :: Hari and Aino
“(Lack of) Love Will Tear Us Apart” :: The Honeydrips
“My Piano” :: Hot Chip
“A Postcard To Nina” :: Jens Lekman
“D.A.N.C.E.” :: Justice
“Don’t Lose Yourself” :: Laura Veirs
“You! Me! Dancing!” :: Los Campesinos!
“Lips Are Unhappy” :: Lucky Soul
“Nothing Really Happened” :: Math & Physics Club
“Bunny Ain’t No Kind Of Rider” :: Of Montreal
“Wound Up” :: OFFICE
“Bros (edit)” :: Panda Bear
“Two French Sisters” :: Pants Yell!
“The Magic Position” :: Patrick Wolf
“You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb” :: Spoon
“No Comply” :: Studio
“Julia” :: Taken By Trees
“November Starlings” :: Trembling Blue Stars
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Andy’s Favorite Songs of 2007:
Top 25 Songs (No particular order, except the Top 3)
All of these songs got me through the year. Whether it was a sad afternoon, a hard last mile on a 5 mile run, or a terribly long road trip, I could count on putting these on repeat without getting tired of them. I don’t like ranking songs either, but there is definitely a Top 3.
1)Animal Collective – Fireworks
2)Panda Bear – Bros
3)LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great
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Arcade Fire – Keep The Car Running
Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma
Radiohead – Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Kevin Drew – TBTF
Low – Belarus
Spoon – Don’t You Evah
Caribou – She’s The One
Handsome Furs – Handsome Furs Hate This City
Jens Lekman – If I Could Cry (It Would Feel Like This)
The Besnard Lakes – Because Tonight
The Field – A Paw In My Face
Studio – West Side
Yeasayer – 2080
Sleeping States – Rivers
Apostle of Hustle – Justine, Beckoning
Battles – Race:In
Loney, Dear – I Am John
Deerhunter – Dr. Glass
The New Pornographers – Myriad Harbour
Sandro Perri – Family Tree
Liars – Freak Out
Miracle Fortress – Maybe Lately
Cass McCombs – That’s That
*The best reworking of a song that’s been released all year has to be Feist’s alternate version of ‘Intuition’ you can find it here:
http://www.grizzly-bear.net/media/intuition.mp3
Val’s Favorite Songs of 2007:
Of Montreal – Suffer for Fashion
Black Lips – O! Katrina
M.I.A. – Boyz
Les Savy Fav – The Equestrian
Voxtrot – Brother in Conflict
Besnard Lakes – Disaster
Beirut – Elephant Gun
Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey
LCD Soundsystem – All My Friends
Menomena – The Pelican
Arcade Fire – Black Waves/Bad Vibrations
Spoon – Don’t You Evah
Amy Winehouse – You Know That I’m No Good
Feist – 1,2,3,4
Band of Horses – Is There a Ghost?
Radiohead – Reckoner
Get Him Eat Him – C.B.T.
The Shins – Phantom Limb
Peter, Bjorn & John – Young Folks
The National – Fake Empire
Cinematic Orchestra – To Build a Home
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Well, I’m a slacker… But, hey, I just got done with a killer 17-credit semester and I have resolutely decided that I will just relax this break… Expect to see more of me soon though (I swear I’ll stop slacking soon!)… Great lists, and now, to look forward to 2008!
P.S. Val, amen to “Reckoner,” soooooo good.
Oh yes. Love it. Quite possibly my favorite song of the year.
Love the lists. Especially Val’s
“Reckoner” is damn good. I don’t know why it’s not no my list. Oh well \(._.)/
Great list as always. Bonus points for the nicely placed use of Snoopy to kick it off.
But seriously guys….have you not heard D.A.N.C.E. by Justice?!?!?
“D.A.N.C.E.” is on my list. I’d be silly not to include.
Can you delete my comment because I can’t read? There were so many songs, I missed it in haste.
This is an excellent post. Keep up the good work.
Just wanted to say how much you guys and your blog rock – I’ve gotten to know so much kick-ass music thanks to you in the past year!