i hit the bottom and escape... escape...

[mr_ethanboy]

MY FAVORITE TRACKS of 2007So... I'm not sure anybody follows my journal anymore because I mostly just talk about music (and, sadly, this entry is not an exception to this rule). I'm indulgent, I know, sorry. I do actually have a big non-music entry in the works, and after I post it I'd like to continue posting as regularly as I used to. However,

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[queserasera86]

I downloaded it and am excited to listen. w00t!

[mr_ethanboy]

w00t indeed!
i hope you enjoy it.

[anonymous]

I was surprised Kanye didn't get a track I immediately recognized, I had to look up "Barry Bonds". I was also stunned to see the Battles ranking so highly, and to see Wilco even make the list as I never heard you play the album (did it come out over the summer?). Your "flashes of enjoyability" line holds true, I suppose.

You'll be forced to enjoy the drum corps from 2007 when I return.

[mr_ethanboy]

eh, "stronger" was good but didn't quite do it for me. it was between "barry bonds" and "good life." & actually i have played the new wilco album a moderate amount... maybe i was just more prone to play it whilst you were in tucker.

i look forward to the drum corps.

[cowboycadenza]

I have another "friend" (you know, the kind of person who's friends with a lot of people you know so you sort of have to be friendly to him) who won't shut up about Radiohead, and he likes Weird Fishes a lot...

[mr_ethanboy]

it's a fantastic song, no lie.
did you download the zip file?

[cowboycadenza]

Yes.

[mr_ethanboy]

what do you think?

[anonymous]

Where is Chocolate Rain!?!!??!!

[mr_ethanboy]

i don't know who you are
but you have to be kidding me

surely, the chocolate cherry rain remix blew the original out of the water
(only not... both songs were awful)

[deadlymist]

I just read an entry by a guy who ranked his top 100 albums of 2007; so this was a cakewalk. Interesting list; but Weird Fishes? Really? Again, songs mean so many different things to different people.

But no cracked out Amy Winehouse? The National? I would like to see your top 25 albums or something.

[deadlymist]

Oh wait... I just read the part about your top 10 album post coming up...

DOH

[mr_ethanboy]

top 100 albums?! i haven't even heard that many albums from 2007, haha
& hellz yeah, "weird fishes"! which radiohead song would you pick?

(a) i don't like amy winehouse
(b) i haven't listened to the national

and here are my top 25 albums, since you asked nicely...

25.) bright eyes - four winds [ep]
24.) the new pornographers - challengers
23.) battles - mirrored
22.) white williams - smoke
21.) aesop rock - none shall pass
20.) !!! - myth takes
19.) bodies of water - ears will pop & eyes will blink
18.) arctic monkeys - favourite worst nightmare
17.) wilco - sky blue sky
16.) amon tobin - foley room
15.) modest mouse - we were dead before the ship even sank
14.) okkervil river - the stage names
13.) kanye west - graduation
12.) arcade fire neon bible
11.) the shins - wincing the night away
10.) blitzen trapper wild mountain nation
9.) animal collective - strawberry jam
8.) m.i.a. - kala
7.) jay-z - american gangster
6.) yeah yeah yeahs - is is [ep]
5.) deerhunter - cryptograms + fluorescent grey [ep]
4.) spoon - ga ga ga ga ga3.)

[deadlymist]

Wait...what? Battles at 23? I thought you found Mirrored to be pretentious and inaccessible? - Dave