2007 Music List
This is a list of pretty much every album i listened to that was released in 2007. For a lot of them i also included my favorite tracks for that album. The List is in order from best to worst. The first Hundred or so are pretty strong albums, the quality tapers off a bit after that.
I also included a few other lists i made at the end.
and yes, this did take me a long time to do.
1. Grails - Burning Off Impurities. Best Tracks: Soft Temple; Silk Road; Drawn Curtains; Origining.
2. Between the Buried and Me - Colors. Best Tracks: White Walls; Sun of Nothing; Ants of the Sky; Prequel to the Sequel.
3. Akron/Family - Love is Simple. Best Tracks: Ed is a Portal, There’s so Many Colors; Love, Love, Love.
4. Baroness - The Red Album. Best Tracks: The Birthing; Isak; Grad.
5. Alcest - Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde. Best Tracks: Les Iris; Ciel Errant.
6. Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm. Best Tracks: Put All Your Eggs into One Basket, then Watch that Basket!; Absorb those Numbers.
7. A Northern Chorus - The Millions too Many. Best Tracks: No Stations; Skeleton Keys; Remembrance Day.
8. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters. Best Track: I Will Lay Down My Bones Among the Rocks and Roots.
9. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup. Best Tracks: Forks and Knives; The Penalty; La Banlieu.
10. Radiohead - In Rainbows. Best Tracks: Jigsaw Falling into Place; Nude; Reckoner; Bodysnatchers.
11. The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism. Best Tracks: The Ballad of Love and Hate; Die Die Die; Shame; The Weight of Lies.
12. Radical Face - Ghost. Best Tracks: Welcome Home, Son; Wrapped in Piano Strings; Haunted.
13. Tides/Giant - Split LP. Best Tracks: All of them.
14. Feist - The Reminder. Best Tracks: 1234; Brandy Alexander; Sealion.
15. Bodies of Water - Eyes Will Pop and Ears Will Blink. Best Tracks: I Guess We Forget the Sound; These are the Eyes; It is Familier.
16. Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling. Best Tracks: Oh, My Darling; Snakes and Ladders; The Pilgriming Vine.
17. God is an Astronaut - Far from Refuge. Best Tracks: Grace Descending; New Years End.
18. Jesu - Conqueror. Best Tracks: Conqueror; Weightless and Horizontal.
19. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters. Best Tracks: Cold Days from the Birdhouse; Mapped by what Surrounded them.
20. Battles - Mirrored. Best Tracks: Ddiamondd; Tonto; Rainbow.
21. Neurosis - Given to Rising. Best Tracks: Distill; Fear and Sickness.
22. The Dirty Projectors - Rise Above. Best Tracks: Rise Above; Depression; Spray Paint (The Walls).
23. Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost. Best Tracks: Upon Wings of Black; Baptized in Flames; Fire from the Sky.
24. Amiina - Kurr. Best Tracks: Rugla; Hilli; Saga.
25. Architect - All is not Lost. Best Tracks: The Awakening; The Giving Tree.
26. Earlimart - Mentor Tormentor. Best Tracks: Bloody Nose; Answers and Questions; Segue.
27. Great Lakes Swimmers - Ongiara. Best Tracks: Backstage with the Modern Dancers; Catcher Son.
28. Menomena - Friend and Foe. Best Track: Muscle’n Flo.
29. Gravenhurst - The Western Lands. Best Tracks: She Dances; The Western Lands.
30. Nina Nastasia and Jim White - You Follow Me. Best Tracks: Lates Night; I’ve Been out Walking.
31. Zozobra - Harmonic Tremors. Best Tracks: The Blessing; Kill and Crush; Invisible Wolves.
32. Torche - In Return EP.
33. Sigh - Hangman’s Hymn. Best Tracks: Inked in Blood; In Devils Arms.
34. Coliseum - No Salvation. Best Tracks: Defeater; Funeral Line.
35. Mum - Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy. Best Tracks: Blessed Brambles; Dancing Behind Me Eyelids.
36. Onetrickpony - Phantom Pains. Best Track: Box Song.
37. Parts and Labor - Mapmaker. Best Tracks: Fake Rain; The Gold We’re Digging; Fractured Skies.
38. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb. Best Tracks: Phantom Limb; Alexandria.
39. Kongh - Counting Heartbeats. Best Tracks: Pushed Beyond; Megaprimatus.
40. Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks. Best Tracks: Hands Up; Grounds for Divorce.
41. 31 Knots - The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere. Best Tracks: Beauty; Sanctify.
42. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone. Best Track: The Birth and Death of the Day.
43. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver. Best Tracks: All My Friends; Us vs. Them; Great Release; New York I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down.
44. Rosetta - Wake/Lift. Best Tracks: Lift (Parts 1, 2, and 3).
45. A Life Once Lost - Iron Gag. Best Tracks: All Teeth; Others Die.
46. Do Make Say Think - You, You’re a History of Rust. Best Tracks: Herstory of Glory; A Tender History in Rust.
47. Dungen - Tio Bitar. Best Tracks: Mon Amour; Familj.
48. The Clientele - God Save The Clientele. Best Tracks: Isn’t Life Strange?; Winter of Victoria Street.
49. James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing. Best Tracks: The Cloud of Unknowing; Stained Glass Windows.
50. Shinning - Grindstone. Best Tracks: In the Kingdom of Kitsch You will be a monster.
51. Caribou - Andorra. Best Tracks: Sandy; Eli.
52. Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up. Best Tracks: I woke Myself Up; Yer Kids.
53. Coalesce - Salt and Passage. Best Tracks: Son of Son of Man; I am This.
54. The Dreadful Yawns - Rest. Best Track: The People and the Sky.
55. The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth. Best Tracks: Gypsy Melodies; Back to the Helicopter.
56. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour. Best Tracks: Virtue the Cat Explains Her departure; Tournament of Hearts.
57. Jens Lekman - Night Falls over Kortedala. Best Tracks: Sipping on the Sweet Nectar; Friday Night at the Drive in Bingo.
58. Worlds End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland. Best Tracks: Birthday Resistance; 100 Years of Choke.
59. Two Gallants - The Scenery of Farwell. Best Track: Seems like Home to Me.
60. Two Gallants - Two Gallants. Best Tracks: The Deader; Fly Low Carrion Crow.
61. Aereogramme - My Heart has a Wish that you Would not Go. Best Tracks: Barriers; Exits.
62. David Karsten Daniels - Sharp Teeth. Best Tracks: American Pastime; Minnows.
63. Stars of the Lid - Stars of the Lid and their Refinement of the Decline.
64. Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River. Best Tracks: Middle Distance Runner; You’re a Wolf.
65. Right Away, Great Captain! - The Bitter End. Best Track: Right Away, Great Captain!
66. Job for a Cowboy - Genesis. Best Track: Matyrdom Unsealed.
67. Alkaline Trio - Remains. Best Tracks: Hell Yes; Queen of Pain; Rooftops.
68. M83 - Digital Shades - Vol. 1. Best Track: Coloring the Void.
69. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible. Best Tracks: No Cars Go; Intervention.
70. Okkervil Rive - The Stage Names. Best Tracks: Plus Ones; Unless It’s Kicks.
71. Roommate - New Steam EP.
72. The National - Boxer. Best Tracks: Apartment Story; Fake Empires; Green Gloves; Gospel.
73. Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow.
74. St. Vincent - Marry Me. Best Tracks: Now Now; Marry Me.
75. Akimbo - Navigating the Bronze. Best Tracks: Wizard Van Wizard; Huge Muscles.
76. High on Fire - Death is Communion. Best Tracks: Fury Whip; Death is Communion.
77. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse. Best Track: And You Lied to Me.
78. Carli Bruni - No Promises. Best Track: At Last the Secret is Out.
79. Dalek - Abandoned Language. Best Tracks: Tarnished; Paragraphs Relentless.
80. Efterklang - Under Giant Trees. Best Track: Falling Horses.
81. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today.
82. The Fucking Champs - VI.
83. Dog Day - Night Group.
84. She’s Spanish, I’m American - She’s Spanish, I’m American. Best Track: The Ocean Always Wins.
85. Blackfield - II. Best Track: Once.
86. Ola Podrida - Ola Podrida. Best Tracks: Lost and Found; Cindy; Photo booth.
87. Nile - Ithyphallic.
88. Panthers - The Trick.
89. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond.
90. Justice - +. Best Tracks: D.A.N.C.E.; DVNO.
91. The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs. Best Track: Seeds of Night.
92. Barn Owl - Barn Owl.
93. Barn Owl - Bridge to the Clouds.
94. Josh Rouse - Country Mouse, City House.
95. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound. Best Tracks: The End of Radio; Be Prepared.
96. Dustin Kenruse - Please Come Home.
97. Lifetime - Lifetime.
98. Samamidon - But this Chicken Proved False Hearted.
99. Victor Berman - Arriving at Night.
100. Owen - Daytrotter Sessions.
101. Alasdair Roberts - The Amber Gatherers. Best Tracks: Firewater; The Cruel War.
102. Patrick Park - Everyone’s in Everyone.
103. Stars - In our Bedroom After the War. Best Tracks: Take Me to the Riots; The Night Starts Here.
104. Crippled Black Phoenix - A Love of Shared Disasters.
105. Behemoth - The Apostasy.
106. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. Best Track: Lover.
107. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha. Best Tracks: Plasticities.
108. King Kahn and his Shrines - What is?!
109. Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion. Best Tracks: Electric Worry.
110. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam.
111. Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday. Best Tracks: While You were Sleeping.
112. Interpol Our Love to Admire. Best Tracks: The Heinrich Maneuver; Mammoth.
113. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Best Track: Spitting Venom.
114. Panda Bear - Person Pitch. Best Track: Comfy in Nautica.
115. Aesop Rock - None shall Pass.
116. Frank Turner - Sleep is for the Week.
117. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy.
118. Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted.
119. The Killers - Sawdust.
120. James Yorkston - Roaring the Gospel.
121. Pelican - City of Echoes.
122. The Sea and Cake - Everybody.
123. Pharaoh Monch - Desire.
124. The Handsome Furs - Plague Park.
125. Thirteen Senses - Contact.
126. The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army.
127. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers.
128. John Vanderslice - Emerald City.
129. Badgerlore - We are all Hopeful Farmers, We are all Scared Rabbits.
130. Machinehead - The Blackening.
131. Coconut Records - Nighttiming. Best Track: West Coast.
132. Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian.
133. Dntel - Dumb Luck.
134. Woods - At Rear House.
135. Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice.
136. Isolation Years - Sign, Sign.
137. Electrclane - No Shouts No Calls.
138. Prefuse 73 - Preperations.
139. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV: Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow.
140. Chris Garneau - Music for Tourists. Best Tracks: Baby’s Romance.
141. The Chemical Brothers - We are the Night.
142. Husky Rescure - Ghost is not Real.
143. Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water is Life.
144. Burial - Untrue.
145. Fallout Boy - Infinity on High. Best Tracks: Thriller; Bang the Doldrums.
146. Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation.
147. Sia - Some People have Real Problems.
148. Grinderman - Grinderman.
149. Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City. Best Track: Sunday.
150. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder. Best Track: Love Song No. 7.
151. Tracy Thorn - Out of the Woods.
152. Deerhunter - Cryptograms.
153. White Rabbits - Fort Nightly.
154. The Locust - New Erections.
155. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger. Best Track: Goodnight Rose.
156. Kevin Drew - Spirit If… Best Track: Farewell to the Pressure Kids.
157. Air Traffic - Fractured Life.
158. Fuzz Orchestra - Fuzz Orchestra.
159. Gruff Rhys - Candylion.
160. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin.
161. The Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed to Pieces.
162. Hanson - The Walk.
163. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Black Planet.
164. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity.
165. Architecture in Helsinki - Places like These.
166. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris.
167. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times.
168. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release.
169. P.J. Harvey - White Chalk.
170. Portugal the Man - Church Mouth.
171. The Go! Team - Proof of Youth.
172. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times.
173. Drawing Voices - Drawing Voices.
174. Brett Anderson - Brett Anderson.
175. T.I. - T.I. vs. T.I.P.
176. Hella - There’s no 666 in Outer Space.
177. The Choral - Roots and Echoes.
178. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away.
179. The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist.
180. The White Stripes - Icky Thump.
181. Busdriver - Roadkillovercoat.
182. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Best Track: Don’t Make Me a Target.
183. Bedouin Soundclash - Street Gospels.
184. Deer Tick - War Elephant.
185. Sondre Lerch - Phantom Punch.
186. Bear Colony - We Came Here to Die.
187. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position.
188. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime.
189. The Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare.
190. Ted Leo - Living with the Living. Best Tracks: Sons of Cain.
191. Common - Finding Forever.
192. Iron and Wine - The Sheppard’s Dog.
193. Dr. Dog - We all Belong.
194. Calvin Johnson and the Sons of Soil - Calvin Johnson and the Sons
of Soil.
195. Sister Vanilla - Little Pop Rock.
196. Liars - Liars. Best Track: Plaster Casts of Everything.
197. M. Ward - To Go Home.
198. Editors - An End has a Start.
199. 65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas.
200. Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full.
201. Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold.
202. Caspian - The Four Trees.
203. Nine Inch Nails - The Year Zero.
204. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover. Best Track: The Mending of
the Gown.
205. Air - Pocket Symphony.
206. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Lay and Love.
207. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works.
208. Swallow the Sun - Hope.
209. Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd.
210. Kanye West - Graduation.
211. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky.
212. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81.
213. M.I.A. - Kala.
214. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer.
215. Blonde Redhead - 23.
216. Minus the Bear - Interpretaciones Del Oso.
217. Viikate - Marraskuun Lauluja I.
218. Xiu Xiu - Remixed and Covered.
219. Genghis Tron - Triple Black Diamond.
220. The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City.
221. Comeback Kid - Broadcasting.
222. Kaddisfly - Set Sail the Prairie.
223. CocoRosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn.
224. !!! - Myth Takes.
Best Album Titles
The Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed to Pieces
Grails - Burning Off Impurities
Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Worst Album Titles
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Bodies of Water - Ears Will Pop and Eyes Will Blink
Mum - Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy
Samamidon - But this Chicken Proved False Hearted
Most Overrated
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Burial - Untrue
M.I.A. - Kala
Kanye West - Graduation
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Biggest Disappointments
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Pelican - City of Echoes
Ted Leo - Living with the Living
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Interpol - Our Love to Admire
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
Biggest Surprises (in a good way)
Between The Buried and Me - Colors
Alcest - Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde
Feist - The Reminder
Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Terrible Albums with Brilliant Opening Tracks
Liars - Liars
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Ted Leo - Living with the Living
Kevin Drew - Spirit If…
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Best Albums to Fall Asleep to
James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing
Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
Right Away, Great Captain! - The Bitter End
A Northern Chorus - The Millions too Many
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Radical Face - Ghost
Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling
Amiina - Kurr
Great Lakes Swimmers - Ongiara
Barn Owl - Barn Owl
Do Make Say Think - You, You’re a History in Rust
I also included a few other lists i made at the end.
and yes, this did take me a long time to do.
1. Grails - Burning Off Impurities. Best Tracks: Soft Temple; Silk Road; Drawn Curtains; Origining.
2. Between the Buried and Me - Colors. Best Tracks: White Walls; Sun of Nothing; Ants of the Sky; Prequel to the Sequel.
3. Akron/Family - Love is Simple. Best Tracks: Ed is a Portal, There’s so Many Colors; Love, Love, Love.
4. Baroness - The Red Album. Best Tracks: The Birthing; Isak; Grad.
5. Alcest - Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde. Best Tracks: Les Iris; Ciel Errant.
6. Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm. Best Tracks: Put All Your Eggs into One Basket, then Watch that Basket!; Absorb those Numbers.
7. A Northern Chorus - The Millions too Many. Best Tracks: No Stations; Skeleton Keys; Remembrance Day.
8. Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters. Best Track: I Will Lay Down My Bones Among the Rocks and Roots.
9. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup. Best Tracks: Forks and Knives; The Penalty; La Banlieu.
10. Radiohead - In Rainbows. Best Tracks: Jigsaw Falling into Place; Nude; Reckoner; Bodysnatchers.
11. The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism. Best Tracks: The Ballad of Love and Hate; Die Die Die; Shame; The Weight of Lies.
12. Radical Face - Ghost. Best Tracks: Welcome Home, Son; Wrapped in Piano Strings; Haunted.
13. Tides/Giant - Split LP. Best Tracks: All of them.
14. Feist - The Reminder. Best Tracks: 1234; Brandy Alexander; Sealion.
15. Bodies of Water - Eyes Will Pop and Ears Will Blink. Best Tracks: I Guess We Forget the Sound; These are the Eyes; It is Familier.
16. Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling. Best Tracks: Oh, My Darling; Snakes and Ladders; The Pilgriming Vine.
17. God is an Astronaut - Far from Refuge. Best Tracks: Grace Descending; New Years End.
18. Jesu - Conqueror. Best Tracks: Conqueror; Weightless and Horizontal.
19. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters. Best Tracks: Cold Days from the Birdhouse; Mapped by what Surrounded them.
20. Battles - Mirrored. Best Tracks: Ddiamondd; Tonto; Rainbow.
21. Neurosis - Given to Rising. Best Tracks: Distill; Fear and Sickness.
22. The Dirty Projectors - Rise Above. Best Tracks: Rise Above; Depression; Spray Paint (The Walls).
23. Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost. Best Tracks: Upon Wings of Black; Baptized in Flames; Fire from the Sky.
24. Amiina - Kurr. Best Tracks: Rugla; Hilli; Saga.
25. Architect - All is not Lost. Best Tracks: The Awakening; The Giving Tree.
26. Earlimart - Mentor Tormentor. Best Tracks: Bloody Nose; Answers and Questions; Segue.
27. Great Lakes Swimmers - Ongiara. Best Tracks: Backstage with the Modern Dancers; Catcher Son.
28. Menomena - Friend and Foe. Best Track: Muscle’n Flo.
29. Gravenhurst - The Western Lands. Best Tracks: She Dances; The Western Lands.
30. Nina Nastasia and Jim White - You Follow Me. Best Tracks: Lates Night; I’ve Been out Walking.
31. Zozobra - Harmonic Tremors. Best Tracks: The Blessing; Kill and Crush; Invisible Wolves.
32. Torche - In Return EP.
33. Sigh - Hangman’s Hymn. Best Tracks: Inked in Blood; In Devils Arms.
34. Coliseum - No Salvation. Best Tracks: Defeater; Funeral Line.
35. Mum - Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy. Best Tracks: Blessed Brambles; Dancing Behind Me Eyelids.
36. Onetrickpony - Phantom Pains. Best Track: Box Song.
37. Parts and Labor - Mapmaker. Best Tracks: Fake Rain; The Gold We’re Digging; Fractured Skies.
38. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb. Best Tracks: Phantom Limb; Alexandria.
39. Kongh - Counting Heartbeats. Best Tracks: Pushed Beyond; Megaprimatus.
40. Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks. Best Tracks: Hands Up; Grounds for Divorce.
41. 31 Knots - The Days and Nights of Everything Anywhere. Best Tracks: Beauty; Sanctify.
42. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone. Best Track: The Birth and Death of the Day.
43. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver. Best Tracks: All My Friends; Us vs. Them; Great Release; New York I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down.
44. Rosetta - Wake/Lift. Best Tracks: Lift (Parts 1, 2, and 3).
45. A Life Once Lost - Iron Gag. Best Tracks: All Teeth; Others Die.
46. Do Make Say Think - You, You’re a History of Rust. Best Tracks: Herstory of Glory; A Tender History in Rust.
47. Dungen - Tio Bitar. Best Tracks: Mon Amour; Familj.
48. The Clientele - God Save The Clientele. Best Tracks: Isn’t Life Strange?; Winter of Victoria Street.
49. James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing. Best Tracks: The Cloud of Unknowing; Stained Glass Windows.
50. Shinning - Grindstone. Best Tracks: In the Kingdom of Kitsch You will be a monster.
51. Caribou - Andorra. Best Tracks: Sandy; Eli.
52. Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up. Best Tracks: I woke Myself Up; Yer Kids.
53. Coalesce - Salt and Passage. Best Tracks: Son of Son of Man; I am This.
54. The Dreadful Yawns - Rest. Best Track: The People and the Sky.
55. The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth. Best Tracks: Gypsy Melodies; Back to the Helicopter.
56. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour. Best Tracks: Virtue the Cat Explains Her departure; Tournament of Hearts.
57. Jens Lekman - Night Falls over Kortedala. Best Tracks: Sipping on the Sweet Nectar; Friday Night at the Drive in Bingo.
58. Worlds End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland. Best Tracks: Birthday Resistance; 100 Years of Choke.
59. Two Gallants - The Scenery of Farwell. Best Track: Seems like Home to Me.
60. Two Gallants - Two Gallants. Best Tracks: The Deader; Fly Low Carrion Crow.
61. Aereogramme - My Heart has a Wish that you Would not Go. Best Tracks: Barriers; Exits.
62. David Karsten Daniels - Sharp Teeth. Best Tracks: American Pastime; Minnows.
63. Stars of the Lid - Stars of the Lid and their Refinement of the Decline.
64. Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River. Best Tracks: Middle Distance Runner; You’re a Wolf.
65. Right Away, Great Captain! - The Bitter End. Best Track: Right Away, Great Captain!
66. Job for a Cowboy - Genesis. Best Track: Matyrdom Unsealed.
67. Alkaline Trio - Remains. Best Tracks: Hell Yes; Queen of Pain; Rooftops.
68. M83 - Digital Shades - Vol. 1. Best Track: Coloring the Void.
69. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible. Best Tracks: No Cars Go; Intervention.
70. Okkervil Rive - The Stage Names. Best Tracks: Plus Ones; Unless It’s Kicks.
71. Roommate - New Steam EP.
72. The National - Boxer. Best Tracks: Apartment Story; Fake Empires; Green Gloves; Gospel.
73. Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow.
74. St. Vincent - Marry Me. Best Tracks: Now Now; Marry Me.
75. Akimbo - Navigating the Bronze. Best Tracks: Wizard Van Wizard; Huge Muscles.
76. High on Fire - Death is Communion. Best Tracks: Fury Whip; Death is Communion.
77. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse. Best Track: And You Lied to Me.
78. Carli Bruni - No Promises. Best Track: At Last the Secret is Out.
79. Dalek - Abandoned Language. Best Tracks: Tarnished; Paragraphs Relentless.
80. Efterklang - Under Giant Trees. Best Track: Falling Horses.
81. Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today.
82. The Fucking Champs - VI.
83. Dog Day - Night Group.
84. She’s Spanish, I’m American - She’s Spanish, I’m American. Best Track: The Ocean Always Wins.
85. Blackfield - II. Best Track: Once.
86. Ola Podrida - Ola Podrida. Best Tracks: Lost and Found; Cindy; Photo booth.
87. Nile - Ithyphallic.
88. Panthers - The Trick.
89. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond.
90. Justice - +. Best Tracks: D.A.N.C.E.; DVNO.
91. The Cave Singers - Invitation Songs. Best Track: Seeds of Night.
92. Barn Owl - Barn Owl.
93. Barn Owl - Bridge to the Clouds.
94. Josh Rouse - Country Mouse, City House.
95. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound. Best Tracks: The End of Radio; Be Prepared.
96. Dustin Kenruse - Please Come Home.
97. Lifetime - Lifetime.
98. Samamidon - But this Chicken Proved False Hearted.
99. Victor Berman - Arriving at Night.
100. Owen - Daytrotter Sessions.
101. Alasdair Roberts - The Amber Gatherers. Best Tracks: Firewater; The Cruel War.
102. Patrick Park - Everyone’s in Everyone.
103. Stars - In our Bedroom After the War. Best Tracks: Take Me to the Riots; The Night Starts Here.
104. Crippled Black Phoenix - A Love of Shared Disasters.
105. Behemoth - The Apostasy.
106. Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. Best Track: Lover.
107. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha. Best Tracks: Plasticities.
108. King Kahn and his Shrines - What is?!
109. Clutch - From Beale Street to Oblivion. Best Tracks: Electric Worry.
110. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam.
111. Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday. Best Tracks: While You were Sleeping.
112. Interpol Our Love to Admire. Best Tracks: The Heinrich Maneuver; Mammoth.
113. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. Best Track: Spitting Venom.
114. Panda Bear - Person Pitch. Best Track: Comfy in Nautica.
115. Aesop Rock - None shall Pass.
116. Frank Turner - Sleep is for the Week.
117. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy.
118. Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted.
119. The Killers - Sawdust.
120. James Yorkston - Roaring the Gospel.
121. Pelican - City of Echoes.
122. The Sea and Cake - Everybody.
123. Pharaoh Monch - Desire.
124. The Handsome Furs - Plague Park.
125. Thirteen Senses - Contact.
126. The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army.
127. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers.
128. John Vanderslice - Emerald City.
129. Badgerlore - We are all Hopeful Farmers, We are all Scared Rabbits.
130. Machinehead - The Blackening.
131. Coconut Records - Nighttiming. Best Track: West Coast.
132. Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian.
133. Dntel - Dumb Luck.
134. Woods - At Rear House.
135. Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice.
136. Isolation Years - Sign, Sign.
137. Electrclane - No Shouts No Calls.
138. Prefuse 73 - Preperations.
139. Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV: Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow.
140. Chris Garneau - Music for Tourists. Best Tracks: Baby’s Romance.
141. The Chemical Brothers - We are the Night.
142. Husky Rescure - Ghost is not Real.
143. Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water is Life.
144. Burial - Untrue.
145. Fallout Boy - Infinity on High. Best Tracks: Thriller; Bang the Doldrums.
146. Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation.
147. Sia - Some People have Real Problems.
148. Grinderman - Grinderman.
149. Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City. Best Track: Sunday.
150. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder. Best Track: Love Song No. 7.
151. Tracy Thorn - Out of the Woods.
152. Deerhunter - Cryptograms.
153. White Rabbits - Fort Nightly.
154. The Locust - New Erections.
155. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger. Best Track: Goodnight Rose.
156. Kevin Drew - Spirit If… Best Track: Farewell to the Pressure Kids.
157. Air Traffic - Fractured Life.
158. Fuzz Orchestra - Fuzz Orchestra.
159. Gruff Rhys - Candylion.
160. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin.
161. The Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed to Pieces.
162. Hanson - The Walk.
163. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Black Planet.
164. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity.
165. Architecture in Helsinki - Places like These.
166. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris.
167. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times.
168. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release.
169. P.J. Harvey - White Chalk.
170. Portugal the Man - Church Mouth.
171. The Go! Team - Proof of Youth.
172. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times.
173. Drawing Voices - Drawing Voices.
174. Brett Anderson - Brett Anderson.
175. T.I. - T.I. vs. T.I.P.
176. Hella - There’s no 666 in Outer Space.
177. The Choral - Roots and Echoes.
178. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away.
179. The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist.
180. The White Stripes - Icky Thump.
181. Busdriver - Roadkillovercoat.
182. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Best Track: Don’t Make Me a Target.
183. Bedouin Soundclash - Street Gospels.
184. Deer Tick - War Elephant.
185. Sondre Lerch - Phantom Punch.
186. Bear Colony - We Came Here to Die.
187. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position.
188. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime.
189. The Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare.
190. Ted Leo - Living with the Living. Best Tracks: Sons of Cain.
191. Common - Finding Forever.
192. Iron and Wine - The Sheppard’s Dog.
193. Dr. Dog - We all Belong.
194. Calvin Johnson and the Sons of Soil - Calvin Johnson and the Sons
of Soil.
195. Sister Vanilla - Little Pop Rock.
196. Liars - Liars. Best Track: Plaster Casts of Everything.
197. M. Ward - To Go Home.
198. Editors - An End has a Start.
199. 65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas.
200. Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full.
201. Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold.
202. Caspian - The Four Trees.
203. Nine Inch Nails - The Year Zero.
204. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover. Best Track: The Mending of
the Gown.
205. Air - Pocket Symphony.
206. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Lay and Love.
207. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works.
208. Swallow the Sun - Hope.
209. Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd.
210. Kanye West - Graduation.
211. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky.
212. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81.
213. M.I.A. - Kala.
214. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are you the Destroyer.
215. Blonde Redhead - 23.
216. Minus the Bear - Interpretaciones Del Oso.
217. Viikate - Marraskuun Lauluja I.
218. Xiu Xiu - Remixed and Covered.
219. Genghis Tron - Triple Black Diamond.
220. The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City.
221. Comeback Kid - Broadcasting.
222. Kaddisfly - Set Sail the Prairie.
223. CocoRosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn.
224. !!! - Myth Takes.
Best Album Titles
The Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed to Pieces
Grails - Burning Off Impurities
Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Worst Album Titles
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Bodies of Water - Ears Will Pop and Eyes Will Blink
Mum - Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy
Samamidon - But this Chicken Proved False Hearted
Most Overrated
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Burial - Untrue
M.I.A. - Kala
Kanye West - Graduation
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Biggest Disappointments
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Pelican - City of Echoes
Ted Leo - Living with the Living
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Interpol - Our Love to Admire
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
Biggest Surprises (in a good way)
Between The Buried and Me - Colors
Alcest - Souvenirs d’un Autre Monde
Feist - The Reminder
Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
The Snake The Cross The Crown - Cotton Teeth
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Terrible Albums with Brilliant Opening Tracks
Liars - Liars
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Ted Leo - Living with the Living
Kevin Drew - Spirit If…
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Best Albums to Fall Asleep to
James Blackshaw - The Cloud of Unknowing
Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
Right Away, Great Captain! - The Bitter End
A Northern Chorus - The Millions too Many
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Radical Face - Ghost
Basia Bulat - Oh, My Darling
Amiina - Kurr
Great Lakes Swimmers - Ongiara
Barn Owl - Barn Owl
Do Make Say Think - You, You’re a History in Rust