list your current 5 favorite tracks of 2007

07 was a bummer

i think it was totally an albums bummer but there were still some awesome singles

my fave 5 songs released this year:

1. kubichek - method acting
2. stopstarts - mentor
3. dears - you and i are a gang of losers
4. pull tiger tail - let's lightning
5. misty's big adventure - i can't bring the time back

lol indie

Worst year ever. So bad that even Ween made a shitty album.

1. Kanye - "Champion"
2. Kanye - "Stronger"
3. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - "Beggin' (Pilooski mix)"

I can't think of two others worthy of this list.

uh

i've posted to this thread a couple times before, but without looking at what i've posted before - here's the top 5 tracks that come to mind right now (and i'm drunk soooooo that might play into my choices):

Blonde Redhead / 23
Caribou / Niobe
Grinderman / No Pussy Blues
Low / Murderer
Spoon / The Underdog

So. . . is there any established consensus on until when is it to early to have a finalized best of list for the year, because I'm getting really ahead of myself and kind of, uhhh, forgot theres still a month and a half left of the year left (and as it goes, December tends to be the best month of the year music-wise for me).

Hmm... This could be fun.

Jack Penate - Torn on the Platform
Soko - I'll Kill Her
Boat - (Im a) Donkey for Your Love
Kings of Leon - Fans
The Mountain Goats - Commandante

At least thats what I came up with in the last five minutes. May change with thought.

so weird that i don't know most of the music on this thread. guess i have officially lost touch with 'indie' music.

right now:
Burial- Archangel
Jichael Mackson- Grass is Always Greener
Len Faki- Odyssee I
Tiger Stripes- Hooked
Gowns- White Like Heaven

yeah, i feel really bad for anyone who didn't get into dance music this year

dinky - horizontal
dop - dopamen feat noze
siobhan donaghy - don't give it up (carl craig dub)
shackleton - blood on my hands (villalobos mix)
kollektiv turmstrasse - tristesse

i feel like an idiot high-lighting five tracks because its such a tiny random selection out of soooooo much great stuff from this year

project pat & 3-6 mafia - dont call me no mo
ugk & slim thug, vicious & mddl fngz - take tha hood back
charon don feat rah digga & lil scrappy - up in here
8ball & mjg - turn up the bump
webbie & boosie - independent

lcd "all my friends"
plies/t-pain "shawty"
battles "atlas"
lil jon/fabo/gucci mane "i'm a j"
kanye west "stronger"

project pat & 3-6 mafia - dont call me no mo

first ever ilm mention of this, right? hard to believe even by recent standards

oh nm i see it now

Narrowing it down to five's going to be hard, but here goes:

Joe Henry - Our Song
Stereo Total - Mehr Licht
Arthur Verocai - Abertura
Prefuse 73 - I Knew You Were Gonna Go
Kal - Komedija

Seriously this was a difficult endeavor and all the albums these songs are featured on a are so remarkably good.

Honorable Mentions (Yea I know, it's cheating...)

Tujiko Noriko - Gift
Gino Sitson - Bamisphere
Richard Galliano - Gnossienne #3
Dr. Dog - Keep a Friend
Esbjorn Svensson Trio (E.S.T.) - Goldwrap

There's a ton more that I didn't get to mention. 2007 was very memorable year for music, at least from my vantage point.

Cheers, you krazee ILMers

- Clifton

M.I.A. - "XR2"
Lucinda Williams - "Come On"
Radiohead - "Videotape"
Jacques Coursil - "La Chanson D'Atar"
Thrillpillow - "Secret Agent"

keep the car running- arcade fire
'92 subaru - fountains of wayne
are you alright? - Lucinda
the bleedin clown - manu chao
alcohol - gogol bordello
in no particular order

without much consideration, just literally what I have listened to loads:

Electrelane - The Greater Times
Prodigy - Mac 10 Handle
Coki - Spongebob
Junior Boys - Like A Child (c2 remix)
Styles P & AZ - The Hardest

But anticipating loads of albums still to come, esp. rap (beans, wu, styles, nas(?), ghost(?) )

Dude N' Nem, "Watch My Feet"
Rich Boy, "Throw Some D's"
Calle 13, "Tango del Pecado"
Salem al-Fakir, "Dream Girl"
Mac Dre, "Ghost Ride It"

plies/t-pain "shawty"

-- J0rdan S., Saturday, November 17, 2007 12:40 PM (Saturday, November 17, 2007 12:40 PM) Bookmark Link

^^^banworthy

Uh, fuck. Mistah FAB, not Mac Dre. I'm tired.

you must be if ur figure 'throw some d's' qualifies for a 2007 thread

I first heard it around mid-December and it peaked in poularity this spring, so why the fuck not?

I give no credence to literal release dates.

Oh, this was about songs new to the year?

I just posted what my most listened to/favorite songs of the year were.

6. the dream "shawty is a ten"

esophagus: That's perfectly fine. Ignore the pedant.

burial - archangel
tony allen - ole (mortiz von oswald remix)
soul capsule - waiting 4 a way
mala - alicia
stl - my home

i think it was totally an albums bummer but there were still some awesome singles

Yo, I love singles. Where are these awesome singles? Enlighten me please.. withdrawal is painful.

official and what hit picks 9/25

project pat & three 6 mafia - dont call me no mo
webbie & boosie - independent
percee p - raw heat
t.i. & jeezy - paper chasin
styles p & az - the hardest
nwa - chin check (mighty mi remix)
army of the pharaohs - strike back
gorilla zoe & big gee - battlefield
charon don feat rah digga & lil scrappy - up in here
yo gotti & allstar - wit a strap

-- and what, Tuesday, 25 September 2007 16:50 (1 month ago) Link

I just realised this.

1) Cardiacs - Ditzy Scene
2) Oceansize - Savant
3) Caribou - Niobe
4) Ulrich Schnauss - Medusa
5) WFANFC - Nancy Adam Susan

Bonus track - The Fiery Furnaces - Right By Conquest

Testify.

Right by Conquest is great. The chord progression in the chorus is so perfect that the only way I can describe it is 'correct': 'yes, that is the correct chord progression'.

styles p & az - the hardest

^^^^^^^

i hadn't heard any of the songs on louis' list. the caribou one is nice. i didn't know you were into such "epic" rock, louis. the clip of that oceansize song sounds like snow patrol (not nec a bad thing).

Lou1s = ph34r teh prog

i have no idea wtf that says. "fear the prog"? that cardiacs song is pretty proggy. it was okay. i turned it off when the singer came in.

Right By Conquest is the best "let's make out, NOW" song I've heard in a long, long, long time. There's something unutterably lusty, funky even, about those elastic keyboard noises at the start, something both playful AND triumphant about the melody (it brings both epic battle-anthem and love-ballad to mind), and that chorus marries said epic chord-progression to some actually brilliant coming-of-age sex lyrics. The right levels of pouty defiance, blooming eroticism, and fearful imagery are struck. The live-sounding rock drums, pounding like lovers, are the icing on the cake.

Jordan, I'm an absolute fiend when it comes to long-form pieces! That Oceansize song may sound superficially like Snow Patrol in that both are slow, elegiac, guitar-driven indie, but believe me, hear the whole thing and there's no comparison at all. Oceansize are after something far subtler, far grander, and far more original. Like I said in the other thread, it's practically a symphonic movement, structurally unpredictable, and ever-shifting. Also, many peoples' initial Cardiacs reaction is one of repulsion. It takes time. Go back to 'em at some point. You'll surprise yourself. That song merely happens to bone more or less everything else I've heard this year, in a fairly comprehensive fashion. They do things with melody, harmony, rhythm and structure that nobody can understand on first listen.

Hahaha, compare and contrast this list, made in May:

65DaysOfStatic 'White Peak/Dark Peak'
The Electric Soft Parade 'Woken By A Kiss'
Eluvium 'Indoor Swimming at the Space Station'
The Wildhearts 'Bi-Polar Baby'
Battles 'Atlas' (well, duh)

Hmm. Not a single survivor! Six By Seven 'Radio Silence' was in there for a while as well, but I now think 'Diplomatique' is the best track on that album. Another late runner that failed to make the cut is Patrick Wolf, 'Overture'.

ok i wantto make a list right now~

dalek - stagnant waters
boredoms - livwe!!
battles - rainbows
fiery furnaces - wicker whatnots
kevin ayers - friends and strangers

really this whole list should be battles tracks
I am also hugely anticipating the new cardiacs album but i don't know if anything from the single really fucks me in the ear right now the way their music usually does. I need a full-length to play over and over again before i get to that stage :( hurry up guys :(

Top 5:
Battles-Atlas
Kings of Leon- Fans
M.I.A.-Paper Planes
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Burial-Archangel

Close:
A Place To Bury Strangers - To Fix the Gash in Your Head
Bright Eyes- Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed)
Animal Collective - Chores
Panda Bear- Bros
LCD Soundsystem -Someone Great
Deerhunter -Cryptograms
Sunset Rubdown- The Mending of the Gown
!!! - Must Be The Moon
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
White Stripes - Little Cream Soda

this has been a really good year actually

I find it so hard to remember things like this.

I'm gonna say

1. Britney Spears - Radar
2. M.I.A. - Come Around
3. Jana Hunter - Palms
4. No Age - My Life's Alright Without You
5. Marnie Stern - Put all your eggs in one Basket and then watch that Basket!!!

Close: Burial - Archangel,
Black Dice - Kokomo,
Eric Copeland - Dinca,
Electrelane - The Greater Times,
Róisín Murphy - Primitive

For now.

Shit, that doesn't even include any LCD Soundsystem (watch the tapes, all my friends)

I decided yesterday I prefer the song after Archangel.
xp

1. Britney Spears - Radar

this is my fav song on the album. i'm surprised more ppl aren't talking about it.

You know that bit where she goes "I don't think you know" and then her voice goes all multitracky for "KNOW". Best music moment of the year for me. Maybe.

1. Radiohead - "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi"
2. Ryan Adams - "Two Hearts"
3. Apostle of Hustle - "The Naked and Alone"
4. LCD Soundsystem - "All My Friends"
5. Dan Deacon - "The Crystal Cat"

Is there a 2008 version of this?

we're three months into 2008, what are your five favorite singles so far?

ta