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Jedi
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i dunno that i'd count josh ritter's new album as folk/americana myself. though i don't exactly know what i'd call it.

some interesting lists here Smiler and some things i haven't heard that I know gotta try and track down before i make my final list.. Razzer


What would he be, then? Just regular indie?

Also, you might want to check out Lewis & Clarke - Blasts Of Holy Birth if folk is your thing.

EDIT: The forum considers him Alternative, since he's signed to a major label and he's not totally folk.
 
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I don't know where to put Josh Ritter either. Certainly a very good album, but I guess I would put it in the amorphous "indie rock" category to spare myself the trouble of really classifying it.

The one that I haven't heard that falls into the Americana category is The Snake the Cross the Crown. I have heard that album's is very good, but I haven't listened to it myself yet. Just too much good stuff in 2007...


It ain't hallelujah, but it might as well have been.
 
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I don't know where to put Josh Ritter either. Certainly a very good album, but I guess I would put it in the amorphous "indie rock" category to spare myself the trouble of really classifying it.

The one that I haven't heard that falls into the Americana category is The Snake the Cross the Crown. I have heard that album's is very good, but I haven't listened to it myself yet. Just too much good stuff in 2007...


I found it a little boring. "Cakewalk" is a great song, though.
 
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Here is my loosely-Indie-Rock list:

1. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
2. The National – Boxer
3. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
4. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
5. Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover
6. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
7. Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
8. Blitzen Trapper – Wild Mountain Nation
9. Dinosaur Jr. – Beyond
10. Les Savy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends
 
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Hip-Hop/Rap:

1. El-Producto – I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
2. Kanye West – Graduation
3. Lupe Fiasco – The Cool
4. Cunninlynguists – Dirty Acres
5. Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass
6. Talib Kweli – Eardrum
7. Dizzee Rascal – Maths + English
8. Common – Finding Forever
9. Brother Reade – Rap Music
10. Wu-Tang Clan – 8 Diagrams
 
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Here is my loosely-Indie-Rock list:

1. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
2. The National – Boxer
3. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
4. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
5. Sunset Rubdown – Random Spirit Lover
6. Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
7. Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
8. Blitzen Trapper – Wild Mountain Nation
9. Dinosaur Jr. – Beyond
10. Les Savy Fav – Let’s Stay Friends


Love the Dinosaur Jr. mention. "Beyond" would have been on a lot more lists if it hadn't leaked in February and been officially released in May, I think it slipped off of everyone's radar by December. But anyways, great album...


It ain't hallelujah, but it might as well have been.
 
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Finally...my favorite surf instrumental albums (with a few vocal tracks but all surf-related)
of 2007:

1. The Surfites Big Pounder
2. The Insanitizers Dark Surf Collection *
3. The Thunderchiefs Dig
4. Chum Downtown Beach
5. The 'Verb Reverberated for Your Pleasure
6. The Plungers The Band That Time Forgot
7. The Sidemen Go Too Far!
8. The Vibrants The Exotic Guitar Sounds Of
9. The Volcanics Girls Girls Girls
10. Pavlov's Woody They Came From Beneath The Surf
11. Retroactive Gamma Rays Activate!
12. I Fantomatici Spaghetti Surf
13. The Isotopes Sounds of the Subatomic World
14. The Reverb Syndicate Sputnik A-Go-Go
15. The Nematoads Five Guns West

*the remastered & updated version which really made a huge difference over the original which was released a few months earlier.
 
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Favourite top 10 Electronic albums:

1. Stars of the lid : And their refinement of the decline
2. LCD soundsystem : sound of silver
3. The field : From now on we go sublime
4. Underworld : Oblivion with bells
5. Studio : Yearbook 1
6. Gui Buratto : Chromophobia
7. Amon Tobin : Foley room
8. Apparat : waves
9. Eluvium : Copia
10.Caribou : Andora


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Favourite top 10 Electronic albums:

1. Stars of the lid : And their refinement of the decline
2. LCD soundsystem : sound of silver
3. The field : From now on we go sublime
4. Underworld : Oblivion with bells
5. Studio : Yearbook 1
6. Gui Buratto : Chromophobia
7. Amon Tobin : Foley room
8. Apparat : waves
9. Eluvium : Copia
10.Caribou : Andora


Isn't the new Apparat called Walls?
 
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Originally posted by crazed:
Finally...my favorite surf instrumental albums (with a few vocal tracks but all surf-related)
of 2007:

1. The Surfites Big Pounder
2. The Insanitizers Dark Surf Collection *
3. The Thunderchiefs Dig
4. Chum Downtown Beach
5. The 'Verb Reverberated for Your Pleasure
6. The Plungers The Band That Time Forgot
7. The Sidemen Go Too Far!
8. The Vibrants The Exotic Guitar Sounds Of
9. The Volcanics Girls Girls Girls
10. Pavlov's Woody They Came From Beneath The Surf
11. Retroactive Gamma Rays Activate!
12. I Fantomatici Spaghetti Surf
13. The Isotopes Sounds of the Subatomic World
14. The Reverb Syndicate Sputnik A-Go-Go
15. The Nematoads Five Guns West

*the remastered & updated version which really made a huge difference over the original which was released a few months earlier.


amazing list!


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Best of 2007 folk/Americana list (I might add blurbs on each album later):

1. Breathe Owl Breathe - "Canadian Shield"

2. Peter and the Wolf - "The Ivori Palms"

3. Samamidon - "All Is Well"

4. Bowerbirds - "Hymns for a Dark Horse"

5. Bon Iver - "For Emma, Forever Ago"

6. The Avett Brothers - "Emotionalism"

7. Bill Callahan - "Woke on a Whaleheart"

8. Magnolia Electric Co. - "Sojourner"

9. Great Lake Swimmers - "Oniagra"

10. Begushkin - "Nightly Things"
Iron & Wine is definitely Folk & Americana and top ten material IMHO

ps: love this idea of this thread mark f


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I agonized over where to put Iron and Wine, it would probably be number 11 on my list if it were expanded, but I just couldn't kick any other album off of the list for it. I also loved Jose Gonzalez's new one, but I couldn't make room for that either.

I also completely forgot Deer Tick...crap.


It ain't hallelujah, but it might as well have been.
 
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Shoegaze... tenuously. Leaving off Smashing Pumpkins because I don't feel they're quite close enough, they'll be on my "Hard rock" list if I make one. Wink

1. Goodbye ~ Ulrich Schnauss
2. 23 ~ Blonde Redhead
3. Lifeline ~ Jesu
4. Conqueror ~ Jesu
5. Shocking Pinks ~ Shocking Pinks
6. The Battle Of Sealand ~ Airiel
7. In Her Gentle Jaws ~ The Depreciation Guild


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hooray for shoegaze! Dork, i suggest you to listen to Port-Royal, Jatun and Yellow 6 for other good shoegaze music.
 
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Finally...my favorite surf instrumental albums (with a few vocal tracks but all surf-related)
of 2007:

1. The Surfites Big Pounder
2. The Insanitizers Dark Surf Collection *
3. The Thunderchiefs Dig
4. Chum Downtown Beach
5. The 'Verb Reverberated for Your Pleasure
6. The Plungers The Band That Time Forgot
7. The Sidemen Go Too Far!
8. The Vibrants The Exotic Guitar Sounds Of
9. The Volcanics Girls Girls Girls
10. Pavlov's Woody They Came From Beneath The Surf
11. Retroactive Gamma Rays Activate!
12. I Fantomatici Spaghetti Surf
13. The Isotopes Sounds of the Subatomic World
14. The Reverb Syndicate Sputnik A-Go-Go
15. The Nematoads Five Guns West

*the remastered & updated version which really made a huge difference over the original which was released a few months earlier.


amazing list!


The only surf guitar albums I have ever listened to were Dick Dale albums and I thought that it was a dead genre. Were this many surf instrumental albums even released in 2007? Obviously, I'm not paying enough attention. This is an entire genre of which I am completely ignorant.
 
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The only surf guitar albums I have ever listened to were Dick Dale albums and I thought that it was a dead genre. Were this many surf instrumental albums even released in 2007? Obviously, I'm not paying enough attention. This is an entire genre of which I am completely ignorant.

crazed listens to more music than everyone else on the forums... combined.


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My list of electronic albums:

1. Amon Tobin - Foley Room (where's da love)

2. Thomas Fehlman - Honigpumpe
3. The Field - From Here WE Go Sublime
4. Burial - Untrue
5. John Digweed - Transitions Vol. 2
6. Bjork - Volta
7. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
8. Justice - Cross
9. Caribou - Andorra
10. **single** My Moon My Man - Boys Noize remix


GO CANADA GO
 
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1. Amon Tobin - Foley Room (where's da love)

This album was spectacular, easily a highlight of a stellar year.


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The only surf guitar albums I have ever listened to were Dick Dale albums and I thought that it was a dead genre. Were this many surf instrumental albums even released in 2007? Obviously, I'm not paying enough attention. This is an entire genre of which I am completely ignorant.

crazed listens to more music than everyone else on the forums... combined.


That'd be a lotta music!

I have no idea how many surf instrumental albums were released last year. I picked up 35-40 surf discs, most all new releases. Not many cds last year from the bigger name "3rd wave of surf" bands (Surf Coasters, Pollo Del Mar, etc). I did find a surprising amount of groups releasing their debut surf cd (Thunderchiefs, Surfites among the very best). Sadly, Dick Dale is ailing and in a very bad way from what I hear. Here's wishing him the best...
 
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Favorite power pop albums of '07:

1. Locksley -Don't Make Me Wait
2. The Red Button -She's About To Cross My Mind
3. Monit Mardie -Clocks
4. Irene -Long Gone Since Last Summer
5. The Brigadier -View From the Bath
6. The Peaces -Is Are Was Were
7. The ACB's -The ACB's
8. The Lolas -Like The Sun
9. Ken Sharp -Sonic Crayons
10. The Pillbugs -Buzz For Aldrin
11. P.Hux -Kiss The Monster
12. Mellowmen -Tomorrow's Sound Today
13. The Anydays -Sound
14. The Orchid Highway -The Orchid Highway
15. Jeff Murphy -Cantilever
 
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