Of Montreal- A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger
Of Montreal- Cato as a Pun
Radiohead- Reckoner
The Go Team - The Wrath of Marcie
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great

Okkervil River- Unless Its Kicks
Okkervil River- A Girl In Port
Modest Mouse- Parting of the Sensory
Anberlin - *fin
Art Brut- Direct Hit

Art Brut - Nag Nag Nag Nag
She Wants Revenge - Written in Blood
Andrew Bird - Simple X
Andrew Bird - Sythian Empire
Andrew Bird - Plasticities

Andrew Bird - Imitosis
Daft Punk - One More Time/Aerodynamic
The National - Fake Empire
The National - Green Gloves
The National - Apartment Story

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1. of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal
2. The National - Mistaken For Strangers
3. Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running
4. Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
5. Andrew Bird - Imitosis
6. Blonde Redhead - 23
7. Animal Collective - Peacebone
8. The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
9. Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
10. Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
11. Radiohead - Nude
12. The Good, The Bad and The Queen - Northern Whale
13. Beirut - Cliquot
14. The National - Guest Room
15. Blonde Redhead - Spring and by Summer Fall
16. of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit
17. Spoon - Rhthm and Soul
18. The New Pornographers - Adventures In Solitude
19. The Shins - Red Rabbits
20. Radiohead - Reckoner
21. Okkervil River - Savannah Smiles
22. Interpol - Pioneer To The Falls
23. Modest Mouse - Dashboard
24. Bright Eyes - Four Winds
25. Deerhoof - Matchbox Seeks Maniac
26. Wilco - Either Way
27. The Clientele - I Hope I Know You
28. Bjork - Wanderlust
29. Say Hi - Zero To Love
30. Digitalism - Pogo

I absolutely love all of the 30 songs following. I think it's been a great year for amazing songs.

1. The National - Mistaken for strangers
2. The Liars - Houseclouds
3. Elliott Smith - Going Nowhere
4. David Kilgour - BBC world
David Kilgour's Myspace
5. The Klaxons - Golden skans
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6. Elliott Smith - Angel in the snow
7. The Shins - Phantom Limb
8. The Shins - Australia
9. SJD - I wrote this song for you
SJD's Myspace
10. Deerhunter - Spring hall convert
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11. Menomena - Wet and rusting
12. Modest Mouse - Dashboard
13. The National - Green gloves
14. Bright Eyes - Hot knives
15. LCD Soundsystem - Someone great
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16. Of Montreal - Cato as a pun
17. The Clientele - Bookshop Casanova
18. Radiohead - Reckoner
19. Sunset Rubdown - The taming of the hands that came back to life
20. The Clientele - Winter on Victoria Street
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21. Liam Finn - Gather in the chapel
Liam Finn's Myspace
22. Tuung - Take
23. Beirut - Nantes
24. Bright Eyes - Four winds
25. Iron & Wine - Boy with a coin
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26. Panda Bear - Take pills
27. Sunset Rubdown - Winged wicked things
28. The Shocking Pinks - How am I not myself
Shocking Pink's myspace
29. The Arcade Fire - Intervention
30. Liam Finn - Better to be

I've included the Myspace's for all the New Zealand artists.

finally, somebody with the past is a grotesque animal as number 1. head and shoulders above any song this year. im going to do my list after christmas, because theres like 8 albums from this year im picking up, but the past is a grotesque animal will be number 1, because, well, its my favorite song of all time.

As a stand-alone song, yeah it’s fantastic. However, I like the way it feels in the overall scope of the album (which is filled with an immense variance of amazing songs) better, thus I have a few other songs from the complete album that I prefer a bit more. It will most likely still be in my top 30 songs but there might be a couple others from Hissing… above it.

A rather random 30:

1. LCD Soundsystem Someone Great
2. The National Fake Empire
3. Radionhead All I need
4. Burial Shell of Light
5. Digitalism Pogo
6. Art Brut People in Love
7. Arctic Monkeys Old Yellow Bricks
8. Pharaohe Monch Welcome to the terrordome
9. Jamie T Sheila
10. LCD Soundsystem All my friends
11. The Bees Got to let go
12. Justice D.A.N.C.E. (MSTRKRFT remix)
13. Pete Philly and Perquisite Womb to tomb
14. Kathy Diamond All Woman
15. Beirut Elephant Gun
16. Klaxons Gravity's rainbow (Soulwax remix)
17. Atmosphere Sunshine
18. Muscles Ice cream
19. Radiohead Reckoner
20. The Wombats Let's dance to Joy Division
21. Lo-Fi-Fnk City (The Teenagers remix)
22. Hot Chip My Piano
23. Whitey Wrap it up
24. !!! Must be the moon
25. The National Ada
26. Mark Ronson ft Amy Winehouse Valerie
27. Bloc Party Flux
28. Two Lone Swordsman Glories Yesterday
29. Cunninlynguists Dirty acres
30. Franz Ferdinand All my friends

i am not going to put in any duplicate musicians in my list because most of my list would then be the entire radiohead and battles albums. i think having each song by a different musician will make this a bit more interesting as well.

1) Battles - Atlas
2) Sunset Rubdown - Trumpet, Trumpet, Toot! Toot!
3) Radiohead - All I Need
4) Arcade Fire - Intervention
5) Modest Mouse - Parting of the Sensory
6) St. Vincent - Your Lips Are Red
7) Liars - Plaster Casts of Everything
8) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Sun Lips
9) Caribou - Melody Day
10) Panda Bea - Good Girl/Carrots
11) Animal Collective - Fireworks
12) Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
13) Menomena - Muscle n' Flo
14) The White Stripes - Icky Thump
15) The Twilight Sad - Cold Days From The Birdhouse
16) El-p - Everything Must Go
17) Sleeping People - Yellow Guy/Pink Eye
18) Angels of Light - Black River Song
19) Grinderman - No Pussy Blues
20) Iron & Wine - Boy With A Coin
21) Dalek - Content to Play Villain
22) Frog Eyes - "Stockades"
23) White Rabbits - Kid On My Shoulders
24) Elliott Smith - High Times
25) Bat For Lashes - Horse and I
26) Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Beaten Metal
27) The Dirty Projectors - Depression
28) Efterklan - Polygyne
29) LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
30) Grizzly Bear - Blackcurrant Jam

Feel free to criticize/gripe/etc.

I just want everyone to remember that if you number them, I'm going to give the higher numbers the extra points that I mentioned at the beginning. If you want everything to count the same don't number them. Thanks.

true fragilekida. and i think the placement of the song is a little odd...but as a stand alone, its incredible.

Well after all the talk The Past is a Grotesque Animal is getting, I just had to check it out, and shit, I just listened to it for the third time in a row, and it is gooooood. Now I have to pick up the of Montreal album, thanks people!

happy i could help ya

The order of the list is pretty irrelevant, but I do like the first few better than the rest.

1. Fireworks - Animal Collective
2. The Past is a Grotesque Animal - Of Montreal
3. The Plus Ones - Okkervil River
4. Brainy - The National
5. Simple X - Andrew Bird
6. Finer Feelings - Spoon
7. Carousel - Iron & Wine
8. That Summer I Had Become The Invisible Boy - The Twilight Sad
9. For Agent 13 - The Besnard Lakes
10. Publisher - Blonde Redhead
11. Phantom Limb - The Shins
12. Setting vs Rising - Sunset Rubdown
13. Kanske Ar Jag Kar i Dig - Jens Lekman
14. Cataracts - Andrew Bird
15. A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene - Okkervil River
16. Guest Room - The National
17. Postcard to Nina - Jens Lekman
18. Atlas - Battles
19. For Reverand Green - Animal Collective
20. She's a Rejector - Of Montreal
21. Innocent Bones - Iron & Wine
22. And She Would Darken the Memory - The Twilight Sad
23. Sleeping Lessons - The Shins
24. You Got Yr Cherry Bomb - Spoon
25. Imitosis - Andrew Bird
26. Fake Empire - The National
27. A Girl in Port - Okkervil River
28. We Were born Mutants with Leafling - Of Montreal
29. Magic vs Midas - Sunset Rubdown
30. Dr Strageluv - Blonde Redhead

Sunset Rubdown - Winged/Wicked Things
Sunset Rubdown - Up On Your Leopard, Upon The End of Your Feral Days
Sunset Rubdown - The Mending Of The Gown
Sunset Rubdown - For The Pier [And Dead Shimmering]
Sunset Rubdown - Child-Heart Losers
Radiohead - All I Need
Radiohead - Reckoner
Radiohead - Videotape
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Josh Ritter - To The Dogs Or Whoever
Josh Ritter - Right Moves
Alaska In Winter - Lovely Lovely Love
Andrew Bird - Cataracts
The Besnard Lakes - For Agent 13
Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
The Field - Silent
The Field - Mobilia
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
The National - Mistaken For Strangers
The National - Green Gloves
The National - Gospel
The New Pornographers - My Rights Versus Yours
The New Pornographers - Challengers
The New Pornographers - Myriad Harbour
The New Pornographers - Go Places
Phosphorescent - Wolves
Spoon - The Underdog
Spoon - Black Like Me
Beirut - My Night With The Prostitute From Marseille

1. Carbon Dating - Super Furry Animals (I would gladly donate all my points to this song)
2. You Got Yr Cherry Bomb - Spoon
3. Side With the Seeds - Wilco
4. Sleeping Lessons - The Shins
5. (Antichrist Television Blues) - The Arcade Fire
6. Phantom Limb - The Shins
7. Ain't it Strange - Dr. Dog
8. Gronlandic Edit - of Montreal
9. Heretics - Andrew Bird
10. House of Cards - Radiohead
11. The Past is a Grotesque Animal - of Montreal
12. Myriad Harbour - The New Pornographers
13. Plasticities - Andrew Bird
14. Impossible Germany - Wilco
15. Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn & John
16. I Feel it All - Feist
17. Don't Make Me a Target - Spoon
18. Keep the Car Running - The Arcade Fire
19. Lucky Ones - Kevin Drew
20. A Hand to Take Hold of the Scene - Okkervil River
21. Comfy in Nautica - Panda Bear
22. Icky Thump - The White Stripes
23. The Sea Calls - Richard Hawley
24. The Spirit of Giving - The New Pornographers
25. #1 - Animal Collective (such a weird song/vocals, but for some reason I can't get enough of it)
26. Let the Wolves Howl at the Moon - Super Furry Animals
27. Amsterdam - Peter, Bjorn & John
28. Mer du Japon - Air
29. Release the Stars - Rufus Wainwright
30. She's the One - Caribou

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Originally posted by Il Mago:
15. Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn & John

I considered this, but considering so many people put it on their 2006 lists, I figured it wouldn't make a dent in the 2007 overall list.

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Originally posted by EricG75:

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Originally posted by Il Mago:
15. Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn & John

I considered this, but considering so many people put it on their 2006 lists, I figured it wouldn't make a dent in the 2007 overall list.

Oh yeah! Shit, it didn't even cross my mind. No biggie, it was a favourite of mine for the year. I don't really care about the competition aspect.

That’s a pretty good list Mago, it looks like I will have a lot of the same songs on mine. I never got around to hearing Super Furry Animals’ album since it wasn’t released here in the States. I do like their back catalog a lot though, is it as good as their older material?

But yeah, looking at your list, it reminds me not to forget the Bejar songs off Challengers and all of the great songs on the PB&J album.

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Originally posted by FragileKidA:
I never got around to hearing Super Furry Animals’ album since it wasn’t released here in the States. I do like their back catalog a lot though, is it as good as their older material?

I love it, top 10 for me. That said, I can understand why some Furry fans may not enjoy it. It's very smooth, with some great production (which is strange because BSS' producer, Dave Newfeld, produced it). It's sugary pop, for sure, but I highly recommend it. Also, I find the second half much stronger than the first. Carbon Dating was a runaway for my #1 song spot. No contest.

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But yeah, looking at your list, it reminds me not to forget the Bejar songs off Challengers and all of the great songs on the PB&J album.

It's tough to make the top 30. It could change on a daily basis. I know I'm going to realise I forgot a few big ones, but I guess that's bound to happen when you're working off the top of your head.

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Originally posted by Thisheregiraffe:
I absolutely love all of the 30 songs following. I think it's been a great year for amazing songs.

4. David Kilgour - BBC world
David Kilgour's Myspace

Good song, good album.

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Gronlandic Edit - of Montreal

I'm one of the few who actually likes this song more than The Past is a Grotesque Animal.

I did see you had The Past... 2 songs later, but still nice to see Gronlandic Exit above it (if only for a moment).