I don't know if anybody has checked, but we now have our list of the Top 20 Albums and Songs on the bottom of the Metacritic Site's Best of 2007 Music page. Thanks to everyone who voted and belated special thanks to L.R., besttaste and Chamberk.

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Originally posted by mark f:
I don't know if anybody has checked, but we now have our list of the Top 20 Albums and Songs on the bottom of the Metacritic Site's Best of 2007 Music page. Thanks to everyone who voted and belated special thanks to L.R., besttaste and Chamberk.

Cool, I was waiting for that.

Well despite the age of this thread I'll throw in my two cents.

1) Arcade Fire-Neon Bible
2) Against Me-New Wave
3) Radiohead-In Rainbows
4) Modest Mouse-We Were Dead...
5) NIN-Year Zero
6) Coheed and Camria-No World...
7) Feist-The Reminder
8) Stars-Up In Our Bedroom...
9) Tegan and Sara-The Con
10) Puscifer-V Is For Vagina

Little late to the game but here's my list:


1. Radiohead – In Rainbows
2. The National – Boxer
3. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
4. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
5. Dr. Dog– We All Belong
6. Seabear – The Ghost That Carried Us Away
7. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
8. Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
9. Pale Young Gentlemen
10. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga


11. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights
12. Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
13. Kevin Drew – Spirit If…
14. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
15. The Deadly Syndrome – The Ortolan
16. Iron and Wine – The Shepherd’s Dog
17. Feist – The Reminder
18. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
19. The White Stripes – Icky Thump
20. Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter
21. Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
22. The Snake The Cross The Crown – Cotton Teeth
23. Battles – Mirrored
24. Willy Mason – If the Ocean Gets Rough
25. Menomena – Friend and Foe

I run a website where this list came from : www.insubnation.com

Lately I've been curious if our results for top albums of the year would have been different if we'd used a different scoring method, so I entered different point values into the spreadsheet to come up with new lists:

2006's scoring method:

01. Radiohead - In Rainbows
02. The National - Boxer
03. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
04. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
05. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
06. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
07. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
08. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
09. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
10. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

11. M.I.A. - Kala
12. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
13. Battles - Mirrored
14. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
15. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
16. Menomena - Friend And Foe (Originally 17th)
17. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog (Originally 16th)
18. Feist - The Reminder
19. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
20. Blonde Redhead - 23 (Originally 21st)

The scoring method I wanted to use:

01. Radiohead - In Rainbows
02. The National - Boxer
03. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
04. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
05. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
06. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
07. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
08. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
09. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
10. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

11. M.I.A. - Kala
12. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
13. The White Stripes - Icky Thump (Originally 14th)
14. Battles - Mirrored (Originally 13th)
15. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
16. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
17. Menomena - Friend And Foe
18. Feist - The Reminder
19. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Originally 20th)
20. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (Originally 24th)

Changing methods didn't change the top 10 at all, and there were only limited differences in the bottom 10.

The implication here is that whenever we begin discussing scoring methods for next year, let's realize that different scoring methods have almost no effect on the final results.

So, in other words, the "FKA-EG75 Scoring Method" is super bad-ass!

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Originally posted by FragileKidA:
So, in other words, the "FKA-EG75 Scoring Method" is super bad-ass!

Mm... I say whatever method would have given The National the top spot would've been super bad-ass. In other words, the Pixies method (don't count lists with Radiohead at number 1).

... and vice versa.

I'm, still, of the firm opinion that 2007 was such a superb year for music. And that Okkervil River and The National made the two best albums, easily--and I have a discbox!

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Originally posted by nerambit:

9. Pale Young Gentlemen

Oh man another PYG fan! Best day ever!