As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am lucky to have a radio show on WRMC. It’s a lot of fun, and this year I am co-hosting the show with Matt Jennings, editor of the Middlebury Magazine. Our musical tastes are similar, which makes for some great overlap (though we prepare our set lists independently). Anyway, we thought it would be a good use of blog space to write up a list of some of our favorite albums from the past year. We certainly don’t intend this list to be definitive—we know our limits—but we hope it will inspire others to share their recommendations.
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Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha
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Iron & Wine The Shepherd’s Dog
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Bryan Ferry Dylanesque
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Nick Lowe At My Age
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The Mary Onettes The Mary Onettes
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The National Boxer
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The New Pornographers Challengers
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Okkervil River The Stage Names
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Radiohead In Rainbows
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Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Matt’s favorite discovery: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova from the soundtrack to Once.
Tim’s favorite discovery: k. d. Lang’s cover of Neil Young’s “Helpless” on the soundtrack to Away From Her.
Doc and Ed – thanks for the list…good start. No love for Sonic Youth? What about Pink Floyd…Hendrix…Miles Davis? Need to go and sample some Spoon to see what “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” is all about.
Would have been tough for Hendrix and Miles to put out an album last year!
Sonic Youth’s last album, “Rather Ripped,” came out in 2006, so it doesn’t make this list. But Hieu’s comment reminded me of an album that came out last May that Matt and I both like. It’s a debut album by a Swedish group called the Mary Onettes, though you could never guess the country of origin by the music, which has a kind of 80s/90’s New Order sound. I added it to our list, giving us an even ten.
Sorry for my dyslexia.
I just watched the movie Once and it was great. Fantastic soundtrack indeed — very real storyline! Good pick.
There’s no way I wasn’t replying to this post. I thought the Okkervil River was the best album of 2007, but it was close–lots of great records released last year. In addition to many of the acts you listed, I would add:
LCD Soundsystem–Sound of Silver
The Shins–Wincing the Night Away
Illinois–What the Hell Do I Know? EP
Zookeeper–Becoming All Things
Dinosaur Jr.–Beyond
The Broken West–I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
Feist–The Reminder
Lily Allen–Alright, Still
Jay Z–American Gangster
Bruce Springsteen–Magic
Elliott Smith–New Moon
Arcade Fire–Neon Bible
Panda Bear–Person Pitch
White Stripes–Icky Thump
Klaxons–Myths of the Near Future
Man, I bought a lot of records last year. And no, it’s not that I can’t edit, it’s that all of these were truly “best of the year” candidates.
Speaking of Neil Young, the “Live at Massey Hall, 1971” disc was good enough to make one cry, were one so inclined to cry over rock and roll. Which one is. Speaking for oneself.
Highway 61 revisited, Bob Dylan
Zuma, Neil Young… Cortez the Killer has a Pink Floyd sound to it, but done with Neil Young grit.
Melting Pot, the Charlatans
Northern Soul, The Verve… some brit-pop albums with a little more edge and indie sound that Oasis or Pulp.
And for some needed Hip Hop picks:
Illmatic, Nas. It’s got young energy, and has an unrelenting rhythm.
Clin d’oeil, The Jazz Liberatorz.. the new wave.
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