My Lists of 2007

Here they are, all in one tidy place, sans commentary: all those lists I kept posting for most of December, 2006.

Coming soon - my favorite movies!

Musical Disappointments

  • Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
  • White Stripes - Icky Thump
  • The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
  • Interpol - Our Love to Admire

Favorite Shows

  • St. Vincent @ Fine Line
  • Bruce Springsteen @ Xcel
  • The National @ Fine Line
  • Heartless Bastards @ 400 Bar
  • Retribution Gospel Choir @ Turf Club
  • Arcade Fire @ Roy Wilkens
  • Loud +2 @ 400 Bar
  • The Redwalls @ Triple Rock
  • Liars @ State Theatre
  • Andrew Bird @ First Ave & Guthrie

Music Videos

  • Fave: Ayo Technology - 50 Cent and Justin Timberlake
  • Worst: Wait for You - Elliott Yamin

Duh, Stacia

Music I missed the first time around.

  • Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)
  • Lou Reed - Transformer
  • Olivia Tremor Control
  • Jens Lekman
  • The National
  • M. Ward
  • Heartless Bastards - All this Time
  • Paul McCartney - Flowers in the Dirt
  • Paul Simon - Graceland

Most Underrated

The 1900s

Still Discovering

  • John Vanderslice - Emerald City
  • Augie March - Moo, You Bloody Choir
  • Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
  • Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
  • Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
  • The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns, Fifteen Winters

Noble Attempts

Albums that weren't quite my favorites.

  • Okkervil River - The Stage Names
  • Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
  • Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars
  • Iron & Wine - The Shepherd’s Dog
  • St. Vincent - Marry Me
  • Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
  • Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
  • Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
  • Albert Hammond Jr. - Yours to Keep
  • Panda Bear - Person Pitch
  • Joan as Policewoman - Real Life
  • Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

Favorite Releases

Two albums were tied for first place.

  • 1. I’m Not There Original Soundtrack
  • 1. The National - Boxer
  • Radiohead - In Rainbows
  • PJ Harvey - White Chalk
  • Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall
  • Yoko Ono - Yes I’m a Witch
  • Tori Amos - American Girl Posse
  • Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova - Once soundtrack
  • Alison Krauss & Robert Plant - Raising Sand
  • Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
  • Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
  • Rufus Wainwright - Rufus Does Judy Live at Carnegie Hall
  • Bruce Springsteen - Magic