This Year in Music - Help!!!
Friends and Lurkers (You too, Wonder Twins!) -
Maybe it's the new job. Maybe it's the stepped-up family responsibilities. But, for the first time in twenty years, I have ZERO idea about recent releases. So tell me - What came out in 2007 that's worth listening to? If you've got a top ten list - or even a few faves, let me know, and help this music industry refugee retain some modicum of connectivity.
So far: The new Joe Henry and Wilco disappointed. The Shins are nice. Band of Horses was not for me. Still need to check out the National, Spoon, White Stripes, Iron & Wine, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Modest Mouse, Rufus Wainright, Rilo Kiley, PJ Harvey, John Vanderslice... Ugh! Help me sort through this madness!
Maybe it's the new job. Maybe it's the stepped-up family responsibilities. But, for the first time in twenty years, I have ZERO idea about recent releases. So tell me - What came out in 2007 that's worth listening to? If you've got a top ten list - or even a few faves, let me know, and help this music industry refugee retain some modicum of connectivity.
So far: The new Joe Henry and Wilco disappointed. The Shins are nice. Band of Horses was not for me. Still need to check out the National, Spoon, White Stripes, Iron & Wine, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Modest Mouse, Rufus Wainright, Rilo Kiley, PJ Harvey, John Vanderslice... Ugh! Help me sort through this madness!
posted by isaacjosephson at 11:50 AM
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From Matt K:
01 Bright Eyes live at the Hollywood Bowl backed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic September 29, 2007 (with M.Ward & Yo La Tango)
02 Frank Smith: Heavy Handed Peace And Love/ Ye Olde Records YOR004, CD (if you like M.Ward you will dig this)
03 Charlie Parker: The Complete Carnegie Hall Performances September 29, 1947-June 19, 1949)/ Definitive Records DRCD11375 4xCD
04 Georgie James: Places/ Saddle Creek Records LBJ110, CD (power pop on Saddle Creek, how strange is that)
05 Oakley Hall: I’ll Follow You/ Merge Records MERG305, CD (the perfect match of X and Fleetwood Mac)
06 Bright Eyes: Cassadaga/ Saddle Creek Records (bringing it to the next level)
07 John Coltrane: My Favorite Things - Coltrane At Newport July 1963 & July 1965/ Impulse Records B0009076-02 CD
08 Softlightes: Say No! To Being Cool Say Yes! To Being Happy/ Modular Records MODCD044, CD (if you ever heard the Incredible Moses Leroy records, this is the same dude)
09 Thelonious Monk: Live At The 1964 Newport Jazz Festival/ Monterey Jazz FEstival Records MJFR30312 CD
10 Miles Davis: On The Corner Sessions/ Columbia-Legacy Records 6xCD
11 Oh No! Oh My!: Between The Devil And The Sea/ Dim Mak Records CD (a great follow up to their self-titled debut album, actually recordings that pre-dated the album)
12 Bright Eyes @ Radio City Music Hall in November & Bright Eyes seven sold out nights at Town Hall in May
From Ro G:
10. The Clientele - God Save the Clientele: 3 songs are great; rest are too damn slow and/or sappy sounding
9. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog: finally bought into this band
8. M.I.A. - Kala: first thought it proved she's nothing w/o Diplo, but soon came to really dig some of the new prods
7. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release: very hooky
6. Darjeeling Limited - Soundtrack: some great Peter Sarstedt, Kinks, Satyajit Ray I was able to discover/re-discover
5. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: the art of the 3 minute indie pop tune
4. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible: hard to believe this is only #4 - i guess that means it was a pretty solid year after all
3. Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals: one of the few newcomers on this list; hopefully they can keep it going
2. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away: came out in jan and played so much that not many are including it, but c'mon!
1. The National - Boxer: divine
I liked Matt Pond PA, Jose Gonzalez, Andrew Bird, The National, and Kevin Drew / B.S.S. (esp. "safety bricks"). Rather man-heavy, but what can you do. Hope the open house went well!
Happy 08, dude.
Sorry I can't help -- I'm totally clueless on this past year. I was just excited that the Travelling Wilburies were available on iTunes.
In no particular order, some of my favorite releases from 2007:
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Juno Soundtrack
Nick Drake - Family Tree
The Fratellis - Costello Music
Instant Karma: The Campaign To Save Darfur
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall
Balkan Beat Box - Nu Med
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
A bit more pop than some of the above but you can check out our top music here: http://randomtope.blogspot.com/2007/12/test-one-two-three-test-one-two.html
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