103 Gotta Love-Albums of 2007

After a year or so, I came back from dead to post the 103 best albums of 2007. A year that brought us tears and joy, happiness and sadness, love and hate, sex and mayhem. I always see myself as a naive person but 2007 made me lose some of my innocence, but I don't close the window through my heart, I still believe in the humankind, the thing is that if I had to choose between a human being and a dog, I would stick to the idea of loyalty... and that's something a dog understands so perfectly.

I know I sound like a querulous brat but in the end that's how I roll and I miss you all, Chicago is treating me good, even the weather is acting kind to me, the wind often whispers in my ear how special I'm not and that life is cruel and I have to keep trying... on and on and on. I'm seriously thinking about the idea of opening a Suicide Club, it's nothing like the movie, it's just an outlet club, something to give vent to. The marvelous band Piano Magic said it once, "Music won't save you from anything but silence." So let's share music, it'd be the best for all of us to remember each other, it's like movies, sometimes I feel I'm part of them, sometimes I just feel them as a voyeuristic tour but in the end something we love to share and feel together.

Beautiful beats eating the insides of my ears as rabid bunnies trying to devour the tips of my toes as if they were carrots. Good and Bad, that's life but if we stick together, everything will be alright!


P.S: I'll quote Ryland Bouchard as the end of this tedious post and just to look a little less dumb, "When the world is sick and dying, rise up." So I will, you'll see, wish me luck fellows!

P.S.2: Don't pay attention to the numbers, every single album was made with heart and soul, not made to be compared! ...wait for the list of the best films that 2007 gave us.


1. Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers (Columbia)


2. Say Hi (Formerly Say Hi To Your Mom) - The Wishes and the Glitch (Euphobia)


3. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)


4. The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse? (Jagjaguwar)


5. Irene - Long Gone Since Last Summer (Labrador)



6. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)



7. The Good Life - Help Wanted Nights (Saddle Creek)



8. Iron & Wine - The Sheperd's Dog (Sub Pop)



9. Luke Temple - Snowbeast (Mill Pond)



10. Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls (Too Pure)



11. Midnight Movies - Lion the Girl (New Line/Scratchie)



12. Dolorean - You Can't Win (Yep Roc)



13. Josh Rouse - Country Mouse, City House (Nettwerk/Bedroom Classics)



14. The Electric Cinema - S/T (Sugarlow)



15. Young Galaxy - S/T (Arts & Crafts)



16. Apostle of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere (United Artists)



17. Piano Magic - Part Monster (Important)



18. Liars - S/T (Mute)



19. Jennifer Gentle - The Midnight Room (Sub Pop)



20. Bishop Allen - The Broken String (So Hood)



21. Earlimart - Mentor Tormentor (Shout Factory)



22. Laakso - Mother Am I Good Looking? (V2)



23. Blonde Redhead - 23 (4AD)



24. Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up (Jagjaguwar)



25. Gepe - Hungría (Quemasucabeza)



26. The Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills (Bud Fox)



27. Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated (Downtown)



28. Richard Swift - Dressed Up for the Letdown (Secretly Canadian)



29. Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian (Absolutely Kosher)



30. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing!)



31. The National - Boxer (Beggars Banquet)



32. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (Sub Pop)



33. Page France - ...and the Family Telephone (Suicide Squeeze)



34. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position (Polydor)



35. A Northern Chorus - The Millions Too Many (Sonic Unyon)



36. The Sea and Cake - Everybody (Thrill Jockey)



37. The Bird and the Bee - S/T (Metro Blue)



38. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)



39. Jesse Sykles and the Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul (Barsuk)



40. Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara (Nettwerk Music Group)



41. The Go Find - Stars on the Wall (Morr Music)



42. The One am Radio - This Too Will Pass (Dangerbird)



43. Minus Story - My Ion Truss (Jagjaguwar)


44. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are you the destroyer? (Polyvinyl)



45. Low - Drums and Guns (Sub Pop)



46. Menomena - Friend and Foe (Barsuk)



47. The Apples in Stereo - New Magentic Wonder (Yep Roc)



48. Ronderlin - The Great Investigation (Tomt)



49. Montt Mardié - Pretender (Hybris SW)



50. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (French Kiss)



51. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Fill Up the Room (K)



52. The Most Serene Republic - Population (Arts and Crafts)



53. Nyles Lannon - Pressure (Badman)



54. Film School - Hideout (Beggars Banquet)



55. The Broken Family Band - Hello Love (Track and Field)



56. A Place To Bury Strangers - S/T (Killer Pimp)



57. White Rabbits - Fort Nightly (Say Hey)



58. Mirah and the Spectratone International - Share This Place: Stories and Observations (K)



59. The Go! Team - Proof of Youth (Sub Pop)



60. The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City (Thrill Jockey)



61. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover (Jagjaguwar)



62. John Vanderslice - Emerald City (Barsuk)



63. We All Have Hooks for Hands - The Pretender (Afternoon)



64. Seabear - The Ghost That Carried Us Away (Morr Music)



65. Minipop - A New Hope (Take Root)



66. The Ladybug Transistor - Can't Wait Another Day (Merge)



67. The Detroit Cobras - Tied & True (Bloodshot)



68. The Mary Onettes - S/T (Labrador)



69. The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army (TVT)



70. Secret Mommy - Plays (Ache)



71. Dr. Dog - We All Belong (Park the Van)



72. Bracken - We Know About the Need (Anticon)



73. The Postmarks - S/T (Unfiltered)



74. Pelle Carlberg - In a Nutshell (Labrador)



75. The Ponys - Turn the lights out (Matador)



76. The Rosebuds - Night of the Furies (Merge)



77. Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter (SMG)



78. Club 8 - The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming (Labrador)



79. Band of Horses - Cease to Begin (Sub Pop)



80. PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island)



81. St. Vincent - Marry Me (Beggars Banquet)



82. New Buffalo - Somewhere, Anywhere (Dot Dash)



83. Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)



84. Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted (Ruffa Lane)



85. Lasse Lindh - Jag Tyckte Jag Var Glad (Groover)



86. At Swim Two Birds - Returning to the Scene of Crime (Green Ufos)



87. Okkervil River - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)



88. A Toys Orchestra - Technicolor Dreams (Urtovox)



89. The Black Lips - Good, Bad not Evil (Vice)



90. Rogue Wave - Asleep at Heaven's Gate (Brushfire)



91. Sleeping States - There the Open Spaces (Misra)



92. Stars - In our Bedroom After the War (Arts & Crafts)



93. Moving Units - Hexes for Exes (Metropolis)



94. Lovers - Sleep With Heat (Orange Twin)



95. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)



96. Joseph Arthur - Let's Just Be (Lonely Astronaut)



97. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)



98. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic)



99. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond (Play It Again Sam)



100. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times (RCA)



101. Ash - Twilight of the Innocents (WEA)



102. Battles - Mirrored (Warp)


103. Radiohead - In Rainbows (Self-Released)


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