YABS Music of 2007

[Infra-Man]

A companion to the Films of 2007 thread and (kinda) the Christmas soundtrack and theme songs for YABS thread...

What songs or albums shook you in 2007? Anything become part of your personal soundtrack for the year?

[Cam63]

Same '60s-'70s stuff.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

Rilo Kiley's Under The Blacklight.

[Tobias March]

MIA's Kala. Possibly the album of the year. I still like the Neon Bible by Arcade Fire, even though the hype has left them stranded. I discovered the Louvin Brothers this year after watching the Jesus' Son dvd. Also the Kissaway Trail and the Shins new albums.

Ween's Piss Up a Rope and Matt Berry's absurd One Track Lover from Garth Marenghi's Dark Place were my songs of the year.

[ninjapeps]

Staying strictly with songs that came out this year? Hmm...

The only ones that come to mind are Alanis' cover of My Humps, the Foo Fighters' new album and Still Alive from Portal. Almost everything I've heard this year is shitty hip hop. My country has lousy taste in music.

[Infra-Man]

ninjapeps, I should've said song or albums in the original post. That be changed.

Will add some of mine a bit later.

[The Ray]

Recent Albums copped:

Ghostface Killa - Big Doe Rehab
Radiohead- In Rainbows
Atmosphere - Strictly Leakage LP

[Evan Waters]

DETHKLOK: THE DETHALBUM trumped everything else.

I'm not even a metalhead, but this is both funny and genuinely good.

[Spike-X]

My country has lousy taste in music.

I work with several of your countrymen...er, women. You're not wrong there.



My main musical fixation this year has been Ryan Adams. I've also been getting into hip-hop a bit more, and post-rock such as Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

[Infra-Man]

Some of my favorite albums

Boxer by The National
Night Falls Over Kortedala by Jens Lekman
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga by Spoon
Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters by The Twilight Sad
Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem
Armchair Apocrypha by Andrew Bird
In Rainbows by Radiohead
The Great Unwanted by Lucky Soul
Under the Blacklight by Rilo Kiley
Neon Bible by The Arcade Fire
The Reminder by Feist
+ by Justice
No Shouts No Calls by Electrelane
Challengers by The New Pornographers
Spirit If by Kevin Drew
23 by Blonde Redhead
I'll Sleep When You're Dead by El-P


Some of my favorite songs

"D.A.N.C.E." by Justice
"All My Friends" by LCD Soundsystem
"Opposite of Hallelujah" by Jens Lekman
"And She Would Darken the Memory" by The Twilight Sad
"1 2 3 4" by Feist
"Desire" by Pharoahe Monch
"Fake Empire" by The National
"The People" by Common
"Heretics" by Andrew Bird
"No Cars Go" by The Arcade Fire
"The Universe!" by Do Make Say Think
"My Rights Versus Yours" by The New Pornographers
"The Underdog" by Spoon
"Silver Lining" by Rilo Kiley
"The Magic Position" by Patrick Wolf
"La Costa Brava" by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
"Unless It's Kicks" by Okervil River
"The Party Punch" by Oh No! Oh My!
"23" by Blonde Redhead
"People in Love" by Art Brut
"Ageless Beauty (Most Serene Republic remix)" by Stars
"Kisses for the Misses" by Richard Swift
"To the East" by Electrelane
"Paper Planes" by M.I.A.
"I Was a Daughter" by Basia Bulat
"Add Your Light to Mine, Baby" by Lucky Soul
"Flyentology" by El-P


EDIT:

Favorite 2006 Album That was Released in the U.S. in 2007
We Are the Pipettes by The Pipettes

[Spike-X]

Some of my favourite albums this year (limited only to releases I actually paid money for):

The White Stripes - Icky Thump

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals (even though it's credited as just Ryan Adams) - Easy Tiger

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (even though...etc) - Magic

Ice Cream Hands - The Good China

[Infra-Man]

My main musical fixation this year has been Ryan Adams. I've also been getting into hip-hop a bit more, and post-rock such as Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

First time I heard Godspeed was senior year in high school. I was driving out late at night--well past midnight on a school night--to get coffee and donuts. The college radio station played the song "BBF3 (Blaise Bailey Finnegan III)" off the then-new Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada EP.

I remember pulling into an empty Safeway parking lot, turning up the volume on my car stereo, and just being blown away by what I heard. I bought the EP the next day and their first album.

In conclusion, Godspeed You! Black Emperor rules.

[Tobias March]

In conclusion, Godspeed You! Black Emperor rules.

Lift your Hands... is one of the best albums I've ever heard. Silver Mt. Zion are in their collective right?

[Spike-X]

Silver Mt. Zion are in their collective right?

Some members of Silver Mt Zion are also members of Godspeed, yes.

[Alan Lynch]

Chromeo's Fancy Footwork is possibly the very reason God gave out ears. It's a brilliant, 80s-style electro pop masterpiece. Just thinking about it makes me want to bounce around the room.

And a song called Shooting Star by a band called Air Traffic is incredibly beautiful. The album is MOR pish mind.

Why yes, I am just looking at my current playlist while typing this.

[Shisho]

Most of what shook me this year came out earlier, but I discover stuff late all the time. These are in no particular order.

1. "Capricorn" & "A Beautiful Lie" by 30 Seconds to Mars. I'm in love with Jared Leto's voice. I'll eventually break down and buy both CDs, instead of downloading every song by them that catches my ear.

2. "The Pretender" by The Foo Fighters. Kudos to the boys for bringing back good old fashioned "fuck you" rock. I've been playing this one into the ground the last few weeks.

3. "She Brakes for Rainbows" by The B-52's. Yeah, I know it's an 80's song, but someone said this song reminded her of me and it made me download it. It's a really sweet song. It's probably my new theme song.

4. "Pro-Test" by Skinny Puppy. A great song to drink Red Bull & vodka to. Not that I've ever done that before. *whistles*

5. "Love Comes Again" by Tiesto & BT. BT is my muse.

6. "Faster Kill Pussycat" by Paul Oakenfold (featuring Brittany Murphy.) Brittany Murphy and Jared Leto are two people I wish would make music and forget about making movies. Thier voices are amazing. I've played this song to death all year.

7. "Makes Me Wonder" by Maroon 5. HelloKittyKat knows how I feel about this one. ;) I can't seem to get sick of this song. I love these guys.

8. "Lovestoned" by Justin Timberlake. Don't judge me. You know you love him too.

9. "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" by Fall Out Boy. If anyone ever caught me belting out this song in my car on the way home from work, they'd laugh their asses off. Such a fun band. They always make me smile.

10. "I Don't Wanna Be in Love (Dance Floor Anthem)" by Good Charlotte. I hate that I love this song. I tried so hard not to, but the freakin' song is like a virus.

That's all I can think of, though I'm sure there were others. Fun thread!

[Matt Doc Martin]

6. "Faster Kill Pussycat" by Paul Oakenfold (featuring Brittany Murphy.) Brittany Murphy and Jared Leto are two people I wish would make music and forget about making movies. Thier voices are amazing. I've played this song to death all year.


This one was surprisingly good.

[Shisho]

This one was surprisingly good.

I know, I was shocked myself. I didn't know she was so amazingly talented vocally.

[Shade]

The Almost - "Southern Weather" - was the surprise album of the year for me. Once I got it I could not get it out of my trucks cd player. There was just too much rocking awesomeness to enjoy.

[Cayman]

Róisín Murphy "Overpowered"
Gui Boratto "Chromophobia" and a whole bunch of EPs.
Tracey Thorn "Out Of The Woods"
GoodBooks "Control"
Interpol "Our Love To Admire"
Rufus Wainwright "Release The Stars"
The New Pornographers "Challengers"
Stars "In Our Bedroom After The War"
Sugababes "Change"
Candie Payne "I Wish I Could've Loved You More"
Mark Ronson "Version"
Bloc Party "A Weekend In The City"
Girls Aloud "Tangled Up"
Justice "Cross"
Burial "Untrue"
First State "Timeframe"
Jonas Steur "Born For The Night"
Kylie Minogue "X"
Marlango "The Electric Morning"
Paul Van Dyk "In Between"
Samantha James "Rise"

Probably a lot of other stuff I'm forgetting.

Music to look forward to in 2008:

Goldfrapp's latest
Debuts by Duffy and Adele

[Alan Lynch]

9. "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" by Fall Out Boy. If anyone ever caught me belting out this song in my car on the way home from work, they'd laugh their asses off. Such a fun band. They always make me smile.
I've always heard that as "This ain't a scene, it's an arse face". Which I easily prefer.

[Kris Gen]

The Con by Tegan and Sara

I love it ridiculously much.

[Cayman]

3. "She Brakes for Rainbows" by The B-52's. Yeah, I know it's an 80's song, but someone said this song reminded her of me and it made me download it. It's a really sweet song. It's probably my new theme song.


I love that song! I haven't heard it for a long time, but it reminds me of summer.

[Cayman]

I remembered these unforgivable omissions at work today.

The Brunettes - "Structure & Cosmetics"
Bat For Lashes - "Fur And Gold"
Feist - "The Reminder"

[hellokittykat]

I agree with a lot of Shisho's picks, particularly about the King Shit of Awesometown;).

I'm not sure when their last album came out but Jack turned me onto Dragonforce. 'Through Fire and Flames'is an awesome song and I just dug up 'Body Breakdown' and I like that one too.

I liked Foo Fighters-Echos, Silence, Patience & Grace. Like Shisho said 'The Pretender' is good, so is 'Long Road to Ruin'.

I haven't listened to everything on the album yet but Drowning Pool's Full Circle has 'Enemy' and they covered Billy Idol's 'Rebel Yell' and that was pretty neat.:)

There are tons of others but those three were the first one that popped into my head.

Oh yeah and Killswitch Engage's 'Holy Driver' is a fun song and that is from their 2007 release As Daylight Dies.

And the '30 Days of Night' soundtrack is good.

Okay I'll stop there because I'll keep going and going otherwise.:P