I am so incensed by the exclusion of Into the Wild’s soundtrack from year-end lists, I am creating a 2007 best albums list. Everyone else thinks they’re righting the world’s wrongs, too, but so be it.
stellasplice’s favorite albums of 2007:
Boxer ~ The National
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Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild ~ Eddie Vedder
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The Shepherd’s Dog ~ Iron & Wine
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Because of the Times ~ Kings of Leon
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Marry Me ~ St. Vincent
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Glory Hope Mountain ~ The Acorn
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Buckle in the Bible Belt ~ Ha Ha Tonka
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Oh, My Darling ~ Basia Bulat
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Music for the Motion Picture Once ~ Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard
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Rust Belt Blues ~ Oliver Buck
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The Stage Names ~ Okkervil River
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These two were quite good, but I unfairly wanted them to be Wolf Parade and The Shins, respectively, so I never could fall for them wholeheartedly:
Random Spirit Lover ~ Sunset Rubdown
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? ~ Of Montreal (though it is my fav. Of Montreal disc)
I love the following artists. However good their 2007 discs may have been, they did not measure up to the artists’ previous releases, so they have been relegated to addendum status:
The White Stripes
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
José González
Spoon
The New Pornographers
Beirut (he swallowed up Alaska in Winter, too)
Modest Mouse
The Shins
Elliott Smith
The Polyphonic Spree
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February 8, 2008 at 12:16 am
[...] and The New Pornographers are touring together; some tickets are already on sale. Each band had a quality 2007 album. Get [...]
February 10, 2008 at 12:17 am
[...] Ha Tonka’s Buckle in the Bible Belt (buy it!) was one of my favorite albums of 2007. They call their music foot-stompin’ indie rock, but I think it’s also deserving of the [...]
April 4, 2008 at 1:16 am
[...] Please buy their disc Glory Hope Mountain. It was one of my very favorite albums of 2007. [...]
December 4, 2008 at 8:12 pm
[...] 2008 Top 10 Albums: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!! The Raconteurs – Consolers of the Lonely King Khan and the Shrines – The Supreme Genius of… Black Francis – Svn Fngrs Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One The Black Keys – Attack & Release Howlin’ Rain – Magnificent Fiend Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling Al Green – Lay It Down Bands overlooked by me in late 2007: Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals (from late 2007) Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – 100 Days, 100 Nights [See Stella Splice's Best-of-2007 list here.] [...]