music sounds better in you in 2007

Top Music for 2007

When I inevitably go deaf from listening to too much music, I would like to at least be able to remark on what made me go deaf, and hopefully remember that I enjoyed the experience along the way. Here is my "list" of music that I liked in 2007. It's neither a list in that it's not numbered, and it certaintly isn't exhaustive - this is just the stuff I can either find on my ipod or dig out of my unsteady memory.

Rap
Abdominal
Dalek
Wu Tang

(I thought it was a pretty weak year for rap - sorry Kanye and 50 cent, neither of your releases lived up to their hype)

Metal
Insomnium
KillWhitneydead
Longing for Dawn
Honorable considerations:
Neurosis
Baroness
Earth
Nadja
Dolorian
Middian
Virgin Black
Fucking Champs
Veil of Maya
Boris with Michio Kurihara

(It's already past trendy to like metal, but it was a good year with a lot of diverse releases which the above reflects)

Pop/Rock
The National
Radiohead
The Saps
Band of Horses
Battles
Radiohead
King Khan and the Shrines
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Blitzen Trapper
Boat
Brunettes
Christian Kiefer
Chromatics
Hallelujah the Hills
Households
Jens Lekman
Joel Plaskett
Les Savy Fav
Liars
Loney Dear
Love of Diagrams
Maritime
Marnie Stern
Meneguar
Wingtip Sloat
Miracle Fortress
Nina Nastasia and Jim White
No Age
Okkervil River
Spoon
St. Vincent
Twilight Sad
Uncut
!!!
Benoit Pioulard
Jetplanes of Abraham
LCD Soundsystem
What made Milwaukee Famous
Wintersleep

(I felt like the best releases came early, but things picked up in the fall)

Electronic
Burial
Cex
Clark
Cassius
Alter Ego
Muscles
DJ Jazzy Jeff
The Field
Gouseion
Justice
Pantha Du Prince
Simian Mobile Disco
Studio
Tobias Thomas
Tough Alliance
The Tuss
Aphex Twin
Mixed Up in the Hague
Yeasayer
Dan Deacon

(a great year for electronic with some off-the-wall releases and new trends)

Out-there
Eric Copeland
Magik Markers
Stars of the Lid
Eluvium
Svarte Grenier
Phosphorescence

(I feel like there was a lot more than this, but I can't remember - these are still really good - from dissonant to etheral)

Punk/Hardcore
Lifetime
Circa Survive
Comeback Kid
Daggermouth
Ghost of a Thousand
Hot Cross
I Can Put My Arm Back On You Can’t
Wednesday Night Heroes
Crime in Stereo

(Another weak category, but these releases blew me away)

Best spring-time album - Loney, Dear - self-titled - fun and wistful like rain
Best summer-time album - Lifetime - bouncy and fun to listen to while running
Best fall-time album -The National - moody and introspective
Best winter-time album - Burial -Untrue - Haunting, dark yet luminscent