and I’m sure the next one will be filled with resolutions and things worth keeping. But this one is full of music..my top 12 tracks of 2007.
- Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car by Iron & Wine – iron & wine writes poetry and this song has that driving guitar beat that i love. traveling music, this is.
- Fiery Crash by Andrew Bird – this album is more fluffed up than his previous. by fluffed up, i mean fluffier, like my bitchy cat pele when she is super happy and wants to be petted.
- Seeds of Night by The Cave Singers – repetitive trance like melody; who needs words that make sense?
- In the Middle of Nowhere by Little Miss Higgins. i can’t remember where i first heard little miss higgins; but i know as soon as i heard her, i bought her album. super bluesy, and a voice that belongs in a smoky bar fifty years ago.
- Live Off Lamb by Said the Whale – every time i hear this track, i think “wow, i love the shins!” i do, of course, but i love this unsigned band from the great north country, too.
- I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You by the Black Kids – this is where i unashamedly jump on the bandwagon. the catchiest tunes of the year, by a (then-unsigned) band from athens that blew away cmj.
- Can’t Tell Me Nothing by Kanye West – this song was a bit of a theme for me when it first came out. then i saw the ‘alternate video‘ and laughed my ass off. clogging and hip hop – let’s hope for more in 2008.
- Put a Penny In the Slot by Fionn Regan – an honest to goodness singer songwriter with great lyrics and a decent voice. i bought this one right after i heard it, too.
- Jigsaw Falling Into Place by Radiohead – it’s too bad that i can’t put the entire in rainbows album on here, because i like listening to this song in its natural environment. when it first came out, i paid my british pounds and hooked up my laptop to the stereo and listened to it with the lights out, over and over and over again.
- Cleanse Song by the Bright Eyes – yep, understood this song this year.
- Hard Line by Jill Barber – another brilliant Canadian songwriter i hadn’t heard of before this year.
- Say It To Me Now by Glen Hansard (from the Once soundtrack) – i’ve never really given the frames a good listen (although wikipedia calls them ‘influential’) but this film (and its soundtrack) are absolutely brilliant.
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