Archive for December, 2007

English Version:

This is the time of year when everyone makes the end-year lists, with these we’ll see how homogeneous music bloggers’ preferences are
I enjoy these lists but I always have a panic attack, I really don’t like to classify 20 albums as “best of year”. To make it simple, I started to answer what 2007 represented to me (musically speaking)

So, with Excel help, I finished a subjective and surreal top 20 (pre-recorded applauses) and after that top, there’re 30 albums that complete my “2007 musical experience” in alphabetical order.

For sure, 2007 was a good year, looking forward the next one.

Versión en Español:

Llegó el momento del año que cada quien realiza su top como ejercio en saber que tan homogénea puede llegar a ser la blogósfera musical

Como es tradición en mi persona, siento un pavor terrible seleccionando 20 discos y calificarlos como “lo mejor del año”, es por ello que para hacerlo más fácil partí de la premisa: ¿qué representó para mi el 2007?

Con hoja de excel para facilitar la labor llegué a la lista que presento a continuación: Mi top 20 en orden de preferencia (aplausos pregrabados), luego del top están los siguientes 30 discos ordenados alfabéticamente que si bien no entran en el “juego subjetivo del top” son una gran muestra de lo que fue mi 2007 musical, desde lo más mainstream de mi ser (amy winehouse ), hasta lo más WTF!!!

20.- The Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse
MP3: The Besnard Lakes – And You Lied To Me

19.- Menomena – Friend And Foe
MP3: Menomena – Wet & Rusting

18.- Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling
MP3: Basia Bulat – Snake & Ladders

17.- Devendra Banhart – Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
MP3: Devendra Banhart – So Long Old Bean

16.- Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
MP3: Of Montreal – Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse

15.- Panda Bear – Person Pitch
MP3: Panda Bear – Take Pills

14.- Céu – Céu
MP3: Céu – Malemolencia

13.- The White Stripes – Icky Thump
MP3: The White Stripes – Effect & Cause

12.- St. Vincent – Marry Me
MP3: St. Vincent – Marry Me

11.- Kevin Drew – Spirit if
MP3: Kevin Drew – Tbtf

10.- The National – Boxer
MP3: The National – Fake Empire

09.- Radiohead – In Rainbows
MP3: Radiohead – Bodysnatchers

08.- Pascal Comelade – Mètode de rocanrol
MP3: Pascal Comelade – Le barman de Satan

07.- Band Of Horses – Cease To Begin
MP3: Band Of Horses – Is There A Ghost

06.- Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
MP3: Beirut – Nantes

05.- Animal Collective – Strawberry Jam
MP3: Animal Collective – Winter Wonder Land

04.- Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
MP3: Wilco – What a light

03.- Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
MP3: Spoon – Don’t Make Me A Target

02.- Feist – The Reminder
MP3: Feist – 1234

01.- The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
MP3: The Arcade Fire – Black Mirror

Now, the bottom 30 (In alphabetical order):

- A Hawk And A Hacksaw And The Hun Hangár Ensemble – A Hawk And A Hacksaw And The Hun Hangár Ensemble “EP”
- Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
- Bat For Lashes – Fur & Gold
- Battles – Mirrored
- Beirut – Lon Gisland “EP”
- Björk – Volta
- Daft Punk – Alive 2007
- Detektivbyrån – Hemvägen “EP”
- Explosions In The Sky – All Of A sudden I miss everyone
- Federico Aubele – Panamericana
- Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova – Once “OST”
- Great Lake Swimmers – Ongiara
- Grizzly Bear – Friend “EP”
- Immaculate Machine – Fables
- Joanna Newsom – Joanna Newsom & The YS Street Band “EP”
- Kanye West – Graduation
- M.I.A. – Kala
- Miracle Fortress – Five Roses
- Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
- Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
- Okkervil River – The Stage Names
- Omar A. Rodríguez-López – Se Dice Bisonte No Búfalo
- Saul Williams – The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggytardust
- Sigur Rós – Hvarf/Heim
- The New Pornographers – Challengers
- The Polyphonic Spree – The Fragile Army
- The Shins – Wincing The Night Away
- The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
- Ween – La Cucaracha
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Is Is “EP”

[tags]deaf indie elephants, best of 2007[/tags]

English Version:

Top 30 of my favorite songs of 2007 in alphabetical order. (no way, I couldn’t classified them by preference, everyone has a “something”)
Tomorrow, favorite albums of 2007

Versión en Español:

Top 30 de mis canciones favoritas del 2007, ordenadas alfabéticamente (jamás podré enumerarlas por preferencia, cada una tiene su “algo”)
Mañana el top 20 de discos del 2007.

Animal Collective – Peacebone
Animal Collective – For Reverend Green
Band Of Horses – No One’s Gonna Love You
Basia Bulat – I Was A Daughter
Bat For Lashes – Trophy
Battles – Atlas
MP3: Beirut – A Sunday Smile
Björk – The Dull Flame Of Desire
Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew – Lucky Ones
Devendra Banhart – Carmencita
Feist – 1234
Feist – The Park
Great Lake Swimmers – Your Rocky Spine
Interpol – Pioneer to the Falls
John Vanderslice – Time To Go
MP3: Justice – D.A.N.C.E.
MP3: M.I.A. – Paper Planes
Menomena – Muscle ‘n Flo
MP3: Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica
Radiohead – Videotape
MP3: Spoon – The Underdog
MP3: Spoon – You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
MP3: St. Vincent – Paris is Burning
MP3: The Arcade Fire – Keep The Car Running
MP3: The Arcade Fire – (Antichrist Television Blues)
The Besnard Lakes – Disaster
MP3: The National – Mistaken For Strangers
The Shins – Australia
The White Stripes – Rag and Bone
Wilco – Hate It Here

Alicia Keys – No One
Rihanna – Umbrella <- Covers thnx to Dodge

[tags]deaf indie elephants, best of 2007[/tags]