Planet Sound Teletext Top 50s of 2007 in full
ALBUMS
1) THE TWILIGHT SAD Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters
2) JUSTICE Cross
3) MIA Kala
4) RADIOHEAD In Rainbows
5) LEVY Glorious
6) OKKERVIL RIVER The Stage Names
7) MODEST MOUSE We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
8) RUFUS WAINWRIGHT Release The Stars
9) CHERRY GHOST Thirst For Romance
10) THE HOLD STEADY Boys And Girls In America
11) KLAXONS Myths Of The Near Future
12) CHARLOTTE HATHERLEY The Deep Blue
13) BLONDE REDHEAD 23
14) FRED DEAKIN The Triptych
15) PATRICK CLEANDENIM Baby Comes Home
16) ARCTIC MONKEYS Favourite Worst Nightmare
17) THE HOURS Narcissus Road
18) OF MONTREAL Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
19) THE NATIONAL Boxer
20) BRIGHT EYES Cassadaga
21) THE DECEMBERISTS The Crane Wife
22) AEREOGRAMME My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
23) ARCADE FIRE Neon Bible
24) ROBYN Robyn
25) WINDMILL Puddle City Racing Lights
26) THE LITTLE ONES Sing Song
27) THE SHINS Wincing The Night Away
28) PJ HARVEY White Chalk
29) RICHARD SWIFT Dressed Up For The Letdown
30) FEIST The Reminder
31) EDITORS An End Has A Start
32) RILO KILEY Under The Blacklight
33) MONKEY SWALLOWS THE UNIVERSE The Casket Letters
34) LES SAVY FAV Let’s Stay Friends
35) SUPER FURRY ANIMALS Hey Venus
36) ST VINCENT Marry Me
37) POP LEVI The Return To Form Black Magick Party
38) SILVERSUN PICKUPS Carnavas
39) PATRICK WOLF The Magic Position
40) EMMA POLLOCK Watch The Fireworks
41) NAPOLEON IIIRD In Debt To
42) THE ALIENS Astronomy For Dogs
43) THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE QUEEN The Good The Bad And The Queen
44) BEIRUT The Flying Club Cup
45) SHADY BARD From The Ground Up
46) VON SUDENFED Tromatic Reflexxions
47) DEERHOOF Friend Opportunity
48) ROBERT WYATT Comicopera
49) PATRICK WATSON Close To Paradise
50) JENS LEKMAN Night Falls Over Kortedala
SINGLES
1) MAXIMO PARK Our Velocity
2) LCD SOUNDSYSTEM North American Scum
3) DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP Thou Shalt Always Kill
4) SONNY J Can’t Stop Moving
5) GLASVEGAS Daddy’s Gone
6) KAISER CHIEFS The Angry Mob
7) THE RUMBLE STRIPS Alarm Clock
8) MANIC STREET PREACHERS Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
9) IAN BROWN Illegal Attacks
10) BJORK Earth Intruders
11) THE COURTEENERS Cavorting
12) TRAVIS Selfish Jean
13) MALCOLM MIDDLETON We’re All Going To Die
14) JOE LEAN AND THE JING JANG JONG Lucio Starts Fires
15) CAPTAIN BLACK Come On Up To Our House
16) REVEREND AND THE MAKERS Heavyweight Champion Of The World
17) GROOVE ARMADA Song 4 Mutya
18) BLACK KIDS Wizard Of Ahhhs
19) HARD-FI Can’t Get Along
20) LONEY, DEAR I Am John
21) CANDIE PAYNE I Wish I Could Have Loved You More
22) THE ENEMY Away From Here
23) KATE NASH Foundations
24) CAJUN DANCE PARTY Amylase
25) CALVIN HARRIS Acceptable In The 80s
26) THE CORAL Who’s Gonna Find Me
27) BLOC PARTY The Prayer
28) DIZZEE RASCAL Sirens
29) BABYSHAMBLES Delivery
30) THE WHITE STRIPES Icky Thump
31) COLD WAR KIDS Hang Me Out To Dry
32) THE VIEW Same Jeans
33) THE CRIBS Moving Pictures
34) NOAH AND THE WHALE Five Years Time
35) AIR TRAFFIC Charlotte
36) KINGS OF LEON On Call
37) RICHARD HAWLEY Tonight The Streets Are Ours
38) THE TING TINGS Fruit Machine
39) HELLO SAFERIDE I Was Definitely Made For These Times
40) DUFFY Rockferry
41) FOALS Hummer
42) FOO FIGHTERS Long Road To Ruin
43) INTERPOL Mammoth
44) BLACK LIPS Veni Vidi Vici
45) FUTURE OF THE LEFT Small Bones Small Bodies
46) THE WOMBATS Kill The Director
47) NINE BLACK ALPS Burn Faster
48) BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB Weapon Of Choice
49) LAURA MARLING My Manic And I
50) LAND OF TALK Summer Special
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I was about to go downstairs and have a look...
I completely forgot about Maximo Park, somehow, although come to think about it I can't actually think of a better single from this year.
Any chance of PS doing a reminder of the top 50s from previous years? There's the list of albums that got 9/10 on wikipedia but it's not as definitive as it could be if you've kept records of the end of year lists.
Anyway, really good list, and I have about 10 albums which I'm going to make it my priority to own by the end of January :)
I don't want to fawn John...
But you and your pages have completed me since a very young age. Thanks.
Very interesting final albums list, quite refreshing from many others.
I think...
... I have the lists from the past 3-or-so years stored somewhere on my comp. If you want, I could put them up here?
wut, no animal collective?
fair list though.
Earls hates Animal Collective
so no chance of it being there
Pretty good albums list. Good choice for No. 1 too.
ah right, i see
thanks for explaining that :)
He doesn't like them
Strawberry Jam got 4/10, if memory serves.
4? wow
is there a review online? i can't get teletext :\
PRECEDENT
the first 2007 chart without LCD Soundsystem in it
the Justice album is fully deserving of its position though - i feel it's been a little bit excluded in other lists
Sound of Silver
obvs
Hmmm
Seeing The Little Ones, Editors and The Hours in the top albums makes me a very happy bunny. Top list overall, great to see Blonde Redhead and Cherry Ghost so high as well. A breath of fresh air from the rest of the lists this year.
True
though that's mainly because it's in the singles chart and they never really put someone in both.
Good to see them credit North American Scum though. Much better than All My Friends!
mostly good album list
mostly crap singles list.
Today's Planet Sound
broke an exclusive that Propellerheads are releasing a new album in 2008.
This makes me very happy indeed.
...
It was released internationally last year, but was released in the UK in January. They're signed to Rough Trade here - who seem to be absolutely shite when it comes to release dates - and Capitol elsewhere.
Does he owe you money?
you're an idiot
a big(oted) one
...
#45 in the Singles list.
The PS end-of-year polls tend not to have artists in the singles list who feature in the albums list, and vice versa.
i just don't get
the love for the twilight sad. it's like the nightmare version of 'neon bible' where they replace the springsteen bits with runrig.
good call on 'our velocity' though.
where does Runrig come into it?
That's not just some lazy comparison because they're Scottish, is it?
not at all!
it's the overwrought, chest-beating, standing-on-hillsides type of scottishness which 99% of scottish bands manage to ignore but which this band lapses into IMO. makes me queasy.
he's got a strong accent
which is present when he talks and sings. That's it. So you're basically moaning because he sings in his true accent? There's no other 'Scottishness' in their music.
i disagree
i think it sounds quite traditional, which is obviously no bad thing. but whereas My Latest Novel, who have in theory a fairly similar sound and a vocalist who also sings in his natural accent, avoid sounding overblown, i personally think TTS don't.
well, The Twilight Sad
do aim for the huge epic sound that I don't think My Latest Novel go for. I guess I don't find it overblown but I can see why some people probably would
i was a bit glib up there ^
i really expected to like it and was puzzled as to why i didn't. i think it could do with being a bit more subtle.
Where are battles?
aM i REading it wrong. No battles, bite me earlo.
And the twilight sad album gets boring very quickly.
Animal Collective
Are a Caravan for the '00s.
Battles? Nice and all, but joins the likes of Low and Roisin Murphy for good stuff I couldn't find room for in either list.
Merry Christmas.
Atlas should be very high in singles imo
I'm so glad
The Twilight Sad is number one. It's a magnificent album and the description is spot on. I love it more with each listen.
I agree that the singles list isn't great but it's partly down to the odd rule of not being able to feature in the album and single list. That automatically excludes a number of great singles.
One note, the description on the teletext website currently says that the lead singer of The Twilight Sad is called James Allan but he's called James Graham.
a reminder
a lot of people don't like Atlas (or Battles).
a reminder
Planet Sound was how I found about about The Delgados, The Wrens and Bright Eyes amongst others, so I'll settle for disagreeing with it sometimes.
Strawberry Jam wouldn't make my top 50
and I'm a fan of AC. It's not a patch on Sung Tongs or Feels.
Whether I agreed or disagreed with your opinion
I entirely respected it until the last sentence. Get over yourself. Are you going to lock yourself in a cabinet once you hit 30 and tell your friends not to listen to anything you say because it's no longer relevant?
I'm 35
I gather from some subtle hints that Hellodolly doesn't like my taste in music.
Fine by me, but age doesn't have anything to do with it. Do you think that once you get to 30, you only buy two albums a year which Q/The Guardian tell you to? It doesn't have to happen, and it strikes me you're only hitting out over my age due to some fear that you've only got a few years left to enjoy music before your ears automatically ossify.
I started going to gigs regularly when I was 20, and the joy I get from watching Noah And The Whale charm a few people at The Old Blue Last now is just as strong now as it was from going to an Orb all-nighter then.
If you genuinely think that anyone who's interested in Planet Sound's Top 50s is "a cunty arse-licky musical peasant" then you probably will only have a couple of years of musical enjoyment before you get a career in customer services for London Underground.
All I can reassure you of is that you can still enjoy Battles or Animal Collective in your 30s if you want.
Age ain't nothing but a number, as Aaliyah sang. OK, she was 15 and married to R Kelly at the time, but the point's still valid.
Hopefully
The comments on this thread and others let Mr Earls know just how many of us have read and enjoyed his stuff for so long now... even the (now - gulp!) over 30s amongst us...
Quite.
Planet Sound shaped my taste in music hugely before the internet came along. Good to know other people also see it as a bit of an institution...
A round of applearls
for John Earls.
That was a mediocre pun at best.
Yeah.
I'm glad you got barred, because there's absolutely no question that you are the world's biggest pillock.
Signing on first thing Christmas morning to have a go at a man who has done far more for British music than you could ever hope to? Right. Right. A good use of your life, there.
Go and work for Vice magazine or something.
No Hellodolly, people like you are the reason the music scene can be antagonising
People who believe their opinion is the be all and end all of the matter, and have such acerbic wit, that anyone who disagrees is merely hit with a wall of pointless obsenity, and believes for some strange reason their taste in music somehow makes them a better person than somebody else.
Get over yourself.
aye
twilight sad were they should be, nice
nice list how about this one
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/content/content_detail.php?id=2166&type=Features
2 things I'm pleased of
Windmill getting a nice mention/inclusion, and Loney, Dear song mention (although a shame that this excludes album mention).
I still read ps most days, but I think it's been a while since I've discovered anything good from it. Can't quite decide whether I prefer this list or DIS's- both have a handful of albums I like, along with 40+ I'm not fussed with.
But yes, it's still good and I shall continue reading.