DiS's albums of 2007: reader voting is now open!

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Marnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken Arm but still a decent decent list chaps.

:'''''(

Where is The Field?

I own three, but I'm not voting for Maccabees.

Anyhoo, I'd have liked to have voted for Good Shoes, Willy Mason, Brand New and Dive Dive. Still, who cares, eh?

No El-Producto, No Burial?
Review Burial!!!

the lack of epic45 on this list makes it redundant. kinda surprised given that you gave it a 9/10!

for including mathew sawyer

no Pre, Eric Copeland or Black Dice either!

from the nearly list. As it is I rate only about 2 of the chosen albums

dom on the lack of Kubichek. Also, the lack of Maximo Park, even in the nearly list, is disappointing.

But I am also musing on the missingness of the ace LPs by Charlotte Hatherley and yourcodenameis;milo

Bugger!

I like it, a lot.
Good Arrows made it through to our second-to-last stage of filtering the 50 down.
But there's only room for so many. And some have gotta be missed off.

5 from that list as there is no Biffy and no Kings of Leon. Which is a shame.

your missing 65dos!

other than that good list, prefer the end of year lists where you dont know many of the albums, gives you something to spend the inevitable HMV vouchers on after christmas

how strange..

cah!

By my reckoning, Dragonfly and Murderer are two of the best songs in the entire world ever, let alone in Low's back catalogue. Hmm. This must be this "opinion" thing I'm hearing so much about...

But a pair of songs an album do not make.

(Be fair: all of Low's songs are beautiful.)

"A reader-voted top ten will run the week beginning December 10"

Drums & Guns is still clearly a nine-out-of-tenner, if you ask me. Oh, you didn't?

I grant you, it's marred only slightly by the forgettable Dust on the window and Hatchet (which, I reckon, would sound out of place on any Low album). I still listen to it about twice a week, though.

By contrast, less than a month after its release, I'd actually forgotten Radiohead had released anything recently. Hmm.

Didn't evan make the final hurdle! Ouch

and it's definitely not my album of the year (Mirrored). Where's ETID? That got 9/10! Where's Brand New? Where's all the interesting albums that aren't Bloc Party or Arcade Fire?

I voted for my 5, it was pretty hard to choose... wasn't the list choosen by members in a topic a while back?

Wot, no 'Blackout'? Clearly album of the year. You're clearly fules.

Ruby Throat - The Ventriloquist
Soulsavers - It not how far you fall, it's the way that you land
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Amiina - Kurr

...not a bad list though.

Low, Bill Callahan, Kings of Leon, The White Stripes, CocoRosie, Bjork, Patrick Wolf and The Field.

Was Burial 2006?

Not on either list - did you forget to include it? Apart from that all my favourites are up there, good to see Eugene McGuiness!

such an amazing album.

near as good as Stylus' list

y.e.a.h. you know it makes sense

are LOW!

LOL

Britney?!?!?!

Seriously though where is Modest Mouse?

beat Shellac! get a grip you feeble eared freaks.
Lekman is the only decent one here. MIA and the sea and cake are in my worst of the year so far.

i hav to say that for me its not enough night by kubichek...

criminal that its not on the list, but if the list was compiled by the reviewers on here it doesnt suprise me

craigx

Is it actually out in this country? I don't know, but it should be up there. The Field too- they're the two biggest misses. Would have been nice to see Frog Eyes at least in the top 50 as well.

I vote for MMISL 5 times, even though they didnt make the 50.

I refuse to vote for anything else.

and Fionn Regan missing.

but I'm still going to do my traditional end of year poll on the music forum where I let people vote for whatever they want. Non of this restricted selection malarkey.

the new Marx

Blitzen Trapper
Parts and Labor
Caribou

Otherwise spot on I think! wish I could've voted for 6 then Field Music's Tones of Town would've got me vote!

Deerhoof, Deerhunter, Dan Deacon, Dirty Projectors, Do Make Say Think. How weird...

they fell before the first hurdle? or were there steroids involved?

panda bear
blonde redhead
les savy fav
of montreal
animal collective

even that was hard

maps and caribou??

I'll sleep when your dead needs to be on that list

Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Dartz! - This Is My Ship
Die! Die! Die! - Promises Promises
The Fall Of Troy - Manipulator
The Go! Team - Proof Of Youth
Hell Is For Heroes - Hell Is For Heroes
Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
Meet Me In St Louis - Variations On Swing
Oceansize - Frames
Reuben - In Nothing We Trust
Tellison - Contact! Contact!

:)

i would have voted for digitalism and explosions in the sky... if they were there

...same with any piece like this, but we have to draw a line somewhere. Fifty seems neat enough.

It's what you DO vote for that's important. If people can't find records in that 50 that they like enough to vote for then something is seriously wrong with them... or, rather, I'd at least question what they're doing on this site ;o)

mx

what about them?
both are great albums.
so are all 50 of the above, and tens more.

was released july 2006.
the rakes album is nothing special.
and the enemy? hahahahahhaaa.

easily one of the top 50 albums of the year.
and DiS gave it 9/10.

Why no sunset rubdown?>???????

Low
No Age
Dan Deacon
Dragon Or Emperor
Stars Of The Lid
John Wiese
Scout Niblett
James Blackshaw

Hmm.

Arcade Fire, Beirut, Efterklang, The National, Jens Lekman.
So unsurprisingly them chaps get my votes.
I've got about 40 albums from this year, so that's impressive that I could amost compile my own top 50 (which, other than the five above, wouldn't be from this list).

Loney, Dear and Múm are the only two others that I like that I could have hoped this site would have chosen also.

Slaraffenland, Motifs, Bowerbirds, Breathe Owl Breathe, Shugo Tokumaru, Gareth S. Brown, Paul Duncan, Benni Hemm Hemm, Bodies Of Water, and The Real Tuesday Weld are ten more great albums that I loved lots this year, and probably weren't even in DiS's top 100/200, which is a shame.

Still, I guess I should be happy that I love 5 of the albums here (well, 4, am undecided about Jens Lekman still), any of which I'd like to win, for all being pretty darn cool.

secong Kevin Drew. But Jens Lekman FTW!

was fucking awful.

REALLY?

Meneguar
Damezumari/Fire Team Charlie split
Daniel Striped Tiger
Funeral Diner
Goldmund
By The End of Tonight/Tera Melos split
The Drift

Probably more.

has something against her. It's the only explanation. Her album came out in February, and it still hasn't been reviewed. Easily amongst the best of the year...

No Age IS there.

My bad :-P

*votes*

be interesting to see just how different the two lists are

no Okkervil river? my favourite of the year and dis has been pushing them like crazy the las t few weeks
no wilco - granted its not their best
no iron & wine?

any way everyone will probably vote for radiohead anyway

as you were only doing 50, but why only do 50 then?

My Top 5 is probably

Battles
Of Montreal
Aereogramme
Tellison
!!!

with honourable mentions to Biffy, 65, Holy Fuck, MMISL, Dartz and The Go! Team.

there'll be a more democratic DiS users top 50 though i'm sure. there always is!

weres the new Dirty Projectors cd????

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!!!

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And Biffy should have made that shortlist, fantastic album.

Low, John Vanderslice and Dinosaur Jr are four albums I loved that that I can think of off the top of my head not on there...

seem even more rediculous now - looking at albums that have been clearly better this year alone!

to do it isn't it? It's not a representative vote at all because a lot of people will only have 5 records they even like on that list, which they will vote for all of, receiving equal weight.

Peh.

Maccabees should be replaced with Good Shoes as the lists jangle-indie-pop representative. I really love their album.

its under T. i forgive you.

...because its a mile better than some of the tripe that did.

epic45
burial

and anything made by black people generally.

January was its UK release.

Just stupid.
As are many of these other comments.
Yes, we're acutely aware that there are dozens of albums not available for voting.
Yes, we understand that you disagree with some of the shortlisted albums.
Fact is: all 50 got great reviews here.
All 50 were loved enough, passionately, but enough of the DiS team to make the cut.
A lot of these 'blah blah is missing' posts forgets that we have to strike a degree of balance between the obscure (just how many people, REALLY, would have voted for Marnie Stern? That album is festering wank anyhoooo) and the mainstream=bothering obvious.
SO: We have some from A and some from B.
And a few middle grounders.
We have to choose our niche t'ings carefully so as not to imbalance the whole thing: Justice over SMD, etc.
If you compare this shortlist to any other year's, it's the most diverse yet. Comments about Q and NME, as much as I'd like for them to be true (i.e. that both publications were as open minded as we are), it simply is not. You think NME are gonna have dalek as one of their albums of the year? Sheeesh!

If you can't find owt to vote for: sorry. If you can: bravo, into our competition you go.

There will be an editorial ranking soon.
There will be the result of this.
You wanna open it up to any album released in 2007 and make the time to add up all the votes (time we certainly do not have!), please feel free to do it. Happens every year anyway so quit moaning.

(PS: I love this list. Although I'd have squeezed in El-P and Dillinger, and maybe MMISL too, if circumstances allowed...)

...BP just happen to have a single out next week.

Avant-folk rappers?
;o)

very difficult to choose 5 albums from the above list as the majority do simply not represent the given artists best work (Sea & Cake, Blonde Redhead, Electrelane and Liars have all recorded much better albums in the past) or indie MOR representations (Jamie T, Bloc Party, Klaxons et al), while at the same time so many really good records released in 2007 have been left off. Without even thinking very hard about it Marissa Nadler, Tom Brosseau, Barr, Shannon Wright, Great Lake Swimmers, Thee Stranded Horse and Enon spring to mind, as well as many others mentioned in the comments above.

Andrew Bird, Battles, Grinderman, No Age and Panda Bear get the vote but properly only 2 of these would end up in my personal top 10 for 2007.

the national, battles, lcd soundsystem, the shins and arctic monkeys get my vote

i'm just suprised

I myself am actually struggling with the album at the moment, and am listening to 'Debut' and 'Post' alot due to this.

the best album of the year is from here we go sublime by the field

where is it?

MINUS THE BEAR!?

Helped sort out my thoughts on the years ears. IMO -
!!!, Panda Bear, Dalek, Grinderman and Animal Collective!

Good job on the list, I've 16 on there and twas daunting enough sorting those out.

it's a 2006 album.

i own 33 of the ones in the main list and 12 in the 'nearly included' list so this is really difficult. i think joanna newsom and the ys street band should be allowed in even though it is only an ep just because it was so amazing.and 65dos and el-p should definitely be there but you cant have everything.im voting:

arcade fire
battles
blonde redhead
m.i.a.
of montreal

although i really want to vote andrew bird aswell

Aren't all of those acts well-liked by the reviewing team here? I think it goes 8/10, 9/10, 9/10 for this year's releases.

I can't see a way out of it, 'less we're adding token albums by black acts. dälek is great, Clipse is great; but look at some other comments here: White Stripes WTF, Queens of the Stone Age WTF, Biffy Clyro WTF... seems that many a reader wants this list to be dull white-boy MOR rawk.

Aeroegramme, Emma Pollock or basically anyone Scottish! (I'm not Scottish by the way)

Also, I enjoyed albums by Mick Harvey, Unkle, Go! Team this year. And lots of others too.

Decent list of 50 though I thought.

Should have been on the shortlist I think, along with Low. Jeffrey Lewis, Bjork and Okkervil River as well.

It's been an amazing year for albums in general though.

drums and guns is unbelievable. belarus would make me weep if i wasnt so fuckin hard.

I have only heard cuts from some of the others and otherwise not at all.

would have got my vote too :(

On a sheer statistical front, metacritic states it to be on average the best reviewed album of the year, i find it silly that it is not on there. Amongst a few others, but yeah, mainly the field. Ridic.

i'd forgotten how much good stuff had come out this year til i read this, i have 16 of the main list, still intend to pick up a few of the others, and found myself agreeing with a large number of the should've-been-there's: shellac, DMST, bjork, menomena, interpol, enon, spoon, mice parade, dirty projectors, akron/family, pissed jeans...
so, yeah. a lot of good albums in 2007!

Suprised that was left out, its a top album!also, cassadaga by bright eyes is good and fionn regan too!

would have liked to have seen...
Parts + Labor
Matthew Dear
Scout Niblett

but otherwise it's cool. Strawberry Jam gets my vote.

I am losing faith in DIS. This list is awful. There are sooooo many great albums completely overlooked....

where are...

Lightning Dust, Johnny Boy, Miracle Fortress, *shels, Aereogramme, Oceansize, Shady Bard, UNKLE, White Rabbits, Porcupine Tree, Jetplane Landing, Reuben, Okkervil River....to name a few????

And I like the way the voting thing works. I reckon next year though if you increased it to 100 albums then you'd put an end to most of this hilarious moaning

That said, I would've had The Field, Digitalism and Maps in there ;)

Sunset Rubdown, Menomena, The Apples In Stereo, Frog Eyes and Okkervil River.

where is,

kings of leon - "because of the times"
shout out louds - "our ill wills"
the thrills - "teenager"
figurines - "when the deer wore blue"
taken by trees - "open field"

???

I'll prepare he witch-hunt

My post went in the wrong place, oh well.

...beats this year's Spoon, Kevin Drew, Portugal. The Man or even Interpol. Damn, you've made me vote for Klaxons.

Where's fucking Burial...clearly album of the year...

Burial?
Eh?

'Tis a hard thing to produce such a list though.

I would've voted for MMISL.

actually, album of the year
well
maybe
...
so i'm voting klaxons, just for that

Pretty much all my favourite albums this year failed to make the list...Patrick Wolf, Interpol, iLiKETRAiNS etc. Alas.

obviously.

Boss is my dark horse for album of the year.

have put Dream Theater's Systematic Chaos on the short list but I suppose irony-free prog metal isnt everyone's cup of tea.

Where is it??? You bloody fools!!
Also The Field is not only good enough to make the Top 50, it's good enough to make the Top 3!
The Cribs??? Thou art having a laugh. Why not put Mika in there while you're at it?
x

It should be there

I believe there'll be a poll at jockrock.org and/or isthismusic.com so you can maybe right things there - yeah, to leave out all of Malcolm M, Emma P, King Creosote, Frightened Rabbit, Swimmer One, Magnificents, quite surprising. Or even Biffy Clyro (which I don't like).
Still, the Twilight Sad is in there, grateful for small mercies, eh?

^ was last year

The DiS readership appears to be focused on mostly 'white' artists. And, no - it's important for no-one to not be tokenistic under any circumstances whatsoever.

So I voted for MIA, Arctic Monks and LCD. If Dizzee and QOTSA had made it in - they would've got me other 2 votes.

On the plus side, at least the list gives me the opportunity to explore som artists that I might, as yet, not have time to hear.

this.

No Queens of The Stone Age or Nine Inch Nails?

Saturday Looks Good To Me - Fill Up The Room

Easy!

And also on Jeff Lewis, from up there ^

Cassadaga is a great album.

Jamie T? Really????? I mean, seriously? Jamie Fucking T????!!!!

I'll get my tit out like Janet, coz she's unavailable...

You also forgot Kevin Drew. WTF.