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I really thought Battles was a disappointment. The EPs prior to it were fucking great and not like anything else around at the time. They kind of just made that sound more Pitchfork/Urban Outfitters.

Top 50? Way too much for me to type. Also, I haven't even listened to the majority of the albums released this year. It would definately include the following:
Xiu Xiu/Larsen
Avey Tare
Animal Collective
Panda Bear
Xiu Xiu Remixed and Recovered
Wolf Eyes(The black wings over the sand or whatever it was called)
Battles
XBXRX
Mong Hang
Deerhoof
Arcade Fire

you know something? i need to redo my list because i forgot some great stuff (wooden shjips, shining, the angelic process).

so yeah, that was a draft.

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even though mirrored is not perfect and very trendy, i can't stand the eps anymore, i loved them but they sound very dated now.

the besnard lakes and a place to bury strangers need to be added as well. gah, i need to retool this list a bit before i do my compilation best of 07 album thingy!

the besnard lakes definitely should be on my list, so those the second ktl album.

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Originally Posted by PAULYBEE2656

the besnard lakes and a place to bury strangers need to be added as well. gah, i need to retool this list a bit before i do my compilation best of 07 album thingy!

i wasn't wearing my glasses earlier, so when i first read what you wrote i thought you wrote the barenaked ladies need to be on your list.

I forgot about the Ainotamenishis record. That might be my favourite of all this year.

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Originally Posted by uhler

i wasn't wearing my glasses earlier, so when i first read what you wrote i thought you wrote the barenaked ladies need to be on your list.

that seems to be a common misreading the barenaked lakes or the besnard ladies!

Impressive...I haven't heard 50 records from 2007, i can't even make a top 10

1 Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
2 The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
3 Panda Bear - Person Pitch
4 Amon Tobin - Foley Room
5 To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - Patron
6 Deerhunter - Cryptogram
7 Shugo Tokumaru - Exit

so here, after all this time and how i never gotten around to posting it until now, is my totally cheating list of albums in ranking of how much i enjoyed them and felt were the best:

1. Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail (For 400 Guitars)
2. Jesu - Conqueror
3. Neurosis - Given To The Rising
4. Kemilliset Ystävät - Untitled
5. Nadja - Radiance Of Shadows
6. Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
7. Sutcliffe Jügend - This Is The Truth
8. Kousokuya - Echoes From Deep Underground
Ray Night, 2006.10.18.
9. Descartes A Kant - Paper Dolls
10. Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying
11. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
12. Los Llamarada - The Exploding Now!
13. Ghost - In Stormy Nights
14. Alcest - Souvenir D'un Autre Monde
15. Li Jianhong - San Sheng Shi
16. Lasse Marhaug - The Great Silence
17. Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
18. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
19. Oren Ambarchi - In The Pendulum's Embrace
20. Zelienople - His/Hers
21. Bad Brains - Build A Nation
22. Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
23. Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen
24. Islaja - Ulual Yyy
25. Smegma - 33 1/3
26. Hot Cross - Risk Revival
27. Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
28. To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - The Patron
29. Trap Them - Sleepwell Deconstructor
30. Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips
31. LSD Pond - LSD Pond
Alasehir - The Stone Sentinels
Alasehir - Sharing The Sacred
Alumbrados - A Generation Of Vipers
Baikal - Baikal
32. Polysics - Karate House
33. Pita - A Bas La Culture Marchande
34. Baroness - Red Album
35. Suishou No Fune - The Light Of Dark Night
36. Unsane - Visqueen
37. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
38. Original Silence - The First Original Silence
39. Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
40. Hild Sophie Tafjord - Kama
41. Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
42. Boredoms - Super Roots 9
43. Benighted - Icon
44. Kenji Siratori - Survival Mind
45. Zoroaster - Dog Magic
46. Mammal - Lonesome Drifter
47. Yellow Swans - At All Ends
48. Om - Pilgrimage
49. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls In Sand
50. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid In The Stars
51. James Blackshaw - The Cloud Of Unknowing
52. Wold - Screeching Owl
53. Heavy Winged - Feel Inside
54. Angels Of Light - We Are Him
55. Hentai Lacerator - Covered In Fun
56. Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
57. Bongripper - Hippie Killer
58. Pan Sonic - Katodivaihe
59. Silverchair - Young Modern
60. Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thuderbolt
61. Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
62. Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
63. Circle - Panic
Katapult
Sunburned Circle - The Blaze Game
Pharaoh Overlord - Live In Suomi Finland
64. Taint - Sex Sick
65. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
66. Rubbish - Vexanation, The Great American Outhouse
67. Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
68. Bloody Panda - Pheromone
69. Prurient - Adam Tied To Stone
70. Watain - Sworn To The Dark
71. Astro - Astral Orange Sunshine
Galax - Never Ending Space Trackin'
72. Battles - Mirrored
73. Death Ambient - Druken Forest
74. Meat Puppets - Rise To Your Knees
75. Xiu Xiu Larsen - ¿Spicchiology?
76. BBBlood - Experiment 50
77. 108 - A New Beat From A Dead Heart
78. Jessica Rylan - Interior Designs
79. Armenia + Cornucopia - Un Infierno Total
80. Pre - Epic Fits
81. Antigama - Resonance
82. Gallhammer - Ill Innocense
83. The Fall - Reformation Post TLC
84. Zozobra - Harmonic Tremors
85. Astral Social Club - Super Grease
Neon Pibroch
86. Orthodox - Gran Poder
87. Carlos Giffoni - Arrogance
88. Job For A Cowboy - Genesis
89. RTX - Western Xterminator
90. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
91. Destroyer Destroyer - Littered With Arrows
92. Burning Star Core - Blood Lightning
Operator Dead...Post Abandoned
93. Weedeater - Godluck and Goodspeed
94. Eluvium - Copia
95. The Bark Haze - The Bark Haze
96. Behemoth - The Apostasy
97. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
98. Religious Knives - Remains
99. Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules
100. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy

top list... worth the wait in a suprising bump!

Great list, everyneurotic. I see that we agreed on the # 1 pick!

radiohead, battles, shellac...

man i listened to some shitty albums in 2007

my 2007 top 10 (not ranked):

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Prodigy - Return Of The Mac
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Ratatat - Remixes Vol II
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Sean Price - Jesus Price Supastar
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
TI - TI Vs TIP

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Originally Posted by atsonicpark

SERIOUSLY, pauly, I love you, but how can you not have the new stars of the lid anywhere in your top 50?!

My top 50 so far.. the year isn't over but close enough.. also, I'm counting EP's in here I guess.. I only put like 2... this is all from my memory just now, not some big list I had..

1. Rhys Chatham - Crimson Grail
2. Sleeping People - Growing
3. Toddle - Dawn Praise the World
4. Neurosis - Given to the Rising
5. Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
6. Mong Hang - Debaktaka
7. Polysics - Karate House
8. Jesu - Conqueror
9. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
10. Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
11. Sir Richard Bishop - Staged
12. Growing - Vision Swim
13. Avey Tare - Pullhair Rubeye
14. Mammal - Lonesome Drifter
15. Residents - Voice of Midnight
16. Athletic Automation - Roman's Empire
17. The Tuss - Rushup Edge
18. Electro Group - Good Technology
19. The Fall - Post Reformation TLC
20. Tomahawk - Anonymous
21. Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from the Ash
22. Gein and the Gravediggers - Songs in the Key of Evil
23. Oren Ambarchi - Burial Chamber Trio
24. Dodheimsgard - Supervillian Outcast
25. Boris/Merzbow - Rock Dream
26. Weedeater - God Luck and Good Speed
27. XBRX - Wars
28. Pan Sonic - Katodivaihe
29. Zazen Boys - I Don't Wanna Be With You [though their live album was better, it was only released online, so..]
30. Motocompo - Chiptop Lips
31. Qui - Love's Miracle
32. Sloth Love Chunks - Shakuhi Express
33. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
34. Pre - Epic Fits
35. Meneguar - Strangers in Our House
36. Battles - Mirrored
37. Ministry - The Last Sucker
38. Mark Prindle - Smilehouse
39. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
40. Jesu - Lifeline
41. Vola and the Oriental Machine - Android
42. Low - Drum/Gun
43. Xiu Xiu / Larsen - Spicchiology
44. Black Dice - Load Blown
45. Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
46. Goon Moon - Licker's Last Leg
47. Experimental Dental School / Melt Banana Split
48. Sunburned Hand of the Man - Fire Escape
49. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
50. Unsane - Visqueen

EDIT: I can't wait to see all the unwarranted # 1's for stuff like "Mirrored" and "Person Pitch".. sure, that stuff's good, but the best of the year? Hardly. I heard probably 150-200 things this year, I heard most of the stuff you guys listed, so I think I have a pretty good list myself.. There were plenty of disappointments (new Hella, Liars, Jesu's "Pale Sketches", etc.) but it was a pretty good year all in all. If for some ODD reason, I put a 2006 album anywhere on that list, put stuff like the new Bloodthirsty Butchers in place of it.

Also, I really need to hear the Zu/Nobokazu Takemaru disc.. fuck.. Also, been meaning to hear the new Circus Devils (SGT. DISCO), because the description makes it sound awesome. Oh and fuck - new Pram? I'm there. OH, and I just heard about a new Fatal Flying Guilloteens too so I gotta check that out.

i had no fucking clue athletic automation had a full length yet. i love their split with made in mexico though, and live theyre amazing.

One year after, I have to say that the 2007 album I've enjoyed the most was Black Dice's Load Blown. Pure awesome bliss, it still destroys my mind at every listen.
I am not good at doing list, but my top would include Battles, Animal Collective, Pantha du Prince (that one very high), To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie, Panda Bear, among others

STRAWBERRY JAM was a definite contender. As was Devin The Dude's WAITING TO INHALE.

ahh shit!!! forgot about mong hang!!!