Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2007
 

 

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10. Burial - Untrue
9. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
8. Battles - Mirrored
7. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
6. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
5. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. M.I.A - Kala
2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
1. Panda Bear - Person Pitch

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Although I like Kala, I don't think it would be in that place. There were better releases than that. I looked through all of the list and yeah not many appealed to me.

Once again, The First Original Silence is nowhere to be found. And the irony is thick with this list considering it's from Pitchfork and a lot of their top fifty picks did not merit an eight or more out of ten when they were reviewed in the online magazine.

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It's astonishing to me that every list that I read that ranks underground or experimental albums fairly highly does the reader the disservice to roundly ignore the 2005 The Original Silence concert released by Smalltown Superjazz this year. The First Original Silence is entirely performed live improvisationally. Music that finds its way to a release just doesn't get much more underground or experimental than this recording. Moreover, there is a genuine spirit to this document-in-sound that the discerning ear instantly recognizes.

And so arises a case (although I would have awarded the album a 9.0 and not an 8.0) where I agree with a Pitchfork review:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/articl...iginal-silence

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Originally Posted by an excerpt from Marc Masters
Those inclined toward improvised music can usually find something worthwhile in all forms of it. But even the most blindly faithful recognize when a session shoots so high that it sounds more like a rocket than a record. The First Original Silence is that kind of instant attention-grabber. Original Silence use the same tools as many improv groups: rolling percussion, squawking horns, guitar feedback, and scraggly electronic noise. But these six sound-crushers have added some sort of performance-enhancing drug, injecting their sound with energy rare to any music, improvised or otherwise.

is this for real?

NO FUCKING WAY.

Paulybee likes them, and he has good taste. Their debut is a critical darling of the electronic dance music set. I haven't heard the new one, so it didn't have a chance to make my top fifty.

Thing is, with any magazine picks, they are always going to play to certain demographics within their readership.

10. Burial - Untrue... dreadful tripe
9. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime..... bland does nothing goes nowhere
8. Battles - Mirrored............ i dont want to repeat myself!!!! a classic
7. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga..... meh whatever, apathy!
6. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam..... excellent!
5. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?... overrated mojo
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows... good but not great
3. M.I.A - Kala.... erm, am i missing something????
2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver.... excellent buy it now!!!!!!!
1. Panda Bear - Person Pitch.... great but not as great as strawberry jam

i LOVE LCD too, but the new album was not anywhere near as good as their previous release

i disagree, sound of silver is a much finer album than the first for 2 reasons. one, each song is an instant classic...... and 2, the first album does have classics like losing my edge (possibly the greatest dance song ever) but it meaners too much and doesnt have a coherent feel to it.. sound of silver remains silver sounding throuighout and all your friends is an incredible song!

if you dont believe me than this should help

I totally disagree, i love burial, i think it deserves to be up there. His first record is a masterpiece!

i dont get LCD...sounds like the Killers to me...maybe i just dont get it... well at least that one track everyone is talking about=all my friends...that one sounds like the Killers...

Person Pitch pwns. its my #1 too. it was definitive form the moment I heard it. I knew there'd be nothing better this year.

seen it and love the song

just saying i only like 2-3 songs off sound of silver as opposed to the first album, in which i LOVE every single song.

guess it's just my personal opinion or whatever.

seen LCD live 3 times, great performers.

wow, almost every one of those albums is terrible.

shock of the year: pitchfork are predictable dicksucking idiots who know NOTHING about music.

As for person pitch vs. strawberry jam, pullhair rubeye is about 500 times better than either of those. But for the record, person pitch is pretty cool, not my favorite panda bear release and not something I'll probably ever listen to again but whatever. Strawberry Jam is WAY fucking overproduced and ranges on unlistenable at times, but it's got some jams on it, specifically the second half of the album (the first 2 or 3 songs on it are just godawful though).

This new Avey Tare indeed is great, very strange I didn't see them mentioned throughout the year. Their myspace has like some 2000 views...

"duh it's backwardz fuckdat record faggotzz" or something.

Meanwhile, Panda Bear's overly long and overly bright and overly boring Beach Boys-over-sampled-records is "brilliant".

Crazily enough, I haven't heard the Panda Bear. I would expect that it isn't as great as Strawbery Jam though. Many seem to agree that's the case.

Pitchfork aren't always right but saying they know nothing about music is really exaggerated in my opinion.

Haha no way I was just looking at this thread on another forum. The only one in the top 10 I like is In Rainbows.

pitchfork loses indie cred for not putting anything SY related on that list.

plus they chose the new stars of the lid over the new growing? pssh! fuck that.

I hadn't noticed Thurston's Trees outside the academy wasn't on the list, that's stupid as it's far better than a lot of records listed.