The Wire : 2007 Rewind 50 Records Of The Year
 

The Wire : 2007 Rewind 50 Records Of The Year
01 Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)
02 Burial - Untrue (Hyperdub)
03 Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
04 OM - Pilgrimage (Southern Lord)
05 LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver (DFA/EMI)
06 Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino)
07 Pram - The Moving Frontier (Domino)
08 MIA - Kala (XL)
09 Battles - Mirrored (Warp)
10 Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36 (Fabric)
11 Grinderman - Grinderman (Mute)
12 Kassin+2 - Futurismo (Luaka Bop)
13 Matthew Dear - Asa Breed (Ghostly)
14 Strategy - Future Rock (Kranky)
15 Laub - Deinetwegen (AGF Producktion)
16 Björk - Volta (One Little Indian)
17 Pole - Steingarten (~scape)
18 Harmonia - Live 1974 (Grönland)
19 John Butcher - The Geometry Of Sentiment (Emanem)
20 Akio Suzuki - K7 Box (ALM)
21 Deerhunter - Cryptograms (Kranky)
22 Lil' Wayne - Da Drought 3 (Mixtape) (No Label)
23 Peter Evans Quartet - Peter Evans Quartet (Firehouse 12)
24 James Blackshaw - The Cloud Of Unknowing (Tompkins Square)
25 Kemialliset Ystävät - Kemialliset Ystävät (Fonal)
26 Pandit Pran Nath - Raga Cycle (SRI Moonshine)
27 Flower-Corsano Duo - The Radiant Mirror (Textile)
28 Electrelane - No Shouts, No Calls (Too Pure)
29 Zeitkratzer & Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (Asphodel)
30 Gudrun Gut - I Put A Record On (Monika Enterprise)
31 Marnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken Arm (Kill Rock Stars)
32 Throbbing Gristle - Part Two: The Endless Not (Mute)
33 Rhys Chatham - The Crimson Grail (Table Of The Elements)
34 Radiohead - In Rainbows (www.inrainbows.com/XL)
35 The Focus Group - We Are All Pan's People (Ghost Box)
36 The Terminals - Last Days Of The Sun (Last Visible Dog)
37 Sightings - Through The Panama (Load)
38 Anthony Braxton - 9 Compositions Iridium 2006 (Firehouse 12)
39 Steve Jansen - Slope (Samadhisound)
40 Haswell & Hecker - Blackest Ever Black (Warner Classics)
41 Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf)
42 Dial - 168K (Cede)
43 Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips (Holy Mountain)
44 fORCH - Spin Networks (PSI)
45 PJ Harvey - White Chalk (Island)
46 Hanne Hukkelberg - Rykestrasse 68 (Nettwerk)
47 Susan Howe & David Grubbs - Souls Of The Labadie Tract (Blue Chopsticks)
48 Lichens - Omns (Kranky)
49 Low - Drums And Guns (Sub Pop)
50 Frank Bretschneider - Rhythm (Raster-Norton)

Panda Bear but no Animal Collective...? :eek:

Thats a more intrigueing list than the pitchfork one, good to see they ranked the Von Sudenfed album in the top 10 because its a belter and deserves to be up there with the best Fall albums.
But Battles again... ugh.

I think the new burial is pretty weak.
some nice names in there.

The Wire's end of the year lists get more and more predictable.

I agree.

But it's nice to see Von Sudenfed in there

Corsano made the list twice...

I'm disappointed that Paul Metzger's "Deliverance" is not on this list.
Some good stuff up there, but M.I.A.?
Seeing that album all over these year-end lists is starting to bug me.

I'm happy to see James Blackshaw in there, i love that record. Where's Growing's 'Vision Swim'? I havent seen it in one 'end of year' list yet, i thought at least The Wire would include it.

I was left feeling really disappointed when I listened to ''Deliverance''. I was expecting more, but it isn't anything that grabbed me and made me sit down and listen to it.

I still need to hear that Wyatt album.

at least Battles and MIA are somewhat defendable [Battles being that its an amazing album]... what about LCD??? that shits on SPin and RS's Top 10 too... damn

lame list. Bjork's worst alblum ever made it? Wire is supposed to represent the more interesting side of underground music, and besides a few great ones on there, its mostly the same shit as all the other best of lists...

i am glad 'cryptograms' has been gettin some love though. despite deerhunter being pitchfork darlings, i think they are a very interesting band. i love their sound, very eerie vocals with ambient drones and indie guitars. i think they are surely one of the better "indie rock"bandsto have come out in quite some time.

Whatever.

Why do people feel the need to constantly say "animal collective" in any way shape or form when these lists come up? Look, that album's not that good, we've all accepted that the solo albums by the respective members were better, and I clap for Wire for not putting them on this list: they'll be voted # 1 in teen sweethearts magazine, blender, spin, and all the other bullshit you idiots read, so stop going "WHOA WHEERE'S ANIMNAL COLELCLTIVE?"

Anyway, I mostly disagree with this list, but kudos to them for making a list that almost seems honest in a way. Not to mention they're the only magazine that will probably highlight the REAL best work of the year (33 Rhys Chatham - The Crimson Grail). Don't really have anything to say, except.. what's with the LCD Soundsystem thing? I mean, really? Why do people who are usually intelligent about music pretend that shit's good?

Strawberry Jam is bloody good man

edit: Sonicpark, whats your list? seeing as you despise this and the pitchfork one?

edit 2: And yeah, LCD soundsystem makes no sense at all to me; dancy music to dance to when you're out and about, but to actually LISTEN to??? na na nah

I don't despise this list at all, man. It's a good list, I don't necassarily agree with a lot of the picks, but all in all it's the best list I've seen yet (besides Rock and Rolla's). I posted my list on the paulybee thread, but I added/took away a few things, simply because I forgot a few albums I liked a lot came out in 2007..

So.. REVISED: atsonicpark's top 50..
1. Rhys Chatham - Crimson Grail
2. Sleeping People - Growing
3. Neurosis - Given to the Rising
4. Toddle - Dawn Praise the World
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. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
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
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. To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - The Patron
39. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
40. Jesu - Lifeline
41. Vola and the Oriental Machine - Android
42. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Of Natural History
43. Xiu Xiu / Larsen - Spicchiology
44. Black Dice - Load Blown
45. Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
46. Goon Moon - Licker's Last Leg
47. Oxbox - Narcotic Story
48. Sunburned Hand of the Man - Fire Escape
49. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
50. Unsane - Visqueen

fuck an LCD soundsystem.

I have no idea what most of these albums are, but what is this... The Terminals (as in "the great as fuck band from new zealand whom I thought were gone long time ago") have released an album this year?

oh, so it's not just me.

there's definitely some stinkers in there, glad rhys and james blackshaw are in there, om is like the sleeper album of the year (no pun intended), if you keep count.

i am very surprised lil' wayne made the list and not, say, pharoahe monch who made an amazing record this year.

and animal collective made a better record than the last, that doesn't mean it's album of the year automatically.

A boring best of.

i didn't hear the pharoahe monch, but i suspect weezy's album was better. in a lyrical battle, they would be great sparring partners, but often, monch's production and beats fall short. weezy, on the other hand, flirts with the beat, giving it a life it may not have otherwise had.

just sayin'.

i don't know, the new one has some great beats and the songs that don't have beats have some interesting music to go with it.

for once, it integrates guitar leads in such a way that can school the rza in doing so.

Wow. That's The Wire's best of 2007 list?

It could almost be a top 50 by the NME or Q magazine... (almost.)

(Does that mean The Wire's getting duller or the NME/Q are getting slightly more interesting? Hmm.)

I checked. The Wire's list officially agrees (partly) with Rolling Stone magazines top 50 of 2007.

Ooooooooooh.

You're such a bitch. Unbelievable.

Do you guys really think that your end of the year lists are of any significance to anyone in major quantities, like, ever? I mean, unless you professionally write them, therefore throwing them from the catapult that is a mass media platform, do you seriously think that many people really care about them? I think not.

How many people actually pay attention to them?

13, and they all post here.

No indie answers, please. Enough of those.

wow, best 2007 top fifty yet, I just saw SPINs and they give props to the wildhearts, black rebel motorcycle club and prince!???!!

yes

What's with The Wire's obsession with Burial? What's so interesting about this project indeed? Am I missing something?

i found new Burial kinda weak as well, to be on No. 2. where's Thurston's TOTA?

Not me. I am glad to see that there are others who don't get the Burial thing. I haven't heard the new one but the first one sound like coffee table trip hop that could have been made a decade ago. Utter tripe.

Agreed, especially on the decade old vibe of it.


edit: on the utter tripe part too.

Yeah, all the hype for Burial is really shocking. I was listening to Radio 1 late one night, and the disc jockey was drooling all over the ''Exclusive New Burial Second Album Preview!''. When she put it on I couldn't believe the blandness of it all. Iain, spot on about the ''coffe table'' remark. It totally is the work of people who hang around too many high street wine bars.

By the way, if anyone listens to Resonance Fm, did you notice the lapse in the quality of some of its programs that came about in recent times?

Whats with the Burial bitching? Both of his records are great.

i dont know, i rarely read the wire cuz its so fucking expensive and the articles are vry long (in comparison with other music publications) so i cant read them in a store, but i usually do rely on them to cover music which is different than all other publications. i do read their website articles though.