tracks on heaviest rotation in 2007

Not necessarily all on my top albums list, but these are the songs that were on constant repeat and what will always sound like 2007 to me

Pump up the Volume - Art Brut (if anyone really cares to know how my mind works - this is it....actually not that complicated is it?)
Slow Show - The National
Our Life is not a Movie or Maybe - Okkervil River
Snakes and Ladders - Basia Bulat
Peacebone - Animal Collective
Red Sea, Black Sea - Shearwater
Cannot get, started - Handsome Furs
Boy with a Coin - Iron and Wine
Heart's a mess (Duosseudo remix) - Gotye
Cigarettes, wedding bands - Band of Horses

edit 29 Dec
How did I possibly do up a best songs of the year list and leave off
All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem ?
Simply can't be done - especially because it could be the number one.
so there you have it... the top 11 tracks on heaviest rotation for 2007 after all.

TOP 20 ALBUMS 2007

Alright.....I've been obsessing over this for weeks now, but I've not been getting anything done. After some gentle prodding in the last few days though I realised it was gonna have to be now or never. So here's what's been on my most played list throughout the year of 2007 from 1 to 20. Check out any of the stuff you don't already have and enjoy!

01 The National – Boxer
There's really not a wrong note on this album for me and these guys provide an awesome live show as well. Looking forward to seeing them again on this side of the world. This was truly the National's year.

02 Okkervil River – The stage names
Dramatic, epic, howling, exciting and just plain fantastic

03 Handsome Furs – Plague Park
It's amazing what these guys do with a guitar, a drum machine and some ragged, emotion filled vocals. Chuck in some synth and distorted electro beats and they get themselves a winner

04 Iron and Wine - The Shepherds Dog
Sam Beam started moving away from his lo-fi roots and building a more polished and deeper sound here - an amazing album. Looking forward to seeing him here in Melbourne in March. (And at Golden Plains)

05 Art Brut – It’s a bit Complicated
One of my favourite live bands of the year and and album with probably my top track of the year. Fun Fun Fun Fun Fun.

06 Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara
Deliriously beautiful

07 The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Jack baby - you still got it.

08 Jim Bryson – Where the Bungalows Roam
Another great Canadian release. Gentle, but extremely good singer songwriter material.

09 Interpol – Our love to Admire
Rest my Chemistry.....enough said.
Due to hit our shores in the new year - one of my most highly anticipated gigs to start 2008.

10 Radiohead – In Rainbows
I came, I paid, I listened........and goddammit I loved it.
Welcome back into my world boys

11 Band of Horses – Cease to Begin
Hot on the heels of the stellar Everything All the Time came yet another great album this year.

12 Dappled cities fly – Granddance
Only made it in because the US release was this year - but this Aussie band have been impressing wherever they go. Great Indie Rock

13 Feist – The Reminder
Because there's a whole lot more to this album than ipod commercials

14 Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position
Divinely over the top magnificence and showmanship

15 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder

16 The Dears – You and I are a Gang of Losers

17 Nina Nastasia and Jim White - You Follow Me

18 Tori Amos – American Doll Posse

19 Basia Bulat - Oh My Darling (just kicked out Blanche on my final type up almost entirely on the strength of rehearing "Snakes and Ladders" as I was working)

20 BRMC – Baby 81

Honourable mentions
Blanche - Little Amber Bottles
(Thanks Dave!) These guys probably should be up on the list, but they only came to my attention very recently. Probably one of my fave discoveries all year (along with Heartless Bastards)
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
So much better live than I ever imagined
Josh Ritter – The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Yet another beautiful album from one of my favourites in the game
The Panics – Cruel guards
The Triple J (Australian Radio) 2007 J award recipient. This album actually doesn't contain some of my favourite Panics songs, but it's still a great record and continues to impress me

Doveman - With my left hand I raise the dead
As I said when I featured this album - so.....damn.....beautiful

Jenz Lekman - Night falls over Kortodela
Because Jenz is deliciously, wonderfully Jenz and he's moving to Melbourne!
Gotye - Mixed Blood
The remix of 2006's fabulous 'Like drawing Blood' is almost even better.

Arcade Fire is on

Yes after all the rumours and speculations it has finally been confirmed. Arcade Fire are to perform some sidelines to the Big Day Out gigs in Sydney and Melbourne.

Shows are:

Tuesday 22 January 2008
Enmore Theatre, Sydney
$69 + bf

Tuesday 29th January 2008
Forum Theatre, Melbourne
$69 + bf


TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY 12 DECEMBER