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2007 Year In Review

Written by Kyle Matteson

Monday, December 31, 2007 at 02:27 PM

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Reveille isn't even a year old yet, but it's that time of year when every music critic answers the deep primeval call within him or herself to make lists of things. Whether it's an instinct more akin to salmon swimming back upstream to spawn or lemmings chasing each other off cliffs is up to you to decide. We've tried to keep things fresh by asking some of our favorite local and national artists for year-end lists of their own, and we didn't restrict it to just music.

P.O.S. (Doomtree/Rhymesayers artist)

top ten things of 2007
1 theft.
2 zap branagan.
3 doomtree blowout 3.
4 ghostface.
5 heiruspecs ten year.
6 broken cell phones.
7 ipod touch.
8 mel gibson and the pants weekly at the nomad.
9 crashy hard drives.
10 ea skate.

Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)

(no order)
Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse
Feist - The Reminder
Megafaun - Bury the Square
Land of Talk - Applause, Cheer, Boo, Hiss
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Martin Devaney (musician / Eclectone Records head honcho)

Local:

Stook - When The Needle Hits the Wax
JoAnna James - Back of My Mind EP
Dan Israel - Turning
Little Man - Soulful Automatic
The Owls - Daughters and Suns
National:
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Springsteen - Magic
Robert Pollard - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love
Jason Isbell - Sirens of the Ditch

Bryce Dessner (guitarist for The National)

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
Grizzly Bear - Friend EP
Feist - The Reminder
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
Michael Harrison - Revelation
Doveman - With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Andrew Broder (Fog, HeatdeatH)

Top 10 local graffiti writers for 2007
Danger
Dues
OhDe
Ensue
Viper
Shock
Hank
Arch
Impeach

Bill Caperton (Ela, One for the Team, Turf Club booker)

Local:
1. Ben Weaver - Paper Sky
2. Mouthful of Bees - The End
3. Themes - War Over The Great Plains
4. The Pines - Sparrows In The Bell
5. Spiritual Mansions - Give Us Your Hearts
National:
1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (holy shit)
2. The National - Boxer
3. John Vanderslice - Emerald City
4. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
5. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha

Jeremy Gara (drummer for Arcade Fire)

Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Susanna Wallumrod - Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos
Blonde Redhead - 23
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Supersilent - 8
Feist - The Reminder
The Luyas - Faker Death
The National - Boxer
Burial - Untrue
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Sunn 0))) - Oracle

Rob Skoro (Musician / 331 bartender)

Ten Things Not Necessarily New in 2007, But Nonetheless Made 2007 Great
(In No Particular Order):
1. Fog - Ditherer
2. Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma (book)
3. The ROFLCOPTER
4. Water balloon slingshots
5. Not getting a Facebook profile
6. Vampire Weekend, particularly their songs "Oxford Comma," and "A-Punk"
7. Ela - Real Blood on Fake Trees
8. Sailing
9. The Double-Bass
10. Saunas

Haley Bonar

Best things and stuff for 2007 (not really even in 2007)
The Evens - The Evens
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Fever To Tell + Isis EP
Karen Dalton - Something On Your Mind
MIA - "Paper Planes"
"Pan's Labyrinth" (film)
"Stardust" (film)
"No Country for Old Men" (movie and book!)
"The Hobbit"
recording
Planet Earth DVD box set

Ed Ackerson (musician / Susstones Records / Flowers Studio)

The Sadies - New Seasons
The Alarmists - The Ghost and the Hired Gun
Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation
First Communion Afterparty - Ever Last Sting
Limbeck - Limbeck
Led Zeppelin digital reissues
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me
The Hives - The Black and White Album
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81

Jenny Dalton (musician)

Lost Patrol - Launch and Landing (This is an obscure band from NY fronted by a woman with a beautiful, Mazzy Star-like voice. They're the sweetest, blurriest band to involve surf guitar.)
Art in Manila - Set the Woods on Fire (I picked up the album at my inaugural visit to an Amoeba record store while I was in Los Angeles. I listened to it over and over again on my drive down to San Diego which was the best middle-of-the-night soundtrack I could've hoped for. I was also surprised to hear a cover of my favorite song from Les Savy Fav who also had a great new release this year.)
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends (I sorta kinda have a crush)
Gogol Bordello - Super Tantra (Viva waltzing parlor punk!)
Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers (The irony of a song called "Don't Loose Yourself" is that you do just that.)
Kristen Hersh - Learn to Sing Like a Star (Kristen is one of my heroes. Her voice, weathered by the harsh terrain of the music industry, always has something profound to say.)
Maps - We Can Create (This is the kind of music that can instantly make you feel like you've been swept into an epic fairytale.)
Blonde Redhead - 23 (Some of the most enchanting to work to come from 4 AD since its reigning days of the counter-culture.)

Fave older releases still in the player in '07
My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me the Workhorse (I first saw My Brightest Diamond when she opened for DeVotchKa, and I've never in my life been so drawn into an acoustic guitar set)
Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites (This came out in Denmark in 2005, but I only found it this last year so it counts. "Special" might be one of my favorite songs of all time.)
Joanna Newsom - Y's (At first, I didn't get into the "Disney-ness" of Y's, but just like "Milk Eyed Mender," the album won me over and made me obsessed with it. Her show at the 400 Bar was incredible and disorienting—kind of like exiting a theater after seeing a really good movie.)

Peter Lansky (DJ SOVIETPANDA)

Albums
1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2. Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
3. Deerhunter - Cryptograms
4. Beyond the Wizards Sleeve - Live @ the G-Mex, Manchester, 2007
5. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
6. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
7. Glass Candy - B/E/A/T/B/O/X
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Isis EP
9. Daft Punk - Alive 2007
10. Kathy Diamond - Miss Diamond To You
11. Vitalic - V Live
12. Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Reinterpretations
13. Blonde Redhead - 23
14. Digitalism - Idealism
15. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
16. !!! - Myth Takes
17. Radiohead - In Rainbows
18. Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi
19. Priznhorn Dance School - Prinzhorn Dance School
20. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

Singles
1. Rihanna - "Don't Stop The Music"
2. Queens of the Stone Age - "Sick, Sick, Sick"
3. LCD Soundsystem - "Get Innocuous!"
4. Cut Copy - "Hearts on Fire"
5. Larry Tee feat. Princess Superstar - "Licky (Herve Goes Low Remix)"
6. Rihanna feat. Jay-Z - "Umbrella"
7. Fall Out Boy - "Hum Hallelujah"
8. The Black Ghosts - "Some Way Through This"
9. Simian Mobile Disco - "It's The Beat"
10. Radiohead - "Bodysnatchers"
11. Armand Van Helden - "I Want Your Soul"
12. Escort - "A Bright New Life"
13. Holy Ghost! - "Hold On"
14. The Kills - "URA Fever"
15. Kanye West - "The Good Life"
16. ZZT - "Lower State of Consciousness"
17. Spoon - "Don't Make Me A Target"
18. The Rapture - "The Sound (Ben Trucker's Back To 95 Remix)"
19. !!! - "Heart of Hearts"
20. Battles - "Atlas"