+ top live album of 2007 +
Jason Anderson - Tonight (live)
+ top albums of 2007 +
01 | Radiohead - In Rainbows
02 | Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up
03 | The National - Boxer
04 | Gruff Rhys - Candylion
05 | Maserati - Inventions for the New Season
06 | Bjork - Volta
07 | Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
08 | Jens Lekman - Night Falls over Kortedala
09 | The Go Find - Stars on the Wall
10 | Aarktica - Matchless Years
11 | Trembling Blue Stars - The Last Holy Writer
12 | Enon - Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds
13 | Rivulets - You Are my Home
14 | Carol Bui - Everyone Wore White
15 | John Vanderslice - Emerald City
16 | Blonde Redhead - 23
17 | Club 8 - The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming
18 | Jeremy Enigk - The Missing Link
19 | The One A.M. Radio - This Too Will Pass
20 | St. Vincent - Marry Me
21 | Statehood - Lies and Rhetoric
+ i don't feel like i listened to these enough to add into the best of, but i like them +
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
Rob Crow - Living Well
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - s/t
Justice - †
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Matt Pond PA - Last Light
Travis Morrison Hellfighters - All Y'all
New Pornographers - Challengers
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
Radical Face - Ghost
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga
+ top cd-singles/eps of 2007 +
Pas/Cal - Dear Sir
The Brother Kite - Moonlit Race EP
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Kris Racer - Has a Banner Year
+ top compilation albums of 2007 +
Even As We Speak - A Three Minute Song is One Minute Too Long (The Singles 1986 - 1990)
The Lucksmiths - Spring a Leak
+ best shows of 2007 +
2007-01-14 The Brother Kite @ The Note
2007-02-21 Sparklehorse @ Double Door
2007-02-23 Saturday Looks Good to Me @ Hideout
2007-04-13 John Vanderslice/St. Vincent @ Lakeshore Theater
2007-04-14 The Robot Ate Me/Run, Chico, Run/Paper Airplanes/EyesEarsNose @ South Union ARts
2007-04-27 Dismemberment Plan @ Black Cat
2007-04-28 Dismemberment Plan @ Black Cat
2007-05-12 Bjork @ Auditorium Theatre
2007-06-05 Maserati @ Lakeshore Theater
2007-06-07 Pipettes @ Empty Bottle
2007-06-29 Calvin Johnson/Julie Doiron @ South Union Arts
2007-07-05 The Besties/Kid, You'll Move Mountains/The Fake Fictions @ South Union Arts
2007-07-11 J Roddy Walston and the Business/Reptoids/The Modern Temper @ South Union Arts
2007-07-18 The Decemberists @ Millenium Park
2007-08-19 Darren Hanlon, David Singer, Kris Racer @ South Union Arts
2007-09-30 The Lucksmiths @ DC9
2007-10-06 Slaraffenland @ South Union Arts
2007-10-11 The Freewheeling Yo La Tengo @ Lakeshore Theater
2007-10-18 Carol Bui/Steven Gilpin @ The Note
2007-11-02 Jens Lekman @ Logan Square Auditorium
all of these shows above were off the hook awesome, but the bolded ones will stick with me forever. oh my.
film
+ films of 2007 that i absolutely loved and that i think most everyone should watch +
01 | Persepolis
02 | Sunshine
03 | Romance & Cigarettes
04 | Sicko
05 | Superbad
06 | Once
07 | Meet the Robinsons
08 | 10 Items or Less
09 | Harry Potter and The Order Of the Phoenix
10 | I Am Legend
11 | Shoot 'Em Up
12 | The Savages
13 | Talk to Me
14 | Waitress
15 | Ratatouille
16 | Away from Her
17 | Sweeney Todd
18 | Hannah Takes the Stairs
19 | Smiley Face
20 | Atonement
21 | Billy the Kid
22 | Juno
23 | The Host
+ other movies i enjoyed this year, but that i wouldn't say were my faves +
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For The Theaters
Dan in Real Life
The Golden Compass
Knocked Up
The Prestige
Red Road
Year of the Dog
Zodiac
There were definitely a bunch of movies I didn't see that I assume would have made the Top 20. Persepolis, Juno, In the Shadow of the Moon, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, as well as some others I still want to see like Bamako, Forever, Manufactured Landscapes, This is England, etc. So many movies to see. Never enough time.