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I never did a review of 2007, so it may start to appear sporadically throughout 2008. Starting with these musical selections:
Not limiting choices to one song per artist, I've come up with this list (in no particular order):
1- See You at the Lights (1990s)
2- Myriad Harbour (The New Pornographers)
3- Let's Dance to Joy Division (The Wombats)
4- We Can Be Strong (Willy Mason)
5- You Don't Know What Love is (The White Stripes)
6- Wasted Little DJs (The View)
7- Lay Down the Law (Switches)
8- Let's Lightening (Pull Tiger Tail)
9- Lucky Me (Piney Gir)
10- The Magic Position (Patrick Wolf)
11- Grace Kelly (Mika)
12 - Our Velocity (Maximo Park)
13 - Your Love Alone is Not Enough (Manic Street Preachers)
14 - O.A.V.I.P. (The Maccabees)
15 - North American Scum (LCD Soundsystem)
16 - All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem)
17- Two Receivers (Klaxons)
18- Foundations (Kate Nash)
19- The Angry Mob (Kaiser Chiefs)
20 - Heat Dies Down (Kaiser Chiefs)
21- You and I are Both Away (Idlewild)
22- I Hate Nightclubs (I Was a Cub Scout)
23- Let Me In (Hot Hot Heat)
24- Into Oblivion (Funeral For a Friend)
25 - Skulls and Flesh and More (Fields; incidentally, this [I]really[/I] makes me think of the New Adventures - 'Professor take my hand...')
26- Bore Da (Euros Childs)
27- Had Enough (The Enemy)
28- If That's the Case Then I Don't Know (The Electric Soft Parade)
29- Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors (Editors)
30 - Love Made Visible (Delays)
31- Love is Dead (Brett Anderson)
32 - Kreuzberg (Bloc Party)
33 - Sunday (Bloc Party)
34 - I Still Remember (Bloc Party)
35 - Flux (Bloc Party)
36 - I Started a Fire (Ash)
37 - Ritual (Ash)
38 - Fluorescent Adolescent (Arctic Monkeys)
39 - You Can't Stop the Beat (Hairspray Soundtrack)
40 - Pretty Women (Sweeney Todd Soundtrack)
Favourite albums of the year:
Ash - [I]Twilight of the Innocents[/I]
Bloc Party - [I]A Weekend in the City[/I]
LCD Soundsystem - [I]Sound of Silver[/I]
The Maccabees - [I]Colour it In[/I]
Klaxons - [I]Myths of the Near Future[/I]
Kaiser Chiefs - [I]Yours Truly, Angry Mob[/I]
Not limiting choices to one song per artist, I've come up with this list (in no particular order):
1- See You at the Lights (1990s)
2- Myriad Harbour (The New Pornographers)
3- Let's Dance to Joy Division (The Wombats)
4- We Can Be Strong (Willy Mason)
5- You Don't Know What Love is (The White Stripes)
6- Wasted Little DJs (The View)
7- Lay Down the Law (Switches)
8- Let's Lightening (Pull Tiger Tail)
9- Lucky Me (Piney Gir)
10- The Magic Position (Patrick Wolf)
11- Grace Kelly (Mika)
12 - Our Velocity (Maximo Park)
13 - Your Love Alone is Not Enough (Manic Street Preachers)
14 - O.A.V.I.P. (The Maccabees)
15 - North American Scum (LCD Soundsystem)
16 - All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem)
17- Two Receivers (Klaxons)
18- Foundations (Kate Nash)
19- The Angry Mob (Kaiser Chiefs)
20 - Heat Dies Down (Kaiser Chiefs)
21- You and I are Both Away (Idlewild)
22- I Hate Nightclubs (I Was a Cub Scout)
23- Let Me In (Hot Hot Heat)
24- Into Oblivion (Funeral For a Friend)
25 - Skulls and Flesh and More (Fields; incidentally, this [I]really[/I] makes me think of the New Adventures - 'Professor take my hand...')
26- Bore Da (Euros Childs)
27- Had Enough (The Enemy)
28- If That's the Case Then I Don't Know (The Electric Soft Parade)
29- Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors (Editors)
30 - Love Made Visible (Delays)
31- Love is Dead (Brett Anderson)
32 - Kreuzberg (Bloc Party)
33 - Sunday (Bloc Party)
34 - I Still Remember (Bloc Party)
35 - Flux (Bloc Party)
36 - I Started a Fire (Ash)
37 - Ritual (Ash)
38 - Fluorescent Adolescent (Arctic Monkeys)
39 - You Can't Stop the Beat (Hairspray Soundtrack)
40 - Pretty Women (Sweeney Todd Soundtrack)
Favourite albums of the year:
Ash - [I]Twilight of the Innocents[/I]
Bloc Party - [I]A Weekend in the City[/I]
LCD Soundsystem - [I]Sound of Silver[/I]
The Maccabees - [I]Colour it In[/I]
Klaxons - [I]Myths of the Near Future[/I]
Kaiser Chiefs - [I]Yours Truly, Angry Mob[/I]