With the year of 2007 winding down, its time to declare who’s the best. With shows like “Top 20 TV commercials”, “Top 15 celebrity meltdowns” and Fox probably showing “Top 25 bear attacks”, all over the airways it’s only appropriate that we at Say No Radio join the crowd and say what we think. Plus there is just something nice and manly about lists. They say “I am a man and here is what I think about this” in a very nice top to bottom fashion. After much thought and deliberation here is my best effort.
10 albums of the year:
1) Daft Punk - Alive 2007
2) Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3) LCD Soundsystems- Sounds of Silver
4) Radiohead – In Rainbows
5) Interpol - Our Love to Admire
6) Peter, Bjorn, and John- Writer’s Block
7) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
8 ) Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson in Crime
9) Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew - Spirit If
10) Feist - The Reminder
Honorable Mention: Fujiya and Miyagi -Transparent Things, Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs, M.I.A. - Kala
Top 5 Breakout Artists/ Albums
1) Peter, Bjorn, and John - Writer’s Block
2) Tokyo Police Club - A lesson in Crime
3) Fujiya and Miyagi - Transparent Things
4) Kooks - Inside In/ Inside Out
5) The Fratellis- Costello Music
Top 15 Songs (This was extremely difficult)
1) Peter, Bjorn, and John - “Young Folks”
2) Interpol - “Rest My Chemistry”
3) LCD Soundsystem - “North American Scum”
4) Tokyo Police Club - “Be Good”
5) Spoon - “Don’t You Evah”
6) LCD Soundsystem - “Someone Great”
7) Arcade Fire - “No Cars Go”
8 ) Cold War Kids - “Hang Me Up to Dry”
9) Radiohead - “The Reckoner”
10) Band of Horses “The Funeral”
11) Thieves Like Us - “Drugs in My Body”
12) Pinback - “Good to Sea”
13) Peter, Bjorn, and John - “Let’s Call it Off”
14) BSS presents Kevin Drew - “Lucky Ones”
15) The Format - “The First Single”
Honorable Mention: Feist “1-2-3-4″ , Fujiya and Miyagi “Transparent Things”, Tokyo Police Club “Nature of the Experiment”, M.I.A. “Paper Planes”
Best Band Names
1) Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
2) I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness
3) Venice is Sinking
Best Song Names
1) “Sweden Hasn’t Changed, You Have””
2) ”Hospital Rooms Aren’t For Lovers”
3) “The Late Great Libido”
There it is…..I tried to stick to the year of 2007 or late 2006 at least to keep it real (which is why The Decemberists Crane Wife and The Rapture’s Pieces of the People We Love are absent from the list above) . Oh and by the way, I must say that our Canadian brothers up North had quite a year. Arcade Fire, Tokyo Police Club, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Seth Rogan (Superbad), Steve Nash and the Canadian Dollar’s triumph over the greenback. I will go on record and say this is the only time I will acknowledge Canada for having a good year.
Feel free to disagree with my positions above…2008 is an election year anyway, we might as well get used to arguing.
Happy Holidays,
Kristopher
