We're almost 6 months through the year, so at this near-halfway point...whatcha loving?

Here's mine for the year so far:



!!! - Myth Takes


Mark Ronson - Version


Blonde Redhead - 23


Dungen - Tio Bitar


Björk - Volta

BONUS QUESTION: What do you predict your favorites will be from upcoming releases this year?

you mean,you can actually find time to listen to other artists? I thought you were only listening to the Betty Davis remasters these days

1. LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
2. !!!- Myth Takes
3. Chromeo- Fancy Footwork
4. Björk- Volta
5. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible

All of these are in my top 25 of the decade. It's really been a fantastic year for music so far!

Releases that are upcoming that I think will rock my world are the following:

Annie
Kylie Minogue
The Cure
Annie Lennox

And I'm amazed Anx and I actually share 2 albums in the top 5!

The only 2007 album I'm gonna buy isn't even out yet so, no favorites

FuNkeNsteiN said:

... oh and to answer your bonus question,
Prince - Planet Earth

SoulAlive said:

you don't know how close to the bone that comment really is.

i had a two or three week period there where it was all betty, all the time.

i wouldn't say i'm burnt out, but let's just say i can widen the circle a little now...

Any of the greatest hits collections by old artists that were released this year.

vainandy said:

if those were eligible i'd say the sly & the family stone box, and oh, a couple of other reissues but for some reason i can't POSSIBLY remember whose.

I have so many greatest hits and reissues, that I can't remember which ones I bought in 2007 either.

Anxiety said:

Paul McCartney. His upcomming release is renisecent of his days with Wings and Beatles. So far, I've heard the previews and I am digging on it.

MsLegs said:

even though i liked "chaos and creation" a lot, i'm scared to listen to the new one. i'm hearing so much positive hype about it, i'll be really disappointed if i listen and it's so-so. i'm sure i'll get really bored one day and take the risk...

Anxiety said:

Anxiety, I can understand your apprehension. With new CD releases, there's always an element of risk involved b/c an artist is experiementing. However in Paul's case, he went back in his treasures case of temple of familiar and channeled Harrison and Lennon.

Mika - Life in a Cartoon World

Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Crowded House - Time on Earth

Bjork - Volta

Betty Davis Reissues

I need more music!

Dammitt, they still don't have these in any of the record stores in my area! The record store can special order them for me, but I had hoped they would have the good sense to keep them in stock on their own without being asked.

vainandy said:

whereabouts are you??

i'd just break down and order them from amazon.com or something.

Current:


1. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black


2. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55


3. The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home


4. The Horrors - Strange House


5. Tori Amos - American Doll Posse

Up and Coming:


Björk - Volta (already released)


Feist - The Reminder (already released)


The White Stripes - Icky Thump

I'm in Mississippi. I only order off the internet as a last resort because I hate putting my credit card number into a site and having "cookies" (or whatever these computer terms are) that have followed me from site to site, find out my number.

The record store can definately order it for me but I was just waiting around to see if it would come in on it's own. These record stores are losing it these days. The last few times I was in there, they had taken basically all the full albums out by older artists and only carried their greatest hits compilations (if that). I was looking to buy some Ohio Players albums (which were in there a few months ago) and they had absolutely nothing in the store by them. However....they had a shelf and a half of the same CD by these current artists. I can see keeping more of the current artists in the stores because that's what sells the most but they don't even have one Chromeo CD, which is also a current group. Apparently, if a current artist doesn't make bullshit, they aren't going to carry their product. It's getting to be rediculous.
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[Edited 6/8/07 10:29am]

hey guys -

isn't amy winehouse technically a 2006 release? cuz if we're calling it a 2007 album, i'm gonna have to do some revising.

Anxiety said:

You're right. She dosen't count.

Anxiety said:

I count what gets released in my country this year: Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, The Long Blondes--all are eligible to me even though their albums were released in the U.K. last year. Now if I lived in England it would be a different story. Those are my rules.

sextonseven said:

whoa. anarchist. you need to take that mess to alt.music.prince before the org reverts to a state of nature!

1. NIN - Year Zero
2. The National - Boxer
3. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
4. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
5. Grinderman - Grinderman
6. Bjork - Volta
7. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
8. Low - Drums & Guns
9. Kristen Hersh - Learn to Sing Like a Star

The usual suspects.
Bonus Question: Black Francis - Bluefinger. Due out in September. But with the Cure, SP, Prince on the horizon, it's way too early to tell...

Anxiety said:

You wouldn't want me in any position of power. I'd rule with an iron fist. God help orgers if I became a mod.

Back to my rules, one exception would be that a 2007 U.S. release is ineligible if the import charted the previous year--like Joan As Police Woman's album is coming out domestically this month, but it can't make my 2007 list because the import was my #4 album of last year.

sextonseven said:

and how am bizarro lois feel about this rules?

Anxiety said:

I think my rules are perfectly logical. You can't have an album be a favorite for two different years. That's real anarchy right there.

Anxiety said:

It's ALLLLL about amazon with her stuff!

sextonseven said:

i'm sorry. i'm still over the image of you ruling with an iron fist. add in grace jones and snakepeel's finger and i think i'm in heaven.

what was this thread about?

Anxiety said:

It's the same with Goldfrapp from last year. I think US release dates should count. Many of us didn't even know she existed until this year.

sextonseven said:

:hifive: You tell em!