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| From | "Christopher Kouzes" <Christopher.Kouzes@btol.com> |
| Subject | Top 20 of 2007 (under the wire) |
| Date | Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:21:46 -0500 |
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I wasn't going to play, but who am I foolin'???
1. Ted Leo/Living with the Living
2. Future Clouds and Radar/ST
3. Robert Plant and Alison Krause/Raising Sand
4. Bruce Springsteen/Magic
5. New Pornographers/Challengers
6. Nines/Gran Jukle's
7. Silverchair/Young Modern
8. Frisbie/New Debut
9. Crowded House/Time on Earth
10. Sloan/Never Hear the End of It
11. Jason Falkner/I'm OK...You're OK
12. Lewis Taylor/Lost Album
13. Super Furry Animals/Hey Venus
14. Albert Hammond Jr./Yours to Keep
15. Primary 5/Go
16. Maple Mars/Beautiful Mess
17. JackDaw4/Bipolar Diversions
18. Drowners/Cease to Be
19. John Doe/Year in the Wilderness
20. You Am I/Convicts
Runners-up
Radiohead/In Rainbow
Wilco/Sky Blue Sky
Arcade Fire/Neon Bible
Clientelle/God Save the Clientelle
Josh Ritter/Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Spoon/Ga-Ga-Ga...
Ben Lee/Ripe
Marmalade Souls/In Stereo
Fields/Tones of the Town
Farrah/Cut Out and Keep
Monkeeman/Jumping on the Monkee Train
Welcome Back
Dinosaur Jr/Beyond
Meat Puppets/Rise to Your Knees
I'm not a huge fan of either, so I was pleasantly surprised how much I liked both of these albums.
Disappointment
Fountains of Wayne
I usually a fan of these guys, but this one to me sounded like they were just going through the motions. Years ago around the time of "Green," Peter Buck said they could write "R.E.M. type of songs" all day long. They were trying to break away from that by swapping instruments while recording Green. I feel that FoW are stuck in a rut of just writing FoW type of songs and as a result, the new album sounds tired to my ears.
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