Five favourite albums and tracks to have come out in 2007 so far...

Albums:

1. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna
2. Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
3. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
4. MIA - Kala
5. Ian Hunter - Shrunken Heads

Tracks:

1. Of Montreal - Suffer For Fashion
2. Apples In Stereo - 7 Stars
3. Dinosaur Jr. - Almost Ready
4. Feist - I Feel It All
5. Spoon - The Underdog

Hey is that 'Hissing Fauna' just a titular reference to Joni or is it like a reply album?

Albums:

1. Amerie - Because I Love It
2. Hyphy Hitz
3. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
4. Calle 13 - Residente o Visitante
5. Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue

Tracks:

1. Calle 13 - "Tango del Pecado"
2. R. Kelly - "I'm a Flirt"
3. Salem al-Fakir - "Dream Girl"
4. Mistah F.A.B. - "Ghost Ride It"
5. Charlotte Hatherley - "I Want You to Know"

Damn Reverend I'm shocked. Calle 13 is THE MOST annoying shit on the planet today. Play me 'Lean Like a Cholo' 1,000,000 times, and I'd be happier than hearing that whiny little 'Calle 13' ever again.

Caveat: Most of my favorite singles of this year were floating around as of last year. A top five singles list would look like "Tango del Pecado", "Throw Some D's" "LoveStoned", "With Every Heartbeat", "U + Ur Hand", but I stuck to songs that first appeared this year.

xp: WAHT!

"Lean Like a Cholo" = snoozzze

(The word "Cholo" should be used in more songs, though.)

Yeah. I'm going to give everyone a chance to decide:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUV7amX-G3o

This is actually the entry in the visual dictionary under 'douche-bag.'

I'd already decided I LURVE the video (their vids are generally great, except for their new "Cumbia de los Aburridos" video, which is really dumb), although, yeah, Residente does kind of look like a douche.

But what does whether dude looks like a douchebag have to do with the quality of their music?

Actually I absolutely hate his voice. Music is nothing special. And then his little dickish attitude probably biases me further, it's true.

Anyway, you haven't posted yours. Post yours.

What are your feelings about Lily Allen? (Seems random, but I get a lot of the same cheeky bastard vibe from both of them, although I like Calle 13 more than Ms. Allen.)

Reverend - you're right, I should probably not be so negative about stuff, but the reality of my situation is that I seem to always be around when MTV Tr3s is playing and that's my main musical exposure these days. Most of it doesn't do me much good.

As far as my own list, this year my wife had a baby, so my list wouldn't do anyone much good. As for Lilly Allen, I've only heard a few things, but the vocals she did on that Common track were really good, and I really quite like 'Smile.'

I haven't heard the Common/Lallen track. I've been meaning to pick that album up, but I really don't have much faith in it to be any good, even though "Be" was, like, my favorite album of that year.

Albums;

Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
Caribou - Andorra
Battles - Mirrored

Tracks;

LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Acoustic Ladyland - Salt Water (Scott Walker Mix)
Spoon - Don't You Evah
Working For A Nuclear Free City - Rocket
Six.By Seven - Liberation

Yeah, I wouldn't know what to do with the album. I don't really like Common, but I do indeed enjoy that one track.

Actually, you make me jealouso. I don't get MTV Tr3s. -_-

Oh yeah. Sometimes its torture, but it is my current addiction. Anyway, back to the very interesting lists.

I do listen to the Musica Urbana audio-only channel on my cable, though. I need to figure out what the hilarious English-language song about analingus is. I wrote it down once, but lost the paper. I sometimes worry about whose hands that note might have fallen into.

:) Now that made me laugh.