2007: What album did you listen to most this year (doesn't have to necessarily be from this year, though)?

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this was the year that I discovered Steely Dan, so either Aja or Gaucho.

Or, alternately, the first disc of the Disinegration Loops, almost certainly my favorite CD to fall asleep to (albeit a little macabre).

simian mobile disco

The Studio- West Coast

doesn't quite count as an album, but I spent a lot of time listening to the John Coltrane "Classic Quartet Studio Recordings" box set (which I got for xmas last year).
as for new stuff, it was probably a toss-up between the ghost and clientele records.

Wilco - "Sky Blue Sky"

free ag3nts brass band album, as yet unreleased

Most likely it was Efterklang's Parades for me.

Pink Reason "Cleaning the Mirror"
A break up will do it.

New ones: Patrick Wolf, Electrelane, Caribou - all about the same amount.

Old ones: http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/staff_top_10/top-ten-most-listened-to-in-2007-not-from-2007.htm

probably just be reason of it being out in january or so: sound of silver

Also the Rita Lee album Hoje É o Primeiro Dia do Resto da Sua Vida, which I listened to FUCK LOADS but wrote a whole other big long article about so didn't include in that list.

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_second_thought/rita-lee-os-mutantes-hoje-o-primeiro-dia-do-resto-da-sua-vida.htm

Field Music, Tones of Town

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Judging based on my iTunes "Most Played" list, it's (a) Wilco's Sky Blue Sky, (b) Radiohead's In Rainbows, (c) Lewis Taylor's The Lost Album, (d) Studio's West Coast, (e) Burial's Untrue and (f) A Place To Bury Strangers' self-titled debut.

Catherine Ribeiro & 2Bis, Lucio Battisti's Anima Latina & Tokyo Jihen's Variety

though sheer repeat play value doesn't necessarily reflect deepest impacts

probably smif n wessun - dah shinin

VNV Nation -- Judgement

patrick wolf - "the magic position"
caribou - "andorra"
harry nilsson - "nilsson schmilsson"
zombies - "odessey and oracle"
lcd soundsystem - "sound of silver"
battles - "mirrored"
andrew bird - "armchair apocrypha"
boredoms - "pop tatari"
the gun club - "miami"

Milton, sometimes it scares me how similar our tastes are. Variety was definitely my most-listened-to album from 2007, and that Battisti album is a favorite as well (I like his later '70s stuff a lot too).

Have you heard Eugenio Finardi or Francesco Guccini? If not, do! All Finardi's stuff is worthwhile, though my favorite is Diesel (which has the bassist from Area). Check out Guccini's album 'Guccini' from '83--a later work that's less folky and better-recorded than his early '70s stuff. Amazing voice.

count me in for Italian progressive songwriters, thanks

Rihanna. Also, Judy Collin's Leonard Cohen album. (Also Leonard Cohen's Songs of.) I also found myself listening to the Strokes debut a lot this last month.

from this year: Low, Caribou, PJ Harvey, a few others. Grinderman probably. and other new releases too, but not so much as those.

from years' past: a whoooooole lot of Pet Shop Boys. more so than anything else i'd guess.

does anyone else reset their play counts in iTunes at the beginning of the new year, like i do?

I listened to Fabriclive 36 close to a million times.

humphreys & keen 'the overflow'

Probably either the new ones by UGK or Lifesavas or maybe Zeph and Azeem.

8 Diagramns and climbing

That Fredric album.

much Angelic Process.

of Montreal's "Hissing Fauna..."

(with The National's "Boxer" a non-too-distant second)

possibly Strategy's 'Future Rock'

jim ford - sounds of our time

bill withers live at carnegie hall

Either Hyphy Hitz or Sound of Silver or Residente o Visitante or the Soul Jazz tropicalia comp from last year, maybe Aaliyah even.

bill withers live at carnegie hall

-- El Tomboto, Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:33 PM (Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:33 PM) Bookmark Link

GOOOOD MUTHAFUCKIN CHOICE!

I'm guessing these:

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Arthur Russell - World of Echo
Eluvium - Copia
Apparat - Walls
Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City

If you use last fm, it will tell you the most played albums of the past 12 months.

Only if you're a slave to iTunes.

kubichek, most recent outrageous cherry, "tusk", "out of the bachs", the sole tyrnaround album..

I suppose, also: The Petals - Butterfly Mountain
John Cale - Paris, 1919
Rebecca & The Sunnybrook Farmers - Birth
Goslings - Grandeur of Hair
Pumice - Pebbles

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2
DJ Spinna - Strange Games and Things

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This is what having a toddler does to you. But it's great, I've always loved it.

I don't have any software to confirm it for me, but it has to be Okkervil River's The Stage Names, although I also probably listened to Challengers more than any reasonable person should.

Lots of Enslaved, Wolves in the Throneroom, and Danava. Also Beatles Love got a lot of play.

For classics, jeez I sure listened to Farewell to Kings and Fly to the Rainbow a lot. Pentagram too.

I've been keeping a list of what cds I listen to all the way through since the mid 90s. I ran a report off the list for the past year and I found the results kind of funny.

#1 Mountain- Nantucket Sleighride (9 listens)
#2 Porcupine Tree- Fear of a Blank Planet
Carlos Santana/ John McLaughlin - Love, Devotion, Surrender (both 8 listens)

#3 Fleetwood Mac- Boston Blues
Free- Tons of Sobs
Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon (7 listens)

There is 28 albums more at 6 listens, including a half dozen Brian Auger records.

I think it is funny that the CD I have heard the most in the past year is by Mountain. I would have never thought that one, even though I did get that records for the first time last year. I have been on a 60s & 70s rock kick for a year or two, that is what I listen to the most.

buckingham/nicks!!!!

The two Konki Duet albums, by a staggering margin. Like Bert and Ernie above, this was heavily influenced by having a baby in the house.

"Their Satanic Majesties Request" - The Rolling Stones

"Girls and Boys In America"

That's my favorite Mountain record. So awesome.

Would've been the new Clockcleaner if it'd come out earlier than November

definitely Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi

These are just guesses, but:

Om's three albums. I have no idea how many times I played these. a lot.
Gas - Pop, Zauberberg, Koenigsforst.
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
Merzbow - Sphere.
Fennesz Sakamoto, Cendre
Angels of Light, all of them, mostly New Mother.

no, replace Sphere with 1930. I get the two Tzadik titles mixed up.

T&S - The Con
The Brother Kite - Waiting For the Time to Be Right

TUSK

itunes informs me that it is John Coltrane's 'The Stardust Sessions'

honestly, i suspect its the flykkiller album.
it just hit a certain nerve at the right time when i was in a particular mood, making it very difficult to listen to anything else for several weeks. every year i get one album like that, and in 2007, it was flykkiller.

Older:
YMO - Solid State Survivor
Neil Young - On the Fucking Beach

New:
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday
Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel

GOOOOD MUTHAFUCKIN CHOICE!

What he said. Hell, maybe I'll listen to it tonight.

Roughly in order -

1. Midlake, Trials of Van Occupanther
2. Andrew Bird, Armchair Apocrypha
3. Elvis Costello, Imperial Bedroom
4. Big Star, #1 Record

And then, generally, the Byrds. All of their first six albums.

Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide

Though this year's Defective Epitaph is gaining fast

YMO - Solid State Survivor

I applaud the taste of anyone who loves this album! For me, probably Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant Assassins des Mouches or Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon Three.

The Brother Kite - Waiting For the Time to Be Right

this is a tremendous record

change - glow of love

Probably The Lodger - Grown-Ups.

According to last.fm, my top 5 are:

1. Klaatu - 3:47 EST
2. The Suburbs - Ladies and Gentlemen, the Suburbs Have Left the Building
3. Foreigner - Complete Greatest Hits
4. Sparks - Lil' Beethoven
5. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Grand Opening and Closing

...probably stephen marley - mind control

quite possibly my album of the year too...

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^^^song of the year ???

Hard to tell, but from iTunes I'm guessing it was one of these:

Mike Wexler - Sun Wheel
22 Band - Venez Voir
Daniel Owino Misiani & Shirati Band - Benga Blast!
CCR - Willy & the Poor Boys
Silver Apples - The Garden
Bobby Timmons - Easy Does It

According to last.fm

The Chills - Kaleidoscope World
The Three O'Clock - Arrive Without Travelling
Sparks - Propaganda
The Monochrome Set - Eligible bachelors
The Aliens - Astronomy For Dogs

New: Battles - Mirrored
Old: David Bowie - Low

I listened to Fabriclive 36 close to a million times.

cosign

Josh Rouse, 1972, as a result of the second-most-listened, his Country Mouse, City House

probably young dro - best thang smokin' or the shangri-las - myrmidons of melodrama

I started off "Pet Sounds" hardcore for two months and then easily transfered into "Waiting for the TIme to Be Right" for the rest of the year. "Time to Be Right" is like Fountains of Wayne on Valium when they started, writing a Beach Boys record.

top playtimes of 07 according to stats roughly cobbled together from itunes:

fiery furnaces - widow city
battles - mirrored
t.rex - electric warrior
momus - ocky milk (heh)
mahogany - connectivity
when - pearl harvest
robert wyatt - old rottenhat
death in june - operation hummingbird
cardiacs - a little man and a house and the whole world window
& all the other cardiacs records

Jobriath - "Creatures Of The Street"
Elton John - "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Jean Michel Jarre - "Oxygene"
Pet Shop Boys - "Disco 2"
Fox - "Fox" and "Blue Hotel"
Scott Walker - "Scott 2"

todd rundgren - something/anything
suzanne vega - beauty and crime
lots of hall and oates
lots of townes van zandt
rush - moving pictures
karen carpenter - karen carpenter
lots and lots of ferron
the poppy family - a good thing lost
lots of elliott smith
sun kil moon - tiny cities
the tragically hip - day for night
the grapes of wrath - treehouse

1 of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
2 Panda Bear – Person Pitch
3 Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth
4 The Van Pelt – Sultans of Sentiment
5 Napoleon IIIrd – In Debt To
6 No Age – Weirdo Rippers
7 Deerhoof – The Runners Four
8 Low – Drums And Guns
8 Jeffrey Lewis – 12 Crass Songs
10 Bill Wells & Maher Shalal Hash Baz – Osaka Bridge

Not surprised by the top two.

The Free Design - Kites Are Fun
Lo Borges - A Via Lactea
Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet Statique
Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys - Mr Words and Mr Music
The Dillards - Backporch Bluegrass

Moondog - The Viking of Sixth Avenue
Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Harold and Maude OST
Cluster - Sowiesoso
Magical Power Mako - Super Record
Gang Starr - Hard To Earn
De La Soul - De La Soul Is Dead (shit)
Masta Ace - Slaughter House
Freestyle Fellowship - To Whom It May Concern

From this year:
Pterodactyl - S/T
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Grouper - Cover The Windows And The Walls

Future of the Left - Curses
Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm
Upsilon Acrux - Galapagos Momentum
High on Fire - Death Is This Communion

Icky Thump has been in the car stereo for more than a few months now.