{"id":3391,"date":"2007-12-01T18:27:51","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T23:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/2007-contenders\/"},"modified":"2007-12-01T18:27:51","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T23:27:51","slug":"2007-contenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/2007-contenders\/","title":{"rendered":"2007 contenders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to play the blogger&#8217;s <em>best of the year<\/em> game differently this year, but I need to keep the rules roughly the same so that I am (for once) on the same planet. I&#8217;m going to choose ten best albums, but they&#8217;re what I discovered in 2007, not just those released in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>So these are my contenders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A Hawk And A Hacksaw And The Hun Hang\u00c3\u00a1r Ensemble<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>A Hawk And A Hacksaw And The Hun Hang\u00c3\u00a1r Ensemble<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Air<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Pocket Symphony<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Akron\/Family<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Love Is Simple<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Akron\/Family<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Meek Warrior<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Animal Collective<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Strawberry Jam<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Architecture In Helsinki<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Places Like This<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Avey Tare &amp; Kr\u00c3\u00ada Brekkan<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Pullhair Rubeye<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bees<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Octopus<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Beirut<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Flying Club Cup<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Black Lips<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Good Bad Not Evil<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bonnie Russell and the Russell Family<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Mountain Dulcimer Galax Style<\/em> (1995)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bright Eyes<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Cassadaga<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Caribou<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Andorra<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cathy Fink<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Banjo Talkin&#8217;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Colleen<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Golden Morning Breaks<\/em> (2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dan Jones and The Squids<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Totally Human<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Devendra Banhart<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dock Boggs<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>His Folkways Years (1963-1968)<\/em> (1998)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Donovan<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Barabajagal<\/em> (1969)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Donovan<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Hurdy Gurdy Man<\/em> (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Donovan<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Mellow Yellow<\/em> (1967)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Donovan<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Sunshine Superman<\/em> (1966)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enoch Kent<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>I&#8217;m a Rover<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Erynn Marshall &amp; Chris Coole<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Meet Me In The Music<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Feist<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Reminder<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fountains of Wayne<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Traffic and Weather<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fred Spek&#8217;s Camp Combo<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Rock Paper Scissors<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grinderman<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Grinderman<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hamish Imlach<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Cod Liver Oil &amp; Orange Juice<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Howe Gelb<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>&#8216;Sno Angel Like You<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ideal Free Distribution<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Ideal Free Distribution<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jeffrey Frederick &amp; the Clamtones<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Resurrection of Spiders in the Moonlight<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jesse Sykes &amp; The Sweet Hereafter<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Like Love, Lust, &amp; The Open Halls of the Soul<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Joanna Newsom<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Joanna Newsom and the Ys Street Band EP<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>John Fahey<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Best Of John Fahey Vol. 2 1964-1983<\/em> (2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Johnny Cash<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>American I &amp; II<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Judee Sill<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Judee Sill<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ken Reaume<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Four Horses<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kevin Drew<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Spirit If&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kilby Snow<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Kilby Snow: Country Songs and Tunes with Autoharp<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kimberley Rew<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Ridgeway<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marissa Nadler<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Songs III: Bird On The Water<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Michael Hurley<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>First Songs<\/em> (1964)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mimi &amp; Richard Fari\u00c3\u00b1a<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Vanguard Visionaries &#8211; Mimi &amp; Richard Fari\u00c3\u00b1a<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Monica Grabin<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Continental Village<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Neil Young<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Harvest<\/em> (1972)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Of Montreal<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Okkervil River<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Stage Names<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Old Man Luedecke<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Hinterland<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Otha Turner<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Everybody Hollerin&#8217; Goat<\/em> (1998)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Panda Bear<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Person Pitch<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Po&#8217; Girl<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Home to You<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Porter Wagoner<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Wagonmaster<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Radiohead<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>In Rainbows<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ragged But Right<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Down Harmony Road<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert Force &amp; Albert d&#8217;Ossch\u00c3\u00a9<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Tiger Dreams<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sons of the Never Wrong<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Nuthatch Suite<\/em> (2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stew<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Guest Host<\/em> (2000)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Aliens<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Astronomy For Dogs<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Apples in Stereo<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>New Magnetic Wonder<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Arcade Fire<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Neon Bible<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Besnard Lakes<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Carter Family<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Carter Family 1927-1934<\/em> (2001)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Foggy Hogtown Boys<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Pigtown Fling<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Harvey Girls<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Wild Farewell<\/em> (2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The High Water Marks<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Polar<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Houseplants<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Livingroom<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hylozoists<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>La Fin du Monde<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Icicles<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Arrivals &amp; Departures<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ladybug Transistor<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Can&#8217;t Wait Another Day<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Negro Problem<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Post Minstrel Syndrome<\/em> (2002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Polyphonic Spree<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Fragile Army<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Soft Machine<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Soft Machine<\/em> (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Unicorns<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Who Will Cut Our Hair When We&#8217;re Gone?<\/em> (2003)<\/li>\n<li><strong>They Might Be Giants<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Else<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tiger Lillies (with Kronos Quartet)<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Gorey End<\/em> (2003)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uncle Dave Macon<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Classic Sides<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Various Artists<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Skiffle &#8211; The Best Of<\/em> (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Various Artists<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>The Old Time Banjo Festival<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Vashti Bunyan<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wendy Arrowsmith<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Now Then&#8230;?<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Wilco<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Sky Blue Sky<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Willie Nelson<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d <em>Red Headed Stranger<\/em> (1975)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Before you freak out at the number of CDs I bought, I do subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emusic.com\/\">emusic<\/a>, so a bunch of these were MP3 only.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to play the blogger&#8217;s best of the year game differently this year, but I need to keep the rules roughly the same so that I am (for once) on the same planet. 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