- 2007 staff picks -
Oh what a year!
Noppers
Top 10 Jams
1. Field From Here We Go Sublime
2. Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
3. Deerhunter Cryptograms & Flourescent Grey
4. Battles Mirrored
5. Besnard Lakes … Are The Dark Horse
6. Liars Liars
7. Panda Bear Person Pitch
8. Burial Untrue
9. National Boxer
10. Matthew Dear Asa Breed
Steady Jams
Sunset Rubdown Random Spirit Lover
Pink Mountaintops Single Life 7”
Feist The Reminder
Pole Steingarten
Caribou Andorra
Black Dice Load Blown
Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals
Studio West Coast
Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Thomas Fehlmann Honigpumpe
Pantha Du Prince This Bliss
Frog Eyes Tears of the Valedictorian
Immaculate Machine Fables
Gui Boratto Chromophobia
Nico Frozen Borderline
Boredoms Super Roots Series
Kompakt Total 8
Beasts & Superbeasts S/T
Pink Floyd Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Heavy Jams
1. Wolves In The Throne Room Two Hunters
2. Xasthur Defective Epitaph
3. Asunder Works Will Come Undone (2006, but I don’t care)
4. Om Pilgrimage
5. Neurosis Given To The Rising
6. KTL KTL 2 & KTL 3 (EP)
7. Wolf Eyes Human Animal
8. Boris & Merzbow Rock Dream
9. Witchcraft The Alchemist
10. Skeletonwitch Beyond The Permafrost
11. Circle Katapult
12. Nadja Radiance Of Shadows
13. Bison Earthbound
14. Wormwood Starvation
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Kellen
2007 BEST OF… (alphabetical)
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
Black Lips Good Bad, Not Evil
Blitzen Trapper Wild Mountain Nation
Burial Untrue
Chet Fight Against Darkness
Deerhoof Friend Opportunity
Feist The Reminder
Frog Eyes Tears Of The Valedictorian
Handsome Furs Plague Park
Justice †
LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver
Liars s/t
Lightning Dust s/t
Of Montreal Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Panda Bear Person Pitch
Radiohead In Rainbows
Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Yeasayer All Our Cymbals
SHOWS
Neil Young – Wamu Theater, Seattle
Devendra Banhart – Commodore, Vancouver
Frog Eyes, Johnny & The Moon, Beasts & Superbeasts – Logans, Victoria
Spoon – Sugar, Victoria
Wolf Parade, Holy Fuck – Sugar, Victoria
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Entrance – Richards, Vancouver
Black Mountain, Bison, Bloody Wilma – Sugar, Victoria
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JR
No Comment…
(he really loved Feist and Iron & Wine…)
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Patrick Beattie (Alumni)
Daddy’s Hands Welcome, Kings
Bill Callahan Woke On A Wale Heart
Himalayan Bear … Attacks The Brilliant Air
Frog Eyes Tears Of The Valedictorian
Panda Bear Person Pitch
The Cave Singers Invitation Songs
Lightning Dust s/t
Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
Ladyhawk Fight Against Anarchy EP
Travelling Wilburys Vol. 1-3 Reissue
Bruce Springsteen Magic
Bison Earthbound
Sunset Rubdown Random Spirit Lover
The Besnard Lakes … Are The Darkhorse
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Noel (Alumni)
Jesu Conqueror & Lifeline
Angels of Light We Are Him
Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb
Buried At Sea Ghost
Om Pilgrimage
Various The Art Of Field Recordings Vol. 1
Lavender Diamond Imagine Our Love
Earth Hibernaculum
John Zorn From Silence to Sorcery
Witchcraft The Alchemist
Teiji Ito Tenno / Music for Maya
Geriatric Unit Nuclear Accident
Insect Warfare World Extermination
Neurosis Given To The Rising
Bloody Phoenix War, Hate & Misery
Brutal Truth / Narcosis / Total Fucking Destruction U.K. tour only 7”
Slimewave 7” Series on Relapse
REMASTERS & REISSUES
Doors ALL
Dick Dale ALL
Led Zeppelin Song Remains the Same
Baby Dee The Robin’s Tiny Throat
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Talia
TOP 2007
1. Bill Callahan Woke On A Waleheart
2. Animal Collective Strawberry Jam
3. Begushkin Nightly Things
4. Beirut The Flying Club Cup
5. Caribou Andorra
6. Boca Chica Transform Into Beasts
7. Wintersleep Welcome To The Night Sky
8. Battles Mirrored
9. Hrsta Ghosts Will Come & Kiss Our Eyes
10. Pinback Autumn Of The Seraphs
DANCE & ELECTRO-RIFICS
1. Kavinsky 1986 EP
2. Digitalism Idealism
3. M.I.A. Kala
4. Thieves Like Us Drugs In My Body
5. Calvin Harris I Created Disco
6. Junior Boys The Deadhorse EP
THE NON-NORTH AMERICAS
1. Múm Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
2. Amandine Solace In Sore Hands
3. The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
4. Field Music Tones Of Town
5. Electrelane No Shouts, No Calls
6. Fridge The Sun
SHOWS
1. Daft Punk / The Rapture / Kavinsky & SebastiAn: Wamu Theatre
2. Wolf Parade / Holy Fuck: Sugar
3. Black Mountain / Bison: Sugar
4. Caribou / Born Ruffians: Sugar
5. Apostle Of Hustle: Lucky Bar
6. Joel Plaskett Emergency: Sugar
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Longshanks
TOP O’ THE POPS
1. The Besnard Lakes … Are The Darkhorse
2. LCD Soundsystem Sound Of Silver
3. Radiohead In Rainbows
4. Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals
5. Lavender Diamond Imagine Our Love
6. Battles Mirrored
7. The Ponys Turn The Lights Out
8. The National Boxer
9. The Cave Singers Invitation Songs
10. Aesop Rock None Shall Pass
11. Blonde Redhead 23
12. Neurosis Given To The Rising
13. Panda Bear Person Pitch
14. Deerhunter Cryptograms & Flourescent Grey
15. Menomena Friend & Foe
BLEEPY
1. The Field From Here We Go Sublime
2. Burial Untrue
3. Gui Boratto Chromophobia
4. Matthew Dear Asa Breed
5. Various Box Of Dub 1 & 2
6. Digitalism Idealism
7. Boxcutter Glyphic
8. Sally Shapiro Disco Romance
9. Justice †
10. Various Kompakt Total 8
LOCAL
1. Chet Fight Against Darkness
2. Beasts & Superbeasts Beasts & Superbeasts
3. Bison Earthbound
2006 ALBUMS THAT DIDN’T LEAVE THE iPod
1. Grizzly Bear Yellow House
2. Alex Smoke Paradolia
3. Lindstrom It’s A Feedelity Affair
4. Joanna Newsom Ys
5. TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain
REISSUES
1. Leonard Cohen Songs Of, Songs From A Room, Songs Of Love & Hate
2. Sonic Youth Daydream Nation Deluxe
3. Botch American Nervoso & We Are The Romans
LIVE SHOWS
1. Daft Punk, The Rapture, SebastiAn & Kavinsky: Wamu Theater
2. Black Mountain, Bison & Bloody Wilma: Sugar
3. Battles & Sun Arise: Richard’s On Richards
4. LCD Soundsystem & Yacht: The Commodore
5. Isis & These Arms Are Snakes: Richard’s On Richards
I think the photograph of Chris is inapproriate for family viewing… what kind of example are you setting?
— Noppers on Sep 27, 01:16 AM