2007: Let's Do This Thing

Okay, since we're already about several dozen hours into 2008, let's get right down to business:

Top 20 Albums:
20. Fields - Everything Last Winter
19. Against Me! - New Wave
18. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
17. Elliott Smith - New Moon
16. The National - Boxer
15. Eisley - Combinations
14. Field Music - Tones of Town
13. The Coral - Roots and Echoes
12. Radiohead - In Rainbows
11. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
10. Ash - Twilight of the Innocents
9. Electrelane - No Shouts No Calls
8. Albert Hammond, Jr. - Yours to Keep
7. Blonde Redhead - 23
6. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block

5. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

I always thought Wilco was one of those good bands simply because everybody said they were good, albeit a bit boring. However, their 2007 effort just blew me away. It's so good I decided to follow them on tour this year... via live bootlegs on Dimeadozen.
















4. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Living with the Living
Once I had the time to actually sit down and decipher what he was singing, I've realized that Ted Leo is a brilliant lyricist. He's also gone way more punk on this album than his previous albums. That's just good stuff all around.















3. Pink Martini - Hey Eugene!
Great and loungy, this is like the soundtrack to a long-lost Ingrid Bergman film. I don't understand half the lyrics, but what I do get is pretty damn good.
















2. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
There was this one song on their debut album called "Trani" that I really liked because it was like an epic Velvet Underground song. They expanded on that sound with this album, and kinda got rid of the hick thing they had going previously.
















1. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
Although slow to grow on me, every successive listen has revealed more and more about the album's nuanced sound. These guys have really gone above and beyond the Joy Division comparisons and now are on a track to selling out stadium greatness.

Top 20 Tracks:
20. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
19. Mika - Grace Kelly
18. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Who Do You Love?
17. Pink Martini - Taya Tan
16. Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow
15. Bjork - Declare Independence
14. Charlotte Hatherley - I Want You to Know
13. The Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
12. Kings of Leon - Knocked Up
11. Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am


10. Feist - 1234


9. Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks


8. Wilco - You Are My Face


7. Travis - Selfish Jean


6. Ash - You Can't Have It All


5. Interpol - Mammoth


4. Kings of Leon - McFearless


3. Pink Martini - Dosvedanya Mio Bombino


2. Interpol - Who Do You Think (not an official video. I think it's actually David Lynch's "Blue Velvet")


1. Ash - I Started a Fire

Enoch's Hall of Fame (Year 2):
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
Doves - Last Broadcast
Ash - Evil Eye
Pretty Girls Make Graves - This is Our Emergency
Chemical Brothers - Starguitar

Happy 2008, everyone!