Music is overrated

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TL;DR Mixtapes at the end of this post


I feel obliged to type some profound and amusing musings about music in 2007. (Un)fortunately I'm a man a very few words, so I'll just skip to my list of favorite albums of 2007. I'm also too lazy to provide additional information for each artist. Luckily everyone can google these days.
I would like to say a hearthy 'thank you' to the following internet superheroes for their uploads and recommendations;

Oink, Hemptimes, Slugbucket, Indietorrents, Tweetracker, Pry, Fearie, Waffles, Bolachas Grátis, Thetribepride, That one dude on Oink with all the folk recommendations (not Bjeep), Bjeep, Kristina and all others I forgot who recommended me something that ended up on this list.

23-10-2007 Nevar 4get


Without further adiéu...

1	Stars Of The Lid	And Their Refinement Of The Decline	Ambient
2	Peter And The Wolf	The Ivori Palms	Folk
3	The Cherryblossoms	The Cherryblossoms	Folk
4	Of Montreal	Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?	Indie
5	Animal Collective	Strawberry Jam	Experimental
6	The Deidres	Dinosaurs Can't Swim	Twee
7	Frontier Folk Nebraska	The Devil Tree	Folk
8	Iron & Wine	The Shepard's Dog	Folk
9	The 1900's	Cold & Kind	Folk
10	Ben & Bruno	1000 Grim Reapers	Folk
11	Even As We Speak	A Three Minute Song Is One Minute Too Long	Twee
12	The Acorn	Glory Hope Mountain	Indie/Folk
13	Breathe Owl Breathe	Canadian Shield	Folk
14	Polka Dot Dot Dot	Love Letter To New Zealand	Folk
15	Bon Iver	For Emma, Forever Ago	Folk
16	Evan Miller	Beeswax Ephemera	Folk/ Blues
17	Maia Hirasawa	Though, I'm Just Me	Pop
18	We All Have Hooks For Hands	The Pretender	Indie
19	Jens Lekman	Night Falls Over Kortedala	Twee
20	Black Kids	Wizards Of Ahhhs	Twee
21	Arcade Fire	Neon Bible	Indie
22	Marnie Stern	In Advance Of The Broken Arm	Experimental/ Noise
23	Machinefabriek	Weleer	Ambient
24	LSD and the Search For God	LSD and the Search For God	Shoegaze
25	The Antlers	In The Attic Of The Universe	Indie
26	Eluvium	Copia	Ambient
27	Panda Bear	Person Pitch	Indie
28	Port Blue	The Airship	Electronica
29	The National	Boxer	Indie
30	World's End Girlfriend	Hurtbreak Wonderland	Electronica
31	The Bad Plus	Prog	Jazz
32	The Books	Playall	Experimental
33	The Dirty Projectors	Rise Above	Indie
34	The Field	From Here We Go Sublime	Electronica
35	The Innocence Mission	We Walked In Song	Folk
36	The High Llamas	Can Cladder	Indie
37	The North Sea	Exquisite Idols	Folk/ Psychedelic
38	David Kartsen Daniels	Sharp Teeth	Folk
39	Woods	At Rear House	Folk
40	Sam Amidon	But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted	Folk
41	Lewis & Clarke	Blasts Of Holy Birth	Folk
42	Bosques de mi Mente	Trenes de Juguete	Ambient
43	M83	Digital Shades v1	Electronica
44	Thinguma*jigSaw	(awakeinwhitechapel)	Folk
45	Elephant Parade	Elephant Parade	Indie
46	The Ghost Orchid	Untitled	Ambient
47	Roam The Hello Clouds	Near Misses	Jazz
48	Los Campesinos	The International Tweecore Underground	Twee
49	El Ten Eleven	Every Direction Is North	Post Rock
50	James Blackshaw	The Cloud Of Unknowing	Folk

And here are some mixtapes I made for you all to enjoy.

Best Of 2007 CD1 Indie

1. Arcade Fire - (Antichrist Television Blues) (5:10)
2. Illinois - Alone Again (3:11)
3. The Acorn - Antenna (2:59)
4. Susanna - better days (3:21)
5. Panda Bear - Comfy In Nautica (4:04)
6. Caribou - Desiree (4:12)
7. Radiohead - Faust Arp (2:09)
8. animal collective - Fireworks (6:50)
9. The Bird And The Bee - Fucking Boyfriend (3:15)
10. Elephant Parade - Goodbye (1:30)
11. Feist - I Feel It All (3:39)
12. Band of horses - is there a ghost (3:02)
13. Stars - My Favourite Book (4:05)
14. Eskimo & Sons - No Shit (2:58)
15. We All Have Hooks For Hands - On & On (3:40)
16. Logh - saturday nightmares (3:26)
17. The National - Slow Show (4:10)
18. Maia Hirasawa - Still June (2:35)
19. Goat - Sugar We're Going Down (3:32)
20. Minus Story - The Battle Of Our Lives (4:47)
21. The High Llamas - The Old Spring Town (3:29)
22. The Antlers - The Universe Is Going To Catch You (3:56)
23. Dirty Projectors - Thirsty And Miserable (6:00)

Best Of 2007 CD2 Indiepop

1. Even As We Speak - 100 (3:41)
2. The Toothaches - Always Be My Baby (3:52)
3. Los Campesinos - C Is The Heavenly Option (3:17)
4. The Deirdres - Claire, Are We Safe To Be On Our Own? (4:00)
5. Tullycraft - Georgette Plays a Goth (2:47)
6. The Postmarks - Goodbye (3:33)
7. Agent Simple - I Can't Think Of Anything (1:57)
8. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (3:32)
9. Pipas - Mix For The Occupation (1:49)
10. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Money in the Afterlife (5:27)
11. Marc with a C - Nerdy Girls (2:32)
12. Mother Mother - Oh Ana (3:17)
13. Casper & The Cookies - Penelope (2:48)
14. Au Revoir Simone - Sad Song (4:07)
15. The Apples In Stereo - Same Old Drag (3:21)
16. The Tellers - Second Category (2:05)
17. Best Fwends - Skate Or Live (Goto80 Remix) (3:30)
18. Liechtenstein - Stalking Skills (3:32)
19. Bearsuit - Steven F**king Spielberg (3:54)
20. Billie the Vision and the Dancers - Stick to You (3:18)
21. Of Montreal - Suffer for Fashion (2:58)
22. Jellybean! - The Call (2:49)
23. Jens Lekman - The Opposite Of Hallelujah (4:21)
24. To Bad Catholics - You're Going to Haiti (0:56)

Best Of 2007 CD3 Post And Noiserock

1. te' - Œ¾—t‚ð—p‚¢‚Ä‘t‚Å‚éŽÒ‚͍˔‚ɍ݂炸A‚½‚¾‚Ì‹L‰¯‚Ɂw‰ßx‚¬‚ʁB (3:31)
2. Do Make Say Think - A Tender History In Rust (5:07)
3. Redhooker - Animus (4:39)
4. Lsd and the Search for God - Backwards (4:18)
5. Melt-Banana - Cat Brain Land (2:11)
6. Sleeping States - Contact Lunacy (6:05)
7. Johnnytwentythree - Fall of Swords (15:04)
8. El Ten Eleven - Keep (4:01)
9. 65daysofstatic - Little Victories (5:14)
10. Holy Fuck - Lovely Allen (4:29)
11. Port Blue - Mr. Chen, Sailmaker (8:03)
12. Grails - Origin-ing (7:51)
13. Marnie Stern - Put All Your Eggs In One Basket And Then Watch That Basket!!! (2:41)
14. Explosions In The Sky - The Birth and Death of the Day (7:49)
15. Caspian - The Dove (3:04)
16. A Place to Bury Strangers - To Fix the Gash in Your Head (3:51)

Best Of 2007 CD4 Folk

1. French Quarter - Track 04 (3:39)
2. Ben and Bruno - 100 Grim Reapers (3:05)
3. Bowerbirds - Bur Oak (5:00)
4. Thee Stranded Horse - churning strides (4:28)
5. Be Gulls - Good Again (7:56)
6. Frontier Folk Nebraska - Kentucky Girl (3:36)
7. Breathe Owl Breathe - Landmark (6:24)
8. amandine - new morning (6:16)
9. Bon Iver - Re: Stacks (6:41)
10. The Cherry Blossoms - Rocks and Stones (4:32)
11. Little Wings - Scuby (4:23)
12. Samamidon - Tribulation (5:58)
13. Thinguma*jigSaw - Walking the Cow (3:12)
14. Great Lake Swimmers - Where in the World Are You (3:51)
15. Peter And The Wolf - Where Summer Goes (3:16)
16. Mariee Sioux - Wild Eyes (9:15)

Best Of 2007 CD5 More Folk

1. Lewis & Clarke - Comfort Inn (7:37)
2. Nick Drake - Been Smokin' Too Long (2:13)
3. Over the Rhine - Don't Wanna Waste Your Time (4:01)
4. Sandro Perri - Double Suicide (5:49)
5. Band of horses - is there a ghost (3:02)
6. The Innocence Mission - Lake Shore Drive (4:44)
7. Grampall Jookabox - Liggle Timmy Toothpick (1:11)
8. Iron & Wine - Lovesong of the Buzzard (4:26)
9. Rosie Thomas - Much Farther To Go (4:18)
10. Woods - Night Creature (4:12)
11. Polka Dot Dot Dot - Ocean (4:23)
12. Robert Plant & Alison Kraus - Please Read The Letter (5:55)
13. David Karsten Daniels - The Dream Before The Ring That Woke Me (2:57)
14. The 1900s - The Medium Way (5:05)
15. Bonnie Prince Billy - The World's Greatest (2:26)
16. Jonquil - Whistle Low (3:13)

Best Of 2007 CD6 Electronic And Ambient

1. Milieu - Plume Train (3:55)
2. World's End Girlfriend - 100 Years Of Choke (13:22)
3. Machinefabriek - Afgebroken Flats In Presikhaaf (1:48)
4. The Octopus Project - An Evening With Rthrtha (3:16)
5. Stars Of The Lid - Apreludes (In C Sharp Major) (3:44)
6. The Octopus Project - Black Blizzard/Red Umbrella (3:07)
7. The Books - Classy Penguin (4:31)
8. M83 - Dancing Mountains (5:05)
9. Julia Kent - Dorval (3:51)
10. Victor Bermon - First Encounters (3:15)
11. Mom - G Major (3:42)
12. The Field - Good Things End (6:08)
13. The Ghost Orchid - In The End (1:17)
14. Dan Deacon - Jimmy Joe Roche (5:58)
15. Bosques de mi Mente - Los Titánicos Esfuerzos De Una Bicicleta Oxidada Por Avanzar (6:29)
16. Kettel - Marco's Cases (3:52)
17. Library Tapes - Mellan Ljud Och Text (2:02)
18. Venetian Snares - My Crutch (5:13)
19. Black Moth Super Rainbow - The Afternoon Turns Pink (2:37)
20. The Balustrade Ensemble - The Drowning Calm (5:05)
21. The Tuss - Shiz Ko E (3:08)
22. Japancakes - When You Sleep (4:11)
23. shh... this is a library - you smile like your hair isn't messy (4:48)
24. Future Conditional - Your Love Leaves Me Colder (6:22)

Best Of 2007 CD7 Freefolk, Psychedelica And Experimental

1. La Otracina - Beyond the Dusty Hills (Cowboy in the Desert Part Two) (11:17)
2. Barn Owl - Driftwood (6:00)
3. Gavagai - Eori Soma (6:38)
4. The North Sea - Everest (2:20)
5. Brothers of the Occult Sisterhood - Free Machine (6:48)
6. Oren Ambarchi - Inamorata (10:19)
7. MV & EE - Maajor (4:12)
8. Blues Control - Migration (7:22)
9. Alexander Turnquist - Mime Fight (10:43)
10. James Blackshaw - Running To The Ghost (6:16)
11. TwinSisterMoon - To Breath Underwater (4:42)
12. evan miller - Track 4 (3:24)
13. Roam The Hello Clouds - Twenties In The Eighties (4:07)
14. Flower-Corsano Duo - Wind (8:01)