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My 2007 Album

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noisettes.jpgThis isn’t a list of the “best” songs of 2007, or even my favorites. It’s a personal 2007 compilation that tries to capture my experience with music over the past 12 months. The songs are meant to play off each other – sometimes in obvious ways, often not – and there’s a purpose to the sequencing.

Tagged: Album for a Year, Art Brut, Grinderman, Kings of Leon, Lists, Modest Mouse, Monster Magnet, Pelican, PJ Harvey, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Self-Involvement, Serj Tankian, Shannon Wright, Shins, Sunset Rubdown, Tegan and Sara, The Avett Brothers, The Good the Bad and the Queen, The Noisettes, White Stripes
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Growing Toward the Mainstream

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Most artistically successful groups evolve toward obscurity – think most recently of Radiohead and Wilco – crafting an idiosyncratic vision that wins admirers and praise but threatens to alienate the people who fell in love with the bands in the first place. The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Queens of the Stone Age, on the other hand, have grown by refining their songcraft toward the mainstream.

Tagged: By the Way, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Reviews, Songs for the Deaf
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