Favourite albums of 2007

It's the end of the year and what's better way to waste time/reflect on the year than making lists of favourite things? This year I went on this obsessive compulsive music discovery phase after I signed up with last.fm. That's my favourite website at the moment, if you wanna find some new bands/artists to listen to get on that website.
The list started out with about 50 albums and that was rather ridiculous. I'm just one person not an 50 opinionated music critics, posting a list of 50 "favourite" albums is an overkill. In the end what made it to the "top 20" was played more often than the rest of the list (which I've also included). Check them out, I was going to post about 20 songs up but I don't want to get into trouble for posting copyright stuff so just go to the bands' myspace.

On with the lists then

20 favourite CDs of 2007

• 65daysofstatic - The destruction of small ideas
• Against me! - New wave
• Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
• Bishop Allen - The broken string
• Editors - An end has a start
• Explosions in the sky - All of a sudden I miss everyone
• Feist - The reminder
• God is an astronaut - Far from refuge
• Interpol - Our love to admire
• The national - Boxer
• Nine Inch Nails - Year zero
• The New Pornographers - Challengers
• Pale young gentlemen - self-titled
• PJ Harvey - White chalk
• Sea Wolf - Leaves in the river
• Spoon - Ga ga ga ga
• Stars - In our bedroom after the war
• Tegan and Sara - The con
• Tunng - Good arrows
• Patrick Wolf - The magic position

Really good albums that haven't been played quite enough to be on the favourite list

1. A place to bury strangers - self-titled
2. Eisley - Combinations
3. Motion City Soundtracks - Even if it kills me
4. Beirut - The flying club cup
5. Holy fuck - LP
6. Les Savy Fav - Let's stay friends
7. Menomena - friend and foe
8. Hot hot heat - happiness ltd.
9. Cloud cult - the meaning of 8
10. Aqualung - memory man
11. Klaxons - myths of the near future
12. The Arctic Monkeys - favourite worst nightmare
13. This will destroy you - self-titled
14. Mother mother - touch up
15. Do make say think - you, you're a history in rust
16. The great northern - trading twilight for daylight
17. Gogol Bordello - Super taranta!
18. Rilo Kiley - Under the blacklight
19. Operator please - yes yes vindictive
20. the shins - wincing the night away
21. bloc party - a weekend in the city
22. Angus and Julia Stone - a book like this
23. The wombats - a guide to love, loss & desperations
24. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
25. Caspian - the four tree
26. The Birthday Massacre - Walking with strangers
27. Okkervil river - The stage name
28. Voxtrot - self-titled
29. Minipop - A new hope
30. Bella - no one will know
31. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - This is somewhere
32. Sunset Rubdown - Random spirit lover
33. Assemblage 23 - Meta
34. Elias & the Wizz kids - a little mess

Honourable mentions (albums that would have made it to the above lists had they been consistent)
Paramore - riot!
Kate-Miller Heidke - Little Eve
Kaiser chiefs - Yours truly, angry mob
Serj Tankian - elect the dead
Bellarus - communicate
Kisschasy - Hymns for the non-believer
The veronicas - Hook me up
Grand Ole Party - humanimals
Fields - everything last winter
figurines - when the deer wore blue
siberian - with me
Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
Destroyalldreamers - wish I was all flames