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Mat Kearney   Dr. Dog's Top 9 of 2007

  1. U2 - Joshua Tree

  2. Johnny Cash - American Recordings

  3. Beatles - Revolver

  4. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

  5. Paul Simon - Graceland

  6. A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory

  7. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

  8. Emmylou Harris - Wrecking ball

  9. Travis - The Man Who

  10. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin

  

  1. Golden Boots - Burning Brain

  2. Seth Kauffman - Research

  3. Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday

  4. The Teeth - You’re My Lover Now 

  5. Higgins - Dear Higgins

  6. Joanna Newsom & the Ys Street Band -  EP

  7. White Williams - Smoke

  8. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights

  9. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity

 
     
 

Umphrey's McGee

  

Mason Jennings

  1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

  2. Beatles - White Album

  3. Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction

  4. Queen - A Night at the Opera

  5. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

  6. King Crimson - Discipline

  7. Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

  8. Radiohead - OK Computer

  9. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

  10. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

  

  1. Johnny Cash - American Recordings

  2. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks

  3. Led Zeppelin - 4

  4. Beatles - White Album

  5. Joanna Newsom - Milk Eyed Mender

  6. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake Its Morning

  7. Greg Brown - Further In

  8. Tom Petty - Wildflowers

  9. U2 - Joshua Tree

  10. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
     

 

Martin Sexton

  

Grace Potter
  1. Beatles -  Abbey Road
  2. Stevie Wonder -  Songs in the Key of Life
  3. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
  4. Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
  5. Ani Difranco -  To The Teeth
  6. John Hiatt -  Stolen Moments
  7. The Atlantic Years - The Best of Ray Charles
  8. Jeff Buckley -  Grace
  9. Chris Whitley -  Living with the Law
  10. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
  
  1. James Brown, 'Sex Machine'
  2. The Band, 'The Basement Tapes'
  3. Bob Dylan, 'Blood on the Tracks
  4. Rolling Stones, 'Sticky Fingers'
  5. Led Zeppelin, 'Led Zeppelin IV'
  6. Neil Young and Crazy Horse, 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere."
  7. The Who, 'Who's Next'
  8. George Harrison, All Things Must Pass'
  9. Radiohead, 'The Bends'
  10. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, 'Time the Revelator.'
     

 

Sea Wolf

  

Rob James of the Clarks Top 5
  1. Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
  2. The Beatles - Revolver
  3. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
  4. Elliot Smith - Either/Or
  5. Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
  6. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
  7. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
  8. Neil Young - Harvest
  9. Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence 
  10. Pavement - Crooked Rain/Crooked Rain
  
  1. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers-Damn The Torpedoes
  2. The Replacements-Tim
  3. The Long Ryders-Two-Fisted Tales
  4. Elvis Costello-This Years Model
  5. Peter Case-Peter Case
 
     

 

Jason Isbell

   Josh Ritter
  1. Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs' 
  2. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 'Damn the Torpedoes' 
  3. The Rolling Stones - 'Exile on Main Street' 
  4. The Beatles - 'Abbey Road' 
  5. Neutral Milk Hotel - 'In the Aeroplane Over the Sea'
  6. Bob Dylan - 'Blood on the Tracks' 
  7. Neil Young - 'Harvest' 
  8. The Band - 'Music From Big Pink' 
  9. Nirvana - 'Nevermind' 
  10. Robert Johnson -  'King of the Delta Blues Singers' 
  
  1. Bob Dylan, "Love & Theft"
  2. Leonard Cohen, "New Songs for the Old Ceremony"
  3. Spoon, "Gimme Fiction"
  4. Dawn Landes, "Fireproof"
  5. Bruce Springsteen, "The Rising"
  6. Modest Mouse, "The Moon and Antarctica"
  7. John Prine, "Sweet Revenge"
  8. Paul McCartney, "RAM"
  9. White Stripes, "Elephant"
  10. Beatles, "White Album"
     

 

Terry of Carbon Leaf

  

Sarah Borges
  1. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
  2. Jane's Adiction - Nothing's Shocking
  3. Tenacious D - Tenacious D
  4. Neil Young - Harvest
  5. R.E.M - Life's Rich Pageant
  6. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
  7. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
  8. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
  9. The Cult - Electric
  10. Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
  
  1. X - Los Angeles
  2. Throwing Muses - University
  3. Neil Young - Harvest
  4. Morphine - Cure For Pain
  5. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
  6. Gillian Welch - Time (the Revelator)
  7. Old 97s - Too Far To Care
  8. Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
  9. Bob Dylan- Bringing it All Back Home
  10. Nick Lowe - Party of One
     

PATTERSON HOOD of Drive By Truckers
 
TOM WAITS - SWORDFISHTROMBONES - (16 Shells From A 30 Ought Six)
This one could have just as easily been Rain Dogs or Blue Valentine, but alas it had to be this one. Tomorrow it might be Rain Dogs, or hell even Alice, but one day, a few days later it will once again be this one. It's still growing on me 24 years later.
TODD RUNDGREN - SOMETHING / ANYTHING? - (Hello It's Me)
This may be the single most important record of my childhood (since 12 anyway). Hello It's Me is easily in top 3 fave songs. I probably learned more about song-writing from this album than any one record on earth.
BIG STAR - 3RD (vinyl reissue) - (Kangaroo)
I always liked Radio City better until hearing this sequence on vinyl. It's still pretty danged close, but this version is a revelation and as good as any record on earth, but so is Radio City. Kangaroo is in top five all time fave song list.
THE GLANDS - THE GLANDS - (Straight Down)
The best album ever to come out of Athens GA. Maybe Georgia. It's the best album so far this century, unless you count 2000 as last century. It's a little hard to find (Capricorn Records) but worth how ever much trouble it is. In ten years, It may well move up on this list.
BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND - THE BASEMENT TAPES - (Don't You Tell Henry)
I almost put The Band's brown self-titled album here, but today I liked this one best. American music never sounded better.
NEIL YOUNG - TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT - (Albuquerque)
Rust Never Sleeps could have easily gone here, but this one has Albuquerque which might have my second favorite chorus ever written. it sounds like he did it on a bet. And won.
THE ROLLING STONES - EXILE ON MAIN STREET - (Loving Cup)
Here I could substitute Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed, Beggars Banquet (or Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville) but tonight I didn't.
EDDIE HINTON - DEAR Y'ALL (THE SONGWRITER SESSIONS VOL. 1) - (Get Off In It <alternate version>
Another one that's hard to find (Zane Records, a UK label, you have to have it imported) but its as great a bunch of soul songs as ever written, stripped down to songwriter demo essentials. It gets better with every listen, a thousand listens later.
THE REPLACEMENTS - TIM - (Bastards Of Young or Left of The Dial)
This crappy little album inspired me to drop out of college and form Adam's House Cat with my roommate Mike Cooley back in 1985. Let It Be might be a better album, but this one is why I'm here doing this tonight.
JOHN LENNON - PLASTIC ONO BAND - (Well Well Well)
I had to have a Beatle album, and this is my favorite one. Rubber Soul White Album and Band on the Run rank pretty high too.
 

Tegan and Sara Give us Their Top 10 Albums of 2007

The New Pornographers - Challengers
This is a great record. I listened to it in my bunk in Europe this summer night after night.
My favorite lyric is " no matter the mess you are, you're mine okay". Breaks my heart.

Jim Ward - Quiet EP
I honestly believe Jim is a genius. His voice gives me goose bumps. "I find it hard to turn you off when you're not here". Probably sums up my past addict behavior better than even I could.

The National - Boxer
I love every song on this record. I was so late on the National. I feel intense guilt about this. I intend on being a super fan to make up for it.

The Blow - Paper Television
True Affection and Parentheses are two of my favorites off this record. Genius. Sweet in a way I can't ever possibly be.
I listen and pretend I'm someone different.

Northern State - Can I Keep This Pen?
We've been touring around North America with Northern State for months now. I asked them to tour with us specifically because I think this record is so important. I think they are 3 of the most talented women in our business. They put on a great show and they made one of the strongest offerings of 07 in my humble opinion.

Bonde do Role - With Lazers
I saw a special on these guys up in Canada. They have great energy and I think this is an amazing first record.

Against Me - New Wave
I am a huge stalker fan of this band. I love this record. Not just because I sang on it and Butch Vig produced but because
I think Tom is an amazing writer. One of a kind. He's going to change our generation.

Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold
This record haunted me this summer. The song Prescilla would get stuck in my head for days on end. It drove me absolutely nuts.  In a good way.

The Killers - Sam's Town
I don't know if this came out in 07. But if it didn't...it should have. I listen to this record daily.

Junior Boys - So this is goodbye
Same goes for Junior Boys so this is goodbye. I'm pretty sure I was late to this party too. But I love them.
I love this record. It gives me stomach pains. It is so the record we listened to every night on the way home from the studio when we were making the con.
 
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