On Dec 22, 7:29 am, Boston Blackie (You've got to be freakin' kidding
me, HE'S the NRA?) mail.com> wrote:

Ya, got it on right now. I think it's going to have a three week life
before it compels me to have a mochafrappaccino. They do both sing
splendidly, track 6, "Through the Morning", being a traditional, but
compelling example.

Not that I've listened to a ton of tunes, but here's maxo's short list
of 2007 pop goodness:

The Good The Bad and the Queen (Afrobeat meets Thatcher gloom)
New Pornographers - Challengers (Perfect five dimensional pop)
White Stripes - Icky Thump (Pure insanity!)
MIA - Kala (Listen to this when flying into Singapore and remember to
clap along)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - The Assassination of Jesse James Soundtrack
(Imagine MK and Robert Smith's love child)
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Like "Born to Run", but with knee socks
and a Vicodin)
The Choir Practice (Simply cute)
Shins - Wincing the Night Away (Proof that the Kinks are better than
the Beatles)

The following albums would have been good had the artists not been
sober:
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Lucinda Williams - West

Could have been great if the singer could sing:
Feist - The Reminder

But as it is, it's sort of like Natalie Merchant, everybody's waiting
for the OK to go, "gawd, she sucks!"

Art Rock Album of the year that you'll praise and listen to once:
PJ - Harvey

Album that's gotten most listens:
Destroyer's Rubies (2006)

It's what Dylan would have sounded like had he been born in '70 and
listed to a lot of Bowie as a child.