So, on my friend’s message board today, I hastily compiled a top 15/top 25 list that was pure gut. Hours later, as I sit here drinking at my computer on a Friday night, I’m feeling pretty good about that list, actually. So here, as the year 2007 comes to a close, is Barely Legal’s Best [...]
Entries from December 2007
December 22, 2007
Best Albums of the Year.
December 20, 2007
Honorable Mention: Songs of the Year.
The Shins, “Australia”
Great tune…I chose to embed the acoustic “Take-Away Show” performance by the awesome people at La Blogotheque. Wincing the Night Away was definitely an underrated record; not quite as good as the other two, but the Shins tried to do something different and should get some credit for [...]
December 19, 2007
Songs of the Year.
Allright, here it is–Barely Legal’s top ten songs of the year. Yes, I do suppose I could go twenty or thirty deep, but let’s just stick to ten. Anyways,
10. Animal Collective, “Fireworks”
Just a gorgeous song, with about three or for different strands working throughout. The hooks, [...]
December 17, 2007
Songs of the Year.
Yeah, they beat me to it. I was going to try to get my top songs list out before the indie media giant, because I knew we would overlap some in terms of what we really liked this year; particularly M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes,” LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends” (their #1), and UGK’s “Int’l Player’s [...]
December 16, 2007
More Year-End Lists.
Metacritic has a good thing going. They’ve had it going for a long time. As you may know, I really enjoy looking at all the year-end lists, because a lot of times these compilations give me some new ideas of what I should be listening to, or what I missed. Sure, critics [...]
December 12, 2007
Heima.
When I first saw the Sigur Ros was filming some sort of documentary, I didn’t really react much. I figured it would be some incredibly quirky look at an incredibly quirky band doing incredibly quirky things in an incredibly quirky country, cuckoo clocks going off in the background and loads of out-of-focus shots of hands [...]
December 11, 2007
Album of the Year Nominee.
M.I.A
Kala
XL
In a world where the word “unique” gets thrown around far too often, Sri Lankan Maya Arulpragasam’s music exudes originality. Tribal drums meet glitchy techno, jagged beats grind behind M.I.A.’s hyper-politically conscious sporadic delivery, and the whole thing just exemplifies havoc. Given that description (but seriously, you have to hear it [...]
