Cast your minds back, readership: at the start of November we invited you to vote for your favourite albums of 2007 from a shortlist of 50, selected by the DiS editorial team following weeks of debate and discussion. Our editorially ranked 50 can be seen here, but below we’re pleased to present the result of the thousands of votes received: the DiS readers’ top 25 albums of 2007.
The facts? Well, the number one record was head and shoulders above its nearest rival almost from the word go; the top ten fluctuated wildly over the course of the voting month; and our number 48 of 2007 is clearly a lot more loved by the DiS readership than the site’s core writing team. Not that we don’t love it, a bit, you understand.
The figures? As follows, from one to 25 (editorial position in brackets)…
1 (9)
Radiohead, In Rainbows
(self-released/XL; review)
2 (2)
Battles, Mirrored
(Warp; review)
3 (19)
Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
(Sonovox; review)
4 (1)
LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
(DFA/EMI; review)
5 (12)
The National, Boxer
(Beggars Banquet; review)
6 (17)
Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam
(Domino; review)
7 (20)
The Shins, Wincing The Night Away
(Sub Pop/Transgressive; review)
8 (3)
Panda Bear, Person Pitch
(Paw Tracks; review)
9 (46)
of Montreal, Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer
(Polyvinyl; review)
10 (21)
Grinderman, Grinderman
(Mute; review)
11 (48)
The Twilight Sad, Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters
(FatCat; review)
12 (4)
M.I.A., Kala
(XL; review)
13 (31)
The Cribs, Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever
(Wichita; review)
14 (7)
Liars, Liars
(Mute; review)
15 (37)
Beirut, The Flying Club Cup
(4AD; review)
16 (25)
Justice, Cross
(Ed Banger; review)
17 (34)
Arctic Monkeys, Favourite Worst Nightmare
(Domino; review)
18 (30)
Bloc Party, A Weekend In The City
(Wichita; review)
19 (23)
PJ Harvey, White Chalk
(Island; review)
20 (18)
Klaxons, Myths Of The Near Future
(Polydor; review)
21 (16)
The Maccabees, Colour It In
(Fiction; review)
22 (38)
Future Of The Left, Curses
(Too Pure; review)
23 (32)
!!!, Myth Takes
(Warp; review)
24 (6)
Modest Mouse, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
(Columbia; review)
=25 (22)
Blonde Redhead, 23
(4AD; review)
=25 (13)
Les Savy Fav, Let’s Stay Friends
(Wichita; review)
The winner of our top 25 has been contacted via an on-site note, so if you voted: check your inbox! CDs will be sent your way in the next week or so.
Thanks, again, to everyone who voted.
Was I the only person who voted for Field Music?
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oh man
I haven't voted yet. Its only the 14th of flippin December. What's gone wrong with society, does December no longer exist anymore?
Are we now discussing what's the best album of 2008 so far, then?
for the record
it's Blood Red Shoes
Foals and
Gossamar Albertross
piss off
blood red shoes?
ha
^ outvoted von
They are great.
yeh
and they love fugazi
i did too
`
I think i did
cant remember
No
Though i think we were the only two
i voted field music too
Still don't get
why everyone likes Neon Bibles, i think it's pretty rubbish. Also no Field Music upsets me.
Field Music!
I voted for them. That album was amazing.
this
is almost a perfect list
personally
I think the beirut & of montreal albums are not as good their previous efforts, and the Blonde Redhead thing baffles me completely.
Great to see Panda Bear in there, and as expected Battles, both great albums.
Need to check out quie a few of them - damn lack of money...
Yesss
Im glad the readers have got more sense concerning The Twilight Sad than the writers.
i think you'll find
quite a few of the DiS writers have been backing the twilight sad
gwhit's comment was a bit too glib
to warrant such a matter-of-fact response!
anyway, the readers are just as clueless as the writers. useless bunch.
Glib
I like it
Yep
Tis my number 1 album of the year by some distance.
Finally...
...got round to listening to 'In Rainbows' this morning. Left me slightly cold. Maybe that was the frost. Oh, that was yesterday.
listen again.
i've found it's had more impact the more times i listen.
seriously though, i enjoy this list but
Neon Bible, A Weekend In The City and Your Favourite Worst Nightmare would've Never made this list if their predecessors weren't as good as they are.
Rubbish
Both A Weekend In The City and Favourite Worst Nightmare are better than their predecessors. Can't fault the logic on Neon Bible though.
yep
Neon bible is good but not that good.
All of a sudden I miss everyone kept it out of the CD player for a fortnight and that's not as good as The earth is not a cold dead place either.
A Weekend in The City
is terrible.
Lots of people on this website are silly.
I'd say exactly the same thing about In Rainbows.
I've no problems with the suggestion that Neon Bible isn't as good as Funeral, but musically, it stands on its own two feet as far as I'm concerned.
Favourite Worst Nightmare
is a big leap forward from the debut.
Go, Radiohead! Go!
Also, it's good to see Future of the Left in the top 25.
Yes...
...agreed on Future of the Left!
sorry but
the Radiohead album is RUBBISH.
and..
if i had voted, i still think it would be the same, only blonderedhead of my choices for this year would be up there.
what is rubbish about the radiohead album??
there isn't a bad song on it!
Of Montreal in the top 10.
Amen and god bless to the good readers of DIS.
Quite agree
of Montreal deserve their top 10 placement.
should've been number one!
.
i so don't fit in around here
me neither.
of the albums in the writers top 25 I hadn't heard that I've now heard (Animal Collective, Panda Bear and others), I don't like any of them.
Of the albums in Rock Sounds top 25 I hadn't heard before that I've now heard, I like all of them, Mewithoutyou's Brother, Sister and Baroness's The Red Album being particularly good.
When I saw the writer's list, the first thing I though was 'wow, this has been a really shit year for music that I like'. It hasn't, there's been loads of good stuff, not much of it's on this list though.
can you post the full 50 pls?
i want to see the broader picture
2008
vampire weekend!
In Rainbows?!
You guys really think it's that good...? Come on...
Whatever the Radiohead album had sounded like
it would have topped the list.
Just as well
it's genuinely really good then.
its less that its the most people's favourites
more that its the album that the most people would've known on the short list (with the added "credibility" that i'm sure many would criticise stuff like artic monkeys about). at the same time, its slightly unreasonable to expect everyone to have heard everything. its why i personally prefer the writers' list, since its a more informed set of choices (not that they're musically smarter, but more that they'd have heard all the records by nature of being a writer on the site). still a pretty good list anyhow
Arctic Monkeys?
Pish
Glad to see in rainbows in the top 3
Good to see the inevitable backlash has been surpassed by common sense, though it probably shouldnt have been No 1...
Everyone forgot...
Mariee Sioux
yay!
This list is almost perfect. Drowned In Sound readers have great taste!
...
no deerhunter, which is a shame. my favourite album of '07
^ this
and there's lots of rubbish in that list.
If you took the name 'Radiohead' off of In Rainbows
and released it under any other name, there is no way it would be considered the best thing released this year. Brand loyalty coming into play here a bit I think.
.
Ive said it before and i'll say it again, even though it wasnt in the top 50 to choose from!
Meet Me In st. Louis - Variations On Swing, is my albim of the year.
Good to see Future of the Left though, and Battles, though that was the obvios choice, and too right!
We all suck ass
Don't we?
Radiohead... Quelle fucking surprise
"Yes we do my friend"
Some of us think that the second Arcade Fire album is good too, whereas in fact it sounds like a band who have run out of ideas already, and just upped their budget a tad...
Yeah I really
really do not understand the lavish praise that In Rainbows receives at all. I voted for Field Music as well! Whoever mentioned that above.
I'm really surprised
That Grinderman made the top ten. Not because I didn't love it. I voted for it. I just didn't realize that many other people did as well. Good show, guys.
Idiots
Anyone that thinks the Radiohead album is the best album of the year should have their ears chopped off and then forced to listen to Von Sudenfed.
better than the staffs list
good to see Of montreal and animal collective in the top ten, not so sure in rainbows was the best album of the year.
As much as i love
Arcade Fire and their live shows, although Neon Bible is a great album it doesn't stand up to Funeral and my best album of the year is The National, and Animal Collective as well possibly. And In Rainbows is a well written, beautiful orchestrated, slightly subdued album it is only top of the list because its Radiohead.
:(
Am I the only person that voted for Menomena?
:(
How'd you manage that?
They weren't on the shortlist.
Why not?
It's am amazing album!
I was hoping for the appearance of Electrelane
That is the one album which grabbed me by the testicles this year.
O, apart from Mirrored, Kala and Person Pitch of course.
i am the one person
who obviously doesn't get kala - bit average, no?
I'm the only person who thinks Electrelane are dross
it seems.
genuinly...
"variations on swing" pretty much wins hands down.
predictable, but
where is armchair apocrypha, you losers? >:O
in all seriousness, only one album on here would make my personal list (possibly two, at a push). that said, i've heard a grand total of four of them.
music fans!
PLEASE buy the future of the left record...it's middling placing in all these best of the year things is getting frustrating! it is a stunning album!
Agreed.
I didn't like it on first listen, but it's grown on me since. Awesome band.
Readers>Writers
yep.
Is house music....
a British thing? I've tried to listen to that LCD Soundsystem stuff and it's indistinguishable to me from all the rest of its kind.
Unlike Battles, which is exactly where it belongs.
Panda Bear puts me to sleep.
LCD Soundsystem
are miles off of being house music IMHO. House is often a more rigid, pounding type of music.
LCD's stuff is more instrument heavy, and harks more back to the days of New Order / 80's Bowie I'd argue.
Maybe I'll Try
Listening to Sound of Silver again. I like New Order/Bowie/Depeche Mode, but can't hear it as well in LCD as I do in other (probably more obvious) bands.
And what's with all the slighting of Neon Bible? Ties Battles for the top. Sorry Radiohead.
um LCD Soundsystem are your countrymen
so it's not a british thing. I voted for the shins, they did well.
um people who complain about the type of music on the list are forgetting what site they're on.
Arcade Fire at number 3?!
That's the only one that I think looks massively out of place. That album gets boring after about 3 listens. The Radiohead position was a little bit inevitable.
songs of the year?
is there going to be a poll for song of the year? if so here are my candidates:
grinderman -no pussy blues
animal collective -fireworks
lcd soundsystem -all my friends
go team -grip like a vice
of montreal -gronlandic edit
mia -paper planes
andrew bird -plasticities
blond redhead -23
von sudenfed -the rhinohead
panda bear- comfy in nautica
Quick theory,
about the success of 'In Rainbows'in the above review.
Given the way the record was released, it is potentially the 'DiS voters' most highly / owned listened to release of 2007.
Given the above statement the format of the poll probably helped as well. Pick 5 releases out of 50, each vote having equal rating. I would imagine that In Rainbows picked up a lot of votes when voters had one of two remaining votes left and did not want to waste them.
It will be interesting to see where it is placed in John M's DiS message boards poll, where the votes are weighted
N.B. this post completely ignores the musical merit of the release, I am unable to commment on this as I have not listened to the album.
I totalled up the votes last night
It's really close between the top 3 but at the moment In Rainbows is #1.
This could change of course
I'm leaving voting open till early Jan.
person pitch
i can't understand why person pitch isn't #1 everywhere.
it's obviously the most innovative, beautiful, god, just fucking awesome record of this year.
in rainbows is, well, um, lovingly orchestrated.
Arcade Fire???
They are so extremely overrated, way out of place here. I guess that Radiohead are still the band that most people with a brain agree are good, and I doubt there's any user of this website that has not listened to In Rainbows. So the outcome follows naturally.
What I don't understand is what happened with BURIAL and HOLY FUCK, both great albums IMHO.
what?
Whilst I have a few inevitable agreements/disagreements with the list, my glaring question would be this - "Where the HELL are The Kings Of Leon?!" There are some amazing albums on this list, but for "Because Of The Times" to be overlooked for some of them, for me, makes a bit of a mockery.
Kings of Leon???
You've got to be kidding...
why
do some people think that whenever radiohead are critisized, it's part of some 'inevitable' backlash. they really can do no wrong in their fans eyes can they. i think the album's 80% bland, 20% brilliance, and I don't think that because of some backlash.
SERIOUSLY
will a DiS staff member post up the full ordered list of 50?? I'd really appreciate it
kthnks
avett brothers
you guyd are missing the boat - check out avett brothers emotionalism for album
Hmm
maybe I should actually listen to In Rainbows...
AC
Top 4 seems fair, but Animal Collective at 6. Who keeps voting for this guff? And Myth Takes at 23. Travesty!!!