Popular record emporium HMV rounded up the nation’s jabbering critics, threw them in an emptied swimming pool, left them to rot in the sun ‘til their mouths and brains cooled, and then got them to stick charred hands in the air.
Then there was this, HMV’s round-up of the critics top choices from 2007, albums-wise:
1. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
2. M.I.A.: Kala
3. Radiohead: In Rainbows
4. Klaxons: Myths of the Near Future
5. Battles: Mirrored
6. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
7. Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
8. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
9. Justice: Cross
10. Burial: Untrue
11. Robert Wyatt: Comicopera
12. Grinderman: Grinderman
13. PJ Harvey: White Chalk
14. Kings of Leon: Because of the Times
15. Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
16. Les Savy Sav: Let's Stay Friends
17. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand
18. The Good, the Bad & the Queen: The Good, the Bad & the Queen
19. White Stripes; Icky Thump
20. Feist: The Remainder
21. Bjork: Volta
22. Jamie T: Panic Prevention
23. The National: Boxer
24. Beirut: The Flying Club Cup
25. Bruce Springsteen: Magic
26. The Shins: Wincing the Night Away
27. Simian Mobile Disco: Attack Decay Sustain Release
28. Dizzee Rascal: Maths & English
29. Kanye West: Graduation
30. Roisin Murphy: Overpowered
31. Bloc Party: Weekend in the City
32. Common: Finding Forever
33. Interpol: Our Love to Admire
34. High on Fire: Death is this Communion
35. Mark Ronson: Version
36. Liars: Liars
37. Electric Wizard: Witchcult Today
38. The Chemical Brothers: We Are the Night
39. Modeselektor: Happy Birthday
40. Dillinger Escape Plan: Ire Works
41. Matthew Dear: Asa Breed
42. Rufus Wainwright: Release the stars
43. Down: Over the Under
44. Future of the Left: Curses
45. Britney Spears: Blackout
46. Neil Young: Chrome Dream II
47. Fall Out Boy: Infinity on High
48. Cribs: Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
49. Bright Eyes: Cassadaga
50. Black Lips: Good Bad Not Evil
What?
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i might never listen to the lcd album, just to spite myself.
do it
im 99% sure its shite
You're also wrong.
ill survive
I reckon
Dis are running scared as HMV have got 7 of the DIS list top list in theirs!
In at 47!
Whoop
has anyone realised that
HMV 'radio' constantly uses the phrase "drowned in sound" on its instore voice-overs?
is there a copyright issue here?
so....
no Modest Mouse.
hahahaha.
everyone = tard
that would be true if it weren't for the fact
that the modest mouse album is completely forgettable.
Forgettable?
Forgettable?!
Modest Mouse = album of the year. I'm disappointed more people don't love it.
You are talking Bulls Shit.
That *would* be
a good title for a Feist B-sides album.
Tbh
The LCD album is very good, but I'm really surprised how it's made to the number one slot on so many lists...I mean c'mon, it's not _that_ good is it?
The MIA album at number two aswell? My god is that an overrated pile of shite.
And did they just run out of albums? Because The Chemical Brothers album one of the best of the year? What?
^ True, I missed that one!
The bunch of piss kidneys
The most exciting thing about this list...
...was when I misread no. 39 as 'Model Skeletor'.
Dear everyone:
'Boys and girls in america' came out in 2006! Fuck's sake!
Jan 07 here
pretty sure.
I'm extremely surprised
at the quality of their taste! They managed to put DEP and Down in there, and even voted Les Savy Fav higher than DiS! They fell down on a few points though - Fall Out Boy? Jamie T? Mark Ronson? Albums of the year? Really?
And still no fucking Jetplane!
HMV 'radio' constantly uses the phrase "drowned in sound" on its instore voice-overs?
Theres no copyright issue.DiS and HMV are working together..or something.
Go into one of the new HMV stores and you can access DiS via one of their computers.
HA
It's not HMV's taste
They've collated a bunch of critic's lists.
but HMV isnt a single entity
so to say HMV's taste would be wrong anyway.
LCD Soundsystem
I personally think is the most piss poor half assed techno bollox I've ever heard. I think it's mainly Dad's that are buying up this crap and thinking, wow, this is amazing. It's utter tosh.
Back in your hole!
i'm so disappointed
no one is even acknowledging Clipse.
it is clearly an amazing album.
i wonder if there's
a copyright issue in HMV's blatent holdsteady rip off t-shirts?
maybe b/c it came out last year?
...though your right, it was clearly an amazing album.
Ha ha
Britney higher than Bright Eyes and The Cribs !!!!!
"it's britney, bitch"
!!!!!!!
Where the hell can you buy this in an HMV?
I'm sure it's in there somewhere in a couple of the big stores but having worked there as a temp over Christmas, most of this stuff doesn't even exist to a lot of people.
Oh great, you've got Battles, Panda Bear, Grinderman and Les Savy Fav in your top 20 but WHERE ARE THEY IN YOUR PIECE OF SHIT STORES! Fucking cunts.
Yep...
Listened to that LCD Soundsystem stuff for the third time. Couldn't have been more lackluster (not necessarily true, I've listened to some pretty crap stuff in my lifetime). A big "MEH" to Sound of Silver.
They've given them all
pride of place in Fopp instead by the looks of it (they did buy what was left of Fopp right?)
daleks everywhere
Hmm i heard the Kanye West album was shit
no ERA VULGARIS?
in that case it cant possibly be one of MY favourite albums of the year, that and because of the times. I sit corrected..