My Fav of 2007

I love lists way too much. Time magazine was right in saying you number a list and people will read any pointless list: that's me!! I saw VH1's Top 40 Videos of 2007 a few weeks back and I thought it'd be a good starting point for my end of year diatribe on 2007 music:

Sorry, Fergie, I loves ya and all but VH1 erred completely with your having the #1 video of 2007. Maybe it's because I didn't like that song, or many ballads, but you have done much better. Here's the vids I liked on the list:

#38 Regina Spektor - Fidelity

I think this is one of the best vids and yet it only scored #38! Feh! The song is incredible and the vid shows the transition from the song's tentativeness in love to the full burst of emotion as conveyed by colored powder.

#30 Linkin Park - What I've Done
I'm a total sucker for vids with a social message. The song is pretty much standard Linkin Park (I confess to liking their singles so it's not a bad thing) but the montage of violence and cruelty and stupidity of humanity grabbed me.

#28 Feist - 1234
Best vid of 2007 I think! Maybe I am easily distracted by a variety of colors (see Regina's vid above) so that could be it! Still <3 skipping <3

#27 Nickelback - Rockstar
This Top 40 list is making me sound like a sucker, so it must be true! I confess to liking Nickelback's singles! Well, their recent ones, not sure about their earlier ones. This one has celebrities and common folk alike singing about their wanting to be a rockstar. That's pretty much it. I fall into the camp that wants to sing along to this dreck :D

#23 Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
I had never heard of these guys, but this is one pretty awesome video. Dancers clad in black writhing and sliding and jolting to the music.

#20 Foo Fighters - The Pretender
I haven't paid much attention to the Foo Fighters, I maybe know one other vid off the top of my head but not their songs. This video really caught my eye. It is a standoff between Dave Grohl singing his lungs out and a riot squad. The energy of the music and the singing and the lyrics build into the kind of intense feeling I get from rock music sometimes, the feeling of invicibility and wanting to take on an army with a song. He does that just here. Damn, I love videos.

#15 Gwen Stefani - Sweet Escape
I believe the album was 2006 but the vid was 2007. The vid isn't that great, but the song is such bubblegum pop my love runneth over! :)

#9 Nickelback - If Everyone Cared
Another socially conscious montage/video lesson that captivated me. A sort of bookend to Linkin Park's video, a testament to those willing to step forward, a saving grace for humankind.

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I suppose I should list my fav albums of 2007 but I'm running out of time today, so I'll list my fav new releases I bought this year and a few honorable mentions of albums I bought this year that came out in other years:

2007 in the order I bought them:
The Knife - Silent Shout
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Living With the Living
Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion
Tim Armstrong - Poet's Life
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta
M.I.A. - Kala
Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
The Feeling - Twelve Stops and Home
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Previously released:
Lordi - The Arockalypse
Blitz - Voice of a Generation
Last Resort - Violence In Our Minds

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Okay, last thing. I was watching BET's Top 25 Best Dancers and I was extolling upon Chris Brown's virtues to my sister who hadn't heard of him. He's amazing! (And totally cute!) Here is his awesome MTV 2007 Award performance after which Justin Timberlake commented Damn, I feel old! Hee! Happy New Year's!!