Hate to be all blowin' up the front page but, well, why not? I was going to wait until January to post a Best Music of 2K7 list because there are a couple of late releases I have not heard. Oh well. This may be the last time I do this in a 1-2-3 format anyway, I may name a favorite but then I'll just list other albums I dig without preference. Anyway here goes:

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. M.I.A. - Kala
3. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
4. Battles - Mirrored
5. Jay-Z - American Gangster
6. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
7. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - Magic
8. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
9. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
10. Pissed Jeans - Hope for Men

11. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
12. Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
13. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
14. Pharoahe Monch - Desire
15. Liars - Liars
16. K-Os - Atlantis: Hymns for Disco
17. Kanye West - Graduation
18. Feist - The Reminder
19. Dr. Dog - We All Belong
20. Norah Jones - Not Too Late
21. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
22. Interpol - Our Love to Admire
23. !!! - Myth Takes
24. King Wilkie - Low Country Suite
25. Common - Finding Forever

I'm probably forgetting some but honestly if they were that good wouldn't I remember them? (No not really, there probably are some I really am forgetting.)
There are three hip-hop albums that all came out in the last three weeks that I haven't heard (Wu-Tang, Ghostface and Lupe Fiasco) I'll just do a "stuff I missed" list in a few months.

There were some albums that I had high expectations for that really disappointed me (Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams) and some that are high on other lists that I'm just not totally impressed by. Bright Eyes' Cassadaga comes to mind. It's a solid and mature album but it also feels very plain. It doesn't have the immediacy of I'm Wide Awake... or the bombast of The Story's in the Soil.... I also feel I should like The National more than I do. I don't DISLIKE them I guess I wasn't in the right frame of mind when I heard The Boxer and never gave it a second chance. Dan Deacon is another one I just didn't really get. I heard it while working at R&TT but...I don't know. I think I will like get into it somewhere down the road.