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Terrorbird Staff Picks for 07: Check out our favorite albums, singles, live shows and more!
 
George Corona:

Top 10 Records of 2007
1. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
2. Panda Bear - Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
3. Sally Shapiro - Disco Romance (Diskokaine/Paper Bag)
4. Dapayk & Padberg - Black Beauty (Mo's Ferry)
5. Santogold - Untitled Full Length (TBA)
6. Boom Bip - Saccrilege EP (Lex)
7. Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (Kill Rock Stars)
8. Shape of Broad Minds - Craft of the Lost Art (Lex)
9. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (DFA/Capitol)
10. Bodies of Water - Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink (Self Release)

Top 5 12"s:
1. Gaiser vs. Heartthrob 'Nasty Girl' (Minus)
2. Chromeo 'Fancy Footwork' (Vice)
3. Herve 'See Me' (Dubsided)
4. Jesse Rose & Oliver $ 'Wake Up' (Made To Play)
5. The Field 'A Paw In My Face' (Kompakt)

12" Runners Up:
Neon Neon 'Trick For Treat' (Lex), The Martin Brothers 'Stoopit' (Dirtybird), Deadset 'Keep Quiet' (Front Room), Sally Shapiro 'Anorak Christmas' (Diskokaine), Love Supreme 'Elsewhere' EP (Tirk)

Top Live Shows of 2007:
1. Genesis @ Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA
2. The Field @ RX Gallery, San Francisco CA
3. Terrorbird One Year Anniversary vs. Daly City Thriple D's Release Part @ Minna Gallery, San Francisco CA (feat. Boom Bip, Daedelus, Mochipet, Jel, Book Rate DJs, Panther, Daddy Kev, Copy, and more!)
4. James Murphy @ Hiro Ballroom, New York NY
5. Audion aka Matthew Dear @ Supper Club, San Francisco CA
6. Lightning Bolt @ 12 Galaxies, San Francisco CA
7. Book Rate DJs, Devlin & Darko (Spank Rock), Mochipet After Hourse & more @ unnamed warehouse space, San Francisco CA

Looking forward to Most in 2008:
Bersa Discos, Matthew Dear Spectral Sound reissues, WHY?, Switch full length, Santogold, Neon Neon, Crystal Castles, Gui Boratto, Lightning Bolt, Mae Shi, Dirtybird.

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Jessica Caragliano:

Top 12 Albums of 07:
1) St. Vincent "Marry Me" (Beggars)
2) Deerhoof "Friend Opportunity" (Kill Rock Stars)
3) Jens Lekman "Night Falls Over Kortedala" (Secretly Canadian)
4) Marnie Stern "In Advance of the Broken Arm" (Kill Rock Stars)
5) Calvin Harris "I Created Disco" (Almost Gold)
6) Yeasayer "All Hour Cymbals" (We Are Free)
7) Battles "Mirrored" (Warp)
8) Kim Hiorthoy "My Last Day" (Smalltown Supersound)
9) Panda Bear "Person Pitch" (Paw Tracks)
10) Bodies of Water "Ears Will Pop and Eyes Will Blink" (Thousand Tongues)
11) Bunny Rabbit "Lovers and Crypts" (Voodoo-Eros)
12) Barr "Summary" (Kill Rock Stars)

Favorite songs of 07 (not in order):
Why? "The Hollows"
Barr "The Song is the Single"
Bonde Do Role "Gasolina" and "Salta O Frango"
Bunny Rabbit "Lucky Bunny Foot"
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
Santogold "Creator"
Justice "D.A.N.C.E."
Panther "You Don't Want Your Nails Done"

Favorite live show of 07:
Bunny Rabbit @ Supreme Trading, Brooklyn, NY, 2/20/2007

Favorite WNBA game of 07:
Detroit Shock @ NY Liberty, 8/12/07

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Leeor Brown:

Top Ten of '07:
1. After Dark(Italians Do It Better)
2. Pantha Du Prince (Dial)
3. Kim Hiorthoy(Smalltown Supersound)
4. Battles(Warp)
5. Chromeo(Vice)
6. Panda Bear (Paw Tracks)
7. Milky Disco(Lore Recordings)
8. Take(Inner Current)
9. Matthew Dear(Ghostly)
10. Copy(Audio Dregs)

Top 5 EPs:
1. Antonelli "Ride the Black Train"(Kalk Pets)
2. Flying Lotus "Reset"(Warp)
3. Why? "The Hollows"(Anticon)
4. Larytta "Ya Ya Ya"(Creaked)
5. Daedelus "Fairweather Friends"(Ninja Tune)

Favorite songs:

BEST SONG IN AGES: R. Kelly "Real Talk"

everything else...

1. LCD Soundsystem "Freak Out/Starry Eyes"
2. Antonelli 'Ride on Black Train'
3. Le Loup 'Outside this Car, The End of The World'
4. Chromeo '100%'
5. Boreta 'Lobegrinder'
6. Shape of Broad Minds 'Opr8r'
7. Joseph! 'Close to Me'
8. My My "Southern Comfort'
9. The Field 'Over the Ice'
10. Roman Revutsky 'Incomplete'
11. Copy 'Zipper Problems'
12. Supermayer 'The Art of Letting Go'
13. Bonde Do Role 'Gasolina'
14. Santogold 'Creator'
14. Dri 'Inspiration'
15. The Emperor Machine 'Front Man'

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Tim Jones:

Top 10 Albums of 07:
1. Panda Bear-Person Pitch
2. R Kelly-Double Up
3. Half Hawaii-Into you/Out of You 12"
4. Silver Daggers- New High & Ord
5. Studio-West Coast
6. Yeasayer-All Hour Cymbals
7. Celebration-The Modern Tribe
8. Entrance-Prayer of Death
9. Electrelane- No Shouts No Calls
10. (tie) Black Dice-Load Blown/Kenny Chesney-Poets and Pirates

Top 15 Things in 2007
1) Genesis-Live at the Hollywood Bowl
2) Silver Daggers/Lightning Bolt at 6th Street Warehouse
3) R, Kelly-Real Talk
4) Panda Bear-Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
5) Yeasayer live
6) Low End Theory nite in Los Angeles
7) Maui Fever the TV show
8) Mr. Boston from I Love New York
9) New season of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia
10) Half Hawaii-Into You/Out of You 12" (Perlon)
11) Emily Jane White-Dark Undercoat (Double Negative)
12) Poni Hoax- Antibodies single (Tigersushi)
13) Crime In Choir live
14) dance parties
15) T-Pain-Yo Stomach

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Caroline Partamian:

Top 10 Records of 2007:
1. Caribou/Andorra
2. Radiohead/In Rainbows
3. Budos Band/Budos Band II
4, Panda Bear/Person Pitch
5. blackblack/EP2
6. Sally Shapiro/Disco Romance
7. Yellow Fever/Cats & Rats EP
8. LCD Soundsystem/Sound of Silver
9. Taken By Trees/Open Field
10. Death Proof Soundtrack

Close calls:
David Shrigley's Worried Noodles (Tomlab)
Shocking pinks – s/t (DFA)
Battles – Mirrored (Warp)
Health (S/T)

6 Best Live Shows this Year:
1. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings @ Bimbos, SF 12/5/07
2. !!! at the Fillmore, SF April 29 07
3. Cool Kids- Hiro Ballroom CMJ
4. Justice at the Mezz. 10/11/07
5. Lightning Bolt, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA 4/9/07
6. Thurston Moore at CMJ Apple Store and Great American Music Hall, SF

Top 6 Compilations
1. David Shrigley's Worried Noodles
2. SITAR BEAT VOL. 11 (Soul)Sampled Vol.
3. Various Artists - BOMBAY CONNECTION VOL. 1 (Normal)
4. Dirty R&B: The Best of R. Kelly Mixed By Matthew Africa (Hubba Rock)
5. East Of Underground East Of Underground Wax Poetics
6. HOME SCHOOLED: THE ABC'S OF KID SOUL (Numero Group)

3 Top 7" Singles of the Year:
1. Jay-Reatard – Hammer I Miss You (Goner)
2. Sharon Jones-I'm not Going to Cry (Daptone)
3. Traditional Fools- I Got A Baby (Chocolate Covered)

Favorite Reissues/Collections:
1. Fire Engines - Hungry Beat (AcutE)
2. Sebadoh: The Freed Man (domino)
3. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -Scared Famous (Human Ear Music)
4. Young Marble Giants- Colossal Youth (Domino)

Most Underrated Treasure of the Year!
Bob & Gene- If This World Were Mine… (Daptone)

Best New Artist:
Port O'Brien (check out the Wind and the Swell!)

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Dan Koplowitz:

Top 10 Albums of 07:
1) Bodies of Water "Ears Will Pop and Eyes Will Blink"
2) Bowerbirds "Hymns for a Dark Horse"
3) Jens Lekman "Night Falls Over Kortedala"
4) Panda Bear "Person Pitch"
5) The New Pornographers "Challengers"
6) Besnard Lakes "The Besnard Lakes Are the Dark Horse"
7) Jesu "Conqueror"
8) Miracle Fortress "Five Roses"
9) Pedro "You Me and Everyone"
10) Fourth of July "On the Plains"

Runners-up:
Bon Iver "For Emma, Forever"
Battles "Mirrored"
Elk City "New Believers"
Maps "We Can Create"

Songs of the year:
Justice "D.A.N.C.E."
Calvin Harris "Acceptable in the 80s"
Bowerbirds "In Our Talons"
The New Pornographers "Challengers"