Every year the Colonel does his comprehensive best albums of 2007 list. While you all wait for it, here's my much less thought out, much smaller list. My top three albums for 2007 were:

The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible


This one seemed to bring out a lot of mixed feelings. Sophomore albums are always dicey when a bad's initial release was met with as much praise as Arcade Fire's The Funeral. I was one of the folks who really thought they knocked it out of the park with their second album. Neon Bible was moody without being dark and catchy without being kitschy.



Okkervil River - The Stage Names


A lot of people held this album up as being Okkervil River's strongest release yet. I think it's probably their most accessible work, but not their best. Don't get me wrong, I loved it. There's so much inventiveness and energy on this album that I can listen to it for days on end without getting bored, but I just don't think it's their greatest work. It is, however, better than just about everything else that I listened to this year.



Emotionalism - The Avett Brothers


No surprise here. I love this band and their most recent album was fantastic. It walked the tricky line of feeling something like a departure from their older albums, but still felt, remarkably, unmistakably like the Avett Brothers. There's no weak track on this album.



There were a lot more albums I enjoyed this year. I really liked Amy Winehouse's stuff. I really enjoyed the new Band of Horses. The new Shins album had some nice spots. These three, though, were the ones I found myself playing again and again. So there you have it!

Next up: Best comics of 2007.

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