My top twenty albums of 2007.

Two posts in a day. I'm on an offical "roll."

My Top Twenty Favorite Albums of the Year 2007:

Ready? Here you go!

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Honorable Mentions: A Place to Bury Strangers, Ghostland Observatory, Crystal Castles, Coco Rosie, Chase Pagan, The Shins, Black Lips, Pete Bjorn and John

Biggest letdown: Interpol

Album I got into a year late: Datarock
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20. Foreign Born, On the Wing Now: I randomly saw this band play during CMJ and couldn't pull myself away from it. My friend called them "epic." I have been obsessed since. "Union Hall" is a must have.

19. Blonde Redhead, 23: Not every song is great - but the good songs definitely resemble good Blonde Redhead. Enchanting.

18. Panda Bear, Person Pitch: Basically perfect. And simple.

17. Rosewood Thieves, Lonesome EP: This band is creative and into doing everything themselves. Besides reminding me of Dylan - they release EPs, not full records and I am never dissapointed.

16. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend tied with White Rabbits, Fort Nightly: Both of these bands kind of blew up this year. I've seen both play a few times and loved each performance. It's good rock.

15. Dan Deacon, Spiderman of the Rings: The first time I heard Dan Deacon I was completely turned off. My friend had it playing and I said, "THIS is the guy everyone is talking about?" He kept it playing and it started to grow on me.

14. Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: Spoon never really changes. I'm totally fine with it - I like what they have going on.

13. Menomena, Friend and Foe: When I worked in an office I listened to this album everyday. Everything about this band is cool.

12. Animal Collective, Strawberry Jam: My friends are HUGE Animal Collective fans. I really don't like their band name and for some reason I've never got into them as much as everyone else. But I can't deny that this is a classic.

11. Against Me!, New Wave: This was my favorite record for awhile this summer. I still want to put it higher on the list, but I feel like I favor the other albums a little bit more. Still, I avoided this band because I thought they were a lame punk band. This album proves that opinion wrong.

10. Dirty Projectors, Rise Above: I got into this band a little later in the year when I started seeing posters around the city and Brooklyn EVERYWHERE for them. The next thing I noticed is that everyone started talking about them - all the time. They were the band to see. Turns out, they are totally worth the hype - and completely unique, too.

9. Deerhunter, Cryptograms: I actually saw this band play with Battles this summer. I feel like people are always disregarding Deerhunter. People always say it's hard to get into, too instrumental, boring. I disagree. If you like that Factory Records sound I don't see why you wouldn't like this band.

8. Battles, Mirrored: People try to knock them down by calling them "math rock." I call it "really good math rock."

7. Studio, West Coast tied with Burial, Untrue: Both these records totally rock my world. They are my winter albums, for sure. "Origins" by Studio is another must have.

6. Liars, Liars: I am also a huge Liars fan. This album is more "rock" than their last album. "Pure Unevil" is a must have.

5. The National, Boxer: I was totally hesistant to jump on the train of people who raved about The National. My first response was "lame." But I can't stop listening to it.

4. Bear Hands, Golden EP: I can't enough of these guys. And I don't know why the rest of the world doesn't agree with me.

3. Arcade Fire, Neon Bible: They are classic. End of story.

2. MGMT, Oracular Spectacular: Hands down this was my summer record. This was the music that was in the car stereo that I listened to with the windows down.

1. Radiohead, In Rainbows: No surprise, I'm a huge Radiohead fan. It's like Thom Yorke meets Ok Computer. I love it.