Evan Funk Davies' Best of 2007

Year end recountance from Evan Funk Davies, heard Monday nights from 11-2. (Click link to hear Real Audio sample)

Top 10 LPs of the year:
1. White Hills - Glitter Glamour Atrocity (self-released)
2. Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It (Yep Roc)
3. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Living With The Living (Touch & Go)
4. Numbers - Now You Are This (Kill Rock Stars)
5. Tranzmitors - self-titled (Deranged)
6. Mannequin Men - Fresh Rot (Flameshovel)
7. Mac Lethal - 11:11 (Rhymesayers)
8. McFadden's Parachute - Laughing Sparrow Died (Parachute)
9. Dr. Delay - Rajaz Meter (Funk Weapons)
10. Silver Sun - Dad's Weird Dream (Invisible Hands)

Tied for #11:
Turzi - A (Kemado)
White Stripes - Icky Thump (Third Man/WB)
Hex Dispeners - self-titled (Alien Snatch)
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal  (Notenuf)
Motor - Unhuman (Novamute)
MF Grimm - The Hunt for the Gingerbread Man (Class A)
Brian Wilson Shock Treatment - Hammer of the Gods (Poe)
The Cynics - Here We Are (Get Hip)
Electric 6 - I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being the Master (Metropolis)
The Doers - Gaiety (Reluctant)
Len Price 3 - Rentacrowd (Wicked Cool)

Top Singles/EPs:
1. Fallen Leaves - Trouble (Parliament)
2. Touch-Me-Nots - It's Not Right (But It's OK) - Roach & Squirrel
3. Blank Dogs - The Doorbell Fire (Sweet Rot)
4. Nothing People - In The City (S-S)
5. The Laureates - I Want To Miss You (Funambulist)
6. Chief Kamachi & the Ju Ju Mob - My Squad (Good Hands)
7. The Mantles - Burden (Dulc-i-tone)
8. The Yes Sirs - Dos Locos (C.N.P.)
9. Telepathe - Sinister Militia (Social Registry)
10. Dan Melchior Und Das Menace - Pink Scream EP (Shake Appeal)

Top Various Artist Compilations:
1. Real Life Permanent Dreams (Castle)
2. Black Gold (Castle)
3. C.N.P. Sampler 2007 (C.N.P.)
4. D.I.Y. (Soul Jazz)
6. Crash of Thunder (Vampisoul)
7. Disco Deutschland Disco (Marina)
8. Thank You For Being You (Electric Honey)
9. Boston Underground (Moulty)
10. (tie) Messthetics vols 101, 102 & 103)

Top Reissues/Collections:
1. Sneakers - Nonsequitur of Silence (Collector's Choice)
2. Little Diesel - No Lie (Telstar)
3. Magazine - Real Life (EMI)
4. Dictators - Every Day Is Saturday (Norton)
5. Original Soundtrack - The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (El / Cherry Red)
6. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth & Collected Works (Domino)
7. Fire Engines - Hungry Beat (Acute)
8. Speedies - Speedy Delivery (Radio Heartbeat)
9. Exploders - Explode Her One (Regal Beast)
10. White Flame - American Rudeness (Munster)

Comments

[thierry]

Lucky guy ! I whish I could find the "Real Life Permanent Dreams" boxset. It's out of print now ! Sloan was my best 2006 album (released in 2006 in canada). I have a blog dedicated to Sloan (in french): www.sloanfan.blogpot.com.
Feel free to email me !