Monday, December 31, 2007

2007 Favorites

The Late Adopter selects...
Movies:
This Is England (dir. Shane Meadows)
An Unreasonable Man (dir. Henriette Mantel & Steve Skrovan)
I’m Not There (dir. Todd Haynes)
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (dir. Julien Temple)
Control (dir. Anton Corbijn)
Talk to Me (dir. Kasi Lemmons)
The Simpsons Movie (dir. David Silverman)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (dir. Jake Kasdan)
Factory Girl (dir. George Hickenlooper)
Blades of Glory (dir. Josh Gordon & Will Speck)

Albums:
LCD Soundsystem--Sound of Silver (Capitol)
Apples in Stereo--New Magnetic Wonder (Yep Roc)
Arcade Fire--Neon Bible (Merge)
Kanye West--Graduation (Roc-A-Fella)
M.I.A.--Kala (Interscope)
Hives--The Black and White Album (A&M)
Polyphonic Spree--The Fragile Army (TVT)
Rihanna--Good Girl Gone Bad (Def Jam)
Klaxons--Myths of the Near Future (DGC)
Raspberries--Live on Sunset Strip (Ryko)

Songs:
Shins- 'Phantom Limb'
LCD Soundsystem- 'North American Scum'
Rihanna- 'Umbrella'
Arcade Fire- 'Intervention'
Public Enemy- 'Harder Than You Think'
Social Distortion- 'Far Behind'
Apples in Stereo- '7 Stars'
Polyphonic Spree- 'Running Away'
Klaxons- 'Golden Skans'
M.I.A.- 'Boyz'

2 comments:

KcM said...

Lots of music movies on that list, particularly if you count Factory Girl as (sort of) a Dylan movie. (I haven't seen it yet.)

Thanks much for the annual CD, by the way. Other than Kanye, M.I.A., and the Shins, I'm as behind and ignorant as ever about new releases.

Anonymous said...

No BRMC?