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triple j top tens for 2007

We asked some of the triple j staff to nominate their favourite albums of 2007. Here is what they came up with:

Richard Kingsmill's (triple j Music Director & Presenter 2007)
Top 10 albums of 2007

  1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
  2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
  3. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
  4. The Panics - Cruel Guards
  5. Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times
  6. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
  7. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
  8. Pnau - Pnau
  9. Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
  10. Interpol - Our Love To Admirer
Top 10 gigs of 2007:
  1. The Pixies - Luna Park, Sydney (March 30)
  2. The Shins - Enmore Theatre, Sydney (August 9)
  3. Phoenix - V Festival, Sydney (March 1)
  4. The Gossip - The Metro, Sydney (Dec 11)
  5. Blonde Redhead - The Metro, Sydney (July 24)
  6. Steely Dan - Sydney Entertainment Centre (September 18)
  7. Cold War Kids/Belles Will Ring - The Forum, Sydney (June 1)
  8. !!! - The Forum, Sydney (March 8)
  9. Augie March - King's Park, Perth (February 24)
  10. Hot Chip - The Metro, Sydney (August 7)
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Chris Scaddan (triple j Program Director)
Best Albums of 2007
  1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
  2. Battles - Mirrored
  3. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
  4. Martin Craft - Silver & Fire
  5. Katalyst - What's Happening
  6. Nation Blue - Protest Songs
  7. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
  8. Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
  9. Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
  10. King Khan & The Shrines - What Is?!
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The Doctor (Breakfast)
Best Albums of 2007 (in no particular order):
  1. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
  2. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
  3. Josh Pyke - Memories And Dust
  4. British India - Guillotine
  5. Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight
  6. Clare Bowditch - The Moon Looked On
  7. Urthboy - The Signal
  8. Mindsnare - Disturb The Hive
  9. Magic Dirt - Beast
  10. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
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Zan Rowe (Mornings)
Best Albums of 2007 (in no particular order):
  1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
  2. Bill Callahan - Woke On A Whaleheart
  3. Radical Face - Ghost
  4. Feist - The Reminder
  5. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
  6. Menomena - Friend and Foe
  7. Talib Kweli - Eardum
  8. Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
  9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
  10. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
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Andrew Haug (Full Metal Racket)
Best Albums of 2007:
  1. Machine Head - The Blackening
  2. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
  3. Alchemist - Tripsis
  4. Down - Over the Under
  5. Arch Enemy - Rise of The Tyrant
  6. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
  7. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
  8. Entombed - Serpent Saints - Ten Ammendments
  9. Blotted Science - The Machinations of Dementia
  10. Planet X - Quantum
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Carolyn Tran (Home & Hosed)
Best Albums of 2007:
  1. Pnau - Pnau
  2. Red Jezebel - How I Learnt To Stop Worrying
  3. The Panics - Cruel Guards
  4. Urthboy - The Signal
  5. Love of Diagrams - Mosaic
  6. Angus and Julia Stone - A Book Like This
  7. Martin Craft - Silver and Fire
  8. British India - Guillotine
  9. Young and Restless - Young and Restless
  10. Rand and Holland - Caravans
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Sarah Howells (Roots 'N All)
Best Albums of 2007:
  1. Eric Bibb - Diamond Days
  2. John Butler Trio - Grand National
  3. Oka - Half Lazy Half Crazy
  4. Mista Savona - Mista Savona presents Melbourne Meets Kingston
  5. Ozomatli - Don't Mess with the Dragon
  6. Katalyst - What's Happening
  7. Stephen Marley - Mind Control
  8. Backsliders - Left Field Holler
  9. The Waifs - Sun Dirt Water
  10. The Porkers - This Is
Favourite Gig Moment:
East Coast Blues and Roots Festival 2007.
Fishbone, followed by Ozomatli and the Roots! I casually wandered in to the Jambalaya tent, lured in by the sounds of Fishbone, only to find lead dude Angelo Moore crowd surfing - with his mic and a really long lead - halfway back into the crowd! They had me hooked, and as I stood there I scoped out a good spot to see Ozomatli - and managed to get a spot on a random box down the front of the crowd next to one of the poles. For once I could actually see what was going on, so I danced like a crazy person and didn't give up my prime position until after the entire Ozomatli and The Roots sets. I met lots of fun, crazy people standing on that box, and despite the need to pee I held out and saw one of the best line-ups ever! I definately couldn't stop smiling after that one!
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Nick Findlay (triple j Music Lbrary)
Best Albums of 2007:
  1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
  2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
  3. Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
  4. Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
  5. Digitalism - Idealism
  6. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
  7. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
  8. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
  9. Jamie T - Panic Prevention
  10. Daft Punk - Alive 2007
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Chris Taylor (The Chaser's War on Everything)
Best Albums of 2007:
  1. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
  2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
  3. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
  4. The National - Boxer
  5. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
  6. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
  7. Feist - The Reminder
  8. White Stripes - Icky Thump
  9. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
  10. New Pornographers - Challengers

Pop song of the year:
"Australia" - The Shins

Rock song of the year:
"Fireworks" - Animal Collective

Dance song of the year:
"Atlas" - Battles

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TOP.10 FMR listener's Top 10 for 2007
Best Albums of 2007:
  1. Machine Head - The Blackening
  2. Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
    Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
  3. Alchemist - Tripsis
  4. Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition- Exhibit A
    Soilwork - Sworn to a great Divide
    Nile - Ithyphallic
  5. Vanishing Point - The Fourth Season
    Virgin Black - Requiem Mezzo Forte
  6. Voyager - Univers
  7. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
    Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
    Megadeth - United Abominations
  8. Eyefear - A World Full Of Grey
    Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
  9. Down - Over the Under
  10. Divine Heresy - Bleed the Fifth
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