Pick Ten! A Closer, more intimate, review of 2007. Unlike past years, where I kept updating the "perfect" top 40, I thought I'd try a different tact. Pick 10 albums that did it for me and leave it at that. Of course, as always, feel free to disagree. In fact feel free to do anything damn thing you wish. It's a free country; unless that is the damn Republicans win the white house again. 1. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (Merge). Whatever genre you may think their alt consciousness falls into, know this. These Canadians are the best damn thing to hit popular music since Johnny Rotten had a hard-on for the queen of England. And like the aforementioned icon, Win Butler doesn't hold anything back, nor betray any false pretenses. His fears and angst go hand in hand with his contempt, primarily for religion and police states - the stuff of most great works of art. While he may not have any answers to offer his minions, such shortcomings - if they be shortcomings at a...
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