We asked, you responded, in the process revealing a few things about yourselves. First, you're an eclectic and varied bunch. The albums getting one vote each far outnumbered those collecting the most votes as a whole, showing just how fractured of a collective you are when it comes to your individual passions for the albums you love. This included everything from Linkin Park to Chuck Prophet, Ted Leo to White Williams, and Animal Collective to Kelly Willis. Still, patterns emerged, and names like Spoon, Radiohead, Wilco, and Amy Winehouse began to assert themselves in this list, as they have in a lot of others in 2007. Here then is what you heard and loved over the past twelve months.

20) Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings:100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)

MP3: "100 Days, 100 Nights"

19) Interpol: Our Love to Admire (Capitol)

MP3: "The Heinrich Maneuver" (Live @ Lollapalooza, '07)

18) Apples In Stereo: New Magnetic Wonder (yep roc/Simian)

MP3: "Energy"

17) Band of Horses: Cease to Begin (Sub Pop)

MP3: "Is There a Ghost"

16) Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)

MP3: "Heretics"

15) Of Montreal: Hissisng Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)

MP3: "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse"

14) Iron & Wine:The Shepherd's Dog (Sub Pop)

MP3: "Innocent Bones"

13) Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Candian)

MP3: "The Opposite of Hallelujah"

12) Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic)

Vid: "Little Motel"

11) Dolorean: You Can't Win (yep roc)

Stream: "Beachcomber Blues"

10) Bruce Springsteen: Magic (Columbia)

Vid: "Radio Nowhere"

9) The National: Boxer (Beggar's Banquet)

MP3: "Fake Empire"

8) Panda Bear: Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)

Vid: "Comfy In Nautica"

7) Robert Plant & Alison Krauss: Raising Sand (Rounder)

Vid: "Gone Gone Gone"

6) Amy Winehouse: Back to Black (Universal/Island)

MP3: "You Know I'm No Good"

5) Radiohead: In Rainbows (ATO/XL)

Full album stream

4) The Shins: Wincing the Night Away (Sub Pop)

Vid: "Turn On Me"

3) Wilco:Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)

Stream: Live in Berkeley, 8/24/07

2) Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (Merge)

MP3: "Black Mirror"

1) Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)

MP3: "The Underdog"

Posted by jpetersen on Monday, December 31 at 0:54am