It’s that colder, darker time of year when we ask Stereogum readers to determine the best records and bands from the past twelve months. You may remember most of these categories from the 2006 Gummys, but we’ve made a few changes!
Best Album, Best Video, and Best Live Act should be self-explanatory, but for Album we wanna know your top three (everyone’s top nom is weighted the most; choice #3 the least). Mr. Indie Rock/Ms. Indie Rock (vote for one or both) should go to the hottie who most makes your heart (and etc) sizzle. Then comes the Most Overrated Act award. This one should go to the band you read too much about (here or elsewhere) in 2007.
Something to keep in mind when you vote: This year the fields are enabled with auto-fill that will suggest likely candidates if you start typing (and have JavaScript enabled). This makes our lives easier because people have terrible spelling. So please take that extra two seconds, and if your choice is suggested, click it.
Also keep your eyes on the finish line: Polls close 12/6 at 6 PM EST. After we board up the voting booth, we’ll tally the results and randomly pick an entrant who, courtesy of Other Music, will receive the top 50 CDs as determined by Stereogum readers.
If you’re looking to jog your memory, here’s what rocked our stereos this year.
Without further ado, click here to get it started in here. Feel free to start arguing now.
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Looking forward to the obligatory Amy Winehouse “Best Use of Drugs While On Stage” award
Radiohead FTW
The next guy who says Radiohead is getting kicked in the nuts. Remember Aqueduct’s Or Give Me Death when you’re voting for the 2nd or 3rd spot album.
Beirut FTW
ariel pink and cass mccombs put on a fine show together!
Next time, don’t make all of the fields required. I had no idea who to vote for for best video, and it wouldn’t let me leave it blank or put something like “none of the above”. You’re going to get skewed results because people are just going to hit a letter and pick the first band that comes up with that name.
^^^
Hence my vote for 50 Cent as Mr. Indie Rock!
If you need a best video of 2007, Vote Beirut – Elephant Gun. it’s a 2007 video.
Justice. Kanye. That’s it.
http://paidandpopular.blogspot.com
i agree. some of the fields i would have preferred to leave blank (like best video)
oh well. i do loves me some kanye… SO, kanye for mr. indie 2007! (??)
@ Matt/rel
Good thinking — OK, we are revising this so not everything is required. Hold tight…
most overrated… THE HOLD STEADY. ugh, awful, boring, overrated band.
Hold Steady overrated?…. You like Deerhunter, don’t you (I kid. Sort of.). I’ll take a moment to pimp A Place to Bury Strangers.
ok, by popular acclaim, only the albums are mandatory (how hard is it to pick 3 you liked?)
everything else is optional.
The Hold Steady is for people who don’t feel comfortable listening to Bruce Springsteen.
Best Video: Kanye West (ft. Zach Galifianakis) – Can’t Tell Me Nothin’
This shouldn’t even be a contest.
Ms. Indie Rock: Alice Glass (Crystal Castles) because she is badass as all hell.
Best Albums: Justice. Kanye. That’s it.
Best Video: Kanye West (ft. Zach Galifianakis) – Can’t Tell Me Nothin’
This shouldn’t even be a contest.
Also, Kanye West for Mr. Indie Rock. He’s more hipster than the NYU undergraduate student base combined.
AGREED
OK, if it’s one of the options that pop up when I type it in, why does the form keep spitting the Tiny Vipers album back at me? And what about albums that aren’t options when I type them in (i.e., I have to type the artist and title in because it’s not been put in yet)? WTF? If my voting options were limited, I wish I’d known before I attempted to fill the form out.
why is there both a fiest and a leslie feist when choosing mrs. indie 2007?
ERA VULGARIS
I’m just have to say, for me the #1 of 2007 is…
Boxer.
Word.
stereogum needs more choices for best album. . .i know they want to keep the process manageable, but it was difficult to strike a balance between big-upping good records that i think deserve attention and big-upping good records that also deserve accolades but which anybody actually bothering to fill this out already very likely owns. . .
@claire- you can nominate anything, though! we seeded it with a couple, but if enough people nominate any artist/video/album/person, it’ll come up as a suggestion.
oh, and @mike- that’s because SOME PEOPLE punch in “Feist” instead of waiting for “Leslie Feist” to come up.
@jessica- what are you trying to nominate? send an email to web at stereogum dot com and i’ll figure out what the problem is.
it is always fun to see how many people like ‘blog band’ junk through things like this. so much fun.
mrs. indie = st. vincent
yummy
Ms Indie Rock = Maya Arulpragasam (M.I.A.)
arcade fire = most overrated band of 2007. for real.
most overrated: justice
most overrated band of 2007: your moms cock
what a silly category
you are silly for making it stereogum
Is Kanye the only mr. indie anyone can come up with? One name:Justin Harris
^^^^^^^^^^
i would have voted for justin but his name wasn’t an auto-complete option.
did you know he was a high school baseball star?
err. zach condon, please.
Mr. Indie Rock = Britt Daniel
Oh yes.
Mr. Indie = Spencer Krug
I love how Tom McRae’s 2007 album “King Of Cards” just seemed fly right past Stereogum without a mention.
Hell, I even had to type the whole thing into the entry field.
I just voted and realised that I forgot about a whole pile of deadly bands who released awesome records this years. SHIT!!! I don’t think it’d be fair to vote again though.
don’t forget about all those early releases. these things always get skewed towards Q4 releases. for me, low’s ‘drums and guns’ and white rabbits ‘fort nightly’ are a quality as any other this year. and most overrated has to be dan deacon. that’s a fact.
i’m with ko. dan deacon = overrated 2k7.
and don’t forget menomena! (even though we all had friend and foe in ’06…)
or any other random spirit lover…
oh yeah, menomena! dang, forgot about that one. it’s definitely as good as anything else this year.
call me crazy, but i have Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga as my no 1 this year…
3 albums is a tough short list. I’m sure in about 10 minutes I’ll remember something awesome that I totally forgot.
in no particular order:
miracle fortress
lcd soundsytem
spoon
feist
cafe tacuba
Mr. Indie Rock is now, has always been, and always will be Britt Daniel. There is basically no other choice — and not just because all other choices are lanky-haired date rapists (Win Butler, I am talking about you).
Needs more Okkervil love
Jens Lekman, Jens Lekman, Jens Lekman.
i dont think i’ve seen panda bear mentioned yet…….
come on
How could anything but Battles’ video for Atlas be the best video? Yes the Zach Galifinktitus video is quite funny, but it’s way more comedy skit than video. Unfortunately, Atlas was way too early in the year and it’s played out among the hipsters.
Don’t worry, bobobob. I got your Panda Bear. I put Animal Collective as “Most Overrated.”
bobobob,
i dropped Panda Bear in at #3…
almost put animal Collective as most overrated…but opted for of Montreal instead.
Zach Condon, OmG HoTtIe
BEST VIDEO= Simian Mobile Disco- Hustler
Seriously….it expresses all that is right in the world.
Zach Condon = Mr. Indie
whattafuckincutie!
burial – untrue ftw
and if you dont like the hold steady than you are most likley d bag
chi_guy sounds like a die hard p-forker. there were so many good albums this year. the hold steady have nothing to do with those, since A. they suck to listen to and B. they didn’t release a 2007 album. burial is also terrible, like most dub crap.
1 lcd soundsystem
2 arcade fire
3 mia
4 spoon
5 national
6 justice
7 panda bear
8 animal collective
9 sunset rubdown
10 kanye
11 CYHSY
12 of montreal
13 in rainbows
14 lil wayne
15 menomena
overrated: lily allen
best vid: d.a.n.c.e.
mr. krug (should have said daniels)
ms. annie clark (st. vincent)
I don’t understand why everyone likes the Hold Steady. They all sound the same, and it’s just bad… the singer bugs me. They really baffle me cause I don’t get the appeal to them and they’re huuuuge!
I want to change my vote for most overrated from Deerhunter to Arcade Fire.
And for Mr. Indie, try Tim Harrington. He’s a beast.
For Best Video, I had to do a write in for Emily Haines’ Our Hell.
Also put Neko Case for Ms Indie Rock <3
if you don’t like the hold steady, it might be because you prefer music over lyrics. if you appreciate lyrics over music, it might make more sense. I’m not bashing either preference, just pointing out the difference. also, elephant gun = video, annie clark = ms indie, I can’t remember who I put for mr. indie, but best album = hissing fauna.
The Hold Steady is for kids who still eat up whatever crud TRL feeds them.
That TRL-Hold Steady reference was spot on. Remember that time the Hold Steady had that video on MTV? Wait just a goddamn minute! They were never on TRL! You’re feeding me lies! Lies! Ass.
No Wilco love? Andrew Bird? I thought they’d be clear favorites…
lolo trl reference
I PUT ANDREW BIRD I JUST REMEMBERED
I really hope Zach Condon or Andrew Bird win Mr. Indie. Those two are as indie as it gets and they had the two best albums of the year.
why do we have to limit selections to just three? you instantly feel like a prick for not finding a place for all the great music this year.
peacebone is an awesome video. don’t forget that one.
and ms. shapiro would make a vibrant ms. indie
ha.
Am i the only one who put Dappled Cities as album of the year? I mean it is a masterpiece, well to me any way. I have to thank you Stereogum for getting me into them. Well done.
Where would one get that the Hold Steady would be played on TRL, unless they are doing an episode on “videos we will never play” i doubt that would happen
uh… hmmm… i put panda bear, feist, and of montreal for best albums… think those three are all tops. Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky was great too as well as LCD Soundsytem and Jamie T. Eh, who knows.. there were a lot of greats this year. as for best vid Battles Atlas fa sho. ms. indie, i just love feist and mr. indie… im prob the only one but i got kevin barnes up there. :) lol.
ELLIOTT SMITH!
ELLIOTT SMITH-NEW MOON!
I was gonna put Kevin Barnes up there, but I had to put Nick Zinner.
It was a tough call though.
Sound of Silver is unquestionably the album of the year. Followed closely by our favorite sell-outs of Montreal and Battles.
Kanye get’s Mr. Indie Rock for his hipster approved sampling and Meg White gets Ms….because screw you all I love her.
Overrated? Arcade Fire. They’re stellar, but not as superhuman as they’ve been portrayed.
BRADFORD COX for Mr. Indie Rock 2007.
Also, the Lake Somerset video is great:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EuzC_eOdAE
Seriously I didn’t think I liked Deerhunter this much.
Don’t forget Handsome Furs!! Plague Park FTW!!!
Samuel L. Jackson for Mr. Indie Rock!
meg white for video of the year.
None of you have mentioned Big Business – Here Come the Waterworks yet. This is because you are all pussies.
Also, Ms. Indie Rock is easily Marnie Stern. Easily.