[Editor's Note: I asked close friend, sometimes contributer and non-music-blogger type but well informed Seattle music fan becca to send me her best music of 2007 list. Enjoy. -josh ]

Becca’s Best of ’07 - With No Britney Spears!
Or
Seriously, Rolling Stone? Britney Spears in your Top 50 Albums of the year? Britney Spears? Have you gone MAD?!?

But I digress…

Top 5 Songs:

1. “Heretics”- Andrew Bird. It’s so beautiful, it gives me chills every time I listen to it. I am completely obsessed with this song.

2. “International Hater (I Hate Kobe)”- Bhi Bhiman. I have to credit Bhi Bhiman for one thing, besides this song being awesome: even though he -and God apparently- are Warriors fan (and I am a spurs fan myself), we both think Kobe Bryant is the root of all evil, and we both agree that the Lakers are the minions of Satan. It is a brilliant, brilliant song.

3. “In the Mausoleum”- Beirut. I have hear this on KEXP a lot lately, and although “Nantes” is the big single from this album, I believe that this song is the best on The Flying Cup, by far. It’s just so darn purty.

4. “Go Into the Water”- Dethklok. for those of you who haven’t seen Metalocalypse, you may not appreciate just how cool this song IS. I highly suggest you rent season 1 on DVD- it’ll blow you away.

5. “Sushi”- A Gun That Shoots Knives. The best tribute to sushi you’d find anywhere. I laughed, I sang, I boogied.

Honorable Mention:

“Jesus Lips”- Hopskotch Boys
“Talkin Nascar”- Bhi Bhiman
“Mimosa”- We Wrote the Book on Connectors

Top 5 shows:

1. Ghostland Observatory - 10/12/07 @ the Showbox

2. The Police - 6/6/07 Key Arena- Proof that Stewart Copeland is still God.

3. The Figurines - 11/1/07@ the Crocodile

4. Fionn Reagan - 7/31/07@ The Sunset Tavern

5. Ween - 10/12/07 @ The Paramount

Honorable Mention:

-Brotherhood of the Drum w/ Matt Cameron and Jason McGerr (Night 2)- 4/26/07@ The Tractor Tavern
-A Gun That Shoots Knives, We Wrote the Book On Connectors- 5/19/07 @ The Blue Moon

Top 5 Albums

1. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

2. ­Dethklok - The Dethalbum - (the only metal I have ever, EVER loved.)

3. Fields - Everything Last Winter

4. Fionn Reagan - The End of History

5. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha

Honorable Mention:

- Pearl Jam - Live at the Gorge 05/06 (Box Set). Being um… me, I figured I had to sneak some PJ into this list somehow. Not only does this Box Set (which is also Pearl Jam’s first) rock, but so do I: you can hear me in the crowd on all seven CD’s contained in the set, because I attended all three of those monumental Gorge shows. Rock on! However, since it’s a Box Set, it really doesn’t qualify for this category. Bummer.
- Wilco - Sky Blue Sky. I have to say, I truly fell in love with this album when I first heard it, and pretty much had it on constant rotation in my car for three months. Then, I heard the entire album on every f*cking Volkswagen commercial I saw on Television. Wilco selling out makes me sad, but it doesn’t mean that I still can’t love this album, because it’s really, really good.