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My top 15 of 2007

1 ANDRE ETHIER - On Blue Fog
2 SANDRO PERRI - Tiny Mirrors
3 THE BEES - Octopus
4 DUNGEN - Tio Bitar
5 THE HIGH LLAMAS - Can Cladders
6 THE SEA AND CAKE - Everybody
7 BLACK MILK - Popular Demand
8 PANDA BEAR - Person Pitch
9 DEERHOOF - Friend Opportunity
10 WEEN - La Cucaracha
11 HIGH ON FIRE - Death Is This Communion
12 RICK WHITE - Memoreaper
13 VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS - Voice Of The Seven Woods
14 JOSE GONZALEZ - In Our Nature
15 WOODEN SHJIPS - Wooden Shjips

My top 15 reissues of 2007

1 MILES DAVIS - Complete On The Corner
2 JIM FORD - Sounds Of Our Time
3 CHUBBY CHECKER - Chubby Checker '71
4 LEE MOSES - Time & Place
5 JORGE BEN - Forca Bruta
6 RELATIVELY CLEAN RIVERS - Relatively Clean Rivers
7 TERCO - Terco
8 DALE HAWKINS - L.A., Memphis, and Tyler, Texas
9 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Larry Banks' Soul Family Album
10 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Rebel Music Vol.2
11 VARIOUS ARTISTS - B-Music
12 LORD FINESSE - Funky Technician
13 SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - Reissues
14 BOBB TRIMBLE - Harvest Of Dreams
15 MELVIN JACKSON - Funky Skull

My favourite artists are: Funkadelic, The Band, The Beach Boys, Can, Emitt Rhodes, Gilberto Gil, Faces, Kevin Ayres, Black Sabbath, Jim O'Rourke, Curtis Mayfield, Vertigo and Hi Records labels

My all-time favourite album is: THE BAND - The Band

The first album I ever bought was: RUN DMC -  Raising Hell (on green cassette!)

On Saturday nights, I throw down to: JORGE BEN - Africa Brasil

On Sunday mornings, I recover to: VASHTI BUNYAN - Just Another Diamond Day

The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: I never stopped believing, but Wilco at Massey Hall, 2006

My favourite album so far this year is: ANDRE ETHIER - On Blue Fog & DUNGEN - Tio Bitar

The best show I've seen so far this year is: THE WIRE (tv)

The band that should come out of retirement is: SLEEP