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staff picks...

My top 15 of 2007

1 THE SADIES - New Seasons
2 BLANCHE - Little Amber Bottles
3 RICHARD HAWLEY - Lady's Bridge
4 ANDRE ETHIER - On Blue Fog
5 THE OLD SOUL - Gold
6 KING KHAN AND THE SHRINES - What Is?
7 RICK WHITE - Memoreaper
8 THE MIDWAYS - Manners, Manners
9 THE HIGH LLAMAS - Can Cladders
10 THE BLACK LIPS - Good Bad Not Evil
11 DUNGEN Tio Bitar
12 THE BEES - Octopus
13 MARY WEISS - Dangerous Game
14 SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS - 100 Days, 100 Nights
15 THE SUPERSTITIONS - Beginning Sounds

My top 15 reissues of 2007

1 GERARD MANSET - 1968
2 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Now Hear This!
3 EL KINTO - El Kinto
4 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Keb Darge & Cut Chemist Present: Lost and Found Rockabilly
5 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Fairytales Can Come True
6 NATHANIEL MAYER - I Want Love And Affection
7 MIRAGE - Tomorrow Never Knows
8 VARIOUS ARTISTS - On The Brink
9 JOHNNY 'GUITAR' WATSON - Untouchable
10 VARIOUS ARTISTS - Get Ready To Fly
11 SUNDOWNERS - Captain Nemo
12 THE ZOMBIES - Into The Afterlife
13 DALE HAWKINS - L.A., Memphis, and Tyler Texas
14 VARIOUS ARTISTS - He and She
15 THE IKETTES - Can't Sit Down... Cos It Feels So Good

My favourite artists are: Bo Diddley, The Kinks, The Byrds, Lee Hazlewood, Serge Gainsbourg, The Ramones, The Sadies

My all-time favourite album is: THE PRETTY THINGS - Emotions

The first album I ever bought was: THE BEATLES - 1967-1970 on LP

On Saturday nights, I throw down to: VARIOUS ARTISTS - Shakin' Fit (a blistering soul comp by the way...)

On Sunday mornings, I recover to: MARGO GURYAN - "Sunday Morning"

The show that made me fall in love with/believe all over again in music was: The Gruesomes at Le Steppe in Montreal, 1985

My favourite album so far this year is: MARY WEISS - Dangerous Game

The best show I've seen so far this year is: The Hoodoo Gurus @ The Horseshoe

The band that should come out of retirement is: Frank Sinatra