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Scene Point Blank's Favorites: The Year So Far (August 2007)

Posted pre-2010

Overall SPB Top 5

  1. Lifetime - Lifetime
  2. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

  3. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Living with the Living

  4. Soul Control - Soul Control

  5. Chuck Ragan - Loz Feliz

Adam

  1. Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go

  2. Blonde Redhead - 23

  3. The Pax Cecilia - Blessed are the Bonds

  4. The National - Boxer

  5. Bowerbirds - Hymns for a Dark Horse

Bob

  1. Jesu - Conqueror

  2. Neurosis - Given to the Rising

  3. Earth - Hibernaculum

  4. Cursed - Blackout at Sunrise

  5. Jesu - Sundown/Sunrise

Chris S.

  1. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

  2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

  3. Justice - Cross

  4. Irepress - Samus Octology

  5. Battles - Mirrored

Cory

  1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

  2. Sage Francis - Human, The Death Dance

  3. Willy Mason - If the Ocean Gets Rough

  4. Woods - At Rear House

  5. Get Rad - Say Fuck No to Rules, Man

Graham

  1. Two Gallants ? The Scenery of Farewell

  2. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

  3. Maria Taylor ? Lyn Teeter Flower

  4. Feist - The Reminder

  5. LCD Soundsystem - Sounds of Silver

Jason

  1. Lifetime - Lifetime

  2. Soul Control - Soul Control

  3. Holy Roman Empire - The Longue Duree

  4. 108 - A New Beat from a Dead Heart

  5. Red Handed - Red Handed

Jon

  1. Lifetime - Lifetime

  2. Fucked Up - Year of the Pig

  3. Avengers - The Initiative

  4. Hour of the Wolf - Waste Makes Waste

  5. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Reruns

Josh

  1. Lifetime - Lifetime

  2. Against Me! -New Wave

  3. Chuck Ragan - Los Feliz

  4. Strung Out - Blackhawks Over Los Angeles
  5. Bayside - The Walking Wounded

Kevin

  1. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

  2. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times

  3. Marillion - Somewhere Else

  4. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao

  5. Goon Moon - Licker's Last Leg

Matt

  1. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Living with the Living

  2. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga

  3. Rocky Votolato - The Brag and Cuss

  4. Ben Weasel and His Iron String Quartet ? These Ones are Bitter

  5. Lifetime - Lifetime

Michael

  1. Zozobra ? Harmonic Tremors

  2. Modest Mouse ? We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

  3. Soul Control ? Soul Control

  4. Die Young (TX) ? Graven Images

  5. Queens of the Stone Age ? Era Vulgaris

Mike B.

  1. Ramparts ? Tramps Like Us Demo

  2. Tim Armstrong ? A Poet's Life

  3. Ben Weasel and His Iron String Quartet ? These Ones are Bitter

  4. Hot Rod Circuit ? The Underground is a Dying Breed

  5. Lifetime - Lifetime

Rene

  1. Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks

  2. Chuck Ragan - Los Feliz

  3. Lifetime - Lifetime

  4. The White Stripes - Icky Thump

  5. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

Samantha

  1. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

  2. The White Stripes - Icky Thump

  3. Panda Bear - Person Pitch

  4. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Living with the Living

  5. Battles - Mirrored

Scottie

  1. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead

  2. The Copyrights - Make Sound

  3. The Snake, The Cross, The Crown - Cotton Teeth

  4. Sundowner - Four One Five Two

  5. Lifetime ? Lifetime

Tohm

  1. Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust

  2. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

  3. The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Mongrel

  4. Lymbyc Systym - Love Your Abuser

  5. Hot Cross - Risk Revival

— words by the SPB team

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