I have so many favorites for 2007 that narrowing the lists was tricky. Plus I'm preggo as a house and have NO memory at this point, so I'm sure I've inadvertently omitted some really great releases and songs. Forgive me and my wacked out hormones.

But that said, here are some Top of 2007 lists from me, to you. Feel free to leave comments both nasty and supportive. I likely deserve both for some of my erratic tastes.

The official results of the TIG Best NW Releases of 2007 Readers' Poll are coming VERY soon... stay tuned! In the meantime, some of my personal picks for a wonderful year in music past: 

Favorite Releases of 2007:

1. Amy Winehouse Back to Black
2. Okkervil River The Stage Names
3. Tullycraft Every Scene Needs a Center
4. Beirut The Flying Cup Club
5. The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
6. Shake Some Action Shake Some Action
7. Math & Physics Club Baby I'm Yours
   
8. John Vanderslice Emerald City
9. The Cave Singers Invitation Songs
10. The Fratellis Costello Music

Favorite Northwest Releases of 2007:

1. Grand Archives Grand Archives
2. Tullycraft Every Scene Needs a Center
3. Shake Some Action Shake Some Action
4. Cave Singers Invitation Songs
5. Math & Physics Club Baby I'm Yours
   
6. Siberian With Me
7. Throw the Me Statue Moonbeams
8. Arthur & Yu In Camera
9. Night Canopy Of Honey and Country
10. BOAT Let's Drag Our Feet
    

Favorite Songs of 2007:

1. Amy Winehouse "Love Is A Losing Game" and "Back to Black"
2. Nicole Atkins "The Way It Is"
3. Scotland Yard Gospel Choir "I Never Thought I'd Feel This Way for a Boy"
4. Tullycraft "The Punks Are Writing Love Songs"
5. Interpol "Heinrich Maneuver"
6. Grand Archives "Southern Glass Home"
7. Cloud Cult "Chemicals Collide"
8. The Broken West "Down in the Valley"
9. LCD Soundsystem "Someone Great"
10. Sleeping in the Aviary "Another Girl"
11. Lily Allen "LDN"
12. Los Campesinos "You! Me! Dancing!"
13. Throw Me the Statue "Lolita"
14. Shake Some Action "Damaged"
15. The Saturday Knights "45"
16. Cave Singers "Seeds of Night"
17. Siberian "Paper Birds"
18. The Shaky Hands "Why and How Come"
19. The Blakes "Don't Bother Me"
20. Night Canopy "Boom It's Spring"
21. The Pipettes "We Are the Pipettes"
22. The Fratellis "Chelsea Dagger"
23. John Vanderslice "The Parade"
24. The Twilight Sad "That Summer, At Home I Had Become the Invisible Boy"
25. Jon Rauhouse (and Rachel Flotard) "Harbor Lights"