Listing time again...

Playlist
Steve Reich – Phases
Girls Aloud – Greatest Hits
Alice Cooper – Best of Alice Cooper : Jukebox Playlist
Four Tet – Everything Ecstatic
James Taylor – You’ve got a Friend : The Best of
Yes – Yes Acoustic
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid – The Exchange Sessions Vol 1

Up just after nine and compiled my list of 149 albums I liked in 2007...

I’ve set it out below but, first, here are my top ten new albums of 2007:-

My Top Ten 2007
1 The Bad Plus - Prog



2 Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque
3 Lucy Kaplansky - Over the Hills
4 Rush - Snakes and Arrows
5 Happy Apple - Happy Apple Back on Top
6 Fehlfarben - Handbuch fur die Welt
7 Chris Lyons - The Ill Tempered Klavier
8 No Man - Together We're Stranger
9 Marillion - Somewhere Else
10 Girls Aloud - Tangled Up

149 Albums I Liked in 2007
New Albums (17)
2Raum Wohnung - 36 Grad
Alan Morse - Four O'Clock and Hysteria
Bryan Ferry – Dylanesque
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Ersatzreal
Eagles - Long Road Out of Eden
Erasure - Light at the End of the World
Explosions in the Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Fehlfarben - Handbuch fuer die Welt
Girls Aloud - Tangled Up
Jonatha Brooke - Careful What You Wish For
Laura Pausini - Io Canto
Lucy Kaplansky - Over the Hills
Marillion - Somewhere Else
Nine Horses - Money For All
No Man - Together We're Stronger
Rush - Snakes & Arrows
Suzanne Vega - Beauty and Crime

Recent Albums (12)
Adrian Belew - Side Three
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
Craig Armstrong - World Trade Center OST
Dio - Killing the Dragon
Fennesz/Sakamoto - Cendre
Joni Mitchell - Travelogue
Morrissey – Ringleader of the Tormentors
Secret Machines - September 000
Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
The Album Leaf - Seal Beach
The Czars – Sorry I Made You Cry
The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker

Re-Issues (17)
Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet
Dio - Lock Up the Wolves
Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History In the Rust
Fehlfarben - 33 Tage in Ketten
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#Infinity
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada
Grand Funk Railroad - Good Singin' Good Playin'
Grandaddy - Under the Western Freeway
John Gorka - The Company You Keep
Jonatha Brooke - 10 Cent Wings
La Dusseldorf - Same
Starz – Starz
The Move - Looking On
The Move - Shazam
The Story - Grace in Gravity
Uriah Heep - Sonic Origami

Live Albums (9)
Dio – Evil or Divine Live in New York City
Dream Theater - Scenes From New York
Eels - Eels Live With Strings
Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - The Day of Storms
Lucy Kaplansky - Live at Beachland Ballroom
Rheostatics – Hillside Festival
Rheostatics - Horseshoe Tavern 29/3/07
Rheostatics - Last Concert : Toronto Massey Hall 30/3/07
Yes - Yessongs

Single Artist Collections/Anthologies (7)
Average White Band - The Very Best of
Grandaddy - Concrete Dunes
Heaven 17 - The Best of Heaven 17
King Crimson – Time Stands Still (CD-R)
Models - Collection
Robert Fripp - Starlight Evensong (CD-R)
Steve Harley - The Cockney Rebel

Various Artist Compilations (5)
Various - Super 70s Reggae
Various - The Definitive Story of CBGBs
Various - The World's Greatest Trance
Various - Trance Masters
Various - Whispers from the Forests, Screams from the Mountains

Jazz New (4)
Chris Lyons - The Ill Tempered Klavier
Happy Apple - Happy Apple Back on Top
MusicMusicMusic - Macbeth
The Bad Plus – Prog

Jazz Recent (8)
Alexi Tuomarila Quartet - 02
First House - Cantilena
Happy Apple - Body Popping Moon Walking Top Rocking
Happy Apple - Please Refrain From Printing
Happy Apple - The Peace Between Our Companies
Happy Apple - Youth Oriented
Pat Metheny – Quartet
The Pat Metheny Group - The Way Up

Jazz Re-Issue (31)
Allan Holdsworth - Velvet Darkness
Andrew Hill - Compulsion!!!!!
Billy Cobham - Shabazz
Dexter Gordon - One Flight Up
Donald Byrd – Royal Flush
Eric Dolphy – Out There
Eric Dolphy – Outward Bound
Freddie Hubbard – Here to Stay
Grant Green – Am I Blue?
Hank Mobley – The Flip
Jackie McLean – 4, 5 + 6
Jackie McLean – Demon’s Dance
John Coltrane - Soultrane
John Surman - How Many Clouds Can You See?
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane - Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane
Kenny Dorham - Matador/Intasomethin'
Kenny Dorham – Trompeta Toccata
Kenny Dorham – Una Mas
Lee Morgan – Candy
Lee Morgan – The Cooker
Miles Davis - Circle in the Round
Mingo Lewis - Flight Never Ending
Return to Forever - No Mystery
Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before
Richard Williams – A New Horn in Town
Rod Levitt - Dynamic Sound Patterns of...
Roland Rahsaan Kirk – An Introduction
Soft Machine - Vols 1&2
Sonny Clark – Dial S for Sonny
Sonny Clark – Sonny’s Crib
Sonny Rollins – Plus 4

Jazz Live (8)
Art Blakey Quintet - One Night at Birdland Vol 1
Dave Holland Quintet - Extended Play Live at Birdland
Grant Green – Live at the Mozambique
Holdsworth/Bruce/Cobham - A Gathering of Minds
John Coltrane - One Down One Up : At the Half Note
Keith Jarrett – Always Let Me Go
Paul Motian - Live at the Village Vanguard
Thelonius Monk Quartet with John Coltrane - At Carnegie Hall

Jazz Single Artist Collections/Anthologies (1)
John Surman - Glancing Backwards

Jazz Various Artist Compilations (1)
Various – The Blue Box : Best of Blue Note

Classical Single Composer Discs (23)
CPE Bach – Concertos and Symphonies
CPE Bach – The Resurrection and Ascension
JC Bach – Quintets and Sextets
Beck - Six Symphonies
Boyce - Eight Symphonies
Cage - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Dittersdorf - Sinfonias
Glass – Piano Music
Krommer - Oboe Quintets & Quartets
Mendelssohn - String Quartets 1-6
Ordonez - Symphonies
Pichl - Symphonies
Salieri - Overtures
Schubert – Octet
Stamitz - Symphonies Vol 1
Stamitz - Symphonies Vol 2
Steve Reich – Phases
Stravinsky – The Firebird
Telemann - Masterworks
Telemann - Tafelmusik
Vanhal - Violin Concertos
Vivaldi - Adagios
Waters – Ca Ira

Classical Multi Composer Discs (3)
CPE & WF Bach – Symphonies and Concertos
Various Composers - 100 Best Baroque
Various Composers - Fete Baroque Vol 2

Classical Single Artist Discs (3)
Glenn Gould - At The Cinema
Glenn Gould – State of Wonder
Il Giardino Armonico - Musica Barocca

Of course, when Anne finally got up around midday she was wondering why I hadn’t done any work around the house...

I quickly took down the Xmas tree and all our decorations and then drove to the shops for some essentials before returning for brunch of bacon sandwiches...

In the early afternoon, I wrote up the diary then, around 3:30 went into the town centre to purchase some new trousers...

With that mission accomplished I had, of course, to visit FOPP and bought four items at £3 each:-

Four Tet – Everything Ecstatic (DVD and CD containing Pt 2 of the album)
James Taylor – You’ve got a Friend : The Best of
Yes – Yes Acoustic (DVD)
Kieren Hebden & Steve Reid – The Exchange Sessions Vol 1

Back home, we watched “Shrek the Third” and had some of Anne’s excellent home-made soup before “Coronation St”...

Watched some footie too but the rest of the evening was mainly taken up with getting the diary up to date...

Highlight of the Day : Diary up to date again (sorry, that's a bit of a sad highlight I know...)