I will remember 2007 for the following 10 songs:

10. Tori Amos - Bouncing Off Clouds

iTunes is telling me this my highest played 2007 released track. I still maintain Bouncing should have been remixed into a club track ala Professional Widow. So much potential.

9. Missy Higgins - Where I Stood

A classic Missy release. I will never forget being surrounded by a room full of devoted lesbians at the Thebarton Theatre. Missy's performance of Warm Whispers and Blind Winter were memorable. Not straight, lolz.

8. Feist - My Moon My Man

Oh, Feist. You little dancing advertisement, how…

Seventh Tree brings us one of the year's standout records (due for a February 2008 release…). As with each previous record, Goldfrapp boldly shifts their unique musicality to yet another integrated sound of ambience, electro with a flirt of folk. The lead single from Seventh Tree, A&E is strong with uplifting piano melodies reminscent of a Sigur Ros track. Clowns and Little Bird introduces the most trip-hop sound to the repetoire, while Road To Somewhere and Some People presents a folk sound to make the likes of Feist and Cat Power envious. Happiness is, well, happy, deviating to the styles…

Last night, whilst tackling hardcore Strategic Management topics, I stumbled upon Alison Sudol, ala A Fine Frenzy. Putting down the pen, I listened to the most touching, unpretentious, piano-driven, indie-pop record of the year - One Cell In The Sea.

References to Joanna Newsom are evident with the in-your-face-red-hair, but this fine frenzy projects a warmth to tracks that exquistely capture the vitality of life, love and thought. Simple, intelligent lyrics feature behind the cryptic titles - highlights include You Picked Me, The Minnow & The Trout, Near To You and Last Of Days. (…

There was a time where one would listen to records from start to finish - track 1 to 10. Some smartarse, however, rebelled with the function of audio tossing known as the Shuffle. Such actions sent any musical order out with the 3 minute song formulation once used in the 90s. Oh, Wannabe.

I love surprises, which makes the Shuff one of my favourite toys. Some people are too scared to even try it, let alone listen to epic closing tracks followed by - oh I don't know - a filler perhaps, then say the lead single? The unknown is…

After repeating When Under Ether too many times this week, track length 2:17, I'm in dire need of White Chalk, out September 14th.

Polly tosses her strings for keys - a piano based record oozing cryptic lyrics re: topical issues ala abortion? I cannot wait.

This is just another form of procrastination.

Metric - Rock Me Now.

- Track 3 from the new, but old 'Grow Up and Blow Away' record. Record company wanted to release this pre-Live It Out album, and good thing they did. This track features a story told by Ms. Emily Haines in a most haunting and cryptic manner.

When she was 7 years old she saw a man get shot but, no one came along for a long time because it happened in a remote parking lot in Las Vegas
And she was waiting for her mom to come back…