Idolator

Jess thought last week that we were done with the 2007 wrapping-up, but hey, it's not February yet, which means there's still time for more 2007-related head-scratching! The music-blog aggregator The Hype Machine just dropped the 2007 Music Blog Zeitgeist, which compiled 648 of bloggers' top-albums lists for a 1252-album list of the Internet's favorite full-lengths of the year. And even with all those voters, and all the albums out there, it was still topped by In Rainbows! Funny, that. Also compiled: the 50 most blogged-about songs, which are broken down month-by-month, and the most-discussed artists.

THE GOOD: By now, you can probably recite which albums landed in the top 10 without even taking a peek at the list beforehand.
THE BAD: By now, you can probably recite which albums landed in the top 10 without even taking a peek at the list beforehand.
THE WHAAAA? The Klaxons were the 10th-most-blogged-about band, but Myths Of The Near Future limped in at No. 46, just behind Stars' In Our Bedroom After The War and right in front of Rilo Kiley's How You Like My Micromini Now?

Because 2007 still has a few weeks/months left to haunt us—Idolator Poll comin' soon, y'all!—we present (what might be) the last 2007 list in our Year-End Analysis feautre, one we almost forgot in our joy that the clocks had turned over at midnight on Jan. 1, and with that the promise that we might never again have to type the words "Neon Bible" between an italics tag into Movable Type: the Pitchfork readers' poll! And guess what? We had to type the words "Neon Bible" between an italics tag into Movable Type. As Pitchfork itself notes, their reader's Top 10 hews close to the site's own official Top 10, but after that things "diverge." Why? Because [insert usual former-conflict-of-interest-y caveat here] despite the site's admirable expansion of coverage over the last five years into areas that readers might not necessarily mutiny over, who else is gonna vote the Shins for "Most Underrated Album" with a straight face, Braff jokes be damned?

THE GOOD: Consensus cynicism be damned, it's kind of heartening that, after all the first-listen reviews and release date hype hype, people actually do seem to be repeat-listening to and enjoying the Most Important Album Of 2007. (You can decide which one we're talking about.)
THE BAD: That said, consensus keeps great records from Roisin Murphy, Dude N' Nem, and the Dirty Projectors, which "most often received first-place votes," off the singles list in favor of two Arcade Fire joints, two Radiohead songs, and (less irritatingly) two Spoon and LCD Soundsystem tracks each. Democracy!
THE WHAAA?: We've only included the Best Albums and Best Singles list after the jump, but interestingly, or perhaps just keeping with this year's vibe of established artists comfortably trouncing even well-regarded upstarts, only three of the winners in the Best New(ish) Act category make the album and/or singles lists, all down in the lower reaches save the expected Top 10 finish for Justice's "D.A.N.C.E."