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03.01.08 - Cheap Shot! Philly's Best of 2007
by: Cheap Shot! Staff

Posting a "Best of 2007" list in March? Surely, Cheap Shot! Philly, you must be mad. And, rest assured, we are. Still, this is something we've been slowly compiling, amidst our busy schedules, since back when such things were still actually being posted by other sites. The following are Cheap Shot!'s staff picks for the best songs, albums, films, books, TV shows, and other brick-a-brack from the year 2007. Better late than never, right?

To read Tom Stoebenau's picks, rife with details, click here.
To read Andy Coppola's, with equal ravey goodness, click here

Sean Monaghan - writer

Movie: 3:10 to Yuma

Album: Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree

Top 10 Songs
1.Three - These Iron Bones
2 Blackfield - Some Day
3 Porcupine Tree - Way Out of Here
4 Dethklok - Go Into The Water
5 Pain of Salvation - Disco Queen
6 Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
7 Opeth - The Night and the Silent Water (live)
8 Katatonia - Right Into The Bliss (live)
9 Pelican - City of Echoes
10 Dream Theater - The Ministry Of Lost Souls

Book: Jonesy: Put Your Head Down and Skate: The Improbable Career of Keith Jones

Concert: Porcupine Tree/Three at the Trump Marina in Atlantic City

Philadelphia Flyer: Mike Richards

Alcoholic Beverage: Long Island Iced Tea

Debbie Fullerton - web editor

Tops of the Tops 07

Top Album: Three- The End has Begun
Runner up: Blackfield - Blackfield II

Top Movie: Transformers
R U: Sicko

Top TV Show: Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job

Top Concert: Blackfield at World Café Live

Kevin McElvaney - editor

Album: Blackfield - Blackfield II
Honorable mention: Kanye West - Graduation
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!

Top 10 Songs:
1. Paul McCartney - "Dance Tonight"
2. Charlotte Gainsbourg - "The Songs That We Sing"
3. Red & Orange - "The Original is Irreplaceable"
4. Blackfield - "My Gift of Silence"
5. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - "La Costa Brava"
6. Against Me! - "White People for Peace"
7. Kanye West - "Champion"
8. Kelly Clarkson - "Don't Waste Your Time"
9. Tegan and Sara - "The Con"
10. Three - "These Iron Bones"

Movie: Juno
Honorable mention: Once, Superbad

Book: Sherman Alexie - Flight
Honorable mention: Sherman Alexie - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Mick Foley - The Hardcore Diaries

Faith Behum - photographer

Favorite Songs...
1. Feist-My moon, My Man
2. Rilo Kiley- Breakin' Up
3. Bloc Party- Hunting for Witches
4. Tegan and Sara- The Con
5. The Kaiser Chiefs- Ruby
6. Interpol- My Chemistry
7. Arcade Fire- All Cars Go
8. The Fratellis- Flathead
9. Glen Hansbard (from the Once soundtrack)- Say it to me Now
10. Sea Wolf- You're a Wolf
HM-Fountains of Wayne- Someone to Love
HM- Cold War Kids- Hospital Beds

Favorite Album of 2007...

1) Feist-The Reminder (I want to be her when I grow-up!!!)
Honorable Mention-Bloc Party- A weekend in the city
Honorable Mention Rilo Kiley-Under the Blacklight
Honorable Mention Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
Honorable Mention- Once Soundtrack
Suck on that, "one or two honorable mentions"

FAVORITE GRAB BAG!!!!!
1) Daniel Briere being added to the Flyers Roster-he's my new favorite!!!
Honorable Mention- The Office Season Four
Honorable Mention- PROJECT RUNWAY Season 3

Favorite Movie of 2007...
ONCE-DUH
Honorable Mention- JUNO

Rob Kelly - writer

Top 10 Songs:
1. TOOL - Jambi
2. EL-P ft. Trent Reznor - Flyentology
3. Eddie Vedder - Guaranteed
4. Steve Earle - Oxycontin Blues
5. Pharoahe Monch - When The Gun Draws
6. Riverside - 02 Panic Room
7. Eddie Vedder - Society
8. Lupe Fiasco - Superstar
9. Nick Cave - No Pussy Blues
10. Neurosis - Shadow

Album: Into The Wild Soundtrack

Movie: No Country For Old Men

Misc: the Final Season of The Wire

Well, there you have it, Cheap Shot!kateers. The best of 2007...in March. We'll do better next year with the whole "relevancy" thing. We promise.

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