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I don't make "best of" lists, only lists of my favorites. As such, here is the most important favorites list of 2007. Stay tuned later for my list of the 50 best best lists of 2007.
Disagreements are welcome. For the record, numbers 15 through 50 are all just about even, I just figure what good is a list if you can't rank things?
-- 41-50 (Download It) --
50) Britney Spears – Blackout
49) New Found Glory – From The Screen To Your Stereo, Part II
48) Kanye West – Graduation
47) Tegan And Sara – The Con
46) Dashboard Confessional – The Shade Of Poison Trees
45) The National – Boxer
44) Every Time I Die – The Big Dirty
43) Single File – No More Sad Face
42) Anberlin – Cities
41) Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger
-- 31-40 (Buy It Eventually) --
40) Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
39) Air – Pocket Symphony
38) Kings Of Leon – Because Of…

In light of Barry Bonds knocking a couple of the biggest 4-basers of the last several years and my resolve in paying attention to ESPN to make sure I witnessed the historic blast, I'm going to count down the five best home runs that I've personally watched. Bonds ain't coming anywhere near this list of home runs that genuinely made me leap out of my seat. I grew up as a Baltimore Orioles fan, so apologies for the bias.

5. May 17, 1996: Chris Hoiles (Orioles vs. Mariners)

This was one of the coolest baseball games I ever watched. It was during the Orioles' power surge of the late 90s (a year later the team had ten players hit over 20 home runs), and they were facing Ken Griffey Jr. in his prime. The teams combined for 7 homers in a 14-13 contest that…

For some reason, the staff at Blender Magazine seem to have self-applied the "kings of all music lists" title without clearing it with me. They post lists with alarming frequency, and, in this discontent blogger's opinion, they capitalize on society's obsession with listmaking to assert their "brilliance." I believe it's a quote from High Fidelity (great book, by the way) that encompasses most of Blender's lists: "a sly declaration of neoclassic status, slipped in with a list of old, safe ones." If someone asked them to name the most important classical composers in history, they'd top the list with Mozart and Phillip Glass. That's like putting two bookends on your shelf and forgetting about the books.

In honor of Blender's umpteenth declaration of musical fact, I'd like to present you with my top five least favorite Blender lists. These lists carry as…