Last year, I made a list of the worst shows I saw all year. This time around I had a much more difficult time thinking of terrible shows that I’ve seen in the past year. There were a bunch of blah shows, but nothing really stuck out to me as painful like 120 Days or Gang Gang Dance last year. I guess that’s because I didn’t torture myself by trying to make it to every show at ACL or by putting myself through another CMJ festival. So I’ve decided to write up a list of my favorite shows in 2007.

• Fujiya and Miyagi – at ACL Studios. Pretty much everything KEXP does is gold and this was no exception.
• Beirut – at ACL Studios. Definitely the best show I saw at SXSW 2007. They are fucking great live. Plus they give band nerds everywhere hope that they too may someday become indie rock heros.
• Monotonix – what’s not to love? Grunge rock from Isreal.
• Girl Talk – it was totally worth it to stay at Elysium all night just to catch his set. Awesomecross.
• Bjork – Bjork at ACLFest. Yeah.
• Arcade Fire – at ACLFest. Rock anthem rock.
• Cornelius – I didn’t write about it previously, but I saw Cornelius at Webster Hall and they are awesome. If you ever get the chance you could see them. Who cares if most of their lyrics are in Japanese?

Other cool things that happened last year.

• Weddings – it seems like everyone got married this year and as much as I hate weddings, I had a fantastic time celebrating them all.
• 30th birthdays – I had a fantastic time at my birthday party and Demanda’s was in Vegas which is always a winner.
• The comedy – performing at Caroline’s was one of the scariest things I’ve ever done. I’m so glad I did though.
• Lake Tahoe – I want to go back (when I can snowboard, of course).

Then there were things that started out awesome, but eventually turned into the worst thing ever. I really can’t wait to start playing soccer again.