The Obligatory Best of 2007 according to Sandy - Starting tomorrow

At this time of year every magazine, radio show and blog this side of Mars (and probably quite a few on the other side too)is counting down their favourite tracks and albums of the past twelve months. There are a lot of reasons why this is such a popular practice. Some albums and singles take a while to properly "get" - in this business immediate repeated listening is a luxury rarely afforded to us as there is always something new that requires attention. This way after a few months we can truly laud those that we may have missed alongside those we managed to get first time around. It's also a chance to show off tastes and draw attention to those things others may have missed and deserve a wider audience. Finally, let's face it all the new releases dry up at the start of December and we need something to do...

Tying to do this though is often an exercise in near futility. Trying to rank albums is a stupidly hard thing to do - do you go with musical complexity, personal meaning, emotional evocation or just which album has the biggest horn section (in which case Mark Ronson wins hands down). What the hell does "best" even mean? (Hell I'm a philosopher and I don't even know!)

That said over the the next 4 days I'll be unveiling my top 10 singles and albums of 2007, 5 each day, singles first. These lists have been painstakingly compiled from absolutly everything I have heard that has been released over the last 12 months, carefully ranked and reviewed in a paletable reverse order just for you

Just don't ask me how I compiled it...