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Favorite Albums of 2007?

 
    • Dheepan said...
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    • 11 Dec 2007, 03:25

    Favorite Albums of 2007?

    There are still a few releases coming, but were the tunes of the year for you in 2007?

    My top 50, in no particular order.

    Favorite 2007 Albums

    Night Falls over Kortedala - Jens Lekman
    In Rainbows - Radiohead
    Hissing Fauna, are the Destroyer? - Of Montreal
    Cryptograms – Deerhunter
    Sound of Silver – LCD Soundsystem
    Here We Go Sublime – The Field
    Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga – Spoon
    Boxer – The National
    Let’s Stay Friends – Les Savy Fav
    Neon Bible – The Arcade Fire
    Untrue – Burial
    Fort Nightly – White Rabbits
    The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse – The Besnard Lakes
    Friend Opportunity – Deerhoof
    Night Drive – The Chromatics
    Eponymous - A Place to Bury Strangers
    Armchair Apocolyptica – Andrew Bird
    Flying Club Cup – Beirut
    23 – Blonde Redhead
    No Shout Calls – Electrelane
    The Reminder – Feist
    Cross – Justice
    All Hour Symbols – Yeasayer
    Liars – Liars
    Asa Breed – Matthew Dear
    Friend and Foe – Menomena
    Heaven – Mobius Band
    Going Places – Montag
    Person Pitch – Panda Bear
    The Magic Position – Patrick Wolf
    This Bliss – Pantha Du Prince
    Turn the Lights Out – The Ponys
    Ten New Messages – The Rakes
    Shocking Pinks – Shocking Pinks
    Attack, Sustain, Release - Simian Mobile Disco
    Random Spirit Lover – Sunset Rubdown
    Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters – The Twilight Sad
    All Hour Cymbals – Yeasayer
    Icky Thump – White Stripes
    Scribble Mural Comic Journal – A Sunny Day in Glasgow
    Andorra – Caribou
    Steingarten – Pole
    Transparent Things - Fujiyama and Miyagi
    Our Love to Admire – Interpol
    Myths of the Near Future – Klaxons
    Disco Romance – Sally Shapiro
    Wincing the Night Away – The Shins
    Marry Me – St. Vincent
    A New Chance – The Tough Alliance
    Stage Names – Okkervil River

  • It's still too early, and there's tons of stuff I haven't checked out yet, but here's the albums I've heard this year so far:

    http://www.last.fm/user/kirkvanhendrix/journal/2007/06/30/463458/

  • So far:
    Dream Theater: Systematic Chaos
    and
    Riverside: Rapid Eye Movement

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    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 11 Dec 2007, 15:18

    Re: Favorite Albums of 2007?

    Dheepan said:
    There are still a few releases coming, but were the tunes of the year for you in 2007?

    My top 50, in no particular order.

    Favorite 2007 Albums

    Night Falls over Kortedala - Jens Lekman
    In Rainbows - Radiohead
    Hissing Fauna, are the Destroyer? - Of Montreal
    Cryptograms – Deerhunter
    Sound of Silver – LCD Soundsystem
    Here We Go Sublime – The Field
    Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga – Spoon
    Boxer – The National
    Let’s Stay Friends – Les Savy Fav
    Neon Bible – The Arcade Fire
    Untrue – Burial
    Fort Nightly – White Rabbits
    The Besnard Lakes are the Dark Horse – The Besnard Lakes
    Friend Opportunity – Deerhoof
    Night Drive – The Chromatics
    Eponymous - A Place to Bury Strangers
    Armchair Apocolyptica – Andrew Bird
    Flying Club Cup – Beirut
    23 – Blonde Redhead
    No Shout Calls – Electrelane
    The Reminder – Feist
    Cross – Justice
    All Hour Symbols – Yeasayer
    Liars – Liars
    Asa Breed – Matthew Dear
    Friend and Foe – Menomena
    Heaven – Mobius Band
    Going Places – Montag
    Person Pitch – Panda Bear
    The Magic Position – Patrick Wolf
    This Bliss – Pantha Du Prince
    Turn the Lights Out – The Ponys
    Ten New Messages – The Rakes
    Shocking Pinks – Shocking Pinks
    Attack, Sustain, Release - Simian Mobile Disco
    Random Spirit Lover – Sunset Rubdown
    Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters – The Twilight Sad
    All Hour Cymbals – Yeasayer
    Icky Thump – White Stripes
    Scribble Mural Comic Journal – A Sunny Day in Glasgow
    Andorra – Caribou
    Steingarten – Pole
    Transparent Things - Fujiyama and Miyagi
    Our Love to Admire – Interpol
    Myths of the Near Future – Klaxons
    Disco Romance – Sally Shapiro
    Wincing the Night Away – The Shins
    Marry Me – St. Vincent
    A New Chance – The Tough Alliance
    Stage Names – Okkervil River


    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 11 Dec 2007, 18:46
    Antimatter - Leaving Eden
    Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
    Eagles - Long Road Out of Eden
    The Killers - Sawdust

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 11 Dec 2007, 19:35
    I'm currently addicted to Otto's Daughter - A New Kind of Heroin.

  • If my must elect a personal favorite so far...
    It will be (hed) Planet Earth - Insomnia.

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    Whoa!
    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 13 Dec 2007, 23:21
  • To me:

    1. Radiohead, In Rainbows
    2. Nine Inch Nails, Year Zero (plz, someone add this album!)
    3. Dream Theater, Systematic Chaos
    4. Queens of the Stone Age, Era Vulgaris (plz someone should add this album, too!)
    5. The White Stripes, Icky Thump.

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  • WHO IN THE HELL PUTS ALBUM NAME BEFORE BAND NAME

    pre full-length was well worth the wait (Y)(Y)Y(Y)Y(Y)Y(

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    • rizky said...
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    • 14 Dec 2007, 14:31

    Baby girl, that's the best album of 2007

    Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 14 Dec 2007, 16:22
    trans am - sex change
    sleeping people - growing
    mice parade - mice parade

  • There's one that comes immediately to mind:

    Streetlight Manifesto, Somewhere In The Between

  • Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 15 Dec 2007, 21:07
    Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest of Times

    Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master

    Big D and the Kids Table - Strictly Rude

    IMHO.

    • [Deleted user] said...
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    • 15 Dec 2007, 21:26

    Re: Baby girl, that's the best album of 2007

    rizky said:
    Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre


    Signed!

    • Sarz555 said...
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    • 16 Dec 2007, 03:47
    Alicia Keys - As I Am
    Timbaland - Shock Value
    Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long Enough
    Katie Noonan - Skin

    and I have to admit I've become addicted to Britney's latest album....


    and Ministry of Sound - 2008 Annual.

  • Common - "Finding forever"
    Jill Scott - "The Real Thing" (Words and Sounds Vol.3)
    Zap Mama - "Supermoon"
    Raul Midon - "A world within a world"
    Sharon Jones and the Dap kings - "100 days 100 nights" (i have begun listening to it and it is pretty good!)

    Good music forever
    • oloccip said...
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    • 17 Dec 2007, 12:07
    Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead

    Please excuse my bad English, I am from Sweden you see.
  • Machine Head - The Blackening
    Chimaira - Resurrection
    Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
    Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
    Funeral For A Friend - Tales Don't Tell Themselves
    Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
    Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
    Sanctity - Road to Bloodshed
    Electric Six - I Shall Exterminate Everything Around Me That Restricts Me From Being The Master
    Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead

  • HIM's Venus Doom is absolutely the best.
    Insomnium's Above The Weeping World is a great one too.

    "No matter how hard you work on the stuff back in your bedroom to get it perfect, you're never going to do it correctly. "
    - Ville Valo
  • Heartagram- said:
    HIM's Venus Doom is absolutely the best.


    In comparison to Love Metal and Dark Light I found Venus Doom less interesting to listen to.

  • Must be getting old, never heard of most of those.

  • Above & Beyond - Anjunabeats Volume Five
    Alter Bridge - Blackbird
    Arch Enemy - Rise of the Tyrant
    Armin van Buuren - A State of Trance 2007
    Calyx & Teebee - Anatomy
    Commix - Call to Mind
    Current Value - Therapy Session 6
    High on Fire - Death is This Communion
    Jesca Hoop - Kismet
    Kryptic Minds & Leon Switch - Lost All Faith
    Limewax - Scars on the Horizon
    Limewax - Therapy Session 4
    Markus Schulz - Progression
    Ministry - The Last Sucker
    Parov Stelar - Shine
    Róisín Murphy - Overpowered

    • GRoBO said...
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    • 17 Dec 2007, 22:51
    Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

    ^_^
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