Top Albums of 2007 - "Time to throw down!" - Page 2

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I thought it was a great year. Here's a top 50, which I couldn't narrow down much more.

1. Elliott Smith - New Moon
2. Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
3. UGK - UGK (Underground Kingz)
4. Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall
5. The National - Boxer
6. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
7. The Clientele - God Save the Clientele
8. Dwight Yoakam - Dwight Sings Buck
9. Lyle Lovett - It's Not Big, It's Large
10. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond

11. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
12. Porter Wagoner - Wagonmaster
13. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - Living With the Living
14. Radiohead - In Rainbows
15. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
16. T.I. - T.I. vs. T.I.P.
17. Willard Grant Conspiracy - Let It Roll
18. Clinic - Visitations
19. Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab
20. J Dilla - Ruff Draft

21. Cam'ron - Public Enemy #1
22. Jim White - Transnormal Skiperoo
23. Pharoahe Monch - Desire
24. Enon - Grass Geysers Carbon Clouds
25. Mick Boogie/Busta Rhymes/J Dilla - Dillagence
26. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
27. Freeway - Free at Last
28. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
29. America - Here & Now
30. Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams

31. Blonde Redhead - 23
32. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
33. Grant Lee Phillips - Strangelet
34. Sean Price - Jesus Price Supastar
35. Joan Tower - Made In America
36. Common - Finding Forever
37. Kanye West - Graduation
38. Ryan Adams & the Cardinals - Follow the Lights
39. The Grateful Dead - Three From the Vault
40. Son Volt - The Search

41. Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
42. Jay-Z - American Gangster
43. Amon Tobin - Foley Room
44. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
45. Nick Drake - Family Tree
46. Scarface - Made
47. Joe Budden - Mood Muzik Vol. 3
48. Bjork - Volta
49. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
50. Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead

Re: Top Albums of 2007 - "Time to throw down!"

The Dead C's Future Artists was the standout of 2007 for me. The band is as engaging and imaginative as ever.

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didn't you get Porcupine Tree's Fear of a Blank Planet? (reviews, on signal>noise)

best album of 2007 for me especially since its a DVD-Audio, not to mention the fact that Alex Lifeson plays the solo on Anesthetize

The surround mix is as good as Beatles' LOVE DVD-Audio which would be #2 i think (this deservedly beat FoaBP to the surround Grammy)

Also liked Wilco's Sky Blue Sky a lot, and in a similar vein, Blackfield II

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(In no order)

Amy Winehouse- Back to Black
Rihanna- Good Girl Gone Bad
Bruce Springsteen- Magic
MIA- Kala
Lady Sovereign- Public Warning (Late 06 release that I heard in 07 so Im counting it! ) If you can handle rap at all Give Lady Sov a spin. She is very funny and her wordplay is insane.

I DJ so I listen to all types of music.

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Strangely enough, no I haven't picked up FoaBP yet. Thanks for the reminder!

I got Edenbridge's The Grand Design since my other post. It's excellent.

I also want to check out the Sick Puppies since I won a guitar autographed by them.

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YEASAYER
YEASAYER
YEASAYER.....ALL HOUR CYMBOLS

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FoaBP DVD-A isn't widely available tho - only on burningshed

Also investigate Riverside - lots of PT fans also like Riverside

now i will check out your list

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I've heard of Riverside. Is that the Polish prog-metal band? I think Amazon sometimes suggests that one for me when I open the front page.

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Yup. Second Life Syndrome is very good - standalone or you can take it as the middle part of a trilogy of albums

Reality Dream trilogy
Out of Myself (2003)
Second Life Syndrome (2005)
Rapid Eye Movement (2007)

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Busy listening to some of your picks... here are mine:

1. MIA - Kala
2. Working for a Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts
3. Shocking Pinks - Shocking Pinks
4. Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 3 & 4: In India
5. A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
6. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
7. Tegan and Sara - The Con
8. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
9. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
10. UNKLE - War Stories
11. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
12. Apparat - Walls

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Clutch is my favorite band of all time. Very nice to see them mentioned here.

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what are clutch like - Liveplasma can't find them

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I would also like to add Porcupine Tree's Arriving Somewhere... concert DVD to this list. Great songs and a great sounding DTS mix

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I saw Clutch open for Iron Maiden once, I think. I don't really remember them, but I want to say they were fairly straightforward metal.

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ah, ok thanks Maiden's great (up till Powerslave, for me)

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Clutch opened for Maiden for two weeks a few years back. I wouldn't call them straight up metal, but that is their roots. It's actually hard to classify them into a genre. Their early stuff was more metal. Most of their stuff is more on the hard rockish side. Their newest album is very bluesy. They are very talented and and have been playing together long enough that they are super tight.

Some vids...

Newer to older...
Electric Worry

Burning Beard

Mob Goes Wild

A shogun named Marcus

Hope you enjoy!

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Don't write off their last three albums (the ones since Dickinson returned).

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I have the Dance of Death DVD-A - songwriting's ok (perhaps I've grown out of it, though) but the sonics leave a lot to be desired.

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I didn't even realize there was a DVD-A of that.

Brave New World is still probably the best of the three.

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YEASAYER: ALL HOUR CYMBOLS #1 album of the year CMJ


KATE TUCKER: THE SONS OF SWEDEN


RAVEONETTES: LUST LUST LUST -a little heavy on the distortion gimmick-but cool


GOLDFRAPP: What can be said about Allison?


THE KNIFE: 3 disc DELUXE BOX: the album
1.SILENT SHOUT (remastered)
2.SILENT SHOUT Live Audio
3.SILENT SHOUT Live Video Concert of above plus every music video theyve ever made plus some noodley 'audio visual experience'