Albums Of 2007 - Good, Bad, & Disappointing:Please Submit Yours

MrJoeSoap

Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Radiohead - In Rainbows

cartman

The National - boxer. unbelievable album

sigur ros - hauf/heim

Mint Sauce

might get abuse for some of these

kate nash - made of bricks
cheeryghost - thirst for romance
the flaws - achieving vagueness
the foo fighters - echos silence patience and grace

princess-sprkle

thepoopatorium wrote: »

Lists are fun.

Click me for my choices.

Omissions, criticisms?

i want to marry you, for serious. thats a top list.

NoQuarter

cartman wrote: »

The National - boxer. unbelievable album

sigur ros - hauf/heim

if you think the nationals album is great, you wanna see them live......wow

Jonny Arson

i'm crap at ranking 1,2,3s but these were the albums off the top of my head that i enjoyed/thought were good and worth a listen/purchase/download for anyone

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Digitalism - Idealism
Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
Interpol - Our Love to Admire
Art Brut - It's a Bit Complicated
Battles - Mirrored
Rilo Kiley - Under the Backlight
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future

ok albums but expected more
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Editors - An End Has a Start
Justice - Cross
Babyshambles - Shotters Nation

disappointing/sh!te
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
QOTSA - Era Vulgaris
Idlewild - Make a New World

i was in the mindset that this year was a crappy year for music but i'm actually surprised by the length of the list of what i liked, maybe 2007 wasn't so bad afterall! still have to get around to listening to Manics, National, Maps and NIN albums so i may add more

Creamy Goodness

i don't know how anyone can label the pumpkins album as disappointing, did people have that much expectation on it? when i saw corgan recruiting new members that act/look in the same vain as the original members i stopped having hopes for the album.

that being said "United States" is a belter of a track.

Heisenberg.

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Zombrex

Good
Bruce Springsteen - "Magic"

Disappointing
Pretty much everything else I bought

Kali

The Scientist wrote: »

Who?

I presume you're taking the piss.

Robert Plant - lead singer of Led Zeppelin.
Alison Krauss - country/folk singer, possibly one of the most popular in the States, if not the world.

hughes2558

One of my favs of the year is Kanye West Graduation. Really liked this. Another one I liked was Mark Ronson Version.

Jello

My favourite album of the year would have to be:

Justice - †

Really got me into electro/house music and their gig was one of the best I've been to in a while.

Nature Boy

One of my favourites this year was Babyshambles - Shotters Nation. Excellent album

Orizio

I might as well post this here, for anyone interested my top 20 of 2007...

1. Boxer - The National
2. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
3. I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead - EL-P
4. Out of the Woods - Tracey Thorn
5. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon

6. Guns Babes Lemonade - Muscles
7. The Stage Names - Okkervil River
8. Reminder - Fiest
9. Rise Up - Zeph & Azeem
10. Dirty Acres - Cunninlynguists

11. Call To Mind - The Commix
12. Mirrored - Battles
13. American Gangster - Jay-Z
14. Graduation - Kanye West
15. Rap Music - Brother Reade

16. Night Falls Over Kortelda - Jens Lekman
17. Untrue - Burial
18. Kala - M.I.A.
19. Overpowered - Roisin Murphy
20. Hope & Sorrow - Wax Tailor

ShaneU

GOOD

Calvin Harris - I created Disco
Kanye West - Graduation
Timbaland- Shock Value
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Kings of Leon- Because of the times
The enemy- We'll live and die in these towns
Klaxons - Myths of the near future
Maroon 5 - it won't be soon before long.
QOTSA - era vulgaris
the view - hats off to the buskers
white stripes- icky thump

BAD

Radiohead - in rainbows
Interpol - Our love to admire

Disappointing

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Foo Fighters - E,S,P & G
kate Nash - Made of Bricks
Paul McCartney - memory almost full

Heisenberg.

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SxE Punk

The good:

Coldwar - Bloodfire Sunset
Warpath - Gorefare
Mass Extinction - Creation's Undoing
Primordial - For The Nameless Dead

The bad:

Everything else really.



Great year for Irish metal though. Oh and Kings of Leon's latest joint was sweet too.

fluke

fluke wrote: »

Okay, as far as I'm concerned 2007 was a pretty crap one for music, some good albums came out, but they were few and far between. There was the odd diamond in the rough in many albums, but one song doesn't make an album. Here is my list of personal list of the good, bad and disappointing records of 2007:

Good

Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris - Hypnotic weirdness
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild OST - Short inventive brilliance
Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light - Great hooks, with good pop sensibilities

Bad

Velvet Revolver - Libertad - Sounds like Bon Jovi Applying For Credibility
Chris Cornell - Carry On - Yeah This Is What Happens When you Don't Restrain Yourself A Little

Disappointing

Foo Fighters - ESP&G - Tired LP No. 3 (In A Row) from Bland Shouty Young Homer Simpson & Co.
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist - Not Crap, just really tiresome at times
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible - Okay I'm prob gonna come under charges of heresy for this one...look i loved Funeral, this wasn't as innovative, some really standout tracks, but as a whole a little underwhelming.

Please submit your choices

P.S. I have yet to listen fully to, The Boss, Radiohead, Rihanna, Michael Buble, The Killers etc. When I've listened to them I'll submit my thoughts on them.

Good

Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Radiohead - In Rainbows

Bad
Interpol - Oou Love To Admire

Disappointing
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
Crwoded House - Time On Earth

Setun

I didn't listen to much 07 albums, but the best i've heard are probably:
Feist - The Reminder
Efterklang - Parades
Manu Katche - Playground

Oh yah, and:
Amon Tobin - Foley Room :eek: masterpiece

Haven't listened to Beirut's much. Was great live though.

JustCoz

Good: Kings of Leon, Beacuse of the Times; Arcade Fire, Neon Bible, Delorentos, In Love With Detail and Cathy Davey, Tales of Silversleeve.

Bad: Radiohead, In Rainbows

Setun

Did anybody listen to teh Cowboy Junkies Trinity Revisited? Just got it yesterday, sounds very good.

Angelene

Favourites (in no particular order):
*The National - Boxer (a wonderful follow up from last year's stupendous Alligator)
*Beirut – The Flying Club Cup (Cherbourg being a personal fav. from the album, an acquires taste perhaps, I'm just grateful to have acquired it)
*Radiohead – In Rainbows (I don't understand how so many people here can list this as anything but an immaculate album)
*PJ Harvey - White Chalk (actually, this was probably my favourite album of the year)
*UNKLE - War Stories (I like UNKLE, who knew?!)
*Mice Parade - Mice Parade (a little gem of electronic/indie)
*Marissa Nadler -Songs III - Bird On the Water (just terribly pretty)
*Husky Rescue - Ghost Is Not Real (summertime made audible by these Danish dudes)
*El -P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (featuring some wonderful little cameos)
*Sigur Rós - Hvarf/Heim (another spectacularly beautiful offering from these icelandic beaus)

Biggest Disappointment of the Year:
Interpol's third album...I adored these boys after Bright Lights and though Antics held some gems I held such expectations for Our Love and was bitterly, bitterly disappointed.

I can't really comment on "bad" albums...I don't make a habit of listening much to that which I anticipate to be bad, and that which I hope to be good but which fails to live up to my expectations would qualify as disappointing, no?

This year wasn't as important to my musical development as others have been...I'm not sure if the music is at fault, or if I've just not been as proactive in discovering music as I usually am. Regardless, the new year looks very promising indeed with offerings from the delectable Cat Power, and returns from the utterly sublime Portishead, My Bloody Valentine, and Massive Attack, no less.

Kali

Daddio wrote: »

Oh yah, and:
Amon Tobin - Foley Room :eek: masterpiece

Got extremely few trips off the shelf for me, compared to any of his previous offerings... comes nowhere near the likes of Supernatural or Out From Out Where. Seen a few people praising it elsewhere though, so must give it another few spins.

smur89

my favourites for the year (off the top of my head, in no particular order) were:
of montreal - hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
animal collective - strawberry jam
beirut - the flying cup
okkervil river - the stage names
liars - liars
caribou - andorra
panda bear - person pitch
radiohead - in rainbows

Setun

Kali wrote: »

Got extremely few trips off the shelf for me, compared to any of his previous offerings... comes nowhere near the likes of Supernatural or Out From Out Where. Seen a few people praising it elsewhere though, so must give it another few spins.

Do. It's really something that you need to listen to for a while - and decipher the found sounds! It's quite an accomplishment imo. (Although maybe permutation is stilll my fave, haven't listened to supermodified that much)

curly.bert

Good
On the Irish scene, I though these albums were pretty good:

Tales of Silversleeve - Cathy Davey
Unexpected Falls - Dry County
Contents of a Shipwreck - The Pale
Weightless - Juno Falls
The Monkey Pole - Hybrasil
Gavin Glass & The Holy Shakers - Gavin Glass & The Holy Shakers
In Love With Detail - Delorentos
Louder & Clearer - Stanley Super 800
Tribes - Luka Bloom
Mutter - Maria Doyle Kennedy
Flight Cases - Headgear

Outside of Ireland, I thought the following were deadly:
Boxer - The National
Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
King of Cards - Tom McRae
Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krausse
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Fur & Gold - Bat For Lashes

Bad
Our Love to Admire - Interpol
Myths of the Near Future - The Klaxons

Ugly
That Leona Lewis song

My two (euro) cents anyway ....

'Ol Jack Chance

best of 07

arcade fire - neon bible

the hold steady - boys and girls in america

healing the divide - kronos quartet tom waits (whats not to like..richard gere maybe)

Ooly

I tought 2007 was excellent for new music!!!!

Albums I loved :
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Bat for Lashes- Fur and Gold
The Pigeon Detectives - Wait For Me
Jack Penate - Matinee
Justice - Cross
Jamie T. - Panic Prevention
Digitalism - Idealism
Robert Plant And Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Made of Bricks- Kate Nash
Battles - Mirrored
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Newton Faulkner - Handbuilt By Robots
Rilo Kiley - Under the Backlight
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Kings Of Leon - Because of the Times


Albums I didn't really like
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Babyshambles - Shotters Nation
The Killers - Stardust
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
QOTSA - Era Vulgaris
The White Stripes - Icky thump

fluke

'Ol wrote:

best of 07

arcade fire - neon bible

the hold steady - boys and girls in america

healing the divide - kronos quartet tom waits (whats not to like..richard gere maybe)

aw man that album really ...i had high hopes for it, seein them at slane put me off listening to them

'Ol Jack Chance

I thought it was good album! me and few mates drove to galway for holiday with that and the killers on the cd player during the summer, it reminds me of good times.