Category: Jam Session
In your opinion, what is the best album for 2007. I know that the year is about to end, so lets vote on this one. Feel free to vote in your top ten for 2007.
Number one, in my opinion, is systematic chaos by dream theater.
good girl gone bad: rihanna
T.i's latest Cd, i have it forget the title though, there's more I'll post later, can't think lol.
Hmm, would have to go for Interpol's "Our Love to Admire", Radiohead's "In Rainbows" of course, "Cease to Begin" by Band of Horses and possibly the Hives' "Black and White Album", still deciding but it appears brilliant at first listen
It's been such a great for music; it'll take me forever to pick a top 10.
A top 3 is really easy, though.
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Boris/Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
colbie caillet cocoa
In order.
Oops...That should say "great year."
colbie caillet cocoa and melissa etheridge's the awakening
It has been a great year for music, hasn't it? And a shout out for whoever mentioned the Animal Collective. Heard them for the first time the other day, and they're a special, weird sort of awesome all of their own.
But yes. Not sure what my favourite would be. Aussie stuff, Claire Boditch, the moon looked on.
The Waifs, Sun Dirt Water
John Butler Trio, Grand National.
and overseas.... the Arctic Monkeys' new one that I've forgotten the name of.
Kizer Chiefs, Yours truly, angry mob
Jose Gonzahlis, bugger, forgotten that one too. Something about nights.
Oh, and Katalyst, What's happening. An aussie artist with a heap of international gueststars, not sure what it counts as.
Oh, and Mark Ronson's Version. And the Beautiful Girls' Zigarettes. And I'll probably think of a heap of others as soon as I hit send.
The whole Animal Collective catalog is great. They change and progress with every new album. I'd put them up there with Radiohead as one of the most forward-thinking and exciting bands of our time. "Weird sort of awesome" is a great way to put it. They've just started to finally get major recognition and it's about time! Their live show is such a surreal experience. It's this 90+ minute virtually non-stop celebration of sound. It envelops you and hammers relentlessly into your brain's pleasure center leaving you exhausted, euphoric and dumbfounded when you walk out. Here's a recording of the show I saw curtesy of NPR. It doesn't have anywhere near the effect of seeing them live but still gives you a good idea.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14564305
The Panda Bear album I mentioned in my above post is a solo project of one of the band members; also a must-have if you like AC.
That Jose Gonzalez album is called In Our Nature. Night Falls over Kortadala is the Jens Lekman album; both artists are from the same area in Sweden and both put out stellar works this year. Jens Lekman puts on a fun show too. I've been meaning to grab that Mark Ronson. Have heard many good things.
And I can't believe I forgot to put down Eisley - Combinations, especially since I'm going through somewhat of an Eisley phase at the moment
the best album for 2007 is carie underwood's carnival ride
Josh Groban: Noel
My favorite albums of 2007 r Daltry, Rascal Flats's Still Feels Good, Kerry Underwood's Carnival Ride, Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing, and Kelly Clarkson's My December.
This thread got kinda sad very quickly.
Is this the "best album of the year" thread or the "albums Clear Channel and MTV try to shove down our throats" thread? Unfortunately, it's starting to look like the latter.
Here's my list of 60-ish that I'll eventually whittle down to 10:
A Place To Bury Strangers - S/T
Alasdair Roberts-The Amber Gatherers
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Apparat - Walls
Battles - Mirrored
Beirut - the flying club cup
Besnard Lakes - Are The Dark Horse
bjork - Volta
Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
Burial - Untrue
Caribou - Andorra
Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules
Cornelius - Sensuous
Dan Deacon - Spiderman Of The Rings
deerhunter - cryptograms
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
Dirty Projectors - rise above
Efterklang - Parades
Feist - The Reminder
Flying Lotus - Reset EP
Gang Gang Dance- RAWWAR
Ghost - In Stormy Nights
Grizzly Bear - Friend EP
Growing - Vision Swim
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
Japancakes - Loveless
Jarvis - Jarvis
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Last Step - S/T
liars - liars
Magik Markers - Boss
Marnie Stern - In Advance Of The Broken Arm
Meg Baird - Dear Companion
merzbow + carlos giffoni + jim o'rourke - electric dress
Midnite Snake - Shaving The Angel
mv & ee with the golden road - gettin' gone
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss
Paul Metzger - Deliverance
Pelican - City Of Echoes
Pink Reason - By A Thread 7"
Priestbird - In Your Time
Raccoo-oo-oon - Behold Secret Kingdom
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Religious Knives - Remains
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Sir Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments
Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash
Soft Circle - Full Bloom
spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Fire Escape
The Good, The Bad and The Queen - S/T
The Tuss - Rushup Edge
Voice of the Seven Woods - S/T
Wolf Eyes - Black Wings Over The Sand
Wooden Shjips - S/T
Woods - How To Survive in/In The Woods
Wzt Hearts - Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones
S/T = self-titled
Time On Earth - Crowded House
Magic - Bruce Springsteen
Those are 2 that I've been meaning to get around to.