Top Albums 2007
Holy Crap 2007 was a great year for music! and its about damn time!
After listening to albums over and over (I'm in my car over 2 hours a day, just driving to and from work, listening to music)
I have to say this is my top 5 albums for 2007
1 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible ( with the best song of the year, my body is a cage.. that organ & horns & bass at the 2:10 mark... my god, it haunts me, and still gives me shivers...)
2 Radiohead - In rainbows
3 Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist ( I really do like this album, but the other 2 above this were just better...)
These 3 albums were all pretty close with me
Then
4 Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience and Grace (a typical foo fighters album, 3/4 great songs 1/4 ok... to crappy)
5 Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight ( I never thought I'd include a Linkin Park Album in a best of list, but downloaded this album after hearing and really liking the song 'bleed it out', and was surprised by song other really good songs, the best of being the last song 'The little things give you away' a great progressive rock song, with some neat drumming as well)
Disappointments,
NIN - Year zero. Ok the last NIN album, 'with teeth' I wasn't expecting that much from, and I'm not sure why, but anyways after listening to that album a couple times it really grew on me, and one day I really liked it. I didn't really like most of year zero the first couple times listening to it.. but I kept at it thinking it could grow on me like 'with teeth'... it hasn't happened. The only songs that I like are Survivalism, Capitol G & Zero Sum. Same as the first time I listened to the album.
Matthew Good - Hospital Music, It seems that with every album he moves further away from the Avalanche album that I loved... This was an o.k. album, with one really good song, the 91/2min "Champions Of Nothing". Outside of that.... I guess I keep expecting him to top Avalanche and I'm starting to think he will never do it... and in that sense it was a disappointment to me...
After listening to albums over and over (I'm in my car over 2 hours a day, just driving to and from work, listening to music)
I have to say this is my top 5 albums for 2007
1 Arcade Fire - Neon Bible ( with the best song of the year, my body is a cage.. that organ & horns & bass at the 2:10 mark... my god, it haunts me, and still gives me shivers...)
2 Radiohead - In rainbows
3 Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist ( I really do like this album, but the other 2 above this were just better...)
These 3 albums were all pretty close with me
Then
4 Foo Fighters - Echoes Silence Patience and Grace (a typical foo fighters album, 3/4 great songs 1/4 ok... to crappy)
5 Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight ( I never thought I'd include a Linkin Park Album in a best of list, but downloaded this album after hearing and really liking the song 'bleed it out', and was surprised by song other really good songs, the best of being the last song 'The little things give you away' a great progressive rock song, with some neat drumming as well)
Disappointments,
NIN - Year zero. Ok the last NIN album, 'with teeth' I wasn't expecting that much from, and I'm not sure why, but anyways after listening to that album a couple times it really grew on me, and one day I really liked it. I didn't really like most of year zero the first couple times listening to it.. but I kept at it thinking it could grow on me like 'with teeth'... it hasn't happened. The only songs that I like are Survivalism, Capitol G & Zero Sum. Same as the first time I listened to the album.
Matthew Good - Hospital Music, It seems that with every album he moves further away from the Avalanche album that I loved... This was an o.k. album, with one really good song, the 91/2min "Champions Of Nothing". Outside of that.... I guess I keep expecting him to top Avalanche and I'm starting to think he will never do it... and in that sense it was a disappointment to me...