Your Top 10 Albums of the Year?

Stew · 21st November 2007, 7:21pm

People usually make a thread about the album of the year, but I figured that a thread where people post their top ten albums of the year might be good since it could give other's ideas for their Christmas lists.

Mine are simply in alphabetical order:

Bright Eyes - Cassadega
Dntel - Dumb Luck
Elliott Smith- New Moon
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

Zippy · 21st November 2007, 7:25pm

I'll have to come back to this as I can't remember when specific albums came out but off the top of my head:

1. The Chemical Brothers - We Are the Night
2. Avast! - Faultlines
3. Down - Over the Under
4. Biffy Clyro - Puzzle

Syxx · 21st November 2007, 7:33pm

Aye, i'll think about it later. Ones that come to mind are

Manics - Send Away The Tigers
Machine Head - The Blackening
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light

Stew · 21st November 2007, 11:36pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stew

People usually make a thread about the album of the year, but I figured that a thread where people post their top ten albums of the year might be good since it could give other's ideas for their Christmas lists.

Mine are simply in alphabetical order:

Bright Eyes - Cassadega
Dntel - Dumb Luck
Elliott Smith- New Moon
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

Tempted to put Against Me! - New Wave in there now, but not sure who to drop out.

Syxx · 21st November 2007, 11:38pm

Good shout.

Posh · 22nd November 2007, 12:14am

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stew

People usually make a thread about the album of the year, but I figured that a thread where people post their top ten albums of the year might be good since it could give other's ideas for their Christmas lists.

Mine are simply in alphabetical order:

Bright Eyes - Cassadega
Dntel - Dumb Luck
Elliott Smith- New Moon
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

I can't stand 'Easy Tiger' but if you like that check out the Jason Isbell album I salute below.

I don't like new music, but if I have inadvertently listened to anything made since 1986 in the past 11 months it would be:

'Sky Blue Sky' - Wilco
'Magic' - Bruce Springsteen
'Cassadaga' - Bright Eyes
'Ys' - Joanna Newsom
'Sirens of the Ditch' - Jason Isbell
'The Scene of the Crime' - Bettye Lavette

The Wildhearts award for being The Wildhearts goes to The Wildhearts for 'The Wildhearts'.

And I really like the new Steve Earle album but I don't pretend it's the album of the year. It's just yet another good Steve Earle album.

Same goes for 'Chrome Dreams II' by Neil Young and 'Planet Earth' by Prince. Even patchy past-their-prime moments sail into top ten lists with ease when you're an obsessive fanboy.

MarkMono · 22nd November 2007, 12:21am

El-P - Sleep When You're Dead
Deathklok - The Dethalbum
Cot Death - Digital Cacophony of Global Decay (ep, but it gets well-heavy rotation)

I seem to have drifted away from albums, the most impressive thing I got recently was a sneaky download of Firebrand Boys Chiptunes.

kimzor · 22nd November 2007, 12:25am

Quote:

Originally Posted by MarkMono

Deathklok - The Dethalbum

Forgot all about that.

*sticks on*

I'm Your God Now · 22nd November 2007, 1:05am

My number one is easily: Still Remains - The Serpent

Other ones in no particular order:

3 Inches Of Blood - Fire Up The Blades

Black Light Burns - Cruel Melody

Chimaira - Resurrection

Devildriver - The Last Kind Words

Down - III: Over The Under

Machine Head - The Blackening

Turbonegro - Retox

The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts

I'm missing one, hmmm.

High-Five!

Posh · 22nd November 2007, 4:41pm

Oops, I forgot about 'Retox'. Silly boy.

McLeary · 22nd November 2007, 8:33pm

Cave-In side-projects have dominated shit this year, along with the new el-p and Aes Rock.

Full top 10 when/if I remember/have time.

Pier Angeli · 22nd November 2007, 8:36pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Posh

I don't like new music

same. can't remember the last time I got into a recent artist or band.

Zippy · 22nd November 2007, 8:38pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pier Angeli

same. can't remember the last time I got into a recent artist or band.

Aye, I could easily name 10 albums which have come out before this year that I've just got into this year but I struggle with ones brought out in 2007.

McLeary · 22nd November 2007, 8:52pm

You guys are just slow off the mark. In a decade you'll be jamming to records from 2k7 saying "2017 ain't shit, all the good stuff came out ages ago".

Anhedoniac · 24th November 2007, 8:59pm

Municipal Waste, The Art of Partying
neurosis, Given to the Rising
Trelldom, Til Minne
Type O Negative, Dead Again
Wolves In The Throne Room, Two Hunters
Cobalt, Eater of Birds
Centurions ghost, The Great Work
Angels of the Light, We are Him
Grinderman, Grinderman
PJ Harvey, White Chalk