your favourite releases/albums of 2007

[saz]

the thaw session-verve
the far now-david kilgour
tio bitar-dungen
s/t-radio moscow
live at massey hall 1971-neil young
my bloody underground-brian jonestown massacre
icky thump-white stripes
jazzmatazz volume 4-guru
tied & true-detroit cobras
ottawa-andy swan

[checkyourprez]

dj muggs v. sick jacken
mf grimm-gingerbread man
percee p-perserverance
jay z-american gangster
beastie boys-mix up
wu tang-8D
ghostface-BDR
styles p-sgeg
statik selektah-spell my name right
kanye-graduation
NYGz-welcome to g'dom
marco polo-port authority

(i just copied and pasted from my post in the universally praised music thread, )

[Gareth]

i like these:

souljah boy - crank dat
robyn - with every heartbeat
common - drivin me wild
rihanna - umbrella
chromeo - bonafide lovin
saigon - come on baby
dj blaqstarr - shake it to the ground
ugk - international players anthem

and these:

the national - boxer
ghostface killah - big doe rehab
fabienne delsol - between you and me
oh no - do no's oxperiment
the virgins - ep
taken by trees - open field
pharoahe monch - desire
mia - kala

[mickill]

Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
Andorra - Caribou
Magic - Bruce Springsteen
La Cucaracha - Ween
The Flying Club Cup - Beirut
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
American Gangster - Jay Z
Underground Kingz - UGK
Get Back - Little Brother
Graduation - Kanye
Big Doe Rehab - Ghostface
Kala - MIA

[thegoodmrbrodie!]

these people have released albums/eps that i have really enjoyed this year...

lcd soundsystem.
m.i.a.
animal collective.
panda bear.
matthew dear.
akron/family.
kevin drew.
electrelane.
battles.
deerhunter.
caribou.
ebbs and flows.
shady tree.
grizzly bear.
jeffrey lewis.
justice.
liars.
nina nastasia & jim white.
radiohead.

[Calimero jr.]

Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Baroness - Red Album
Today is the Day - Axis of Eden
Beirut - The Flying Cup Club
Dinosaur jr. - Beyond
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
NIN - Year Zero
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Om - Pilgrimage
Heavy Trash - Going Way Out With Heavy Trash
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
Ween - La Cucaracha

[Deep_Sea_Rain]

Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
Wu-Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
Ghostface Killah - Big Doe Rehab
Kanye West - Graduation
The White Stripes - Icky Thump

[easy 3]

Shit!

I really don't listen to enough new music. I should hang my head in shame. Maybe I should get with this whole downloading thing at last (or just get my cashflow in order)?

I loved the Mix Up and the Bad Brains' 'Build a Nation' was sweet.

I quite liked Icky Thump, Neon Bible, and that Black Kids EP is getting played quite a lot this last few weeks. Umm, I can't seem to recall any really mindblowing albums this year (TMU was real nice but not overly radical) - probably just my memory being shit! I haven't heard that Radiohead thing yet and have only heard a little bit of MIA's LP. I'm looking forward to the Portishead album that's apparently dropping next year - although I don't anticipate any great shocks from it.

I could do with a few really solid Hip Hop albums to freshen me up - I know there's stuff out there but I find I mainly just play loads of different singles.

I'm listening to Prefuse 73's recent 'Preparations' LP quite a bit I guess.

[Kid Presentable]

Kala - MIA
Version - Mark Ronson
Graduation - Kanye
I'll Sleep When you're Dead - El-P
Weekend In The City - Bloc Party
American Gangster - Jay Z
8 Diagrams - Wu
and he just pointed to the sky - Peder (prunes)
The Return of the Magnificent - Jazzy Jeff

Gareth, I fucking love Umbrella too. I'm gonna slide a piece about it being a euphemism for face-sitting into my anecdotes. Biggest missed opportunity has to go to The Mix Up; could have been the singing-and-playing Check Your Head.

[RoryMC]

Spoon -- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The National -- Boxer
Justice -- Cross
Future of the Left -- Curses
Les Savy Fav -- Let's Stay Friends
LCD Soundsystem -- Sound of Silver
Simian Mobile Disco -- Attack Decay Sustain Release
The Shins -- Wincing the Night Away
Interpol -- Our Love To Admire
Liars -- Liars
!!! -- Myth Takes
Battles -- Atlas
Animal Collective -- Strawberry Jam

[easy 3]

Oh yeah! - I really enjoyed that Grinderman album from Nick Cave - wasn't familier with his work before but I'm intrigued to check out some more.

[b-grrrlie]

I remember enjoying these enormously:
BRMC - Baby 81
Beastie Boys - The Mix-up
Timo Räisänen - Love will turn you around
QOTSA - Era vulgaris
José Gonzales - In our nature
Grinderman - Grinderman
Edwyn Collins - Home again

I've listened to waaaaay to little to Icky Thumb, In Rainbows and Cucaracha to give honest opinion... and they're all done by some of my favourite bands... or Foo Fighters' latest for that matter... These are just some that I can remember off hand, haven't gone through my collection nor this year's releases yet.

[kleptomaniac]

beastie boys ~ the mix-up!!!!!
public enemy ~ how you sell soul to a soulless people who sold their soul?
m.i.a. ~ kala
thurston moore ~ trees outside the academy
aesop rock ~ none shall pass
bad brains ~ build a nation
black kids ~ wizard of ahhhs

[DroppinScience]

Still haven't gone through lots of albums released this year, but I dug the albums from the following:

Arcade Fire
Bruce Springsteen
M.I.A.
Spoon
Wilco
The White Stripes
Queens of the Stone Age
Radiohead
Air
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
The Long Blondes (well, released in '06, but I don't think it made it over here 'til '07, so I'll count it)
The National
LCD Soundsystem
"Across the Universe" soundtrack
The Shins

And who says new music is dead?

[Drederick Tatum]

Waajeed-The War
Battles-Mirrored
Flying Lotus-Reset
Dethklok-Deth Album
Oh No-Oxperiment
Madlib-Beat Conducta in India
Justice
MIA-Kala
Sa-Ra-Hollywood Recordings
Va- After Dark. Italians Do It Better
Black Lips-Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo

[Lex Diamonds]

Albums/Mixtapes:

UGK - Underground Kingz (great album, RIP Pimp C)
Royce da 5'9" - The Bar Exam
Kanye West - Graduation
KRS One & Marley Marl - Hip Hop Lives
Mark Ronson - Version
Sean Price - Jesus Price Supastar
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
Percee P - Perseverance
Termanology - Hood Politics V
Consequence - Don't Quit Your Day Job
Jay-Z - American Gangster
Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab
Papoose - Already A Legend
Common - Finding Forever


Singles:
50 Cent - I Get Money
Timbaland - The Way I Are
Rhianna - Umbrella
T-Pain - Buy U A Drank
Saigon - C'mon Baby
Sean Kingston - Beautiful Girls


This hasn't been a great year for rock in my opinion.

[adam_f]

Consequence- Don't Quit Your Day Job
Common- Finding Forever
Kanye West- Graduation
Bruce Sprigsteen- Magic
Freeway- Free At Last
Ghostface Killah- Big Doe Rehab
Foo Fighters- Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
Little Brother- Get Back
The White Stripes- Icky Thump
Wu-Tang Clan- 8 Diagrams
Jay-Z- American Gangster
Kid Rock- Rock'N'Roll Jesus (my mom loves it)
UGK- Underground Kingz
Marc Ronson- Version

That's what comes to mind now, anyway.

[banzai]

108 - a new beat from a dead heart
ambitions - stranger
baroness - red album
between the buried and me - colors
the black dahlia murder - nocturnal
crime in stereo - is dead
daggermouth - turf wars
engineer - the dregs
the ergs - upstairs/downstairs
four year strong - rise or die trying
graf orlock - destination time: tomorrow
kate nash - made of bricks
the minor times - summer of wolves
minus the bear - planet of ice
the mongoloids - time trials
poison the well - versions
pulling teeth - martyr immortal
shipwreck - abyss
the warriors - genuine sense of outrage
the weakerthans - reunion tour

there are a few others i probably missed, but yeah. i think this is enough.

[MC Moot]

If I had to pick just one it'd be Galactic "From the Corner to the Block"...

Droppinscience and Calimero Jr both have very similar purchase list's as mine though....

[Darko]

M.I.A - Kala
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead...
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Kanye West - Graduation
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Ween - La Cucharacha
Buck 65 - Situation
The Good, the Bad and the Queen
The National - Boxer
Battles - Mirrored

[Caribou]

I tend to discover albums far too late, so these are about the only ones of 2007 I listened to a lot.

Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Battles - Mirrored
Beirut - Flying Club Cup
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Futur
LCD Sound System - Sound Of Silver
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Patrick Watson - Close To Paradise

[balohna]

I bought (with one exception, which should be obvious) and liked these

Tegan and Sara - The Con
Kanye West - Graduation
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
Against Me! - New Wave
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution
Bad Brains - Build a Nation

The only other 2007 release I can think of that I bought (I don't really download albums) is The Good, The Bad, and The Queen. It's alright, but I basically bought it because I love The Clash and Paul Simonon plays on it. It's not a bad album, but I never listen to it. I will surely catch up with the greats of 2007 over the next couple years when a bunch of them are cheaper. I currently have a copy of Thurston Moore's "The Trees Outside the Academy" coming to me and I still need to get Feist's "The Reminder."

[Auton]

Junior Senior- Hey Hey My My Yo Yo (released in the states this august, recorded in 2005)
Ween- La Cucaracha
Kanye West- Graduation
Ghostface Killah- Big Doe Rehab
Little Brother- Get Back
Waajeed- The War LP
Jay Z- American Gangster
Radiohead- In Rainbows
UGK- Underground Kingz
Justice- †

[Savage Jimmy]

Off the top of my head I can think of a few.

(Here in the U.S. at least) Lily Allen's "ALright Still"
Big D and the Kids Table's "Strictly Rude"
Against Me!'s "New Wave"
World/Inferno Friendship Society's "Addicted To Bad Ideas: The Lost Years of Peter Lorre"
Wu-Tang's "8 Diagrams"
Common's "Finding Forever"
The Big D and the Kids Table/Brain Failure Split cd "From Beijing To Boston"
Thrice's "The Alchemy Index Vols. 1 and 2: Fire and Water"
The Hives' "The Black and White Album"
Bad Brains' "Build A Nation"
Beasties' "The Mix Up"
Tiger Army's "Music From Regions Beyond"
Bad Religion's "New Maps of Hell"
The Slackers' "The Boss Harmony Sessions"
Gallows' "Orchestra of Wolves"
Sundowner's "Four One Five Two"
Dropkick Murphys' "The Meanest of Times"
Locust's "New Erections"
NOFX's "They've Actually Gotten Worse Live"
Queers' "Munki Brain"
Bedouin Soundclash's "Street Gospels"
Foo Fighters' "Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace"

Theres more.... the list was getting long.

[DroppinScience]

I've listened to some more '07 albums, and I do gotta say that Bad Brains AND The Beastie Boys' latest are pretty damn impressive. Yeah, that's right. I'm discussing Beasties in the Other Music section!

[paul jones]

Whitney Housten ' The Ultimate Collection'

[Parkey]

Burial - Untrue
MIA - Kala
Lethal Bizzle - Back To Bizznez
The Good, The Bad and The Queen - S/T
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Battles - Mirrored
Kanye West - Graduation
Dizzee Rascal - Maths+English
Kings of Leon - Because of The Times
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
EL-P - I'll Sleep When Your Dead
Justice - †
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Wu Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
Boxcutter - Glyphic
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday

[roosta]

el-p and MIA probably

I cant remember anything else really.

[Documad]

Originally Posted by sazi

live at massey hall 1971-neil young

That's a good one. I can't believe they found such a quality recording.


I tried a lot of new stuff that I didn't like, and I bought a lot of CDs by female artists that I never felt like listening to (Feist, Linda Thompson, Bjork, Lucinda Williams, Amiina). The Arcade Fire CD was okay. I never listened to the NIN one. I didn't care for the Beasties' instrumental one at all. I even tried Justice but it's not my bag.

This was my year for pleasant sounding music that's not remotely challenging I guess:

Wilco
Travis
Radiohead
Apples in Stereo
Sigur Ros (this will probably be my most-played CD of 2007 because I can write papers while I'm listening to it over and over)

[mickill]

Originally Posted by Documad

I tried a lot of new stuff that I didn't like, and I bought a lot of CDs by female artists that I never felt like listening to (Feist, Linda Thompson, Bjork, Lucinda Williams, Amiina). The Arcade Fire CD was okay. I never listened to the NIN one. I didn't care for the Beasties' instrumental one at all. I even tried Justice but it's not my bag.

This was my year for pleasant sounding music that's not remotely challenging I guess:

Wilco
Travis
Radiohead
Apples in Stereo
Sigur Ros (this will probably be my most-played CD of 2007 because I can write papers while I'm listening to it over and over)

I've really enjoyed the last 3 or so Lucinda Williams albums. Initially, I may have just bought into the hype a little, but she's actually a very consistent artist.

I don't think I've really liked any Travis albums since The Man Who, though. And once I gave it a proper listen, the Arcade Fire album really started to grow on me. Took a little time, I guess, which usually doesn't work for me.

But I agree with you on the NIN/Beastie/Justice albums. Couldn't get into them. I tried. My attention span is really short these days. I need instant satisfaction. Which is probably why my favorite single of the year is still Umbrella....ella....ella...