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[thepeel]

What 3 albums did you enjoy the most this year?

My list:

1) Neon Bible, Arcade Fire
2) Raising Sand, Robert Plant And Alison Krauss.
3) Night Falls Over Kortedala, Jens Lekman

[The_Eyeball_Kid]

Maths & English - Dizzee Rascal
Comicopera - Robert Wyatt
Orphans - Tom Waits

[thepeel]

Ahh, Comicopera. Yeah.. Maybe that's my #3..

[twg]

I bought a pile of CDs in 2007

The only one that was released in 2007 was D-Sides by Gorillaz. Which was pretty good if you happen to like them. Which I do so it worked out wonderfully for me.

I downloaded Grinderman's CD, which was also pretty entertaining in a very noisy sort of way.

Other than that, all of the interesting songs I heard in 2007 were on CDs that came out in 2006.

[Jeju Rocks]

Feel My Fist -- Angry Generation
Vines On the Tomb -- Garden Lore

[VanIslander]

Eyes Open by Snow Patrol

The album came out in '06 but several singles were released this year including one for Spiderman 3
(and yet I discovered this band through a single in a KB bank Korean t.v. commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajy0w1XPJk8 )

Beauty and Crimes by Suzanne Vega

I might be the only one in South Korea to have her new c.d. but at least a few hundred of you are missing out, her sound has advanced, and I'd say this is her best to date overall, though not in terms of hits. Solid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztt8mJpowbM

From the Plantation to the Penitentiary by Wynton Marsalis

Jazz all over but in the right place with the soaring voice of Jennifer Sanon. Give it ten minutes and it'll steal your heart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imzzWZG0HW8

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Modest Mouse -- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

El-P -- I'll Sleep When You're Dead

LCD Soundsystem -- Sound of Silver

Arcade Fire -- Neon Bible

Radiohead -- In Rainbows

Honorable mention: The PK 27 -- A Work in Progress (Google it)

[thepeel]

El-P. I'm listening to it right now at the suggestion of a friend. I see that metacritic rates it really highly but I'm just not feeling it. Modest Mouse is excellent though.

[karma police]

a place to bury strangers



to fix the gash in your head

[SHANE02]

Into The Wild OST

[karma police]

year zero - nine inch nails



the beginning of the end

you'll see us on the belltower,
you'll spot us on the knoll,
you can brand us extremists,
and that's all you'll ever know,

you can order from your oval,
you can drink from your white tower,
you can ignore the voices of the people,
we wish you could stand a little taller.

worn down and wearing suits,
we're finally growing up,
like a wound that starts to fester,
the end is coming soon,

we're going to get your attention,
by any means we can,
hold this lighter to the cloth,
maybe then you'll understand,

yeah, it's the beginning,
and you'll find yourself rewound,
as you dangle by your necktie,
just stories from the ground.

how's this for social insecurity?
as your consensus dwindles,
like the embers of the fire,
we will be there...

[low-ting]

A few of my picks of 2007 -

The Flying Club Cup by Beirut - my pick of 2007. great melody from a great emerging talent

Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever by The Cribs - a great indie band from the UK

The Crane Wife by The Decemberists - excellent acousticy folky stuff

Think Before You Speak by Good Shoes - my brothers band, check them out

Because Of The Times by Kings Of Leon - more of the same rock n roll

Myths Of The Near Future by Klaxons - mercury music prize winner in the UK

Sound Of Silver by LCD Soundsystem - great dance album

Kala by MIA - incredible experimental sound

Colour It In by The Maccabees - my favourite band at the moment

[ernie]

i think it was released in 2006 but i listened to it mainly in 2007:

blood brothers - young machetes

[rumdiary]

V/A-Roots of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru
The Black Angels-Passover
Two Gallants-Two Gallants
Radiohead-In Rainbows

[bruz]

low-ting - please tell your brother to bring the band over here. Bout time he visited you isnt it?