What are your favorite albums of 2007?

[mvd]

I'm just stopping by to post mine and check out your lists. I'm not sure when I'll be back in full posting mode. There are quite a few albums I haven't heard yet (like the new Wussy, Nicole Atkins, and Veronicas, and Peter Bjorn & John,) so my list could be different if I made it later on. There were many close calls - and not much separating some honorable mentions from my top 20, and I could be forgetting some, but I'm going with this:

My Top 20:

* denotes album of the year

The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
The Pierces - 13 Tales Of Love And Revenge
Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Men
Patty Griffin - Children Running Through
Brandi Carlile - The Story
Youth Group - Casino Twilight Dogs
Mandy Moore - Wild Hope
New Pornographers - Challengers
Kate Voegele - Don't Look Away
Vanessa Carlton - Heroes & Thieves
Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter
Cindy Alexander - Wobble With The World
The Clientele - God Save The Clientele
The Dollyrots - Because I'm Awesome
A Fine Frenzy - One Cell In The Sea
*Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight
Trisha Yearwood - Heaven, Heartache, And The Power Of Love
Zolof The Rock And Roll Destroyer - Schematics
The National - Boxer

Honorable mentions:

Sadies - New Seasons
Brittney Elizabeth - Breathe In
Little Big Town - A Place To Land
Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It
Kyle Lardner - Sail Among the Stars
Imperial Teen - The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band
Chantal Kreviazuk - Ghost Stories
Aly & AJ - Insomniatic
Tori Amos - American Doll Posse
Rooney - Calling The World
Against Me! - New Wave
Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
They Might Be Giants - The Else
Tiffany - Just Me
Lynn Carey Saylor - You Like It Clean
Tegan And Sara - The Con
Chantal Kreviazuk - Ghost Stories
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The High Strung - Get The Guests
The Postmarks - self-titled
Jesse Malin, Glitter in the Gutter
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Suzanne Vega - Beauty And Crime
Shannon Moore - Evaporate
The Fratellis - Costello Music
Fountains Of Wayne - Traffic & Weather
The Donnas - Bitchin'
Adrienne Pierce - Faultline
Lavender Diamond - Imagine Our Love
The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution
Dean & Britta - Back Numbers
The Affair - Yes Yes To You
Mary Chapin Carpenter - The Calling
Alicia Keys - As I Am
KT Tunstall - Drastic Fantastic
Jesca Hoop - Kismet
Mary May - Lock The Door
Angie Mattson - Given to Sudden Panic and Noisy Retreat
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Ben Lee - Ripe
Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers
Miranda Lambert - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Kelly Clarkson - My December
Paramore - RIOT!
Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade
Travis - The Boy With No Name
Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light

[XemaSab]

1. I seem to be the only person who thought the new Modest Mouse was teh awesome

:shrug:

[mvd]

2. It's been listed before

Unique album but not my thing. :hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

13. Hey, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. okay

1 Avett Brothers- Emotionalism
2 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss- Raising Sand
3 Wilco- Sky Blue Sky
4 Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals- Lifeline
5 Iron & Wine- The Shepherd's Dog
6 Amy Winehouse- Back to Back
7 Steep Canyon Rangers - Lovin' Pretty Women
8 Band of Horses- Cease to Begin
9 Amy LaVere- Anchors & Anvils
10 Gov't Mule- Mighty High

[redqueen]

4. Thom Yorke - The Eraser

that is all :)

errr... at lesat till I can afford to get the latest Sunset Rubdown! :D

[Parche]

5. kelly clarkson

makes me :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

:hi:

[some guy]

6. Favorites?

I suppose these, since they're the 2007 releases I bought.

Alison Krauss: A Hundred Miles Or More
Annie Lennox: Songs of Mass Destruction
Bruce Springsteen: Magic
joni Mitchell: Shine
Lucinda Williams: West
Mark Knopfler: Kill To get Crimson
Prince: Planet Earth
Tori Amos: American Doll Posse

My top 8 faves :P

[Initech]

7. My top 20:

In reverse order:

Manu Chao - La Radiolina
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Puscifer - V Is For Vagina
Dave Gahan - Hourglass
Serj Tankain - Elect The Dead
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Chris Cornell - Carry On
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise & Liberation Of NiggyTardust!
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta!
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero*

* - album of the year

Honorable mentions:

Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
Ween - La Cucuracha
Tomahawk - Anonymous

[mvd]

8. How does the Ween stack up against their other stuff?

I'm new to that group but like some of what I've heard.

[Initech]

9. I don't know, I'm new to Ween also.

I like it a lot though. Great album.

[mvd]

10. Thanks, and I already remember one I left off

Alexa Wilkinson's Lullabye Appetite would at least be an HM.

[Initech]

11. A couple I remembered as well, also HMs:

Wu Tang Clan - 8 Diagrams
Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

[NightWatcher]

12. In Rainbows is the easy #1 answer for me

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Shit, good question.

I've hardly given that any thought, but here are probably my top ten in alphabetical order.

Against Me! - "New Wave"
Arctic Monkeys - "Favourite Worst Nightmare"
Arcade Fire - "Neon Bible"
Bloc Party - "A Weekend In The City"
Bright Eyes - "Cassadaga"
El-P - "I'll Sleep When You're Dead"
Explosions in the Sky - "All of a Sudden I miss Everyone"
Minus the Bear - "Planet of Ice"
Pelican - "City of Echoes"
Radiohead - In Rainbows"

[PVnRT]

15. I put this in my blog a week ago, oddly enough

Click: The Atomic Penguin

[Bryan]

16. I'll narrow it to ten

Crowded House, Time on Earth
Rufus Wainwright, Release the Stars
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, 100 Days, 100 Nights
The Go! Team, Proof of Youth
The Good, the Bad, and the Queen, self-titled
Grinderman, self-titled
Lucinda Williams, West
Of Montreal, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver
Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Honorable mention to the Pipettes' album, which finally came out in the US this year.