Thousand Foot Krutch - The Flame in All of Us.

 

I didn't buy many new CDs this year, and the ones I did buy were pretty disappointing. I guess I'll go with the latest Avenged Sevenfold album since there's a couple songs I dig on it.

 

Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works

 

Bloc Party - Weekend in the City

Apart from that 2007's been a pretty disappointing year - lots of fave bands turning out completely crap albums (Within Temptation & Jimmy Eat World, I'm looking at you).

That was out in 2006.

 

The new Jimmy Eat World was cracking! Much better than Futures.

 

QUOTED AND LIMED FOR TRUFE! Not to mention Dethklok throwing the awesomest concert I've ever been to in my life. As an old-skool metalhead, that's saying something.

Oh, and non-metal, has to be the Transformers Score CD. Only CD to come out this year aside from the Dethalbum to get much time in the player for me.

 

I couldn't get into it.   That said, Futures had a couple of stand-out songs but kind of fizzled out toward the end...

 

1. Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"
2. Arcade Fire "Neon Bible"
3. Radiohead "In Rainbows"
4. Spoon "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"
5. The National "The Boxer"
6. Feist "The Reminder"
7. Andrew Bird "Armchair Apocrypha"
8. PJ Harvey "White Chalk"
9. The Arctic Monkeys "Favorite Worst Nightmare"
10. Josh Ritter "The Historical Conquest of Josh Ritter"

and the "I'm Not There" soundtrack for best various artist compilation.

 

Mine's the new Foo. I hear the complaints that it sounds like their old stuff, but I heard a great style I've loved for years just perfected.

I'll give an honorable mention to "Icky Thump" also.

I'm not sure if I'm getting old or if I'm too busy to stay up on music like I used to, but I don't hear much new stuff stuff that I really dig. The Killers are the only band I've heard come out since 2000 that I think I'll be into come 2010.

 

You guys all suck.

"The Else" by They Might Be Giants is the correct answer.

 

I was just about to post that that, tied with Dethklok's album is my fav album this year.

So do I just sorta suck?

 

I only have one Album of the Year.
It's by Faith No More.

All these other guys must be copycats.

 

Damn straight skippy !

Allow me to add:

Tomahawk - Anonymous

Peeping Tom (self titled)

......... 

 

Yes. Do not mess with a formula that works!  

Once you mess with it, weird assed crap comes out.

Pop and Zooropa for U2 anyone?  

 

First
Nightwish ~ Dark Passion Play

Second
Stone Sour ~ Come Whatever May

 

I would rather pick the lesser of two evils, given as Black Lab's singer puts no enthusiasm or emotion whatsoever into his singing the tweaked version of The Transformers[:The Movie] theme. Whatever it he calls himself doing, he should've been arrested for "battery and assult on the ears." At least Mutemath puts some kind of melody, emotion, and enthusiasm into their version.

 

That's enthusiasm? Honestly, neither of those performances impressed me on a vocal level at all. Both were the standard, straight-up, modernized, "I really can't be bothered to take a full breath before singing" type vocals that just drive me nuts.

 

Best Album of 2k7:

Sick Puppies- Dressed Up As Life


Other Favorites:

finger eleven- Them vs. Me vs. You
12stones- Anthem For The Underdog
Falling Up- Captiva
Anberlin- Cities
gym class heroes- As Cruel As School Children
Steve Jablonksi- Transformers The Score
Hans Zimmer- Pirates of the Caribbean At Worlds End
Martin O'Donnell- Halo 3 Score

Linkin Parks new CD sucked. Nothing I hate more than jumping on the political bandwagon to sell out for air time. I never did like the White Stripes either. Bland and lackluster IMO.

 

I'm somewhat surprised I'll be the first to post this choice.

Silverchair-Young Modern

 

Surprisingly...Bon Jovi, "Lost Highway"

Of course, I didn't buy much this year.