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pearljam_addictionpearljam_addiction Posts: 668
edited December 2007 in Other Music
This thread IS here to compliment Boroff89's top5 thread, like me im sure there are many of you who have alot of favorite albums from this past year and picking 5 was excruitiating!. so list all of your favorites here !!


mine in No Particular Order!

Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
Kings Of Leon- Because Of the Times
Band Of Horses- Cease To Begin
Rogue Wave- Asleep At Heavens Gate
Bloc Party- A Weekend in The City
New Pornographers- Challengers
Feist- the Reminder
Dustin Kensrue- Please Come home
Eddie Vedder- Into The wild
Foo Fighters- Echoes, Silence, Patience, and grace
Interpol- Our Love to Admire
Manchester Orchestra- Like A Virgin Losing a Child
Kenna- Make Sure they see My Face
Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vol I & II
Coheed and Cambria- No world For Tommorrow
Silverchair- Young Modern
Smashing Pumpkins- Zeitgeist
Modest Mouse= We Were Dead Before The Ship Sank
Peter,Bjorn, And John- Writers Block
Minus The Bear- Planet Of Ice
The Noisettes- Whats the Time Mr Wolf
Circa Survive- On Letting GO
Soundtrack- Once
Black Rebel Motorcyle Club- Baby 81
Bright Eyes- Casadaga
"I Will Scream my Lungs out 'til it fills this Room "

" I Will Feel Alive as Long as I am Free"

"Are We Getting SomeThing Out Of this All Encompassing Trip? Makes Much More Sense To Live In The Present Tense"

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  • Blind MelonBlind Melon Posts: 911
    Zomeguh.
    If I could, think I would give in.
  • soclosesoclose Posts: 628
    Roughly ordered from favorite of the year to just plain enjoyable:
    The National - Boxer
    Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
    Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
    Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
    Son Volt - The Search
    Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
    Dr. Dog - We All Belong
    The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
    Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
    Glossary - The Better Angels of Our Nature
    The Sadies - New Seasons
    Jason Isbell - Sirens of the Ditch
    The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
    Deadstring Brothers - Silver Mountain
    Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals

    Disappointments:
    Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger (I might still call this "good," but I can't quite get past the letdown)
    Tori Amos - American Doll Posse

    And there are still quite a few albums I need to catch up on.
  • Todd76Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    what a freaking amazing year for new music......here is my list (with some attempt at putting them in order - although it changes daily, with the exception of #1)

    1) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
    2) Feist - the Reminder
    3) Beirut - Flying Club Cup
    4) Radiohead - In Rainbows
    5) The National - Boxer
    6) Handsome Furs - Plague Park
    7) Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
    8) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
    9) Kevin Drew - Spirit If....
    10) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
    11) Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara
    12) Apostle Of Hustle - National Anthem Of Nowhere
    13) the New Pornographers - Challengers
    14) Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
    15) Interpol - Our Love To Admire
    16) Ween - La Cucaracha
    17) Dinosaur jr. - Beyond
    18) Editors - An End Has A Start
    19) Menomena - Friend And Foe
    20) Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
    21) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
    22) Tegan and Sara - The Con
    23) Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up
    24) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
    25) Panda Bear - Person Pitch
    26) Metric - Grow Up And Blow Away
    27) Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room
    28) Tori Amos - American Doll Posse
    29) Frog Eyes - Tears Of The Valedictorian
    30) the Shins - Wincing the Night Away
    31) Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild
    32) Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
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  • Matt LukinMatt Lukin Posts: 647
    My epochal list of the Top 160 or so Albums of the Year should be done in a week or so, but I will say that "Boxer" is without a doubt the best album of the year, by far.
    The car's on fire and there's no driver at the wheel
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  • Obi OnceObi Once Posts: 918
    Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare
    Interpol - Our Love To Admire
    Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
    Bloc Party- A Weekend in The City
    Editors - An End Has A Start
    your light's reflected now
  • restlesssoulrestlesssoul Posts: 6,951
    the new bloc party sucked.
    Van '98, Sea I+II '00, Sea '01, Sea II '02, Van '03, Gorge, Van, Cal, Edm '05, Bos I+II, Phi I+II, DC, SF II+III, Port, Gorge I+II '06, DC, NY I+II '08, Sea I+II, Van, Ridge , LA III+IV' 09, Indy '10, Cal, Van '11, Lond, Van, Sea '13, Memphis '14, RRHOF '17, Sea I+II '18, Van I+II, Vegas I+II '24
  • xSmackSoundxxSmackSoundx Posts: 479
    Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
    Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs
    The Shins - Wincing the night away
    Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
    The Killers - Sawdust
    The White Stripes - Icky Thump
    The Smashing Pumpkins - ZeitGeist
  • boroff89boroff89 Posts: 786
    Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
    Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
    The Shins- Wincing the Night Away
    Tegan and Sara- The Con
    The New Pornographers- Challengers
    Soulsavers- It's Not How Far You Fall. . . (ONLY 1 VOTE IN THE POLL)
    Radiohead- In Rainbows
    Nine Inch Nails- Year Zero
    Spoon- Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
    Eddie Vedder- Into the Wild
    Foo Fighters- Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace
    The National- Boxer
    Wilco- Sky Blue Sky
    Peter, Bjorn, and John- Writers Block (NOT ONE VOTE IN THE POLL!)
    Robert Plant & Alison Krauss- Raising Sand


    I honestly cannot fathom how anyone with functioning ears could put Zeitgeist on their list. I love the Pumpkins. I loved Zwan. But Zeitgeist is a hollow shell of an album. There are two or three songs on there that keep it from being a complete piece of shit. However, that certainly isn't enough to list it as a top album of the year. I guess I feel like some people are forever stuck in a brief era of rock and continue to adore anything that comes from the bands of that era, even when the music just doesn't measure up.
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • soclosesoclose Posts: 628
    I forgot about Into the Wild! I should be ashamed of myself, posting on a Pearl Jam message board and all. Not a bad album for a soundtrack.

    And though I don't own a copy the Menomena album, I have heard and loved it. Must buy that one during my annual after Christmas music buying extravaganza (assuming I can justify it this year).
  • xSmackSoundxxSmackSoundx Posts: 479
    boroff89 wrote:


    I guess I feel like some people are forever stuck in a brief era of rock and continue to adore anything that comes from the bands of that era, even when the music just doesn't measure up.

    Nope, I only started listening to the smashing pumpkins around the time zeitgeist was released... I got Melancholy and infinite sadness first and liked it but didn't love it... then I got zeitgeist and instantly loved it. It was awesome songs like Tarantula, Doomsday Clock, and 7 Shades of Black. then I got Siamese Dream and thought it was good... but I think zeitgeist is my favorite out of those three... I don't get all the criticism.
  • boroff89boroff89 Posts: 786
    xSmackSoundx wrote:
    Nope, I only started listening to the smashing pumpkins around the time zeitgeist was released... I got Melancholy and infinite sadness first and liked it but didn't love it... then I got zeitgeist and instantly loved it. It was awesome songs like Tarantula, Doomsday Clock, and 7 Shades of Black. then I got Siamese Dream and thought it was good... but I think zeitgeist is my favorite out of those three... I don't get all the criticism.

    To hear what they were like early on and even toward the end of their first run, and then to hear the garbage filling up the album. . .it's incredibly sad. Tarantula is a mediorce song. Doomsday Clock and 7 Shades of Black completely blow.
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • Tek MoneyTek Money Posts: 642
    Todd76 wrote:
    what a freaking amazing year for new music......here is my list (with some attempt at putting them in order - although it changes daily, with the exception of #1)

    1) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
    2) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
    3) New Pornographers - Challengers
    4) Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
    5) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
    6) Handsome Furs - Plague Park
    7) The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
    8) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
    9) Calexico - Tool Box
    10) Menomena - Friend And Foe
    11) Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara
    12) Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
    13) Beirut - Flying Club Cupthe
    14) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
    15) Francois Virot - Tout Gache, Tout Perdu
    16) Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
    17) Frog Eyes - Tears Of The Valedictorian
    18) The National - Boxer
    19) Feist - the Reminder
    20) Son Volt - The Search
    21) Radiohead - In Rainbows
    22) Panda Bear - Person Pitch
    23) Joel Plaskett Emergency - Ashtray Rock
    24) Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars
    25) Tegan and Sara - The Con
    26) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
    27) Matthew Good - Hospital Music
    28) The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
    29) Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
    30) Ween - La Cucaracha
    31) Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!
    32) Wintersleep - Welcome to the Night Sky
    33) Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
    34) Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
    35) The Secret Sessions - Tribute to the Rheostatics



    There. Fixed.

    I loved this year for music.
    Cock Fight.
  • stateoflove79stateoflove79 Posts: 2,845
    I honestly cannot fathom how anyone with functioning ears could put Zeitgeist on their list. I love the Pumpkins. I loved Zwan. But Zeitgeist is a hollow shell of an album. There are two or three songs on there that keep it from being a complete piece of shit. However, that certainly isn't enough to list it as a top album of the year. I guess I feel like some people are forever stuck in a brief era of rock and continue to adore anything that comes from the bands of that era, even when the music just doesn't measure up.[/quote]

    Zeitgeist, compared to the Pumpkins earlier stuff, does not measure up...I agree. But as I said in another thread, it is much better than 90% of the stuff out there today, and still is a decent album.
    Is it so wrong to think that love can keep us safe?
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    xSmackSoundx wrote:
    Nope, I only started listening to the smashing pumpkins around the time zeitgeist was released... I got Melancholy and infinite sadness first and liked it but didn't love it... then I got zeitgeist and instantly loved it. It was awesome songs like Tarantula, Doomsday Clock, and 7 Shades of Black. then I got Siamese Dream and thought it was good... but I think zeitgeist is my favorite out of those three... I don't get all the criticism.
    We are all entitled to opinions :) so long as that opinion is not that any album other than Siamese Dream is their best because it clearly, plainly, unequivically is :D
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • KatzenjammerKatzenjammer Posts: 57
    Todd76 wrote:
    what a freaking amazing year for new music......here is my list (with some attempt at putting them in order - although it changes daily, with the exception of #1)

    1) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
    2) Feist - the Reminder
    3) Beirut - Flying Club Cup
    4) Radiohead - In Rainbows
    5) The National - Boxer
    6) Handsome Furs - Plague Park
    7) Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
    8) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
    9) Kevin Drew - Spirit If....
    10) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
    11) Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara
    12) Apostle Of Hustle - National Anthem Of Nowhere
    13) the New Pornographers - Challengers
    14) Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
    15) Interpol - Our Love To Admire
    16) Ween - La Cucaracha
    17) Dinosaur jr. - Beyond
    18) Editors - An End Has A Start
    19) Menomena - Friend And Foe
    20) Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
    21) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
    22) Tegan and Sara - The Con
    23) Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up
    24) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
    25) Panda Bear - Person Pitch
    26) Metric - Grow Up And Blow Away
    27) Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room
    28) Tori Amos - American Doll Posse
    29) Frog Eyes - Tears Of The Valedictorian
    30) the Shins - Wincing the Night Away
    31) Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild
    32) Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger


    So is this the thread where we list every album we heard this year?
  • Tek MoneyTek Money Posts: 642
    Katzenjammer wrote:
    So is this the thread where we list every album we heard this year?

    Oh, I have listened to a lot more albums than that (that have come out this year). We are only doing what the thread has asked us to do.
    Cock Fight.
  • pjfan31pjfan31 Posts: 7,335
    Todd76 wrote:
    what a freaking amazing year for new music......here is my list (with some attempt at putting them in order - although it changes daily, with the exception of #1)

    1) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
    2) Feist - the Reminder
    3) Beirut - Flying Club Cup
    4) Radiohead - In Rainbows
    5) The National - Boxer
    6) Handsome Furs - Plague Park
    7) Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
    8) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
    9) Kevin Drew - Spirit If....
    10) Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
    11) Great Lake Swimmers - Ongiara
    12) Apostle Of Hustle - National Anthem Of Nowhere
    13) the New Pornographers - Challengers
    14) Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
    15) Interpol - Our Love To Admire
    16) Ween - La Cucaracha
    17) Dinosaur jr. - Beyond
    18) Editors - An End Has A Start
    19) Menomena - Friend And Foe
    20) Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
    21) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
    22) Tegan and Sara - The Con
    23) Julie Doiron - Woke Myself Up
    24) Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
    25) Panda Bear - Person Pitch
    26) Metric - Grow Up And Blow Away
    27) Sonic Youth - The Destroyed Room
    28) Tori Amos - American Doll Posse
    29) Frog Eyes - Tears Of The Valedictorian
    30) the Shins - Wincing the Night Away
    31) Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild
    32) Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger


    Geez, i think uve named em all.... For me, eddie and fooies, i dont buy cds anymore, gotta save my money :(
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  • boroff89boroff89 Posts: 786
    stateoflove79 wrote:
    Zeitgeist, compared to the Pumpkins earlier stuff, does not measure up...I agree. But as I said in another thread, it is much better than 90% of the stuff out there today, and still is a decent album.

    "90% of the stuff out there" means what exactly? Out of the albums I have listened to this year (which is quite a few), the only album I would rank lower than Zeitgeist is Chris Cornell's (another artist I absolutely love who produced a piece of shit this year). I could probably run off a list of 75 albums before I even began to think about naming Zeitgeist.
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
    radiohead - in rainbows
    arcade fire - neon bible
    kevin drew - spirit if...
    bright eyes - cassadaga
    eddie vedder - into the wild
  • stateoflove79stateoflove79 Posts: 2,845
    boroff89 wrote:
    "90% of the stuff out there" means what exactly? Out of the albums I have listened to this year (which is quite a few), the only album I would rank lower than Zeitgeist is Chris Cornell's (another artist I absolutely love who produced a piece of shit this year). I could probably run off a list of 75 albums before I even began to think about naming Zeitgeist.

    No, I just mean 90% of the music in general. Zeitgeist is not the best Pumpkins record by a longshot, but I would rather listen to it than most other bullshit out there is what I meant.
    Is it so wrong to think that love can keep us safe?
  • deadmosquitodeadmosquito Posts: 729
    band of horses - cease to begin
    ben harper - lifeline
    emerson hart - cigarettes and gasoline (seriously underrated - great pop/rock cd from the singer of tonic)
    foo fighters - echoes, silence, patience, and grace
    the fox hunt - nowhere bound (note: these guys are friends of mine, but they play really cool bluegrass-inspired music so i'll shamelessly plug them here: http://www.myspace.com/lefoxhunt )
    jason isbell - sirens of the ditch
    kings of leon - because of the times
    lucinda williams - west
    modest mouse - we were dead before the ship even sank
    radiohead - in rainbows
    ryan adams - easy tiger
    son volt - the search
    wilco - sky blue sky
  • pearljam_addictionpearljam_addiction Posts: 668
    boroff89 wrote:
    Peter, Bjorn, and John- Writers Block (NOT ONE VOTE IN THE POLL!)



    .


    hahha that is funny , i love their album, but when picking a top five like in your poll, i just couldnt put it in
    "I Will Scream my Lungs out 'til it fills this Room "

    " I Will Feel Alive as Long as I am Free"

    "Are We Getting SomeThing Out Of this All Encompassing Trip? Makes Much More Sense To Live In The Present Tense"

    www.myspace.com/ehoff12982
  • Larry ZisstansLarry Zisstans Posts: 167
    a few favorites--
    tom morello-nightwatchman
    dinosaur jr.-beyond
    warlocks-heavy deavy skull lover
    vietnam-vietnam
    babyshambles-shotter's nation
    black rebel motorcycle club-baby 81

    peace,
    lz
    The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever. Because this is just a ride." And we...kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok? But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.
    --Bill Hicks
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