THE REAL TOP 10 ALBUMS of 2007!!

INDIFFERENCE MAKER

here is the list of the top 10 albums of 2007, not a bunch of indie albums that were good that you will put away never to get out again, but the albums that you will be listening to this time next year.

1. In Rainbows--Radiohead
2. Magic--Bruce Sprinsteen
3. Sky Blue Sky--Wilco
4. Graduation--Kanye West
5. Kings of Leon--Because of The Times
6. Bright Eyes--Cassadaga
7. The National--Boxer
8. Foo Fighters--Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
9. NIN--Year Zero
10. Queens of the Stone Age--Era Vulgaris

boroff89

Sorry, but in my opinion, any list like this without Neon Bible is completely invalid.

Ledbetterman10

INDIFFERENCE MAKER wrote:

here is the list of the top 10 albums of 2007, not a bunch of indie albums that were good that you will put away never to get out again, but the albums that you will be listening to this time next year.

1. In Rainbows--Radiohead
2. Magic--Bruce Sprinsteen
3. Sky Blue Sky--Wilco
4. Graduation--Kanye West
5. Kings of Leon--Because of The Times
6. Bright Eyes--Cassadaga
7. The National--Boxer
8. Foo Fighters--Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
9. NIN--Year Zero
10. Queens of the Stone Age--Era Vulgaris

Kanye West is the cheesiest rapper ever

boroff89

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

Kanye West is the cheesiest rapper ever

Agreed. He's become the Radiohead of the hip hop world. No matter what he does, the critics will cream themselves over it.

EBowie

No Icky Thump? LMAO!

xSmackSoundx

boroff89 wrote:

Sorry, but in my opinion, any list like this without Neon Bible is completely invalid.

I'd just like to take another post to tell you that arcade fire suck.

harmless_little_f***

boroff89 wrote:

Sorry, but in my opinion, any list like this without Neon Bible is completely invalid.

Got there before me..

boroff89

xSmackSoundx wrote:

I'd just like to take another post to tell you that arcade fire suck.

You have the right to your opinion. But wow are you missing out. I wish you could ask the 35,000 or so people that rocked out to them in complete bliss at Coachella in 2005. I am sure it was even a bigger number when they played it this past year. Or the sold-out Shoreline Ampitheater here in the Bay Area earlier this year (18,000 people?), with the people far more into the Arcade Fire than I have ever seen a Shoreline crowd into Pearl Jam. Or any of the massive number of music critics who spend their entire lives listening to music and who have rated both Arcade Fire albums as among the very best of albums released in their respective years.

Pearl Jam has been my favorite band for 16 years now. The Beatles have been right there for my entire music listening life. I am now putting Arcade Fire in their company. That's how strongly they have inspired me. So maybe instead of saying they "suck," which is a really difficult case to make given the evidence, maybe you should just say that they aren't your thing. That's what I would say about Kings of Leon. I can't say they suck. But they aren't my thing.

keeponrockin

boroff89 wrote:

Sorry, but in my opinion, any list like this without Neon Bible is completely invalid.

+1

Icky Thump needs to be on this list as well.

Grungeblood

boroff89 wrote:

You have the right to your opinion. But wow are you missing out. I wish you could ask the 35,000 or so people that rocked out to them in complete bliss at Coachella in 2005. I am sure it was even a bigger number when they played it this past year. Or the sold-out Shoreline Ampitheater here in the Bay Area earlier this year (18,000 people?), with the people far more into the Arcade Fire than I have ever seen a Shoreline crowd into Pearl Jam. Or any of massive number of music critics who spend their entire lives listening to music and who have rated both Arcade Fire albums as among the very best of albums released in their respective years.

Pearl Jam has been my favorite band for 16 years now. The Beatles have been right there for my entire music listening life. I am now putting Arcade Fire in their company. That's how strongly they have inspired me. So maybe instead of saying they "suck," which is a really difficult case to make given the evidence, maybe you should just say that they aren't your thing. That's what I would say about Kings of Leon. I can't say they suck. But they aren't my thing.

I second that!

Benzor

boroff89 wrote:

You have the right to your opinion. But wow are you missing out. I wish you could ask the 35,000 or so people that rocked out to them in complete bliss at Coachella in 2005. I am sure it was even a bigger number when they played it this past year. Or the sold-out Shoreline Ampitheater here in the Bay Area earlier this year (18,000 people?), with the people far more into the Arcade Fire than I have ever seen a Shoreline crowd into Pearl Jam. Or any of the massive number of music critics who spend their entire lives listening to music and who have rated both Arcade Fire albums as among the very best of albums released in their respective years.

Pearl Jam has been my favorite band for 16 years now. The Beatles have been right there for my entire music listening life. I am now putting Arcade Fire in their company. That's how strongly they have inspired me. So maybe instead of saying they "suck," which is a really difficult case to make given the evidence, maybe you should just say that they aren't your thing. That's what I would say about Kings of Leon. I can't say they suck. But they aren't my thing.

great post. Arcade Fire have released the 2 best albums this decade for me. Amazing.

jsk175

boroff89 wrote:

Sorry, but in my opinion, any list like this without Neon Bible is completely invalid.

I have no idea what the hype about this band is, They are the flavor of the month and in another year people will be asking the Arcade Who???

harmless_little_f***

jsk175 wrote:

I have no idea what the hype about this band is, They are the flavor of the month and in another year people will be asking the Arcade Who???

They've been 'flavour of the month' since around 2005.

boroff89

jsk175 wrote:

I have no idea what the hype about this band is, They are the flavor of the month and in another year people will be asking the Arcade Who???

They are no flash in the pan. They will be around for a long, long time. As already stated, they have had this buzz around them for about 3 years now.

jsk175

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

They've been 'flavour of the month' since around 2005.

Whatever, who cares. Why dont you just start another post talking about how much you love Arcade fire. I just get sick of self riteous people going on and on about what's valid. Who cares that a bunch of people go to a Arcade Fire concert. A bunch of people go to see Hanna Montana and Brittany Spears, does that make them great? I dont think so. I just think its funny that the first reply to this post is that without the Arcade Fire this list isnt Valid. ha please come down off your pedistal and stop being so arrogant.

darthvedder88

Any list without Zeitgeist is a joke IMO.

boroff89

jsk175 wrote:

Whatever, who cares. Why dont you just start another post talking about how much you love Arcade fire. I just get sick of self riteous people going on and on about what's valid. Who cares that a bunch of people go to a Arcade Fire concert. A bunch of people go to see Hanna Montana and Brittany Spears, does that make them great? I dont think so. I just think its funny that the first reply to this post is that without the Arcade Fire this list isnt Valid. ha please come down off your pedistal and stop being so arrogant.

Wow. How to begin to address this one.

1. This top ten list was posted. I expect it was posted looking for responses to its contents. I responded. That is what a message board is (or what it is supposed to be). Please note that I began by post with "In my opinion. . ." I did not state it as fact. It was my opinion. And of course my opinion is going to be that the list is invalid if it does not include an album that I view as the best of the decade to this point.

2. From a certain perspective, yes, Britney Spears and Hanah Montana are great. I would call them great entertainers rather than great musicians, but they are great none the less. They create a powerful emotional response in their audiences. That is what greatness is all about. Arcade Fire are great musicians and great performers. If you set aside YOUR arrogant and all knowing perspective, set aside your blatant biases, and actually experienced an Arcade Fire show, you'd probably begin to see why. Why is it that a NEW great band can't exist? How exactly do you think popular bands come into being? They just drop from the sky with six hugely successful records? To call Arcade Fire a flavor of the month is ignorant bullshit. They have produced two of the best records of the decade and have established a devoted and passionate fanbase.

xSmackSoundx

boroff89 wrote:

You have the right to your opinion. But wow are you missing out. I wish you could ask the 35,000 or so people that rocked out to them in complete bliss at Coachella in 2005. I am sure it was even a bigger number when they played it this past year. Or the sold-out Shoreline Ampitheater here in the Bay Area earlier this year (18,000 people?), with the people far more into the Arcade Fire than I have ever seen a Shoreline crowd into Pearl Jam. Or any of the massive number of music critics who spend their entire lives listening to music and who have rated both Arcade Fire albums as among the very best of albums released in their respective years.

Pearl Jam has been my favorite band for 16 years now. The Beatles have been right there for my entire music listening life. I am now putting Arcade Fire in their company. That's how strongly they have inspired me. So maybe instead of saying they "suck," which is a really difficult case to make given the evidence, maybe you should just say that they aren't your thing. That's what I would say about Kings of Leon. I can't say they suck. But they aren't my thing.

I stand corrected... They aren't my thing... At a few points I really thought I was missing out and really wanted to like them... but it just comes down to that I hate them... I REALLY REALLY hate them.

itsevobaby

the inclusion of foo fighters on that list immediately tells me that said list is bollocks. mediocrity at it's grandest.

pjoasisrule

2 good songs on Neon Bible, the rest is filled with mediocrity. Bad vocals too.

brain of c

itsevobaby wrote:

the inclusion of foo fighters on that list immediately tells me that said list is bollocks. mediocrity at it's grandest.

i disagree.