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Arctic Monkeys are streets ahead in 2006 so I guess it's time for the next Best Of poll, here are the picks, usual deal if you're voting Other
Radiohead - House Of Cards - In Rainbows
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go - Neon Bible
M.I.A. - Paper Planes - Kala
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends - Sound Of Silver
Battles - Tonto - Mirrored
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues - Grinderman
The National - Mistaken For Strangers - Boxer
Feist - 1,2,3,4 - The Reminder
Arctic Monkeys - Flourescent Adolescent - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Toss up between LCD Soundsystem and the National for me this year, not sure which way I'll wait yet though. Feist and Radiohead are the frontrunners behind them for me too
The Manic's Send Away The Tigers, proper return to what they do best.
Simple.
Overpowered by Roisin Murphy. It's one of the best dance albums in the last few years. Love it.
Neon Bible was another good one. Eh...that's it from 2007 really.
EDIT: What's up with the Arcade Fire video?
It's playing for me :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
Ah yeah, it plays. It's just the video is "Rebellion".
oopsie must have picked the wrong one, I'll get it sorted nowQuote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
Edit: Hang on, no it isn't, it's the No Cars Go video :confused:
Arcade Fire for me. Even better than their first album IMO!
Some really good albums in 2007
Gonna go with :
Frank Turner - Sleep Is For the Weak.
Other great albums that year:
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Delorentos - In Love With Detail
Editors - End Has A Start
Foo Fighters - Echoes,Silence,Patience & Grace
Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers
Cathy Davey - Tales Of Silversleeve
Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly - Angry Mob
At the moment it's a 6 way tie :eek::p
Voted for Other and my vote goes to:
Raising Sand - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Hounorable mentions to Because of the Times - Kings of Leon & Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Yeah Robert Plant and Alison Krauss or Kings of Leon for me.
Just curious but how come Kings or Leon are not in the list and what is the criteria. Just out of interested.
I look up Metacritic, Rate Your Music, Mercury Music and that and generally pick 9 of the top rated albums for the year. Kings Of Leon's one was nowhere on those lists and I don't have it myself to query them being left out so they were left out of this list. Vote Other and just say Kings Of Leon get your vote though, it's what the option is there forQuote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
gonna have to go with Favourite Worst Nightmare with honourable mentions to Sound Of Silver , Thirst for Romance , Neon Bible , Because of the times and In Rainbows
Other - Kings Of Leon
which one is it for finally tallying later on too?Quote:
Originally Posted by NeilMcD
A few good ones this year alright. Arcade Fire, Battles and MIA all had sterling efforts.
MIA's in particular, though it's a real slow burner, takes a lot of getting into. Great choice of track from it too jebus. Am I the only one who still finds the gunshots in it a bit shocking? Maybe 'cos they sound so crisp and up close, and you have the ejector too. Still startles a bit. Probably just me. :)
Also you had:
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond. Like they were never away, "Almost Ready" from this one (not a vid, sorry).
Justice - +. Closest I could get to a cross! Real hit-and-miss, but the good bits really are rather good indeed. "DANCE" from this one.
Bishi - Nights At The Circus. Only heard of this fairly recently, but it's from 2007, must have been a bit of a push on it in recent times. It is a wonderful thing though. "Never Seen Your Face" from this one, that's the song she played on Jonathan Ross at the weekend.
Maybe with Radiohead and Arctic Monkeys involved Arcade Fire mightn't p!ss away with this one too, but I doubt it.
I, on the other hand, am going for the correct answer, which is LCD Soundsystem.
Someone Great - love this, was an instrumental on their previous album.
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Originally Posted by jebus
Fair enough, Just seemed strange as the other ones had been in he list but no problem as I was just curious.
Ok and going to vote for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
Brilliant album , You can't get much better for three consective tracks on an album than North American Scum , Someone Great and All My FriendsQuote:
Originally Posted by stann
Yeah I like that too, but I'm not even sure it's in the top 5 dance albums of 2007 not to mind the last few years! Some very good albums though in fairness: I've got LCD Soundsystem at the top of the pile though - partly to becalm Stann, partly cos I want to win, and partly cos it's simply great. But I equally could've gone for the albethem less well-known albums from The Young Punx, or Prins Thomas & Lindstrom - go on, click it. Then you had Justice and Digitalism, and MGMT and Outlines, or of course there's always the sumptuously beguiling stuff from The Field - you'll love this if you give it a chance. Great year actually. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
Outside of them, and those in poll, Pelle Carlberg and Tinariwen released fantastically fantastic albums too. Try them - then buy them. :)
I was so close to giving the nod to Pelle Carlberg, but it's got to be LCD Soundsystem.
MIA for me (an me alone, it appears), with honoured nods to Digitalism and Roisin Murphy coming close.
Other, Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge.
Another couple of good ones from that year not mentioned, The Fall - Reformation Post TLC. As well as Grinderman that year, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis also had the soundtrack to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Life In Cartoon Motion-Mika
Went for Radiohead eventually.
A few great releases in 07, though.
Arade Fire, Kings of Leon, Grinderman, Arctic Monkeys, Interpol, Bruce Springsteen, Manics.......all mentioned previously.
Honourable mentions to The Good, the bad and the Queen album and the Coral.
For me:
Battles - Mirrored
Holy F uck - LP
Kevin Drew - Spirit If
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
But In Rainbows was streets ahead of everything this year. I had expected it would win by a mile - more accessible than recent albums while still appealling to Radiohead fans, and it was free!:)
I thought you listened to a fair bit of hip-hop? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Surely you'd be desensitised to the sound by now.
I read somewhere that it was a way to get around her saying 'All I want to do is shoot an American', as the whole song is about her being initially barred from America for having a terrorist for a father. Not sure if it's true or not but I think it adds a lot to the track, as does the cash register sound :)Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
Great album is right though, shame she retired :(
Because Of The Times and Magic
which one though?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rovers1
No, it's not the fact that there is gunshots, it's the particular sound of them on this. Crisp, right up in the mix, 4 of them one after the other in relentless fashion, and then the ejector noise morphing into a cash register ring. It's quite brilliant.Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
Shocking is the wrong word too, just that it still makes me jump just a fraction. :D
That's a good story too jebus, whether it is or it isn't true. :)
That's what the song is about alright and that did happen to her, whether the gun shots were added for that reason is what is in doubt :)Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
sorry Jebus,Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
twould be BOTT for me,just by a goal-post, it blew me away straight away, is very hard, personally for me to pick between the two. :o
Albums that I really enjoyed in 2007 are
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times
The Wombats - A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation
The Cribs - Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever
The Pigeon Detectives - Wait For Me
The Maccabees - Colour It In
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
hard to pick one out of that, really enjoyed them all
The Cribs if i'm pushed
Went for In Rainbows over Black Francis' Bluefinger album which was more or less a concept album on Herman Brood.
Grinderman has some brilliant songs as well.
Couldn't decide between Common and Arcade Fire. Flipped a coin, Arcade Fire won.
Other albums this year:
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
The Ataris - Welcome The Night
Ash - Twilight Of The Innocents
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is
The Go! Team - Proof Of Youth
Kanye West - Graduation
The Hives - The Black And White Album
Common - Finding Forever
and for those of you who refuse to believe in Satan, the biggest worldwide selling album of the year was High School The Musical 2.
Proof positive IMO
Voted In Rainbows, just blew me away. Close second to Kings of Leon and Arcade fire.