Best Album Of 2007

Originally Posted by stann

I, on the other hand, am going for the correct answer, which is LCD Soundsystem.
Someone Great - love this, it uses an instrumental from their previous album.

Brilliant album , You can't get much better for three consective tracks on an album than North American Scum , Someone Great and All My Friends

Originally Posted by superfrank

Simple.

Overpowered by Roisin Murphy. It's one of the best dance albums in the last few years. Love it.

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.

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!

Originally Posted by stann

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.

I thought you listened to a fair bit of hip-hop?

Surely you'd be desensitised to the sound by now.

Originally Posted by stann

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.

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

Great album is right though, shame she retired

Because Of The Times and Magic

Originally Posted by Rovers1

Because Of The Times and Magic

which one though?

Originally Posted by superfrank

I thought you listened to a fair bit of hip-hop?

Surely you'd be desensitised to the sound by now.

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.
Shocking is the wrong word too, just that it still makes me jump just a fraction.
That's a good story too jebus, whether it is or it isn't true.

Originally Posted by stann

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

Originally Posted by jebus

which one though?

sorry 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.

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.