Okay, it's time for my top 10 albums of 2007.
Since
last year's journal, I decided to take note of every album released in 2007 that I gave at least one spin. Turns out I ended up listening to a total of
270 albums (!), thus making the choice kind of difficult, especially considering the vastness of different music genres comprised on that list [/end of bragging stance]. :P
Actually, I had already defined nearly all the albums of my top 10 around October, but after seeing some
websites and
forum threads, I had to change it a bit due to some pleasant surprises.
This year I resolved to make an overall chart besides the metal, non-metal, debut and live ones. Also, due to
the high number of shows that happened here last year, I was able to make a top 10 out of those. ;D
Anyway, here it goes:
Overall
1. Machine Head - The Blackening
2. Sick Puppies - Dressed Up As Life
3. The Absence - Riders Of The Plague
4. Christian Scott - Anthem
5. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
6. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
7. Arsonists Get All The Girls - The Game Of Life
8. Bajofondo - Mar Dulce
9. Monstrosity - Spiritual Apocalypse
10. Radiohead - In Rainbows
Metal/Non-debut
1. Machine Head - The Blackening
2. The Absence - Riders Of The Plague
3. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
4. Arsonists Get All The Girls - The Game Of Life
5. Monstrosity - Spiritual Apocalypse
6. Alter Bridge - Blackbird
7. Between the Buried and Me - COLORS
8. Baroness - Red Album
9. Fear My Thoughts - Vulcanus
10. John Macaluso & Union Radio - The Radio Waves Goodbye
Honorable mention(s):
3 - The End Is Begun
Abigor - Fractal Possession
Alchemist - Tripsis
Becoming the Archetype - The Physics Of Fire
Behemoth - Apostasy
Carnal Forge - Testify For My Victims
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
Deadlock - Wolves
Down - Over The Under
HORSE the band - A Natural Death
Ion Dissonance - Minus The Herd
Korn - Untitled
Marduk - Rom 5:12
Mechanical Poet - Creepy Tales For Freaky Children
Ministry - The Last Sucker
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
Oceansize - Frames
Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
Pelican - City of Echoes
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
Rotting Christ - Teogonia
Sevendust - Alpha
Sieges Even - Paramount
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
Soilwork - Sworn To A Great Divide
Stuck Mojo - Southern Born Killers
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
The Ocean - Precambrian
The Vision Bleak - The Wolves Go Hunt Their Prey
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Biggest disappointment(s):
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Dr. Sin - Bravo
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Mayhem - Ordo Ab Chao
Megadeth - United Abominations
Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain
Non-metal/Non-debut
1. Sick Puppies - Dressed Up As Life
2. Christian Scott - Anthem
3. Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
4. Bajofondo - Mar Dulce
5. Radiohead - In Rainbows
6. The Pax Cecilia - Blessed Are The Bonds
7. The Budos Band - The Budos Band II
8. The John Butler Trio - Grand National
9. Marcus Miller - Free
10. Rush - Snakes & Arrows
Honorable mention(s):
Agua de Annique - Air
Battles - Mirrored
Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up
Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Burial - Untrue
Chick Corea and Bela Fleck - The Enchantment
Chico César - De Uns Tempos Pra Cá
Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
DJ Spooky - System Error (Al Yamamah Mix)
Dungen - Tio Bitar
Explosions in the Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Fair to Midland - Fables From A Mayfly What I Tell You Three Times Is True
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Hiromi - Time Control
Hooverphonic - The President Of The LSD Golf Club
José González - In Our Nature
Magic Pie - Circus Of Life
Matthew Herbert - Score
Pink Freud - Punk Freud
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust
Scorpions - Humanity: Hour I
Secret Chiefs 3 - Path Of Most Resistance
Shannon Wright - Let In The Light
Tango Siempre - Tangents
The Brian Setzer Orchestra - Wolfgangs Big Night Out
The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
The Moon and the Nightspirit - Rego Rejtem
Tin Hat - The Sad Machinery Of Spring
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
Umphrey's McGee - The Bottom Half
Vanessa Carlton - Heroes And Thieves
Biggest disappointment(s):
Ephel Duath - Pain Remixes To Known
Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight
The Flower Kings - The Sum Of No Evil
Debut
1. Falling To Pieces - Left To Rust
2. Blotted Science - The Machinations Of Dementia
3. Puscifer - V Is For Vagina
4. NOMAK - Calm
5. Division by Zero - Tyranny Of Therapy
6. In Vain - The Latter Rain
7. Lost In The Fire - Lost In The Fire
8. Divine Heresy - Bleed The Fifth
9. Hellyeah - Hellyeah
10. Dethklok - Dethalbum
Honorable mention(s):
Empyrios - ...And The Rest Is Silence
The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution
War From a Harlots Mouth - Transmetropolitan
Live (including DVDA)
1. Kataklysm - Live In Deutschland: The Devastation Begins
2. Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds - Live At Radio City
3. Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
4. Andromeda - Playing Off The Board
5. Os Mutantes - Live At The Barbican
6. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Live At Montreux 1984 And 1974
7. Weather Report - Live At Montreux 1976
8. Queen - Rock Montreal
9. The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur Live At The Barbican
10. Katatonia - Live Consternation
Honorable mention(s):
Amazing Journey - One Night In New York City
Amy Winehouse - I Told You I Was Trouble
Blackmore's Night - Paris Moon
Caetano Veloso - Cê Ao Vivo
Dave Matthews Band - Live At Piedmont Park
Heaven & Hell - Live Radio City Music Hall
Laura - (Re)capitulate
Quo Vadis - Live In Montreal
Paulinho da Viola - Acústico MTV (MTV Unplugged)
Scorpions - Live at Wacken Open Air 2006
The Gathering - A Noise Severe
The John Butler Trio - Live at Federation Square
The John Butler Trio - Live at Twist & Shout
Yes - Live At Montreux 2003
Biggest disappointment(s):
Chico Buarque - Carioca Ao Vivo
Korn - UNplugged
Jorn - Live In America
Concerts
1. Living Colour
2. José González
3. Testament
4. Gotan Project
5. Béla Fleck And The Flecktones
6. Arch Enemy
7. Madeleine Peyroux
8. Toquinho
9. Blind Guardian
10. Steve Vai
Biggest disappointment(s):
Gorgoroth And Belphegor
Chico César
This Ain't A Love Song - Bon Jovi - from the album These Days
