Albums of the year

[RTSDaddy2]

Because I'm horribly curious,  as we near the end of the year, I'd like to get your thoughts on album of the year for 2007.  Given time, I may try and create a poll later based on some of the responses to make it a little easier to cast one's vote.

My rules:  It can be any genre of music, but must have been released between December 1, 2006 and December 31, 2007.  Yeah, that's a little over a year, but who cares.

I'll throw out two myself to start things:

Kelly Willis - Translated From Love: after two albums of some of the most god awful ballads known to man, the girl has returned to EXCELLENT form. Period. If you've never heard her and can't find a copy of "Well Travelled Love" or "Bang Bang", THIS is the Willis album to start with.

Aimee Mann - Another Drifter In The Snow: Who KNEW the former lead singer of 'Til Tuesday could pull off a Christmas album?  Not me - yet it contains marvelous tracks, the highlight of which HAS to be her cover of "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch." Perfection and a brilliant display of how to do a cover.  So good it should be used in music classes for just that purpose, and a crying shame they didn't tag her to do the movie version.   "I'll Be Home For Christmas" is also a great one.

[AtomSmasher]

I prefer classic rock, which is why I enjoyed Tesla's new album Real to Reel which was made up of modern versions of classic songs from the 60's and 70's.

[shmokes]

A year ago I'd have been all over this, but I dropped out of the music scene over the past year.  I've just been too damned busy.  Add to that the demise of AllofMP3 and I just haven't kept up.  We got a new Modest Mouse album, which was really good, but not as great as their previous effort.  I'll say Radiohead - In Rainbows, even though I've yet to listen to it, just because of the novelty of releasing it on a pay-however-much-you'd-like basis.  And the critics all say it's a rather great Radiohead album, so I'm sure it's at least decent. 

Last year, though, Yeah Yeah Yeah's gave us Show Your Bones, which I think is the most brilliant album to come from anywhere since The Strokes released Is This It?

[Pops]

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Historic Conquests Of.. - Josh Ritter
Easy Tiger - Ryan Adams
Icky Thump - White stripes

All in all a good year for music...

[danny_galaga]

i've bought a few albums this year, but mostly old ones. last week i bought james brown- in the jungle groove for instance. did buy a pretty cool new album by a uk group called archie bronson outfit- derdangderdang. they have a very frenetic sound.