Best of 2007
 

Standout songs of the year are?

For Me:

Rihanna- Umbrella/ Don't Stop The Music
Justin Timberlake- Sexy Back
Christina A- Ain't No other Man Remix
Nelly Furtado- Maneater

And Any Remix by Electro Rockerz

What is a good shop in Sydney to buy Imports other than HMV Pitt Street?

Are there no JB's in Sydney? (I'm from Melbourne)

Edit: There is! 500 George street. (city)

Frances is Aussie?

And yeah, in the city its near an Electronics Boutique.

Yup!

Queens of the Stone Age - I'm Designer
Kings of Leon - Fans
The Klaxons - Golden Skans

:)

Since when is SexyBack 2007 song?

More importantly, since when is Sexy Back a standout song?

Not sure about specific songs, but there are a ton of new records from great bands being released this year:

The Fall of Troy- Manipulator
HORSE the Band- A Natural Death
The Number Twelve Looks Like You- Mongrel
Between the Buried and Me- Colors
Bad Religion- New Maps of Hell

And I heard the new Dillinger Escape Plan record is supposed to be out sometime this fall.

Too bad all of the cds I've heard so far are good, but can't compare to past releases from the bands.

Yah, Apple has pretty terrible taste. :p: :band: No offense of course.

Um for me, pretty much anything from biffy clyro has been quite exciting.

Fightstar's free download 99(you and I).

The new stuff from Ash sounds good as well.

Hmm, so far it'd be out of:

The Shins - Phantom Limb and Turn On Me
The Twilight Sad - Walking For Two Hours
Travis - Battleships and My Eyes

The best 3 albums out this year so far for Frances.

Tori Amos - American Girl Posse
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
The White Stripes - Icky Thump

Grinderman is really the only stand-out thing I've heard so far this year. There were a couple other new releases that caught my eye but that I didn't follow up (Throbbing Gristle maybe?) so if anyone has any recommendations I'd be happy to take them.

If the second half is like the first, we'll be doing great.

Modest mouse was great
White Stripes were great
QotSA came out with 2 or 3 decent songs
I think Beale Street to Oblivion came out this year and that was solid

Just got that one of Saturday. From the reviews I had read I was expecting a faster, more aggressive album, but it does seem pretty good. It may take a while for me to fully digest by that's how I am with Nick Cave in general. He's one of my favorite musicians but I don't generally fall in love with his albums on the first listen.

A couple other strong 2007 releases are:

Jesu—"Conqueror"
The Book of Knots—"Traineater"
Tin Hat—"The Sad Machinery of Spring"
Panda Bear—"Person Pitch"

Well I'm pretty behind this year, I liked Modest Mouse and Stephen Marley, I'm considering getting NIN or the White Stripes

of montreal - hissing fauna are you the destroyer
modest mouse - we were dead before the ship even sank
tokyo police club - a lesson in crime (believe it was 2007)

many more.. these just popped into my head

4 winds - Bright Eyes
The Shins Phantom Limb
+44- When your heart stops beating
Bad Religion

is 4 winds a track from the casadaga album?

It was an EP too with like, three good songs on it. It was better than the actual album.

right, the album this year that i am pretty much digging would have to be...
modest mouse - we were dead before the ship even sank.

saw them last month.
the energy in the room was amazing.
and jonny marr ! yes yesss.

and Volta - Bjork. How did I forget that one?

My favorites so far this year.

Elliott Smith "New Moon"
Patrick Wolf "The Magic Position"
Okkervil River "The Stage Names"
Explosions in the Sky "All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone"
Avril Lavigne "The Best Damn Thing"
Do Make Say Think "You, You're a History in Rust"
65daysofstatic "The Destruction of Small Ideas"
Of Montreal "Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?"
Deerhoof "Friend Opportunity"
Arcade Fire "Neon Bible"
Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"
The Shins "Wincing the Night Away"
New Pornographers "Challengers"
Rufus Wainwright "Release the Stars"
Circa Survive "On Letting Go"


And then theres been several disappointing releases, fall of troy, bright eyes etc. Looking forward to Rilo Kiley's new album and A Silver Mt. Zion's.

Top Album so far:

Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

Top 3 songs so far:

Bjork - Declare Independance
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Arcade Fire - Intervention

bright eyes album casadaga (however you spell it) was a serious let down, to me at least.

Any chance you could up any of those? Book of Knots and Tin Hat seem pretty interesting.

Grinderman - S/T
Rufus Wainright - Release The Stars
Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
Adult - Why Bother?
White Stripes - Icky Thump
Plan B - Paint It Blacker
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
The Fall - Reformation Post TLC
Los Campesinos - Sticking Fingers Into Sockets

Four more kick-ass new albums:

Tomahawk—"Anonymous" American Indian chants mixed with jagged, rough-hewn rock 'n roll. In anyone else's hands besides Mike Patton's a concept like this could've been really cheesy, but this isn't. At all. It's really quite amazing and haunting.

Pig Destroyer—"Phantom Limb" If you liked the insane grind of "Terrifyer" you will dig this album. Certainly not everyone's cup of tea but if you like hyper-aggressive music in general or grindcore in particular you will love it.

Cornelius—"Sensuous" Imagine if muzak was done in a creative and exciting way. Like it's predecessor "Point" this album pulls off the amazing trick of turning the epitome of bland, lame music into something exciting and new. Great music to chill out to. Fantastic album.

Amon Tobin—"Foley Room" The guy who pushed trip-hop to it's outer limits has now pushed into into the unknown. Instead of sampling existing songs, Amon Tobin is now creating his own live samples and building amazing noir-ish sound collages out of them. This album, while certainly in line with his previous work, has an amazing raw edge to it that is clearly a product of the new sampling technique. Highly recommended.

Circle Takes the Square - Unreleased Album

Woooo! Grinderman!!!! Haven't heard it yet, but I'm gettin it quick smart.

Albums:
1. Justice - †
2. Efdemin - Efdemin
3. A-Trak - Dirty South Dance
4. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
5. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
6. Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
7. TTC - 3615 TTC
8. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
9. Dominik Eulberg - Heimische Gefilde
10. Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower

Songs:
1. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
2. Pase Rock - So Fucking Disco
3. Escort - All Through the Night
4. Efdemin - Just A Track
5. The Rice Twins - Can I Say
6. Gaiser Vs. Heartthrob - Nasty Girl
7. Mr. Oizo - Patrick 122
8. Cut Copy - Hearts On Fire
9. Paul Kalkbrenner - Altes Kamuffel
10. TTC - Une Bande De Mecs Sympas

yes !

For me, the best albums this year are:

1. Sirenia ~ Nine Destinies and a Downfall
2. Sonata Arctica ~ Unia
3. Shadows Fall ~ Threads of Life
4. Bon Jovi ~ Lost Highway
5. Grave Digger ~ Liberty or Death
6. Marilyn Manson ~ Eat Me, Drink Me
7. Ozzy Osbourne ~ Black Rain

by the way, those are not in particular order.

yeah there is but i can never really find anyting

Got Grinderman. Love it.

Best Albums of this year for me..

The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
Portugal.The Man - Church Mouth
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
65Daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideals
Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez - Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading

Music this year/Best albums of 2007 so far...
 

I'm bawred, here's my list so far:

Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Aqueduct - Or give me death
Arcade Bible - Neon bible
Architecture in Helsinki - Places like this
Arctic Monkeys - Favorite worst nightmare
Bloc Party - A weekend at the city
The Bravery - The sun and the moon
The chemical brothers - We are the night
Feist - The reminder
Interpol - Our love to admire
Justice - (Cross)
Kings of Leon - Because of the times
Klaxons - Myths of the near future
Lcd Soundsystem - Sound of silver
Mika - Life in cartoon motion
The National - Boxer
Of montreal - Hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
Panda bear - Person pitch
Queens of the stone age - Era vulgaris
Rihanna - Girl gone bad
Rufus Wainwright - Release the stars
Ryan Adams - Easy tiger
The shins - Wincing the night away
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack decay sustain release
Spoon - Ga ga ga ga ga
Travis - The boy with no name
The White Stripes - Icky thump


I'm sure I forgot something...:/

Okkervil River- The Stage Names (Hasn't actually come out but it's amazing)
Rocky Votolato- The Bragg and Cuss
Dustin kensrue- Please Come Home
Page France- And The Family Telephone
Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
Elliott Smith- New Moon
Kevin Devine- The Broken String (releases in like a week)
Bright Eyes- Cassadaga (It's grown on me, there's still like 3 songs that I absoulutely can't stand though)
The Sound of Animals Fighting- Tiger and The Duke Reissue

For me:

The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
The New Pornographers - Challengers
Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
Travis - The Boy With No Name
Tegan and Sara - The Con
The John Butler Trio - Grand National
Elliott Smith - New Moon

The Cinematic Orchestra-Ma Fleur
!!!-Myth Takes
The Klaxons-Myths Of The Near Future
Groove Armada-Soundboy Rock

So far anyhow..

Yeah your taste, this album was a train wreck.