Five favorite albums from the first half of '07

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Saw this topic on another forum and decided to post it here: Now that we're halfway into the year, what are your top 5 albums from January through June? (No leaked future albums allowed, Jan-Jun only)

And, what are your most anticipated albums for the rest of the year?

Mine:

5. Of Montreal - "Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?"
4. Arcade Fire - "Neon Bible"
3. Modest Mouse - "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank"
2. Bright Eyes - "Cassadaga"
1. The Shins - "Wincing The Night Away"

Excited for:
Spoon, Interpol, The New Pornographers, VHS or Beta, The Go! Team, Metric, Andrew W.K., Yeah Yeah Yeahs
 
[quote name='beane316']Black Rain by Ozzy Osbourne....the only cd I've bought so far this year[/quote]

Really? I didn't like that album at all.
 
[quote name='I AM WILLIAM H. MACY']Saw this topic on another forum and decided to post it here: Now that we're halfway into the year, what are your top 5 albums from January through June? (No leaked future albums allowed, Jan-Jun only)

And, what are your most anticipated albums for the rest of the year?

Mine:

5. Of Montreal - "Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?"
4. Arcade Fire - "Neon Bible"
3. Modest Mouse - "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank"
2. Bright Eyes - "Cassadaga"
1. The Shins - "Wincing The Night Away"

Excited for:
Spoon, Interpol, The New Pornographers, VHS or Beta, The Go! Team, Metric, Andrew W.K., Yeah Yeah Yeahs[/quote]

Since I love two of the five albums on your list, I'm probably going to check out the other three. Nice!
 
Well, not every song is a winner...but I was happy with my purchase overall. There's a couple really good songs, and the rest are either decent to "keep on repeat" and since Breaking Benjamin doesn't have a new cd out right now...it works :D plus really there isn't a whole lot out right now so he does kinda win by default I guess but yea it wasn't bad lol
 
1. Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
2. Bone Thugs-n-Harmony - Strength & Loyalty
3. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
4. Talib Kweli - Ear Drum

I need to get my hands on the new Common and Kanye's Graduation.
 
reel big fish- "monkey's for nothing and the chimps for free"
modest mouse- "we were dead before the ship even sank"
kaiser chiefs- "the angry mob"
they might be giants- "the else"


excited for: bomb the music industry, bedouin soundclash, motion city soundtrack, new pornographers, streetlight manifesto (hopefully), less than jake (maybe)
 
Dunno if I can come up with 5. And my favorite album of the year was released last year, but I didn't discover it until this year: Silversun Pickups - Carnavas. Incredible cd. I have also been pleasantly surprised by The White Stripes - Icky Thump, since I haven't been a big fan of theirs in the past. I still don't care for EVERY song on it, but it has more good than bad.

As for my most anticipated, that's easily the new Pumpkins album releasing next week. I've even avoided looking for a leaked copy (which I'm sure I could find) because I want that fresh experience of putting an actual cd in & hearing it for the first time.

A couple other new releases I'm looking forward to are The Rentals' new EP and the new Portishead.
 
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up the Blades
King Diamond - Give Me Your Soul....Please
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a blank planet


hasn't been much else to jiggle my balls the right way
 
Here is a complete list of all the albums I like so far:

Gabriel Teodros - Lovework
Felonious - Up To Something
Nor- Mystree
Descry - Experiences In Full Duplex
J. Davis Trio - These Things Happen
Mr.J.Medeiros - Of Gods And Girls
Linguistics - The Writes Of Passage
Black Milk - Popular Demand
Decompoze - Decomposition
PolyRythymAddicts - Break Glass
Boom Bap Project - The Shakedown
Theory Hazit - Extra Credit
Giraffe Nuts - Eat Them
Muneshine - A Walk In The Park
Xperience - Soultree
The Upstarts - The Know How
Ill Poetic - The World Is Ours
Domingo - The Most Underrated
Capital D - Return Of The Renagade
Atlas Dusk - Proof of Purchase
Zeph and Azeem - Rise Up
Grooveman Spot - RE: Eternal Development (both Gold and Silver Star LPs)
Thief - Thief
DJ Ivory - Hear No Evil Vol. 3
Kidkanevil - Problems & Solutions
Red Astaire - Nuggets For The Needy
Memo - Lake Effect 4
The Nextmen - This Was Supposed To Be The Future
Arts The Beatdoctor - Transitions
DJ Vadim - The Soundcatcher
Wax Tailor - Hope & Sorrow
Dub Pistols - Speakers And Tweeters
Scratch Perverts - Watch The Ride
Joe Beats - Diverse Recourse
Mr Hill - Darkest Hour
X - Ray Dogs - Alta Plaza
Antrabata - Elephant Reveries
Flunk - Personal Stereo
Chungking - Stay Up Forever
Belleruche - Turntable Soul Music
The Secret Meeting - Ultrashiver
Flow Dynamics - Flow Dynamics
Dinner At The Thompson's - Lifetime On Planet Earth
De-Phazz - Days Of Twang
The Secret Meeting - Ultrashiver
All Good Funk Allience - Slingshot Boogie
Saru - Machine
Phace - Psycho

I really can't break it down to just a top 5, so here is three top 10 lists (hip hop, DJ/Producer and non Hip Hop) that are in no order except for the first 3 in the non-hip hop list


HIP HOP
artist - album

Gabriel Teodros - Lovework
Nor- Mystree
Descry - Experiences In Full Duplex
J. Davis Trio - These Things Happen
Mr.J.Medeiros - Of Gods And Girls
Linguistics - The Writes Of Passage
Theory Hazit - Extra Credit
Giraffe Nuts - Eat Them
The Upstarts - The Know How
Ill Poetic - The World Is Ours

DJ/Producer
artist- album
Grooveman Spot - RE: Eternal Development (both Gold and Silver Star LPs)
Mr. Hill - Darkest Hour
Thief - Thief
DJ Ivory - Hear No Evil Vol. 3
Kidkanevil - Problems & Solutions
Red Astaire - Nuggets For The Needy
The Nextmen - This Was Supposed To Be The Future
Arts The Beatdoctor - Transitions
DJ Vadim - The Soundcatcher
Wax Tailor - Hope & Sorrow

NON Hip Hop (top 3 are the best of the lot)
artist - album
Flunk - Personal Stereo
Chungking - Stay Up Forever
Belleruche - Turntable Soul Music
X - Ray Dogs - Alta Plaza
Antrabata - Elephant Reveries
Dinner At The Thompson's - Lifetime On Planet Earth
De-Phazz - Days Of Twang
The Secret Meeting - Ultrashiver
All Good Funk Alliance - Slingshot Boogie
Flow Dynamics - Flow Dynamics
 
My Top 5:
1. Nine Inch Nails, "Year Zero"
2. Skinny Puppy, "Mythmaker"
3. Modest Mouse, "We Were Dead..."
4. 16 Volt, "Full Black Habit"
5. VNV Nation, "Judgement"

Hype Wagon:
The Faint
KMFDM
Interpol
Smashing Pumpkins

Also listening to a lot of new stuff from:
Marilyn Manson, Mark Nicholas, Front Line Assembly, Grendel, C/A/T, Assemblage 23, Bright Eyes, Rufus Wainwright, Wumpscut
 
1. Kill Your Idols - Something Started Here
2. Ruiner - Prepare To Be Let Down
3. Pulling Teeth - Vicious Skin

Looking forward to: Cloak/Dagger, S.S.S.P., Paper Dragons, Dillinger Four, Bad Religion, Against All Authority, Mustard Plug, Bomb The Music Industry
 
[quote name='mcgavin27']
they might be giants- "the else"
[/QUOTE]

Thank God someone mentioned that before me :)

So far, I've only got 2:

TMBG - The Else
Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight

For the rest of the year, looking forward to Spiraling's new album "Time Travel Made Easy", and Hollywood Undead's debut.
 
[quote name='fart_bubble']

Gabriel Teodros - Lovework
[/quote]
Very cool - into Blue Scholars as well?

I think my five would be...something like this:

Voxtrot - Voxtrot
White Stripes - Icky Thump
The National - Boxer
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Living With the Living
Blue Scholars - Bayani

Something like that, but there are a few others that are pretty close.
 
[quote name='hopesfall']Very cool - into Blue Scholars as well?
[/quote]

Yep, them, Common Market and Abyssinian Creole. Frankly, Gabe's solo album is probably the most important album to drop in the last 12 years or so.
 
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
 
Megadeth - United Abominations
NIN- Year Zero
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

And just look at my Sig..you know what im thinking.If it ever comes out this year or ever that is...damn perfectionist..
 
jesu - Conqueror
Swarrrm - Black Bong
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand
Pig Destroyer - The Phantom Limb
Boris - Rainbow
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
 
I don't think I've bought a new CD other than the recent Art Brut.
It was disappointing.

So I have no faves unless I can think of something later.
Perhaps that last Andrew Bird.
 
White Stripes - Icky Thump and Lily Allen - Smile are the only new albums I acquired this year

and

The follow up to Deltron3030 is the only thing I'm looking forward to
 
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Joe Beats - Reverse Discourse
Talib Kweli - Ear Drum(although it doesn't really count since it's not out yet)

Honorable mentions:
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
The Clientele - God Save the Clientele
The Landau Orchestra - Janus Plays Telephone
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
 
[quote name='bmachine']My Top 5:
1. Nine Inch Nails, "Year Zero"
2. Skinny Puppy, "Mythmaker"
3. Modest Mouse, "We Were Dead..."
4. 16 Volt, "Full Black Habit"
5. VNV Nation, "Judgement"

Hype Wagon:
The Faint
KMFDM
Interpol
Smashing Pumpkins

Also listening to a lot of new stuff from:
Marilyn Manson, Mark Nicholas, Front Line Assembly, Grendel, C/A/T, Assemblage 23, Bright Eyes, Rufus Wainwright, Wumpscut[/QUOTE]

Doh, forgot all about the new KMFDM coming out this year - add that to my anticipated list. ;)
 
In no particular order:

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The National - Boxer
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna
White Stripes - Icky Thump
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away

Song of the Half-Year goes to either "Intervention" or "Rag and Bone".
 
no top 5... only top 4:

Prodigy & Alchemist - Return of the Mac
Evidence - Weatherman LP
Molemen - Killing Fields
Polyrhythm Addicts - Break Glass

look forward to Little Brother, Camp Lo, BCC, and Del in the remainder of 07
 
CDs I've liked so far:

"A Weekend in The City" - Bloc Party
"Some Loud Thunder" - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
"Holding A Wolf By The Ears" - From Autumn To Ashes
"Tales Don't Tell Themselves" - Funeral for a Friend
"Minutes To Midnight" - Linkin Park
"Year Zero" - Nine Inch Nails

Honorable mention:
"Live from the Gorge 2005/2006" - Pearl Jam (not really an album)
"Love Reign O'er Me" - Pearl Jam (single)
 
1) Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
2) The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
3) El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
4) St. Vincent - Marry Me
5) Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
 
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