2007 in music. • Page 10

Couldn't agree more.

 

Every time I listen to Riot I think a lot of the songs don't quite achieve their potential. Let The Flames Begin is the most obvious one but something in the production holds the album back a little for me.

 

1. bright eyes - cassadaga
2. as cities burn - come now sleep

everything else:

moving mountains - pneuma
dear and the headlights - small steps, heavy hooves
modest mouse - we were dead before the ship even sank
envy on the coast - lucy gray
portugal. the man - church mouth
animal collective - strawberry jam
wild orchid children - s/t
tilly and the wall - bottoms of barrels
aesop rock - none shall pass
the bled - silent treatment
duck duck goose - noise, noise and more noise
dillinger escape plan - ire works

 

What holds Riot! back is its second half. It starts with one of my favorite 5-song runs ever.

Thankfully they fixed that on Brand New Eyes and wrote and sequenced a great album from top to bottom

 

I've never thought of 2008 as being a particularly standout year but I've been checking which albums came out that year and I really don't know how I'm going to narrow this down to three. Some amazing records there.

A couple I'm fascinated to look into as well.

 

i missed 2006, hope i'm still in time for 2007

1. The National – Boxer
2. Radiohead – In Rainbows
3. Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago

4. Dance Gavin Dance – Downtown Battle Mountain
5. Circa Survive – On Letting Go
6. Burial – Untrue
7. Streetlight Manifesto – Somewhere in the Between
8. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
9. Anberlin – Cities
10. Moving Mountains – Pneuma
11. Thrice – The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
12. As Cities Burn – Come Now Sleep
13. Arctic Monkeys – Favourite Worst Nightmare
14. Every Time I Die – The Big Dirty
15. Four Year Strong – Rise or Die Trying

 

I meant to listen to this one earlier in the week.

 

i’ll leave it open a bit tonight in honor of musics biggest night but it isn’t super close

 

Gotta think that a certain 2 Grammy award-winning album is in the lead.

 

"Favorite Record" is my all-time favorite on AB/AP and I have no idea why they never released that as a single.

 

Pleased to announce that the winner is the soundtrack from High School Musical 2. Get'cha head in the game, guys!

 

i’m too sick to abide by posts like that

 

High School Musical had some great tunes man.

 

Fun fact: I once starred in my high school's musical production of High School Musical.

 

i played Scar in a production of the Lion King

 

If only there were enough people in here for us all to change our votes last minute to High School Musical 2.

 

I was the creepy radio host in Grease

EDIT: Vince Fontaine. Couldn't remember the name.

 

Scarecrow in Wizard of Oz . Lol

 

Regret every day that I didn’t try drama in HS. But I also feel like I remember our HS drama club beinf particularly pretentious and picking a bunch of musicals that no one heard of or liked back then lol

 

i had to reclaim the character after the anti-semitism in the film

 

i'm not really a fan of dubstep or anything, but this was the record where i was like "okay, i get it"

 

Lol, this is exactly what I thought. Love ya @phaynes12.

 

radiohead's in rainbows wins with 46, bon iver's for emma forever ago had 28, and motion city soundtrack's even if it kills me had 20. chase this light wasn't top 5, kiss my ass.

 

OMG stop it! No you were not! this is fantastic