2007 in music. • Page 3

Great list as always - just had to quote this as it seems to be a GREAT descriptor of this record. I remember P4K being all over this one AND Strawberry Jam, and I just wasn't quite there for it yet. I loved Merriweather Post Pavilion as most did just 2 years later, but never came back to revisit Person Pitch.

I just listened to "Bros", and while I totally agree with the 'dreamy hazy landscape', and think it's super well done ..... I still struggle with 12+ minute "songs". Do y'all just put this kind of stuff on and get lost in it while doing other stuff? Genuine question. In long songs like that I always find myself looking every few minutes to see how much time is left in the track lol

 

1. Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
2. Deer Tick - War Elephant
3. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
4. Blitzen Trapper - Wild Mountain Nation
5. The National - Boxer
6. Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
7. AA Bondy - American Hearts
8. Blu & Exile - Below The Heavens
9. Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday
10. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
11. Josh Ritter - The Historical Conquests
12. Phosphorescent - Pride
13. Cass McCombs - Dropping the Writ

 

I remember Person Pitch had a ton of hype of like, this sounds like Pet Sounds. And listening to it I do kinda feel like it's like someone challenged Animal Collective to write a Pet Sounds sequel but to be as self indulgent as they wanted and somehow that delivering on almost all the good potential of that concept with very little of the (obvious) potential for disaster in it.

 

For some reason, one of the best songs on that album was the Best Buy bonus track ("Sleep Walking Elite").

 

I love Bros! It’s my favorite on the album. It definitely took some time for that one to sink in though, as I was more partial to the other songs for years. But now I think that song is a journey tethered by that acoustic chord progression that swells in the songs peak, engaging me enthralled throughout. When 10+ min songs are done right, they’re momentous, and they achieve it here imo.

 

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. Between the Buried & Me - Colors
3. Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3


ALSO
Kanye West - Graduation
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me
Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Against Me! - New Wave
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of
Bomb the Music Industry! - Get Warmer
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
A Day To Remember - For Those Who Have Heart
Four Year Strong - Rise or Die Trying
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
The Gaslight Anthem - Sink or Swim
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Say Anything - In Defense of the Genre
The Starting Line - Direction
Yellowcard - Paper Walls
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
Mayday Parade - A Lesson in Romantics
All Time Low - So Wrong, It's Right
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Straylight Run - The Needles The Space
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Silverstein - Arrivals & Departures
The Used - Lies For the Liars
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Paramore - Riot!
Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Sum 41 - Underclass Hero
Angels & Airwaves - I-Empire
The Spill Canvas - No Really, I'm Fine
Anberlin - Cities

 

Never heard it! I'll check it out

 

colors is pretty close to a perfect prog album

 

SUPER underrated song from 2007 Foos. Especially always loved the tongue-in-cheek title that I feel like referenced all the scene bands that were popular at the time.

Of course features great driving drums from Taylor. Wouldn't be any other way. RIP indeed.

 

2007 was the start of the neon years (All Time Low, The Maine, Mayday Parade, etc) and when that scene just totally stopped connecting with me.

 

I love the album so much, but never thought that it translated weak to the live format. I saw the tour when it came out and the anniversary and it was just boring both times. It's weird that they never really got the enthusiasm thing down.

 

1. Harold Budd - Perhaps
2. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3. Milieu - Remodelled

Honourable mentions:

• Radiohead - In Rainbows
• Reuben - In Nothing We Trust
• Machine Head - The Blackening
• M83 - Digital Shades Vol. 1
• Arp - In Light
• Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

Feeling under the weather so I'm just posting my list sans notes/thoughts.

 

I completely disagree haha but I get where you're coming from with this

 

I don't know why they've always kinda bummed me out live lol. They are definitely a lot less stiff than when I saw them tour Alaska. Everything is so fucking tight. I just want more enthusiasm. Can't knock them given the noodles.

 

2007 was a harder year to decide than I expected.

1. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
2. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
3. Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty

Against Me! - New Wave
August Burns Red- Messengers
The Chariot - The Fiancee
Chevelle - Vena Sera
Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
Kanye West - Graduation
Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Paramore - Riot!
Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour

 

1. Explosions in the Sky- All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone.

2. Minus The Bear- Planet of Ice.

3. The Weakerthans- Reunion Tour

Special shout out to Linkin Park. Lots of hot tracks on Minutes to Midnight

 

I lay on my floor staring at the ceiling questioning life

 

Totally valid - I should try to make time to do that more often lol

 

I need everyone to stop posting lists until they listen to Da Drought 3. What is going on in here? It’s like…maybe the most important mixtape of that entire era! A defining piece of 00s hip hop

 

Agreed. The whole album is so underrated. I love the diversity and there’s not a song I skip.

 

One of their best sounding albums too.

 

1. Circa Survive - On Letting Go
2. Thrice - Alchemy Index 1&2
3. Kanye - Graduation

 

Every Sunday while blasting "change of heart" by the 1975....Lay on the floor and contemplate life lol.

 

One of the best metal songs of the modern era. The build up and pay off in the first minute is perfection.

 

Promise I'll have my list up tomorrow. Work has been batshit crazy and I totally passed out before 9pm last night lol.