2007 in music. • Page 8

1. Motion City Soundtrack: Even If It Kills Me
2. Chiodos: Bone Palace Ballet
3. Paramore: Riot!

?. All Time Low: So Wrong, It's Right
4. Say Anything: In Defense of the Genre
5. Kanye West: Graduation
6. Miranda Lambert: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
7. Circa Survive: On Letting Go
8. The Academy Is...: Santi
9. Against Me!: New Wave
10. Steel Train: Trampoline

Others:
Fall Out Boy: Infinity On High
Radiohead: In Rainbows
Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
Silverstein: Arrivals & Departures
Rilo Kiley: Under the Blacklight
Arctic Monkeys: Favourite Worst Nightmare
Queens of the Stone Age: Era Vulgaris
LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
Mayday Parade: A Lesson In Romantics
Bayside: The Walking Wounded
Britney Spears: Blackout
The Maine: The Way We Talk EP
Saves the Day: Under the Boards

This year, and specifically this September, was the most pivotal moment in music for me. It's impossible to separate All Time Low from that and they would've been my #2 this year if not for obvious reasons. Bone Palace Ballet and So Wrong, It's Right were the first two albums I ever counted down to release day for and really took music from something I just enjoyed to something I truly cared about.

Even If It Kills me is also the first MCS album I heard, so it's of course very special to me. Graduation is probably the first rap album I listened to (in full anyway). Just a big year all around. So my numbered list is of course pretty skewed to what I was listening to most back then (with the exception of Steel Train, Against Me!, and Miranda)

 

Thriller, America’s Suitehearts, and Water Buffaloes all make my top 10 with ease. Not sure I love any of the rest but there are definitely good ones between the two

 

America’s Suitehearts is easily my least favourite on there, always hated that one.

 

I like most of everything off every thing pre hiatus. Some song misses but I enjoy most of it. Nothing beyond like 3 songs post hiatus do anything for me, though.

 

Life on Life's Terms was such a letdown. They were nothing without Christian.

 

Holy shit this blew up with FOB talk. Steve or Julie send me that tracklist too especially considering I revisited both of those albums in the last week, and found a lot to like.

 

Folie is the masterpiece. IOH has high highs and some filler as they stretched out and realized what they (particularly Joe and Andy) were capable of.

 

Joe and Andy also proved how great they are in The Damned Things, just a few years later. 2010, I think, was their first album? Are you familiar with their first record? With Scott Ian, Rob Caggiano, and Keith Buckley.

 

Cork Tree is the masterpiece. Name a bad song on it!

 

Haha that's an unintentionally hilarious question to ask an ap.net veteran. Jesus, the firestorm over that record. I have heard it. Impressed with their individual talents, but not the record

 

Listening to Infinity on High right now, This Ain't a Scene is such a stupid fucking song hahah

might still make my playlist though, it's not not fun

 

Agh I know - I knew it was a stupid question, but ya know. Wasn't around for that discourse. Or I probably was, but not actively posting.

I actually love like .... 2-3 songs on that record, and the rest was blah.

 

I'll try to find it next week, I'm away for the weekend and I know the CD is in my car.... somewhere

 

I wonder how many people were banned by Drew B. alone...

 

what!

Tell me what I missed lmao

Or at least the cliff notes lol

 

I ripped that song off real bad with a song I wrote in high school haha.

 

thats one of the only songs from post-cork tree I like lol. It’s definitely a bit dumb, but it is fun to see along too

 

Infinity has some real mediocre stuff in the second half, but I forgot how much I enjoy the good songs on here.

 

this actually surprises me a little. By no means do I love the whole album, but tracks 1-6 as a hypothetical EP is my favorite material they have released since the hiatus

 

I Met them when Danny was the singer so I don’t know much about Christian. I worked the merch tables a lot at small shows and got to become really great friends with them. Man I mis being 23

 

i was in a very different place personally when it came out and my music taste changed a lot. The 1975 kinda took over my life lol.

 

You're right that Wilson is the best track, but the other non singles are pretty great

 

1. Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild OST
2. Dustin Kensrue - Please Come Home
3. Biffy Clyro - Puzzle

 

those Eddie and Dustin albums are both such breezy, pleasant listens, after revisiting this week I'd prob bump both up my list a bit.

At the time I know I was more of a "full band" kinda guy but man the songwriting is undeniable and just flat out enjoyable on both of those.