best cd's of 2007?

ORIGINAL: Big Suave

My top 5:

1. Nightwish "Dark Passion Play"
2. Within Temptation "The Heart Of Everything"
3. Amorphis "Silent Waters"
4. Symphony X "Paradise Lost"
5. Sonata Arctica "Unia"

 
I wanted to give a little love to some more CD's. After my top 5, here are my next 3. However, I haven't figured out who 9 and 10 are yet to round out the top 10.

6. Dark Tranquillity "Fiction"
7. Dream Theater "Systematic Chaos"
8. Iced Earth "Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Part 1"

my current top 20....

1.Neurosis---Given to the Rising
2.Porcupine Tree---Fear of a Blank Planet
3.Oceansize---Frames
4.Between the Buried and Me---Colors
5.Dream Theater---Systematic Chaos
6.Queens of the Stone Age---Era Vulgaris
7.Pig Destroyer---Phantom Limb
8.Ulver---Shadows of the Sun
9.High on Fire---Death is this Communion
10.Big Business---Here Come The Waterworks
11.Nine Inch Nails---Year Zero
12.Grinderman---Grinderman
13.The Dilinger Escape Plan---Ire Works
14.Sleepytime Gorilla Museum---In Glorious Times
15.Clutch---Beale Street to Oblivion
16.Mondo Generator---Dead Planet
17.Om---Pilgrimage
18.Pelican---City of Echoes
19.Explosions in the Sky---All of a Sudden I miss Everyone
20.Thrice---The Alchemy Index Volumes 1 and 2

21. Kaddisfly---Set Sail the Prairie

that's not set in stone though it may change by January

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet / Nil Recurring
Blackfield - II
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Pagan's Mind - God's Equation
Down - Over the Under
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Spock's Beard - s/t
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

ORIGINAL: Marc_1987

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet / Nil Recurring
Blackfield - II
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Pagan's Mind - God's Equation
Down - Over the Under
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Spock's Beard - s/t
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos

 
I want to add The Flower Kings - The Sum Of No Evil
Opeth - The Roundhouse Tape

I'm waiting until the end of the year to do this when all the cds of 07 are offically out.

Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
DT - Systematic Chaos
Falling Up - Captiva
 
everything else that I've heard - meh.
 
2006 was better.

incomplete order/list

My top 10 looks like this:

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows (counting both the regular and bonus disc)
2. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
3. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
4. Rush - Snakes and Arrows
5. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
6. Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring EP
7. Blackfield - II
8. The Flower Kings - The Sum of No Evil
9. Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace
10. Sigur Rós - Hvarf-Heim

ORIGINAL: Big Suave

Thanks for the offer, though, Graham! Speaking of WT, one thing that I do definitely still have to hunt down is the new "All I Need" single for the unreleased bonus track.

 
I am ordering it myself I'll get an extra for you and work something out later.
BTW, get yourself a multi-zone dvd player :)

Mine is:

1. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet/Nil Recurring
2. 3 - The End Is Begun
3. Redemption - The Origins of Ruin
4. Blackfield - Blackfield II
5. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
   

1) Between the Buried and Me - Colors
2) The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
3) Circa Survive - On Letting Go

My mostly predictable list:

Between the Buried and Me - Colors
PT - Fear of a Blank Planet / Nil Recurring
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
3 - The End is Begun
Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
DT - FII Demos (or is that a '06 release?)
Opeth - Roundhouse Tapes
Machine Head - The Blackening
Rush - Snakes & Arrows

Honorable mention: Systematic Chaos (not quite up to par with DTs best, but still a solid release)

Lets see, other than Systematic Chaos here is my list in no particular order.
 
1. Circus Maximus - Isolate
2. Threshold - Dead Reckoning
3. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
4. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
 

In no particular order:
 
Planet X - Quantum
Devil's Slingshot - Clinophobia
Collins/Wardingham Project - Interactive
Alex Argento - Ego
Fierabracci/Turcio/Rosenblatt - Hemispheres
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Gambale/Donati/Fierabracci - Made In Australia (Live CD)
 

Coheed & Cambria - No World For Tomorrow
Anberlin - Cities
Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me
Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
Dream Theater - Systematc Chaos
Mae - Singularity
Marillion - Somewhere Else

ALTER BRIDGE has a chance to crack my top 50 now having heard it.

Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Porcupine Tree - FOABP/Nil Recurring
Redemption - The Origins Of Ruin
Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
Neal Morse - Question: Live
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
Oceansize - Frames
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Blackfield II
Katatonia - Live Consternation
Amorphis - Silent Waters
New Model Army - High

1. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (+ Nil Recurring)
2. Sage Francis - Human The Death Dance
3. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
4. Oceansize - Frames
5. Radiohead - In Rainbows
6. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
7. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
8. Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!
9. Rush - Snakes & Arrows
10. Dälek - Abandoned Language

In no order:

Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Porcupine Tree - Fear...
Steve Vai - Sound Theories
Genesis - Live Over Europe
Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Men

Someone mentioned Chris Cornell's CD being a disappointment. I was actually suprised at how good it was, I wouldn't put it in the "Best of" category but I like it.

1º Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
2º Scorpions - Humanity/Hour I
3º Symphony X - Paradise Lost
4º Alter Bridge - Blackbird
5º Bon Jovi - Lost Highways
6º Allen & Lande - The Revenge
7º Gotthard - Domino Effect
8º Megadeth - United Abominations
9º Velvet Revolver - Libertad
10º Pride of Lions - Roaring of Dreams

11º Circus Maximus - Isolate; Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet; Rush - Snakes and Arrows; DGM - Different Shapes; Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura; Coheed & Cambria - No World for Tomorrow; Angelus Apatrida - Give 'Em War; Avalanch - Muerte y Vida.

Revelation band of the year: QUAOAR   http://www.myspace.com/quaoar

Quaoar was born in April 2002. Nowadays Quaoar is: Josu (Guitars), Hugo (Guitars and backing vocals), Jauke (Bass Guitar), Bjorn (Drums) and Iñigo (vocals). Quaoar's influences are wide and go from the progressive of Opeth, Porcupine Tree or Tool, to the classic rock of Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd, passing through Pearl Jam, Jeff Buckley, etc... His style is a mixture of Grunge from America's 90's and progressive rock from the beggining of 70's, all this with a touch of Metal. Since Quaoar completed his final formation in 2006, the band has offered several shows in Vizcaya and its surroundings. The group has just edited his first work called "MAN't". This word is a concept the band created,the combination of MAN and CAN'T. This represents the result of the frustration of Man. All that we could never achieve. Everything that you don't wanna be, but however, you are. Now Quaoar is composing new songs for future works...

My top 10

1. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
2. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
3. Gazpacho - Night
4. Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
5. Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
6. Divine Heresy - Bleed the Fifth
7. Chimaira - Resurrection
8. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
9. Machine Head - the Blackening
10.Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead

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In other words, I don't think anything I've heard this year could be added to the list.  It was a very disappointing year in music.

I'd have to think long and hard to be able to organize my favorites from this year into a ranked list since this has been such an incredible year for metal imo, but here they are anyhow:

Rush - snakes and arrows
Porcupine Tree - FOABP + Nil Recurring
DT - Systematic Chaos
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Primal Fear - New Religion
Gamma Ray - Land of the Free 2
Helloween - Gambling with the devil
BTTBAM - Colours
Circus Maximus - Isolate
Megadeth - United Abominations
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
Pagans Mind - God's Equation
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
3 - The End is Begun
Redemption - Origins of Ruin
Axxis - Doom of Destiny
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
Sanctity - Road to Bloodshed


Dear god....too many good albums this year

Best Prog CD of 2007:

www.dinwithin.com


Fans of Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Neal Morse, etc take note.

Their debut album "Awaken The Man" is a freaking prog masterpiece.

finally got to hear this today:

Neverending White Lights - ACT II

Jimmy Gnecco from Ours was on ACT I and on this; but as a whole I was much more impressed by this over the last one. fans of the recent Ulver, Peter Gabriel among others may really go for this.

2 others I just heard which also may find their way climing up my list:

Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew - SPIRIT IF..much in the vein of BSS.
Hiromi UeHara - TIME CONTROL 

Between The Buried And Me--Colors
Dream Theater--Systematic Chaos
Exodus--The Atrocity Exhibition...Exhibit A
Machine Head--The Blackening
Nile--Ithyphallic
Pain Of Salvation--Scarsick
Porcupine Tree--Fear Of A Blank Planet
Rush--Snakes And Arrows
Symphony X--Paradise Lost
3--The End Is Begun

TH' WORST
Bon Jovi--Lost Highway (Bon Jovi goes country.  That's all you need to know.)
Queensryche--Take Cover (What's the point of doing a covers album when you make them all sound like one giant 50-minute pile of crap?)

ok, my top 10:

1. Rush - Snakes & Arrows
2. Machine Head - The Blackening
3. Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli
4. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet
5. Down - Over The Under
6. Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying
7. Bad Religion - New Maps Of Hell
8. Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
9. Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick
10. Marillion - Somwhere Else

Sorry DT...

ORIGINAL: Manticore999



In other words, I don't think anything I've heard this year could be added to the list.  It was a very disappointing year in music.

ROFL,you just made my day.

Here's my list:

65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
Alcest - Souvenirs D'Outre Monde
Alex Argento - Ego
Anekdoten - A Time of Day
Agua de Annique - Air
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Battles - Mirrored
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Beneath The Massacre - Mechanics of Dysfunction
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Bjork - Volta
Blackfield II
Blonde Redhead - 23
Caspian - The Four Trees
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of The Rings
Dark Tranquility - Fiction
DeadSoul Tribe - A Lullaby For The Devil
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid...
Devil's Slingshot - Clinophobia
Divine Heresy - Bleed The Fifth
Eluvium - Copia
Fair To Midland - Fables from a Mayfly...
Gambale Donati Fierabracci - Made in Australia
Hiromi's Sonicboom - Time Control
Horse The Band - A Natural Death
Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious
Jesu - Conqueror
Kaddisfly - Set Sail The Praire
Karnivool - Themata
Machine Head - The Blackening
Middian - Age Eternal
Nile - Ithyphalic
Oceansize - Frames
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Se Dice Bisonte no Bufalo
Paulson - All At Once (re-issue)
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Pink Freud - Punk Freud
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet / Nil Recurring
Portugal The Man - Church Mouth
Planet X - Quantum
Protest The Hero - Kezia
Shining - V- Halmstad
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
The Apex Theory - Lightpost EP
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
The End - Elementary
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
The Pax Cecilia - Blessed Are The Bonds
Three - The End Is Begun
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Umphrey's McGee - The Bottom Half

ORIGINAL: piuga

ORIGINAL: Manticore999



In other words, I don't think anything I've heard this year could be added to the list.  It was a very disappointing year in music.

ROFL,you just made my day.

Here's my list:

65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
Alcest - Souvenirs D'Outre Monde
Alex Argento - Ego
Anekdoten - A Time of Day
Agua de Annique - Air
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Battles - Mirrored
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Beneath The Massacre - Mechanics of Dysfunction
Between The Buried And Me - Colors
Bjork - Volta
Blackfield II
Blonde Redhead - 23
Caspian - The Four Trees
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of The Rings
Dark Tranquility - Fiction
DeadSoul Tribe - A Lullaby For The Devil
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid...
Devil's Slingshot - Clinophobia
Divine Heresy - Bleed The Fifth
Eluvium - Copia
Fair To Midland - Fables from a Mayfly...
Gambale Donati Fierabracci - Made in Australia
Hiromi's Sonicboom - Time Control
Horse The Band - A Natural Death
Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious
Jesu - Conqueror
Kaddisfly - Set Sail The Praire
Karnivool - Themata
Machine Head - The Blackening
Middian - Age Eternal
Nile - Ithyphalic
Oceansize - Frames
Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Se Dice Bisonte no Bufalo
Paulson - All At Once (re-issue)
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Pink Freud - Punk Freud
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet / Nil Recurring
Portugal The Man - Church Mouth
Planet X - Quantum
Protest The Hero - Kezia
Shining - V- Halmstad
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
The Apex Theory - Lightpost EP
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
The End - Elementary
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
The Pax Cecilia - Blessed Are The Bonds
Three - The End Is Begun
Threshold - Dead Reckoning
Umphrey's McGee - The Bottom Half

wow. think i counted 23 that are on my list. Have you read my posts much? KEZIA won't be on mine since it was released in '05 or '06..THEMATA will since it didn't come out in the States til this year.

Nice list

Planet X - Quantum
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Satellite Party - Ultra Payloaded
Steve Vai - Sound Theories
Rush - Snakes & Arrows
Liquid Trio Experiment
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Gambale Donati Fierabracci - Made in Australia
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
QOTSA - Era Vulgaris
Coheed and Cambria - No World For Tomorrow

mentions for:
Skindred - Roots Rock Riot
Chevelle - Vena Sera
Velvet Revolver - Libertad

Most of my top albums played this year were from 2005-2006.  According to what last.fm says I played (from 2007).
 
1.  Dream Theater, Systematic Chaos
2.  Dying Fetus, War of Attrition
3.  Machine Head, The Blackening
4.  Megadeth, United Abominations
5.  Killswitch Engage, As Daylight Dies
6.  Despised Icon, The Ills of Modern Man
7.  Nile, Ithyphallic
 
Other albums of note that somehow were not reflected in my last.fm:
 
Through the Eyes of the Dead, Malice
The Black Dahlia Murder, Nocturnal
 

1. Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 (2007)

2. Burial - Untrue (2007)

3. Radiohead - In Rainbows (2007)

4. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos (2007)

5. Gazpacho - Night (2007)

6. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)

7. Gravenhurst - The Western Lands (2007)

8. Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007)

9. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (2007)

10. Oceansize - Frames (2007)

I'm relieved we don't have to give the best album of 2007, because that would be impossible.
 
1. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
2. Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
3. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of The Blank Planet
4. Rush - Snakes & Arrows
5. Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick
6. Daryl Stuermer - Go
7. Apple Pie - Crossroads
8. The Flower Kings - The Sum Of No Evil
9. Alan Morse - 4 O'Clock & Hysteria
10. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
 
Other damn good cds:
 
Planet X - Quantum
Sieges Even - Paramount
Knight Area - Under A New Sign
 
The green ones are this year's ultimate out-of-the-blue-mindblowers.

Porcupine Tree - Fear / Nil
Oceansize - Frames
Dream Theater - Systematic chaos
Blackfield II
Sieges Even - Paramount
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Rush - Snakes and Arrows
Fair To Midland - Fables From a Mayfly
Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
Pain of Salvation - Scarsick

ORIGINAL: derangedperson
TH' WORST
Bon Jovi--Lost Highway (Bon Jovi goes country.  That's all you need to know.)

 
QFT.
 
I was EXTREMELY disappointed with Lost Highway. IMO, it was a steaming country-flavored pile of crap. I absolutely love the first single "(You Want To Make) A Memory", but IMO it's by far the best song on the album, unfortunately.  

Have to modify my list a bit.

01. Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (+ Nil Recurring)
02. Sage Francis - Human The Death Dance
03. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
04. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
05. Radiohead - In Rainbows
06. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
07. Oceansize - Frames
08. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
09. Dälek - Abandoned Language
10. Rush - Snakes And Arrows

Here's my list (unordered):

Mystery - Beneath the Veil of Winter's Face
Ana Bhraka - The Flowerbed of Oblivion
Alan Morse - 4 O'Clock and Hysteria
Beardfish - Sleeping in Traffic- Part One
Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
Planet X - Quantum
Ritual - The Hemulic Voluntary Band
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
The Flower Kings - The Sum of no Evil
Thought Chamber - Angular Perceptions
30YRSL8 - L8er
Amaran's Plight - Voice in the Light
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
Little Atlas - Hollow
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
QWAARN - Abberations
The Gourishankar - 2nd Hands
Apple Pie - Crossroads
Circus Maximus - Isolate
Dimension X - Implications of a Genetic Defence
Morgbil - Grotesk
Oceansize - Frames
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Redemption - The Origins of Ruin
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
The Third Ending - The Third Ending
Trion - Pilgrim
The Rebel Wheel - Diagramma (If Portnoy could do it, so can I )

I'll try to have the Top 10 list by next week, I'll be listening to these albums non stop till then.

Gary

1.Between The Buried And Me - Colors
2.Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
3.Radiohead - In Rainbows
4.Marillion - Somwhere Else
5.Dream Theater- Systematic Chaos
6.Rush- Snakes and Arrows