best cd's of 2007?

not too sure if theres a thread like this (probably, cause im dumb but ive been in the library doing a paper for about 6 hours so spare me!) but im trying to compile a list of the best rock/metal/prog or other! cd's of 2007.

well what do you guys think?
obviously, my pick is systematic chaos and snakes and arrows.

I'm surprised you didn't put that blasted Fear of a Blank album on your list.  Smart man.

For me Scorpions, Humanity Hour I and Depeche Mode's Playing the Angel are among the best I have heard this year but I haven't heard too much either.

Honorable mention definitely goes to Snakes and Arrows by Rush.

On the flip side I was VERY disappointed in Megadeth's new one United Abominations. A lifeless attempt to recapture The System Has Failed. I couldn't really even finish the album and the remake of To All the World (my French spelling is horrible), made we want to listen to the original which is vastly superior.

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My top 3 were Systematic Chaos, Snakes & Arrows, and Blackbird

The three best ones of this year for me were

1. Colors (Best cd I've heard in a long time)
2. Systematic Chaos
3. Fear of a Blank Planet

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 was just thinkin' that even though there are about 10 other threads like this,
they probably should have waited.  Therefore, this one is probably the most
appropriately timed.
 
I agree with Suave on Nightwish.  That album is nonstop symphonic metal mayhem.
The girl sings great, and has an outstanding array of musicians behind her. 
 
+1 on Humanity hour 1 as well.  Best scorpions in a while. 
Symphony X and DT dished out great albums, too.
Rush, Megadeth, Threshold, and alot more honorable mentions.
 
This was a great year for music.  Can't say enough about the albums that were released this year.

Rush- Snakes and Arrows
Dream Theater- Systematic Chaos
Porcupine Tree- Fear of a Blank Planet

great album.. just hear it way too much. roomys a huge PT fan. great band, just hear it too often

1. Voyager - uniVers
 
That bit was easy, I'll have to have a careful think about the others.

1) Nightwish- Dark Passion Play
2) Between The Buried And Me- Colors
3) Sonata Arctica - Unia
4) Pain Of Salvation- Scarsick
5) Dimmu Brigir- In Sorte Diaboli
6) Anaal Nathrakh-  Hell Is Empty And All The Devils Are Here
7) Porcupine Tree- Fear Of A Blank Planet
8) Therion- The Gothic Kabbala

Dissapointments-
Kamelot- Ghost Opera
Symphony X- Paradise Lost
Dream Theater- Systematic Chaos

1.) Between the Buried and Me - Colors
2.) Thrice - The Alchemy Index: Vol. I & II
3.) The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading

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ooo, I've been working on this one too. I've got three so far. In no particular order...

1. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
2. Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
3. Hiromi's Sonicbloom - Time Control

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My top 5:


2. Within Temptation "The Heart Of Everything"

Slightly OT here, but Matt, did you know there is a version of this, UK/Europe, that
has 4 bonus tracks and a live DVD from the current tour?
Let me know if you want it and I'll see what I can do.

1. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
2. Sevendust - Alpha
3. Megadeath - United Abominations
4. Alterbridge - Blackbird

That's my list of four.

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Oh yeah my best of the year, all from Finland bar one.

1 - Moonsorrow -HÄVITETTY
2 - Nightwish - Dark Passion Play
3 - Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
4 - Swallow The Sun - Hope
4 - Turasis - The Varangian Way

Have to give this one to the new BTAM.

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
Gazpacho - Night

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Systematic Chaos
Scarsick
Snakes and Arrows
Sola Scruptura.

It was a good year for the letter 'S'.

Heres to my most aliterative post ever.

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Systematic Chaos. no question for me

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an unspeakable affair...

Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vol. I & II

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
are the two "givens" I can think of. SC has it's moments but as a whole album it doesn't make it. Same with Scarsick, *love* 4-5 songs but as a whole album... nah.

Threshold- Dead Reckoning
Symphony X- Paradise Lost
Ghost Opera- Kamelot
DT- Systematic Chaos
Type O Negative- Dead Again

I'm actually surprised to not see more votes for FOABP.     Easily the best album, not only of 2007, but of this decade......IMHO anyway.

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My top 5 would be:

1. Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
2. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
3. Between The Buried And Me - Colors
4. Pez - Los Orfebres
5. Radiohead - In Rainbows

Dissapointed to see that no-one even mentioned:

Down - III Over The Under

 1.  Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
 2.  Redemption - Origins Of Ruin
 3.  Circus Maximus - Isolate
 4.  Alter Bridge - Blackbird
 5.  Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos
 6.  The Scorpions - Humanity (Hour 1)
 7.  Symphony X - Paradise Lost
 8.  Submersed - Immortal Verses
 9.  Dennis DeYoung - One Hundred Years from Now
10. Ozzy Osborne - Black Rain
11. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
12. Kamelot - Ghost Opera
13. Velvet Revolver - Libertad
14. Collective Soul - Afterwards
15. Planet X - Quantum
 
Biggest dissapointments/failures:
Fear Of A Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree (WAYYYYYYYYYYY overratted)
Snakes & Arrows - Rush (BLAH)
Take Cover - Queensryche (AWFUL)

In no particular order:
1. DT- Systematic Chaos
2. Symphony X- Paradise Lost
3. Nightwish- Dark Passion Play
4. Scorpions- Humanity Hour-1
 
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In no order:
 
Suspyre - A Great Divide
Pagan's Mind - God's Equation
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Minds Eye - A Gentlemen's Hurricane
Sear Bliss - The Arcane Odyssey
Anubis Gate - Andromeda Unchained
Spheric Universe Experiment - Anima
Icarus Witch - Songs for the Lost

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Type O Negative - Dead Again
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Björk - Volta
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Tomahawk - Anonymous
Tori Amos - American Doll Posse

Dream Theater - Systematic chaos
Nightwish - Dark passion play
Symphony x - Paradise lost
Darkwater - Calling the Earth to Witness
Sieges even - Paramount
Neal Morse - Sola Scriptura
Thought Chamber - Angular perceptions
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a blank planet
 
etc etc etc
 
 

This year's releases have been a bit of a mixed bag. The big albums by Marillion, Blackfield, DT, Rush and PT were OK but certainly nothing special. The best two albums were from bands I didn't even know anything about until this year which at least suggests Progressive Rock, Metal is on the up. Anyway here is my favourite 5.
 
(1) Fair to Midland - Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True
(2) Oceansize  - Frames
(3) Marillion - Somewhere Else
(4)  Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
(5) Porcupine Tree - FOABP
 
 

For me its The Blackening (Machine Head) and Ziltoid the Omniscient.
surprised I haven't seen them here yet!

I also like Paradise Lost, Fear of a Blank Planet, and Dark Passion Play. Bit disappointed with Systematic Chaos.

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Turisas-The Varangian Way, Fair to Midland, Raintime-Flies and Lies.  I also really like Dark Passion Play.

1. Porcupine Tree - Fear of A Blank Planet/Nil Recurring
2. Neurosis - Given to the Rising
3. Big Business - Here Come the Waterworks
4. Rush - Snakes and Arrows
5. Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
6. Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti In Ignum Aeturnum
7. Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
8. Darkthrone - F.O.A.D
9. Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
10. 3 - The End is Begun
11. Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. I and II
12. Candlemass - King of the Grey Islands
13. Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
14. Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
15. Pelican - City of Echoes
16. Between the Buried and Me - Colors
17. High on Fire - Death is this Community
18. Circa Survive - On Letting Go
19. Symphony X - Paradise Lost
20. Today is the Day - Axis of Eden

Fair to Midland- Fables from a Mayfly

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I add Blackfield II to my previous list (at the top of it).

Oceansize - Frames

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Slightly OT here, but Matt, did you know there is a version of this, UK/Europe, that
has 4 bonus tracks and a live DVD from the current tour?
Let me know if you want it and I'll see what I can do.

 
Yep, my buddy's already got it on order.

When he gets it, I'll check out the bonus tracks to see if they're worth me picking up the CD, as well. As for the live DVD, it sounds like it would be awesome to see, but it's PAL only. So, I wouldn't be able to view it anywhere but in my PC. If they hadn't already filmed the Eindhoven show for a DVD, I would probably be more inclined to try to hunt this CD/DVD down.

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.

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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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

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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
 

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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

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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

-> my music collection

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

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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

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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?)

Mars, bitches.

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...

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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.

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

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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.

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)

you make me sick ........... because I adore you so

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.

"Seize the day!"

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

-> my music collection

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

The future's uncertain, and the end is always near.