If the second half is like the first, we'll be doing great.
Modest mouse was great
White Stripes were great
QotSA came out with 2 or 3 decent songs
I think Beale Street to Oblivion came out this year and that was solid
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
Portugal.The Man - Church Mouth
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
65Daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideals
Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez - Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
Just got that one of Saturday. From the reviews I had read I was expecting a faster, more aggressive album, but it does seem pretty good. It may take a while for me to fully digest by that's how I am with Nick Cave in general. He's one of my favorite musicians but I don't generally fall in love with his albums on the first listen.
A couple other strong 2007 releases are:
Jesu—"Conqueror"
The Book of Knots—"Traineater"
Tin Hat—"The Sad Machinery of Spring"
Panda Bear—"Person Pitch"
yes but she creates a unique sound through sampling, it's more original....I listen to plenty of artists that sample but Rihanna just takes songs I like and are easily recognizable. She sampled Orgy for one of her songs. She also sampled MJ for that one dance song of her that's kinda popular right now. I forget the name of it.
Circa Survive - Of Letting Go
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
Red Museum - Greenlake Demo
The Nuraber Twelve Looks Like You - Mongrel
Elliott Smith - New Moon
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid! The Omniscient
Tera Melos - Drugs to the Dear Youth
Portugal. The Man - Church Mouth
The Sound of Animals Fighting - Tiger and The Duke (Re-Release)
Small Leaks Sink Ships - Until The World Is Happy; Wake Up You Sleepyhead Sun
Minus The Bear - Planet of Ice
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
65DaysofStatic - The Destruction of Small Ideals
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Aqueduct - Or give me death
Arcade Bible - Neon bible
Architecture in Helsinki - Places like this
Arctic Monkeys - Favorite worst nightmare
Bloc Party - A weekend at the city
The Bravery - The sun and the moon
The chemical brothers - We are the night
Feist - The reminder
Interpol - Our love to admire
Justice - (Cross)
Kings of Leon - Because of the times
Klaxons - Myths of the near future
Lcd SounRABystem - Sound of silver
Mika - Life in cartoon motion
The National - Boxer
Of montreal - Hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
Panda bear - Person pitch
Queens of the stone age - Era vulgaris
Rihanna - Girl gone bad
Rufus Wainwright - Release the stars
Ryan Adams - Easy tiger
The shins - Wincing the night away
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack decay sustain release
Spoon - Ga ga ga ga ga
Travis - The boy with no name
The White Stripes - Icky thump
My favorite sings this year have to be:
"Scream and Shout"-Dirty Penny off of their album "Take It Sleezy"
and...
my new "Para Siempre" album from the Gypsy Pistoleros!!!