Best Albums of 2007
Here I am, to tell you what I know to be the best 5 albums of 2007. I know there were thousands of albums put out by thousands of artists, but these are the best:
-Straightjacket – Steven Delopoulos
-Neon Bible – The Arcade Fire
-The Trumpet Child – Over The Rhine
-Armchair Apocrypha – Andrew Bird
-And it’s a toss-up between The Reminder [Feist], Cease to Begin [Band of Horses], and Everybody [The Sea and Cake].
I would have loved to have posted Caedmon’s Call’s Overdressed or Jeremy Casella’s RECOVRY or Andrew Osenga’s Letters to the Editor, Vol 1… But I picked what I picked. And it is how it is. Another band I’ve been introduced to that I think you all (Clyde) should really listen to is a band called Fleet Foxes. Czech out their Myspace page
Monday, December 31, 2007 at 10:02 am
what about throwing punches in the dark?
Monday, December 31, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Clyde, as much as I love Mr. Jones, the album was, though really really good, very contemporary and not entirely original. His voice is like a sunset on a cool summer evening in Heaven, but the album lacked some serious originality.
I feel really bad for saying that.
But I can’t get around it.
Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at 11:57 am
yeah, i got the album this week. i love it a lot, and i have since I had the trial listen earlier this year.
I think I agree with you to an extent, perhaps not innovative in all ways, but it’s extremely listen-able and well-written.
If it our rating is based purely on innovation, Danielson Familie would win every year they put an album out
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 8:51 am
One must ask, though, if
1). Originality is even possible, and
2). If that alone should dictate ‘goodness’
As C.S. Lewis once wrote, we should never judge Literature (but I think it applies to all art) on whether or not it’s ‘new’ but if it’s good.