Best Albums of 2007

[RPS]

Man, what a year it has been. It has been a great year for music. Lots of great stuff has come out left and right. With less than a month left till the end of the year and in my opinion no notable releases coming out, I figure its acceptable to start the year end lists already. With lots of big releases coming out from Jay Z, Radiohead, The White Stripes, Kanye West and Fifty Cent, Amy Winehouse, the Foo Fighters, and The Arcade Fire, as well as critically acclaimed music from LCD Soundsystem, M.I.A and Battles, there is a shit load of music to choose from this year. Put as many CDs on the list as you want....

10. Daft Punk - Alive 2007

Not only one of the best releases of the year, but one of the best live albums, ever.

9.The White Stripes - Icky Thump

Although a very strong release at first, I haven't touched this CD since I saw them live. A great CD, but it seems to not be as interesting as I intitally thought.

8. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver.

Its a damn fine record, but it some songs lack the intial charm of Losing my Edge and Daft Punk is Playing at My House. Still a damn fine record.

7. The Good, The Bad, The Queen.

An album that grew on me - but when it did, man was it a classic. I feel as though unlike other albums on my list, this album will continue and continue to grow on me, and it very may well be one of the top albums from 2007 in a few years.

6.The Field - From Here We Go To Sublime

An unexpected hit for me. An overwhelming record that is fucking amazing to listen too.

5. Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City

I was unsure where to put this record. Start of the year it would have been in my bottom 5 list of the year. However, it is actually one of the most deep listens of the year. Hearing it live, it all made sense. Underneath the Radiohead-influenced sound is an amazing dance record. Just gotta have some patience.

4. Kanye West - Graduation

He out sold 50 Cent, sampled Daft Punk and Steely Dan and wrote one of the best CDs of the year. Hands down, one of the most important and relevant musicians around.

3. Justice - †

The new Daft Punk. Thats not to say that Daft Punk's time has come and gone - they've still got amazing music to make in the future. But Justice is taking the throne of electronica music and not thinking twice. † would have been the best album of the year had they filtered a two or three songs off their CD that weren't needed. D.A.N.C.E is by far the best song of the year.

2. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position

From the opening note, Patrick Wolf proves that he has changed. Gone is the brooding young man from Wind in the Wires and now we've got Patrick Wolf who is making a pop, feel good record. And Wolf never sounded better. The title track is perhaps one of the greatest pieces of music ever written.

1. M.I.A - Kala

M.I.A is coming back with powa powa. Top to bottom, the best CD of the year. She is the new counterculture. 30 years ago they had the Clash and today we have M.I.A. She knows that a women isn't supposed to say what she does. But she does it anyway. What else can say about her?

[gunnar hendershow]

Burial - Untrue

Above and beyond the best album released this year, arguably the best of this entire decade. Masterpiece is an understatement.

[apsham]

Matthew Good - Hospital Music

The Starting Line - Direction

New Found Glory - From The Screen To Your Stereo II

Cartel - Cartel

Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me

Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre

Jimmy Eat World - Chase The Light

Saves The Day - Under The Boards

These are the albums that I remember from this year that have stuck in my mind for various reasons.

[Skummy]

I've barely bought any new albums this year, but I have to agree with PRP that Kala is an absolutely incredible album...it's not something I ever would have picked up normally, but a friend of mine had been raving about her, and played me one or two tracks, I bought the album on a whim, and it's phenomenal, never once regretted buying it. Anyone that can mix borderline grime hip-hop with Bhangra beats and Jonathan Richman and Pixies lyrics, and do it that bloody well, is a-ok by me.

Sadly, I don't agree about Patrick Wolf's effort. It's a great album, but I don't think anything on it comes close to something like "The Libertine".

Robert Wyatt's "Comicopera" is a phenomenal album, as to be expected....folky pschy jazz rock wonderment, with one of my favourite voices in music. I'm not too fond of the second half when he ceases singing in English, and some of his lyrics are far from being his best work, but he's such an exquisite songsmith, everything just falls into place so beautifully, even when it seems like chaos, it just works better than it has any right to.

Julian Cope's "You Gotta Problem With Me" has been a grower lately. It's a little all over the place, with his Paganism/anti-religion obsession often crowbarred in, and he can't make his mind up whether he wants to be a metal god, punk rebel or Scott Walker-esque crooner, which is all a little jarring at first, but ultimately just adds to the album's charm. "Peggy Suicide Is A Junkie" is nice and self-referential, and a real stand-out track despite the incongruous "I'm the mother of Odin" line.

"This Fool Can Die Now" by Scout Niblett is a beautiful album, as was expected, as everything she touches turns to musical gold. Not quite as fun-loving and "wacky" as her earlier work, which if I wrote for Observer Music Monthly would lead me to claim she'd "matured as an artist" or some such bullshit, rather than just say that she's singing about love and death on this album, maybe she'll sing about dinosaurs and time travel again next time.

[Turbo Yannis]

I particularly enjoyed Tokyo Rose's "Promise in Compromise", Bffy Clyro's "Puzzle" and Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible"

[ROC]

10. Justice - †

I wouldn't go so far as to call them the new Daft Punk, and I don't think I ever have warmed up to "D.A.N.C.E." as a song, but some of the noisier bits are very awesome.

9. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

Here in the United States, our cokeheads are talentless hacks who at the end of the day wouldn't be missed too much as far as their actual contributions to their craft. However, England already has Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse to contend. And in Winehouse's case, I'm more amazed she attained U.S. popularity with a throwback style of 60's soul. And it's lovely soul at that.

8. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank

Modest Mouse is still kicking ass and they're still able to dig as dark as they want to and still be awesome. Mega props.

7. Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

Solid record, if admittedly one that slacks with multiple listens. It was amazing at first listen, though, so maybe a good year wait like fans took when re-listening to With Teeth could hold up the record that much more.

6. Kanye West - Graduation

And now it is time to admit my wrongs and say that if given the proper expectations, Kanye West's latest is sheer amazement. Kanye's so commercially viable that he uses Can and Steely Dan and people don't seem to be disinterested? That's pretty neat. And so is "Flashing Lights" and "Big Brother", the two true amazements of the record.

5. Caribou - Andorra

To go into "indie fag" mode, this is exactly the definition of a beautiful album. Nothing more to say. Dan Snaith managed to make a depressing lead single into a great listen ("Melody Day") and then knocked it out of the park for the next 8 songs.

4. !!! - Myth Takes

A hell of a fun record. It's just what is interesting to me about dance-punk in that !!! make a few songs on here that are very winding in length ("Bend Over Beethoven" being the best example) yet feel so frantic and still so sonically pleasing to be worth listening to again and again.

3. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

This is probably my grower of the year easily. After listening several times, all of the songs here really seep into your consciousness and I'll go against PRP and say that I think it's so much better than the debut record if only because there's finally some emotional peaks to travel along with the continually interesting electronic sound.

2. St. Vincent - Marry Me

Annie Clark is a wonderful, wonderful talent and on her first record where she leads the helm, she shows off her best features, which are namely her amazing guitar and piano talents and a great voice. (Well, and she's a decent looker, too.)

1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Just a purely great rock record. It's got enough room for its worldly subject matter and feel of importance, and yet it feels very intimate. It's obviously hard to say if time will be kind to this sort of record, but I feel like the average-joe lyrics of Win Butler hit on such a nerve that it's hard not to think people will love it 30 years into the future.

[YI]

Coppied from what I posted on another forum;

"Reunion Tour" by The Weakerthans

Fucking ace album. Bit of a grower, but amazing. Right up there with "Reconstruction Site". "Relative Surplus Value" and "Sun In An Empty Room" are fucking brilliant tracks.

"Shotters Nations" by Babyshambles

Seen it get a LOT of flack...but that's purely because it's Pete Doherty. If this had been put out by a random indie band all those elitist fucks would be on this like flies on shit. But because he's a smackrat who's had his dick in Kate Moss he gets a lot of shit. Fucking amazing. So poetic, but still pub singable, without you looking like a pansy. And "It's a lousy life for the washed up wife of the constantly plastered, pissed up basta®d", from "Baddies Boogie" may be my lyric of the year. "Carry On Up The Morning" may have my favourite riff of the year as well, so fucking dirty. Not sure I prefer it to "Down In Albion", that was far too long though, whereas this is fine how it is. Were amazing live as well (Good to see him sober), and I'm not normally one who enjoys 'arena' shows. They didn't do any Libertines tracks though.

"Sink Or Swim" by Gaslight Anthem

My favourite punk release of the year. So many powerful songs. Plus they really wear their influences on their sleeve and put in little homages, which I really like, however it never gets tacky, which it easily could do. Amazing vocals, simply amazing tunes. "Angry Jonny & The Radio", "Navesink Banks", "I'Da Called You Woody Joe" and "Drive", fucking amazing...in fact, every track on here is. What Against Me!'s major label debut SHOULD have sounded like, instead of the pile of suck it turned out to be.

"Boxer" by The National

I fucking adore the singers voice and style. The melodies are so intricate, the songs have a real sense of impending dread, yet at the same time are so beautiful and you just want to sing along to them. The National are one of the few bands I can think of who after 4 albums, their releases have arguably gotten BETTER and BETTER. "Fake Empire", "Mistaken For Strangers", Gospel", "Slow Show", "Racing Like A Pro"....amazing.

"Somewhere In The Between" by Streetlight Manifesto

Arguably my favourite Streetlight release, so, so, so, so fucking good. I mentioned my 'favourite lyric of the year' before. "We used to be in love (MY LOVE!), but now we're just in like, and we broke all our promises and baby that aint right"...is a CLOSE second. So much style, the album is just so cool. Get to see them next year, yeah it's supporting RBF (Twice as awesome), I really don't care, it's going to be great.

"Make This Your Own" by Cooper Temple Clause

Fucking badass band. A lot less progressive than their previous stuff, they were never overtly prog, but for a 'mainstream' rock act, they did some interesting stuff. Ironically, this is their most 'mainstream' sounding album, and it's their least succesful release (lack of major label backing, unlike the previous albums). However, I personally really love it. In similar style to The Libertines, 5 years ago they were basically responsible for crafting a whole new 'genre' of artists. The Libertines being a heavy influence on the current UK indie scene, with the likes of "Lets Kill Music" Cooper Temple Clause can basically be given credit for inspiring the current New Rave scene...eugh...whilst the likes of The Klaxons and Hadouken can fuck right off, CTC are awesome. This album's a little more mature and laid back. A lot less rocky than some of their other stuff. However, there's some TOP NOTCH tracks with the likes of "Connect", Head", "House of Cards", "Homo Sapiens", "Take Comfort" etc. Split up earlier this year, such a shame, as I never actually got round to seeing them live.

"A Weekend In The City" by Bloc Party

Bloc Party got a lot of flack circa "Silent Alarm" for being the band 'shoved down our throats' by the media. However, it was an amazing album. However, it's quite funny, that whilst the band who broke out around the same time like Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, The Bravery, Kaiser Chiefs all put out varying levels of shit (Kaiser Chiefs...jesus christ...how bad is that album, even the album cover really fucking sucks....it reminds me of growing up, my next door neighbours fucking hideous Hyundai Pony), Bloc Party have managed to trounce their first album, something the Arctic Monkeys couldn't do. In fact, I'm going 'on record' to say either this or the babyshambles release is the best sophomore, mainstream indie-rock album since Oasis put out "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?". Part of the reason for this is the middle of the album is SOOO GOOD..."Uniform", "On", "Where Is Home?" and "Kreuzburg" are a great run...whilst they wont be singles (although they arguably could be), they're amazing tracks, "Uniform" especially, which is my favourite on the entire record.

"Dumb Luck" by DnTel

I love The Postal Service, I quite like DnTel. To be honest. Prior to The Postal Service, I felt DnTel was good, but there were similar artists I found so much better, like Styrofoam. However this album totally changed how I felt about DnTel. Get in a shitload of guest vocalists. Working with Jenny Lewis, as Tamborello has done in The Postal Service, leads to another good partnership here, with "Roll On" being the standout track of the album. You've got Conor Oberst, aka. Bright Eyes guesting on here, giving it a bit of a 'big name' flavour. "Breakfast In Bed" is another great track, a little weird, and I know someone who despises it, although he has some sort of unhealthy obsession with wanting Bright Eyes dead, for no particular reason. The guest vocals really means each song has its own identity, and unlike the Postal Service work, it seems a lot more stylistic. Brilliant album. So many catchy songs.

"Blackhawks Over Los Angeles" by Strung Out

Fucking...duh! Really great album. The production that really dragged down EIO has been sorted out, for the most part. Fast, the best guitar work they've ever done. Jordan busts out his best drum work since EOSD in 2000. Lyrically, not as 'obtuse' as EIO was, but to be honest, that wouldn't have fit this album. I still find "Letter Home" so insinscere it pains me. I'd have much rather had "More Than Words" or "Novella" on the actually album. Also, very uplifting in places, especially towards the end, which is really nice, and a rare thing. "Downtown", "The King Has Left The Building", "Mission Statement" and "Diver"...an amazing run at the end of the album. After the dark stylings EIO, it's good to see 'hope' is still there. ¬_¬

"...And Their Refinement Of The Decline" by Stars Of The Lid

One of those albums you can just put on and get lost in. I still vividly remember the first time I actually gave this a listen. I fucking hated ambient stuff. But I downloaded it out of boredom and thought it'd help me sleep. I put it on my MP3 player...I lay there, totally engrossed in the musical landscape for the 2 hour duration of the album, it was astonishing. My love for it has wained over time, but that could very well be that it's an album you really have to be in the mood for, and there's no real 'standout' tracks by its very nature, and it's rare I have 2 hours at my disposal to sit and appreciate this.

"Knives Don't Have Your Back" by Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton

I admit. I never liked Metric. I heard their song about Monsters or whatever a couple of years back, I thought it sucked. However my music 'horizons' have opened a little more since then, although I still don't particuarly enjoy Metric. Now this....this is an AMAZING album. Mostly just piano and voice, with a little extra filling out. But it's so beautiful. Her voice is beautiful and somewhat seductive. There's some weird and interesting chord progressions, which leads to some great tunes. I challenge you to find me a song I'll enjoy more than "Crowd Surf Off A Cliff", this year. Off the top of my head, I can't think of one.

"People Who Can Eat People Are the Luckiest People in the World" by Andrew Jackson Jihad

Okay...when I mentioned my favourite lyric before...I forgot something..."There's a bad man in everyone, no matter who we are/There's a rapist and a nazi living in our tiny hearts/Child pornographers and cannibals, and politicians too/There's a man inside your head waiting to FUCKING STRANGLE YOU!!".......that's probably my lyric of the year. In fact AJJ's album is full of amazing quips like this. In short, the singer's an ANGRY, ANGRY MAN! Folk-Punk at its finest. What Against Me! should still sound like. ¬_¬ There's a pattern emerging here. ¬_¬

"We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank" by Modest Mouse

"Education", brilliant song. Some of the best vocal work I've heard in a long time. Maybe a couple of songs could have been cut from this, but it's difficult to choose as there's no overtly weak tracks. Just brilliant.

...there's probably a few I'm missing. I've heard up to about 250 albums from this year, so it wouldn't be hard to forget stuff. Interestingly, whilst at the start of the year I felt like this was going to be a huge year for punk-rock, there's been a fair bit of stuff which has been good, but arguably nothing in the region of The Falcon and Ignite were last year. Well Gaslight Anthem. But even the new Strung Out wasn't to the level of the two bands mentioned.

I find Justice to be pretty wank to be honest. Their tunes are actually really fucking shitty for the most part.

And "Andorra" by Caribou is awesome. "After Hours" is one of my tracks of the year.

Edited December 13, 2007 by YI

[Bushmeister]

Let's bust out some of the better albums this year from my point of view:

Pelican - City Of Echoes

Well, granted, I did expect more, but considering what kind of effort my other favourite bands turned in (Marduk and Leng Tch'e, I am looking at your ugly mugs ) this was way and well beyond a good album. While in general more mellow and post-rock than their previous works, they cranked out probably their most metal-oriented track yet with "Dead Between The Walls". Also, the acoustic track on the CD was, yet again, excellent. I'd maybe like to see an EP or a mini-CD in the future with just acoustic tracks on it. I'm hoping however that they go back towards the more metal-oriented sound they had on their first few releases, instead of watering it down too much. As of now, they stand as a great blend on the border between Isis and Explosions In The Sky, and I'd hate to see them slip too far into the EITS-territory.

Kronos - The Hellenic Terror

I believe "holy fucking shit" were the first words I spoke when the opening track "The Road To Salvation" began blasting out from my speakers. Cutting riffs as sharp as razor blades, convincing vocal work that sticks to your head and a drummer that has no trouble keeping up the speed or the brutality. What really suckered me in though was the lyrical content and the themes of Ancient Greece: "The Hellenic Terror" is centered around such Greek legends as the Odyssey and the adventures of Thebes and Perseus. It is very nice to see death metal bands branch out from the usual lyrical content, and for that plus top-notch execution Kronos get a big thumbs up from me.

Nile - Ithyphallic

Another death metal record, this time from a band with a proven streak of excellent releases, and Nile didn't disappoint this time either. They've further played down the "wall-of-sound"-effect that had been detrimental to their sound on their earlier works, and instead focus even more on the monstrous riffs that help prop up each track to stand on their own. The album is also paced much differently from their previous efforts, with many more mid- and slow-paced parts in the songs akin to the big crowd-pleasers "Black Seeds Of Vengeance" and "Cast Down The Heretic". However, while they are very much nice to scream along to in a concert, the repetition of the slow-paced parts make the album less replayable in my opinion. But hell, Nile is still fucking awesome, Karl Sanders is a monster on the axe, and with three vocalists all handling the burden of growling, there's a much wider range of variance in the vocals than in most death metal.

Volh - Solemn March Into The Ragnarok

It was pleasing to finally hear a black metal record from Russia that wasn't badly produced NSBM-bullshit. Being a one-man band, Volh gains points for the single fact that he is actually competent with all the instruments he plays. The production is calculated and "raw", but not to the point of being unlistenable. What really won me over were the vocals, which are very drawn-out and rather high-pitched for black metal screaming, as well as the guitarwork. Unlike a lot of "raw" black metal, the guitars actually depart from the standard, fast picking and occasionally soar to some majestic riffs, adding a lot of epic feel to otherwise relatively simple tracks. The best example of this is "Let Shine In The Spears Of Valkyries", which manages to feel like a very epic song and stay in your mind with just two short guitar parts spread to the middle and end of the song. A great album if you're even remotely into this sort of black metal.

Moonsorrow - Luku V: Hävitetty

A 50+ minute album with only two songs. Sounds crazy? It probably is too, and even crazier is that the second song has actually become somewhat of a staple of their live sets. Probably Moonsorrow's most ambitious release to date, and it shows. The songs take their good while to heat up, have plenty of beautiful interludes inbetween the crashing epic parts. Otherwise, this is vintage Moonsorrow: plenty of well-utilized keyboards, mammoth riffs and vocals ranging from growls to clean singing to black metal-ish shrieking. Definitively not light listening and something that needs a good few spins on the record player before hitting home, "Luku V: Hävitetty" is still in my opinion these guys best record since their sophomore album "Voimasta Ja Kunniasta".

[Steeb]

1) Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre

On the strength of Disc One alone. As Ollie noted to me, Disc Two is like a collection of songs, whereas Disc One is like this perfect, flowing, amazingly composed album. It's immense. Admittedly, I hated it the first time I listened to it. After going back a fortnight later, it gets listened to at least once a day now.

2) Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist

Not their best album, and to be honest, if 'United States' was removed, it'd probably struggle to get onto this list, but there's just something very very listenable about the majority of it.

3) Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

As ROC put it, it's a classic. It will still be loved in 30 years, as much as it is today. Seeing these songs live really makes them stand out for me, more than most albums. Excellent.

4) Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

I must admit, I don't listen to this album anymore, but that's mainly through over-listening before. It's an amazing album, full of excellent beats and breakdowns, and one that'll probably sound just as fresh after a short break.

5) The Used - Lies For The Liars

The Used have been a longtime 'dirty secret' for me, but this album makes them less dirty. It's great. Poppy, but still with its heavy moments. Non-standard progression, strength in Bert's voice, just very well done.

Although I'd probably change that list if I had a list of releases handy.

Edited December 14, 2007 by TSSTB

[Turbo Yannis]

Damn me for not having heard the new Say Anything album yet.

1) Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre

On the strength of Disc One alone. As Ollie noted to me, Disc Two is like a collection of songs, whereas Disc One is like this perfect, flowing, amazingly composed album. It's immense. Admittedly, I hated it the first time I listened to it. After going back a fortnight later, it gets listened to at least once a day now.

[R.W.]

I think I've only bought four albums this year, so they all get my vote:

"Memory Man" by Aqualung

"Time On Earth" by Crowded House

"Sawdust" by The Killers

"Drastic Fantastic" by KT Tunstall

[Vendetta]

The only two albums that I really enjoyed this year was Coheed and Cambria's and Against Me!'s "New Wave"

[Baddar]

Alter Bridge - Blackbird ...winner. (Y)

[Dan]

No World For Tomorrow ennit.

[Cactus Drags]

Say Anything have been a real find for me. Picked up In Defense of the Genre from a leak blog based purely on the name, and although it took a while to click, I now think it's a great album, particularly disc 1.

Other favourites this year are naturally Coheed and Cambria's No World For Tomorrow, although not on par with IKSOSE, I think it's a definite improvement over IV.

Reuben's In Nothing We Trust is also one of the highlights of the year, although not quite on par with their previous efforts.

My other standout for the year would be Atreyu - Lead Sails, Paper Anchor. I liked the earlier stuff, but toning down the screaming for more melodic vocals was definitely a good move.

[Liam]

I'm too cool to buy new albums, you dig?

But yeah, I forget what albums I actually got from 2007. Ireworks was pretty good, Reuben's new album was not up to par with the rest of thier stuff (though still good), and....yeah, thats about it. I've bough loads, I just forget what I actually listen to...

[Big Tuna]

I'll admit that I haven't listened to a whole lot of music this year, but these are the albums that I've really enjoyed

Demon Hunter - Storm The Gates Of Hell

Chris Volz - Redemption

Bloodsimple. - Red Harvest

Hellyeah - Hellyeah

illScarlett - All Day With It

Puddle of Mudd - Famous

Edited December 14, 2007 by Big Tuna

[YI]

Bloodsimple..........that is very possibly the worst band name I have EVER heard.

And Liam. Jesu. 2 albums (Although ones previously recorded stuff, but never released), 2 EP's and a split (With Eluvium, which is great).

Edited December 14, 2007 by YI

[Cactus Drags]

I have a Bloodsimple shirt from when they supported Trivium, but I only bought it because the design was pretty cool (involved handguns and blood smears). The band are awful. As re Hellyeah, who no one would even care about if not for the fame of their personnel.

[YI]

I don't like Hellyeah, because they remind me of punk-rock band "Hell Yeah! Fuck Yeah!" who I got a few songs by, and was expecting an album to be released this year, but nothing's come. Although I did only check them out because they had a song called "The Ghost Of Jim Cherry".

Okay...biggest dissapointments of the year?

"New Wave" by Against Me!

What a pile of wank. All their charm is gone, their style is gone. But even worse, the song writing is incredibly flat, and they went from being one of the most recognisable bands, with a very unique sound to a poor mans, shitty Modest Mouse.

The Joseph Arthur album

I can't remember its name, I deleted it, it sucked so badly. Really fucking bad, made even worse by how good "Nuclear Daydream" was last year.

Kaiser Chiefs

...see my thoughts on my next door neighbours Hyundai Pony which I mentioned during my Bloc Party paragraph.

"In Nothing We Trust" by Reuben

CONTROVERSIAL!! No seriously, I don't really like them as a heavy band. The last album was alright, but nothing brilliant. To be honest, I don't really get their cult status. This is too heavy. And not the good heavy. I like heavy. Heavy Reuben sounds incredibly forced to me. "Blood Bunny Larkhall" can fuck right off, it's shite. It just reaks of 'heavy for the sake of heavy'.

the new Stereophonics

The last album was REALLY good. Whilst they're a band I don't reguarly give spins to, I did have somewhat high hopes for this. I was let down.

"Is Dead" by Crime In Stereo

Some odd songs I really enjoy, everyone in the punk-rock community is creaming over their 'new sound'...I just don't overtly enjoy it. It's boring. Which is incredibly RARE thing for punk-rock, which by its very nature of being fast and either very poppy or very brash, should never be boring. The fact 'everyone' seems to love it doesn't help with my feelings to it either.

There's probably more.

Edited December 14, 2007 by YI