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The 2007 Year-End Crazy Ambition(Top 50 Singles, Numero Uno)
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DEP will soon take over the world.
Keep the hits comin', Louie.
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Era Vulgaris
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RIOT! and Era Vulgaris
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Graduation, Riot, Era Vulgaris . I must listened Ire Works.
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You're absolutely spot-on about Riot!
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Yeezy!
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Great sets. 3 of the albums in your top ten are on my list. Keep it coming!
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The 2007 Year-End Crazy Ambition(Top 15 Albums, 6-4)
Hooray! Albums 6-4! I'm on track to actually finish this by the end of the year! I can't stop using exclamation points!
[6] Bruce Springsteen - Magic
-- Hello, Boss. It's nice to see you again. This album is well and truly special, not just because it is a great album, filled with uplifting and sad music, both amazing, but because Bruce Springsteen is 58 years old and still putting out amazing music. This year was the year that I finally saw what the big deal was when it came to "The Boss", and this album was the culmination of that realization, as Springsteen decides to let loose and show all of these young kids that the old guys can still rock and still rock well, at that.
Songs To Seek: "Livin' in the Future", "Last to Die", "Devil's Arcade"
[5] The White Stripes - Icky Thump
-- After what I felt was a disappointing album in Get Behind Me Satan, The White Stripes decided to return to doing what they do best: rock the **** out. Just listen to the title track, if you want to understand what I'm talking about. This album also has its share of fun tunes, like their cover of "Conquest", which takes crazy to a whole new meaning and likes it, and "Rag and Bone", as the duo assume roles of junk dealers and have a blast doing so. This is the album that I was hoping for when I listened to GBMS for the first time. This is The White Stripes, performing White Stripes music and kicking White Stripes ass along the way.
Songs To Seek: "Conquest", "Icky Thump", "Effect and Cause", "Rag and Bone"
[4] Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
-- Now, the contrast of Era Vulgaris. Neon Bible is much higher ranked than its predecessor, Funeral, was on the year-end albums list, but the predecessor is BETTER, in this case. No matter, this is still an amazing album that features some of the better musical moments of the year. Take, for instance, "Intervention", an epic tune that has a tempo change that gets me every time. Or how about "Keep The Car Running", another beautiful tune in a series of them for the band? Of course, all of this pales in comparison to their cover of "No Cars Go", one of the most impressive and inspiring musical achievements of my lifetime and one of the greatest songs I have ever heard. It turns this album from a great album to a must-have album.
Songs To Seek: "No Cars Go", 'Intervention", "No Cars Go", "Keep The Car Running", "No Cars Go", "My Body Is A Cage", did I mention "No Cars Go"?
The top 3 albums will all be posted seperately. I'll probably have them all up by tomorrow, at the latest.
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"No Cars Go" is a cover?!??! By who?
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Originally posted by V3$$3L.
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"No Cars Go" is a cover?!??! By who?
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Arcade Fire, they had an earlier version that they remade for this album.
Magic! Icky! Neon! great choices
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Magic!!! so nice to see that on someone else's list.
The other two are very great choices as well.
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Why don't you kick yourself out? You're an immigrant too! :-)
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Way to recognize Foos, LP and FOB in your close calls.
List-wise. Excellent to see the obvious in there; White Stripes, QOTSA, Dillinger, etc.
Big surprises for so high? PARAMORE. Nice.
Also great for Kanye West, although I'd argue "Graduation" is his best album to date.
Oh and big up for Canada. The Arcade Fire WHAT.
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The 2007 Year-End Crazy Ambition(Top 15 Albums, #3)
Woo, top three time! You will see why these three albums got seperate posts, just because of the sheer length of the write-ups. Huzzah!
[3] Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
Some people are so fickle, I swear. We finally get new material from System of a Down's ringleader, and it's SOLO material, something that has been anticipated by quite a few people, and yet some people complain because it sounds too much like System. Okay, let's make one thing clear right now: If this album DID NOT sound like System in some way, shape or form, how many casual fans would have stopped listening to the album around the halfway point? Too many, I'd say. Even still, quite a few people were disappointed by the album. Honestly, this is one case where I'm absolutely okay with being in the minority, because I feel that this album absolutely kicks ass.
I feel that Serj does enough to at least seperate himself from his former band by creating an album that is, at the same time, quirky and immense. "Empty Walls", the opening track, alone makes this album worth seeking out, but this album's not just "Empty Walls" and a bunch of filler. "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" is one of the most ambitious songs that Serj has ever been a part of, and certainly nothing like we've ever heard from the frontman of one of the world's biggest metal bands. The rumored upcoming single "Lie Lie Lie" has one of the most ridiculous parts in any song I've heard in years, but it's so well done that I can't help but love it. "Saving Us" is pure power, and it is, maybe, just maybe, the best song on the entire album and one of the best songs of the year. Even the filler tunes are, at least, interesting. Thank god for Serj. In a year where I started to feel like breaking away from music, it was people like Serj who kept me interested and kept me entertained long enough to stick around and enjoy all of this good music that hit me head on later in the year.
Songs To Seek: "Saving Us", "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition", "Empty Walls", "Baby", "Beethoven's ****"(I refuse to censor it! REFUSE!)
I'm on a roll, so I may be able to get #2 and #1 up tonight. MIGHT. If not, they will almost certainly be up tomorrow.
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The 2007 Year-End Crazy Ambition(Top 15 Albums, #2)
Yep, I'm officially on a roll. Here's #2.
[2] Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero/Y3RZ3R0R3M1X3D
Up until August, this was, far and away, my album of the year, and nothing else was even close. It was everything that I wanted With Teeth to be, and I LOVED that damn album. Kickass beats, awesome vocals, fun lyrics, sing-a-long moments, this album, simply, has it all, and I think it's pretty safe to say that this album took over my life throughout the spring and summer, providing me with a lot of entertainment and support. Through tough and not-so tough times, through thick and thin, Year Zero was always there, either to keep me entertained or to pick me up when I was down, and that's something that I'll never forget, as well as something that I will always cherish.
Man, where to even begin with this album? If you want to know what this album is about or its background, go look it up on Wikipedia. That's not what I'm here for. I'm here to tell you why I like what I like, and, in this case, I love. When the first four YZ tracks leaked out to the public, I was really excited. When I first heard the whole album, my greatest hopes were realized. While With Teeth was a good album and certainly a good time waster, Year Zero is, through and through, a Nine Inch Nails album, done by NIN and by Trent Reznor, done with intense precision and perfect ability. I mean, from top to bottom, this is an absolutely excellent album, with VERY few weak spots. Songs like "Survivalism", "Vessel", "God Given", "The Great Destroyer", "My Violent Heart", "Me, I'm Not", and "Zero-Sum" are songs that I would love to take with me on a desert island to enjoy for the rest of my days. Then, there's "In This Twilight", which was originally, I swear to god, my least favorite of the first four leaked YZ tracks, but has since went on to become a classic, in my eyes, and nothing short of fantastic. Just like Year Zero itself.
Near the end of the year, YZ got the remix treatment. If I had any balls at all, I would have seperated the two. Even then, the remix album could well have made the albums list on its own. The Pirate Robot Midget remix of "My Violent Heart" is, dare I say it, better than the original. And I can't mention the remix album without the addition of lyrics to "Hyperpower!", as Saul Williams turns the song into a song by the name of "Gunshots By Computer". It is fascinating to listen to Williams take an instrumental and make it into one of the better tracks of 2007. While I wouldn't put the remix album on par with the original(the remix of "Me, I'm Not" is just pretentious ********), it would have been good enough to, at least, make the close calls, if not the top 15 itself.
Songs To Seek: "In This Twilight", 'Me, I'm Not", "God Given", "Survivalism", "Zero-Sum"
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Love the Serj album. Finnicky on the NIN.
But again, loving Tankian.
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The 2007 Year-End Crazy Ambition(Top 15 Albums, #3, #2, Recap/#1)
Before I get to #1, here's a recap, for those who are lazy and won't take the time to read the rest of the list...
[15] M.I.A. - Kala
[14] Static-X - Cannibal
[13] Thrice - The Alchemy Index, Vols. 1 & 2: Fire & Water
[12] The Nightwatchman - One Man Revolution
[11] Jay-Z - American Gangster
[10] Kanye West - Graduation
[9] The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
[8] Paramore - Riot!
[7] Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
[6] Bruce Springsteen - Magic
[5] The White Stripes - Icky Thump
[4] Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
[3] Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
[2] Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero/Y3RZ3R0R3M1X3D
And now, finally, #1! And it should come as a shock to no one by now...
[1] Korn - Untitled
Really, only three albums had a shot at #1, and only two had a serious shot. While Year Zero was a life-changing album that is one of the pinnacles of Trent Reznor's career, I have to give the nod to an album that built upon another fantastic album and took out all of the few weaknesses it had to create an album for the ages. I've already done an extensive review of this album that you can find in my blog, and not much has changed of my opinion since then, so, compared to the writeup for Year Zero, this is going to seem short in comparison, but there's not much else I have left to add. I will mention that, the first time that I listened to this album in full, I could not believe what I had just heard. Could it be? An album...BETTER than See You on the Other Side?! Pshaw. No way. And SYOTOS may still be more of a favorite to me. But Untitled could well be better. And that's no easy feat, true, but SYOTOS did have a few stinkers, whereas the worst tunes on Untitled have redeeming qualities.
The fact of the matter is, even as a three man band, I love Korn to death, and with albums like this one, it's really not that hard to see why. Korn just works for me. They were, are, and will always be, the one band that I can rely on in times of trouble, the one band that I can point to and thank for easing me into the music that I listen to today and helping me mature into the person that I am today, and the one band, above all others, that I love. And that will never, ever change.
Songs To Seek: All of them? Only five? Argh. Um..."Starting Over", "Ever Be", "Kiss", "Innocent Bystander", "Killing"
I'd, seriously, like to thank everyone who has commented so far on all of this. It really makes me feel like my hard work has paid off. Next up is another one of the biggies, The Top 40 Non-Singles of 2007. Until then...
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Serj Tankian's album is so great as well as NIN and KoRn.
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KoRn's was o.k.
Great to see a different #1!
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