Tuesday, December 25, 2007

2007 List...and then some

Here's some lists to get you in the mood for 2007's....If I Listed these, I own them and they're important enough to be in my I-tunes...as you know damn well that I have enough music in my collection that's NOT on the computer that i can open my own used cd store.....

40th Anniversary Albums (1967 for you mathematicians):
The Beatles "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" & "Magical Mystery Tour"
The Doors "The Doors" and "Strange Days"
Jeff Beck "Truth"
Jimmy Hendrix "Are You Experienced?" and "Axis: Bold As Love"
Velvet Underground & Nico "The Velvet Undergrond"
The Who "The Who Sell Out"

30th Anniversary Albums (1977 if you still can't find your calculator):
AC/DC "Let There Be Rock"
Cheap Trick "Cheap Trick" & "In Color"
Aerosmith "Draw the Line"
Dead Boys "Young, Loud, and Snotty"
Kiss "Love Gun"
Ramones "Leave Home"
Sex Pistols "Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols"
T. Rex "Dandy In the Underworld"
Television "Marquee Moon"

25th Anniversary Albums...1982:
Aerosmith "Rock In a Hard Place"
Bruce Springsteen "Nebraska"
Dire Straits "Love Over Gold"
Iron Maiden "Number of the Beast"
Led Zeppelin "Coda"
Misfits "Walk Among Us"
Social Distortion "Mommy's Little Monster"
Van Halen "Diver Down

20th Anniversary Albums...(1987):
Aerosmith "Permanent Vacation"
Def Leppard "Hysteria"
Guns N Roses "Appetite For Destruction"
Motley Crue "Girls, Girls, Girls"
Naked Raygun "All Rise"
Pixies "Come On Pilgrim (EP)" & "The Purple Tape (Fan Bootleg)"
Sepultura "Schizophrenia"
U2 "The Joshua Tree"

A mere 15 years ago, these were released....
Alice In Chains "Dirt" & "Sap (EP)"
Beastie Boys "Check Your Head"
Body Count "Cop Killer"
Chainsaw Kittens "Flipped Out In Singapore"
Danzig "Danzig III: How the Gods Kill"
Faith No More "Angel Dust"
Green Day "Kerplunk!"
Helmet "Meantime"
Iron Maiden "Fear of the Dark"
Jawbreaker "Bivouac"
Kyuss "Blues For the Red Sun"
Megadeth "Countdown to Extinction"
Ministry "Psalm 69"
Monster Magnet "Spine of God"
Mother Love Bone "S/T"
Nine Inch Nails "Broken (EP)" & "Fixed (Import/EP)"
Nirvana "Incesticide"
Pantera "Vulgar Display of Power"
Rage Against the Machine "S/T"
Screaming Trees "Sweet Oblivion"
Screeching Weasel "Wiggle"
Social Distortion "Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell"
Sonic Youth "Dirty"
Sponge "Rotting Pinata"
Stone Temple Pilots "Core"
Sublime "40oz to Freedom"
Supersuckers "Smoke of Hell"
Tool "Opiate"
White Zombie "La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, vol.1"

10 years doesn't seem like that long ago....
Aerosmith "Nine Lives"
Bad Religion "Tested (Live)"
Blue Meanies "Full Throttle"
Blur "S/T"
Drain S.T.H. "Horror Wrestling"
Faith No More "Album of the Year"
Foo Fighters "The Colour and Shape"
Fu Manchu "The Action Is Go"
Godsmack "S/T"
Green Day "Nimrod"
Helmet "Aftertaste"
HUM "Downward Is Heavenward"
Machine Head "The More Things Change"
Metallica "Reload"
Offspring "Ixnay on the Hombre"
Radiohead "O.K. Computer" & "Airbag/How Am I Driving? (EP)"
Sevendust "S/T"
Shiner "Lula Divinia"
Silverchair "Freak Show"
Smoking Popes "Destination Failure"
Supersuckers "Must've Been High"
Triple Fast Action "Cattlemen Don't"
U2 "Pop"

and now for 2007's list(s)....
There may be some surprises and there may be some given choices, but here's my year end list..in no particular order....enjoy!

Devildriver "Last Kind Words"
Baroness "Red Album"
Machine Head "Blackening"
Against Me! "New Wave"
Smashing Pumpkins "Zeitgeist"
Clutch "From Beale St. to Oblivion"
Down "III - Over The Under"
Nine Inch Nails "Year Zero"
Soilwork "Sworn To a Great Divide"
Neurosis "Given to the Rising"
Arrivals "Marvels of Industry"

Kings of Leon "Because of the Times"
Burning Brides "Hang Love"
Avenged Sevenfold "Avenged Sevenfold"
Tiger Army "Music From Regions Beyond"
Every Time I Die "The Big Dirty"
Dethklok "The Dethalbum"

Battles "Mirrored"
Darkest Hour "Deliver Us"
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club "Baby 81"
Velvet Revolver "Libertad"
Radiohead "In Rainbows"
Between The Buried And Me "Colors"
Fu Manchu "We Must Obey"
High on Fire "Death is this Communion"
Queens of the Stone Age "Era Vulgaris"
White Stripes "Icky Thump"
Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"
Shot Baker "Awake"
3 Inches of Blood "Fire Up the Blades"



Not total let-downs, but non-expectation-meeting albums:
Marilyn Manson "Eat Me, Drink Me"
Hot Hot Heat "Happiness, Ltd."
The Donnas "Bitchin'"
Foo Fighters "Echos, Silence, Patience & Grace"
The Stooges "The Weirdness"
Chris Cornell "Carry On"
Bullets & Octane "Song for the Underdog"


Honorable Mentions:
Feist "The Reminder"
Megadeth "United Abominations"
Bad Religion "New Maps of Hell"
Bayside "The Walking Wounded"
Black Light Burns "Cruel Melody"
The Cribs "Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever"
Modest Mouse "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank"
Nine Inch Nails "Y34rz3R0r3m1x3d"
Tim Armstrong "A Poet's Life"
Weedeater "God Luck and Good Speed
Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Is Is" (E.P.)
A Wilhelm Scream "Career Suicide"
Arctic Monkeys "Favourite Worst Nightmare"


Best compilations and/or live albums:
Death Proof (OST)
The Afghan Whigs "Unbreakable (A Retrospective)"
We Love Ennio Morricone
300 (OST)
Sigur Ros "Heim/Hvarf"
Chuck Ragan "The Blueprint Sessions"

♥,
Uncle J.