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| From | "Scott Pazur" <powerpop@z3d.net> |
| Subject | Top 25 of 2007 (et al) |
| Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:22:31 -0500 |
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I had a hard time ranking everything this year. No solid #1 like most
years, and I thought about just listing 2-25 and leaving #1 empty. Instead,
I picked my fave 25 and just ranked them in groups of 5. The order of 1-5
can change daily depending on my mood. I too am getting popped out as I get
older, and actually find myself liking more and more power in my pop. I
also notice that my tastes are getting farther away from most in this group.
A couple of the releases that appear to be headed for the year's top 10 I
found to be awful. As in "how could anyone record this and try to take
anyone's money for it" bad. I won't name names in order to avoid the
inevitable flame war, but I'll just chalk it up to my old age.
Not too many notes, sorry, not much free time these days. I'm sure you all
have googling skills if there are any you've never heard of...
Scott
2007 Top Albums
01-05 Treaty Of Paris - Sweet Dreams Sucker
If you had a gun to my head and told me to pick one as #1, this would
be it.
Reminds me a little of a heavier Ike, or Superbeing and Stereo 360
from previous years.
01-05 Farewell - Isn't This Supposed To Be Fun
Local band for me who got a nice record deal, changed their sound from
crap
To heavy power pop, and seem to be really nice guys who have patience
to put
Up with my teenage daughter and her friends at their shows. And they
took it
All in stride when their performance at Warped on the solar powered
stage went
Dead after a few minutes on a cloudy day.
01-05 Everybody Else - Everybody Else
They've been mentioned on list a lot, you should know them. Classic
power pop.
01-05 Melee - Devils And Angels
Very surprising that this one didn't get more love from the list.
01-05 The Rocket Summer - Do You Feel
This kid can't do anything wrong, feel good music from start to
finish.
06-10 We The Kings - We The Kings
06-10 Faber Drive - Seven Second Surgery
06-10 Farrah - Cut Out And Keep
06-10 Sherwood - A Different Light
06-10 Orson - Culture Vultures
11-15 Air Five - Write My Story
11-15 Big Kid - Big Kid III
11-15 Devlin Murphy - My First
11-15 Relient K - Five Score And Seven Years Ago
11-15 Rooney - Calling the World
16-20 The Fools - 10
16-20 Eric Hutchinson - Sounds Like This
16-20 Everyday Sunday - Wake Up Wake Up
16-20 Holmes - Stop Go
16-20 New Found Glory - From The Screen To Your Stereo Part II
21-25 Down To Earth Approach - Come Back To You
21-25 Hedley - Famous Last Words
21-25 Junior - Are We Famous Yet
21-25 Sparkwood - Kaleidoscopism
21-25 Verona Grove - The Story Thought Over
2007 Top EPs
01-05 Jonathan Jones - Welcome Home
01-05 Airdate - Summer Sampler
01-05 Green River Ordinance - Way Back Home
01-05 Hello Kelly - Green Things Grow
01-05 Shyaway - Rise And Shine Little Sleepyhead
06-10 Ian Axel - I'm On To You
06-10 Phil Dutra - Right Behind The Rain
06-10 Madelyn - Monday Girl
06-10 We Shot The Moon - The Polar Bear And Cougar
06-10 Andy Werth - Seeing Stars
2008 Top Albums
I've heard the We Shot The Moon advance, awesome.
2008 Top Anticipated Releases
Jack's Mannequin
Ike (just noticed this added at cdbaby, will be in my next order. John Faye
is another who does no wrong)
2007 Also Rans (25 other releases I considered for my top 25)
48May - Streetlights And Shadows
Ed Ackerson - Ed Ackerson
All Time Low - So Wrong It's Right
Cartel - Cartel
Castella - How Did We Get Here
The Click Five - Modern Minds And Pastimes
The Color Fred - Bend To Break
David Doll - Headsets For Jets
Scott Fisher - Step Into The Future
Handclaps And Harmonies - Handclaps And Harmonies
John Hoskinson - Pancho Fantastico
Jackdaw4 - Bipolar Diversions
Jet Lag Gemini - Fire The Cannons
Limbeck - Limbeck
Low Level Flight - Urgency
Melody Fall - Consider Us Gone
Motion City Soundtrack - Even If It Kills Me
The Nines - Gran Jukle's Field
The Playing Favorites - I Remember When I Was Pretty
Readymade Breakup - Isn't That What It's For
The Red Button - She's About To Cross My Mind
Self Against City - Telling Secrets To Strangers
Sister Hazel - Bam Vol 1
Chris Swinney - Major 3rd
Waking Ashland - The Well
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