OT: Best album of the year?

[Onno]

Lots of us in the blue (as in cold) states not riding much this time of year, or riding on trainers listening to music, so this OT thread might not be totally OT.

Last year seems like a stellar year in music. Or at least I've found a number of truly fantastic albums.

My nominees:

"Boxer" by The National (also discovered the older "Alligator", even better)
"Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon" by Devendra Banhart
"White Chalk" by PJ Harvey
"In Rainbows" by Radiohead

Others?

[Viper]

ATMO, tell me I am wrong:

[Erik.Lazdins]

ATMO, tell me I am wrong:

The Joshua Tree - a couple decades ago it was new!

[Fixed]

u2 3d

[chrisroph]

dirt farmer, levon helm

[Viper]

u2 3d

:D

[don'TreadOnMe]

best new pop music I've actually purchased...In Rainbows.
continuously revealing.

[quehill]

No contest- "Neon Bible" by Arcade Fire

[maunahaole]

the latest from Wilco is good.

[rounder]

Road to Escondida - J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton

[csm]

albums? can you still buy those?

[jmeloy]

Boys And Girls in America - The Hold Steady
Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
Put Your Ghost to Rest - Kevin Devine (catch this guy if you can!)
Sky Blue Sky - Wilco

[MarleyMon]

"waterloo, tennessee" - uncle earl
"live in the northeast" - hot buttered rum

[Sasha18]

I think it was a slow year in music. That said, I've been listening to in rainbows. My ears are coming around to wilco's new one. Juries still out on LCD Soundsystem.

[chrisroph]

did wilco live in chicago come out this year? that's real good.

[WadePatton]

Last album I bought was Men At Work, about 1982 or something?

I met a stange lady, she made me nervous... ;)

[TACSTS]

Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"
Radiohead "In Rainbows"
Neko Case "Live from Austin Tx"
Bright Eyes "Cassadaga"
Ryan Adams "Easy Tiger"

Those are the ones that stand out to me off the top of my head. '07 was a pretty good year for music to me, hope '08 will be as kind!

[Chris]

The new Crowded House is really good. Saw them in Kansas City in support of the album and they were amazing.

[Russell]

One of these four:

Boxer – The National
Neon Bible – Arcade Fire
Civilians – Joe Henry
Magic - Bruce Sprinsteen

[Acotts]

I think that there were three really good albums to come out last year

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga
Radiohead - In Rainbows
And You will No Us by The Trail Of Dead We Leave Behind - Worlds Apart

[jthurow]

I keep coming back to In Rainbows more than any other album I picked up this year. Battle's Mirrored is another that get's put in frequent rotation when I want somethin' different.

I've always considered the collections of songs to be an album, which is not defined by the medium on which the songs are presented. Albums can be on records, tape, disk, sheet music or performed live.

jimi

[old_school]

unearthed jem
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413Kev3v3mL._SS500_.jpg

[mschol17]

In Rainbows, certainly

[sc53]

Mavis Staples, We'll Never Turn Back
Allison Krauss and Robert Plant, Raising Sand
Crowded House, Time on Earth
Ricki Lee Jones, The Sermon on Exposition Blvd
Iron and Wine, The Shepherd's Dog
Bruce Springsteen, Magic
Bill Frisell, Floratone

[jthurow]

Bill Frisell, FloratoneI've been dying to hear more from this album. It sounds like a great concept given the personnel.

jimi

[sc53]

Buy it, it's great!

[Onno]

I've been dying to hear more from this album. It sounds like a great concept given the personnel.
jimi

Can you explain what it means that on this album (Frisell's Floritone), which I also like a lot, the back cover lists 4 people, 2 of whom are referred to as producers rather than musicians (as I recall, I don't have the cd in front of me)? It makes me think that much of the music is computer generated. What, in other words, is the 'concept'?

[jthurow]

Can you explain what it means that on this album (Frisell's Floritone), which I also like a lot, the back cover lists 4 people, 2 of whom are referred to as producers rather than musicians (as I recall, I don't have the cd in front of me)? It makes me think that much of the music is computer generated. What, in other words, is the 'concept'?It's not computer generated. Frisell and drummer Matt Chamberlain did a bunch of improv jamming and then producers Tucker Martine and Lee Townsend took the tapes and made the songs which became the album. Check it, http://www.songtone.com/floratone/bio/main.htm.

jimi

[bcm119]

Keep coming back to-
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Battles - Mirrored
Interpol - Our Love to Admire