Best Albums of 2007

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1.

In Rainbows 

 Radiohead

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"My college roommate and I decided that we were sick of hearing about Radiohead and how great they were, and to allow us to be fully educated in our dislike of Radiohead we decided that we should only listen to Radiohead for one week. After one week we would be able to definitively say that Radioh...""My college roommate and I decided that we were sick of hearing about Radiohead and how great they were, and to allow us to be fully educated in our dislike of Radiohead we decided that we should only listen to Radiohead for one week. After one week we would be able to definitively say that Radiohead was no good, and that we gave them a fair chance. We decided that we would download In Rainbows since it was "Pay What You Want" and at the time I wanted to pay nothing. After the week was up, we both decided that we were completely wrong. This album now ranks in the top 3 albums for both me and him of all time. I have since bought the physical copy of this and many of the other Radiohead albums. "  [+]  Reply

- ars2458 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (10 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

2,985 charts

Rank Score:

41,114

Rank in 2007:

1

Rank in 2000s:

1

Overall Rank:

7

Average Rating:

 89 (3,983 votes)

Comments:

398

2.

Sound Of Silver 

 LCD Soundsystem

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"This is a brilliant album. I can't believe I've forgotten to add it too my chart for so long! So many good influences on it and the lyrics say so much in so little. Always play it before parties to get in the mood, songs like "Someone Great" and "All My Friends" remind me to cherish my time with ...""This is a brilliant album. I can't believe I've forgotten to add it too my chart for so long! So many good influences on it and the lyrics say so much in so little. Always play it before parties to get in the mood, songs like "Someone Great" and "All My Friends" remind me to cherish my time with my friends. I think thats one of the highest compliments I can give an album."  [+]  Reply

- andy_hunter | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +11 votes (12 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

1,245 charts

Rank Score:

11,498

Rank in 2007:

2

Rank in 2000s:

12

Overall Rank:

109

Average Rating:

 84 (1,412 votes)

Comments:

85

3.

For Emma, Forever Ago 

 Bon Iver

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"I thought there was no way I could love this album more than the self-titled follow-up (which I heard first), but I was wrong. It deserves all the hype it gets. If anything, the less produced sound augments the gentle vocal style of Justin Vernon."  Reply

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Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

1,259 charts

Rank Score:

10,498

Rank in 2007:

3

Rank in 2000s:

15

Overall Rank:

120

Average Rating:

 83 (1,548 votes)

Comments:

115

4.

Boxer 

 The National

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"It's probably difficult to find a lead singer with such a deep, bass voice with songs this consistently good, able to vary up his vocal delivery enough to keep it all interesting. (See crash test dummies for an opposite example.) They're sort of an understated, inward-indie version of The Hold St...""It's probably difficult to find a lead singer with such a deep, bass voice with songs this consistently good, able to vary up his vocal delivery enough to keep it all interesting. (See crash test dummies for an opposite example.) They're sort of an understated, inward-indie version of The Hold Steady, with jams that rock, just not in a customary ROCK way. Tough for me to pick a favorite on this album. "fake empire" is the full boxer introduction, with subtly paranoid lyrics ("Tiptoe through our shiny city / With our diamond slippers on / Do our gay ballet on ice / Bluebirds on our shoulders") and a building of horns and piano to the end which is quite engaging. "mistaken for strangers" is where the lower-case rawk starts, with the pounding drums and clanging guitars setting up mr invisible ("Oh, you wouldn't want an angel watching over / Surprise, surprise, they wouldn't wanna watch / Another un-innocent, elegant fall / Into the un-magnificent lives of adults"). In love with a smart woman in "brainy", the guitars are more intricate and atmospheric but the drums are still energetic as the song seems like a lazy stalker song with a chorus of "You might need me more / Than you think you will / Come home in the car you love / Brainy, brainy, brainy" (but i think they're already in a relationship). Love the drums on "squalor victoria" too, with a string section that adds some spooky tension, giving way to piano and lines like "Out of my league, I have birds in my sleeves / And I wanna rush in with the fools". "slow show" wants to "get my shit together", almost seductive in a nerd/oaf way singing "I wanna hurry home to you / put on a slow, dumb show for you / and crack you up". There's a urge to hole up inside with a loved one in "apartment story" ("We?ll stay inside till somebody finds us / Do whatever the TV tells us / Stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days")."  [+]  Reply

- paladisiac | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

1,041 charts

Rank Score:

9,352

Rank in 2007:

4

Rank in 2000s:

20

Overall Rank:

143

Average Rating:

 82 (1,222 votes)

Comments:

92

5.

Neon Bible 

 Arcade Fire

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"This album is a masterpiece, and yeah, everybody has a different taste. But I can say in my opinion this is the best Arcade Fire album, yes, better than Funeral (That's a lot to say). I guess that's why this webpage is great, because there's a huge variety of people with different taste."  Reply

- luigybetis | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

1,241 charts

Rank Score:

8,943

Rank in 2007:

5

Rank in 2000s:

24

Overall Rank:

154

Average Rating:

 82 (2,028 votes)

Comments:

149

6.

Favourite Worst Nightmare 

 Arctic Monkeys

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"I think this album gets some unnecessary hate. I mean, yes it's not as unique or technically proficient as Whatever People Say I Am... but because of that it makes for a less harsh and a more relaxed listen. Just top notch songwriting and brilliant storytelling."  Reply

- DN02RZU | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

768 charts

Rank Score:

5,524

Rank in 2007:

6

Rank in 2000s:

44

Overall Rank:

299

Average Rating:

 80 (1,351 votes)

Comments:

64

7.

Untrue 

 Burial

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"This was my first exposure to Burial's music. After seeing it mentioned so often in the year after its release as being a defining album in electronic/dubstep music. I listened to it distantly at first, in the background, as I carried on with other household stuff. My first impression was a bit '...""This was my first exposure to Burial's music. After seeing it mentioned so often in the year after its release as being a defining album in electronic/dubstep music. I listened to it distantly at first, in the background, as I carried on with other household stuff. My first impression was a bit 'meh', I wasn't a big fan of R&B vocals and it seemed to be choc full of it. And the electronic beats were so subtle that they didn't have much of an impact on me. But I persevered, knowing that you must give good music time to seep in, and surely all those experts weren't wrong. Of course it was the headphones that took me there eventually. The vocals were, in fact, used ingeniously, taking snippets of cut samples that melded into the layers of electronica perfectly. And those subtle beats were actually like a painter's brush strokes that required close observance to appreciate the art. I never looked back after this and much of his best work appears on EPs which makes it hard to know where to place them in the scheme of GOAT lists. But Untrue is a pure album that has no fillers and it thoroughly deserves to be recognized as one of the GOAT albums. ALBUM HIGHLIGHT: Each song has it's own argument for being the highlight of the album but I think Archangel best encapsulates the feel of Untrue ."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

570 charts

Rank Score:

5,088

Rank in 2007:

7

Rank in 2000s:

49

Overall Rank:

329

Average Rating:

 80 (629 votes)

Comments:

38

8.

Oracular Spectacular 

 MGMT

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"Great album with so many catch hooks and tremendous mix of 60s psychedelia and 80s new wave. Time to Pretend is one of, if not the best song to come out since the turn of the century, and there are many other great songs on this album too."  Reply

- maverick470 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

918 charts

Rank Score:

5,067

Rank in 2007:

8

Rank in 2000s:

50

Overall Rank:

331

Average Rating:

 79 (1,256 votes)

Comments:

70

9.

Graduation 

 Kanye West

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"One cruel thing about our critical and judgmental society is once you prove your greatness, you are then held to that standard. Mr. West had set the bar incredibly high from the get go, and still, with his third release, he proves his consistency and realness. Again, an album loaded with hits tha...""One cruel thing about our critical and judgmental society is once you prove your greatness, you are then held to that standard. Mr. West had set the bar incredibly high from the get go, and still, with his third release, he proves his consistency and realness. Again, an album loaded with hits that still push the hip-hop and pop game further leaps and bounds. An album with enough singles to be better than most other artists, and yet the only knock on it is that it didn't come before his first two albums, which were the first of its kind."  [+]  Reply

- smrtboi2120 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

603 charts

Rank Score:

3,976

Rank in 2007:

9

Rank in 2000s:

69

Overall Rank:

422

Average Rating:

 78 (1,154 votes)

Comments:

65

10.

Fear Of A Blank Planet 

 Porcupine Tree

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"I agree with the fact that the music of Porcupine Tree (PT), brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and writer Steve Wilson, is defined as neo prog rock, although it still feels like such a definition is unable to capture the brilliance that typifies PT. More than Muse or Radiohead, PT compiles dark...""I agree with the fact that the music of Porcupine Tree (PT), brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and writer Steve Wilson, is defined as neo prog rock, although it still feels like such a definition is unable to capture the brilliance that typifies PT. More than Muse or Radiohead, PT compiles dark and hypnotic riffs, but does not deviate too far from classical and extremely solid songwriting. The accessibility of melodies bathing in melancholy makes "Fear of a Blank Planet" (2007) a record that stretches the line of the previous releases, even though the songs are heavier and slower here and there. For a good and complete understanding I can recommend reading "Lunar Park" by Bret Easton Ellis. The lyrics of the songs are based on that book. Wilson is not unique in his reflections on an alienated and bored youth and the emptiness that dominates today's Western society ("I'm totally bored, but I can't switch off" from "Anesthetize"). Technology no longer only offers solutions, but it encourages and promotes continuous use. But that’s exactly how technology undermines the social foundation of humanity and the emotional life of individual people. More and more people avoid public life and feel safe in their darkened room. What is worse: it does not look like people are revolting to straighten out what is currently completely out of balance. People can no longer detach themselves from the existential crisis with which they struggle day in and day out. They are driven to supermarkets like zombies, are effortlessly manipulated and exploited, but don’t seem to give a damn. No critical note. The use of drugs is also discussed. It’s easy to see the this and previous theme are connected. Young people turn away from a society in which they can hardly survive and flee in escapism through the use of drugs. They deny the outside world and don't even bother to find a reason to exist anymore. Because of the effects and a daring choice of instruments (the basis of "Sleep Together" is a great synth riff) this is in no way a mainstream album. The rich, atmospheric carpets of sound (keyboard player Richard Barbieri of the legendary band Japan) are interspersed with bombastic dynamics. Also striking are the arrangements for strings (London Session Orchestra) that on "Sleep Together" are reminiscent of "I am the Walrus" of the Beatles. In short: "Fear" is a very balanced and well-balanced album without weak moments. Wilson's vocals are good and, above all, very believable. All songs blend together almost unnoticed and are relatively long. Excellent arrangements and pretty good twists in the structure of the songs make “Fear” unmistakably a highly recommended piece of art."  [+]  Reply

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Year of Release:

2007

Appears in:

439 charts

Rank Score:

3,767

Rank in 2007:

10

Rank in 2000s:

73

Overall Rank:

447

Average Rating:

 81 (608 votes)

Comments:

36

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Best Albums of 2007 composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	12	1%
Genesis	3	0%
Neil Young	2	0%
Sam Amidon	2	0%
Bright Eyes	2	0%
Cowboy Junkies	2	0%
Jean Michel Jarre	2	0%
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Country	Albums	%
	436	44%
	195	20%
	53	5%
	48	5%
	35	4%
	32	3%
	27	3%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	953	95%
Yes	47	5%

Live?	Albums	%
No	975	98%
Yes	25	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	995	100%
Yes	5	1%