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2007 - A YEAR OF MUSIC ...
Albums worth another mention in no particular order (majority released over the past 12 months)
    
Albums are given marks out of 10: All albums given 10 or 9 are essential! - All albums given 8.5, 8+ and 8 are highly recommended,
those given 7.5 are very good and recommended (while a 7+ is much better than a 7 but not as impressive as a 7.5), a 6.5 or 6+ are good to decent, a 6 is average or just about acceptable, while anything from 5.5 downwards start to sound a bit grim, and all albums under a 3 should be removed from their cases and would have much better use as a beermat (biermat)!
THE VERVE - This Is Music (The Singles `92 - `98) {CD & DVD} (Virgin) 8/10
INSPIRAL CARPETS - Cool As {2 CD & DVD} (EMI) 8.5/10
GORILLAZ - D-Sides (Regal / Parlophone / Virgin) 7.5/10
BURIAL - Untrue (HyperDub) 7.5/10
ANOUK - Who`s Your Momma (EMI Benelux) 1.5/10
THE KILLERS - Sawdust (Mercury / Island) 7/10
SCOUTING FOR GIRLS - Scouting For Girls (Epic) 5/10
THE WOMBATS - A Guide To Love Loss And Desperation (14th Floor / Warners) 7.5/10
THE RAVEONETTES - Lust Lust Lust (Fierce Panda) 6/10
APPIE KIM - (=AOK) (Willie Anderson Recordings) 7/10
SIGUR ROS - Hvarf : Heim {2 CD} (EMI / Geffen) 7.5/10
CARTER USM - You Fat Bastard {Best of} (EMI) 8+/10
THE LIBERTINES - Time for Heroes {Best of} (Rough Trade) 6/10
NINE BLACK ALPS - Love/Hate (Island) 6+/10
RADIOHEAD - In Rainbows (XL Recordings / ATO) 7.5/10
OCEANSIZE - Frames (Superball) 5/10
JACK PENATE - Matinee (XL) 5.5/10
STEREOPHONICS - Pull The Pin (V2) 2.5/10
THE HUMAN VALUE - Push and Pull (Big Deal Records) 7.5/10
THE HIVES - The Black and White Album (Polydor / Interscope) 6.5/10
BABYSHAMBLES - Shotter's Nation (Parlophone / EMI) 2/10
BEIRUT - The Flying Club Cup (4AD / Ba Da Bing!) 7/10
iLiKETRAiNS - Elegies To Lessons Learnt (Beggars Banquet) 8+/10
CONTROL {soundtrack} - various artists - (Warners) 7.5/10
PJ HARVEY - White Chalk (Island) 7.5/10
MOKE - Shorland (PIAS) 5/10
FOO FIGHTERS - Echoes Silence Patience & Grace (BMG / RCA) 5/10
PURESSENCE - Don't Forget to Remember (Reaction) 7+/10
ENNIO MORRICONE - La sconosciuta {ost} (Sony) 7.5/10
IAN BROWN - The World Is Yours (Polydor) 6.5/10
THE DYKEENIES - Nothing Means Everything (Lavolta / Columbia) 7+/10
MARC BOLAN & T.REX - Greatest Hits (UMTV / Universal) 8+/10
REVEREND & THE MAKERS - The State of Things (Wall Of Sound) 6.5/10
THE PROCLAIMERS - Life With You (UM3 / Universal) 7+/10
KT TUNSTALL - Drastic Fantastic (Relentless / Virgin / EMI) 8/10
HARD-Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West (Atlantic / Warners) 6/10
THE DEAD 60s - Time To Take Sides (Deltasonic) 7+/10
SIOUXSIE - Mantaray (UM3 / Universal) 7+/10
DRAGONS - Here Are The Roses (Ohm) 2/10
SAYBIA - Eyes on the Highway (EMI) 6+/10
ATHLETE - Beyond the Neighbourhood (Parlophone) 4+/10
THE CORAL - Roots & Echoes (Deltasonic) 7/10
KATE NASH - Made Of Bricks (Polydor / Fiction) 6.5/10
KULA SHAKER - Strangefolk (own label) 3.5/10
GOODBOOKS - Control (Columbia) 7.5/10
PETER BJORN AND JOHN - Writer's Block (Almost Gold / Wichita / V2) 7/10
THE ENEMY - We'll Live And Die In These Towns (Warners) 7/10
ART BRUT - It's A Bit Complicated (Mute) 7+/10
SMASHING PUMPKINS - Zeitgeist (Warners) 7/10
HAPPY MONDAYS - Unkle Dysfunctional (Sequel) 6.5/10
NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB - Fantastic Playroom (Island) 7+/10
THE NATIONAL - Boxer (Beggars Banquet) 6/10
INTERPOL - Our Love to Admire (Parlophone / Capitol) 8/10
GARBAGE - Absolute Garbage (Warners / Almo Sounds) 6+/10
MAPS - We Can Create (Mute) 7.5/10
AIR TRAFFIC - Fractured Life (EMI) 5+/10
EDITORS - An End Has A Start (Kitchenware) 7/10
SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO - Attack Decay Sustain Release (V2) 7+/10
THE CRIBS- Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever (Wichita / V2) 6/10
GHOSTS - World Is Outside (Atlantic) 6.5/10
THE WHITE STRIPES - Icky Thump (XL) 7.5/10
TINY DANCERS - Free School Milk (Parlophone) 5/10
THE TWANG - Love It When I Feel Like This (B-Unique) 6+/10
PIGEON DETECTIVES - Wait For Me (Dance To The Radio) 6.5/10
VIVE LA FETE - Jour de Chance (Bang / Surprise) 1.5/10
Death Proof (Grindhouse) {soundtrack} - various artists - (Warners) 7/10
MARILYN MANSON - Eat Me, Drink Me (Polydor / Interscope) 7/10
CANDIE PAYNE - I Wish I Could Have Loved You More (Deltasonic) 7+/10
MANIC STREET PREACHERS - Send Away The Tigers (Columbia) 6+/10
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - Era Vulgaris (Polydor / Interscope) 5.5/10
THE LODGER - Grown-Ups (Angular / Slumberland Records) 7+/10
TORI AMOS - American Doll Posse (Columbia Records) 7.5/10
BON JOVI - Lost Highway (Mercury) 0.5/10
BJORK - Volta (One Little Indian) 7.5/10
KREZIP - Plug It In (Sony Benelux) 4/10
THE BRAVERY - The Sun & The Moon (Polydor) 5+/10
LINKIN PARK - Minutes To Midnight (Warners) 3.5/10
TRAVIS - The Boy With No Name (Independiente) 8/10
1990s - Cookies (Rough Trade) 6/10
MACCABEES - Colour It In (Polydor) 7/10
SHITDISCO - Kingdom Of Fear (Fierce Panda) 7+/10
JAMES - Fresh As A Daisy: The Singles {2CD} (Mercury / Universal) 7.5/10
AVRIL LAVIGNE - The Best Damn Thing (RCA / Columbia) 2.5/10
ARCTIC MONKEYS – Favourite Worst Nightmare (Domino Records) 8+/10
KINGS OF LEON - Because of the Times (RCA / Columbia) 7+/10
COCOROSIE - The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn (Touch & Go) 5.5/10
Life On Mars {soundtrack BBC TV series} - various artists - (Sony) 7.5/10
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Sound of Silver (DFA) 7.5/10
THE CINEMATICS - A Strange Education (TVT / Rough Trade) 6.5/10
PREFAB SPROUT - Steve McQueen {2cd} (BMG / Kitchenware) 8+/10
MAXIMO PARK - Our Earthly Pleasures (Warp) 6.5/10
ENTER SHIKARI - Take to the Skies (Ambush Reality / PIAS) 7.5/10
KAISER CHIEFS - Yours Truly, Angry Mob (B-Unique) 7/10
FIELDS - Everything Last Winter (Atlantic) 7/10
HORRORS - Strange House (Polydor) 6.5/10
ARCADE FIRE - Neon Bible (Merge / Sonovox) 9/10
AIR - Pocket Symphony (Virgin) 7/10
THE FRAY - How To Save A Life (RCA) 5/10
HUSKY RESCUE - Ghost is not real (Catskills records) 6.5/10
FIELD MUSIC - Tones of Town (Memphis Industries / V2 in Europe) 8+/10
WITHIN TEMPTATION - Heart of Everything (Roadrunner) 2/10
CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - Some Loud Thunder (Wichita / V2) 6.5/10
NOISETTES - Whats The Time Mr Wolf (Mercury) 4/10
FALL OUT BOY - Infinity on High (Mercury / Decaydance / Island) 7.5/10
BLOC PARTY - A Weekend in the City (Wichita / V2 in Europe) 6/10
KLAXONS - Myths of the Near Future (Polydor) 8/10
THE VIEW - Hats off to the buskers (1965 Records) 7.5/10
AMY WINEHOUSE - Back to Black (Island) 6/10
HOT CLUB De PARIS - Drop it `til it pops (Moshi Moshi Records) 7/10
COPARCK - The 3rd Album (V2) 5/10
RODRIGO Y GABRIELA - Rodrigo Y Gabriela (Ruby Works) 7+/10
TOKYO POLICE CLUB - A Lesson In Crime (Memphis Industries / V2 / Paper Bag Records) 7/10
THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN - The Good, The Bad & The Queen (Parlophone) 8/10
DAMIEN RICE - 9 (East West) 5+/10
JARVIS COCKER - Jarvis (Rough Trade) 7.5/10
JOANNA NEWSOM - Ys (Drag City) 4/10
GET CAPE. WEAR CAPE. FLY - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager (Atlantic) 7/10
ARAB STRAP - Ten Years Of Tears (Chemikal Underground) 6.5/10
THE HUMAN VALUE - The Human Value (Big Deal Records) 8.5/10
THE LONG BLONDES - Someone To Drive You Home (Rough Trade) 5/10
BAT FOR LASHES - Fur and Gold (She Bear / Echo) 8.5/10
LILIAN HAK - Love's Victory March (Steamin Soundworks) 6+/10
BADLY DRAWN BOY - Born In The UK (EMI) 6.5/10
BABY BIRD - Between my ears there's nothing but music (Chrysalis) 7.5/10
THE KILLERS - Sam's Town (Island) 6/10
THE FRATELLIS - Costello Music (Island) 7.5/10
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG - 5:55 (Because) 7.5/10
CAPTAIN - This Is Hazelville (EMI) 7.5/10
ZERO 7 - The Garden (Atlantic) 7+/10
MUSE - Black Holes and Revelations (Atlantic / Warners) 7.5/10
HOT CHIP - The Warning (EMI) 8/10
THE AUTOMATIC - Not Accepted Anywhere (B-Unique) 7/10
CANSEI DE SER SEXY - CSS (Sub Pop / Warners) 7.5/10
iLiKETRAiNS - Progress Reform (Fierce Panda) 7.5/10
PANIC! AT THE DISCO – A Fever You Can`t Sweat Out (Decaydance Records) 8/10
SNOW PATROL – Eye`s Open (Polydor / A&M Records) 6.5/10
¡FORWARD, RUSSIA! - Give Me a Wall (Dance To The Radio) 4/10
MORRISSEY – Ringleader of the Tormentors (Attack / Sanctuary Records) 8/10
YEAH YEAH YEAHs – Show Your Bones (Polydor) 7.5/10
MASSIVE ATTACK – Collected (Virgin Records) 8+/10
KEANE - Under The Iron Sea (Island) 3.5/10
THE FUTUREHEADS - News and Tributes (Warner / 679 / Vagrant - depending on country) 8.5/10
THE RACONTEURS - Broken Boy Soldiers (V2) 6/10
THE KOOKS – Inside In / Inside Out (Virgin Records) 6/10
PLACEBO – Meds (Hut Records / Virgin / EMI) 7.5/10
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN – The Life Pursuit (Rough Trade) 8/10
ARCTIC MONKEYS – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (Domino Records) 8.5/10
THE STROKES – First Impressions Of Earth (Rough Trade) 7/10
BETH ORTON – Comfort of Strangers (Heavenly Records) 7/10
INFADELS – We Are Not The Infadels (PIAS) 6.5/10
NEW ORDER – Singles (2005 - London Records) 9.5/10
CAMERA OBSCURA - Let's Get Out Of This Country (Elefant Records) 7+/10
GUILLEMOTS - Through The Window Pane (Fiction Records) 6/10
DAVID ARNOLD - Casino Royale (Sony / BMG) - OST 7.5/10
    
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2007 - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY (the best, the worst & the most over hyped guitar orientated drivel ever to get a record released):
THE GOOD – ARCADE FIRE, ARCTIC MONKEYS, PANIC! AT THE DISCO, THE FUTUREHEADS, DEPECHE MODE, HOT CHIP, BAT FOR LASHES, iLiKETRAiNS, KLAXONS, KT TUNSTALL, INTERPOL, THE HUMAN VALUE, TRAVIS, PJ HARVEY, ENTER SHIKARI & FIELD MUSIC
THE BAD – THE DEARS, KATIE MELUA, WOLFMOTHER, VIVE LA FETE, GWEN STEFANI, ¡FORWARD, RUSSIA!, PINK & KEANE
THE UGLY – JULIETTE & THE LICKS, BON JOVI, ATHLETE, ANOUK, THE SHEER & BABYSHAMBLES
NOT CONVINCED YET (despite the hype!) – COPARCK, THE MAGIC NUMBERS, GUILLEMOTS, THE KOOKS & THE LONG BLONDES.
    
© AAPA - 2007
ALBUM OF THE YEAR - 2007
click here for the NOMINATIONS and how to vote!!
Our overview with a "Best of 2007" compilation in one Play List can now be found - > HERE
There are more CD reviews in the Dutch language & TOP 10 ALBUMS by TerryA on the musicmeter.nl website (where it is marks out of 5) - > HERE
    
ALBUM OF THE YEAR - 2006
click here for the NOMINATIONS and WINNERS!!
Our overview with a "Best of 2006" compilation in one Play List can now be found - > HERE
The direct links for MUSIC NEWS (per month) can be found below...
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