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The Best Albums of 2007This page last updated on December 21, 2007.
John Metzger's Top Albums of 20071) Robert Plant / Alison Krauss - Raising Sand 2) Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime 3) Son Volt - The Search 4) Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog 5) Lucinda Williams - West 6) Fountains of Wayne - Traffic and Weather 7) Wilco - Sky Blue Sky 8) Josh Rouse - Country Mouse, City House 9) Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full 10) Joni Mitchell - Shine 11) Patti Scialfa - Play It As It Lays 12) Kings of Leon - Because of the Times 13) Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters 14) Lyle Lovett - It's Not Big It's Large 15) Mary Gauthier - Between Daylight and Dark 16) Soulsavers - It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land 17) Bruce Hornsby/Christian McBride/Jack DeJohnette - Camp Meeting 18) Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II 19) Peter Rowan & Tony Rice - Quartet 20) Gill Landry - The Ballad of Lawless Soirez For more information, please also see John Metzger's Annotated List
Douglas Heselgrave's Top Albums of 20071) Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective - Watina 2) Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog 3) Marcel Khalife - Taqasim 4) Teddy Thompson - Upfront and Down Low 5) Lucinda Williams - West 6) Habib Koite & Bamada - Afriki 7) Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters 8) John Prine - Standard Songs for Average People 9) Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II 10) Dobet Gnahore - Na Afriki For more information, please also see Douglas Heselgrave's Annotated List
Best Boxed Sets (3 or More CDs/DVDs)David Bowie - David Bowie Miles Davis - The Complete On the Corner Sessions Paul McCartney - The McCartney Years Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons - Jersey Beat: The Music of Frankie Valli & The 4 Seasons Various Artists - Summer of Love: The Hits of 1967 For more information, please also see our Annotated List of 2007's Best Boxed Sets, Live Albums, and Music DVDs
Most Memorable Songs1) Lucinda Williams - Are You Alright? 2) Patti Scialfa - Play It As It Lays 3) Robert Plant / Alison Krauss - Killing the Blues 4) Radiohead - House of Cards 5) Lyle Lovett - South Texas Girl 6) Wilco - What Light 7) Trey Anastasio - The 5th Round / The Horseshoe Curve 8) John Fogerty - I Can't Take It No More 9) John Mellencamp - Rural Route 10) Amy Winehouse - Rehab For more information, please also see our Annotated List of 2007's Most Memorable Songs
Best Reissues 1) The Doors - Strange Days 2) Sly & the Family Stone - Stand! / There's a Riot Goin' On 3) Pretenders - Learning to Crawl 4) Miles Davis - Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet / Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet 5) Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen 6) Dolly Parton - Coat of Many Colors 7) Al Green - The Definitive Greatest Hits 8) The Doors - L.A. Woman 9) Leonard Cohen - Songs from a Room / Songs of Love and Hate 10) Thelonious Monk - Plays Duke Ellington 11) Lee Scratch Perry - The Upsetter Collection: A Lee Perry Jukebox 12) Various Artists - Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller 13) Van Morrison - The Best of Van Morrison, Volume 3 14) The Doors - The Doors / self-titled 15) Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Best Live Albums / DVDs 1) Jimi Hendrix - Live at Monterey 2) Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall: January 19, 1971 3) Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire 4) Thelonious Monk - Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival 5) Grateful Dead - Live at the Cow Palace: New Year's Eve 1976 6) Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy - Cornell 1964 7) Jefferson Airplane - Sweeping Up the Spotlight: Live at the Fillmore East 8) Miles Davis - Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival 9) Louis Armstrong - Live at the 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival 10) Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Best Holiday Outings / Reissues / Compilations Over the Rhine - Snow Angels Mindy Smith - My Holiday 3 Fox Drive & Friends - Christmas Grass, Volume 3 Various Artists - A Holly Jolly Kids Christmas
Best Documentaries / Films The Beatles - Help! Tim Buckley - My Fleeting House Dixie Chicks - Shut Up & Sing Bob Dylan - The Other Side of the Mirror: Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965 Ahmet Ertegun - Atlantic Records: The House that Ahmet Built Various Artists - Chasin' Gus' Ghost The Who - Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who / Six Quick Ones
Notable Enhanced Audio ReleasesWith the advent of DVD-Audio, SACD, and DualDisc technology, music Genesis - A Trick of the Tail Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
Music for ChildrenDel McCoury Band - Little Mo' McCoury
BooksClay Eals - Steve Goodman: Facing the Music Steve Martin - Born Standing Up Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child - The Wheel of Darkness Chris Salewicz - Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer Michael Streissguth - Johnny Cash: The Biography
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