The Best Albums of 2007
This page last updated on December 21, 2007.
John Metzger's Top Albums of 2007
1) 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 2007
1) 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 Songs
1) 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 Releases
With the advent of DVD-Audio, SACD, and DualDisc technology, music
making — both past and present — has taken on a whole new dimension.
Classic efforts are being re-mixed and newer outings are being recorded
from an entirely different perspective. These are some of the most notable
reissues and releases of 2007.
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
Music for Children
Del McCoury Band - Little Mo' McCoury
Books
Clay 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
Michael Veal - Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae
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