Most Underrated & Most Deserving Of What They Got 2007 Albums
 

I wasn't sure whether this should be two topics or one, but I think it's fine merged. There are basically two questions at the heart of this one:

1: which albums of 2007 do you feel received reactions (from critics and/or fans) markedly below what they ought to have done,

and

2: which albums do you feel got everything they deserved in terms of positive responses?



I'll have to think further for my answers to question 1, but as for 2, I'll start it off with one of my favourite albums of 2007:

Spoon's Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga...which I just felt was an all-round tremendous pop record.

Under number 2: The Blackening by Machine Head
Was hailed a modern metal classic.
it most certainly ****ing is

The Blackening was actually pretty good. The best mainstream metal release of 2007.

Yeah it was freaking awesome.
I don't think that there many uber great releases in 07

Under number 1:
For Those Who Have Heart by A Day to Remember
Mainly because no one knows this ****ing class album.

1. I'm gonna have to repeat myself slightly here and say Wincing the night away, which was I thought the best record The Shins had ever made, yet I've read little to no accolades about it...(or I'm suffering from a severe bout of amnesia). The fans reacted appropriately though..

2. Radiohead - In Rainbows, musical event of the year, embraced equally by fans and media methinks, and deservedly so.

I think Icky Thump should come under 2. I say that because it got a lot of very good reviews, but also a lot of reviews that pointed out that in ways it was kinda meh. I kinda feel both ways about it at once.

All I can see people doing here is repeating what they said in here

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...st-2007-a.html

Really liked both of these albums. I enjoyed Oh Inverted World more than Wincing the Night Away though. I haven't gotten to listen to The Shins second album yet but I have read that it is their best. Don't know if that is true or not...

Of a poolshark?

1. The National's Boxer

2. Neon Bible by Arcade Fire