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

Boxer? It made like 11 top ten albums lists and topped at least 2 of them.

Um wrong. It was number 1 on one list and in one others top 10. If the criteria for being underrated/overrated is being based on the year end lists I don't see why this needed separate thread since I made that thread so the lists could be, you know, discussed.

Um, no. It was on the top 10s of:

PopMatters
Billboard (staff consensus)
The Onion AV Club
Delusions of Adequacy
Lost At Sea
Filter
No Ripcord
Paste Magazine (as number ONE)

It was also counted in the Hartford Courant's end of year top 10 at number ONE (though you may consider this unimportant) and was on two of the Austin Chronicle top 10 end of year staff lists (again, perhaps unimportant).

Whatever one's take, that's a fairly substantial degree of recognition.

That still doesn't look like 11 and the album isn't very heavily discussed.

It's eleven counting those newspaper lists.

I agree with you though that it's not heavily discussed. It was one of the records that got a huge amount of critical attention but relatively little fan attention. Which is a pity, as it's imo a great album. I probably had it spinning more than everything else in 2007, if someone were keeping records.

Favourite track: Mistaken For Strangers

If anything was ever blown out of any sensible proportion, Boxer has got to be it...they were in Croatia a few weeks back and I couldn't be bothered to go and see them... It was just that bland...and this is coming from someone who loves Alligator...the only track that's worth a listen is Fake empire. After more than a half a dozen listens I'm still not able to tell you the names of the other songs...they all sound so dreadfully alike...

I remember liking tracks 1 through to 4. Then just nodding off from 5 onwards. This was at first. I gave up. Months later I was about to get rid of the CD altogether when I decided to give it one more try. A few listens, and I was finding that I really liked 5-12 afterall. It was a weird experience. Taught me what "grower" meant...in more drastic ways than previously conceived.

wilco's blue sky blue was great,.....

About the Boxer what I was thinking about it was the fact it sold very poorly really...in it's first week of release it sold about 9000 copies and Favourite Worst Nightmare 225000 only in the UK. In the end it may have earned some recognition by some press, but it wasn't really appreciated by the public...I live in Cyprus and shops didn't even bother to order it so people could buy it, and in my opinion along with Neon Bible it was the best record of the year...I mean come on,Timbeland's Shock Value sold 1 mil,I don't have anything against him,but...I think you get my point here.

1: The Classic Crime, Seattle Sessions