Adam Weidman
Top 10 Albums
1. Motion City Soundtrack – Even If It Kills Me
2. The Actual – In Stitches
3. Straylight Run – The Needles the Space
4. All Time Low – So Wrong, It’s Right
5. Limbeck – Limbeck
6. Foo Fighters – Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
7. The Starting Line – Direction
8. Your Sweet Uncertainty – Your Sweet Uncertainty
9. Alkaline Trio – Remains
10. Four Year Strong – Rise or Die Trying
Honorable Mention
Sherwood – A Different Light
Mayday Parade – A Lesson in Romantics
Boys Night Out – Boys Night Out
Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light
New Found Glory – From Your Screen to Your Stereo Part II
Coconut Records – Nighttiming
The Spill Canvas – No Really, I’m Fine
Treaty of Paris – Sweet Dreams, Sucker
Scenes from a Movie – The Pulse
Dashboard Confessional – The Shade of Poison Trees
Steel Train – Trampoline
Top EP’s
1. Nightmare of You – Bang
2. American Diary – The Brightest Colors
3. The Morning Light – The Sounds of Love
4. Holiday Parade – This Is My Year
5. Every Avenue – Ah!
6. The Dangerous Summer – If You Could Only Keep Me Alive
7. The Sugi Tap – The Sugi Tap
8. Forever the Sickest Kids – Television Off, Party On
9. PlayRadioPlay! – The Frequency
10. The Spill Canvas – Denial Feels So Good
Best Songs of 2007
1. The Actual – “Between the Bridge and the Chapel”
2. Motion City Soundtrack – “It Had to Be You”
3. Coconut Records – “West Coast”
4. All Time Low – “Let It Roll”
5. The Sugi Tap – “Little Tiny Everything”
6. Four Year Strong – “Heroes Get Remembered, Legends Never Die”
7. Just Surrender – “Your Life and Mine”
8. Limbeck – “Bird Problems”
9. The Starting Line “Island”
10. The Format – “Does Your Cat Have a Mustache?”
Disappointment Albums
1. Cartel – Cartel
2. Saves the Day – Under the Boards
3. Bright Eyes – Cassadaga
4. The Academy Is… – Santi
5. The Used – Lies for the Liars
6. The Rocket Summer – Do You Feel
7. Say Anything – In Defense of the Genre
8. MxPx – Secret Weapon
9. Reel Big Fish – Monkeys for Nothin’ and the Chimps for Free
10. Hot Hot Heat – Happiness Ltd.
“Guilty Pleasure” Album of 2007
Yellowcard – Paper Walls
Best Music DVD
The Format – Live At The Mayan Theatre
Saddest Band Break Ups of 2007
1. The Actual
2. Allister
3. The Early November
4. Spitalfield
5. Hidden in Plain View
Top 10 2008 Anticipations
1. The Matches
2. New Found Glory
3. Taking Back Sunday
4. Hellogoodbye
5. The Loved Ones
6. Head Automatica
7. Bayside
8. Thursday
9. Jack’s Mannequin
10. The Hush Sound
Best Live Show
Straylight Run
Best New Band
We the Kings
Most Overrated Band
Paramore
Most Underrated Band
The Spill Canvas
Top 5 Movies of 2007
1. The Simpsons Movie
2. 28 Weeks Later
3. King of Kong
4. Reno 911: Miami!
5. Halloween
Top 5 TV Shows of 2007
1. The Office
2. Entourage
3. Hell’s Kitchen
4. South Park
5. Little People, Big World
Anticipated Movies for 2008
1. 1-18-08 / Cloverfield
2. Harold & Kumar 2
3. Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull
4. Rambo 4
Final Note: Thank you all for visiting the site, I wish each of our visitors all the best in the New Year!
– Adam
Bryce Jacobson
Top 10 Albums
1. Jimmy Eat World
2. Motion City Soundtrack
3. Anberlin
4. Sherwood
5. Relient K
6. Farewell
7. The Graduate
8. Four Year Strong
9. Angels & Airwaves
10. MxPx
Top EP’s
1. The Dangerous Summer – If You Could Only Keep Me Alive
2. The International Drive – Finish What You Started
3. American Diary –
4. Dropout Year – Best Friends For Never
5. The Years Gone By – On The Verge
Disappointment Albums
1. Cartel – Cartel
2. Say Anything – In Defense of The Genre
3. June – Make It Blur
4. The Receiving End of Sirens – The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi
5. Emery – I’m Only A Man
Saddest Band Break Ups of 2007
1. Spitalfield
2. The Early November
3. Hidden In Plain View
4. Down To Earth Approach
Best New Bands
1. The Graduate
2. Four Year Strong
3. We The Kings
Top 10 2008 Anticipations
1. Anberlin
2. New Found Glory
3. Underoath
4. +44
5. Number One Gun
6. Hit The Lights
7. Bayside
8. Hellogoodbye
9. Taking Back Sunday
10. Thursday
Top 5 TV Shows of 2007
1. Entourage
2. House
3. The Office
4. Family Guy
5. Prison Break
6. Smallville
7. My Name Is Earl
8. Chuck
9. Pushing Daisies
10. Heroes
Top 10 Movies of 2007
1. Transformers
2. Live Free or Die Hard
3. 300
4. Hot Fuzz
5. Knocked Up
6. Ratatouille
7. Superbad
8. The Bourne Ultimatum
9. Gone Baby Gone
10. I Am Legend
Anticipated Movies for 2008
1. The Dark Knight
2. Indiana Jones 4
3. James Bond 22
4. Cloverfield
5. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
6. Wall-E
7. X-Files 2
8. Rambo 4
9. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
10. The Happening
Nick Singleton
Top 5 Albums
1. John Mayer – “Continuum (Special Edition)”
2. Paramore – “Riot!”
3. Cary Brothers – “Who You Are”
4. Fall Out Boy – “Infinity On High
5. Iron & Wine – “The Shepard’s Dog”
Top 5 Songs
1. “Here It Goes” – Jimmy Eat World
2. “Gravity” (Live) – John Mayer
3. “Six Feet Under The Stars” – All Time Low
4. “Ride” Cary Brothers
5. “Your Life and Mine” – Just Surrender
Disapointment Albums
Cartel – “Cartel”
Saves The Day – “Under The Boards”
Best New Band
Farewell
Top 5 Movies
1. Knocked Up
2. Transformers
3. Superbad
4. Alpha Dog
5. I am Legend
Top 5 TV Shows
1. Entourage: Season 4
2. Scrubs: Season 7
3. Flight of the Conchords
4. The Office: Season 4
5. Heroes: Season 2
Top 5 2008 Anticipations
1. “The Dark Knight”
2. “Entourage: Season 5”
3. “Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull”
4. Panic! at the Disco
5. Taking Back Sunday
Valida Prentice
Top 5 Releases
1. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
2. The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
3. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
4. Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
5. M.I.A. – Kala
Biggest Let Down
Stars – In Our Bedroom after the War
Saddest Break-Ups
Nickel Creek
Rufio
New Order
Spitalfield
Jurassic 5
Most Anticipated in 2008
1. Coldplay
2. Nada Surf
3. Gnarls Barkley
4. The Police
5. Fenix*TX / Oasis (tie)
Andrea Hubbell
Top 10 Albums/EPs/LPs of 2007
1) Metro Station – Metro Station
2) Cobra Starship – !Viva La Cobra!
3) We the Kings – We the Kings
4) Paramore – Riot!
5) Dropout Year – Best Friends For Never
6) Amber Pacific – Truth in Sincerity
7) The Used – Lies for the Liars
8.) The Hint – When It Gets Dark Enough
9) Powerspace – The Kicks of Passion
10) The Almost – Southern Weather
Disappointment Albums
1) Cartel – Cartel
2) Sum 41 – Underclass Hero
3) Good Charlotte – Good Morning Revival
Best Live Shows
1) My Chemical Romance
2) Cobra Starship
3) Metro Station
4) The Academy Is…
Best New Bands
1) Metro Station
2) We the Kings
Most Overrated Band
Fall Out Boy
Most Underrated Band
Madina Lake
Top 2008 Anticipations
1) Panic at the Disco
2) A New Found Glory
3) Taking Back Sunday
4) The Cab
5) Leathermouth
6) The Hint
More lists will be added soon.
I’m surprised mae didn’t make it into biggest letdown.
I was very tempted to put Mae in my letdown list.
adam wieldman – joke.
MCS and Straylight are TERRIBLE.
paramore is overrated because they’re young, talented, marketable and why?
do you feel will be a disappointment when john nolan learns to sing.
paramore overrated?!
what the hell
why is cartel cartel disappointment?????????????? it rocks
@luke: Did you listen to Cartel when they first released their “Ransome” EP?
I’v got all Cartel releases, and just as Luke, I dont understand why “Cartel” is such a disappointment.I’v got to admit, it was not an instant favorite of mine after I listened to it the first time, but after a couple more spins it grew on me, and even became one of last years favorites. So for those who discarded it after that first or second spin,I suggest you give it a couple more. Chances are, you might just feel differently about it.
For me Cartel’s first EP was amazing and they did a nice follow up with “Chroma”. I was expecting their self-titled to be another great release but for me it was a disappointment because it didn’t seem to push them musically. The release did grow on me a bit with listening to it more, but I still felt like it was nothing I hadn’t heard before.
Bryce,I also noticed that you wasnt to happy about “make it blur” by June and “singularity” by Mae. I just wanted to say that I had the same experiance with those two albmus as I did with “Cartel”.I was pleasantly surprised to see that you have included Angels And Airwaves among your top ten(did not expect that), many critics had that one on their let down list. The album that I have ranked as nr.1 this year is The Starting Line – direction, an album that is custom made for the american marked, and to my big surprise has been overthrown or just ignored of both the audience and the critics. Well, as a foreigner it is a little hard to understand, would you please share your thoughts about that.
This year was rather hard for me to put my list together. Most years I’m struggling to pick which albums will make the top of my list because there are so many to choose from, however this year I didn’t have to many top albums to choose from. On that note, June and Mae were a disappointment they same reason Cartel was. They didn’t make anything I haven’t heard before. Angels & Airwaves, although a bit of a disappointment for me, made my list because I listened to it a lot and it came out being an ok album even though they didn’t push much change either.
You’ll find that your music taste becomes pickier and more “fine tuned” if you may call it when you get older. Its actually hard to deal with sometimes because you wish you could like everything they way you did when you were younger.
that is all shit most of its wrong
ok i know this is like an american website (i think) but really?? have not one of you heard of skins the tv series in the uk???? i guess you dont know about it then?? becuse none have put them in their top ten tv shows.
it’s actually amazing!!!! watch it!!!
and i agree about the cartel album: once you give it a couple of listens it’s really good!! saw them aswell and they play every note perfect so they atleast deserve a bit of credit!!! c’mon!!
paramore is agood band but they are overrated i mean i could shit misery business out my ass by now and throw up some crushcrushcrush. After hearing it 100 times everyday you get sick of it and now i think paramore is jsut a preppy girl mainstream band and i wouldnt pay to go see them. ever.