Best records of 2007 Part I

This is probably going to be a several part post cause I don't really have time to do it all at once. It's in no real order apart from the order I remember it by. So, let's begin:

Ringers - Dentention Halls: A great follow up to their first record. It's effectively more of the same but more Ringers is a good thing. Production is way way better as on Curses I felt the guitar was far too loud.

Lifetime - Lifetime: this has been a long time coming as Lifetime broke up quite a long time ago but evidently they came back to give us another album of influential melodic hardcore. As always its good but I haven't really listened to it enough to appreciate it as much as Hello Bastards.

Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger: I really like this record. It's somewhere between his countrified stuff and the kind of thing he did on Rock and Roll. The song Halloweenhead is great. He has such great delivery. Can't recommend this enough.

Ted Leo and The Pharmacists - Living With the Living: I don't like this as much as Shake The Sheets just because Bomb Repeat Bomb really gets on my nerves. Aside from that its great though, I love A Bottle of Buckie so much that its one of my all time favourite songs. Who Do You Love is also a really good one. It could maybe have done with being a little bit shorter as an album but I could never complain about getting more Ted Leo.

The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls in America: I'm fairly sure this came out in the UK in January last year. Definitely my album of the year, scrap that, my album and band of this decade. No one is doing what this band is doing right now. They hark back to proper rock and roll like Bruce Springsteen or the Replacements. Too many bands (whether it be Turbonegro or The Darkness) are doing tongue and cheek rock and roll which is funny for about two listens but has no staying power whatsoever. It doesn't matter who you are, this record will simply blow you way.

J Church - The Horror Of Life: Sadly this will no doubt be the last J Church LP as Lance Hahn passed away in October. It's a very solid record nonetheless. I wasn't that familiar with much J Church stuff past the late 90s but they seem to have matured a little and the songwriting is just incredible. Since hearing this I've also got Society is A Carnivorous flower which is also fantastic.

The Fall - Post TLC Reformation: I listened to this a lot at the start of 2007 when it first came out, its pretty good. The Fall are quite an intimidating band because they've got damn near 30 studio albums and that's not including live ones or compilations. It's a solid effort and I still put it on now and again.

Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures: It wasn't a patch on A Certain Trigger but that was always going to be a hard album to follow for me as its one of my favourites. It's really good because after all it is Maximo Park but don't expect something (or much really to ever) that exceeds A Certain Trigger.

Various Artists - Mix CD for Lois: She made me put it here =)

Part II will come soon I guess.

long nights hard times anything that makes you feel tired

ARGH i have such a headache from all this uni work.

Feeling really alienated right now. Don't even know why, good old seasonal affective blues i guess.

There's a 'best of 2007' music list coming soon I PROMISE (although who am I promising I don't know, no one reads this thing)

my cd rack just collapsed (it houses about half my collection - so there's probably about 200 or so cds in there) and this makes me even sadder.