Jaime Durante

[Jaime Durante]

Top Albums of the Year
30. The Higher - On Fire
29. Timbaland - Presents: Shock Value
28. The Academy Is... - Santi
27. Bayside - The Walking Wounded
26. Sherwood - A Different Light
25. Relient K - Five Score And Seven Years Ago
24. Talib Kweli - Eardrum
23. Eisley - Combinations
22. The Rocket Summer - Do You Feel
21. Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
20. Yellowcard - Paper Walls
19. Four Year Strong - Rise Or Die Trying
18. Deas Vail - All The Houses Look The Same
17. Paulson - All At Once
16. Straylight Run - The Needles, The Space
15. Kanye West - Graduation
14. Band Of Horses - Cease To Begin
13. The Starting Line - Direction
12. The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning Of, And All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
11. Armor For Sleep - Smile For Them
10. New Atlantic - The Streets, The Sounds, The Love
9. Radiohead - In Rainbows
8. Say Anything - In Defense Of The Genre
7. Portugal. The Man. - Church Mouth
6. Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go
5. Anberlin - Cities
4. Saves The Day - Under The Boards
3. The Graduate - Anhedonia
2. Minus The Bear - Planet of Ice
1. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War

Best Live Albums of 2007
Thursday - Kill The House Lights
City And Colour - Live

Best Live Performance of 2007
Thursday (Though in my eyes, I don't think they'll ever be topped)
Brand New

Most Disappointing Albums of 2007
Cartel - Cartel

Favorite Songs of 2007
Minus The Bear - White Mystery
Anberlin - Dismantle. Repair
The Graduate - Doppleganger
Stars - The Ghost Of Genova Heights
Say Anything - Baby Girl, I'm A Blur
Thrice - The Whaler

Best New Band of 2007
Four Year Strong

Best Lyrics of 2007
Stephen Christian, Anberlin

Best Vocals of 2007
Dallas Green, City and Colour

Most Overrated Band
MewithoutYou

Most Underrated Band
Minus The Bear

Best Single
The Starting Line - Island

Worst Single
Cartel - Lose It

Best Record Labels of 2007
Vagrant
Doghouse

Best Music Video of 2007
Minus The Bear - Knights (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kols9wQQPzs)

Favorite Shows Attended in 2007
Spitalfield farewell show with The Graduate at the Knitting Factory, NYC
Thursday at the Warsaw, Brooklyn
Jesse Lacey/Kevin Devine at The Loft, Poughkeepsie
Saves The Day acoustic at Maxwells, Hoboken
Anthony Raniere of Bayside and Vinnie Caruana of I Am The Avalanche acoustic at the Canal Room, NYC
Bamboozle 2007 as a whole

Worst Show Experience of 2007
Passing on the NYC Brand New/Thrice show because I was sick with a cold, and had tickets to the same tour in Albany the next week; then finding out the Albany show was canceled an hour after checking into our hotel

Best 'Other' Zine Website
Pastepunk

Band(s) Most Pimped By AP.net
The Graduate
Four Year Strong
Say Anything

Best TV Shows of 2007
Scrubs
The Office
Heroes
LOST

The Next Big Thing(s) of 2008
Search/Rescue

Most Anticipated in 2008
Bamboozle 08
Midtown Final Show/Party

[CarlMonday]

shes just jealous....thats what my mom says

[Tom Good]

pffffbbbrrrrrtttttttttttttttttttttt ttttttttttttttt

[marfawkah02]

cool list . but i think kaddisfly had better lyrics of the year, in my opinion

[ThisIsNotDan]

I am so excited for the Search/Rescue cd. If it sounds like any of the songs we've heard, then it'll be a shoe-in for my top 5

[Poochemist]

Whoa that sucks about the Brand New / Thrice show fiasco. I hope that you can make a rescheduled show.

I was confused when you listed Dallas Green as best vocals of 2007 because I didn't know about the live album. But now I know.

[drudo182]

yeah, mewithoutYou isn't overrated.

Sorry. No one even knows who they are.

[losethegirl]

AMAZING! I think I adore your list. All the Anberlin and CIty & Colour love.

[unwritten]

No Thrice? pft

[bailmeout13]

Thank you for putting Stephen as top lyricist. He is an incredible writer, I am excited for his book and another Anberlin album of course.

[cereal4life]

A lot of Anberlin love out there among staff! Cartel is getting kicked up the butty by each and every staff member for having the shittiest album. haha

[4N6 science]

nice list...Anberlin does deserve to be up their alot, their 3rd album was a big step forward for that band..

[<3rkwon]

jaime j did you put brand new at the loft as a best show because i was there? seriously though we only hit up one show this year. we will change this in 08.

[Julia Conny]

Bamboozle 08 ... I dream about it every night.

[imemokillme]

Most Underrated Band
Minus The Bear



hell yes.

[Jaime Durante]

Whoa that sucks about the Brand New / Thrice show fiasco. I hope that you can make a rescheduled show.

I was confused when you listed Dallas Green as best vocals of 2007 because I didn't know about the live album. But now I know.
Yeah it wasn't fun. I had seen Brand New like 4 times this year though, so I wasn't all that upset. I just hope it gets rescheduled!

The live album is great. You should definitely check it out.
yeah, mewithoutYou isn't overrated.

Sorry. No one even knows who they are.
Sorry, but all I hear is how great and innovative and *amazing* they are. It makes me want to vomit.

AMAZING! I think I adore your list. All the Anberlin and CIty & Colour love.
<3

No Thrice? pft
Favorite Songs of 2007
Minus The Bear - White Mystery
Anberlin - Dismantle. Repair
The Graduate - Doppleganger
Stars - The Ghost Of Genova Heights
Say Anything - Baby Girl, I'm A Blur
Thrice - The Whaler

Thank you for putting Stephen as top lyricist. He is an incredible writer, I am excited for his book and another Anberlin album of course.
Agreed!

A lot of Anberlin love out there among staff! Cartel is getting kicked up the butty by each and every staff member for having the shittiest album. haha
I think I speak for the majority when I say that Chroma is still one of my favorite albums. It's tough to follow that, but the new release seems like they didn't even try. Just awful. It makes me depressed thinking about it.

jaime j did you put brand new at the loft as a best show because i was there? seriously though we only hit up one show this year. we will change this in 08.
Of course! You should hit up Bamboozle this year!

Bamboozle 08 ... I dream about it every night.
It can't come soon enough!!!

[myenqvist]

we have similar musical tastes. good job.

[unwritten]

Yeah it wasn't fun. I had seen Brand New like 4 times this year though, so I wasn't all that upset. I just hope it gets rescheduled!

The live album is great. You should definitely check it out.

Sorry, but all I hear is how great and innovative and *amazing* they are. It makes me want to vomit.


<3


Favorite Songs of 2007
Minus The Bear - White Mystery
Anberlin - Dismantle. Repair
The Graduate - Doppleganger
Stars - The Ghost Of Genova Heights
Say Anything - Baby Girl, I'm A Blur
Thrice - The Whaler


Agreed!


I think I speak for the majority when I say that Chroma is still one of my favorite albums. It's tough to follow that, but the new release seems like they didn't even try. Just awful. It makes me depressed thinking about it.


Of course! You should hit up Bamboozle this year!


It can't come soon enough!!!

The album dammit! haha

[Jaime Durante]

The album dammit! haha
Haha I knew what you meant. It just.. didn't make the list. I dunno. Consider it #31? Haha.

[unwritten]

you disappoint me.

[Wolf I Am!]

mewithoutYou overrated?? something is wrong there, they are amazing

[Rockybehri]

mewithoutYou overrated?? something is wrong there, they are amazing

I was just about to trash her for it.

[Jaime Durante]

mewithoutYou overrated?? something is wrong there, they are amazing
I was just about to trash her for it.



Sorry, but all I hear is how great and innovative and *amazing* they are. It makes me want to vomit.


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[theESCO]

Armor for Sleep was that high up?...Really?

Brand New is Feb. 24th, btw...and tell Jason to give me a job, I want a red name. :-(

[CircaSin]

you got some good cds in there so props for that... Although ---> Timbaland, The Academy Is..., Relient K, The Rocket Summer, Kanye West, The Starting Line, Armor For Sleep, Say Anything....No.

[CWeezer2]

i don't get the staff love for Direction. comes close to topping my disappointments of the year.

[sodeepinxstatic]

i was supposed to go to the spitalfield farewell tour at knitting,
but i was still at school &none of my friends went.
i'm so jealous that you went &that it was amazing!
i'm upset they're breaking up. :[

[Jaime Durante]

Armor for Sleep was that high up?...Really?

Brand New is Feb. 24th, btw...and tell Jason to give me a job, I want a red name. :-(
I loved it. They sold me on this album, for sure.

you got some good cds in there so props for that... Although ---> Timbaland, The Academy Is..., Relient K, The Rocket Summer, Kanye West, The Starting Line, Armor For Sleep, Say Anything....No.
Everyone has their opinion. I've always been a fan of poppy stuff. I'm not going to hide that because a lot of people will disagree. I can take the heat.

i don't get the staff love for Direction. comes close to topping my disappointments of the year.
Based On A True Story topped my list of disappointments last year. I think Direction is a huge step in the right.. Direction, for them.

i was supposed to go to the spitalfield farewell tour at knitting,
but i was still at school &none of my friends went.
i'm so jealous that you went &that it was amazing!
i'm upset they're breaking up. :[
It was a great show. Sad that you missed it.