Top Ten Albums of 2007

With 2007 rapidly coming to a close its time to roll out the top ten discs of 2007. This year in music was filled with great new sounds. Give a read here and then give a listen to the discs you should already have in your collection!

1.) Icky Thump - The White Stripes
Jack and Meg White came out swinging with this blast of garage rock married to pure blues and soul. This disc solidified the "Stripes" as the best (and possibly only) stripped down rock act on the scene today. The disc tends to go all over the map with mariachi rhythms, bag pipes, sitar music and mandolins but make no mistake; the core of the disc is rock with a heavy dose of blues. "You Don't Know What Love Is" is blues rock at its best. "Conquest" spills into Latin rhythms and the title track is garage rock with a powerful edge! Sadly the duo canceled their tour in support of the disc. No one knows for sure if this spells the end of The White Stripes but the hope is that this is not the last we have heard from this vital rock duo.

2.) Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
Try, and I mean really try to forget about all of the drugged out, abusive, tabloid insanity this woman has created and focus on the amazing piece of music Winehouse has laid down on her second disc. Back to Black is a true tribute to real R&B. Sonically the production is pure 60's Motown and Winehouse is a powerful, soulful singer who does indeed have the blues. No one has been able to channel Aretha and Holliday so effortlessly in quite sometime and Winehouse does it all with a serious punk rock edge. The tune "Rehab" says it all in terms of her current issues but the true test for Amy comes when she lets her guard down and beautifully croons the ballad "Love is a Losing Game". When it comes to sweet, edgy soul music Amy Winehouse is indeed a winner. If she can keep from imploding all over herself we can only hope for bigger and better things in 2008.