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2007

Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (American indie rock)
 Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight (American alternative metal - Billboard's 10th best selling album of 2007 in the US)
 The Fall - Reformation Post-TLC (English post-punk)
Gogol Bordello - Super Taranta! (American "gypsy punk")
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (American indie rock) They Might Be Giants- The Else (American alternative rock)
They Might Be Giants- Cast Your Pod To The Wind (American alternative rock, compilation of songs featured on the band's official podcast)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (American psychedelic pop, debut album)
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away (Anerican indie rock)
 Feist - The Reminder (Canadian indie pop) Rivers Cuomo - Alone: The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo (American alternative rock/lo-fi, demo recordings by the Weezer frontman made between 1992 and 2005)
Avril Lavigne -The Best Damn Thing (Canadian pop/rock, best-selling album of 2007 globally according to IFPI )
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Canadian indie rock) Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History In Rust (Canadian post-rock)
 Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand (Country-rock cover album by English ex-Led Zeppelin singer and American bluegrass/country performer)
Radiohead - In Rainbows (English alternative rock/art-rock, notable for being originally sold online directly from the band on a "name your own price" model)
MIA - Kala (English hip hop)
Kanye West - Graduation (American hip hop) Black Moth Super Rainbow- Dandelion Gum (American experimental electronic music) Chris Cornell- Carry On (American alternative rock, second solo album for Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman)
Burial - Untrue (English dubstep)
Mika - Life In Cartoon Motion (English pop/glam rock, debut, ninth best-selling album globally according to IFPI) 
Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future (English dance-punk/new rave, debut)
Prince - Planet Earth (American funk rock/soul)
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero (American industrial rock, concept album about a dystopian future America)
Saul Williams- The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust (American industrial rap, produced by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, originally released digitally on a "pay what you want" system)
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna Are You The Destroyer? (American indie rock/glam rock)
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga (American indie rock/folk rock)
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity (American indie rock/experimental rock)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Is Is (American indie rock/ post punk)
The Hives - The Black And White Album (Swedish garage rock)
St Vincent - Marry Me (American experimental pop)
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline (American ambient music, two hour double album)
Ministry- The Last Sucker (American industrial metal, the last of trilogy of albums protesting the administration of George W. Bush)
Lupe Fiasco - The Cool (American hip hop)
The White Stripes- Icky Thump (American garage rock, their last album) 


Extra credit musical film viewing: Once. Other notable musical films of 2007 include Hairspray, Across the Universe and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. 

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