highlights of 2007/what are you looking forward to next year?

[samsaBEAR]

stupid title, but i couldnt think of a shorter one.
i think this year has been an amazing year for music, so many different scenes breaking through. so what are your highlights of this year?

top 5 albums;
the blackout - we are the dynamite!
klaxons - myths of the near future
enter shikari - take to the skies
simian mobile disco - attack, decay, sustain, release
the wombats - a guide to love, loss and desperation

top 5 singles;
the wombats - let's dance to joy division
the blackout - the beijing cocktail
klaxons - it's not over yet
hadouken! - leap of faith
late of the pier - bathroom gurgle

top 5 discoveries;
late of the pier
we are the ocean
hadouken!
the blackout
to my boy

unsigned bands you want to brag about;
fleeing from finales
blind kids see ghosts
we're not superheroes anymore
we are the ocean

as for 2008, im personally looking forward to;
hadouken! - declaration of war < unconfirmed title. everything on it is gonna be new material, apart from maybe liquid lives. i think this is a great move, because im sure if they re-recorded old songs, they'll destroy them. take liquid lives for example, the old version is miles better.

klaxons - (untitled). myths of the near future is an amazing album. i really want this album to be great, if not better.

green day - (untitled). american idiot was quite weak i thought. for me, this'll be green day's make or break album.

kid harpoon - whatever he has to offer. i saw him last year, and loved him. i hoper he breaks through this year.

panic! at the disco - (untitled) i quite liked 'a fever you cant sweat out' so im expecting good things for next year's album

there's some others, but i cant remember them.
anyway, enough about me, what about you?
and if there's any other top 5's you wanna add, feel free

[&]

wheres timbaland, leona lewis, hoosiers etc..

[samsaBEAR]

this is my highlights of 2007. timbaland and leona lewis dont come anywhere in mine. well, leona lewis might, in the top 5 songs i really hated because everyone played them too much.
edit; hoosiers i completely forgot about tbh

[PaulMacC]

- The foretold Blink-182 reunion
- Hopefully a new Son Of Dork album
- Matt Willis joining Son Of Dork as 2 members have left (I hope)

[Energizer]

I dno but I'm looking forward to The Kooks' new album

[Jõnathan]

best 5 albums of '07 (in no order)
-> The Hoosiers - & The Trick To Life
-> To My Boy - messages
-> Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
-> Jakobínarína - The First Crusade
-> Calvin Harris - I Created Disco

best 5 singles
-> Foals - Hummer
-> Shy Child - Drop The Phone
-> Late Of The Pier - Bathroom Gurgle
-> The Ghost Frequency - Never Before Have I Seen A Man Alive That Looks So Exactly Like A Skeleton
-> Justice - D.A.N.C.E.

best 5 discoveries
-> Late Of The Pier
-> Tiger Force
-> The Ghost Frequency
-> Foals
-> Shy Child

2008 >>
Foals' album 'Antidote' comes out in march
Hadouken!'s album
the new Young Knives album
more To My Boy stuff
Tiger Force album (hopefully)

[FlyingJesus]

Jay-Z and Ghostface Killah have both very recently had new albums out, wonderful stuff. Also Skindred had one last month and they're amazing, so good times yeah. OH and Calabrese also had an album but they're not really a big band so people probably won't know of them.

[flux]

arctic monkeys new album in march!!!!

[uh huh her]

top 5 albums;
paramore - RIOT!
the blackout - we are the dynamite
lovehatehero - white lies
uh huh her - i see red
the fall of troy - manipulator

top 5 singles;
paramore - crushcrushcrush
the blackout - the beijing cocktail
lovehatehero - i'll make it to brigades
tegan and sara - the con
hilary duff - stranger

top 5 discoveries;
kittie
kids in glass houses
devil sold his soul
architects
lovehatehero

unsigned bands you want to brag about;
asleep in panama

highlights gotta be seeing the blackout+kids in glass houses at the sugarmill in stoke, shame they're playing much bigger venues now though.

next year? probably the new fall of troy material, kids in glass houses first full length album, p!atd follow up to "a fever you can't sweat out" and hopefully a chiodos or lovehatehero tour i'm eagerly anticipating!

[RedStratocas]

songs;
1] "spitting venom" by modest mouse
2] "all my friends" by lcd soundsystem
3] "cold days from the birdhouse" by the twilight sad
4] "all i need" by radiohead
5] "barry bonds" by kanye west

honorable mentions: "the underdog" by spoon, "do me a favour" by arctic monkeys, "my body is a cage" by arcade fire, "winter wonder land" by animal collective and "icky thump" by the white stripes

albums;
1] "fourteen autumns, fifteen winters" by the twilight sad
2] "in rainbows" by radiohead
3] "sound of silver" by lcd soundsystem
4] "we were dead before the ship even sank" by modest mouse
5] "strawberry jam" by animal collective

honorable mentions: "neon bible" by arcade fire, "wincing the night away" by the shins, cursive's contributions to the "8 teeth to eat you" EP, "icky thump" by the white stripes, "the shepherd's dog" by iron & wine