24 Dec 2007

The Essential 2007 According To TJ

So again it's time for my year's round up of music and films that made the biggest impression on me in 2007.

That was a very good year for music as some of my favorite artists released their new albums.

Here's my TOP 5 albums released in past 12 months


1 PORCUPINE TREE - Fear Of A Blank Planet / Nil Recurring






2 NEAL MORSE - Sola Scriptura






3 BLACKFIELD - Blackfield II








4 ATAXIA - Ataxia II







5 DREAM THEATER - Systematic Chaos





There are plenty more albums that made me happy this year and are strongly recommended :

Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick

Between The Buried And Me - Colors

The Gourishankar - 2nd Hands

The Flower Kings - The Sum Of No Evil

Cohead & Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow

Jordan Rudess - The Road Home

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Damo Suzuki - Please Heat This Eventually

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Se Dice Bisonte, No Buffalo

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Lydia Lunch - Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Lydia Lunch

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Quintet - The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez - Caliberation (Is Pushing Luck And The Key Too Far)

Grinderman - Grinderman

Marillion - Somewhere Else

Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero

Rush - Snakes And Arrows

Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars

Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full

Hans Zimmer - The Simpsons Movie: The Music

James Blunt - All The Lost Souls

Pink Floyd - Oh By The Way (Box Set)

28 Weeks Later: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack





And now films. Again, pretty good year for movies. I really enjoyed some of the long awaited premieres but also was surprised by some unexpected productions. Some of them even got into my TOP 5
Here are five best movies I've seen this year in an alphabetical order :


28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo)





300 (Zack Snyder)



Eastern Promises (David Cronenberg)



Grindhouse (Quentin Tarantino & Roberto Rodriguez)



Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog)





Other great productions that made my day :

Halloween (Rob Zombie)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Ratatouille
The Simpsons Movie



Still haven't seen those :

I Am Legend
Across The Universe
Beowulf

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