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By A. Lee Graham
Two months late and $34,000 short (oral surgery ain't
cheap), yours truly has dusted off the year's top tunes.
From surprise comebacks (Rik Emmett in Airtime) to letdowns
(Michael Schenker scraps another tour), the year dazzled and
disappointed — sometimes at the same time (Schenker
reportedly on the mend ... again!) Of course, taste is
subjective. One man's fine fromage is another's Velveeta.
But one thing's for sure: with Scorpions, Rush and other war
horses finding new life, the new kids have some big shoes to
fill. Herewith my annual rundown:
(Year-End Wrap)
Best CDs of 2007
1. Dream Theater
Systematic Chaos
2. Porcupine Tree Fear
of a Blank Planet
3. Symphony X Paradise
Lost
4. Scorpions Humanity
Hour 1
5. Cy Curnin The
Returning Sun
6. Airtime Liberty
Manifesto
7. Rush Snakes &
Arrows
8. Candlemass King of
the Grey Islands
9. Circus Maximus
Isolate
10. Pathosray
11. Pagan's Mind God's
Equation
12. 3 The End Is Begun
13. Saga 10,000 Days
14. Blackfield
Blackfield II
15. Riverside Rapid
Eye Movement
16. Floratone (with Bill Frisell, Matt Chamberlain)
17. Blotted Science
Machinations of Dementia
18. Black Bonzo Sound
of the Apocalypse
19. Threshold Dead
Reckoning
20. Poverty's No Crime
Save My Soul
Honorable Mentions
Loverboy Just Getting
Started
Lillian Axe Waters
Rising
Megadeth United
Abominations
Toto Falling In
Between — Live
Dokken From
Conception: Live 1981
Dominici O3 A Trilogy,
Part 2
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