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December 29, 2007
Individual Lists: The Five Best Albums from musicians decades past the point of ever being eligible in the “Best New Artist” category, Yonah Korngold
In a year where breaking up a band in order to someday do a reunion tour became a profitable marketing strategy, these vets should not be overlooked for their 2007 contributions.
5. Prince- Planet Earth
Truth be told, I don’t even own this album, but if it's half the reason why Prince made the most confusing sexually suggestive moment of 2007 then it belongs on this list. If ever brought to trial by the FCC for the phallic holding of his guitar during the Super Bowl halftime show, Prince could offer the chorus of the album’s first single as Exhibit A.
I love you baby
But not like I love my guitar
Not like I love my guitar, no
4. Neil Young- Chrome Dreams II
If Neil Young hadn’t put out four albums, two archival releases, and two concert films in the last four years then Chrome Dreams II could be considered a comeback album. We can all look forward to the day when Todd Haynes directs a Neil Young biopic and casts Kirsten Dunst, Steve Buscemi, and Tommy Lee Jones to play different facets of Young’s life.
3. Bruce Springsteen- Magic
Buddhist monks have abandoned the one hand clapping meditation and started postulating the enigma of Magic sounding like Neon Bible.
2. Robert Plant/ Alison Krauss-Raising Sand
A collaboration just as interesting as Jack White and Loretta Lynn, Krauss and Plant combined sound almost too natural that if Plant hadn’t strutted around shirtless crooning high register screams he could have been a moneymaker on the bluegrass circuit.
1. Levon Helm- Dirt Farmer
The Lance Armstrong of drummers, Helm overcame throat cancer to belt out some of his most passionate pleas since The Band’s famed last concert. If I were ever to do a full chronology of The Band’s sound I would have to put Dirt Farmer at its roots.
Posted by Yonah Korngold at December 29, 2007 02:10 PM
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