An ongoing ranking and rating of my favorite albums of 2007. Items in bold are part of my personal CD collection.
THE TOP TEN
1. Foo Fighters ~ Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace (9.1)
2. Alter Bridge ~ Blackbird (9.0)
3. Dream Theater ~ Systematic Chaos (8)
4. Megadeth ~ United Abominations (7)
5. Scorpions ~ Humanity: Hour I (7)
6. Drowning Pool ~ Full Circle (6)
7. Fuel ~ Angels & Devils (6)
8. 12 Stones ~ Anthem For The Underdog (5)
9. Marc Cohn ~ Join The Parade (5)
THE REST: ALPHABETICAL BY RATING
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CURRENTLY UNRATED
The 69 Eyes ~ Angels
Airbourne ~ Runnin’ Wild
Allen-Lande ~ The Revenge
Anberlin ~ Cities
Ann Wilson ~ Hope & Glory
Annihilator ~ Metal
Avenged Sevenfold ~ Avenged Sevenfold
Axel Rudi Pell ~ Diamonds Unlocked
Band Of Horses ~ Cease To Begin
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ~ Baby 81
Blue Cheer ~ What Doesn’t Kill You…
Blue October ~ Foiled For The Last Time
Bon Jovi ~ Lost Highway
Brandi Carlile ~ The Story
Bruce Springsteen ~ Magic
Candlemass ~ King Of The Grey Islands
Chevelle ~ Vena Sera
Circus Maximus ~ Isolate
Clutch ~ From Beale Street To Oblivion
Coheed And Cambria ~ Good Apolli I’m Burning Star IV | Volume Two: No World For Tomorrow
Crazy Lixx ~ Loud Minority
The Cult ~ Born Into This
Danny Vaughn ~ Traveller
DGM ~ Different Shapes
Diamond Head ~ What’s In Your Head?
Dokken ~ Lightning Strikes Again
Dropkick Murphys ~ The Meanest Of Times
Eagles ~ Long Road Out Of Eden
Eddie Money ~ Wanna Go Back
Exodus ~ The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A
Fair To Midland ~ Fables From A Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True
Finger Eleven ~ Them Vs You Vs Me
Five Finger Death Punch ~ The Way Of The Fist
Great White ~ Back To The Rhythm
Hanoi Rocks ~ Street Poetry
Hardcore Superstar ~ Dreamin’ In A Casket
Harem Scarem ~ Human Nature
Helix ~ The Power Of Rock And Roll
Helloween ~ Gambling With The Devil
Iced Earth ~ Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part 1
Iron Savior ~ Megatropolis
Jimmy Eat World ~ Chase This Light
Joe Lynn Turner ~ Second Hand Life
Jorn ~ Unlocking The Past
Kid Rock ~ Rock N Roll Jesus
King Diamond ~ Give Me Your Soul…Please
Kings Of Leon ~ Because Of The Times
Lillian Axe ~ Waters Rising
Linkin Park ~ Minutes To Midnight
Magnum ~ Princess Alice And The Broken Arrow
Manowar ~ Gods Of War
Marillion ~ Somewhere Else
Mark Knopfler ~ Kill To Get Crimson
Masterplan ~ MKII
Michael Schenker ~ Doctor Schenker: The Kulick Sessions
Myrath ~ Hope
Night Ranger ~ Hole In The Sun
Nightingale ~ White Darkness
One Bad Son ~ Orange City.
Overkill ~ Immortalis
Ozzy Osbourne ~ Black Rain
Paramore ~ Riot!
Pink Cream 59 ~ In10sity
The Poodles ~ Sweet Trade
Powerwolf ~ Lupus Dei
Pride Of Lions ~ The Roaring Of Dreams
Primal Fear ~ New Religion
Queensrÿche ~ Take Cover
Radiohead ~ In Rainbows
REO Speedwagon ~ Find Your Own Way Home
Rick Derringer ~ Rockin’ American
Rush ~ Snakes & Arrows
Saga ~ 10,000 Days
Saliva ~ Blood Stained Love Story
Saxon ~ Inner Sanctum
Sebastian Bach ~ Angel Down
Seether ~ Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces
Shadows Fall ~ Threads Of Life
Shaw * Blades ~ Influence
Silverchair ~ Young Modern
Sinner ~ Mask Of Sanity
Sixx:A.M. ~ The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack
Status Quo ~ In Search Of The Fourth Chord
Symphony X ~ Paradise Lost
Ted Nugent ~ Love Grenade
Tesla ~ Real To Reel (1 & 2)
Threshold ~ Dead Reckoning
TNT ~ The New Territory
Velvet Revolver ~ Libertad
Volbeat ~ Rock The Rebel/Metal The Devil
Voyager ~ Univers
W.A.S.P. ~ Dominator
Waysted ~ The Harsh Reality
The White Stripes ~ Icky Thump
Witchcraft ~ The Alchemist
Within Temptation ~ The Heart Of Everything
[Last updated: 2020.12.31]
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