Well, the top five got postponed slightly due to a series of travel-related complications and other unavoidable stuff. We resume our countdown today with the second-best album of 2008 - a crazy little mashup masterpiece by the name of Feed the Animals.
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Barely recovered from Lollapalooza last weekend, I set out to cover the first annual All Points West festival this weekend in Liberty State Park, New Jersey. I didn't know what to expect going in, but if day one was any indication, APW will be quite an entertaining weekend.
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We at Listen In just don't seem to be able to get away from In Rainbows, do we? Radiohead's headline-grabbing 2007 release has been reviewed, awarded, and generally discussed a number of times in the scant few months we've been doing this.
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1993's ode to nihilism Creep may have put Radiohead on the map but the unspectacular song offered no indication of the direction this band's scope of vision.
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Nine Inch Nails (NIN) is now a big time rogue band - since its contract with Interscope expired in October - with a cult following and in what some have likened to a Radiohead-esque move, have released their latest album Ghosts I-IV, on their official website only.
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Roll out the red carpet! The Grammys are a farce, so we at Listen In have decided to host our very own music awards show. We'll laugh… we'll cry… we'll take aim at some of the more vulnerable targets available. We'll even hand out a few awards. We're calling it the Blammys.
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1. Radiohead — In Rainbows
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Excitement builds as we approach the end. For those just joining in, ScooterDMan and I are counting down our top ten albums from 2007. Check out his column today for his second pick.
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It's been exactly that amount of time since they released their latest LP, and I can say with confidence that In Rainbows is Radiohead's masterpiece, surpassing both the post-modern swagger of 1997's OK Computer and the post-apocalyptic dystopia of 2000's Kid A.
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