#10: Know Hope Collective
2007 was a tough year for Christian music as the band Audio Adrenaline said goodbye after a long career. I remember when I was in college when a friend of mine bought their first album (on cassette, that tells you how long it has been) and raved about them. When I listened to them for the first time, I thought they were actually terrible. And if you talk with the original members of Audio A, they will admit as such. However, their next album was better, and by the time Bloom hit, Audio Adrenaline was a band that wrote fun songs and started having radio hits.
When I heard that two of the founding band members were forming a worship band, I was a little skeptical. In fact, I didn't buy the album at all until our worship intern this summer let me listen to their CD. And I immediately liked it. Mark Stuart and Will McGinness have put together a great group of songs (including a couple of Audio Adrenaline favorites) that direct your thoughts towards God. And this album wasn't written in a vacuum, but out of the time, money and energy that Mark and Will give to their mission to Haiti. I highly recommend this album.
Standout singles: Attention, Build Us Back, Ocean Floor
#9 - Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Who would have figured that Dave Grohl would have a more successful (and in my opinion, a better) career with Foo Fighters than with Nirvana? I know most music afficionados believe that some FF albums are better than others; personally, I can find something great about every album. I happily make the claim that Foo Fighters are the best rock band out there right now, period. Something that happened this year that made Foo Fighters endear themselves to me even more was their counter-protest song they did in front of the protesters from Westboro Baptist Church.
What I love most about this album is the different guitar sounds that are used for each song, and I wonder how these songs would be live, because it just seems like there are so many great things going on musically with each song. This is just a fun album to listen to - Taylor Hawkins has never sound better on the drums, and the harmonies that are used on some of these songs are just incredible.
Standout singles: Bridge Burning, Rope, These Days
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