The Top 10 Reissues of 2007

1 Sonic Youth
Daydream Nation (Deluxe Edition) (Geffen)
America's feedback futurists set the stage for the Year Punk Broke with this 1988 call to fuzz and moral rock action that is still — with its steel-rail riffs and tightrope walk between studio rigor and rehearsal-garage improvisation — Sonic Youth's best album. It was also their first great record of songs, proven by the way the avant-Nuggets punch of "Teen Age Riot" and "Silver Rocket" and the haunting clang of "Candle" and "Eric's Trip" glow and soar in the '88-89 live thrashings on the second CD.

2 Culture
Two Sevens Clash:The 30th Anniversary Edition (Shanachie)
Armageddon did not come to Jamaica when the sevens collided on 7/7/77, as Culture's lead singer Joseph Hill predicted in this magnificent album's title hymn. But the lasting power of Hills' robust incantation, Albert Walker and Kenneth Dayes' Blue Mountain- Motown harmonies and the Rasta-soldier march of Joe Gibbs' production in "Pirate Days" and "I'm Not Ashamed" is in the promise of milk, honey and justice to come. When toaster I Roy grabs the mike in the bonus mix of "Natty Dread Taking Over," you know to get out of the way.