Top 10 albums of 2006

[Little Man being Erased]

So what are your top 10 albums of the year so far? We can discover what we missed out on and ****.

These are mine:


The Veils - Nux Vomica
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Cursive - Happy Hollow
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
The Bronx - The Bronx II
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
AFI - Decemberunderground
I Heart Hiroshima - A Three Letter Word for Candy
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

[pixiesfanyo]

right now.. my ten favorite records are probably something like..

Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue
Converge - No Heroes
Flying Lotus - 1983
Isis - In the Absence of Truth
Comets on Fire - Avatar
Ahleuchatistas - What You Will
M. Ward - Post War
Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
Scott Walker - The Drift
Cursive - Happy Hollow

[Jacaranda]

1. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2. Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells
3. Placebo - Meds
4. Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
5. DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
6. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
7. The Killers - Sam's Town
8. Beyoncé - B'Day
9. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
10. The Starlight Mints - Drowaton
I don't really listen to alot of new releases not to mention indie releases... but I've been meaning to listen to that new J Dilla.

AFI - Decemberunderground
that surprises me. that album is one of the biggest disappointments of this year for me.

[pulseczar]

Rough list, I don't know which is my favourite really. Still a few i need to check out, mainly hip hop and Comets on Fire.
1. Cursive - Happy Hollow
2. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
3. Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your ***
4. Bell X1 - Flock
5. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
6. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
7. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium (somewhat of a guilty pleasure considering how repetitive it is of the Peppers, and formulaic in general)
9. Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics
10. i cant think anymore must go

[pixiesfanyo]

Wow pulse, that list sucks.

[Jacaranda]

Kind of surprised you didn't say that about my list yet.

I should have held my tongue.

[YDload]

i havent listened to more than three albums released this year, and the only one i really really liked was Night Ripper. i wish i knew where to look, but thanks to this thread i probably will!

[BillCosby]

Cursive - Happy Hollow
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Lil Wayne & Birdman - Like Father, Like Son

is all i got so far

[Little Man being Erased]

that surprises me. that album is one of the biggest disappointments of this year for me.
I enjoyed it. It wasn't amazing but it's pretty solid and pretty similar to Sing the Sorrow but with a more electro-pop side. Actually I haven't listened to it in a couple of months, so it could well slide off my list.

[Syncratic]

I've only heard a few from this year, but tops are:

Amputechture-Mars Volta
St. Elsewhere-Gnarls Barkley
In the Absence of Truth-Isis
Yes Virginia-Dresden Dolls

[mr_jackalope]

Lambchop - Damaged
Voxtrot - Mothers, Daughters, Sisters and Wives
Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
Califone - Roots & Crowns
Stuart A. Staples - Leaving Songs
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
The Oxford Collapse - Remember the Night Parties
Joanna Newsom - Ys

Something like that. Many of those could change.

Edit: oh damn, I forgot 2 important ones:

Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel Like You
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go

[Kyle]

No real order;

Cursive - Happy Hollow
Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your ***
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (sorry guys, but I can't not include it)
Destroyer - Rubies
Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virgina
The Most Serene Republic - Phages
The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale

[Zmev]

New Sonic Youth in December means I will wait.

[pulseczar]

Wow pulse, that list sucks.

there hasnt been any good music in the past 20 ****ing years anyway

[Matt?]

i can't think of anythign...

[dei]

I listened to a few albums released this year, and some were disappointments. The biggest one is probably Happy Hollow.

[Kage]

there hasnt been any good music in the past 20 ****ing years anyway
huh?

[pixiesfanyo]

huh?

He's being a sarcasm, mr. lynch.

[_Mote_]

I can't believe no one has said Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics. Tsk tsk people, it's such an amazing album.

[Little Man being Erased]

It's not amazing at all.

It is ok though.

[Kage]

He's being a sarcasm, mr. lynch.
okthx4lettingmeno.

[pulseczar]

I can't believe no one has said Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics. Tsk tsk people, it's such an amazing album.

easily one of the year's worst for me.

[Eliminator]

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Venetian Snares - Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms
3. Scott Walker - The Drift
4. Herbert - Scale
5. Various Production - The World is Gone
6. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
7. Underoath - Define the Great Line
8. the Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
9. Daughters - Hell Songs
10. Nelly Furtado - Loose

this year has sucked

[Kyle]

Yup, not a great year at all.

I seem to remember last year being amazing though.

[Kage]

I thought this year had a hell of a lot of good releases.

[_Mote_]

I thought the Lips record was great :(, guess I'm alone then.

Sonic Youth, Descemberists, and Spinto Band kicked *** as well. the Strokes were aight, a bit dissapointing though.

[Kyle]

/Replaces Matisyahu with Strokes album.

[Eliminator]

why have either of them?

[Kyle]

Because......

this year has sucked

Although to be fair if I actually tried, I could probably come up with a much better list than the one I wrote.

[_Mote_]

I didn't think this year sucked at all, but then again, I didn't buy very much new music, mostly just stocking up on classics a shoul've boughten along time ago.

[Matt?]

yeah seriously. last year ruled. this year, i can't think of anything besides xiu xiu the air force, which i still have some mixed feelings about

[Robert Crumb]

Yup, great year.

I seem to remember last year being not at all amazing though.

:)

Top 10 sorta kinda maybe

1. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
2. Herbert - Scale
3. M. Ward - Post War
4. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
5. Irene - Apple Bay
6. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
7. E-40 - My Ghetto Report Card
8. Chico Buarque - Carioca
9. Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
10. Yo La Tengo - I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and I Will Eat Some ***

Still a couple more releases I'm looking forward to hearing, though.

[_Mote_]

What did you guys think of Rather Ripped? I thought it was amazing, some os SY's best work yet.

[Matt?]

hahahahaha e-40.

i laugh but i really do like that song u an dat

[La Revolucion]

6. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
I didn't think anyone actually enjoyed this.

[Robert Crumb]

I'm not a big Sonic Youth fan but "Incinerate" is totally :cool:

As for 40, still the most innovative MC who went platinum this year. And TV on the Radio, while I didn't like it much when I heard it first, I really like now. It's got mad "Co-stanza!" appeal.

[Little Man being Erased]

It's a lot better than Desperate Youth...

[La Revolucion]

It just sounds like a bunch of meaningless noise to me, with a few obvious exceptions. But yeah, it's better than their other one.

[_Mote_]

I thought Kim's vocals were much better on this album then some of Sonic Youth's other more recent albums.

Thurston kicked *** as usual, and Lee's guitar work was spot on, Steve held the songs very well also. Saw them live, one of the best concerts in my life (threw my hat at Thurtson during Teenage Riot :p:)

[_Mote_]

It just sounds like a bunch of meaningless noise to me, with a few obvious exceptions. But yeah, it's better than their other one.

If you thought that was noise, do not buy Confusion is Sex...

[La Revolucion]

I'm not talking about SY.

[Matt?]

i think my favorite is definitely gonna be birdman and little wayne

love that single

[Eliminator]

I thought Kim's vocals were much better on this album then some of Sonic Youth's other more recent albums.

Thurston kicked *** as usual, and Lee's guitar work was spot on, Steve held the songs very well also. Saw them live, one of the best concerts in my life (threw my hat at Thurtson during Teenage Riot :p:)

every clip i've seen of them playing this has been really boring
and the ones of schizophrenia and teen age riot were ****ing disgraces

"hey guys, we're old so we're going to play these songs slower ok"

[Happymeal]

Cursive - Happy Hollow
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your ***
The Bronx - The Bronx II
Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
J Dilla - Donuts
Tokyo Jihen - Adult
Melvins - A Senile Animal
Murs - Murray's Revenge
Demetri Martin - These are Jokes

[_Mote_]

I'm not talking about SY.

O haha, sorry :p:

And when I saw them, they played the songs at normal speed. It was great, although Kim's dances are a bit, how you say, lame?

[Eliminator]

maybe if they weren't playing lame ****

[_Mote_]

Well aren't you opinionated?

[PECOAE]

Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Did anyone mention this? I liked it a lot, and I don't think anyone did).
Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime (Does this count as an album?)
The Rapture - Pieces Of The People We Love
Futureheads - News And Tributes
Battle - Break The Banks

[La Revolucion]

...worst list yet.

[Eliminator]

...worst list yet.

what did you expect from PECOAE?

[La Revolucion]

Maybe slightly better than The Strokes, of all things.

[PECOAE]

You're pretentious ****-heads.

Go eat yourself.

[Eliminator]

Sorry, I can't bend over that far.

I would if I could, though.

[pixiesfanyo]

This year kicks 2005's ***.

[PECOAE]

PECOAE has a good list except for Muse being such a flaming shitpile of a band

He gasps like he's in constant orgasm. I enjoy it though.

[_Mote_]

I thought Illanois was kind of over-rated, but I didn't listen to it much. I think I'll give it another change *pops in CD player*

[Eliminator]

oh yeah illinois

i love that album

i'm going to go write an article about it no pointing out specifics on Sufjan's many flaws bwahahahahaha

[La Revolucion]

John Wayne Gacy Jr. alone makes up for all the pointless stuff on that album.

[Eliminator]

no it doesn't, especially when about 3/4 of the album is pointless

[_Mote_]

Go for it... :rolleyes:

[Little Man being Erased]

yeah 2005 wasn't nearly as good in comparison

it had I Am a Bird Now and Illinois, that's about it
It had 3 Ryan Adams albums. Therefore, it was excellent.

Seriously, it also had The Drones. QOTSA was good too.

[Eliminator]

Go for it... :rolleyes:

that was so indie of you!

do it again i wanna see it in action

[La Revolucion]

Seriously, it also had The Drones
Oh, was Gala Mill this year or last year?

[_Mote_]

QOTSA were very dissapointing to me. I dunno, I really tried to like it, but I just couldn't.

[PECOAE]

I liked 2005 because of Live It Out, Descended Like Vultures, Gimme Fiction, Guero (yeah I liked it), and Lullabies To Paralyze.

And for 2006; I forgot a bunch.
Damien Rice - 9
Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back
Ratatat - Classics
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

[Little Man being Erased]

Oh, was Gala Mill this year or last year?
Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By was last year.

Gala Mill was this year.

[La Revolucion]

Oh yeah whoops. Anyway, it was really good.

[_Mote_]

that was so indie of you!

do it again i wanna see it in action

Go fo' it w00t w00t?

that was sooo un-indie of me :rolleyes: *lights cigarette*

[pixiesfanyo]

What's up with everyone here having shitty taste when it comes to new releases?

[_Mote_]

I actually loved Guero, I don't really get why it gets so much flack. It has some of his best 'singles' on it, and sure it's not amazing as a whole, but single songs off of it are orgasmic.

[Eliminator]

Go fo' it w00t w00t?

that was sooo un-indie of me :rolleyes: *lights cigarette*

where's the scarf

poseur

[Zmev]

Next year will have new releases by Air and maybe Duran Duran.

[_Mote_]

Who needs scarfs when you can have *pulls out indie kid glasses* GLASSES!
*Hold onto both ends of coat and pulls tighter, while still smoking the cigarette*

:rolleyes:

[Eliminator]

faggot

[Robert Crumb]

If anyone's heard these, tell me if they're worth getting/downloading:

Nelly McKay - Pretty Little Head
Johnny Cash - V
Growing - Color Wheel
Ali Farka Toure - Savane
Peter Bjorn And John - Wichita
Solomon Burke - Nashville
Hidden Cameras - Awoo

[Happymeal]

Meh, last year still owned.

The Woods
Feathers
BSS s/t
Face the Truth
Cold Roses
Alligator
The Runners Four
Tanglewood Numbers

[pixiesfanyo]

Yeah, last year ruled.

But this year is better.

There has been a great release in every genre almost.

[Zmev]

Who needs scarfs when you can have *pulls out indie kid glasses* GLASSES!
*Hold onto both ends of coat and pulls tighter, while still smoking the cigarette*

:rolleyes:

hey since no one finds you witty at all can you go ahead and quit being a faggot thanks

faggot

youve already been told this is just reinforcement

[Eliminator]

zmev i love you

[PECOAE]

this forum is so funny because of how embarrassed everyone is to like the music they like

I'm not.

Never have been.

Go ahead Eliminator I'm waiting.

[Zmev]

i got ur back

not you pecoahwiehjew

[_Mote_]

You're welcome...

[Eliminator]

I'm not.

Never have been.

Go ahead Eliminator I'm waiting.

sorry my sperm count is a little low atm

[La Revolucion]

Nelly McKay - Pretty Little Head
Johnny Cash - V
Growing - Color Wheel
Ali Farka Toure - Savane
Peter Bjorn And John - Wichita
Solomon Burke - Nashville
Hidden Cameras - Awoo
I've heard Hidden Cameras, and it's OK. The only other one I've heard is Nellie McKay, and it's pretty good too.

[_Mote_]

And some people need to relax a bit, it's just a little spam... right?

[YDload]

this forum is so funny because of how embarrassed everyone is to like the music they like

you would be embarassed if you were me too :o

[Robert Crumb]

I love the music I like. I'm gonna check out that Nellie McKay album because I think I'd like it. There are a few more releases still pending/yet to be released that I'd like to hear before I cast anything in stone. I might like them too, as well.

Also pixies, I got that Flying Lotus album. Don't like it so much. It's not bad, but Daedelus has done/is doing the same thing much better. I like Daedelus.

[PECOAE]

sorry my sperm count is a little low atm

atm?

all the time you mean

[biografiend]

I'm not a big Sonic Youth fan but "Incinerate" is totally :cool:
I agree.

The Top Ten [order subject to change]
1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
3. Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
4. Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back
5. First Nation - Self Titled
6. Our Brother the Native - Tooth&Claw
7. Excepter - Alternation
8. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
9. Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
10. TVOTR - Return to Cookie Mountain

Honorable Mention:
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Psapp - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
Lavender Diamond - Album roughs
Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Frog Eyes - The Golden River

Biggest Disappointment:
The Slits - Return of the Killer Slits EP

Altogether a decent year, I believe.

[pixiesfanyo]

I love the music I like. I'm gonna check out that Nellie McKay album because I think I'd like it. There are a few more releases still pending/yet to be released that I'd like to hear before I cast anything in stone. I might like them too, as well.

Also pixies, I got that Flying Lotus album. Don't like it so much. It's not bad, but Daedelus has done/is doing the same thing much better. I like Daedelus.

I have Exquisite Corpse.

It kind of sucked.

[AlienEater]

At the moment:
1. Batttle of Mice- A day of nights
2. Converge - No Heroes
3. TAAS - Easter
4. Liars - Drums not Dead
5. Isis - In the Absence of Truth
6. Chris Clark - Body Riddle
7. Yo La Tengo - I'm not afraid of you and I will beat your ***
8. Don Caballero - World Class Listening Problem
9. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
10. Hot Snakes - Thunder Down Under

[Matt?]

yeah kayo dot ruled this year

[La Revolucion]

Is the new Yo La Tengo any good? If it is maybe I'll put it on my "list of things to get before I make a best of 2006 list" list.

[_Mote_]

I enjoyed it.

[AlienEater]

yes it is good, at times it is irritating.

**** i forgot kayo dot. that would be 4th or something

[2muchket!]

1. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
2. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say I am Thats What I am Not
3. The Fratellis - Costello Music -
4. Sway - This Is My Demo
5. The Avalanche - Sufjan Stevens

[pixiesfanyo]

Is the new Yo La Tengo any good? If it is maybe I'll put it on my "list of things to get before I make a best of 2006 list" list.

It's kind of like a mesh of their sounds.

It's cool, but it's not anything drastically amazing.

Solid record though.

[beso negro]

Jay-Z - Kingdom Come
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Ali Farka Toure - Savane
John Legend - Once Again
John Mayer - Continuum
Prince - 3121

Worst list in this thread? Possibly. I don't care. I don't want your indie points.

It's cool, but it's not anything drastically amazing.

Solid record though.

I hate when people say that. What the **** is that suppose to mean. "its good but it sucks. solid but terrible."

If no one else had it on their lists, you would be cuming all over it, giving yourself major props for finding the next underground hit. But then dismissing it after it becomes a featured album. I got you indie nerds figured out.

[Eliminator]

what the **** are you talking about

nowhere did he say that it's good but sucks, or solid but terrible. he just said it isn't anything amazing.

[pixiesfanyo]

I hate when people say that. What the **** is that suppose to mean. "its good but it sucks. solid but terrible."

If no one else had it on their lists, you would be cuming all over it, giving yourself major props for finding the next underground hit. But then dismissing it after it becomes a featured album. I got you indie nerds figured out.

Uh. Mr. I got a tampon lodged in my cunt because I'm a whiny bitch.

First off, it is a solid album. But I for one, find great albums are when a band moves out of it's area of comfort. Yo La Tengo isn't doing that on their new release.

Also, you're a bitch.

[Jacaranda]

itt: wanna be ironic hipster types challenge people to be ironic and cool and out of the box for challenging societys rules

wtf.

[pixiesfanyo]

itt: wanna be ironic hipster types challenge people to be ironic and cool and out of the box for challenging societys rules

wtf.

if you got hit by a bus, i'd throw a party.

[Jacaranda]

oh i was talking bout beso nigga but ok.
new itt: hostility runs high, tensions are bursting and blood will be shed.

[Otherside]

if you got hit by a bus, i'd throw a party.

sounds like the name of some hardcore scenester song/album/band name


oh i was talking bout beso nigga but ok.

I thought you might have been but I got lost in the messy grammar :(

[Jacaranda]

ya english is my second language ok.

no its not.

[beso negro]

But I for one, find great albums are when a band moves out of it's area of comfort.

Well, i think that is dumb

[Otherside]

ya english is my second language ok.

no its not.

or is it

[rocknrollstar5]

1. Oasis - Stop the Clocks
2. Razorlight - Razorlight
3. Kasabian - Empire
4. Fratellis - Costello Music
5. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What I'm Not
6. The Beatles - Love
7. Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
8. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
9. Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo to Anywhere
10. Milburn - Well Well Well

[pixiesfanyo]

UPDATE!

Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue
Converge - No Heroes
Flying Lotus - 1983
Isis - In the Absence of Truth
Comets on Fire - Avatar
Ahleuchatistas - What You Will
M. Ward - Post War
Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
Scott Walker - The Drift
Burton Wagner - A Sentinel's Eyes

[pixiesfanyo]

He Likes Poo or whatever?

What a ****ing douche bag...

[bleep_bloop]

ok i dont remember what came out in '06 but ill do my best
1. The Knife - Silent Shout
2. The Mounatin Goats - Get Lonley
3. Califone - Roots & Crowns
4. Junior Boys - So This is goodbye
5. Annuals - Be He Me
6. Liars - Drums Not Dead
7. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
8. Tim Hecker - Harmony In Ultraviolet
9. Mudsuckers - S/T
10. Sunn 0))) & Boris - Altar

[_Mote_]

I really liked Mudsuckers also.

[Zmev]

Canidates for top of 06:

Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
The Knife - Silent Shout
Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
Belle and Sebastian - Life Putsuit
Belle and Sebastian - Blues are Still Blue EP
Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afraid...
Zero 7 - The Garden
Calexico - Garden Ruin
I Love You, But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear Is On Our Side
Eagles of Death Metal - Death...By Sexy
Prefuse 73 - Secutiry Screenings
Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
The Bronx- The Bronx [II]
Converge- No Heroes
Tom Waits- Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
J Dilla- Donuts
Lupe Fiasco- Food & Liquor
The Decemberists- The Crane Wife
DJ Shadow- The Outsider
Rise Against- The Sufferer & The Witness
TV on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain

Thank god for someone else who loves this album

Canidate buddy, not elected official

[stevensonmat2]

My morning jacket-Z
Dj Freelance Hellraiser/Paul McCartney-Twin Freaks (on CD)

I dont think Ive heard any other full albums from this year.

[_Mote_]

Canidates for top of 06:
Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics


Thank god for someone else who loves this album :chug:

[Bartender]

Solomon Burke - Nashville

It's pretty good. Mostly good tracks, a few great ones. The duets didn't make as much of an impression on me as they seem to have on other people, though.

Anyway;

Amos Lee - Supply and Demand
Arctic Monkeys - that album they did
Canvas Solaris - Penumbra Diffuse
Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse
Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Jesu - Silver
Solomon Burke - Nashville
Tool - 10,000 Days
Twin Zero - The Tomb To Every Hope

A couple of those are just thrown in to make up the numbers, though. As ever, I haven't heard many new releases.

[Bukowski]

1. Mission of Burma - The Obliterati
2. Comets on Fire - Avatar
3. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
4. Yo La Tengo - IANAOYAIWBYA
5. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
6. Six Organs of Admittance - Sun Awakens
7. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
8. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
9. Amusement Parks on Fire - Out of the Angels
10. Oneida - Happy New Year

others that just missed out:

Venetian Snares - Cavalcade of Glee...
Don Cab - World Class Listening Problem
Calexico - Garden Ruin
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Mono - You Are There
Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics

Also, was Boris - Pink released this year? Some places say it was, but allmusic doesn't...it would make top 10 for sure if it was. And I'll need to check out Califone.

[Kage]

10. Sunn 0))) & Boris - Altar
Nice, I had forgotten this, but it's definitely on my list.

[AlienEater]

Is Happy New Year good?

at bukowski

[Zesty Mordant]

1. The Bronx- The Bronx [II]
2. Converge- No Heroes
3. Tom Waits- Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
4. J Dilla- Donuts
5. Bouncing Souls- The Gold Record
6. The Game- Doctor's Advocate
7. Mastodon- Blood Mountain
8. Lupe Fiasco- Food & Liquor
9. Ghostface Killah- Fishscale
10. The Decemberists- The Crane Wife

wow, so much for broadening my tastes this year.

honorable mentions:
Brand New- The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me
Defiance, Ohio- The Great Depression
DJ Shadow- The Outsider
John Mayer- Continuum
Murs- Murray's Revenge
Nofx- Wolves in Wolves' Clothing
Rise Against- The Sufferer & The Witness
TV on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
Two Gallants- What the Toll Tells
Venetian Snares- Cavalcade of Glee

[Eliminator]

Cavalcade is an awesome album.

[Iai]

10 best I've heard -

1= Arctic Monkeys - Whatever....
1= Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
1= Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
4. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
5. Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
6. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
7. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
8. Plan B - Who Needs Actions When You Got Words?
9. Damien Rice - 9
10. Mogwai - Mr. Beast

10 worst I've heard -

1. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
2. Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
3. Dr. Dre - Dretox
4. The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
5. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
7. Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
8. Devin Townsend - Synchestra
9. Matisyahu - Youth
10. AFI - Decemberunderground

The cool list so that people can read it and pretend that the mainstream hasn't been better than the underground this year and still feel secure believing they're better than all the other kids at school -

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys (seriously, if this is meant to be the best of the year, this is the worst year of this decade by a mile. Luckily it's not.)
2. Calexico - Garden Ruin
3. Mos Def - Tru3 Magic
4. Anathallo - Floating World
5. Pickering Pick - Lost Transmissions
6. AFX - Chosen Lords
7. SikTh - Death Of A Dead Day
8. The Paper Chase - Now You Are One Of Us
9. The Lost Children Of Babylon - The 9/11 Report
10. James Hunter - People Gonna Talk

[Bartender]

8. Plan B - Who Needs Actions When You Got Words?

So that's actually pretty good? All I know by him is still just his appearance on Jools Holland, earlier in the year (which was really good actually, but evidently hasn't had me run out and get the album).

[Dave de Sylvia]

I dunno if this year was better than the last because my memory doesn't really go back that long and I wasn't really paying attention, but I've been very pleased with some of this year's new music. I found it hard to narrow it down to ten favourites.

Messiah J & The Expert - Now This I Have To Hear
As Fast As - Open Letter To The Damned
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Bell X1 - Flocks
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Duke Special - Songs From The Deep Forest
Butch Walker - The Rise And Fall Of Butch Walker And The Let's-Go-Out-Tonites
AFI - Decemberunderground
John Legend - Once Again
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds

[Iai]

So that's actually pretty good? All I know by him is still just his appearance on Jools Holland, earlier in the year (which was really good actually, but evidently hasn't had me run out and get the album).
Yeah. Just a little overlong for comfort, but a handful of the tracks ("Charmaine", "Mama", and "No More Eatin" especially) are absolute stunners.

[Eliminator]

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys (seriously, if this is meant to be the best of the year, this is the worst year of this decade by a mile. Luckily it's not.)

1= Arctic Monkeys - Whatever....
1= Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

Oh okay.

[Aryeth]

1. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
2. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
3. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
4. Jeremy Enigk - World Waits
5. Built to Spill - You In Reverse
6. Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
7. Aloha - Some Echoes
8. Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afriad.....
9. System and Station - Here is Now
10. Joanna Newsom - Ys

[Bukowski]

Is Happy New Year good?

at bukowski

It's solid, there's some great stuff on there. It's not as schizo-crazy as the oher album of theirs I've heard, but it's worth a listen.

I need to hear that Joanna Newsom album, just cuz it divides opinion so much, and I like that.

[Iai]

It's a good record if you like songs with no structure, singers that sound like a dodgy impression of Bjork, and lyrics that sound like the results of an amateur songwriters' workshop on psychedelia.

To be fair it's like a high 3 or a low 3.5 out of 5, so it's not awful by any means. It's just not even remotely deserving of any sort of hype. It's not even the best album I've heard in 2006 that features a harp.

[pixiesfanyo]

To be fair it's like a high 3 or a low 3.5 out of 5, so it's not awful by any means.

I agree.

[androo]

i think 05 was way better in terms of new music. this year wasnt very impressive.

[pixiesfanyo]

^ you think the wrong way.

[YDload]

Yeah. Just a little overlong for comfort, but a handful of the tracks ("Charmaine", "Mama", and "No More Eatin" especially) are absolute stunners.

why is it named after a lyric in the song "Plateau?" or is it possible that the Meat Puppets were making a reference to something else when they wrote that lyric?!

[Kayetan]

Karl Blau- Beneath Waves
Joanna Newsom- Ys
Venetian Snares- Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pompoms
The Lake- Kelp Monthly 24
The Mars Volta- Amputechture
Thanksgiving- The River
Belong- October Language
D+- No Mystery
Mountains- Sewn
Bile Johnson- Another open Doorway

I wouldn't call these absolute favorites, but instead just some pretty good albums which were made in 2006.

[Iai]

why is it named after a lyric in the song "Plateau?" or is it possible that the Meat Puppets were making a reference to something else when they wrote that lyric?!
Plan B's favourite album ever is Nirvana Unplugged, that's why.

[Ganondorf]

Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me


I haven't really been into alot of the other newer albums this year, just odd tracks and stuff.

[2muchket!]

Plan B - Who Needs Actions When You Got Words is a fav of mine. But I wouldn't rate in my top 10

[AlienEater]

It's solid, there's some great stuff on there. It's not as schizo-crazy as the oher album of theirs I've heard, but it's worth a listen.

Hmm I'll probably get it as Oneida are so great, but their craziest stuff is best.

[Zorg]

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming.
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
Juana Molina - Son
The Knife - Silent Shout
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House



Of course this year totally sucked because of the lack of Sex Pistol compilation albums. :rolleyes:

[Cholo]

top 10 so far would be . . .

William Elliott Whitmore - Song Of The Blackbird
mewithoutyou - Brother, Sister
Glue - Catch As Catch Can
These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Boris - Pink
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
Tool - 10,000 Days
Planes Mistaken For stars - Mercy
Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager

though by tomorrow that list will probably have changed for another 10 albums !

[Kage]

Pink was released last year, pal.

[mr_jackalope]

I cannot seriously believe any of you have listened to the latest Lambchop album, as it's only on my list. It's one of those albums that just screams "best of the year."

[PinkFreud]

1. Melvins - A Senile Animal
2. Damien Rice - 9
3. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
4. Butch Walker - Butch Walker & the Let's-Go-Out-Tonights
5. Cursive - Happy Hollow
6. The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun
7. Converge - No Heroes
8. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
9. Anathello - Floating World
10. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere.

[La Revolucion]

9. Anathello - Floating World

Yay someone else likes this.

[Dave de Sylvia]

4. Butch Walker - Butch Walker & the Let's-Go-Out-Tonights

XD.

[Cholo]

Pink was released last year, pal.

not over here in the UK it wasn't.

[mr_jackalope]

would I like it?

Have you listened to them before?

But yeah, you should regardless. It's Nashville-style orchestra country as done by the Tindersticks or Nick Cave. Not Gram Parsons country--it's not twangy for the most part (except for the pedal steel), it's just lyrically rich and somewhat melodramatic. Hear "Prepared" and "Beers Before the Barbican" too get an idea.

As a point of bias, though, these guys are sometimes my favorite band.

[mr_jackalope]

Ryan Adams is Gram Parsons reborn, that statement makes no sense.

[mr_jackalope]

Like, Jacksonville City Nights. Seriously.

[Kyle]

I forgot the Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan thing, loving that right now.

[AlienEater]

I didn't think it was that good. Lanegan has been disappointing lately

[Kyle]

Well it's not really Lanegan's CD, I don't think he wrote any of it. He Just sings.

[AlienEater]

Yeah I know. But that's the only reason I bought, to be honest

[Little Man being Erased]

I cannot seriously believe any of you have listened to the latest Lambchop album, as it's only on my list. It's one of those albums that just screams "best of the year."
I'm thinking I should check out some more Lambchop. I've only heard a handful of songs here and there. My bro has Aw C'mon / No, You C'mon, but I might check out How I Quit Smoking. Good place to start?

[mr_jackalope]

I think What Another Man Spills or How I Quit Smoking would be the best places to start. Or even the new one, Damaged, really, it's one of their best. Aw C'mon and No You C'mon are actually my least favorite albums by them, they're unfocused and uncharacteristic of the effort they usually put into songwriting.

[mr_jackalope]

"Smuckers" dude. Wait for "Smuckers" at least.

[Jawaharal]

1. Tom Waits - Orphans
2. T Bone Burnett - The True False Identity
3. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue
4. J Dilla - Donuts
5. Converge - No Heroes
6. Flying Lotus - 1983
7. Murder By Death - In Bocca Al Lupo
8. Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
9. DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage
10. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
11. I Would Set Myself On Fire For You - Believes In Patterns
12. Mono - You Are There
13. Bouncing Souls - The Gold Record
14. These Arms Are Snakes - Easter
15. Beirut - Gulag Okestar

[Zappa]

They're still making albums in the year 2006?

[mr_jackalope]

I didn't include Orphans in my list since it really doesn't seem like an album, but it's definitely about the best thing released this year.

Top live releases:

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - Hammersmith Odeon London '75
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Crazy Horse at the Filmore 1970

[Quirky Turkey]

I don't have a list but The Knife - Silent Shout is by far the best album I've heard all year.

[bleep_bloop]

one two three

[Bukowski]

**** I forgot Scott Walker, oh well.

[rhyno]

I only own 15 albums from 2006 so choosing 10 good ones is gonna be a little hard.

1. The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
2. Modern Times - Bob Dylan
3. Amputechture - The Mars Volta
4. Mr. Beast - Mogwai
5. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am Thats What I'm Not
6. 10,000 Days - Tool
7. The Eraser - Thom Yorke
8. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
9. First Impressions of Earth - The Strokes
10. On an Island - David Gilmour

I know, my list sucks. I don't even really like the albums toward the bottom that much.

[Otherside]

The Eraser is better than all of those IMO

[YDload]

if you value your sanity you will not read the choices of goons for 06's best albums:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2148858

actually not all of the lists are bad but you never know what you might disagree with!

[Kaden]

I read the first 5 pages of this thread, and no one mentioned Brother Sister by Mewithoutyou. I'm surprised, I think that might be my top album of the year, am I the only one who loves it?

And as far as rap goes, American Hunger by MF Grimm destroys everything else, although Fishscale comes close (it might be better if the latter half of the album was as good as the first half)

[mr_jackalope]

The Eraser is sort of forgettable. In that I forgot to listen to it a third time.

[Kayetan]

The Eraser has been pretty meh to me every time I've heard it.

[sobelecta]

The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
Lily Allen - Alright Still
Kasabian - Empire
The Futureheads - News & Tributes
CSS- Cansei De Ser Sexy
Nelly Furtado - Loose
Outkast - Idlewild
Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Placebo - Meds

I know it's a real commercial list but this is what I enjoyed, so yeah. I loves it all. x

[mr_jackalope]

I thought News & Tributes was way, way mediocre compared to the mediocre self-titled. "Skip to the End" is killer, but nothing else really stuck out to me.

[Robert Crumb]

I thought News & Tributes was way, way mediocre compared to the mediocre self-titled. "Skip to the End" is killer, but nothing else really stuck out to me.

I was about to make this post. When I saw News & Tributes on that list, I had to put "Skip to the End" on.

[bleep_bloop]

oh man i forgot about beirut's gulag orkestrar

[Zmev]

1 Ratatat - Classics

har

[Eliminator]

Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

2005?

[Zmev]

Unless you count the limited edition rerelease box set.

[Eliminator]

oh dude i so have to get that

[pixiesfanyo]

oh dude i so have to get that

It's no joke.

They acutally rereleased that ****.

[Eliminator]

money money money

[Zmev]

no its for artistic value they wanted to release it again in case someone didnt feel the ground break the first time

[mr_jackalope]

I was about to make this post. When I saw News & Tributes on that list, I had to put "Skip to the End" on.

I suspect they'll put out about an album a year for the next few years with one or two completely and mindblowingly awesome singles each and then release a greatest hits compilation that's possibly the greatest thing ever.

[Eliminator]

verything was ready but he had to run away
Shot for the money on the very same day
Le garage, le garage-rage
Le garage, le garage-rage

Everything was ready but he had to run away
Shot for the money on the very same day
Le garage, le garage-rage
Le garage, le garage-rage

Bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit

You, you are the thing
With you tight skin, making me jealous??
And i agree, i never think now when im with you

And i wont say a word of its true if it's not true
Le garage, le garage-rage

And things pushed in my face
With locked arms, making me nuder to everything
You you give me sound?? ,i always think now when im with you

And i wont say a word of its true if it's not true
Le garage, le garage-rage
And i wont say a word of its true if it's not true
Le garage, le garage-rage

[pete L.]

I almost feel relieved to be at the end of this thread.

I liked:

Elbow
TV on the Radio
Decemberists
Belle and Sebastian
Neko Case
Weird Al (especially trapped in the drive-thru)

[Eliminator]

not at the end anymore

[Hiddenstashes]

Hello, My Faves from '06

1. Cursive - Happy Hollow
2. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
3. The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine
4. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
5. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You...
6. Comets On Fire - Avatar
7. Blood Brothers - Young Machetes

I Haven't Listened To These Enough To Have An Opinion But My Wife Liked These Last Three Alot

8. The Format - Dog Problems
9. Neil Young - Living With War
10. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time

Let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions of other new stuff to check out. I've been out of the loop for quite a while (got married, had kids, got a crappy job etc...) so i basically just started listening to new music again, and i'm pretty new to the whole indie rock thing

Thanks

[Kyle]

Not a bad list at all.

I guess it would be better to look through this thread for recurring suggestions, rather than ask individual people what to listen to.

[Hiddenstashes]

True enough, i'm just lazy

[Kyle]

New albums from...

Destroyer, Califone, Converge, TV On the Radio, Clipse, Ghostface Killah, Thom Yorke, Dresden Dolls, Joanna Newsom, Girl Talk

...are all good.

[JonM]

I'll give it a go, cuz this year has been very awesome, in my opinion.


Evangelicals - So Gone
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Islands - Return To The Sea
MF Grimm - American Hunger
Method Man - 4:21... The Day After
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Da Backwudz - Wood Work
Califone - Roots & CrownsImportant honorable mentions:

Kaki King - Until We Felt Red
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Paul Simon - Surprise
Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
Buju Banton - Too Bad
Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

[The Jungler]

1. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
2. Stones Throw Records - Chrome Children
3. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
4. Midlake - The Trials of Vanoccupanther
5. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
6. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
7. Outkast - Idlewild
8. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
9. The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia
10. Nelly Furtado - Loose

[Eliminator]

that lis is kinda gay joedan

i'll have to listen to the xiu xiu one mor ebefore i list it

[Tangy zizzle]

1.The Mint Chicks - Crazy?Yes!Dumb?No
The Drones - Gala Mill
Blood Meridian - Kick Up the Dust
The Bronx - The Bronx
Dimmer - There My Dear
Wires on Fire - Wires on Fire
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Devestations - Coal
The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
Pink Mountaintops - Axis of Evol

You guys are all basically weak.

[Tangy zizzle]

oh and the Thermals record, which should be on there but it isn't.

[Little Man being Erased]

So the new Mint Chicks is good, huh? Not a disappointment like their first album?

[Happymeal]

I like half of the songs on the Wires on Fire album, the others I'm not feeling so much.

[italic zero]

Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Melvins - (A) Senile Animal
Matisyahu - Youth
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
Adrian Belew - Side Three
Tool - 10,000 Days
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Tom Waits - Orphans

not a big indie year for me

[Tangy zizzle]

So the new Mint Chicks is good, huh? Not a disappointment like their first album?


Good?No!Brilliant? Hells yes. It's, in all honesty, one of if not the best pop record to be released by any band, geography aside, this millenium. It's fully realized, aware of it's quality but, unlike the first - basically lacking in all pretention (which is weird, seeing as they're a bunch of scene bitches). A complete turn around from F**k the Golden Youth.

[Little Man being Erased]

Good?No!Brilliant? Hells yes.
Oh I see what you did there.


It's, in all honesty, one of if not the best pop record to be released by any band, geography aside, this millenium. It's fully realized, aware of it's quality but, unlike the first - basically lacking in all pretention (which is weird, seeing as they're a bunch of scene bitches). A complete turn around from F**k the Golden Youth.
Sounds promising. Maybe I should check into it.

[Kage]

Adrian Belew - Side Three

Great!

[Tangy zizzle]

Yeah I really think you should. That goes for everybody really - regardless of yr. previous knowledge of the band - check this album out, if you can.

[Little Man being Erased]

btw, I checked out that Devastations album. It's great.

[Iai]

I'm gonna have to say, it's gonna take a lot of effort for me to work up the inclination to listen to any Mint Chicks after how badly their first album sucked.

[Tangy zizzle]

I felt the same way, but I heard some songs, saw them live playing the new stuff and then finally felt assured enough to get it. I don't like their first album a whole lot (though dug the EP's) but this - this is quality music.

[Robert Crumb]

That Drones album is really nice. Played a song on my radio show today.