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Title: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Relaxer on July 03, 2006, 11:12:00 am
June 30 marked the 1/2 year mark for 2006. What are your favorite discs released this year?
 
 1. Howling Bells s/t
 2. Priestess "Hello Master" -- at the Black Cat on July 13
 3. Arctic Monkeys "Whatever People Say..."
 4. Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan
 5. Rye Coalition "Curses"
 6. Semifinalists s/t
 7. Paul Simon "Surprise"
 8. Wolfmother
 9. Espers II
 10. Twilight Singers "Powder Burns:
 
 Others I've liked but not enough to (yet) make the list:
 Built to Spill, Gnarls Barkley, Ghostface Killah, Streets
 
 Disappointments:
 Tool, Pearl Jam, Morrissey, Raconteurs
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: sonickteam2 on July 03, 2006, 11:38:00 am
since i am sitting at the airport....i'll do it too.
 
 best of the year so far...
 
 
 10. Metal Hearts - "Socialize"
 9.  Wolfmother - "Wolfmother"
 8.  Mudhoney - "Under A Billion Suns"
 7.  Streets, the - "Hardest Way to make an Easy Living"
 6.  Radio 4 - "Enemies Like This"
 5.  Muse - Black Holes & Revelations"
 4.  Blue Sky Black Death - "Heap of Broken Images
 3.  Hot Chip - "The Warning"
 2.  People In Planes - "As Far as the eye Can See"
 1.  Ray Davies - "Other People's Lives"
 
 
 (i realize that Muse hasnt really come out yet, but i have had it for a bit)
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 03, 2006, 11:51:00 am
I was wondering when this thread would get started!
 
 Top 10
 1) Camera Obscura - "Let's Get Out of This Country"
 2) The Essex Green - "Cannibal Sea"
 3) Destroyer - "Destroyer's Rubies"
 4) Islands - "Return to the Sea"
 5) J Dilla - "Donuts"
 6) Neko Case - "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"
 7) Artic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say ..."
 8) Belle & Sebastian - "The Life Pursuit"
 9) Drive-By Truckers - "A Blessing and a Curse"
 10) Voxtrot - "Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives" [EP]
 
 Honorable Mention:
 Ambulance LTD - "New English" [EP]
 Cat Power - "The Greatest"
 Centro-Matic - "Fort Recovery"
 Film School - "Film School"
 Grandaddy - "Just Like the Fambly Cat"
 
 Dissapointments:
 Pearl Jam - "Pearl Jam"
 The Raconteurs - "Broken Boy Soldier"
 Flaming Lips - "At War With the Mystics"
 Futureheads - "News and Tributes"
 ** these are all decent albums, i just expected more from all of them
 
 Albums I Have, But Haven't Listened to Yet
 Cities - "Cities"
 Ghostface Killah - "Fishscale"
 Gnarls Barkley - "St. Elsewhere"
 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - "Ballad of the Broken Seas"
 Madlib - "Beat Konducta, Vol. 1-2"
 Mogwai - "Mr. Beast"
 Murs & 9th Wonder - "Murray's Revenge"
 People Under the Stairs - "Stepfather"
 Phoenix - "It's Never Been Like That"
 The Streets - "The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living"
 Tool - "10,000 Days"
 Wolfmother - "Wolfmother"
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 03, 2006, 12:04:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
  Film School - "Film School"
if the lead singer's voice were just a BIT better, this would be high up on my top 10 ... the music is awesome, but the guy's voice is just crappy
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: vansmack on July 03, 2006, 03:38:00 pm
Haven't put a list together yet, but I don't see Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins on anybody's list and that's a crime.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 03, 2006, 03:42:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by vansmack:
  Haven't put a list together yet, but I don't see Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins on anybody's list and that's a crime.
my list wasn't a "best of", just my favorites ... i haven't gotten my hands on the jenny lewis CD yet
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: vansmack on July 03, 2006, 03:48:00 pm
The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun is likely in my top 10 as well.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: palahniukkubrick on July 03, 2006, 03:52:00 pm
I've only bought three albums this whole year, SY's Rather Ripped, Paul Simon's Surprise, and Ghostface's Fishscale, and they're all pretty good.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: wxdude on July 03, 2006, 04:06:00 pm
Neko Case - Fox Confessor
 Jenny Lewis/Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
 Belle and Sebastian -  The Life Pursuit
 Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
 Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
 Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
 Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
 Cat Power - The Greatest
 Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
 
 Disappointed - Josh Rouse, Subtitulo - Not horrible, but not as good as previous two CD's.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: vansmack on July 03, 2006, 04:06:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
   i haven't gotten my hands on the jenny lewis CD yet
If you like Camera Obscura, I'm pretty sure you'll like Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins.  Very similar, yet different.  JL is a little more country, but they're of the same vein.
 
 I prefer the JL album, but I put the O in country so what do could you expect?
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: andyrichter on July 03, 2006, 04:43:00 pm
The new ones from Neko Case, Buzzcocks, and Sonic Youth have all been great.  I also picked up Be Your Own Pet at the Sonic Youth show and that was pretty good too.  I didn't like Pretty Girls Make Graves-Elan Vital at first but I'm really getting around to it.  Like a lot of people, I thought Tool was a let down.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: JohnnyBaconbitz on July 03, 2006, 04:58:00 pm
I'll play...
 
 10. Tied: Racontuers - Broken Boy Soliders AND Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent, Jens
 09. Danielson - Ships
 08. Cold War Kids - Up In Rags (ep)
 07. Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
 06. The Black Keys - Chulahoma (ep)
 05. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
 04. Eagles of Death Metal - Death By Sexy
 03. B&S - The Life Pursuit
 02. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock n' Roll
 01. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 03, 2006, 05:11:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by JohnnyBaconbitz:
 10. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent, Jens
 02. Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock n' Roll
 01. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
not to pick nits, but weren't these all 2005?  i would have put Jens at #2, and Art Brut probably around #9 if they were '06 releases
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: chokeychicken on July 03, 2006, 05:17:00 pm
i don't have a top 10 list, but the albums that come to mind are cursive's "happy and hollow," belle & sebastian's "the life persuit," gnarls barkley's "st. elsewhere" and the new johnny cash record that comes out tomorrow is absolutely gorgeous.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: kookiemnstr8 on July 03, 2006, 05:24:00 pm
No particular order:
 
 Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
 Cold War Kids EP
 Mothers Sisters Daughters and Wives - Voxtrot
 The Life Pursuit - Belle and Sebastian
 Ships - Danielson
 Gulag Orkestar - Beirut
 Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
 
 I know that last one hasn't come out yet, but good god, once it does, it will jump to the top of my list.  The leak sounds amazing.
 Don't know if these are the "best" per se, but certainly the ones I've listened to over and over.
 
 Disappointments:
 The Raconteurs
 The Strokes . . I so badly wanted that album not to suck.  For some reason I keep breaking it out and trying to like it.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: andyrichter on July 03, 2006, 05:29:00 pm
woops. i almost forgot the new johnny cash.  i listened to it earlier today.  great record.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: vansmack on July 03, 2006, 05:50:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
   Art Brut probably around #9 if they were '06 releases
It's an '06 release in the States, but I would have included it if I didn't own in in '05 as well (thank you, emusic).
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: serickson98 on July 03, 2006, 06:42:00 pm
Tool might have been a little dissapointing, but it by far has the best packaging for a CD I think I've ever seen.
 
 Pearl Jam was not dissapointing, IMO.  Not by a longshot.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: clyde725 on July 03, 2006, 07:22:00 pm
1. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
 2. Islands - Return to the Sea
 3. Man Man - Six Demon Bag
 4. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: andyrichter on July 03, 2006, 07:28:00 pm
anybody hear the new tom verlaine records? how are they?
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: definitivedoodle on July 03, 2006, 09:14:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
 
 
 Ghostface Killah - "Fishscale"
 Gnarls Barkley - "St. Elsewhere"
 Madlib - "Beat Konducta, Vol. 1-2"
 Murs & 9th Wonder - "Murray's Revenge"
  [/QB]
these might change your top ten...
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: bearman🐻 on July 03, 2006, 10:15:00 pm
The new Phoenix is great, probably their best yet.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: you be betty on July 03, 2006, 11:48:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by bearman:
  The new Phoenix is great, probably their best yet.
I was going to mention this, too.  It's absolutely awesome.  One of the best albums I've picked up all year   :)
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Tom Servo on July 04, 2006, 01:03:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by you be betty:
   
Quote
Originally posted by bearman:
  The new Phoenix is great, probably their best yet.
I was going to mention this, too.  It's absolutely awesome.  One of the best albums I've picked up all year    :)  [/b]
yes and yes.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Darth Ed on July 04, 2006, 01:22:00 am
I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned Band of Horses' "Everything All the Time" or  "The Dust of Retreat" by Margot & the Nuclear So-and-So's.
 
 I gather I'm the only one around here who isn't disappointed by The Raconteurs' album....
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HomesickAlien on July 04, 2006, 03:02:00 am
10.Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
 9. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
 8. Tilly And The Wall - Bottoms Of Barrels
 7. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
 6. Portugal. The Man - Waiter: "You Vultures!"
 5. The Kooks - Inside In/ Inside Oout
 4. I Am X - The Alternative
 3. Placebo - Meds
 1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - dto. &
    Muse - Black Holes And Relevations
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: you be betty on July 04, 2006, 11:08:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by Darth Ed:
  I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned Band of Horses' "Everything All the Time" or  "The Dust of Retreat" by Margot & the Nuclear So-and-So's.
 
 I gather I'm the only one around here who isn't disappointed by The Raconteurs' album....
Noo, I'm not disappointed by The Raconteurs' album, either.  I didn't expect the second coming of jesus, or anything.  For what it's worth, it's a fun little rock record.  That does the trick enough for me.
 
 Also, Margo & The Nuclear So and So's put together an awesome record.
 
 The Elected's Sun, Sun, Sun, and Jenny Lewis' record probably round out my top two.  And I as well am really diggin' Be Your Own Pet.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Mobius on July 04, 2006, 10:43:00 pm
I think Babyshambles' Down in Albion is surprisingly good.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: brennser on July 05, 2006, 11:20:00 am
generally agree with some of the selections posted here
 
 so far I like
 
 Belle and Seb
 Wolfmother
 Margot
 Neil Young
 Campbell/Lanegan
 Howe Gelb
 Destroyer
 Alejandro
 Neko
 
 slightly dissapointed in
 
 Twilight Singers
 Arctic Monkeys
 
 lots of stuff I need to listen to more
 Calexico
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: redsock on July 05, 2006, 12:43:00 pm
Hmmm, no one has mentioned Mates of State's new album. My favorite record of the year, by far. Though Band of Horses, Tilly and the Wall, B.Fleishmann, TVOTR and Ladytron all put out very good albums.
 
 I still have piles upon piles of stuff to hear though...
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: beedubyah on July 05, 2006, 01:01:00 pm
Love:
 Morrissey - Ringleaders... - So good I want to put my fist through a window
 Walkmen - Hundred Miles Off - No barnburners like The Rat or Thinking of a Dream I Had, but much more consistent. Great album.
 Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere - 'Last Time' is a certified nut-tingler
 Neko Case - Fox Confessor...
 Ambulance - EP - Beautiful tunes. If they only translated better live.
 Muse - Black Holes and Revelations - Muse's 'Be Here Now' or 'OK Computer'? They certainly went balls out on this one. Only given it one listen, but I was blown away.
 
 Like:
 Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops - Decent, but no standouts like their previous
 Strokes - First Impressions - I know theyre not cool anymore, but its pretty damn good.
 Wolfmother - Standout singles but not consistent
 Arctic Monkeys
 The Streets - Trying to decipher whether I am just into him because I'm a bit of an anglophile or whether I legitimately dig the sound. I still dont have an answer but I like the album either way.
 
 Suck:
 Pearl Jam - Some songs I not only just dont care for, I actually want to punch Eddie Vedder in the face. Just completely devoid of any melody at times.
 Snow Patrol - As a very large fan of their last album and show at the 930, Ill admit it. They've become the Goo Goo Dolls. 'Put some Sufjan Stevens on'?!
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: eltee on July 05, 2006, 01:03:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by andyrichter:
  woops. i almost forgot the new johnny cash.  i listened to it earlier today.  great record.
I'm with you!!
 
 Add [for me]: Josh Ritter - Animal Years; Glen Phillips - Mr. Lemons (LP), Unlucky 7 (EP)
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: dumpkopf on July 05, 2006, 02:52:00 pm
I'm glad 2 people mentioned Islands. That CD is awesome.
 
 Then in no order
 
 The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia...
 Boris- Pink
 Liars - Drum's Not Dead
 
 and I know its not out yet but
 
 Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: xneverwherex on July 05, 2006, 03:14:00 pm
so far...
 
 People in Planes
 The Lovely Feathers
 Liam & Me
 Elefant
 Phoenix
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: brennser on July 05, 2006, 04:54:00 pm
forgot the essex green
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: kookiemnstr8 on July 05, 2006, 05:26:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by brennser:
  forgot the essex green
Oh, good point!  Can't believe I left that one off.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: SPARX on July 05, 2006, 05:52:00 pm
I'll add:
 
 Serena Maneesh - Zuruck
 
 High Violets - To Where You Are
 
 Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Jaguar on July 05, 2006, 06:00:00 pm
Without a doubt my top 2 are...
 
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Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Jaguar on July 05, 2006, 06:04:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by SPARX:
  I'll add:
 
 Serena Maneesh - Zuruck
 
 High Violets - To Where You Are
 
 Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA
The High Violets are another one fighting for my list. Damn, there is so much more and I can't pick one of over the other.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Sage 703 on July 05, 2006, 06:22:00 pm
My favorites:
 
 10. Psapp - The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
 9. Alcian Blue - S/T
 8. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
 7. Islands - Return to the Sea
 6. Calexico - Garden Ruin
 5. Pearl Jam - S/T
 4. Jose Gonzalez - Veneer
 3. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
 2. Editors - The Back Room (US version dropped in '06)
 1. Middle Distance Runner - Plane in Flames
 
 
 Possibly great, but haven't listened to them enough yet: White Whale, Thom Yorke, Camera Obscura, Cex, Sonic Youth, Bruce Springsteen, Aloha, Muse.
 
 Albums I haven't heard but would like to and are probably very good: The Streets, Belle & Sebastian, Clearlake, Arctic Monkeys, Jenny Lewis, Neko Case, Amy Millan, Cat Power, Flaming Lips.
 
 Disappointments: Morrissey, Wolfmother, Tool, The Raconteurs
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Jaguar on July 05, 2006, 06:23:00 pm
Hey Sparx, I heard a completely different version of "Nothing To Say" by The Stevenson Ranch Davidians yesterday on 3WK.com. (I had drifted away from that station for awhile and when I came back, they had a whole shitload of good new music that is appealling to me. They are getting kind of gazing. They always know how to please me.    :D   ) Definitely the same song as from their debut EP (2005) but remixed with a lot of extra layers and effects. Do you know what's up with that?
 
 The Stevenson Ranch Davidians are another band who may be fighting for my full list later on in the year if they've got a new release to represent 2006.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Tom Servo on July 05, 2006, 06:36:00 pm
I wish I listened to enough new music so that a full 10 albums could make my "best of" but I'm not quite there yet.  Here are my favorites so far this year:
 
 Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
 Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
 Subways - Young for Eternity
 Wedding Present - Interstate 5
 
 Honorable Mention (could still make it): Band of Horses, Mellowdrone, Built to Spill, Rogue Wave
 
 I'm sure I'll find a few other potential favorites by poaching off of others' lists that look like mine.  I also left off some that were actually released last year but that I only started listening to this year, namely Okkervil River.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: SPARX on July 05, 2006, 07:20:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Jaguar:
  Hey Sparx, I heard a completely different version of "Nothing To Say" by The Stevenson Ranch Davidians yesterday on 3WK.com. (I had drifted away from that station for awhile and when I came back, they had a whole shitload of good new music that is appealling to me. They are getting kind of gazing. They always know how to please me.      :D     ) Definitely the same song as from their debut EP (2005) but remixed with a lot of extra layers and effects. Do you know what's up with that?
 
 The Stevenson Ranch Davidians are another band who may be fighting for my full list later on in the year if they've got a new release to represent 2006.
Nice catch, I forgot to mention them. They have a new release,  Psalms, Hymns, & Spiritual Songs with a revamped lineup. You can hear a few tracks here:
  http://www.thestevensonranchdavidians.com/index_files/page0005.htm (http://www.thestevensonranchdavidians.com/index_files/page0005.htm)
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Jaguar on July 05, 2006, 07:34:00 pm
Thanks! Obviously, I haven't been on their site for awhile. Damn! I'm listening now and I can already tell that they've beefed up the production. I knew they were working on new material but kind of let it all drift for too long with so much else out there to occupy my ears.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: snailhook on July 06, 2006, 03:01:00 am
neil young - living with war
 six organs of admittance - the sun awakens
 sonic youth - rather ripped
 espers - II
 vetiver - to find me gone
 om - conference of the birds
 birchville cat motel - our love will destroy the world
 bardo pond - ticket crystals
 mission of burma - the obliterati
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: sonickteam2 on July 06, 2006, 01:58:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by clyde725:
 
 2. Islands - Return to the Sea
 
i would like to add that i got this CD a while back, never listened to it, until today, and i think its fucking awesome.
 
  where did they come from???? oh yeah, Canada!  :)
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: vansmack on July 06, 2006, 05:58:00 pm
How quickly we forget that We Are Scientists - "With Love and Squalor" is a 2006 release in the US as well.  It seems everybody had that last year.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Lazer Guided Melodies on July 06, 2006, 06:05:00 pm
1. The Sun Awakens-Six Organs of Admittance
 2. Brightblack Morning Light
 3. Dins-Psychic Ills
 4. The Corner of Miles and Gil-Shack
 5. Alienoid Starmonica-The Aliens
 6. Passover-Black Angels
 7. Black Gold-King Biscuit Time
 8. II-Espers
 9. Riot City Blues-Primal Scream
 10. bootleg-Daniel Johnston/Spiritualized (what can I say, two new Spiritualized songs, perhaps)
 
 others:  Hearts-The Court and Spark, Freeze-Die-Come to Life-Michael Talbott and the Wolfkings, The Drift-Scott Walker
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: snailhook on July 06, 2006, 06:18:00 pm
great calls, LGM. i totally forgot to mention scott walker's the drift and psychic ills' dins. the BML record is good but slightly disappointing, though i still need to allow it to sink in more.
 
 this vetiver record is a real sleeper and gets better with every listen. if you're into espers, six organs, and BML, you'll probably dig it. it's better than devendra banhart's last few records, too.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: lukiedookie89 on July 06, 2006, 07:59:00 pm
Right now I can't stop listening to:
 
 Black Keys- Chulahoma
 Wolfmother
 Boris- Pink
 
 The Life Pursuit is fantastic as well, I was thinking it was 2005 because I've listened to it so much....
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Jaguar on July 06, 2006, 09:39:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by snailhook:
  great calls, LGM.
I love Lazer Guided Melodies. I wished that he (I think LGM is a he) lived over here so he could hang out with us sometimes. We could use a few more good live space psyche gazers around here.
 
 I considered Psychic Ills myself but they got lost in the cut from so much else I was considering.
 
 As much as I like the Espers album, I just think it kind of unwinds along the way. Still very good though. Agree about Brightblack Morning Light. It's good but I think they have just a little way to go yet.
 
 Still toying with 2 more slots and am considering everyone from Alcian Blue to Televise to Monster Movie to The Voices to Mojave 3 to...... There's just too much and that's not a complaint.
 
 My favorite various artists collection so far is:
 
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 It's a double disc loaded with lots of goodness such as BJM, The Lovetones, The Black Angels, The Hiss, The Vandelles, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians, The Telescopes, Snowdonnas, FĂĽxa, God Is An Astronaut, The Electric Mainline, Black Nite Crash, The High Dials and many, many more. (If you order it directly from the lable, tell them Jaguar sent you and they will be sure to treat you right.        ;)       )
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: on July 07, 2006, 12:23:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
  I was wondering when this thread would get started!
 
 Top 10
 1) Camera Obscura - "Let's Get Out of This Country"
 2) The Essex Green - "Cannibal Sea"
 3) Destroyer - "Destroyer's Rubies"
 4) Islands - "Return to the Sea"
 5) J Dilla - "Donuts"
 6) Neko Case - "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"
 7) Artic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say ..."
 8) Belle & Sebastian - "The Life Pursuit"
 9) Drive-By Truckers - "A Blessing and a Curse"
 10) Voxtrot - "Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives" [EP]
 
 Honorable Mention:
 Ambulance LTD - "New English" [EP]
 Cat Power - "The Greatest"
 Centro-Matic - "Fort Recovery"
 Film School - "Film School"
 Grandaddy - "Just Like the Fambly Cat"
 
 Dissapointments:
 Pearl Jam - "Pearl Jam"
 The Raconteurs - "Broken Boy Soldier"
 Flaming Lips - "At War With the Mystics"
 Futureheads - "News and Tributes"
 ** these are all decent albums, i just expected more from all of them
 
 Albums I Have, But Haven't Listened to Yet
 Cities - "Cities"
 Ghostface Killah - "Fishscale"
 Gnarls Barkley - "St. Elsewhere"
 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - "Ballad of the Broken Seas"
 Madlib - "Beat Konducta, Vol. 1-2"
 Mogwai - "Mr. Beast"
 Murs & 9th Wonder - "Murray's Revenge"
 People Under the Stairs - "Stepfather"
 Phoenix - "It's Never Been Like That"
 The Streets - "The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living"
 Tool - "10,000 Days"
 Wolfmother - "Wolfmother"
Did you buy all of these?
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 07, 2006, 12:26:00 pm
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Originally posted by Rakim Indie Balzac:
 Did you buy all of these?
i got 3 of these from friends, the rest from a combination of emusic.com and CDs
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: ggw on July 07, 2006, 12:43:00 pm
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
   
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Originally posted by Rakim Indie Balzac:
 Did you buy all of these?
i got 3 of these from friends, the rest from a combination of emusic.com and CDs [/b]
That's pretty good for a guy who doesn't work.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: on July 07, 2006, 12:45:00 pm
How do you, poor stuggling grad student that you are, manage to afford to purchase so much music?  Do you have a full-time factory job on the side???  Enquiring minds want to know.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 07, 2006, 01:27:00 pm
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Originally posted by Rakim Indie Balzac:
  How do you, poor stuggling grad student that you are, manage to afford to purchase so much music?  Do you have a full-time factory job on the side???  Enquiring minds want to know.
well, the large majority of that music i obtained from emusic.com
 
 i subscribed to the "eMusic Premium Annual with 20% Discount Subscription", which gives me 90 downloads per month for approximately $15.99 per month, or about 17 cents per song
 
 when sitting down and putting my budget together, i determined that $16/month was a reasonable amount to spend on recorded music
 
 i purchased the Arctic Monkeys and Wolfmother CDs in a store on a whim, and the Voxtrot CD at their show in the GU cafeteria
 
 i apologize, upon further review, i received a grand total of 6 of these albums in MP3 format (generally 192kbps) from friends
 
 and i view grad school as an investment, i made the conscious choice not to seriously compromise my quality of life and eat ramen noodles for 3 years to save a few thousand dollars
 
 any other questions about my budgetary decisions or financial background?
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 07, 2006, 01:28:00 pm
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Originally posted by ggwâ?˘:
 That's pretty good for a guy who doesn't work.
I agree.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: on July 07, 2006, 03:19:00 pm
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
 any other questions about my budgetary decisions or financial background?
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 07, 2006, 03:40:00 pm
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Originally posted by Rakim Indie Balzac:
 Brother, can you spare a dime?
I have a strict policy on dime-sparing ... you have to either be holding two malnourished children in each arm, or be playing an instrument ... if not, then tough luck, buddy
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: on July 07, 2006, 03:43:00 pm
Damnation!  
 
 How will a blue collar asshole like me be able to afford that subscription to last.fm now?
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 07, 2006, 03:52:00 pm
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Originally posted by Rakim Indie Balzac:
  Damnation!  
 
 How will a blue collar asshole like me be able to afford that subscription to last.fm now?
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/98/98fjensonmint.phtml (http://snltranscripts.jt.org/98/98fjensonmint.phtml)
 
 and last.fm is free
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 10, 2006, 09:20:00 am
Adding on the list
 
 Belle & Sebastain
 Middle Distance Runner
 Van Hunt
 St. Etienne
 Sia
 Margot & The Nuclear So & So's
 
 Lots of stuff to get like Phoenix...
 
 Recently dowloaded or got Low, The Eighteeth Day of May, Jon Auer, which sound great
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: snailhook on July 11, 2006, 01:49:00 pm
mojave 3 - puzzles like you
 
 this record has grown on me immensely. this has gotta be the most pop record neil halstead's ever done, and that's not a bad thing.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 13, 2006, 08:33:00 am
I pulled the Black Angels down from eMusic and it's a definite keeper... So is Austin the new you know what?
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Jaguar on July 13, 2006, 11:03:00 am
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  I pulled the Black Angels down from eMusic and it's a definite keeper... So is Austin the new you know what?
New?
 
 Let's say, it's lone star is shining even brighter.
 
 There are a few good bands in Houston too but it still resides in Austin's shadow.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 13, 2006, 11:09:00 am
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  I pulled the Black Angels down from eMusic and it's a definite keeper... So is Austin the new you know what?
why hadn't anyone told me yet that this was on emusic?  you're slacking kosmo!
 
 by the way, i've been able to find pretty much every album i want from '06 on emusic, it's getting better and better ... now if they can only get sub-pop ......
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 13, 2006, 11:20:00 am
because i just myself got around to downloading and listening to it...
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: on July 14, 2006, 01:44:00 pm
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
   
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Originally posted by Rakim Indie Balzac:
  How do you, poor stuggling grad student that you are, manage to afford to purchase so much music?  Do you have a full-time factory job on the side???  Enquiring minds want to know.
i view grad school as an investment
 any other questions about my budgetary decisions or financial background? [/b]
I see. So the reason you attended university was not because you were on a quest for greater knowledge.  The primary interest was the acquisition of money. Well, at least you are honest.  Youâ??ll get more academic bang for the buck by attending grad school.  Doubtless you experience the rest of life in a similar fashion.  Breakfast is an investment in daily nutrition. Masturbation to online porn is an investment in sexual release.  Showering is an investment in personal cleanliness.  Towelling off is an investment in moisture removal.  Not to put too fine a point on it, but arenâ??t you afraid that this financial-gain motive stereotypes you?
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 14, 2006, 02:35:00 pm
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Originally posted by Wolf N.Eagleburger:
   
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
     
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Originally posted by Rakim Indie Balzac:
  How do you, poor stuggling grad student that you are, manage to afford to purchase so much music?  Do you have a full-time factory job on the side???  Enquiring minds want to know.
i view grad school as an investment
 any other questions about my budgetary decisions or financial background? [/b]
I see. So the reason you attended university was not because you were on a quest for greater knowledge.  The primary interest was the acquisition of money. Well, at least you are honest.  Youâ??ll get more academic bang for the buck by attending grad school.  ...  Not to put too fine a point on it, but arenâ??t you afraid that this financial-gain motive stereotypes you? [/b]
sheesh, you guys sure are obsessed with my personal life
 
 thanks for your expert interpretation, but by referring to grad school as an "investment," i meant not that my sole goal for graduate school was to make money, but rather that i didn't want to take 3 years in my mid-20s and live like a hermit and eat ramen noodles, so i'm living a normal life and taking loans out, which i plan to pay back with the compensation i receive from a job after school
 
 i actually find the law fascinating, it's kind of like studying physics in a weird way;  it unlocks keys for how the world works ... another bonus is the staggering diversity of jobs and careers available to a JD
 
 so, i just wanted to thank you for consistently contributing positively to discussions about music around here ... any other pressing issues about my personal life that you need resolved?  or can we get back to talking about music?
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: ggw on July 19, 2006, 11:19:00 am
Consensus top albums of 2006 - from the Blogosphere (http://www.goodhodgkins.com/2006/07/13/blogosphere-consensus-top-albums-of-2006-in-progress/)
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: tigersscareme on July 19, 2006, 11:57:00 am
i enjoy the jenny lewis record quite a bit.
 and the new belle and sebastian.
 
 i can't stand to listen to wolfmother or the raconteurs or whatever.
 jack white makes my ears shrivel.
 
 that said, i'm pretty disappointed that the only things i could find to like were the jenny lewis and B&S. considering my record collection of yore, this makes me look like a softy.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: vansmack on July 20, 2006, 02:23:00 pm
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Originally posted by ggwâ?˘:
  Consensus top albums of 2006 - from the Blogosphere (http://www.goodhodgkins.com/2006/07/13/blogosphere-consensus-top-albums-of-2006-in-progress/)
I'm not as sold on this Destroyers Album as everybody else.  Kind of a poor mans Mountain Goats to me.
 
 After a week of listening to this years albums I've obtained (in no particular order):
 
 Like Like:
 
 Camera Obscura
 Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
 Band of Horses
 Art Brut (though 2005 in my collection)
 Belle and Sebastian
 Islands
 Nouvelle Vague
 Subways
 We Are Scientists
 
 Like:
 
 Destroyer
 The Elected
 The Essex Green (need a few more listens)
 Muse
 Morrissey
 Arctic Monkeys (I don't read much about music other than this board, and all that was said was "overhyped," but I never read the hype in the first place)
 
 Not so much:
 
 Flaming Lips (major disappointment after Yoshima)
 Snow Patrol (tried not to be over produced and layered like the first album and all that did was expose them as weak musically)
 Keane (I'm just over it)
 Pearl Jam (ditto)
 She Wants Revenge (sort of an F you to Clearchannel, sort of a cheap cashing in - I just can't decide which prevails.  Either way, I'm over it.)
 Wolfmother/Eagles of Death Metal/Racontuers (making a mockery of classic rock, should follow Truckers and Sloan's lead and put their own spin on it)
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: bearman🐻 on July 20, 2006, 02:42:00 pm
The new Built to Spill and Sonic Youth records are solid too.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: beedubyah on July 20, 2006, 03:42:00 pm
I'm ready to move Muse's new album up to #1 or close to it for the year.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: BookerT on July 20, 2006, 06:00:00 pm
i've liked a lot this year, haven't loved too much. only one i really love is "rubies," which is about 28x better than any mountain goats record. i've completely guzzled the kool-aid when it comes to lily allen, and i never go for that breezy pop shit. but man is that album amazing, probably my second favorite. another one i really dig is the self-titled debut from adam arcuragi; anyone who likes sufjan, red house painters, mark lanegan, etc. should really check him out (http://hightwo.com/arcuragi.html).
 
 new oneida's growing on me but still doesn't match "secret wars"/"anthem of the moon" for me. pink mountaintops, vetiver, human television, ladyhawk, all pretty good. ghostface does the trick when that white guilt kicks in.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Darth Ed on July 20, 2006, 09:41:00 pm
I haven't listened to the new Muse enough yet (just a quick listen so far), but my current #1 album of the first half of the year is Cannibal Sea by The Essex Green. I'm seriously addicted to that album currently, and I'm really kicking myself for skipping their Black Cat Backstage concert some months ago.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Bags on July 20, 2006, 10:35:00 pm
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  I pulled the Black Angels down from eMusic and it's a definite keeper... So is Austin the new you know what?
Hmmm, this is interesting to hear.  At SXSW, when the rest of the Brian Jonestown Massacre didn't make it in to town on time for the daytime showcase, the Black Angels backed up Anton Newcombe on one long, jam that was awful.  He left the stage and they played the rest of the set and it was no good.  Not sure how much of that was influenced by being geared  up to see BJM, but it was bad....
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Bags on July 20, 2006, 10:36:00 pm
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Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
   
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  I pulled the Black Angels down from eMusic and it's a definite keeper... So is Austin the new you know what?
why hadn't anyone told me yet that this was on emusic?  you're slacking kosmo!
 
 by the way, i've been able to find pretty much every album i want from '06 on emusic, it's getting better and better ... now if they can only get sub-pop ...... [/b]
So can someone go find that emusic thread?  Did you know all of Ivy's catalog is on there?  DAMN.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Bags on July 20, 2006, 10:42:00 pm
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Originally posted by Darth Ed:
  my current #1 album of the first half of the year is Cannibal Sea by The Essex Green. I'm seriously addicted to that album currently, and I'm really kicking myself for skipping their Black Cat Backstage concert some months ago.
I'm with you on really liking the album, and being an ass for missing them at DC9 not too long ago....
 
 Oy.  
 
 Otherwise, 2006 is a lean year for me and new music.  Signing up with eMusic has been great, but not much is really catching my imagination these days.
 
 Best year I had in a while was 2004, I think....
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Bags on July 20, 2006, 11:07:00 pm
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Originally posted by BookerT:
  i've completely guzzled the kool-aid when it comes to lily allen, and i never go for that breezy pop shit. but man is that album amazing, probably my second favorite.
You can stream the full Lily Allen cd here (http://3voor12.vpro.nl/3voor12/luisterpaal/luisterpaalalbum.shtml?10617791+29094249)
 
 I'm only in to the second song...could see it catching my fancy, though there's no way to know yet.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Darth Ed on July 20, 2006, 11:09:00 pm
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Originally posted by Bags:
 I'm with you on really liking the album (Cannibal Sea by The Essex Green), and being an ass for missing them at DC9 not too long ago....
They were at DC9 too? DAMN! I don't recall hearing about that....
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: jude376 on July 21, 2006, 10:38:00 am
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Originally posted by Darth Ed:
   
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Originally posted by Bags:
 I'm with you on really liking the album (Cannibal Sea by The Essex Green), and being an ass for missing them at DC9 not too long ago....
They were at DC9 too? DAMN! I don't recall hearing about that.... [/b]
Caught them at the Black Cat backstage in May - perhaps you were thinking of that show?
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: kosmo vinyl on July 24, 2006, 09:47:00 am
Going to have to add Cheap Trick - Rockford to my list and having listened to it am being to wonder if sensitive guy singers aren't in fact killing rock.  Robin still has it that toughness and attitude so lacking it current rock vocalists.  There a couple clunkers on the album, the Linda Perry and faux ZZ Top tracks.  But soundwise it runs the gambit from when Cheap Trick ruled, Dream Police and Heaven Tonight.
 
 For I don't The Raconteurs record just wished they had taken the time to actually finish it.  Suspect that six months down the road I play it again and enjoy it.
 
 I agree with Vansmack at all the feeble attempts at updating classic rocks today.  Wolfmother only being more listenable than say Jet.  It's too bad that Do Me Bad Things had to call it day as they were able to turn classic rock on it's ear a bit.  But with nine members on board I'm guessin' it was a bit tough to keep it all together financially.  
 
 The other trend that worth noting at the moment is the return of the EP.  Given that the cost of pressing any CD is the same whether or not it has five or ten songs, I like that some artists like Cary Brothers and Voxtrot are going the EP route.  I would rather hear five great songs from a developing artist instead of it being padded by filler in order to release it a full length album.
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: Reod Dai on July 26, 2006, 02:49:00 pm
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Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 26, 2006, 05:15:00 pm
picks from allmusic.com editors (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=61::67UP) ... some good stuff on here
 
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Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on July 26, 2006, 05:19:00 pm
has anyone heard the envelope (http://www.envelope.dk/) album?  saw a video on subterranean, really great stuff
Title: Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
Post by: starrdogg92 on July 26, 2006, 05:20:00 pm
I figure since it's a mid-year list, 5 albums should suffice. My top 5 thus far:
 
 1) Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
 2) Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
 3) Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
 4) Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of this Country
 5) The Knife - Silent Shout
 
 Also just got this EP from this band Tokyo Police Club, definitely have "next big thing" written all over them, I think they're opening for Enon when they come to town.
 
 Lastly, anyone know why the new TV on the Radio US release date keeps getting pushed back? And anyone know where to get a cheap copy of it so I don't have to wait until September? I absolutely love "I Was a Lover."