End of Year Lists - 2006

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
  Aren't we all more concerned with Beyonce's boob?

If I was her, I'd wear more sweatshirts.

[ggw]

Tiny Mix Tapes
 
 1. Joanna Newsom
 2. Liars
 3. TV on the Radio
 4. Ghosface Killah
 5. Juana Molina (need to check this out, good?)
 6. Yo La Tengo
 7. Grizzly Bear
 8. Scott Walker
 9. Califone
 10. Josephine Foster
 11. Magik Markers
 12. Carla Bozulich
 13. Keith Fullerton Whitman
 14. Wolf Eyes
 15. Herbert
 16. Tim Hecker
 17. J Dilla
 18. Neko Case
 19. OOIOO
 20. Junior Boys
 21. Cat Power
 22. Boris
 23. Comets on Fire
 24. Spankrock
 25. Beirut

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

If you get a 1 year subscription to Magnet, you can choose that album for free. Haven't received my copy yet.
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Tiny Mix Tapes
 
 
 5. Juana Molina (need to check this out, good?)
 

[helicon1]

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  Tiny Mix Tapes
 
 5. Juana Molina (need to check this out, good?)
 

Yes, very much so.... She is absolutely amazing.

[dfmcpete]

I hadn't seen the tinymixtapes list. Wow. Not that there are a lot of surprises, and to a certain extent I respect what a lot of those bands/artists are doing, but there's maybe two or three albums on there I would enjoy listening to.
 
 Joanna / Liars as the top two? That's a list only a critic could love.

[bigyellow100]

the liars are awesome.  they put up one of the best live shows ive ever seen. its just a solid wall of thunderous drums and guitar wailing.
 
 joanna newsom...now thats a whole 'nother bag of worms.  she just sounds so awful; i cant get past her voice.

[ayates]

These lists always entertain me.  They always omit bands such as Tool but never fail to slob the knobs of RHCP, et al.  I would love for one of the bands on any of these lists to attempt to replicate a set list from a Tool performance let alone an album.  I do not get it and I suppose I never will.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

"Showbiz Tonight" Executive Producer Dave Levine picks Keane's "Under the Iron Sea" as one of the year's top albums, singling out the song "Hamburg" as particularly noteworthy. "If there is one cut on this CD that will give you goosebumps it is 'Hamburg,' with lyrics of longing of what could be, with the person you could give unrequited love to," he says.

[SPARX]

Having not determined mine yet( must remember to do that), here's one of the better lists I've seen, compiled by the owner of rednailmusic :
 
 1 natural snow buildings - the dance of the moon & the sun
 
 two discs, each nearly 80 minutes, not a second of filler.
 beautifully amazing drone folk from french/argentinian duo.
 don't just take my word for it, go here:
 http://www.digitalisindustries.com/foxyd/reviews.php?which=1738
 or here:
 http://www.animalpsi.com/index.php?entry=entry061111-150413
 
 
 2 horse feathers - words are dead
 
 best folk pop album since "pink moon", the violin and cello are
 tasteful inclusions. great vocals, solid lyrics. a very close
 second place.
 
 
 3 phelan sheppard - harps old master
 
 experimental ambient goodness from members of state river
 widening. the last few minutes of "broken in the wrong places"
 are of an untouchable quality.
 
 
 4 titan - s/t
 
 lysergic space rock of the highest order from brooklyn (yet with
 german song titles, go figure!). 3 long songs that really should
 never end.
 
 
 5 valley of ashes - cavehill hunters attrition
 
 fantastic 3 LP release of lo-fi acid freak folk from kentucky
 
 
 6 wooden wand & the sky high band - second attention
 
 another fine release from the wand. every song is a winner,
 though the best wand track this year was "war star days" from
 the "horus of the horizon" LP on three lobed.
 
 
 7 various production - the world is gone
 
 cream of the dubstep/grime/uk garage crop. confusing name, but
 the music and vocals speak beautiful volumes
 
 
 8 ashtray navigations - four more raga moods
 
 best of all the 2006 ashtray releases (5 or 6 total, I think).
 intense psychedelic drone and noise.
 
 
 9 six organs of admittance - the sun awakens
 
 not my favorite chasny release, but ben never disappoints. great
 stuff from start to finish.
 
 
 10 andrew douglas rothbard - abandon meander
 
 fantastic california one-man psych folk. a late entry, but
 well-deserved.
 
 
 11 titan - pilzmarmelade
 
 again, lysergic space rock of the highest order from brooklyn.
 with 2 releases in my top 11, i'd have to call them my "band of
 the year" though it's probably a tie between them and natural
 snow buildings
 
 
 12 cloudland canyon - requiems der natur
 
 bizarre yet very cohesive experimental free-folk-psych.
 
 
 13 entrance - prayer of death
 
 high intensity acid rock with pop sensibilites. catchy, but
 still mindfucking.
 
 
 14 birchville cat motel - our love will destroy the world
 
 campbell kneale does no wrong. ever. this one is a killer.
 noisy, psychedelic drone rock.
 
 
 15 the loosers - bumba meu boi
 
 lo-fi free psych mayhem released on cassette only! awesome!
 
 
 16 residual echoes - mfi-gbsp
 
 more great spacy headfuck krautrock from california.
 
 
 17 graumahd - cheru
 
 beautiful german apocalyptic neo-folk
 
 
 18 the king khan & bbq show - what's for dinner?
 
 loud nasty garage soul punk... and a side of beans!
 
 
 19 kode9 & the spaceape - memories of the future
 
 another great electronic dubstep release with fantastic mr.
 eko-like vocalisms from the spaceape.
 
 
 20 daniel higgs - ancestral songs
 
 frontman of lungfish does the folk drone thing very, very well
 
 
 21 sala arhimo - pelko pois
 
 twisted forest psychedelia from finland
 
 
 22 gorch fock - thriller
 
 take equal parts jesus lizard, cows & butthole surfers (pre-sell
 out days). mix well. serve. repeat.
 
 
 23 kill the vultures - the careless flame
 
 lo-fi hip hop/rock. noisy samples, loud as fuck percussion and a
 pissed off mc who reminds me of gil scott heron.
 
 
 24 porlolo - storm & season
 
 fantastic female folk pop from austin, tx.
 
 
 25 nalle - by chance upon waking
 
 more free-folk-type stuff. beautiful, charming and disturbing at
 the same time.
 
 
 26 scott h. biram - graveyard shift
 
 another fantastic album from the "dirty old one man band". only
 artist on bloodshot that truly interests me these days.
 
 
 27 om - conference of the birds
 
 two long songs from ex-Sleep in the "early pink floyd meets vol.
 4-era black sabbath" realm
 
 
 28 skygreen leopards - disciples of california
 
 the re-birth of cosmic american music. best album yet from this
 band.
 
 
 29 mountains - sewn
 
 cool acoustic ambience with some great field recordings
 throughout
 
 
 30 l.e.o. - alpacas orgling
 
 a tribute to ELO without any ELO songs! some perfect 70's Top 40
 orchestral psych-pop for the modern age

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

birchville cat motel fucking rocks! oh yeah baby!