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Relaxer

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Mid-Year Best Discs
« 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
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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #1 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)
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HoyaSaxa03

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #2 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"
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HoyaSaxa03

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #3 on: July 03, 2006, 12:04:00 pm »
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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
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vansmack

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #4 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.
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HoyaSaxa03

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #5 on: July 03, 2006, 03:42:00 pm »
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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
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vansmack

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #6 on: July 03, 2006, 03:48:00 pm »
The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun is likely in my top 10 as well.
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palahniukkubrick

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #7 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.
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wxdude

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #8 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.
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vansmack

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #9 on: July 03, 2006, 04:06:00 pm »
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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?
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andyrichter

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #10 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.
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JohnnyBaconbitz

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #11 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
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HoyaSaxa03

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #12 on: July 03, 2006, 05:11:00 pm »
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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
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chokeychicken

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #13 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.
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kookiemnstr8

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Re: Mid-Year Best Discs
« Reply #14 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.
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