End of Year Lists - 2006

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by renton007:
  Serious question: How many 2006 releases has everyone listened to?  I would estimate I've listened to about 30 so far this year and I'd like to absorb The Knife and Ornette Coleman before before 12/31.

about 70, but a lot of those are just first listens

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by brennser:
 more than I have ever listened to before....I'd say about 60-80 at least....I sometimes wonder if this is a factor in my thinking its a 'down' year musically, if I'm giving albums less time to sink in....

yeah, i have a similar feeling ... but i keep reading about new albums that i want to hear, and it kind of snowballs from there ... i've been going through rolling stone's 500 greatest albums list, and pitchfork's 100 greatest of the 70s 80s and 90s this year, so i think that's contributed to not really letting the new stuff sink in that much

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:
  1. The Animal Years, Josh Ritter
 The best album of the year in a walk, and maybe the best album I've heard in the last five. Mysterious, melancholy, melodic...and those are only the M's. Songs like ''Girl in the War'' simply do not leave the consciousness once they're heard, but the album's real gem is the strange and gorgeous ''Thin Blue Flame.'' This is the most exuberant outburst of imagery since Bob Dylan's ''A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,'' in 1963. The Animal Years is an amazing accomplishment.

this is on emusic, if anyone's interested

[ShotGlass]

I dig Arctic Monkeys and all, but they're hardly the rock revolution everyone's crossing their fingers for.  It sounds too much like the Hives, who sounded too much like the Stooges.  Not a bad album, just ok.
 
 Pete Yorn, Butch Walker, Regina Spektor, the Dresden Dolls, Billy Talent and the Rapture released some bitchin' albums.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Coke-addled moron:
 5. Zoysia, The Bottle Rockets
 The Bottle Rockets are often categorized as alt-country �?? by people who need categories �?? but what they really are is America's premier bar band. Zoysia (I don't know what it means either) is their best album ever �?? tuneful, soulful, and best of all, loud. Primo cuts: ''Better Than Broken,'' ''Feeling Down.''

this album is almost unspeakably bad

[ggw]

Sasha "Stephin Merritt is a Rockist Cracker" Frere Jones's top 29 Albums of 2006
 
 
 ALBUMS
 1. Scritti Politti �??White Bread, Black Beer�?� (Nonesuch)
 2. Ghostface Killah �??Fishscale�?� (Def Jam)
 3. Joanna Newsom �??Ys�?� (Drag City)
 4. Clipse �??Hell Hath No Fury�?� (Re-Up/Zomba)
 5. Arctic Monkeys �??Whatever People Say I Am, That�??s What I�??m Not�?� (Domino)
 6. T.I. �??King�?� (Atlantic)
 7. Deftones �??Saturday Night Wrist�?� (Warner Bros.)
 8. DJ Drama & Lil Wayne �??Dedication 2�?� (Gangsta Grillz)
 9. Grizzly Bear �??Yellow House�?� (Warp)
 10. Shrift �??Lost In A Moment�?� (Six Degrees)
 11. The La�??s �??BBC In Session�?� (Universal Polydor)
 12. Allison Moorer �??Getting Somewhere�?� (Sugar Hill)
 13. Beyoncé �??B�??Day�?� (Sony Urban Music/Columbia)
 14. Brazilian Girls �??Talk To La Bomb�?� (Verve/Forecast)
 15. E-40 �??My Ghetto Report Card�?� (Reprise)
 16. Earl Greyhound �??Soft Targets�?� (Some)
 17. Cat Power �??The Greatest�?� (Matador)
 18. Trentemøller �??The Last Resort�?� (Poker Flat)
 19. The Duke Spirit �??Cuts Across The Land�?� (Star Time)
 20. Jennifer O�??Connor �??Over The Mountain, Across The Valley And Back To The Stars�?� (Matador)
 21. Love Is All �??Nine Times That Same Song�?� (What�??s Your Rupture?)
 22. Justin Timberlake �??FutureSex/LoveSounds�?� (Jive)
 23. Sibylle Baier �??Colour Green�?� (Orange Twin)
 24. Frida Hyvönen �??Until Death Comes�?� (Licking Fingers/Secretly Canadian)
 25. Malajube �??Trompe-L'Oeil�?� (Dare to Care)
 26. Goldfrapp �??Supernature�?� (Mute)
 27. The Mountain Goats �??Get Lonely�?� (4AD)
 28. Growing �??Color Wheel�?� (Troubleman Unlimited)
 29. The Concretes �??In Colour�?� (Astralwerks)
 
  http://www.sashafrerejones.com/2005/12/best_of_2006.html

[godsshoeshine]

Originally posted by vansmack:
   

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
  i think it's supposed to be mocking someone who would throw a 2007 album in to establish cred     :roll:  

I agree - my statement was half tongue in cheek.  Of course I would have included it in the "place these three anywhere category" but teir three is acceptable. [/b]

actually, i saw that months ago. think the modest mouse record was supposed to be out this year at some point
 
 in other words ancient.gif

[kosmo vinyl]

Allmusic's 25 Most crushworthy bands
 
 lots o'links to myspaces pages and a couple bands that are worth checking out!
 
 Atari
 The Bicycles
 Aloe Blacc
 Blood Red Shoes
 Fake Problems
 Firefox AK
 Georgie James
 Get Set Go
 The Golden Dogs
 Joan as Police Woman
 Land of Talk
 Les Breastfeeders
 The Loved Ones
 The Matinee Orchestra
 Moneybrother
 Montt Mardie
 Oh No
 Ponies in the Surf
 Prototypes
 Sambassadeur
 Takka Takka
 Those Transatlantics
 Tigarah
 White Shoes & the Couples Company
 William Elliott Whitmore

[Tom Servo]

I downloaded a few Sambassadeur tracks, from emusic I think.  Poppy fun tunes.  
 
 

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  Allmusic's 25 Most crushworthy bands
 
 lots o'links to myspaces pages and a couple bands that are worth checking out!
 
 Sambassadeur
 
 

[Jaguar]

Originally posted by Tom Servo:
  I downloaded a few Sambassadeur tracks, from emusic I think.  Poppy fun tunes.  
 
   

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
  Allmusic's 25 Most crushworthy bands
 
 lots o'links to myspaces pages and a couple bands that are worth checking out!
 
 Sambassadeur
 
 

[/b]

If you like Sambassadeur than you should check out my friends, Hearts Of Black Science. One of the guys from Sambassadeur is in HoBS. Personally, I think HoBS is much, much better.
 
 In fact, they just left today (from Gothenburg) to go to London to mix their first full length album on a label I helped set them up with.

[Bombay Chutney]

snipped from coolfer:
 
 
 Apple Announces iTunes' Top Sellers Of 2006
 
 For the first time, Apple announced its best-selling singles and albums for a year (read article at Billboard.biz). The trends are easy to see (they're evident in any given week). Singles are half middle-of-the-road pop rock and beat-driven R&B or hip hop. Albums are mostly rock and not at all urban.
 
 The album list in particular shows American's digital music divide. Some of the top-selling albums of 2006 -- Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts, Mary J Blige's Breakthrough, Rascal Flatt's Me & My Gang -- did not make iTunes' Top 10.
 
 Top Albums
 1. The Fray: "How To Save A Life"
 2. John Mayer: "Continuum"
 3. Jack Johnson & Friends: "Curious George"
 4. James Blunt: "Back To Bedlam"
 5. Justin Timberlake: "Futuresex/LoveSounds"
 6. Red Hot Chili Peppers: "Stadium Arcadium"
 7. Dixie Chicks: "Taking The Long Way"
 8. High School Musical: "Soundtrack"
 9. Panic! At the Disco: "Fever You Can't Sweat Out"
 10. Gnarls Barkley: "St. Elsewhere"
 
 Top Tracks
 1. Daniel Powter: "Bad Day"
 2. Nelly Furtado: "Promiscuous"
 3. James Blunt: "You're Beautiful"
 4. Gnarls Barkley: "Crazy"
 5. Sean Paul: "Temperature"
 6. Justin Timberlake: "Sexyback"
 7. The Fray: "Over My Head (Cable Car)"
 8. Shakira: "Hips Don't Lie"
 9. Natasha Bedingfield: "Unwritten"
 10. Chamillionaire: "Ridin'"

[ggw]

Pitchfork's top 50
 
 http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/40007/Staff_List_Top_50_Albums_of_2006/page_1
 
 Apparently, I'm no longer cool, as I only own 19 of the 50, and the list includes almost a dozen albums I've never even heard of.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Apparently, Pitchfork is still not cool, as they didn't include the Neko Case album. I'm proud to day I only own four of them, and one only because I got it for 25 cents at Tower.

[allmy$to930]

It says a lot that it took until 4:05pm for someone to post Pitchfork's list on the Forum.
 
 A few years ago it would have been posted within seconds.

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Aren't we all more concerned with Beyonce's boob?
 
 

Originally posted by allmy$to930:
  It says a lot that it took until 4:05pm for someone to post Pitchfork's list on the Forum.
 
 A few years ago it would have been posted within seconds.