So Far This Year - LP Version ( Vol 2006 ! )

[Neil]

And i'm also digging
&

(biting nails)

[I Love a Magician]

Where we make lists!

Top 10 Albums of 2006

1. M. Ward - Post-War
2. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
3. The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
4. Tom Waits - Orphans
5. The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
6. Joanna Newsom - Ys
7. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
8. The Black Keys - Magic Potion
9. Summer Hymns - Backwards Masks
10. Okkervil River - Overboard and Down

11. Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells
12. The Black Keys - Chulahoma
13. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
15. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
16. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
17. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers

Albums That I Don't Like Much but That Have a Song or Two That I Like a Lot

Mogwai – Mr. Beast ("Acid Food")
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House ("The Knife")
Cat Power - The Greatest ("Empty Shell")
Danielson - Ships ("Did I Step on Your Trumpet?")
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam ("Come Back," "Parachutes")
Man Man - Six Demon Bag ("Van Helsing Boombox")
The Futureheads - News & Tributes ("Skip to the End")
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped ("Do You Believe in Rapture?")
The Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing And A Curse ("Daylight")
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain ("Wolf Like Me")
Califone - Roots & Crowns ("3 Legged Animals," "Sunday Noises")
Head Automatica - ("Lying Through Your Teeth," "Laughing at You")
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood ("Star Witness," "Hold On")
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go ("Love Comes to Me," "Lay and Love")
Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That ("Second to None," "Long Distance Call")
Blood Brothers - Young Machetes ("Spit Shine YOur Black Clouds," "Lazer Life")
Akron/Family - Meek Warrior ("Gone Beyond," "Meek Warrior," "Love and Space")
Swan Lake - Beast Moans ("Are You Swimming in Her Pools?" "The Freedom," "All Fires")
Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet ("Bicycle Bicycle You Are My Bibcycle," "October, First Account Track")




Feel free to make other kinds of lists. Worst CDs of the year. Best covers of the year. Worst covers of the year. Just make sure that if you do Worst covers that this makes your list:



Because what the fuck is that shit.

[gob]

1.TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
2.Thom Yorke - The Eraser
3.The Black Keys - Magic Potion
4.Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - " "
5.Broken Social Scene - " "
6.Joanna Newsom - Ys
7.Guillemots - Through the Windowpane
8.The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
9.Wolfmother - " "
10.The Mystery Jets - Making Dens

Others:
Hot Chip - The Warning
Tapes N Tapes - The Loon
Beck - The Information
The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome
Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Two Gallants - What The Toll Tells
The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
The Roots - Game Theory
Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
Bob Dylan - Modern Times was good but not as good as everyone said it was.

BEST COVER:


WORST:

Have to concur with the And You Will Know Us... cover. Quite like the band but haven't heard this record.

[squints]

here ya go:

http://xixax.com/index.php?topic=9023.msg232955#msg232955

[Pubrick]

combined them. with encouragement to pursue ILAM's example.

[RegularKarate]

Albums That I Don't Like Much but That Have a Song or Two That I Like a Lot

Man Man - Six Demon Bag ("Van Helsing Boombox")

Really?  This would definitely be in my top five if not my number one.

I guess if that song is your only pick, I could see how the rest of the album wouldn't jive with you.

Have you seen them live? 

[last days of gerry the elephant]

As we approach the end, a wrap up from me:

1. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
2. The Radio Dept. - Pet Greeve
3. Sébastien Tellier - Universe
4. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
5. Daedelus - Denies the Days Demise
6. Cut Copy - Fabric Live 29
7. Michael Andrews - Hand on String
8. Ratatat - Classics
9. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33: Nike+ Original Run
10. BT - This Binary Universe

Others:
Tycho - Past is Prologue
The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
KiloWatts - Routes
Jean Michel Bernard - The Science of Sleep
Clint Mansell - The Fountain
Squarepusher - Hello Everything
Mylo - Mylo's Rough Guide To Rave

(Some of the albums I have chosen are mixes/compilations, but I treat them as albums all the same)

Best cover art:

by one of my favorite designers/artists Geoff McFetridge

Runner ups:

suggestions other than the greatness of Stanley Donwood's the eraser cover

Worst cover art:

there's too many, but this competes with the one magician suggested I say

[Astrostic]

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. The Guillemots - Through The Window Pane
3. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
4. The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
5. M. Ward - Post-War
6. The Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
7. Various - A Prairie Home Companion OST
8. Nick Cave - The Proposition OST
9. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
10. Cat Power - The Greatest

[Ghostboy]

Man, I've bought even less new music than I did last year! I've been catching up on lots of old stuff.

Regardless, even if I'd bought everything, I doubt I'd like anything as much as Joanna Newsom's new record.

I also liked Eraser. And I have the Man Man album, but I haven't really listened to it much yet. I need to go give it some attention.

[last days of gerry the elephant]

mogwai - zidane - a 21st century portrait soundtrack

Aside from one or two tracks, I found this album very poor. I hope it works better in the context of the film.

[modage]

1. Belle & Sebastian- The Life Pursuit
favorite tracks: Another Sunny Day, White Collar Boy, Funny Little Frog

2. The Strokes- First Impressions Of Earth
favorite tracks: Heart In A Cage, Ask Me Anything, Electricityscape

3. Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins- Rabbit Fur Coat
favorite tracks: Rise Up With Fists!!!, The Charging Sky, You Are What You Love



4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Show Your Bones
favorite tracks: Mysteries, Warrior, Turn Into

5. Phoenix- It's Never Been Like That
favorite tracks: Consolation Prizes, Long Distance Call, One Time Too Many

6. Cat Power- The Greatest
favorite tracks: The Greatest, Could We, Willie

7. Beck- The Information
favorite tracks: Elevator Music, Think I'm In Love, Strange Apparition



8. Pete Yorn- Nightcrawler
favorite tracks: Vampyre, For Us, Bandstand In The Sky

9. Band Of Horses- Everything All The Time
favorite tracks: Wicked Gil, The Funeral, Weed Party

10. The Hold Steady- Boys And Girls In America
favorite tracks: Stuck Between Stations, Chips Ahoy, Hot Soft Light

11. Jarvis Cocker- Jarvis
favorite tracks: Black Magic, Heavy Weather, I Will Kill Again



12. My Morning Jacket- Okonokos
favorite tracks: Gideon, One Big Holiday, Run Thru

13. The Decemberists- The Crane Wife
favorite tracks: The Crane Wife 3, Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then), O Valencia

14. Pete Yorn- Westerns EP
favorite tracks: The Man, Never My Love, Don't Mean Nothing

15. The Gothic Archies- The Tragic Treasury
favorite tracks: Scream And Run Away, Crows, Walking My Gargoyle

[polkablues]

3. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

8. Pete Yorn- Nightcrawler
9. Band Of Horses- Everything All The Time
13. The Decemberists- The Crane Wife
14. Pete Yorn- Westerns EP

ed harcourt - the beautiful lie

Also:
Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
Pilot Speed - Into the West
Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
Damien Rice - 9
Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head
David Poe - Live & Solo at the Artists Den

Big disappointment - No new Ryan Adams album (and no, the Willie Nelson thing doesn't count).

[Ghostboy]

Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope

YES!

Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head

I found this album to be tragically disappointing, compared to her first.

[Xx]

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[cron]

why is that hold steady album ranking soo high on everyone's list?
i heard it when it leaked and it bored me to death.  then i heard it again cos a friend of mine told me , you gotta listen to it glued to the lyrics, so i did that, but it bored me even more. 


anyway, i think my top ten is the following:


jarvis- jarvis
subtle - for hero:for fool
tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain
joanna newsom - ys
apples in stereo - new magnetic wonder
sonic youth - rather ripped
cornelius - sensuous
cut chemist - the audience's listening
liars - drum's not dead
mogwai - mr beast

honorable mentions:
the black keys- magic potion
the divine comedy - victory for the comic muse
xiu xiu - the air force
the peeping tom album
pizzicato five we love you
and that orphans album by tom waits , although i haven't listened to it in its entirety,  the parts i've heard sounds like the best collection of leftovers ever. my vote for song of the year goes to 'road to peace'

great great stuff all around. 'cept for the hold steady