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well, there are only 2 months left in 2006, it’s about time to start seeing the annual parade of "best of" lists. personally, i have a ton of releases from this year that i have yet to listen to, so i’d better get busy. but here are a few of my favorites so far:
son volt – okemah & the melody of riot (this might be 2005, but it’s new to me. and great!)
decemberists – the crane wife
long winters – putting the days to bed
mission of burma – the obliterati
neko case – fox confessor brings the flood
avett brothers – four thieves gone…i’ll add more as they come to mind….
…lots of good stuff this year thus far…
Waterloo – Out of the woods
Band of Horses
the Early Years
the Long Winters – Putting the days to bed
Sonic Youth – Rather ripped
Goose – Bring it on
Amusement Parks on Fire – Out of the Angeles
Yo la Tengo – I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
Golden Smog – Another fine day
Lambchop – Damaged
Grant Lee Phillips – Nineteeneighties….more to follow…
damn….how could i forget that sonic youth album?! i’m a huge grant lee fan, but nineteeneighties didn’t do much for me. golden smog and lambchop are both winners though…
Eleventh Dream Day-Zeroes And Ones
Neko Case-Fox Confessor
Mojave 3-Puzzles Like You
Sonic Youth-Rather Ripped
Crooked Jades-The World`s On FireMore added in by the end of the year
Robert Pollard – From A Compound Eye
Keene Brothers – Blues and Boogie Shoes
Sebadoh – III reissue
Dinosaur Jr. – Green Mind and Where You Been reissues
Neil Young – Living With War
Frank Black – Fast Man Raider Man
Thermals – The Body, the Blood, the MachineSonic Youth ~ Rather Ripped
Mudhoney ~ Under a Billion Suns
Sparta ~ Threes
Lemonheads ~ Lemonheads
Jason Collett ~ Idols of Exile (not sure if this came out this year or last year, but I got it this year. I think it came out in Canada last year and the states this year.)
Greg Dulli ~ Amber Headlights
Twilight Singers ~ Powder Burns
Jeremy Enigk ~ World Waits
Built to Spill ~ You in Reverse
Dinosaur Jr ~ Green Mind & Where You Been Reissues
Red Hot Chilli Peppers ~ Stadium Arcadium…forgot:
M. Ward – Post-War
Belle and Sebastian – The life pursuit
Attwenger – Dog / Dog 2 (the remixes)[
avett brothers – four thieves gone…i haven’t heard this album but i’ve seen these guys twice and was blown away both times.
as for the best of 2006, i’m not sure if Fiona Apple’s album was this year but it was amazing and also that Raconteurs album is pretty good and i haven’t heard all of Yo La Tengo’s album but i’m sure it will be on this list when i find the money, time and play to buy it.
check this band out on myspace. .. just seen the video they are great@@ they are 3 hot chicks from new orleans. and they sound like vintage 1992!
hazard county girls
Not a classic year in the grand scheme of things (imo) – but in the "Underground" I think its been a stormer with some of the "Old Guard" showing the "Young Pups" how it’s done!!:) Enough with the "inverted commas" – sorry!
Vetiver ‘To Find Me Gone’
Mudhoney ‘Under A Billion Suns’
Charalambides ‘A Vintage Burden’
The Melvins ‘A Senile Animal’
Witch ‘Witch’
Six Organs Of Admittance ‘The Sun Awakens’
Onieda ‘The Wedding’
Giant Drag ‘Hearts And Unicorns’
Boris ‘Pink’
Sonic Youth ‘Rather Ripped’
Comets On Fire ‘Avatar’
De Rosa ‘Mend’
Sunn 0)) – Boris ‘Altar’then honourable mentions to:
Steve Turner ‘New Wave Punk Rock Asshole’
Espers ‘II’
Cat Power ‘The Greatest’
Neil Diamond ’12 Songs’
Mogwai ‘Mr Beast’
Broken Social Scene ‘Broken Social Scene’
Black Heart Procession ‘The Spell’
Yo La Tengo ‘I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass’
Pink Mountaintops ‘Axis Of Evol’
Feathers ‘Feathers’Re-issues etc
Dead Moon ‘Echoes Of The Past’
Cure ‘Head On The Door’, ‘Kiss Me x 3’ + ‘The Top’ re-issues
Julian Cope ‘Jehovah Kill’
Dinosaur Jr x 3 re-issuesI gave The Greatest a listen again yesterday and whilst it has a few storming tunes I kinda think that You Are Free is a much better album…. I dunno… Cat Power is great n’all but The Greatest seems a little empty compared to YAF, like some of the songs are sketches as opposed to being fully realised. The whole Memphis/Ardent thing as well – not knocking the folks chops or anything and maybe it’s testament to their abilities that they don’t go and play all over the record (and really ruin it) but I think that side of it just added to the ‘story’ and maybe fuelled the record company PR machine. I don’t think it really brings much to her as an…. ‘artist’. But hey! I still dig this record so I should shut up right?
and can I say that the single of the year is by a band called Fields with a track called ‘If You Fail We All Fail’ and it’s out on the 20th Nov ta
i put my vote in for My Chemical Romance=the black parade
a late comer, but a great sound.. and the lead singer is so cool…
they give me a feel of radiohead put together with joy division!!
if i were 19 they would probbaly be my favrotie band! hell im 31 and
they are probably one my favotire bands of the last few years…
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