Its nearly that time of the Year - (Best of Year Lists )

DominoDub

Just to get things started this in UNCUT's List for 2006

Do they make yours ?

Whats missing ?

Uncut Top 50 2006

1. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
2. Scritti Pollitti - White Bread, Black Beer
3. Comets On Fire - Avatar
4. Joanna Newsom - Ys
5. Neil Young - Living With War
6. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
7. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
8. Hot Chip - The Warning
9. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
10. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
11. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
12. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
13. Lindsey Buckingham - Under The Skin
14. Cat Power - The Greatest
15. Brightblack Morning Light – Brightblack Morning Light
16. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
17. Ali Fakra Tourne - Savane
18. CSS - Cansei Der Ser Sexy
19. Beck - The Information
20. Burial – Burial
21. Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
22. Espers - Espers II
23. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
24. Howlin' Rain – Howlin' Rain
25. Scott Walker - The Drift
26. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
27. Yo La Tengo - I am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
28. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
29. Oakley Hall - Second Guessing
30. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
31. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
32. Johnny Cash - American V
33. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
34. Grandaddy - Just Like The Family Cat
35. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
36. Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
37. OutKast - Idlewild
38. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
39. Lambchop - Damaged
40. Joan As Policewomen - Real Life
41. Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
42. Donald Fagan - Morph The Cat
43. Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome
44. Kasabian - Empire
45. The Walkmen – A Hundred Miles Off
46. Band of Horses - Everything All Of The Time
47. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
48. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
49. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
50. Drive By Truckers - A Blessing And A Curse




...and the re-issues of the year {according to Uncut}

1. Various Artists - Forever Changing: The Golden Age Of Elektra
2. Various Artists - Tropicala: A Brazilain Revolution in Sound
3. Karen Dalton - It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best
4. The Byrds - There Is A Season
5. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
6. Gram Parsons - The Complete Recording Sessions
7. The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
8. Various Artists - Anthems In Eden
9. R.E.M. - And I Feel Fine: IRS Years 1982-1987
10. John Cale - Paris 1919
11. Pulp - Different Class
12. David Byrne & Brian Eno - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
13. Dead Moon - Echoes of The Past
14. Lambchop - I Hope You're Sitting Down
15. Broadcast - A Future Crayon
16. Wire - Pink Flag
17. Denim - Back In Denim
18. Faust - Faust IV
19. David Crosby - Voyage
20. The Cure - The Head On The Door

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DominoDub

Howe Gelb -'Sno Angel Like You

Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block

Boris - Pink

Archie Bronson Outfit - Derdang Derdang

Kate Bush - Aerial

mada999

Albert Hammond JR - "yours to keep"

John

Too early for best of lists in my opinion. There's still the rest of November and the odd release in December that isn't a greatest hits made for the christmas market.

Garret

there are rarely any noncompilation albums released in Nov/Dec

and Uncut would have the major ones

bogmanfan

I really enjoyed Yo La Tengo, The Pipettes, the Jim O'Rourke album on Headz, Amusement Parks on Fire, and Broken Social Scene.
Best gigs were Boredoms, BSS in TBMC, Pipettes and Music for 18 Musicians at NCH.

muppetkiller

How 10. Thom Yorke - The Eraser is there I'll never know ...I would've included
Tool 10,000 days
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
My Chemical Romance - Black Parade
Damien Rice 9

MikeHoncho

My Fav's in no particular order:
The Rapture: Pieces of the people we love
TV On the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain
Muse: Black Holes and Revealations
Thom Yorke: The Eraser
The Raconteurs: Broken Boy Soldiers
Eagles Of Death Metal: Death by Sexy
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Show your bones

eclectichoney

a few good ones:

si schroeder - coping mechanisms
beirut - gulag orkestar
grizzly bear - yellow house
max richter - songs from before
yeah yeah yeahs - show your bones

nlgbbbblth

John wrote:

Too early for best of lists in my opinion. There's still the rest of November and the odd release in December that isn't a greatest hits made for the christmas market.

agree
mine won't be up until 10 December.

symbolic

David Kitt - Not Fade Away (really liked that)
Zero 7 - the Garden
Messiah J and the Expert - Now this i Have to hear


Clap your hands rules, lookin forward to gig next year! legends

Bateman

Everything Must Go not on the reissues list? Stupid. :mad:

VCK

Primal Scream - Riot City Blues
Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
Razorlight - Razorlight
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Wolfmother - Wolfmother
Eagles Of Death Metal - Death By Sexy

Garret

Hope Of The States - Left
Luxembourg - Front

both should have been there

nlgbbbblth

01 Glasvegas - 'Go Square Go!' (Waks)
02 Skream - 'Tapped' (Tempa)
03 Joanna Newsom - 'Sawdust and Diamonds' (Drag City)
04 Camera Obscura - 'Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken' (Elefant)
05 Comets On Fire - 'Jaybird' (Sub Pop)
06 Skream - 'Check-It' (Tempa)
07 Raptor - 'Fahrenheit' (White Label)
08 Jawbone - 'Bullcat' (Loose)
09 Gnarls Barkley - 'Crazy' (Warner Music)
10 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 'Dudley' (Polydor)
11 Skream - 'Rutten' (Tempa)
12 Yo La Tengo - 'The Story Of Yo La Tango' (Matador)
13 Mogwai - 'Friend Of The Night' (Play It Again Sam)
14 Joanna Newsom - 'Cosmia' (Drag City)
15 TV On The Radio - 'Wolf Like Me' (4AD)
16 Raptor - 'Check Da Sound' (White Label)
17 Tapes 'n Tapes - 'Insistor' (XL)
18 The Fall - 'Higgledy Piggledy' (Play Loud!)
19 Herv - 'Dissolve' (Go Away Recordings)
20 Groom - 'School Uniform' (Fairview House)
21 Arab Strap - 'There Is No Ending' (Chemikal Underground)
22 Skream - 'Blue Eyez' (Tempa)
23 Young Knives - 'Loughborough Suicide' (Transgressive)
24 Vitalic - 'Bells' (Citizen France)
25 Neil Young - 'Let's Impeach The President' (Reprise)
26 Ove Naxx feat. DJ Scotch Egg 'Oodanhodoh Jya Massive Shoco-Shocore' (Adaadat)
27 Bearsuit - 'Steven F**king Spielberg' (Fantastic Plastic)
28 Kevin Energy And Marc Smith - 'That's The Hardcore' (Relentless)
29 Mission Of Burma - 'Nancy Reagan's Head' (Matador)
30 Current 93 feat. Shirley Collins - 'Idumea' (Durtro Jnana)
31 Spac Hand Luke - 'Sidthug' (Rephlex)
32 Sonic Youth - 'Jams Run Free' (Goofin')
33 Retro Dubz - 'Bass Sensation' (White Label)
34 Ballboy - 'Sunday League' (White Label)
35 Digital Mystikz - 'Anti War Dub' (White Label)
36 Archie Bronson Outfit - 'Cherry Lips' (Domino)
37 Scott Walker - 'The Escape' (4AD)
38 The Redneck Manifesto - 'No One Plans Eleven' (Greyslate)
39 Mountain Goats - 'Get Lonely' (4AD)
40 Subfocus - 'Airplane' (White Label)
41 Neko Case - 'Hold On, Hold On' (Anti)
42 CLSM - 'Hit The Beat' (White Label)
43 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - 'Strange Form Of Life' (Domino)
44 Half Man Half Biscuit - 'David Wainwright's Feet' (Rough Trade)
45 Nina Nastasia - 'Brad Haunts A Party' (Fat Cat)
46 Stabmaster Vinyl - 'Space Opera' (Machine)
47 Acid Casuals - 'Bowl Me Over' (Placid Casual)
48 Persil - 'Light Up My Life' (Transformed Dreams)
49 Orcop - 'Tyrant Human King' (White Label)
50 Wedding Present - 'Back For Good' (BBC Session)

Mr Marenghi

Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Beck - The Information
Black Keys - Magic Potion
Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse
Camera Obscura - Lets Get Out of this Country
The Decemberists - the Crane Wife
Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat
M Ward - Post War
Phoenix - Its Never Been Like That
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Black NG-60-90

It's good to see Mastodon getting in there. Yeah no Tool - 10,000 days, that should really be in there.

PiE

Not all that many albums that consistantly impressed me.

The Decemberists - 'Crane Wife'
Menomena - 'Friend and Foe'
...Trail of Dead - 'So Divided'
Sufjan Stevens - 'The Avalanche'
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - 'The Letting Go'

Most of those are from the last third of the year, which means I've a very bad memory or nothing from before that stuck in my head

DominoDub

Good site that collects reviews

http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2006.shtml

ook

Arctic monkeys far and away best of the year
CYHSY also great as was Dylan.

Irish wise would have to go with ROL, David Kitt, Director and Duke Special was surprisingly good

Jonny Arson

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am.....
The Sunshine Underground - Raise the Alarm
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Guillemots - Through the Windowpane
Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo to Anywhere

anything else I bought or listened to was ok or sh!t.

bluto63

I havn't listened to nearly 50 albums released this year so I'll just say what I can.

On the list:
Muse - BHaR
Lilly Allen - Alright, Still
Thome Yorke - Eraser

What I would add:
Tool - 10,000 days
Republic of Loose - Aaagh!
RHCP - Stadium Arcadium
Placebo - Meds
Dave Gilmour - On an Island

Parsley

The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs oughta be in there.

John

Parsley wrote:

The Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs oughta be in there.

Erm, that came out 7 years ago...

Secretpint

Mogwai/Mr Beast
Dresden Dolls/Yes Virginia....


more or less...

ChuckProphet

I think it's been a crap year for albums...can't ever remember a worse one. It says it all when dylan's latest gets #1. Of all I've heard this year I doubt there'll be many of them I'll still be listening to in 5 years time. (maybe the seeger sessions and that's a covers album!)

indiewindy

Yes I have to agree, This has been a pretty poor year.Next year should get off to a cracking start with explosions in the sky and the shins releasing new cds
My top cds of this year are

My latest novel: Wolves
Mono: you are there
Mogwai: Mr Beast.
James Yorkston: Year of the leopard
I like trains : progress reform
sparklehorse: Dreamt fro light years in the belly of a mountain

Gig wise seeing the evens playing in a school hall in Dublin was the highlight for me.

John

Hey, in case you didn't see the thread, I'm compiling an official top ten for this forum and with any luck you can win a prize for submitting your top 3 records of the year (and personally I thought, much like every year, that it was a great year for records once you go out to look for them and don't rely on the likes of Uncut).

Link to the Alt/Indie Album of the Year thread

Limerick Dude

Only bands that i have listened to who should get a mention are

Placebo-Meds
Arctic Monkeys - whatever people say i am
The Kooks - Inside in Inside out

DadaKopf

Hmmm...

Has to be...

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
Comets on Fire - Avatar
Si Schroeder - Coping Mechanisms

(Fourth Runner-Up: Yo la Tengo - I am not Afraid of you and I will Beat your Ass)

Are we doing gigs?

Hmm...

Has to be...

Silver Jews - Glasgow
Comets on Fire - Dublin
Battles - Dublin, Glasgow
Sunn o))) - Dublin
Dinosaur Jr - Dublin

John

Best to steer clear of gigs as someone is bound to mention an MCD gig at some stage.