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

Orizio

In order...

Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae
Skin - Fake Chemical State
Thom Yorke - Eraser
Damien Rice - 9

Generally disapointed with the quality of music this year.

Parsley

John wrote:

Erm, that came out 7 years ago...

Well I only bought it last week! :P

Lorax

iForward, Russia! - Give me a wall

ButcherOfNog

1) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am
2) Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
3) Placebo - Meds

Mushy

Albert Hammond JR - "yours to keep"

Yeah, is this any good? My friend really recommended it, so Im looking into buying it. Supposed to be really good according to her and I'd trust her tastes.

As for some of my favourite albums, just really the Muse, Wolfmother, Pearl Jam and Eaglesof Death Metal albums for me. Actually, I like the Iron Maiden one now aswell. There could be more, not fully sure

roundcrisis

second the albert hammond - yours to keep
i really enjoyed charlotte gainsburg's It just sounded beautiful.

Mushy

Roundcrisis, is Albert Hammond solo album any good? Does it sound like anything else or would I be hitting and hoping by buying it for €8?

roundcrisis

well, the way I got into it, the song 5 was playing (its a real gem, and for some reason its really hard to remeber song names) and I was wow whats this, then there is another song that u know that is a strokes guitar so i fgured it was him and it was,
If you ask me, this album is far better than first impressions on earth.
I dont know for how much you will buy it, for example I bougth the smiths Meat is Murder for a euro (1) in vinyl two years ago.

dead air

i liked these:

Tool - 10,000 Days
Calexico - Garden Ruin
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Morrissey - ROTT
Sparklehorse - Dreamt for light years...
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
Audioslave - Revelations
The Strokes - First Impression of Earth
Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
Mogwai - Mr Beast
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist


Looking at other peoples lists, I realised I still havn't got these albums yet:

David Kitt - Not Fade Away
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
Dave Gilmour - On an Island
Joanna Newsom
Lindsey Buckingham - Under The Skin
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers

Pighead

Song Of The Year. No Contest!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9A4uQFIXQA&mode=related&search=

DominoDub

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/40007/Staff_List_Top_50_Albums_of_2006

youcancallmeal

NME's top 50 is fairly predictable but I cannot understand how the Strokes album got no. 8, That would probably be my worst album of the year!?

Attractive Nun

Woah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was this year? I was fairly sure that was 2005 but if NME says otherwise, it must be true! In that case, that has to be up there in my opinion, great record. Aside from that, Return to Cookie Mountain has grown on me and I'm a huge fan of Beirut's Gulag Orkestar. I find it difficult not to like anything by Yo La Tengo, so I must mention I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat your Ass. Boys and Girls in America by The Hold Steady is an album I feel I shouldn't like, but it's so damn catchy. No overwhelming favourite, however.

Pretty decent year for albums, in my opinion, although nothing absolutely spectacular. I think this millennium needs a few more outstanding albums to keep up the good work of the 90s.

John

Attractive Nun wrote:

Woah, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah was this year? I was fairly sure that was 2005 but if NME says otherwise, it must be true!

They made a boo-boo, it was 2005.

The Wire have their list up too:

01. Burial - Burial [Hyperdub]
02. Scott Walker - The Drift [4AD]
03. Joanna Newsom - Ys [Drag City]
04. Carla Bozulich - Evangelista [Constellation]
05. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal [Sub Pop]
06. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar [Sound Grammar]
07. Ekkehard Ehlers - A Life Without Fear [Staubgold]
08. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go [Domino]
09. Om - Conference Of The Birds [Holy Mountain]
10. Phill Niblock - Touch Three [Touch]
11. Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer [Rough Trade]
12. Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast [Matador]
13. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped [Geffen]
14. Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton - Black Vomit [Victo]
15. The Knife - Silent Shout [Mute/Brille]
16. Christian Wolff - 10 Exercises [New World]
17. Keiji Haino & Sitaar Tah! - Animamima [Archive/Important]
18. Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light [Matador]
19. Arthur Russell - First Thought Best Thought [Audika/Rough Trade]
20. Broadcast - Future Crayon [Warp]
21. Niobe - White Hats [Tomlab]
22. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House [Warp]
23. Reanimator - Special Powers [Community Library]
24. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky [Durtro Jnana]
25. Excepter - Alternation [5RC]
26. Alexander Tucker - Furrowed Brow [ATP]
27. Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza - Azioni [Die Schachtel]
28. Rafael Toral - Space [Staubgold]
29. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale [Def Jam]
30. MV/EE & The Bummer Road - Mother Of Thousands [Time-Lag]
31. Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice - Gipsy Freedom [5RC]
32. Celtic Frost - Monotheist [Century Media]
33. Kieran Hebden & Steven Reid - The Exchange Sessions Vols 1 & 2 [Domino]
34. Ran Blake - All That Is Tied [Tompkins Square]
35. Mordant Music - Dead Air [Mordant Music]
36. Julius Eastman - Unjust Malaise [New World]
37. Little Annie - Songs From The Coalmine Canary [Durtro Jnana]
38. Ruff Sqwad - Guns And Roses Volume 2 [Ruff Sqwad Recordings]
39. Volcano The Bear - Classic Erasmus Fusion [Beta-Lactam Ring]
40. Leopard Leg - The Seven Sistered Sea-Secret Of Shh Shh Shh [Upset The Rhythm]
41. Harlassen - A Way Now [Sustain-Release]
42. Text Of Light - Metal Box [Dirter Promotions]
43. Peaches - Impeach My Bush [XL]
44. Robert Ashley - Foreign Experiences [Lovely Music]
45. Charalambides - A Vintage Burden [Kranky]
46. Peter Evans - More Is More [PSI]
47. Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar [Southern Lord]
48. Dabrye - Two/Three [Ghostly International]
49. Chris Corsano - The Young Cricketer [Hot Cars Warp]
50. Josephine Foster - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing [Locust]

I agree with this list a lot more than the others posted so far. I own 14 of the albums listed here

Only have 7 from Pitchfork's and one of them was from 2005 (Boris Pink, it was reissued in 2006 in a larger pressing).

Attractive Nun

It worries me how few of those albums I've even heard of, never mind heard.

The Walsho

Disappointed at Tool - 10,000 days not being in there.

indiewindy

Attractive Nun wrote:

It worries me how few of those albums I've even heard of, never mind heard.

I wouldnt be too worried about the wire top 50, they even considered godspeeds last cd too mainstream!!

Limerick Dude

Im suprised Meds isnt in that list either.

NapoleonInRags

1. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever... (No arguments on this one I'm afraid,,,)
2. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
3. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
4. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
5. M. Ward - Post War
6. Decemberists - Crane Wife
7. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
8. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
9. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
10. The Knife - Silent Shout

BleakestH

In no particular order:
Tool - 10,000 Days
Pearl Jam - S/T
Melvins - (A) Senile Animal
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
Depeche Mode - The Best Of
Ani DiFranco - Reprieve
Isis - In the Absence of Truth
Keep of Kalessin - Armada
Tom Waits - Orphans

egon spengler

for me it was

1. Dragonforce-Inhuman Rampage
2. Thom Yorke- Eraser
3. The Mars Volta- Amputechture
4. Show Your Bones- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
5. Jarvis Cocker-Jarvis

BrianD

Happy New Year from all at Phantom 105.2! The Top 105.2 Songs of 2006 as voted by Phantom listeners and counted down on New Years Day is now available online at phantom.ie. To view the list click on the link below:

http://www.phantom.ie/thisweek/top1052.htm

Here's the Top 10:

1. Steady As She Goes - The Raconteurs
2. Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above – Cansei de Ser Sexy
3. A Ghost In This House - The Immediate
4. Knights Of Cydonia - Muse
5. Over And Over - Hot Chip
6. Standing In The Way Of Control - The Gossip
7. Freewheel - Duke Special
8. Monster - The Automatic
9. Starlight - Muse
10. Insistor - Tapes N Tapes

bogmanfan

Pighead wrote:

Song Of The Year. No Contest!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9A4uQFIXQA&mode=related&search=

Such a great album, although Dirty Mind would be my song of the year.

Dudess

Heard Wolf Like Me by TV On The Radio, bought the album Return To Cookie Mountain immediately on the strength of that song. Bought their first album the next day. Superb band.

Googe

My faves of this year were

Yeah Yeah Yeah's - Show Your Bones
Tom Waits - Orphans
Flaming Lips - War With The Mystics
Eagles Of Death Metal - Death By Sexy
Thom Yorke - The Eraser

DerekD Goldfish

BrianD wrote:

Happy New Year from all at Phantom 105.2! The Top 105.2 Songs of 2006 as voted by Phantom listeners and counted down on New Years Day is now available online at phantom.ie. To view the list click on the link below:

http://www.phantom.ie/thisweek/top1052.htm

Here's the Top 10:

1. Steady As She Goes - The Raconteurs
2. Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above – Cansei de Ser Sexy
3. A Ghost In This House - The Immediate
4. Knights Of Cydonia - Muse
5. Over And Over - Hot Chip
6. Standing In The Way Of Control - The Gossip
7. Freewheel - Duke Special
8. Monster - The Automatic
9. Starlight - Muse
10. Insistor - Tapes N Tapes

As a person who once was an obsessive Phantom fan its depressing how little I like that list I only like one track on it and "hate" at least 5.
Altough its probably more a sign of music in general deteriorating and me becoming to much of a snob than phantom "selling out"

Pighead

Forget about Cerys Matthews album 'Never Said Goodbye'. One of my favourite albums of the year. Full of great tunes and Gruff from the Super Furries pops his head in to help out in a couple of songs.

The bestest moment of the album comes 2/3 of the way through Blue Light alarm. Just after she sings "Hits me like a hurricane" comes the bestest bit of any song of last year. Check it out and tell me I'm wrong. And yes that is a double dare.