Best Record Of 2006 - The Story So Far...?
 

C'mon then, fuckers, let's have them. I'm genuinely interested here; stuff I might have missed, stuff you're obsessed with...

Provided it was released this year, let me here it! Literally... whatever... ANYTHING!!!

I'm going to get the ball rolling with the new Espers record - II. Despite its lack of originality it's really grabbed me more than most other releases this year.

I'll also throw down an honourable mention to Mono for their latest; it's very decent indeed.

Scene your little heart out, whatever - what's the best record of '06 so far?!

EDIT: Alriiight, okay... not neccessarily THE greatest sounds put to vinyl. Just your favourites from this year.

The new Six Organs Of Admittance totally slays, but I would have to think about the "best."

hell yeah.

Comets On Fire - Avatar
I think the Howlin' Rain album came out this year.. those guys in Comets can do no wrong.

be your own pet's has given me tons of enjoyment also...

and uhhh Magik Markers - A Panegyric To The Things I Do Not Understand

thats all that I can think of right now...

The Raconteurs- Broken Boy Soldiers
Sonic Youth- Rather Ripped
Be Your Own Pet- s/t

those three come to mind

I can never name a best from year to year because there are times when my head just gets turned around by this of that.Most of the records i've bought this year are from disparate times and spaces in music so i can't really tell.

I'm in the same boat as Porkie. I've a feeling I haven't even bought a record released this year.

obviously, RR
Flying Luttenbachers- Cataclysm.

i really havent had mioney to buy anything. i am looking forward to a few though: Silver Mt Zion- Fuck You Drakulas , Emily Haines' solo. Xiu Xiu-Air Force, Lullabye Arkestra- Ampgrave... and some others...(some of those are out)

I like that.We like that.

I've wracked the vaults of my mind. The only record that could faintly qualify would be a re-issue of the number stations box set. Which, in all honesty, would qualify for record of the year most years, regardless of the irrationality concerned, unless the Fall happen to be about that year.

Pick either the 10" or the 7" by the best band that has begun in 2006, the Wooden Shjips

http://www.myspace.com/woodenshjips

http://www.woodenshjips.com/

http://www.sickthirst.com/]

Recommended to fans of the spacey psych, krauty artpunk, etc...Spacemen 3, Can, Residual Echoes, Monoshock, and the like.

Apparently, the band came up with their first three songs and made them into a 10-inch record which they shipped around for free to selected people. It took me a while to track one down. Then they made two more songs and put those out on the Sick Thirst 7-inch. Obviously possessors of superior obscure record collections, these guys make songs specifically to make great records. I don't even think they've played out yet.

Thanks for the tip, DJ Rick! This is pretty great.

uuummm....Rather Ripped. It's the only album of this year that I have.

joanna newsom's new album
tv on the radio
sy
byop
comets on fire

Erase Errata - Nightlife

by far

I like that one too

only one i have from this year is Be Your Own Pet... it's fun and all. There's gotta be something outstanding though right? Please don't say Rather Ripped.

Did someone say new Joanna? Details, PLZ.

Uhh...

Xiu Xiu - The Air Force is fantastic. Other than that there are a few mentionables.

Morrissey - Ringleader
New Six Organs
Cat Power - The Greatest
Parenthetical Girls - Safe as Houses
Islands - Return to the Sea
New Yellow Swans

I really love the new Current 93 and....uh...hm

Its been sort of boring this year.

genghis tron - dead mountain mouth
gorgoroth - erm...forgot the name in latin
six organs - sun awakens
the vetiver album
byop
amt - have you seen the other side of the sky?
BARDO POND - TICKET CRYSTALS
suishou no fune - where the spirits are
keiji haino and sitaar tah! - animamima
ovo - miastenia
flaming lips - at war with the mystics
scott walker - the drift
ooioo - taiga
belle and sebastian - the life pursuit
tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain
liars - drums not dead
camera obscura - let's get out of the country
rather ripped
xiu2 - the air force
wolf eyes - human animal (even though the first couple of songs are kinda boring)
cat power - the greatest
my cat is an alien - cosmic light of the third millennium

too many to mention really...there's also tons of rad albums coming out soon: yo la tengo, mastodon, converge, alter/altar, etc.

i think i'm the only person who didn't go nuts over erase errata playing funky beats, i thought the nightlife was very tedious.

We Landed On The Moon-We Landed On The Moon
My Cat Is An Alien-Ascends The Sky
Sonic Youth-Rather Ripped

ooioo - taiga
liars - drums not dead

yeah, everyneurotic, these two pwn!

I wonder....what would Daycare Nation say to this subject?

THANKS

morrissey - ringleader of the tormentors.
comets on fire - avatar

yea i think that too.

Hm, have yet to listen to Bardo Pond and Six Organs .... For sure! What comes into mind is Mudhoney - Under A billions Suns, this is pretty great and you got a free cd to the record!

Spectre Folk - Requiem for Ming Aralia.

That's all i can think of, but these Wooden Shjips guys seem to be pretty promising. Great video (second link) too!

I don't have very many 2006 records. I'm usually about a year or two behind at least. I'm sure in another few years I'll identify and pick up many I missed. That's how it usually works.

But so far I do have--and greatly enjoy--Liars-Drum's Not Dead, Rather Ripped, Double Leopards-A Hole is not True (2005?), and NNCK-Qvaris (2005?).

I don't think anything has blown me away that much this year. The new Six Organs is 'nice'. The side long track on it is...meh, OK.

Probably the best thing is Cortez Tha Killa by Sunroof! from that Sunroof/Mouthus/Double Leopards double LP. But that's only half a side of an LP. The rest is quite good but not that amazing or anything. I've bought plenty of neat stuff this year but most of it from 'the past'.

That Embryonnck thing just popped into my head. That was this year right?

Qvaris was 2005 I think, sometime around November if I recall. Get the Embryonnck one if you liked that, I think it's better.

I'll look for it. Thanks.

i can't stop listening to Why? Elephant Eyelash....was it released in 06 or 05?
am i the only one who loves this guy on this board?i thinks he's a genius.

I bought that about a month ago.It was released in 2005 according to the sleeve.I enjoy that record too.Boo!

so.....2006 : paik - monster of the absolute

oh,i've seen OvO a couple times live,strange amazing gigs.i suggest you guys to check "bachi da pietra" ,an amazing italian band (the drummer is the guy from OvO),here is the site

http://www.bachidapietra.com/
(i don't know if there are downloadable mp3s)....

edit: here is their record label site,with a downloadable mp3s
http://www.wallacerecords.com/mailorder.htm

.this label is AMAZING,i suggest to check some mp3s of other bands (a short apnea are one of my fav)

I like that Ovo "Miastenia" CD mainly for the slow and sometimes folk-textured songs. The fast almost-powerviolence stuff is okay, too. The album's good, but compared to their live show I saw over a year ago in Oakland, it sorta pales. That was one of the greatest live performances I've seen in my life.

My favorite things on Load this year are the Impractical Cockpit "To Be Treated" CD and the forthcoming Coughs CD, due out 9/19. Don't miss that. It's even 200% more impactful than the last one!

fuck yeah! i would like to hear it!!!

dead c. - vain erudite and stupid
old songs in new packaging. its the first dead c. cd i've bought and i am enjoying it quite alot.

comets on fire - avatar

embryonnck

and i suspect once i get my hands on it i will enjoy the new six organs of admittance quite alot too.

for some reason i haven't heard rather ripped yet, and i'm not sure i ever will.

edit: add keiji haino + sitar tah! to that

2006 (so far)-
Seawhores/Forest
Eagles of Death Metal/Death By Sexy
Quasi/When the Going Gets Dark
Willie Nelson/You Don’t Know Me
Matson Jones/Albatross Mates For Life
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan/Ballad of the Broken Seas
Beans/Only
Parts & Labor/Stay Afraid
Minmae/Le Grand Essor de la Maison du Monstre
Gnarls Barkley/St. Elsewhere
Be Your Own Pet/Summer Sensation
Sonic Youth/Rather Ripped
Serena-Maneesh/Serena-Maneesh
Mission Of Burma/The Obliterati
Peeping Tom/Peeping Tom
The Thermals/The Body, The Blood, The Machine
Awesome Color/Awesome Color
Tapes ‘N Tapes/The Loon
Cut Chemist/The Audience’s Listening
Thom Yorke/The Eraser
Erase Errata/Nightlife
Darc Mind/Symptomatic of A Greater Ill
Yo La Tengo/I Am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Mindflayer/Expedition To The Hairier Peaks
The Roots/Game Theory

looking forward to the new Melvins, ooioo and some otha shit...

Cut Chemist?Wow,apart from giving you a band name we are somehow on the same wavelength!

ya know that cut'n chemical guy's kinda sick on the decks, his lp is much better than jurrasic 5's... i like turntableism much better without an emcee getting in the way

Cut Chemist is on Mixing It, Friday 15th.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/mixingit/pip/p8ih5/