Top 30 albums of 2006
 

'Tis the season for magazines to compile lists of albums...

Rock-a-Rolla
30 Acid Mothers Temple 'Starless & Bible Black Sabbath'
29 Jazkamer 'Metal Music Machine'
28 Jamie Saft & Merzbow 'Merzdub'
27 Oxbow 'Love That's Last'
26 Grief 'Alive'
25 Ghostigital 'In Cod We Trust'
24 OOIOO 'Taiga'
23 The Residents 'Tweedles'
22 Unearthly Trance 'The Trident'
21 Made Out Of Babies 'Coward'
20 Yellow Swans 'Psychic Secession'
19 Current 93 'Black Ships Ate The Sky'
18 Slayer 'Christ Illusion'
17 Wizardzz 'Hidden City'
16 Boris 'Pink'
15 Subtle 'For Hero, For Fool'
14 Wolf Eyes 'Human Animal'
13 Whitehouse 'Asceticists'
12 Converge 'No Heroes'
11 Kayo Dot 'Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue'
10 Isis 'In The Absence Of Truth'
09 Jesu 'Silver'
08 Liars 'Drum's Not Dead'
07 Zombi 'Surface To Air'
06 Dub Trio 'New heavy'
05 John Zorn 'Moonchild'
04 Othrelm/Behold The Arctopus 'Split'
03 Peeping Tom 'Peeping Tom'
02 Sunn O))) & Boris 'Altar'
01 Melvins '(A) Senile Animal'

Bah. No Lily Allen?

I thought that Peeping Tom album was really dissappointing, I can't believe they've ranked it so high...

I hated the Peeping Tom album at first. It took getting really baked and listening to it in headphones to realize how good it is. It's a completely different album from stereo to headphones.

lilly allen is going to be on my big in '06 list for sure!

I don't subscribe hehe to their point-of-view., but that mag's list is better than some I've seen.

1 OOIOO - Taiga
2 Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
3 Brad Mehldau Trio - House on Hill
4 OLAibi - Humming Moon Drip
5 Thom Yorke - The Eraser
6 Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
7 Film School - Film School
8 Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
9 Elf Power - Back to the Web
10 Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
11 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
12 Liars - Drum's Not Dead
13 Beck - The Information
14 Juliette and the Licks - Four on the Floor
15 Scritti Politti - White Bread Black Beer
16 Neil Young - Living With War
17 Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
18 Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
19 Bob Dylan - Modern Times
20 Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin
21 Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse
22 Scott Walker - The Drift
23 Mogwai - Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait
24 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
25 DJ Shadow - The Outsider
26 Cat Power - The Greatest
27 The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
28 Joanna Newsom - Ys
29 Mogwai - Mr. Beast
30 Paul Simon - Surprise

havent done my proper list yet but the top 5 are

liars- drums not dead
bardo pond- ticket crystals
xiu xiu- the air force
coughs- secret passage
boris- veil

forgot about pere ubus why i hate women... that has to be in the top 5 of the year....

yeeeh!
Unfortunately Fergie's debut is quite shitty... too much "R'n'B wannabe".

fergielicious!!! it makes me giggle, her solo music.

How often does she rap? I love her rappin' voice.

I'm sure I've asked this before, but who is Fergie?

girl with the black eyed peas

Thanks. I tried googling but lots of stuff about Sarah Ferguson comes up.

would i be ostricized if i were to say
hold steady:boys and girls in america

I do not understand at all how people like the Melvins so much. They have got to be the most boring, metallica-sounding metal shit around ever.

Peeping Tom is awful.

LOTS of good music this year, too much to list, all the old faves brought back the hits and some new bands rocked too, but my favorite album was giddy motors - do easy. so there.

i just did a review of do easy, it's a great album.

Blood Mountain by Mastadon was my favorite album of the year.

Comets on Fire's Avatar has been my favorite album released this year.

I'd have to say Vetiver is the most underated and one of my top 5.

Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
Cat Power - The Greatest
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Danielson - Ships
Yellow Swans - Drift

I forgot
mogwai (both releases)
thom yorke (good call hayden)
Explosions in the sky (travel in constants vol. I don't remember)

Unfortunately she "raps" almost only on the 2 singles ( london bridge and fergalicious ), most of the other songs are not that catchy. Another couple are quite good, but not as good as those.

Obliterati-Mission of Burma
Rather Ripped
Altar-Boris and Sun o))

of course those are the only albums from this year I own

I don't think I bought many records either.

I believe that I'll still be listening to Drum's Not Dead by the Liars in 2007, 2008, 2009... and willing to see them live again.

Then would come Phoenix and Gitogito Hustler for merry occasions.
And Spinto Band.

Just finished my Top 85 things of 2006 list. This is the top 85 of several hundred to maybe a few thousand things I heard this year...

TOP 25 ALBUMS OF 2006
Carla Bozulich "Evangelista" (Constellation)
Coughs "Secret Passage" (Load)
Country Teasers "The Empire Strikes Back" (In the Red)
Entrance "Prayer of Death" (self-released)
Erase Errata "Nightlife" (Kill Rock Stars)
Fat Worm of Error "Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies" (Load)
Goslings "Grandeur of Hair" (Archive)
Hank IV "Third Person Shooter" (Hook or Crook)
Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones "Fait Accompli" (P.Trash)
Impractical Cockpit "To Be Treated" (Load)
Inca Ore with Lemon Bear's Orchestra "Birds in the Bushes" (5RC)
Jay Reatard "Blood Visions" (In the Red)
Junkpile Jimmy "Alberhill" 2xLP (Cártel Ilustré)
Leprechaun Catering "Male Plumage" (White Denim)
Monarch "Speak of the Sea" (Throne)
New Flesh "Vessel" (Heart Break Beat)
Rose for Bohdan "And Then Everybody Hugged 'Racism Is God'" (Deathbomb Arc)
Sic Alps "Reconnection Land" (Animal Disguise)
Who's Your Favorite Son, God? "Out of Body Diva" (KDVS Recordings)
...Worms "s/t" LP+CD (Marriage)
Yellow Swans "Psychic Secession" 2xLP (Weird Forest)
v/a "L.A. Noisescape" (Bastardised)
v/a "Tête de Bébé" (Ss Records)
v/a "Why Is Anything Forbidden?" vol 2 (Deathbomb Arc)

TOP 15 CDR-only RELEASES OF 2006
Argumentix & Bird Costumes "Armageddon...Maybe Later" CDR (Below PDX)
Argumentix & Dead/Bird "Flip Off Hummers" tour 3x3" CDR (self-released)
Art Lessing "Plastic Couch" (Electric Eggplant)
Black Pus "Black Pus 3: Metamorpus" (DiareahRama)
Fortress of Amplitude "Loom of Doom" (self-released)
Kites "Superior Moon" 3" (Mountain Collective)
KK Rampage "Lies, Deception, & Tall Tales" (Rampage)
Plants "Totem" (self-released)
Robedoor "Christ's Vipers" (Chocolate Monk)
Shearing Pinx "Poison Hands" 2x3" (Not Not Fun)
Snowsuit* "Consolation Prize" (No Format)
So So Many White White Tigers "The Greatest Hits of Acid" (self-released)
Switched-on Vultures "demo" (no label)
v/a "The Fruit Will Rot" vol 2 9x3" CDR's (Deathbomb Arc)
v/a "Sarcophagus 1-4" (Radius Waste)

TOP 25 EP's of 2006
Abe Vigoda/Child Pornography split 7" (Oms-B)
AIDS Wolf/Crack und Ultra Eczema/PRE/Dmonstrations 4-way split 2x7" (Lovepump United)
Anteenagers MC "Let's Not Have a Party" 7" (Plastic Idol)
Argumentix "Tarantula Downpour" 7"+DVDr (Trash Skull)
Battleship "To Give Not a Gift" (Double Negative)
Billy Bao "Bilbo's Incinerator" 7" (W.M.O.)
Cheveu "Clara Vénus" 7" (SDZ/Polly Magoo)
Dead Western "s/t" 7" (Weird Forest)
Ear & Dark "There's No Such Thing as Dragons" 10" (Black Light)
Grey Skull/Haunted Castle split 10" (Not Not Fun)
The Intelligence "I'm Your Taxi" 7" (Holy Cobra Society)
Le Chevalier de Rinchy "Mes Plus Belles Chansons d´Amour" (Le Vilain Chien)
My Little Red Toe/Foot Foot split 7" (Not Not Fun)
Nothing People "Problems" 7" (Ss Records)
Of Sex, Yr Body "s/t" lathe-cut 7" (Deer + Bird)
Pink Reason "s/t" 7" (Savage Quality)
Pissed Jeans "Don't Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear" 7" (Sub Pop)
Psychedelic Horseshit "Who Let the Dogs Out?" 7" (Columbus Discount)
Sapat "Tongue-Tied & Staid" 7" (Black Velvet Fuckere)
Shearing Pinx "Caves" 7" (DNT)
S.I.D.S. "Kandy Kane" 7" (Army of Bad Luck/Stickfigure)
This Song Is a Mess But So Am I "Marblemouth EP" CD (Acuarela)
Tyvek "Mary Ellen Claims" 7" (X!)
Western Culture/Katsuya Nonaka split lathe-cut 10" (Deer + Bird)
Wooden Shjips "Shrinking Moon for You" 10" (self-released)

TOP 10 CASSETTE-ONLY RELEASES OF 2006
Aerosol Constellations/Bird Costumes split (Isolated Now Waves/Thankless)
Grey Daturas/Shearing Pinx split (Isolated Now Waves)
Hole Class "A Glimpse of Hole Class" (self-released)
Home Blitz/Friends & Family split (Leaf Leaf)
Non Horse "Rigor Lore" (Not Not Fun)
Pocahaunted "Moccasinging" (Not Not Fun)
Scream Baby, Scream!/Gang Wizard split (Pink Triforce Tapes)
Tent City/Wigwam split (Not Not Fun)
Torturing Nurse "Hate Human" (Hate State)
Unmono/Kate Hall & Elijah Forrest split (Deathbomb Arc Tape Club)

TOP 10 REISSUES & RETROSPECTIVES OF 2006
Bernard Bonnier "Casse Tête" (Creel Pone)
Crisis "Holocaust Hymns" (Apop)
Dead Moon "Echoes of the Past" (Sub Pop)
Ich Bin "Obéis!" (Poutré Apparente)
Jackwacker "...Things From Inside Your Body" (Black Velvet Fuckere)
Lake of Dracula "Skeletal Remains" (Savage Land)
Maypole "The Real" (Anopheles)
Ruth White "Flowers of Evil" (Creel Pone)
Smegma "Live 1991-1993" (Resipiscent)
v/a "Messthetics Greatest Hits: The Sounds of D.I.Y. 1977-80" (Hyped2Death)

2006 (is it over yet?)-in no fucken order
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
(the) Melvins/(a) Senile Animal
ooioo-Taiga
...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead/So Divided
Mastodon/Blood Mountain
Charles Mingus/Live At UCLA 1965
Miho Hatori/Ecdysis

yeah i think thats it

liars- drum's not dead
rather ripped
warmer milks- radish on light
cat power- the greatest
tom ze- estudando o pagode
thom yorke- the eraser

not impressed by
the new melvins
mastadon- blood mtn. (at least the new melvins is better than this pussy stoner metal shite)
new new york dolls (please make it stop!)
peeping tome the more i listen to it- i'll give patton credit for making the most coherent album in his career

I thought the Chili Peppers album was great... but kill me for being unhip

This one would be in my top 5.

...Did it really come out in 2006, though?? I thought it came out in '05.

It came out in february i think? Or january, something like that.

Besides giddy motors, i'd also reccomend the new microwaves.

OH... and the new ultra dolphins.

I was wondering when someone was going to bring up Mission of Burma. The Obliterati was fucking great.

Bluebottle Kiss: Doubt Seeds (double studio album, too. Much respect.)
Blood Brothers: Young Machetes
The Bronx: The Bronx (second sefl-titled album)
You Am I: Convicts
Rock Votolato: Makers
Tim rogers and Tex perkins: My Better Half
Bob Evans: Suburban Songbook

And some others that I don't own yet, would be great I know, like: These Arms are Snakes album which my local never fucking stocks. Among some others.

Didn't Crimes come out this year?? Or was that last year??

I'm going insane.

Either way I haven't heard of that one. Is it as scene as crimes? And what month did this come out?? Recently?

Crimes scene as in musically? If so, I have to disagree. It was the scene that liked Crimes. But then that's the pack mentality. Crimes was 2004. Young machetes is much better.

Cause I'm nice:

"Before the release of Young Machetes, the Blood Brothers mentioned that the album would return to the harsher, more frenetic sound of their earlier work. This is true — especially of the opening song, "Set Fire to the Face on Fire," which immediately commences to shrieking and shredding — but it doesn't mean that the band completely did away with the overtures they made toward a more accessible sound on their previous album, Crimes. Instead, the Blood Brothers find sneakier ways of incorporating their twisted pop skills into the fray. There's no denying the hooks on "Rat Rider" nor the jaunty keyboards on "Laser Life," while "Camouflage, Camouflage"'s breakdown recalls the noise-meets-glam-rock flair of Johnny Whitney and Mark Gajadhar's side project, Neon Blonde. Nevertheless, Young Machetes' more challenging tracks are some of the most satisfying, especially "Spit Shine Your Black Clouds," which begins as a song so sneeringly catchy it seems almost disdainful of its own hookiness, and then shifts to subversively melodramatic, ultra-melodic parts that suggest a long-buried past in musical theater. "We Ride Skeletal Lighting" is that song's flip side, making relentless atonality seem downright accessible. On the other hand, Young Machetes also includes some of the Blood Brothers' most gleefully abrasive work in some time. "You're the Dream Unicorn!"'s ironically sissy title conceals one of the album's most intense workouts, which starts out sounding like a noise-punk savaging of "I Want Candy" and just gets crazier from there; "1, 2, 3, 4 Guitars"' whisper to a blood-curdling scream dynamics are extreme, even for this band. The Blood Brothers aim their nightmarishly surreal lyrics at some juicy targets throughout the album, including materialism on "Nausea Shreds Yr Head," war on "Kiss the Tank," which contains some of the most literal lyrics ("Death's just death, no matter how you dress it up") that they've ever written, and war and materialism on "Huge Gold AK-47." However, the album's most ambitious moment has to be its last one: "Giant Swan" is an epic that sounds like "a wild cabaret," as one of the lyrics goes, and packs a screenplay's worth of plot twists and imagery into its nearly six-minute length. With this album, the Blood Brothers use the clout of being on a major label to make music that's challenging, but also accessible in its own way. Young Machetes is occasionally exhausting, but it definitely won't disappoint fans of either the band's earlier or more recent sounds."

I thought I did something in this... guess not...
(no order)
AIDS Wolf- Lovvers LP
Flying Luttenbachers- Cataclysm
Blood Brothers- Young Machetes
Xiu Xiu- The Air Force
Sonic Youth- Rather Ripped
Wolf Eyes- Human Animal
The Doers- Whatcha Doin'
Varge!- Must Lunge
Statues- New People Make Us Nervous
From Fiction- Bloodwork
...

Tell me bout the new Wolf Eyes k-krack. I was let down by Burned Mind. Dread is my favorite of all that I've heard