This is the time of year when music professionals and fans alike start compiling lists of their favorite releases of the past year. While I think these lists are a bit silly and pretentious, it's still fun to look back over the past year and remember what caught your ear. I know I have an iTunes playlist dedicated to this task. So, Minnesota Public Radio's very own, 89.3 The Current, is asking it's listeners to pick their top albums out of more than 700 that debuted on air in 2006. If anything, it's chance to throw your name in the hat for a new iPod.
Here's the list I came up with. See how important I am?
P.O.S. | Audition
Badly Drawn Boy | Born In The U.K.
The Decemberists | The Crane Wife
DeVotchka | Curse Your Little Heart
His Name is Alive | Detrola
Band of Horses | Everything All the Time
Neko Case | Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Cat Power | The Greatest
The Roots | Game Theory
Belle & Sebastian | The Life Pursuit
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | The Letting Go
Mr. Lif | Mo' Mega
Murs & 9th Wonder | Murray's Revenge
M. Ward | Post-War
Califone | Roots & Crowns
Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins | Rabbit Fur Coat
Sonic Youth | Rather Ripped
TV On The Radio | Return To Cookie Mountain
Boat | Songs That You Might Not Like
Wolfmother | Wolfmother
10 comments:
I am going to throw in some obivious ones that you have missed:
Golden Smog - Another Fine Day
Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soilders
Gob Iron - Death Songs for the Living
Gomez - How We Operate
Michael Franti and Spearhead - Yell Fire!
These are just some ones that you may have missed. I am not saying they are the years best or anything, but I think they require some consideration.
What I think would be neat for this group is for everyone to do a seperate post on the best realeases of 2006 (limit of 10) with a short description of why. And hell lets put up one or two representative tracks from each album as well. Lets begin this in December, when it is closer to 2007.
Here's what I picked for the current stuff
Golden Smog | Another Fine Day
Loose Fur | Born Again In the USA
Badly Drawn Boy | Born In The U.K.
The Raconteurs | Broken Boy Soldiers
Gob Iron | Death Songs for the Living
The Replacements | Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?: The Best of the Replacements
Neko Case | Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Gomez | How We Operate
Belle & Sebastian | The Life Pursuit
Paul Westerberg | Open Season Soundtrack
Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins | Rabbit Fur Coat
Califone | Roots & Crowns
Willie Nelson | Songbird
Ben Folds | Supersunnyspeedgrafic
Jose Gonzalez | Veneer
Michael Franti & Spearhead | Yell Fire!
Your write-in albums:
Eef Barzely | Bitter Honey
Ben Folds | Over The Hedge Soundtrack
Detholz | Cast Out Devils
I am more important then you
I don't think I heard a single new release this year. I am *that* out of touch with current trends in music, including the single contemporary genre I follow.
For some reason, I've been looking backwards in time for new stuff.
I could make a list of my top 10 that I (re)discovered this year. But it'd be all freak-out jazz and cheesy elevator music, prolly.
PS I have really bad taste in music.
Sam you loved that Gnarls Barkley release. That was this year. It got old really fast but it came out in 2006.
I did *not* love that Gnarls Barkley release. Go check my notes, they hardly belie enthusiasm.
I noticed kyle put a DeVotchka album "curse your little heart" up there on his hit list.
I do have their previous album "super melodrama" that happens to feature the song, curse your little heart on it, if anybody wants it.
I thought about posting it once, but figured there woudn't have been much of a demand for it.
-jason
PS: Ha! Sam loves Gnarls Barkley!
PS: Ha! Sam loves Gnarls Barkley!
The record does not support this assertion.
Sam, if the one "contemporary genre" you follow is hip-hop, then I'm afraid you've missed some real gems.
My favorites from this year include:
Audition | P.O.S.
Game Theory | The Roots
Mo' Mega | Mr. Lif
Murray's Revenge | Murs & 9th Wonder
Things Go Better with RJ and Al | Soul Position
Well, yeah. I realize I've been missing stuff. When you almost exclusively listen to music released in 1985 and before, a lot of stuff passes you by.
My Album of the Year would probably be Zappa's "We're Only In It for the Money" or Anita Baker's "The Rapture", both of which I totally fell in love with this year.
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