CONFESS!!! Your top 10 music albums of 2006

[Initech]

Here's mine:

1. Beck - The Information



2. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium



3. Isis - In The Absence Of Truth



4. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain



5. Tool - 10,000 Days



6. Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics



7. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere



8. Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime II



9. Tom Waits - Orphans



10. Les Claypool - Of Whales And Woe



Honorable mentions:

Liars - Drum's Not Dead



My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade



The Racontuers - Broken Boy Soldiers



Muse - Black Holes And Revelations



Wolfmother - Wolfmother

[mvd]

1. I still have to hear the albums I just ordered and the ones..

I'm getting for Christmas. My list will be a top 20 - not a top 10. I'll be posting my list in early January. Maybe this topic will still be around then, or I'll create a new topic. Is a top 20 ok on this board?

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. Not ranked (and only nine, because I can't think of ten):

Zero 7, The Garden

The Knife - Silent Shout

Gnarls Barkley, St Elsewhere

Brazilian Girls, Talk To La bomb

CSS, Cansei de Ser Sexy

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

Hot Chip - The Warning

Nouvelle Vague - Bande A Part

Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards

[speedoo]

3. Mine..

I can only list seven:

1. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
2. Elvis Costello and Allen Touissant - The River in Reverse
3. Diana Krall - From This Moment On
4. Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All the Road Running
5. Paul Simon - Surprise
6. Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
7. T Bone Burnett - The True False Identity

I'd probably add The Decemberists and Tom Waits, but I have not heard enough of those albums.

And I saw The Racontuers ahead of Dylan in Boston. Interesting band, very talented, but they were so freakin' loud I had to put my hands over my ears to save them for Dylan. :wtf: Major turn off.

[some guy]

7. number 4

on your list is the only one I've heard from any of the lists so far posted.

I guess that makes it my number 1. :)

I've no idea what else came out this year, or if I even bought anything else from this year. Maybe someone else will post another disc I have, and I'll be able to put a number two item on my own.

I do really like the Mark Knoppfler / EmmyLou Harris disc. I knew I would, as soon as I heard about it...

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

4. I haven't compiled my list yet. Should do that soon.

[flvegan]

5. Rise Against, "The Sufferer and the Witness" take all 10 spots for me.

Everyone else starts at number 11.

[peekaloo]

6. I have four for now.

Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3--- Ole Tarantula (I LOVE this CD)
Paul Simon --- Surprise
Yo Lo Tengo---I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Placebo---Meds

the fifth is the R.E.M. IRS compilation 'I Feel Fine' which is old stuff but still good.

[alarimer]

8. In no particular order

Yo la Tengo - I am not afraid of you and will beat your ass
Michael Franti and Spearhead - Yell Fire
Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint - the River in Reverse
Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning
The Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
Guy Clark - Workbench songs
Drive by Truckers - A Blessing and A curse
Bruce Sprinsteen - We Shall Overcome: the Seeger Sessions
The Gourds - Heavy Ornamentals
Linda Ronstadt, Ann Savoy - Adieu False Heart
Los Lobos - The Town and the City

Okay, I think that's enough. And I guess I can't count too! I haven't listened to enough whole albums to judge but those are the ones I play the most.

[Maestro]

16. How is that Franti album?

Obviously you like it, but musically how is it? Is more folkish or does it a rock/pop feel?

[alarimer]

26. More rock/hip-hop even

So I surprised I like it but that song "Light up Ya lighter" just floors me. It is anti-war, anti Bush. Great lyrics.

[Maestro]

9. Wow another Agalloch fan! Awesome.

That is a good album. I'll post my favorites soon.

[Maestro]

10. These impressed me the most this year. Sorry it's 12.

Threes by Sparta


Amputechture by The Mars Volta


Mercy by Burden Brothers


Nocturne by The Human Abstract


A Matter of Life and Death by Iron Maiden


Christ Illusion by Slayer


As Daylight Dies by Killswitch Engage


The Crusade by Trivium


Taking the Long Way Home by Dixie Chicks


Fundamental by Pet Shop Boys


Blood Mountain by Mastodon

[Initech]

11. Oh crap, I forgot the Iron Maiden, Mars Volta, and Mastodon albums - good stuff!

That's the problem with only having ten on a list. I could easily do a top 50 this year.

[Maestro]

14. I know what you mean.

This was a good year musically. I just can't stand the pop crap that came out and gets most of the airplay. Warner Bros. just bought Roadrunner Records so perhaps some of the great metal bands will now get some proper publicity.

Here are another two that need to be added to the list:

Sacrament by Lamb of God



The Fall of Ideals by All That Remains

[Initech]

25. Haven't heard the Lamb Of God CD yet.

I'll have to pick that one up sometime.

I'd also have to nominate OSI's Free (which is excellent if you like Dream Theater / Porcupine Tree type stuff).

[Maestro]

35. I have it.

It is quite good. I love Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree.

[LibraLiz1973]

12. Heres my List... Laugh and die. HA HA

Tori Amos- A Piano: The Collection



Justin Timberlake- Futuresex/LoveSounds


The Fray- How To Save A Life


I've got nothing else because every other CD I would have chosen (Tori Amos' The Beekeeper, Ben Folds' Songs for Silverman) were all from 2005.

Oy!

[DixieBlue]

24. I really like The Fray's album.

It's pop-rock I don't feel ashamed listening to.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. Only three that came out this year that I bought, all fantastic.

1) Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass



2) Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics



3) Barry Adamson - Stranger on the Sofa



Most of my music is from long-dead artists. :D

[Maestro]

15. You only bought three this year?

I buy an album a week I think. I am such a music whore. :)

[speedoo]

17. I'm a music whore too. But I've only bought about 5 albums this year.

I have downloaded several more and lots of selected tracks. I welcome the ability to download selected tracks.... keeps me from having to buy complete albums, when I really only want a few tracks.

And I listen much more selectively as well. No more top 40 crap for me. When I want to listen to broadcast music, I usually listen to selected stations on line and I will soon be an XM satellite subscriber.

[Maestro]

19. I'm a Sirius subscriber.

I've been one for almost three years now. I couldn't believe how much good music I was missing once a gave up corporate radio. I've always been a cd collector, but after having my horizons expanded it is a turn into an addiction. Oh well, I could spend my money on worse things. Now, excuse me. I need to go order a new cd. :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

22. I was thinking of getting into Sirius, too.

Of course, I'll have to wait for my raise first. :D

[speedoo]

23. I'm a big Dylan fan. And he's on XM, so I'm there.

He has a weekly one hour show in which he plays DJ. It's a blast, just listening to him. His knowledge of music is encyclopedic.

But I love listening to all the stuff on XM that is never played on broadcast radio. I'm sure Sirius is great too.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

18. Sorry, I meant three that actually came out this year.

As far as all albums I bought this year, it was WAY more than three. :D

[Maestro]

20. Cool. I was worried.

:) I must be more easily pleased. ;) I could never be a music critic.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

21. Haha, yep.

Though my music taste has wrecked my finances -- why the hell do I have to live so close to a Virgin megastore?

:D

[MrCoffee]

29. lol, i only bought two - Flaming Lips and Yo La Tengo

you have excellent taste!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. Likewise!

:hi:

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

27. 1) Joanna Newsom - Ys

2) Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55


3) Cat Power - The Greatest


4) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go


5) The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia


6) Sibylle Baier - Colour Green


7) Jenny Lewis (with the Watson Twins) - Rabbit Fur Coat


8) Josephine Foster - A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing


9) Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies


10) Lambchop - Damaged



(The top five are pretty set in stone, the others I've just done on the fly and I'm sure I've forgotten something really important. Ys is far and above the #1 on my list though -- I've been playing it daily since late August and ended up buying it on vinyl. The Sibylle Baier album was actually recorded in the 70s and not released commercially until this year, but as far as I'm concerned it counts.)

[MrCoffee]

28. I got 2 new albums this year, and they are both groovy.

Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

[SteppingRazor]

31. I can't -- the magazine I work for gets first publishing rights

:P



If this thread's still kickin', I'll post next Wednesday.

I can say, though, that only one album in your Top 10 is in mine.
Flaming Lips almost made it into mine, but I felt it didn't hold up under repeated listenings. ... I actually thought Beck's new album was his weakest effort in years. ... Red Hot Chili Peppers are dead to me, ever since Anthony Kiedis told me to "fuck off" ... I'm actually not familiar with Agalloch ... Can't stand pretentious tripe, so I had to discount Tool :evilgrin: ... Didn't hear the new Queensryche -- it's really that good? ... And Gnarls Barkley's a bit overrated, I think, but still real good.

[Initech]

33. Which magazine?

And I thought the same thing about Beck with "Guero" but I really like the new album.

[SteppingRazor]

34. This one:

http://www.citylinkmagazine.com/

I write the music column, among other things, and I've got a Top 10 coming for our year in review issue. True, I could probably post my top 10 here and it wouldn't be a big deal becuase no one at work would likely see it. But if someone did ... :scared:

[Bryan]

32. #1: Yo La Tengo, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

#2: Neko Case, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
#3: The Decemberists, The Crane Wife
#4: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, The Proposition original soundtrack
#5: The Black Angels, Passover
#6: T-Bone Burnett, The True False Identity
#7: Belle & Sebastian, The Life Pursuit
#8: Juana Molina, Son
#9: The Dears, Gang of Losers
#10: The Roots, Game Theory

Honorable mention:

The Pipettes, We Are the Pipettes
The Flaming Lips, At War With the Mystics
Easy Star All-Stars, Radiodread
Thom Yorke, The Eraser
Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint, The River In Reverse

[SKKY]

36. The Racontuers - I I ever, ever hear that "Steady as she goes" piece of crap...

...one more time, I will murder a baby kitten! I swear it! I'd rather hear the dance remix of "Let the Eagle Soar" for
the rest of my life that have to listen to that song one more time.