On average, I don't purchase many albums in any given year. But my two favorites this year were Lupe Fiasco's and John Mayer's. Of course, that might change pending Nas' new album...
i didn't really hear much of 2006... Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/51V1VMkuyx0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/51V1VMkuyx0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> Prototypes - Danse Sur La Merde <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b4LLDvXrYDY"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b4LLDvXrYDY" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
somewhat related topic...does anyone know if a new IPOD is coming out soon, or should I go ahead and get the 30GB one currently available?
my favorite album of the year and my favorite live show of the year juana molina - son i just heard of her this year, but she has been putting out records for almost 10 years. she had a sitcom in argentina in the 90's called "juana and her sisters" and apparently was like the jerry seinfeld of latin america then started doing music. check out this short video - the way she creates music is very unique - a true one (wo)man band. <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/o_3ooACrLQ4"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/o_3ooACrLQ4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> giant drag - hearts and unicorns any my bloody valentine fans need to hear this. total ear candy-bliss. oneida - happy new year these guys are all over the place - an amazing live band too. kind of have that velvet underground/sonic youth n.y.c. art-drone-noise aesthetic. almost a greatful dead vibe too (indie rockers dont like to admit it, but there is a very fine-line b/t the dead and s.y.) ooioo - taiga japaneese tribal-noise freakout. yoshimi (from the boredoms and of the flaming lips "yoshimi vs. the pink robots) and 3 other girls doing very experimental noise-pop. this album is very percussive w/ lots of call and response vocals. it is very much like west african poly-rhythms and singing. its weird stuff and most people would probably hate it - if you are into african music at all it might be interesting to hear how 4 japaneese girls interpret it. others... gnarls barkley - st. elsewhere - i can see im not the only here... thom yorke - the eraser nellie mckay - pretty little head beck - the information sonic youth - rather ripped for the first time in a few years there wasnt a rap album that i really got into. nor a good metal album.
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys Broken Boy Soldiers by The Raconteurs and the Concert Live Shows Get Lonely by The Mountain Goats Skin & Bone by Foo Fighters
Here's what I liked enough to buy this year: The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia Duncan Sheik - White Limousine The Fray - How to Save a Life Holly Brook - Like Blood Like Honey Gomez - How We Operate The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns Zero 7 - The Garden John Evans - Ramblin Boy Bought but was released in 2005 or earlier: John Mayer Trio - Try! Charlie Sexton - Cruel and Gentle Things Shannon McNally - Geronimo Dahsboard Confessional - A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar Death Cab for Cutie - Plans James Blunt - Back to Bedlam I didn't buy the Gnarls Barkley, but I liked what I heard. Out of all of those, I can honestly say that none of them hooked me from beginning to end. I like bits and pieces from all of them, but, overall, it was a weak year for music I like.
From the geezer perspective: (in no order) The Beatles - Love The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers (it was just too short!) Jet - Shine On (not as good as their first one though) Los Lobos - The Town and The Country (America's best band?) Los Lonley Boys - Sacred (more of the very same goodness) David Gilmore - On An Island ( A Floyd fix if a bit lite) Subdues - Behind The Levee (sweet sweet harmonies) Ray Wylie Hubbard - Snake Farm (snakey blues, cool video) <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GTBfjzI7mFs"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GTBfjzI7mFs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> Eric Burdon - Soul Of A Man (still the best white blues singer alive) <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4eUEaYLfLxo"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4eUEaYLfLxo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> Ray Davies - Other Peoples Lives (as odd and eccentric as The Kinks) <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PQf0cd191p0"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PQf0cd191p0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object> I was somewhat disappointed in JJ/Eric ... it's a JJ Cale album. I was also pumped for the 2006 Indigenous CD Chasing The Sun but Mato Nanji sounds like the tape's dragging.
Ron Sexsmith - All In Good Time <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PeX4PNxIFiI"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PeX4PNxIFiI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
In no particular order... "Jarvis" by Jarvis Cocker "Fishscale" by Ghostface Killa ""Food and Liquor" by Lupe Fiasco "At War with the Mystics" Flaming Lips "Modern Times" by Bob Dylan "The River in Reverse" by Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint "DFA Remixes: Chapter 1" by The DFA "Hell hath no fury" by Clipse "Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not" by Arctic Monkeys "Show Your Bones" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Here's my Top 20. Still a few more I'd like to listen to, like Clipse and Joanna Newsom. 1. TV on the Radio (Return to Cookie Mountain) 2. Bob Dylan (Modern Times) 3. Destroyer (Destroyer’s Rubies) 4. Arctic Monkeys (Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m not) 5. Ghostface Killah (Fish Scale) 6. Joseph Arthur (Nuclear Daydream) 7. Cat Power (The Greatest) 8. Futureheads (News and Tributes) 9. Neko Case (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood) 10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Show Your Bones) 11. The Hold Steady (Boys and Girls in America) 12. Neil Young (Living With War) 13. The Raconteurs (Broken Boy Soldiers) 14. Belle and Sebastian (The Life Pursuit) 15. Decemberists (The Crane Wife) 16. Sparklehorse (Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain) 17. Scissor Sisters (Ta-Dah!) 18. Gnarls Barkley (St. Elsewhere) 19. Drive-by Truckers (A Blessing and a Curse) 20. The Rapture (Pieces of the People We Love)
Since I've never heard of most of the bands listed in this thread, I'm probably the most uncool person here, so here are my favorites of 2006 Justin Timberlake Nickleback 50 Cent Beyonce Brooke Hogan
