The Best of 2006 - Lists + DVD Forums - voting thread

[daltonisbond]

1. The Black Keys - Magic Potion
2. The Lovely Feathers - Hind Hind Legs
3. Metric - Live It Out
4. The Tragically Hip - World Container
5. The Dears - Gang of Losers
6. Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back
7. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
8. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
9. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
10. Danielson - Ships

[gravesend46]

1 MORNING RUNNER - Welcome to the Paradise
2 SAY ANYTHING - ...Is A Real Boy
3 ARCTIC MONKEYS - Whatever People Say I Am...
4 HOPE OF THE STATES - Left
5 RODDY WOOMBLE - My Secret Is My Silence
6 LARRIKIN LOVE - The Freedom Spark
7 SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND - Raise the Alarm
8 DIRTY PRETTY THINGS - Waterloo To Anywhere
9 THE RAKES - Capture/Release
10 THE FRAMES - The Cost

and the also rans:

SNOW PATROL - Eyes Open
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL - Dusk And Summer
PLACEBO - Meds
THE MOTORETTES - The Motorettes
FORWARD RUSSIA! - Give Me A Wall
IAIN ARCHER - Magnetic North
GET CAPE. WEAR CAPE. FLY - Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager
VEILS - Nux Vomica
BRAND NEW - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
LOSTPROPHETS - Liberation Transmission
MILBURN - Well Well Well
THE KILLERS - Sam's Town
SEAFOOD - Paper Crown King
BELL X1 - Flock
SPEARMINT - Paris In A Bottle
A-HA - Analogue (may have been 2005...??)
KEANE - Under The Iron Sea
GUILLEMOTS - Though The Windowpane
DAMIEN RICE - 9
BELLE & SEBASTIAN - The Life Pursuit
DARREN HAYMAN - Table For One
MUSE - Black Holes & Revelations

[Some bloke]

Am I allowed Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens? It's a 2005 US/2006 UK album (not a problem judging by the inclusion BSS, CYHSY et al) and also an compilation of previously released EPs, but you really wouldn't know if I didn't tell you - only found out myself when I read the liner notes. It'll be my undisputed number 1 if it's eligible.

Assuming not, I'm not at all happy with the upper reaches of my chart. None of them would have been ranked anywhere near as high if they'd been released in almost any other recent year, and they've made it more or less by default because of being marginally more consistent or pleasantly surprising than the choices just below. So as many have said it hasn't been a good year for great music, but certainly a great year for good music, have a good 20+ albums which are of a very similar standard to my top 10 below. Which is:

0. Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens
1. The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home
2. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
3. The Dears - Gang of Losers
4. Joanna Newsom - Ys
5. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
6. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
7. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
8. Howling Bells - Howling Bells
9. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
10. The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief

Almost as good as, and mostly interchangable with anything around 6-10 above (rankings only very approximate, not much to choose between them at all):

11. Serena-Maneesh - Serena-Maneesh
12. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
13. The Knife - Silent Shout
14. Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold
15. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
16. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
17. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
18. Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
19. Mogwai - Mr Beast
20. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
21. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
22. Isis - In the Absence of Truth
23. Hot Chip - The Warning
24. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
25. Islands - Return to the Sea
26. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
27. Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
28. Cyann & Ben - Sweet Beliefs
29. Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat
30. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon

And not at all far behind those:

Beck, Built to Spill, Calexico, Converge, Cult of Luna, Danielson, Delays, Dresden Dolls, Espers, The Evens, Grizzly Bear, I'm From Barcelona, Joan As Police Woman, The Mars Volta, Midlake, My Latest Novel, Seafood, Secret Machines, Semifinalists, Spinto Band, Tilly and the Wall, Tool, Tunng, TV on the Radio

[CiderMyth]

1. Beck - The Information
2. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
4. Cat Power - The Greatest
5. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go
6. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
7. The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living

I've not listened to enough full new albums this year to do a longer list... I'm still hoping for some late Santa deliveries though

[Bish]

Another fine year for music with plenty of good albums. I was quite surprised that P!ATD made the number one spot but I just love it and often still play it all the way through despite being released back in Feb.

1. Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
2. The Prize Fighter Inferno - My Brother's Blood Machine
3. Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
4. Papa Roach - The Paramour Sessions
5. Peeping Tom - ST
6. Slayer - Christ Illusion
7. Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
8. Glenn Hughes - Music For The Devine
9. Tool - 10000 Days
10. Hoobastank - Every Man For Himself

Just missing out and throughly deserving a spot in the top ten are:

11. Pearl Jam - ST
12. Breed77 - In My Blood
13. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
14. Kasabian - Empire
15. Johnny Cash - American 5: A Hundred Highways
16. Black Stone Cherry - ST
17. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
18. Lostprophets - Liberation Transmission
19. The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
20. Rob Zombie - Educated Horses
21. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
22. Audioslave - Revelations

and the rest:


23. Mogwai - Mr Beast
24. Evanescence - The Open Door
25. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime II
26. Juliette and The Licks - Four On The Floor
27. Rodrigo y Gabriela - ST
28. Tenacious D - The Pick Of Destiny
29. Placebo - Meds
30. Trivium - The Crusade
31. Incubus - Light Grenades
32. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of The broken Seas
33. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
34. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
35. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
36. Wolfmother - ST
37. The Black Keys - Magic Potion
38. The Sword - Age Of Winters
39. The Answer - Rise
40. Jet - Shine On
41. Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
42. Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
43. James Dean Bradfield – The Great Western
44. Kris Kristofferson - This Old Road by
45. Neil Young - Living With War
46. Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly - Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
47. Thea Gilmore - Harpo's Ghost
48. Snow Patrol - Open Eyes
49. Fightstar - Grand Unification
50. Richard Ashcroft - Keys to the World

I'm sure I've missed one or two

Two albums would have definitely made the top ten are Terry Reid's Seed Of Memory and Honeysuckle Strange by Howlin' Maggie sadly they were released in 1973 & 1996 respectively, so were both ineligible

[LouBarlow]

This closes at midnight tomorrow night - i.e. when the year becomes new.

Get the final votes in quick, and if those who have put album titles first, could change their posts to the format 'artist - album title' it would make the counting a lot easier

[Robby]

Top list Bish. I guess that's why you and I are - Super !

[gburnsid]

Just saw this. It was 2005 in Sweden I think, but I counted it in my list as it's just been released in the USA.

Originally Posted by Lorne.t

Was Hello Saferide from this year?
It's not out in the UK is it?
I love the album and will hopefully be getting it alongside one of her ep's for my Christmas.
I saw her (the band?) play at Water Rats a few weeks ago supporting Au Revoir Simone and it was great.I'm a big ARS fan but I enjoyed Hello Saferide more.
I took some good shots at the gig but I haven't put them online as her skin was a bit iffy spot wise!!

[Bish]

Originally Posted by Robby

Top list Bish. I guess that's why you and I are - Super !

Scary isn't it

[robbie99]

my top ten before I forget!

1. Midlake - The Trials Of Van Occupanther
2. The Spinto Band - Nice and Nicely Done
3. The Bluetones - The Bluetones
4. The Sunshine Underground - Raise The Alarm
5. The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
6. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
7. Howling Bells - Howling Bells
8. CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexi
9. Lily Allen - Alright Still
10. Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental

[LouBarlow]

Props to everyone for editing your lists to the correct format - I you all

[Bish]

A big thanks to Lou who is going to stay up on the 31st to make sure we get the results nice and early on New Years day

What year was it when it went pear shaped and the results were so late no one even cared?

[Nathan-Wind]

Originally Posted by LouBarlow

Props to everyone for editing your lists to the correct format - I you all

You are most welcome.

Originally Posted by Bish

What year was it when it went pear shaped and the results were so late no one even cared?

think that was 2004's list.

[rh67]

My choices:

1. The Young Knives - Voices Of Animals and Young Men
2. Boy Kill Boy - Civilian
3. CSS - Cansei Der Ser Sexy
4. Hot Chip - The Warning
5. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
6. Sunshine Underground - Raise The Alarm
7. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
8. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas
9. Razorlight - Razorlight
10. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am...

I Have also enjoyed (In no particular order):

Kasabian - Kasabian
Cat Power - The Greatest
Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
Jarvis - Jarvis
Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo to Anywhere
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands
Damien Rice - 9
Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
TV on The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Bruce Springsteen - The Seeger Sessions
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
The Killers - Sam's Town
Al Hammond Jr - Yours To Keep
The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America

[Raphph]

1. Lindsey Buckingham - UNDER THE SKIN
2. Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
3. The Beatles - Love
4. P!nk - I'm Not Dead
5. Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
6. Sparks - Hello Young Lovers
7. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
8. Tenacious D - Pick Of Destiny
9. Juliette & The Licks - Four In The Floor
10. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes

[douglasb]

Poor Magic Numbers ....

[Tony Ferrino]

Originally Posted by douglasb

Poor Magic Numbers ....

I think that's a fitting description.

Oh, you meant "I feel sorry for the Magic Numbers."

Sorry, my mistake .

Also, I think there's only one vote for Razorlight in the lists (and that's at number 9). Just goes to show that bands can't get by on past glories, at least on this forum. I thought their second albums weren't a patch on their first.

[Fever Dawg]

1. RAZORLIGHT - Razorlight
2. CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH - CYHSY
3. BELLE & SEBASTIAN - The Life Pursuit
4. AMY WINEHOUSE - Back to Black
5. THE DECEMBERISTS - The Crane Wife
6. CAT POWER - The Greatest
7. ARCTIC MONKEYS - Whatever people ...
8. TV ON THE RADIO - Return to Cookie Mountain
9. MIDLAKE - The Trials ...
10. THE FRATELLIS - Costello Music

[Tony Ferrino]

Originally Posted by Fever Dawg

1. RAZORLIGHT - Razorlight

Indeed!

[Johnny Shaker]

1. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
2. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
3. The Fratellis - Costello Music
4. Cansei de Ser Sexy - Cansei de Ser Sexy
5. The Zutons - Tired of Hanging Around
6. The Like - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
7. Metric - Live It Out
8. The Young Knives - Voices Of Animals And Men
9. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
10.The Killers - Sam's Town