I can't believe you guys are going nuts over a Hall and Oates related album. I can't go for that. No, No can do.


As far as my own:



Tim Maia "Racional V. 1"

Point being, it sounds nothing like Hall & Oates. And was part of an experiment with Gabriel/Fripp that would have been a massive change in direction for Hall if he'd been more aggressive with his management about pursuing it.

Right now I'm all over Little Feat's "Sailin' Shoes". Lowell George has become one of my new faves on the songwriting front. Going to pick up his first solo outing sometime in the next few weeks.

Shack - Waterpistol
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year

For me that sounds like a crap burger with a side of crap fries.

I listened.
It's actually pretty good.

Another RIYL might be some of the more aggressive John Cale stuff on Island. i.e - his version of "Heartbreak Hotel".

The only John Cale I've heard is Fear, which I think is just okay.

The best non-new record I've heard this year is probably:


Two Gallants - The Throes

or


Mark Lanegan - Whiskey for the Holy Ghost

You NEED to hear Paris, 1919. It is entirely different.
Lush.
Orchestral.
Beautiful.

Easily in my all-time top 10. Maybe even top 5.


And you also have yet to hear the really aggressive Cale stuff.
Check out Helen Of Troy or Slow Dazzle. It's downright brutal, at times.

I guess I heard Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On for the first time early this year so that's easily the best non-new thing I heard.

Other good ones:

Gary Numan - Replicas
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Les Stances a Sophie
Sly & The Family Stone - Stand!
Sun Ra - The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
The Dukes of Stratosphear - Chips from the Chocolate Fireball
Soft Machine - Third
Swell Maps - Jane from Occupied Europe
Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Eno/Moebius/Roedelius - After the Heat
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Charles Mingus - Oh Yeah
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

(Really, those are just my best non-2006 purchases from this year that I'd never heard before.)

Noice.
You've had a helluva year!

I think Serena-Maneesh's self-titled is technically a 2005 album, so it's probably the fave.

Yeah, I have.

The sad thing is that only three of the albums on that list came from yourmusic, and I've ordered a shitload of non-2006 CDs from them this year. I think I mostly just end up buying shit I don't need from there, and I end up having to look elsewhere for things I really want.

One of my all time favorites, I had it on vinyl only until this month when I got the CD. Having heard (hear, maybe from you) that Little Feat were ther band backing Cale, I liistened deeper into the music... iI had always heard the literate lyrics and brilliant melodies, and the sophisticated art-rock arrangements. But now I also hear the crunchy, brilliant rock and roll playing of the band.

One of the best records ever made, without question.