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 Post subject: 1/2 Year Top 10 (+/-) for 2006 (4th annual)
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June is over today so half a year is gone. So keeping with tradition, as I have been doing this annually for obner and CMJ for the last four years.

Top 10 (plus one):

1. Delays – You See Colours
2. Tool – 10,000 Days
3. the Fiery Furnaces – Bitter Tea
4. Gomez – How We Operate
5. Oneida – Happy New Year
6. Belle and Sebastian – the Life Pursuit
7. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
8. Keane – Under the Iron Sea
9. Liar – Drum's Not Dead
10. Destroyer – Destroyer's Rubies

With the Flaming Lips (11) on the outside looking in.


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1. Tool - 10,000 Days
2. Built to Spill - You in Reverse
3. Willie Nile - Streets of New York
4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People
5. Gomez - How We Operate
6. Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
7. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
8. Streets - Hard Way to Make an Easy Living
9. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
10. Zero 7 - The Garden


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1. Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 1-2
2. T.I. - King
3. Nelly Furtado - Loose
4. Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang
5. Prince - 3121
6. Dabrye - Two/Three
7. Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
8. Saul Stokes - Vast
9. Snog - Vs. The Faecal Juggernaut Of Mass Culture
10. Richard Ashcroft - Keys to the World


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:27 am 
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1 m craft SILVER AND FIRE
2 neko case FOX CONFESSOR BRINGS THE FLOOD
3 belle & sebastian THE LIFE PURSUIT
4 nathan fake DROWNING IN A SEA OF LOVE
5 jenny lewis & the watson twins RABBIT FUR COAT
6 sonic youth RATHER RIPPED
7 mogwai MR BEAST
8 cortney tidwell CORTNEY TIDWELL
9 two gallants WHAT THE TOLL TELLS
10 isobel campbell & mark lanegan BALLAD OF THE BROKEN SEAS

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I could only muster up 5 picks. Hope it picks up in the next 6 months.


1. People In Planes (As Far As The Eye Can See)
2. Jon Auer (Songs From The Year Of Our Demise)
3. Thom Yorke (The Eraser)
4. Mellowdrone (Box)
5. Skye (Mind How You Go)

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:55 am 
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Actually year-end list worthy:
1. Danielson - Ships
2. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
3. Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
4. Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice - Gipsy Freedom
5. Super Numeri - The Welcome Table
6. Boris - Pink
7. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo

Decent:
8. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
9. Cat Power - The Greatest
10. The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics

not-so-honorable mention:
(11.) Jesu - Silver

Really, this includes all but one of the 2006 albums I've bought.


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1. Neko Case-Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
2. Dirty Pretty Things-Waterloo to Anywhere
3. Sunset Rubdown-Shut Up I Am Dreaming
4. The Walkmen-A Hundred Miles Off
5. Sonic Youth-Rather Ripped
6. The Robocop Kraus-They Think They Are...
7. Belle and Sebastian-The Life Pursuit
8. Destroyer-Destroyer's Rubies
9. The Flaming Lips-At War With The Mystics
10. Mission of Burma-The Obliterati

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1. The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
2. Ronnie Spector - The Last of the Rock Stars
3. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
4. The Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and A Curse
5. The Strokes - First Impression of Earth
6. Deadstring Brothers - Starving Winter Report
7. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Me Your Bones
9. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
10. The Stills - Without Feathers

And some of the others
Neil Young - Living with War
The Streets - The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
Frank Black - Fast Man/Raiderman
The Radio Dept - Pet Grief
Delays - You See Colours
Tool - 10,000 Days
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
The Black Angels - Passover
The Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
The Sounds - Dying to Say This to You
Destroyer - Detroyer's Rubies
Brightblack Morninglight - Brightblack Morninglight
Stereolab - Fab Four Suture
Nelly Furtado - Loose

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The Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and A Curse

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I always forget something.


Even after everything I listed there (mainly for later archival purposes) I know I've forgotten something.

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Deadstring (does this count? Ithink Rads has this as an '05)
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Willie Nile (though this will be remedied this weekend)
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01 gomez - how we operate
02 the little ones - sing song
03 helios - eingya
04 darkthrone - the cult is alive
05 tool - 10,000 days
06 the radio dept - pet grief
07 alex smoke - paradolia
08 delays - you see colours
09 ellen allien and apparat - orchestra of bubbles
10 scsi-9 - the line of nine

releases from the following just outside the Top 10:

jeniferever
band of horses
the strokes
mogwai
tunng
the sword
marc romboy
kettel
the album leaf
nathan fake
burial
arctic monkeys
rotten sound


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Sen. Songbot 9620 LooGAR Wrote:
Deadstring (does this count? Ithink Rads has this as an '05)


I'm using it because I was looking at a list of CDN releases and it was new this spring. Mind you, so was the Babyshambles, so I could throw that in again, theoretically.

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shit, i forgot the Built to Spill album. been LOVING that the past few weeks.


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3. Sunset Rubdown-Shut Up I Am Dreaming
could you speak on this one a bit more? I like what i've heard, but what i've heard isn't much.


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Bruuuuuuuuce!


I keep forgetting about this. I really need to listen to it more.


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3. Sunset Rubdown-Shut Up I Am Dreaming
could you speak on this one a bit more? I like what i've heard, but what i've heard isn't much.


just more quirky indie pop, fronted by spencer from wolf parade.

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3. Sunset Rubdown-Shut Up I Am Dreaming
could you speak on this one a bit more? I like what i've heard, but what i've heard isn't much.


it's the singer from Wolf Parade, no?

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This guy has crack Wrote:
Death To Shoegaze666 Wrote:
3. Sunset Rubdown-Shut Up I Am Dreaming
could you speak on this one a bit more? I like what i've heard, but what i've heard isn't much.


just more quirky indie pop, fronted by spencer from wolf parade.
no shit? I THOUGHT that the similarity there was striking.


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top 10

01 "the life pursuit" belle & sebastian
02 the minus 5
03 "rabbit fur coat" jenny lewis with the watson twins
04 "fox confessor brings the flood" neko case
05 "idols of exile" jason collett
06 "kick" white rose movement
07 "subtitulo" josh rouse
08 "born again in the usa" loose fur
09 "fishscale" ghostface killah
10 "garden ruin" calexico

then 11-20

11 "return to sea" the islands
12 "amber" clearlake
13 "elan vital" pretty girls make graves
14 "war of the wakening phantoms" the high dials
15 "the loon" tapes 'n tapes
16 "cannibal sea" the essex green
17 "under the iron sea" keane
18 "ringleader of the tormentors" morrissey
19 "black holes and revelations" muse
20 "pick a bigger weapon" the coup

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3. Sunset Rubdown-Shut Up I Am Dreaming
could you speak on this one a bit more? I like what i've heard, but what i've heard isn't much.


just more quirky indie pop, fronted by spencer from wolf parade.
no shit? I THOUGHT that the similarity there was striking.


it's a wolf parade / frog eyes collab

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paladisiac Wrote:
This guy has crack Wrote:
Death To Shoegaze666 Wrote:
This guy has crack Wrote:
Death To Shoegaze666 Wrote:
3. Sunset Rubdown-Shut Up I Am Dreaming
could you speak on this one a bit more? I like what i've heard, but what i've heard isn't much.


just more quirky indie pop, fronted by spencer from wolf parade.
no shit? I THOUGHT that the similarity there was striking.


it's a wolf parade / frog eyes collab
BUT IS IT AVAILABLE ON EMUSIC?!?!?


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1. Neko Case - Fox Confessor...
2. Margot and the Nuclear So & Sos - The Dust of Retreat
3. The Stills - Without Feathers
4. Danielson - Ships
5. Th' Legendary Shack Shakers - Pandelerium
6. Built To Spill - You In Reverse
7. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
8. The Ranconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
9. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
10. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country (moving up fast!)

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1 Television Personalities - My Dark Places
2 Jakob Olausson – Moonlight Farm
3 Mouthus - The Long Salt
4 Alex Fergusson - Castle
5 Catfish Haven – Please Come Back
6 Bedsit Poets – The Summer That Changed
7 Woods – How To Survive In The Woods
8 The Legendary Pink Dots – Your Children…
9 Dwight Trible – Living Water
10 Faun Fables - The Transit Rider


Just Outside Comets On Fire, TODD, Park Attack, Country Teasers, Venetain Snares, Kettel, Karl Blau, Scott Walker, SEnor Coconut, Bitter springs.


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This guy has crack Wrote:
paladisiac Wrote:
This guy has crack Wrote:
Death To Shoegaze666 Wrote:
This guy has crack Wrote:
Death To Shoegaze666 Wrote:
3. Sunset Rubdown-Shut Up I Am Dreaming
could you speak on this one a bit more? I like what i've heard, but what i've heard isn't much.


just more quirky indie pop, fronted by spencer from wolf parade.
no shit? I THOUGHT that the similarity there was striking.


it's a wolf parade / frog eyes collab
BUT IS IT AVAILABLE ON EMUSIC?!?!?


yes

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