Favorite Disc of 2006

[Real M.C.]

So, I'm curious. . .

What do you think is THE best album released in 2006? No trick question here. . .just wondering what's stuck in your craw from the last year. There is no "right or wrong" here and all opinions, serious or real, are welcome. I will say, though, I will feature the results, actual or bullshit, in my last column of the year.

Oh and just to clarify. . .yes, Robbo, your opinions are welcome here. Regardless or our musical differences, I do respect your musical opinions. . .**M.C. releases many white doves as a sign of peace and in the spirit of the holidays**:D

[phit_demon]

So, I'm curious. . .

What do you think is THE best album released in 2006? No trick question here. . .just wondering what's stuck in your craw from the last year. There is no "right or wrong" here and all opinions, serious or real, are welcome. I will say, though, I will feature the results, actual or bullshit, in my last column of the year.

Oh and just to clarify. . .yes, Robbo, your opinions are welcome here. Regardless or our musical differences, I do respect your musical opinions. . .**M.C. releases many white doves as a sign of peace and in the spirit of the holidays**:D
My fav album of '06 is a tie between The Upper Room's debut (and seemingly last) effort:

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10,000 Days:

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and Ladyfuzz - Kerfuffle:

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[acid_soda]

I'd say Tool - 10,000 days, since that's the only one I have from this year that I really like.

[BizarroPunisher]

I didn't really fall in love with any albums besides The Raconteurs' Broken Boy Soldiers. I still constantly listen to it. I've heard the new Maiden is good, but I've only listened to Different World. Besides those two, I do really like the new Tenacious D album (Pick of Destiny), but it's too short to recommend over the others (yes, Broken Boy Soldiers is short also, but it's constructed much better than PoD).

[Real M.C.]

Nice work all around, gentlemen. . .

Actually, Phit, I have not checked out Ladyfuzz yet. . .but it you say they are a contender, I'm in and will check them out shortly. Tool and the Racontuers are also excellent choices.

Very cool. Anyone else?:D

[phit_demon]

Actually, Phit, I have not checked out Ladyfuzz yet. . .but it you say they are a contender, I'm in and will check them out shortly.
You should dude, they rock. Enjoy!

[By-tor]

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I may be a little biased. ;)

[Robbo_the_Hood]

I've been sitting on this one for a while, but only because I had so many albums that I liked, but I wasn't in love with them. The easy answer would be for me to say the vinyl copy of the 40th Anniversary of Pet Sounds that I made such a big stink over, but I fully believe that the best album of the year has to be new or never before heard content (that's how I justify that Monk/Coltrane Carnegie Hall disc being the best album of 2005).

Let me sum up my year in review:

After making the best album of 2004, TV on the Radio followed up with their second full-length with Return to Cookie Mountain. While it is another great album, it hasn't grown on me as much as the first one.

The Velvet Teen fell into the same category, releasing Cum Laude this year after 2004's Elysium was just so good. 2006's offering may have finally seen the Velvet Teen go a little overboard. And again, I like what they do, but this album is just a little too much. There are a couple of times it seems like they are doing something on the record just to make it sound even bigger than the last one.

The band Mellowdrone upset me very early on this year. After hearing their ep Go Get 'em Tiger I swore by this band, and it even got on heavy rotation on ye old store's overhead when one of my co-workers heard it. We built a nice little buzz for the release of their first full-length Box in March, but it was released to iTunes first and I just had to check it out....and it blew...big floppy donkey dicks, blew. The first track was really cool, and built up the anticipation for the rest of the record. Steady driving beat, low humming guitars, but could have been a little longer. And it was clearly the best track on the album. Everything else was just let down after let down. While their song "Bone Marrow" is excellent, it's already on the aforementioned ep, and this isn't even a re-done version since the ep is long since out of print. It's presence on the album screams "Filler!"

Though I was more upset when Rhett Miller rerecorded the song "Question" and put it on his solo album this year. Again, possibly because it was the best song on a mediocre album that proves that while Miller is a good song writer, the band he fronts is symbiosis at his finest. They fail without each other.

The Gnarles Barkly album is fun and it's great and I love it, especially for sampling the bass-line from Stevie Wonder's "Part Time Lover" and making it so much better, yet not mentioning it in the liner notes. And if they don't admit it then they're dirty dirty liars.

But my favorite album of the year was a sleeper. In fact I hadn't noticed it crept into my personal heavy rotation until last week. The Duke Spirit's Cut Across the Land was good enough to just sneak under my radar and crank out a really solid record. Upon initial listening, influences from the Velvelts, Pixies and Patti Smith (the latter only because it's a female lead singer) are obvious, which seems to be what everyone claiming to be an "indie-rock band" is doing these days and why I probably dismissed it. But I kept listening, almost accidentally and I'm addicted to it. The album was originally released in the UK in 2004, but not released stateside until March of this year, so it still counts by my standards dammit. Liela Moss officially became one of my favorite front-women by the second track.

So, yeah that's where I stand. I could have written a lot more, but now that I no longer run a record store I feel old and that I've lost all my street-cred...and now I feel old for using the term "street-cred."

[Real M.C.]

The Gnarles Barkly album is fun and it's great and I love it, especially for sampling the bass-line from Stevie Wonder's "Part Time Lover" and making it so much better, yet not mentioning it in the liner notes. And if they don't admit it then they're dirty dirty liars.

Nice work. I really dug Gnarles a lot more than I thought I would and I agree, it is easily one of the best albums released this year.


But my favorite album of the year was a sleeper. In fact I hadn't noticed it crept into my personal heavy rotation until last week. The Duke Spirit's Cut Across the Land was good enough to just sneak under my radar and crank out a really solid record. Upon initial listening, influences from the Velvelts, Pixies and Patti Smith (the latter only because it's a female lead singer) are obvious, which seems to be what everyone claiming to be an "indie-rock band" is doing these days and why I probably dismissed it. But I kept listening, almost accidentally and I'm addicted to it. The album was originally released in the UK in 2004, but not released stateside until March of this year, so it still counts by my standards dammit. Liela Moss officially became one of my favorite front-women by the second track.


Not familiar with this one, but I will definitely check it out.:D

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Not familiar with this one, but I will definitely check it out.:D
Yeah, it was odd. Again, it's definitely a sleeper that I just kept listening to. May not have been the best album I've heard all year, but it's my favorite.

[By-tor]

Yeah, it was odd. Again, it's definitely a sleeper that I just kept listening to.
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WHAT?!!!!

[Captain Spaulding]

My favorite album of the year was...
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By far. I didn't really buy any other album this year

[ozchick]

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This was my favourite album this year - Eskimo Joe's Black Fingernails Red Wine. They're from Perth and they rock. I recommend you all check them out!

[BizarroPunisher]

Got the new Maiden on Saturday, and it's definitely my favorite CD of the year. All around excellent and clocks in at around 72 minutes. Interesting the entire time, and nearly impossible to put down.

[gummies]

I thought the new tool was watered down and not very inspired. Definitely a step down from Lateralus.

Mine...



Gnarls Barkley - Yeah this was good
Men, Woman, and Children - It was groovy fo sho
Deftones - Some good songs are here with great ideas. You can actually hear the Bob Ezrin influence on some of the changes in the songs.
John Legend - Great album... would like the next one to be a bit more organic tho.
Beck - The Information - I thought it was good
Peeping Tom
The Decemberists - Not sure how I left this one off.

[Omaru]

maybe its because I don't like snow patrol and those other werid bands that I turned to Lily Allen, she's kind of like the streets meets gwen stefani (and I mean the awful b-a-n-a-n-a-s degree of stefani)

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[phit_demon]

maybe its because I don't like snow patrol and those other werid bands that I turned to Lily Allen, she's kind of like the streets meets gwen stefani (and I mean the awful b-a-n-a-n-a-s degree of stefani)

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000FMGWRS.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
Awww, dude, say it ain't so! She's like a rash and a migraine all in one. :eek:

[Real M.C.]

I thought the new tool was watered down and not very inspired. Definitely a step down from Lateralus.

Mine...



Gnarls Barkley - Yeah this was good
Men, Woman, and Children - It was groovy fo sho
Deftones - Some good songs are here with great ideas. You can actually hear the Bob Ezrin influence on some of the changes in the songs.
John Legend - Great album... would like the next one to be a bit more organic tho.
Beck - The Information - I thought it was good
Peeping Tom
The Decemberists - Not sure how I left this one off.


Ewww. . .nice call on the Decemberists and I agree whole-heartedly. Definitely one of the top albums of the year. :D

[Omaru]

Awww, dude, say it ain't so! She's like a rash and a migraine all in one. :eek:

I like one or two songs from the album which hardly warrants its for best album of the year, I guess my real answer would be "The Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance.

[BAMSS04]

http://usera.imagecave.com/amentia/albumnow/Tool-10000Days.jpg

It's been said before, and it shall be said again....Nothing else came close.


Other good albums,

Light Grenades by Incubus

Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Godsmack IV

[Captain Spaulding]

http://usera.imagecave.com/amentia/albumnow/Tool-10000Days.jpg

It's been said before, and it shall be said again....Nothing else came close.


Other good albums,

Light Grenades by Incubus

Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Godsmack IV

Godsmack IV was pretty good. I just got Killswitch Engage's new cd, As Daylight Dies. It kicks some serious ass, but still not as good as TOOL.

[freetoaster]

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[acid_soda]

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[ThunderFunk]

Rage Against The Machine: Live At The Grand Olimpic Auditorium. Not from '06 but the best disc of '06. Not sure how that works out. The DVD is fuckin amazing too.

My favorite disc of '06 would be chili peppers stadium arcadium, hopefully its not their last :(

[freetoaster]

My favorite disc of '06 would be chili peppers stadium arcadium, hopefully its not their last :(
http://www.eviltwin.velvetsofa.com/Curtis/graphics/Festus.gif

Festus said, "Life is like a box of herpes."

[phit_demon]

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ZING!! :D

[freetoaster]

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Here's that trojan herpes horse you ordered.

[gummies]

http://usera.imagecave.com/amentia/albumnow/Tool-10000Days.jpg

It's been said before, and it shall be said again....Nothing else came close.


Other good albums,

Light Grenades by Incubus

Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers

Godsmack IV

Dude... there is WAY better music than the stuff your fed through the radio.

[phit_demon]

Dude... there is WAY better music than the stuff your fed through the radio.
Agreed, but Tool and The 'Chilis are sweet, and if you say any different I'll have to pee on you a little. :p

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Agreed, but Tool and The 'Chilis are sweet, and if you say any different I'll have to pee on you a little. :p
Not that I'm into golden showers, I'm just saying that I've already documented my feelings towards the contrary about the Chili Pepper's album.

[phit_demon]

Not that I'm into golden showers, I'm just saying that I've already documented my feelings towards the contrary about the Chili Pepper's album.
Quiet, you!

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[JK]

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I know it ain't a CD, but it still goes round.
Beautiful film.

[gummies]

Agreed, but Tool and The 'Chilis are sweet, and if you say any different I'll have to pee on you a little. :p

Eeek! Don't look at my post on the first page where my list is located! :eek:

AT LEAST let me go get my rain poncho....lol.

The 'Chili's album I can't say anything about b/c I heard 2 songs total of it all year.

[phit_demon]

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Mann (;)), that's gorgeous!
I have been reluctant to buy the regular dvd due to the lack of extras,
which was a huge disappointment considering how good the Collateral dvd was.
Special edition beckons perhaps?

EDIT: Strike that, I just checked on Amazon, and you region 1 feicers got a buttload of extras, whereas we get jipped...AGAIN! *sigh*
I should probably just buy it online...

[soldierz_1]

R&B soul - Robin Thicke
Hip Hop/ Rap - Nas- Hip Hop is Dead
WORST- Pharrell Williams - In my mind

[BizarroPunisher]

R&B soul - Robin Thicke
Hip Hop/ Rap - Nas- Hip Hop is Dead
WORST- Pharrell Williams - In my mind
http://www.nndb.com/people/783/000024711/alan-thicke-1-sized.jpg:confused:

[Benjininja]

Dog Fashion Disco (http://www.myspace.com/dogfashiondisco)'s Adultery

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Thier final album too.

[boobookittyfuk2007]

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Isn't that Alan Thicke??? Now you got me confuse Bizzaro Thanks.;)

[s!l3nt-b()b]

either AMOLAD by Iron Maiden, 10,000 Days by Tool, or Christ Illusion by Slayer

[b2th3myth]

my fav discs of 06 are
TI- King
The Game- Doctors advocate
Lupe Fiasco- Food and Liquor

i listen to rap i am not a typical view askew fan. most my friends have never seen any of kevin's movies i have got some of them into them finally dogma usually does it on the first try then they borrow clerks and go in order

[BizarroPunisher]

my fav discs of 06 are
TI- King
The Game- Doctors advocate
Lupe Fiasco- Food and Liquor

i listen to rap i am not a typical view askew fan. most my friends have never seen any of kevin's movies i have got some of them into them finally dogma usually does it on the first try then they borrow clerks and go in order
Grammar is not your enemy! Why must you attack it?!

[ratm1966]

Grammar is not your enemy! Why must you attack it?!

Fuckin' funny!!