Favorite Songs of 2006

oh, yeah, why i was in this thread in the first place….late addition to my favourites of the year…

Magic Numbers - "Take A Chance" i think i listen to it 5 times a day now….its a crying shame…

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:

Originally posted by vansmack:
I'm going to add "Lazy Eye" - Silversun Pickups.

I didn't get this album until a few days ago. Big mistake - I've been missing out!

I just got it today … and WOW, these guys are really good … i haven't heard such a solid fusion of a "modern rock" sound with "indie rock" in a long time … i could see them making it big, they have an interesting but accessible sound and can really write hooks and songs

all the smashing pumpkins comparisons i've seen are right on point … maybe the sound isn't exactly the same, but they're doing the same thing the pumpkins did in the early 90s: take ideas and sonics from indie rock and make them accessible with arena type songs

ok, enough gushing

and have you noticed that even their names are eerily similar? :)

i bet $100 that if you played Carnavas for someone who didnt know the Pickups, you could sell it as that comeback album Corgan has been talking about.

they would believe you and they would love it.

its cool that finally the kids of the 90s have bands recreating the sounds of the bands they grew up on (i am a bit young to remember Joy Division, the Clash and Sabbath)

there really wasnt a better album in the 90s than Siamese Dream was there?

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:

Originally posted by vansmack:
I'm going to add "Lazy Eye" - Silversun Pickups.

I didn't get this album until a few days ago. Big mistake - I've been missing out!

I just got it today … and WOW, these guys are really good … i haven't heard such a solid fusion of a "modern rock" sound with "indie rock" in a long time … i could see them making it big, they have an interesting but accessible sound and can really write hooks and songs

all the smashing pumpkins comparisons i've seen are right on point … maybe the sound isn't exactly the same, but they're doing the same thing the pumpkins did in the early 90s: take ideas and sonics from indie rock and make them accessible with arena type songs

ok, enough gushing

Y'know, normally I go very easily for this kind of music, but thus far, it hasn't done anything for me at all. I've listened to it while biking, playing online poker, while working, and it just isn't sinking in. Maybe it'll be one of those that just doesn't happen, doesn't happen, doesn't happen, and then all of a sudden, there it is, like acid.

Originally posted by le sonick:
i was totally pissed when i missed their first appearance in August as i was in chicago, then was out of town for the 2nd one. argh. i WONT go see them at DAR…hopefully a coachella appearance looms.

luckily for you, the Pickups won't be playing DAR (insert yet another rant from me about DAR sounding just fine if you have decent seats). the show with OK Go and Snow Patrol is at Bender Arena (AU University). reviews/comments about sound there is mixed, and it's general admission. still skipping?

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Originally posted by le sonick:
i was totally pissed when i missed their first appearance in August as i was in chicago, then was out of town for the 2nd one. argh. i WONT go see them at DAR…hopefully a coachella appearance looms.

luckily for you, the Pickups won't be playing DAR (insert yet another rant from me about DAR sounding just fine if you have decent seats). the show with OK Go and Snow Patrol is at Bender Arena (AU University). reviews/comments about sound there is mixed, and it's general admission. still skipping?

actually, the reason i am skipping is because i think Snow Patrol and OKGO are shitty shit shitty.

and i am not paying that kinda cash to see the Pickups play 6 songs.

Silversun Pickups recently played a show in Philly with Dead Meadow and Wolfmother. Too bad we didn't get that triple-bill.

Originally posted by Relaxer:
Y'know, normally I go very easily for this kind of music, but thus far, it hasn't done anything for me at all. I've listened to it while biking, playing online poker, while working, and it just isn't sinking in. Maybe it'll be one of those that just doesn't happen, doesn't happen, doesn't happen, and then all of a sudden, there it is, like acid.

hey, it happens … what i was really trying to say is that i was really impressed by it on an objective level, that they did a great job with the sound and could go really far … in addition to that, i really personally liked the album as well, but probably not more than others good ones i've heard this year

it's kind of sad that i can get so excited about something on an objective level, if that makes any sense

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
it's kind of sad that i can get so excited about something on an objective level, if that makes any sense

I think that makes a lot of sense. I love the Sword and Priestess on an objective level because someone is making current, fun metal that piles on the riffs. Too many of the current metal bands sound like a screamy, speed metal version of Rush.

If you want to stick with it, I would recommend their EP - Pikul, released last year.

Originally posted by Relaxer:
Y'know, normally I go very easily for this kind of music, but thus far, it hasn't done anything for me at all. I've listened to it while biking, playing online poker, while working, and it just isn't sinking in. Maybe it'll be one of those that just doesn't happen, doesn't happen, doesn't happen, and then all of a sudden, there it is, like acid.

this is what ended up on my end of year CD

1. Margot & The Nuclear So & Soâ??s â??Quiet As A Mouseâ??, from the album â??The Dust of Retreatâ??
2. Belle & Sebastian, â??Funny Little Frogâ??, from the album â??The Life Pursuitâ??
3. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs â??Alone Again orâ??, from the album â??Under the Covers Vol. 1â??
4. Camera Obscura â??Lloyd, Iâ??m Ready To Be Heartbrokenâ??, from the album â??Letâ??s Get Out Of This Countryâ??
5. Lloyd Cole â??Woman in a Barâ??, from the album â??Anti Depressantâ??
6. Ben Kweller â??I Gotta Moveâ??, from the album â??Ben Kwellerâ??
7. The Automatic â??Raoulâ??, from the album â??Not Accepted Anywhereâ??
8. deadboy & the Elephantmen â??Stop, Iâ??m Already Deadâ??, from the album â??We Are Night Skyâ??
9. The Raconteurs â??Steady As She Goesâ??, from the album â??Broken Boy Soldiersâ??
10. Gomez â??Girlshapedlovedrugâ??, from the album â??How We Operateâ??
11. Howling Bells â??Setting Sunâ??, from the album â??Howling Bellsâ??
12. Neko Case â??Hold On, Hold Onâ??, from the album â??Fox Confessor Brings the Floodâ??
13. The Weepies â??Take It From Meâ??, from the album â??Say I am Youâ??
14. Jon Dee Graham â??Amsterdamâ??, from the album â??Fullâ??
15. The Blue Aeroplanes â??Love Come Roundâ??, from the album â??Swagger (2006)â??
16. +/- â??Steal the Blueprintsâ??, from the album â??Letâ??s Build a Fireâ??
17. The Weather Machines â??Modern Text on Loveâ??, from the album â??The Sound of Pseudoscienceâ??
18. Little Man Tate â??Saved By a Chat Showâ??, from the single â??Man I Hate Your Bandâ??
19. Destroyer â??Painter In Your Pocketâ??, from the album â??Destroyerâ??s Rubiesâ??
20. Islands â??Donâ??t Call Me Whitney, Bobbyâ??, from the album â??Return to the Seaâ??
21. Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan â??Deus Ibi Estâ??, from the album â??Ballad of the Broken Seasâ??
22. The Essex Green â??Rabbitâ??, from the album â??Cannibal Seaâ??
23. The Burning Leaves â??Murder Listâ??, from the demo â??3 Songsâ??

Originally posted by le sonick:

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Originally posted by le sonick:
i was totally pissed when i missed their first appearance in August as i was in chicago, then was out of town for the 2nd one. argh. i WONT go see them at DAR…hopefully a coachella appearance looms.

luckily for you, the Pickups won't be playing DAR (insert yet another rant from me about DAR sounding just fine if you have decent seats). the show with OK Go and Snow Patrol is at Bender Arena (AU University). reviews/comments about sound there is mixed, and it's general admission. still skipping?

actually, the reason i am skipping is because i think Snow Patrol and OKGO are shitty shit shitty.

and i am not paying that kinda cash to see the Pickups play 6 songs.

It's only $35 - I had thought it was a lot more expensive, but then it wasn't, so I bought a ticket yesterday. I'm mostly going for SSPU, because I just saw OK Go and Snow Patrol seem pretty boring live. So they better play more than six songs :p

Originally posted by you be betty:
It's only $35

says the high school student! :)

Wow, you have great taste!!@@!!

Originally posted by le sonick:


plus, i already saw the Goo Goo Dolls two weeks ago in Baltimore. :)

Originally posted by Joe M.:
Wow, you have great taste!!@@!!

Originally posted by le sonick:


plus, i already saw the Goo Goo Dolls two weeks ago in Baltimore. :)

it was a joke. it was a close call though, my fiancee loves them….fortunately for me she has class tuesday nights and i got out of the Goo show.

thanks for thinking i liked the goo goo dolls though. lol.

Originally posted by le sonick:
there really wasnt a better album in the 90s than Siamese Dream was there?

No there wasn't.

But I maintain that if Melancholy…. had been a single disc instead of that inflated Billy Corgan double disc ego trip, the right 12 songs on one disc could have been the seminal album of the 90's.

they deserved a bloated double album though … too many ideas flying around on that record to shoehorn into one disc … if it was 1 disc it would sound way too scatter-brained, at least they had a chance to spread out on 2 discs

i haven't listened to that album in 7 years or so, hmmmm….

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:

i haven't listened to that album in 7 years or so, hmmmm….

it has not aged well. at all.

Originally posted by le sonick:
i bet $100 that if you played Carnavas for someone who didnt know the Pickups, you could sell it as that comeback album Corgan has been talking about.

they would believe you and they would love it.

Except the dude from Silversun Pickups doesn't have Corgan's grating whiny yelp.

Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:
i haven't listened to that album in 7 years or so, hmmmm….

Venerable and I were enjoying a pint or two at the local watering hole in our neighborhood a couple weeks ago and the bartender played the whole album through on his iPod until I become frustrated with the album and we played Xmas music on the jukebox instead. It only reiterated the claims I made earlier.

Perhaps tonight I will make a Melancholy… playlist that I think would have made for a brilliant album.

Sonic Youth - Reena
Lemonheads - Steve's Boy
Soft Drugs - Defending The Paint
+/- - One Day You'll Be There
Twilight Singers - Bonnie Brae
David Bazan - Fewer Broken Pieces
Editors - Lights
Ben Kweller - Magic
Mates of State - Think Long
Channels - Win Instantly