A bad case of laryngitis forced Abraham Lincoln to lip-sync the Gettysburg Address. The speech was actually delivered by an aide hidden beneath the stage.
End of Year Lists - 2006
Originally posted by you be betty:I know exactly what you mean. I haven't really listened to the radio in years, but for different reasons I've been exposed to it more than usual recently. I love the new Snow Patrol and like that song, but I am getting extremely sick of hearing it. Songs getting played to death is one of the reasons I mostly gave up on radio, and hearing "Chasing Cars" (a song I like) played so many times I'm beginning to almost dislike it is a good reminder of that.
I don't understand the obsession with Chasing fucking Cars. It's far from the best song on that album, even. Jesus H.
I'll probably include a Snow Patrol song on my 2006 songs list, but it most definitely won't be that one.
I like a lot of the albums on these lists, but probably at least half of the ones in my top ten are nowhere to be found on them. Interesting. Kudos to King for putting Josh Ritter at #1, though, that was unexpected.
Serious question: How many 2006 releases has everyone listened to? I would estimate I've listened to about 30 so far this year and I'd like to absorb The Knife and Ornette Coleman before before 12/31.
Originally posted by renton007:75-100.
Serious question: How many 2006 releases has everyone listened to? I would estimate I've listened to about 30 so far this year and I'd like to absorb The Knife and Ornette Coleman before before 12/31.
However, I have only heard six of NME's top 20.
There was a lot of music released this year.
Originally posted by renton007:more than I have ever listened to before….I'd say about 60-80 at least….I sometimes wonder if this is a factor in my thinking its a 'down' year musically, if I'm giving albums less time to sink in….
Serious question: How many 2006 releases has everyone listened to? I would estimate I've listened to about 30 so far this year and I'd like to absorb The Knife and Ornette Coleman before before 12/31.
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:I own 24 of the NME top 50, and have heard something from almost all of them, but I'm one of the few who likes NME and uses it as one source for learning about new bands. I find the Amazon and NPR lists mostly boring.
Originally posted by renton007:75-100.
Serious question: How many 2006 releases has everyone listened to? I would estimate I've listened to about 30 so far this year and I'd like to absorb The Knife and Ornette Coleman before before 12/31.
However, I have only heard six of NME's top 20.
There was a lot of music released this year.
I listened to a lot of new stuff this year, and bought close to a hundred new-release discs. Not sure why, just did. In past years, I tried to stay current on new stuff while also indulging my obsessions with older music from Bowie, Maiden, Roxy, Steely Dan, etc. This year, I didn't really have a nostalgia act, so I was mostly on the new stuff.
Yeah, I guess I'm below par in the amount of 06 releases I've heard.
I too was disappointed in the NPR list. However, it's the listener's list. I think they do their own list culled from the staff pics so there's that to look forward to.
Sometimes it becomes a chore for me to plow through releases looking for something inspirational. More work than fun let's say, and music should always be fun.
Nothing hit me this year like Howl for example did last year. I'm the target audience for The Hold Steady release but it hasn't moved me yet.
I too was disappointed in the NPR list. However, it's the listener's list. I think they do their own list culled from the staff pics so there's that to look forward to.
Sometimes it becomes a chore for me to plow through releases looking for something inspirational. More work than fun let's say, and music should always be fun.
Nothing hit me this year like Howl for example did last year. I'm the target audience for The Hold Steady release but it hasn't moved me yet.
Originally posted by renton007:You are not alone...
Nothing hit me this year like Howl for example did last year. I'm the target audience for The Hold Steady release but it hasn't moved me yet.
I REALLY REALLY dig the Walkmen's album. I think its their most complete to date. Surprised it didnt get more pub….
I need to figure out how many new CDs that have been listened to this year… Kinda like Brennser, using eMusic and lala is a bit like drinking from the firehose, and it's hard to keep track of the total.
The thing is unlike last year when the Sugarplastic CD was the clearly the best thing I heard all year, 2006 has yet to produce a CD that completely did my head in start to finish. Middle Distance Runner, Mew, Alice Smith and a couple others came close. The Girl Talk album maybe the closest to "wow is truly amazing" but due to the fact it's more a feat of great sampling puts in a different category.
This year produced a number of really great singles from Camera Obscurs, Gnarls Barkley, Voxtrot and Van Hunt.
The thing is unlike last year when the Sugarplastic CD was the clearly the best thing I heard all year, 2006 has yet to produce a CD that completely did my head in start to finish. Middle Distance Runner, Mew, Alice Smith and a couple others came close. The Girl Talk album maybe the closest to "wow is truly amazing" but due to the fact it's more a feat of great sampling puts in a different category.
This year produced a number of really great singles from Camera Obscurs, Gnarls Barkley, Voxtrot and Van Hunt.
Originally posted by renton007:about 70, but a lot of those are just first listens
Serious question: How many 2006 releases has everyone listened to? I would estimate I've listened to about 30 so far this year and I'd like to absorb The Knife and Ornette Coleman before before 12/31.
Originally posted by brennser:yeah, i have a similar feeling … but i keep reading about new albums that i want to hear, and it kind of snowballs from there … i've been going through rolling stone's 500 greatest albums list, and pitchfork's 100 greatest of the 70s 80s and 90s this year, so i think that's contributed to not really letting the new stuff sink in that much
more than I have ever listened to before….I'd say about 60-80 at least….I sometimes wonder if this is a factor in my thinking its a 'down' year musically, if I'm giving albums less time to sink in….
Originally posted by Steny Hoyer, Pubic Destroyer:this is on emusic, if anyone's interested
1. The Animal Years, Josh Ritter
The best album of the year in a walk, and maybe the best album I've heard in the last five. Mysterious, melancholy, melodic…and those are only the M's. Songs like ''Girl in the War'' simply do not leave the consciousness once they're heard, but the album's real gem is the strange and gorgeous ''Thin Blue Flame.'' This is the most exuberant outburst of imagery since Bob Dylan's ''A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,'' in 1963. The Animal Years is an amazing accomplishment.
I dig Arctic Monkeys and all, but they're hardly the rock revolution everyone's crossing their fingers for. It sounds too much like the Hives, who sounded too much like the Stooges. Not a bad album, just ok.
Pete Yorn, Butch Walker, Regina Spektor, the Dresden Dolls, Billy Talent and the Rapture released some bitchin' albums.
Pete Yorn, Butch Walker, Regina Spektor, the Dresden Dolls, Billy Talent and the Rapture released some bitchin' albums.
Originally posted by Coke-addled moron:this album is almost unspeakably bad
5. Zoysia, The Bottle Rockets
The Bottle Rockets are often categorized as alt-country â?? by people who need categories â?? but what they really are is America's premier bar band. Zoysia (I don't know what it means either) is their best album ever â?? tuneful, soulful, and best of all, loud. Primo cuts: ''Better Than Broken,'' ''Feeling Down.''
Sasha "Stephin Merritt is a Rockist Cracker" Frere Jones's top 29 Albums of 2006
ALBUMS
1. Scritti Politti â??White Bread, Black Beerâ? (Nonesuch)
2. Ghostface Killah â??Fishscaleâ? (Def Jam)
3. Joanna Newsom â??Ysâ? (Drag City)
4. Clipse â??Hell Hath No Furyâ? (Re-Up/Zomba)
5. Arctic Monkeys â??Whatever People Say I Am, Thatâ??s What Iâ??m Notâ? (Domino)
6. T.I. â??Kingâ? (Atlantic)
7. Deftones â??Saturday Night Wristâ? (Warner Bros.)
8. DJ Drama & Lil Wayne â??Dedication 2â? (Gangsta Grillz)
9. Grizzly Bear â??Yellow Houseâ? (Warp)
10. Shrift â??Lost In A Momentâ? (Six Degrees)
11. The Laâ??s â??BBC In Sessionâ? (Universal Polydor)
12. Allison Moorer â??Getting Somewhereâ? (Sugar Hill)
13. Beyoncé â??Bâ??Dayâ? (Sony Urban Music/Columbia)
14. Brazilian Girls â??Talk To La Bombâ? (Verve/Forecast)
15. E-40 â??My Ghetto Report Cardâ? (Reprise)
16. Earl Greyhound â??Soft Targetsâ? (Some)
17. Cat Power â??The Greatestâ? (Matador)
18. Trentemøller â??The Last Resortâ? (Poker Flat)
19. The Duke Spirit â??Cuts Across The Landâ? (Star Time)
20. Jennifer Oâ??Connor â??Over The Mountain, Across The Valley And Back To The Starsâ? (Matador)
21. Love Is All â??Nine Times That Same Songâ? (Whatâ??s Your Rupture?)
22. Justin Timberlake â??FutureSex/LoveSoundsâ? (Jive)
23. Sibylle Baier â??Colour Greenâ? (Orange Twin)
24. Frida Hyvönen â??Until Death Comesâ? (Licking Fingers/Secretly Canadian)
25. Malajube â??Trompe-L'Oeilâ? (Dare to Care)
26. Goldfrapp â??Supernatureâ? (Mute)
27. The Mountain Goats â??Get Lonelyâ? (4AD)
28. Growing â??Color Wheelâ? (Troubleman Unlimited)
29. The Concretes â??In Colourâ? (Astralwerks)
http://www.sashafrerejones.com/2005/12/best_of_2006.html
ALBUMS
1. Scritti Politti â??White Bread, Black Beerâ? (Nonesuch)
2. Ghostface Killah â??Fishscaleâ? (Def Jam)
3. Joanna Newsom â??Ysâ? (Drag City)
4. Clipse â??Hell Hath No Furyâ? (Re-Up/Zomba)
5. Arctic Monkeys â??Whatever People Say I Am, Thatâ??s What Iâ??m Notâ? (Domino)
6. T.I. â??Kingâ? (Atlantic)
7. Deftones â??Saturday Night Wristâ? (Warner Bros.)
8. DJ Drama & Lil Wayne â??Dedication 2â? (Gangsta Grillz)
9. Grizzly Bear â??Yellow Houseâ? (Warp)
10. Shrift â??Lost In A Momentâ? (Six Degrees)
11. The Laâ??s â??BBC In Sessionâ? (Universal Polydor)
12. Allison Moorer â??Getting Somewhereâ? (Sugar Hill)
13. Beyoncé â??Bâ??Dayâ? (Sony Urban Music/Columbia)
14. Brazilian Girls â??Talk To La Bombâ? (Verve/Forecast)
15. E-40 â??My Ghetto Report Cardâ? (Reprise)
16. Earl Greyhound â??Soft Targetsâ? (Some)
17. Cat Power â??The Greatestâ? (Matador)
18. Trentemøller â??The Last Resortâ? (Poker Flat)
19. The Duke Spirit â??Cuts Across The Landâ? (Star Time)
20. Jennifer Oâ??Connor â??Over The Mountain, Across The Valley And Back To The Starsâ? (Matador)
21. Love Is All â??Nine Times That Same Songâ? (Whatâ??s Your Rupture?)
22. Justin Timberlake â??FutureSex/LoveSoundsâ? (Jive)
23. Sibylle Baier â??Colour Greenâ? (Orange Twin)
24. Frida Hyvönen â??Until Death Comesâ? (Licking Fingers/Secretly Canadian)
25. Malajube â??Trompe-L'Oeilâ? (Dare to Care)
26. Goldfrapp â??Supernatureâ? (Mute)
27. The Mountain Goats â??Get Lonelyâ? (4AD)
28. Growing â??Color Wheelâ? (Troubleman Unlimited)
29. The Concretes â??In Colourâ? (Astralwerks)
http://www.sashafrerejones.com/2005/12/best_of_2006.html
Originally posted by vansmack:actually, i saw that months ago. think the modest mouse record was supposed to be out this year at some point
Originally posted by HoyaSaxa08:I agree - my statement was half tongue in cheek. Of course I would have included it in the "place these three anywhere category" but teir three is acceptable.
i think it's supposed to be mocking someone who would throw a 2007 album in to establish cred :roll:
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Allmusic's 25 Most crushworthy bands
lots o'links to myspaces pages and a couple bands that are worth checking out!
Atari
The Bicycles
Aloe Blacc
Blood Red Shoes
Fake Problems
Firefox AK
Georgie James
Get Set Go
The Golden Dogs
Joan as Police Woman
Land of Talk
Les Breastfeeders
The Loved Ones
The Matinee Orchestra
Moneybrother
Montt Mardie
Oh No
Ponies in the Surf
Prototypes
Sambassadeur
Takka Takka
Those Transatlantics
Tigarah
White Shoes & the Couples Company
William Elliott Whitmore
lots o'links to myspaces pages and a couple bands that are worth checking out!
Atari
The Bicycles
Aloe Blacc
Blood Red Shoes
Fake Problems
Firefox AK
Georgie James
Get Set Go
The Golden Dogs
Joan as Police Woman
Land of Talk
Les Breastfeeders
The Loved Ones
The Matinee Orchestra
Moneybrother
Montt Mardie
Oh No
Ponies in the Surf
Prototypes
Sambassadeur
Takka Takka
Those Transatlantics
Tigarah
White Shoes & the Couples Company
William Elliott Whitmore
I downloaded a few Sambassadeur tracks, from emusic I think. Poppy fun tunes.
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Allmusic's 25 Most crushworthy bands
lots o'links to myspaces pages and a couple bands that are worth checking out!
Sambassadeur
Originally posted by Tom Servo:If you like Sambassadeur than you should check out my friends, Hearts Of Black Science. One of the guys from Sambassadeur is in HoBS. Personally, I think HoBS is much, much better.
I downloaded a few Sambassadeur tracks, from emusic I think. Poppy fun tunes.
Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
Allmusic's 25 Most crushworthy bands
lots o'links to myspaces pages and a couple bands that are worth checking out!
Sambassadeur
In fact, they just left today (from Gothenburg) to go to London to mix their first full length album on a label I helped set them up with.