Around the half-way point of 2006 now: your favorite 2006 CDs?

[mvd]

I'm going with the Dixie Chicks' Taking The Long Way as my favorite. The others aren't in order. For purposes of this topic, restrict your choices to those CDs released in 2006 only. My next survey will not come until the year is over.

My 2006 list so far (will be trimmed to 20 later: )

Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
The Wreckers - Stand Still, Look Pretty
Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Pearl Jam - self-titled
Margot & Nuclear So & So's - Dust of Retreat
Josh Ritter - Animal Years
Neil Young - Living With War
Cat Power - The Greatest
Damone - Out Here All Night
Pink - I'm Not Dead
Gomez - How We Operate
Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
Julie Roberts - Men & Mascara
The Corrs - Home
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Susan Cagle - The Subway Recordings
Cheyenne Kimball - The Day Has Come
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Guster - Ganging Up on the Sun
Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
Holly Brook - Like Blood Like Honey
Allison Moorer - Getting Somewhere
Paul Simon - Surprise
Rainer Maria - Catastrophe Brings Us Together
Dirtie Blonde - self-titled

Here's my 2005 list, just for comparison (I put the Veronicas on this list instead) :

New Pornographers - Twin Cinema
Hope 7 - self-titled
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Veronicas - Secret Life of
Stacie Rose - Shadow And Splendor
The Like - Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?
The Faders - Plug In & Play
Miranda Lambert - Kerosene
Lee Ann Womack - There's More Where That Came From
Wussy - Funeral Dress
Anna Nalick - Wreck Of The Day
Cindy Alexander - Angels & Demons
The Pierces - Light Of The Moon
Liz Phair - Somebody's Miracle
White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Brandi Carlile - self-titled
Garbage - Bleed Like Me
Amy Rigby - Little Fugitive
Decemberists - Picaresque
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire

Tied with Miranda Lambert would be Eisley and a few others, but I wanted a couple country representatives,

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Hmmmm, let me see here...

Thursday - "A City By The Light Divided"
Boysetsfire - "The Misery Index: Notes From the Plague Years"
Arctic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
Head Automatica - "Popaganda"
Matchbook Romance - "Voices"
The Coup - "Pick A Bigger Weapon"
Moneen - "The Red Tree"
Mission of Burma - "The Obliterati"
Killing Joke - "Hosannas From the Basement of Hell"
Muse - "Black Holes and Revelations"
Billy Talent - "II"
Pretty Girls Make Graves - "Elan Vital"
Rise Against - "The Sufferer and the Witness"
The New Amsterdams - "Storry Like A Scar"
Pistolita - "Oliver Under the Moon"

Probably some more, I dunno.

[mvd]

2. I'm interested in that Mission Of Burma. I think it's..

hard rock that I'd enjoy.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Mission of Burma are amazing.

I highly recommend both that new album and their older stuff. "Signals, Calls and Marches" is one of the best post-punk releases ever, in my opinion.

[mvd]

4. Thanks for the recommendation!

:hi:

[asthmaticeog]

5. .

Parts and Labor - "Stay Afraid"

Misson of Burma - "The Obliterati"

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Show Your Bones"

TV on the Radio - "Return to Cookie Mountain"

Johnny Cash - "American V"

Ben Vaughn - "Designs in Music"

Television Personalities - "My Dark Places"

Sonic Youth - "Rather Ripped"

Paik - "Monster of the Absolute"

The New Lou Reeds - "Top Billin'"

Liars - "Drum's Not Dead"

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass - "Whipped Cream and Other Delights Rewhipped"

Aloha - "Some Echoes"

[ghostsofgiants]

16. Ooh, "Show Your Bones" is definitely one I forgot.

[Madrone]

21. Rewhipped ....

Is that good? I was going to buy it on Amazon but so many of the reviews were ripping on it saying it was THE SUCK compared to the original. I didn't buy it because of that. I see they now have 2 versions - Rewhipped and the 40th Anniv. Edition.

Which one would you guys go with?



http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EDWM5E/sr=8-1/qid=1152508037/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-3474766-3553612?ie=UTF8

or

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007MRXUQ/sr=8-2/qid=1152508037/ref=pd_bbs_2/002-3474766-3553612?ie=UTF8

[asthmaticeog]

25. I enjoyed it. Your mileage may vary.

Though I imagine if that many people thought it was a suck album, you could probably find a used copy pretty easily and save yoursself a few bucks. I looked at some of the reviews, and some of the negatives seemed to be trashing hip-hop in general rather than this record in particular. If you're not into the hip-hop remix thing, yeah, definitely avoid.

The 40th anniversary thing is a re-master, which means it's basically the old album sonically cleaned up with the equipment that's available today. On the Re-Whipped album, Alpert and some other producers made some pretty radical changes to the songs themselves.

[WCGreen]

6. Meet the Beatles......

[Roland99]

7. Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs #1 w/a bullet

Followed by Plans by Death Cab for Cutie


That Belle and Sebastian CD got a bit tiring after a couple of listens.

[mvd]

8. The B&S never gets tiring to me

Though I agree that the Raconteurs' CD is very good. I left off a couple so that my list doesn't get too long before pruning.

[ghostsofgiants]

17. "Plans" came out in August of 2005

Good album though.

[Roland99]

19. Well, I got it this year ;-)

[GirlinContempt]

9. Supersystem, the band formerly known as El Guapo

The album is being released next month, but, I've had a sneak peek, and man is it on the list.

Do CD samplers count? Because the one Team AV released with volta do mar on it was great.

[flvegan]

10. Few of mine...

Rise Against - "The Sufferer and the Witness" (cd of the year, right here)

Drive By Truckers-"A Blessing and a Curse"

Blue October-"Foiled"

Red Hot Chili Peppers-"Stadium Arcadium"

Just off the top of my head. Hmmm...kind of eclectic, looking it over.

[bbernardini]

11. Negativland, Mike Keneally Band, The New Cars, Stuart Davis, Devo 2.0

Negativland - It's All In Your Head FM
Mike Keneally Band - Guitar Therapy Live
The New Cars - It's Alive!
Stuart Davis - What
Devo 2.0 - Devo 2.0

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Okay, I just discovered tonight that The Mars Volta have a new album...

Due out August 22 called "Amputechture", and it's been leaked already, so I downloaded that, and it now tops my list for the year.

[Strawman]

13. Art Brut: Bang Bang Rock N' Roll

But I haven't bought alot of albums released in 2006.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

14. I'm bad.

All the CDs I have were originally released at least 4 years ago.

:)

[speedoo]

15. I like the Mark Knopfler/EmmyLou Harris CD...

All the Roadrunning. I like it a lot.

[Initech]

18. My '05 and '06 lists:

2006:

Flaming Lips - "At War With The Mystics"

Tool - "10,000 Days"

Arctic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say I Am That's What I Am Not"

Gnarls Barkley - "St Elsewhere"

Les Claypool - "Of Whales And Woe"

Peeping Tom - "Peeping Tom"

Queensryche - "Operation:Mindcrime II"

Pearl Jam - "Pearl Jam"

Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Stadium Arcadium"

Johnny Cash - "American V: A Hundred Highways"

Neil Young - "Living With War"

Thom Yorke - "The Eraser"

Racontuers - "Broken Boy Soldiers"

My 2005 list for comparison:

George Clinton - "How Late Do U Have 2BB4UR Absent"

Damian Marley - "Welcome To Jamrock"

The Decemberists - "Picaresque"

Beck - "Guero"

Depeche Mode - "Playing The Angel"

Porcupine Tree - "Deadwing"

Blackfield - "Blackfield"

Matisyahu - "Live At Stubbs"

Opeth - "Ghost Reveries"

Nevermore - "This Godless Endeavor"

Queens Of The Stone Age - "Lullabies To Paralyze"

Mars Volta - "Frances The Mute"

Paul McCartney - "Chaos And Creation In The Backyard"

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. So far:

Haven't bought that many new albums this year, so this is a fairly short list:

The Knife - Silent Shout

Barry Adamson - Stranger on the Sofa

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living

Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere

And American V will probably make this list, once I've heard all of it.

[ghostsofgiants]

22. Wait, why was I not informed of The Streets having a new album out?

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. It seems to've slipped under the media radar on this side of the pond...

I didn't know about it myself till last month. (Probably not getting the exposure his last album got because there's no radio-friendly ballad with guest vocals by whatsisname from Coldplay...)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EQ46KA/sr=8-1/qid=1152508887/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-9928913-9229432?ie=UTF8

[ghostsofgiants]

24. I have it downloading now.

:thumbsup:

[flamingyouth]

26. Hmm, so far

Arctic Monkeys "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
Wolfmother, selftitled
Gnarls Barkley "St. Elsewhere"
Raconteurs, "Broken Boy Soldiers"
Neil Young, "Living With War"
Neko Case, "Fox Confessor Brings The Flood"

[asthmaticeog]

27. Oh, yeah, forgot about that Neko Case record.

An awesome thing, that. :thumbsup:

[mvd]

28. Ok, I'll add a few more

But no more than 30, as I have to reduce it later. Some albums always end up virtually tied, and many others are quite close - but I make myself pick 20 at the end of the year. I'm sure my list will change: Nina Gordon, Indigo Girls, Lisa Germano, and Tom Petty have albums coming out later, among others. And I haven't yet heard a couple albums that I purchased from Ane Brun and Ingrid Michaelson.

Here are my other choices:

Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Sonya Kitchell - Words Came Back To Me
Mary Lee's Corvette - Love, Loss & Lunacy