I'm starting this now because so many people have already posted their 'final' 2006 lists. This thread is the place where you can lament about your own choices from 2006. DON'T lament about other's choices or about the final Metaforum list here. This is the place to say things like "damn, I should have included this record" or "crap, how could I have liked that record enough to put it in my top 20"?

I've got one already: Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3's Ole Tarantula is one of his best records in years, and I should have had it in my top 20 for sure. Stupid.

This is why I'm waiting until January!

Still, I'm sure I'll soon after have regrets.

That Hold Steady album is probably much better than a #10.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
This is why I'm waiting until January!

Still, I'm sure I'll soon after have regrets.

Me too. I have about ten albums I have yet to listen to, so I'm giving myself as much time as possible.

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Originally posted by philosopherEric:
Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3's Ole Tarantula is one of his best records in years, and I should have had it in my top 20 for sure. Stupid.

What kind of music is it pE? I'm not familiar with Robyn hitchcock at all. Should I be?

My big, glaring omission is Subtle - For Hero: For Fool. It would be top 5 for me. I just bought it (after I had already posted).

I'd do some reshuffling of my existing list. I'd move Hold Steady up from #12 after some extensive beer-goggled listening this weekend. I might consider adding Clipse, even though it is a singles album. The singles are very, very strong.

My biggest problem is that I haven't heard as many of the albums I "earmarked" to check out. It's a long list, and I'm sure that X% of them would be on my final list. Only so much time and money, you know. I present to you:

Top 10 albums I didn't listen to this year that likely would have made my year-end best-of list:

1. The Knife - Silent Shout
2. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
3. Tom Waits - Orphans
4. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
5. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
6. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
7. The Pernice Brothers - Live a Little
8. Pheonix - It's Never Been Like That
9. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
10. Jenny Lewis /Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat

And now my Top 10 albums that I haven't heard that might have made it on my year end best of list:

1. Pipettes - We are the Pipettes
2. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
3. The Dears - Gang of Losers
4. Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites
5. Peter Bjorn and John - (can't remember the name)
6. I'm From Barcelona - s/t
7. Cat Power - The Greatest
8. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
9. Arctic Monkeys - Everything you Say I am....
10. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier

Man, I could keep going. It's pretty sad really, but I can't listen to music at work (other than the light hits radio station [currently playing Big Time - Peter Gabriel]). I have heard what I feel are tons of new albums this year 50 to 60. Anything more and I'm overwhelmed. Plus, I do like to listen to albums several times all the way through.

I thought after deciding to leave surf instrumental albums out of my top 20 that'd it be an easier list to complete. Ha ha. I've kicked a few albums in & out of the top 10 but it's the next 10 that seem to be a revolving door in and out for albums. Musical chairs for music albums.

Wish we (or at least I) could have had multiple albums tie for a spot, dividing the points among however many cds occupy each ranking. Whatever album makes top choice round here doesn't interest me; I doubt my number one album will be anywhere on anyone's list. I only want a bigger selection of the many great albums this year I like to get in that top 20. 50 some albums in a top 20, no problem for me. Just tossed a newly heard album in the 15-20 ranks yesterday. Damned if I wanna be the one to break it to another album that it has to slip out of it's spot, even though I like it as much as the newbie who took it's spot.

I've yet to listen to the Clipse, Cat Power, and Aloha records, and I'm sure that they're good. I always discover something I really like after the year is done.

Damn!! I could've had five albums on my year-end list if I'd realised that Drive-By Truckers' A Blessing and a Curse was an '06 release. This actually made one poster's #1 spot. It's a bloody good album. I haven't enjoyed Southern Rock so much in years . Since Shake Your Moneymaker, in fact.

Maybe not a regret per se, but I didn't really gave Junior Boys' So This Is Goodbye a fair shake. I don't know if it would've made my list, but it's a pretty good album, and the single "In the Morning" is particularly killer. It's difficult for me to get into a lot of electronica, because most of it seems to eschew traditional songwriting. But Junior Boys remind me a lot of New Order, an electronic band with rock/pop sensiblities.

In the past couple of days, I have done a complete 180 on Get Lonely by The Mountain Goats, and wish I had voted it in my top 10.

I also am beginning to love Clipse, and regret not listening to Hot Chip more before this weekend.

edit: I also wish I had gotten Neko Case's album before tonight. Damn it's good.

The order of my list, especially in the second tier, is always in flux. I can't think of which album to drop, but Annuals, Be He Me would've made my top 20 if I'd heard it before I posted. I need to give Los Lobos and Mountain Goats another few listens, too. I think they were buried beneath some of my more recent purchases.
I keep hoping I don't find any more records that could crack the list, but I guess that's not really a bad problem to have....
By the way, what's the Phoenix album like? I really don't know anything about them except that they're French.

Phoenix is one of my favourite bands. The first two albums have some good songs ( Too Young, Everything is Everything... ) but I think "It's never been like that" is their best. You should listen it's a fun album that makes you want to dance.


I posted my top 20 a couple of days ago but I didn't have 30 posts, so when I get to 30 I'll post it again but with a few changes :
- Malajube is going to be in the top 10
- Maritime should get in the list too.

I think "The Information" isn't going to stay on the list, it's not as good as I thought a few days ago.

I might add The Long Blondes too, I love that album

So many albums missed, and these are just the ones I know. Year end lists should come in the middle of the following year:

Alan Sparhawk - Solo Guitar
Birchville Cat Motel - Our Love Will Destroy the World
Prurient - Pleasure Ground
Magik Markers - A Panegyric to the Things I Do Not Understand
Geoff Mullen - Air Pieces
Raccoo-oo-oon - Is The Night
Scott Walker – The Drift
Mountains – Sewn
Max Richter – Songs From Before
Beach House – S/T
Tap Tap - Lanzafame
Dwayne Sodahberk – Cut Open
White Magic – Dat Rosa Mel Apibus

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Originally posted by mejis:
By the way, what's the Phoenix album like? I really don't know anything about them except that they're French.

They're French, but they sing in English. I've heard some comparisons to the Strokes, which I kind of hear in songs like "Long Distance Call", but they're very power-poppy too. Power-Pop Strokes is how I would describe them.

Another omission of mine:

The Thermals record really gets me pumped up. I just picked it up. Maybe I should have waited until January. Oh well.

Didn't Pitchfork call Phoenix the 'soft rock Strokes'? Personally, I don't hear the Strokes, but I like Phoenix a good bit.

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Originally posted by philosopherEric:
Personally, I don't hear the Strokes, but I like Phoenix a good bit.

You don't? Those guitar riffs on "Napolean Says" and "Long Distance Call" would be right at home on Is This It?

I should have put Return to the Sea by the Islands on my list even if I purchased the album after I put up the list.
Girl Talk's Night Ripper may have made my list.
Mastodon's release (Blood Mountain) would have cracked my top ten, maybe even my top 5, if I would have given it more of a chance.
Beirut also would've been there as well...
Oh, and the Knife which I found to be very good-even if it was frightening.

Albums I want to get or hear so bad (2006):
Man Man- Six Demon Bag (I can't seem to find it anywhere).
Subtle- For Hero: For Fool (Another one that looks interesting and can't find)
Los Lobos- The Town and The City
Sonic Youth- Rather Ripped (I've heard it but haven't purchased it yet).
Cat Power- The Greatest (Same as SY).

Chris Brown's Now That You Are Fed is a very recent pickup, and I'm pretty sure that it would have made my top 20 had I had it sooner. What a gem of an orch-pop record...

Greg Graffin's Cold as the Clay is also really growing on me...

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Originally posted by Everyoneanindividual:
Subtle- For Hero: For Fool (Another one that looks interesting and can't find)

Try Barnes & Noble, I saw a ton of copies there yesterday. It was weird.

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Man Man- Six Demon Bag (I can't seem to find it anywhere).
Subtle- For Hero: For Fool (Another one that looks interesting and can't find)

Just head over to insound.com and order them. It's cheaper, and you usually get free shipping if you spend over $30. In fact, that's where I got my copy of Six Demon Bag.