Alrighty.

20) Aloha- Some Echoes
19) Man Man- Six Demon Bag
18)The Roots- Game Theory
17) Candy Bars- On Cutting Ti-gers in Half and Understanding Narravation
16) Tom Waits- Orphans
15) Howe Gelb- Sno Angel Like You
14) Subtle- For Hero For Fool
13) The Drones- Gala Mill
12) Annuals- Be He Me
11) Decemberists- The Crane Wife
10) The Thermals- The Body the Blood, the Machine
9) Black Heart Procession- The Spell
8) Grizzly Bear- Yellow House
7) Califone- Roots and Crowns
6) Comets on Fire- Avatar
5) TV on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
4) Destroyer- Destroyer’s Rubies
3) Joanna Newsom- Ys
2) Cunninglyguists- A Piece of Strange
1) Rock Plaza Central- Are We Not Horses?

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Originally posted by pantanap:
14. Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love

Nice to see the Fakester getting some more love.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:

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Originally posted by pantanap:
14. Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love

Nice to see the Fakester getting some more love.

I hear ya....it's a good reminder of how much i enjoyed the first M83 album and Boards of Canada albums in general. I totally get immersed in it.

Cheers

1 – Malajube – Trompe l’œil (amazing montreal french band)
http://www.myspace.com/malajube
2 – The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
3 – Islands – Return to the Sea
4 – Hot Chip – The Warning
5 – Xiu Xiu – The Air Force
6 – Beck – The Information
7 – A.F.I. - Decemberunderground
8 – Harvee – Sink or Swim (new montreal band, sounds like broken social scene and arcade fire!)
http://myspace.com/harveeband
9 – The Knive – Silent Shout
10 – Sunset Rubdown – Shut Up I Am Dreaming
11 – Sufjan Stevens – Songs For Christmas
12 - Band Of Horses – Everything All The Time
13 – Cursive – Happy Hollow
14 – Love Is All – Nine times that same song
15 – The Blow – Paper Television
16 - The Lovely Feathers – Hind Hind Legs (also from montreal!)
http://www.myspace.com/thelovelyfeathers
17 – Joanna Newsom – Ys
18 – One-Two – Love Again (electro/pop band from paris)
http://www.myspace.com/powerpopuptothetop
19 – Patrick Watson – Close to Paradise (montreal singer... sounds like patrick wolf a bit)
http://www.myspace.com/patrickwatson
20 – Decemberists – The Crane Wife

Runners up: TV On The Radio, Lullabye Arkestra, Les Georges Leningrad, Black Heart Procession, Emily Haines

Best EP:
Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson In Crime (EP... but their forthcoming LP will be my most anticipated LP for 2007)
http://www.myspace.com/tokyopoliceclub

Well, after much deliberation, I've finally created my best-of 2006. I don't know who reads these, but I like throwing my opinion out there anyway... Here goes!

1. Liars- Drum's Not Dead
2. Serena Maneesh- Serena Maneesh
3. Joanna Newsom- Ys.
4. Beirut- Gulag Orkestar
5. TV On The Radio- Return To Cookie Mountain
6. Sunset Rubdown- Shut Up I Am Dreaming
7. Scott Walker- The Drift
8. Danielson- Ships
9. Asobi Seksu- Citrus
10. Islands- Return To The Sea
11. Destroyer- Destroyer's Rubies
12. Max Richter- Songs From Before
13. M. Ward- Post War
14. Swan Lake- Beasts Moans
15. The Knife- Silent Shout
16. Final Fantasy- He Poos Clouds
17. The Hold Steady- Boys and Girls in America
18. Thom Yorke- The Eraser
19. Brightback Morning Light- Brightback Morning LIght
20. Girltalk- The Night Ripper
21. Gnarls Barkley- St. Elsewhere
22. Tim Hecker- Harmony In Ulraviolet
23. Yo La Tengo- I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
24. Band Of Horses- Everything All The Time
25. Beck- The Information

Yeah. There are some that I feel bad leaving off the list, but that's how it goes.

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16 - The Lovely Feathers – Hind Hind Legs (also from montreal!)
http://www.myspace.com/thelovelyfeathers

ive been trying to find this cd for the past three months.

ahh.

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Originally posted by grabblegarrr:
Alrighty.

20) Aloha- Some Echoes

17) Candy Bars- On Cutting Ti-gers in Half and Understanding Narravation

12) Annuals- Be He Me
11) Decemberists- The Crane Wife

8) Grizzly Bear- Yellow House
7) Califone- Roots and Crowns

I haven't seen much of Candy Bars on here, but if you just listen to Violets on there, it's enough to get you hooked.

Here is my top 10 of 2006.

1. The Knife - Silent Shout
2. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
3. Dumas - Fixer le temps
4. AFI - Decemberunderground
5. Converge - No Heroes
6. Peaches - Impeach my bush
7. Malajube - Trompe-l'oeil
8. Johnny Cash - American V
9. Kid Koala - Your mom's favorie DJ
10. Loose fur - Born again in the usa

other interesting albums:

11. Built to spill - You in reverse
12. Les Claypool - Of Whales and Woe
13. TV on the Radio - Return to cookie mountain
14. The Killers - Sam's Town
15. Destroyer - Rubies

In order obviously...

1.Cunninlynguists - A Piece Of Strange.
2.Spearhead - Yell Fire!
3.Lupe Fiasco - Food And Liqour.
4.The Knife - Silent Shout.
5.Skin - Fake Chemical State.
6.The Roots - Game Theory.
7.The Coup - Pick A Bigger Weapon.
8.Rhymefest - Blue Collar.
9.Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury.
10.J Dilla - The Shining.
11.kidz IN THE Hall - School Was My Hustle.
12.Ghostface Killah - More Fish.
13.Spank Rock- YoYoYoYoYo.
14.J Dilla - Donuts.
15.Panacea - Ink Is My Drink.
16.Ghostface Killah - Fishscale.
17.Coldcut - Sound Mirrors.
18.Ty - Closer.
19.Outkast - Idlewild.
20.Nas - Hip-Hop Is Dead.

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Originally posted by Sloop:
1 – Malajube – Trompe l’œil (amazing montreal french band)
http://www.myspace.com/malajube
3 – Islands – Return to the Sea

10 – Sunset Rubdown – Shut Up I Am Dreaming
12 - Band Of Horses – Everything All The Time
14 – Love Is All – Nine times that same song
15 – The Blow – Paper Television
20 – Decemberists – The Crane Wife

Best EP:
Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson In Crime (EP... but their forthcoming LP will be my most anticipated LP for 2007)
http://www.myspace.com/tokyopoliceclub

Just heard the thing from Tokyo Police Club and I agree. If the EP is any indication, good things are yet to come. And the Malajube, by the way, is way impressive; even though I know no French, I try to sing along.

Not that it's necessarily message worthy, but I thought it impressive the number of posts by year...

Best & Worst of 2006: 6418

Best & Worst of 2005: 2790

Best & Worst of 2004: 874

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Originally posted by thomyorkeisgod:

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16 - The Lovely Feathers – Hind Hind Legs (also from montreal!)
http://www.myspace.com/thelovelyfeathers

ive been trying to find this cd for the past three months.

ahh.

You'll have to come and visit us in Quebec!!!
Pop John Paul is such a killer song...

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And the Malajube, by the way, is way impressive; even though I know no French, I try to sing along.

Heh, me too - it's always fun to sing random syllables. If I were to actually look at the lyrics, I would have a decent idea of what they're saying... but random syllables is not only much more fun, it's more annoying to those around me!

Well...I guess I've put this darned list off enough.

1. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
2. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
3. Sol Seppy - The Bells of 1 2
4. J Dilla - Donuts
5. Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
6. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
7. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
8. Hot Chip - The Warning
9. Joanna Newsom - Ys
10. CunninLynguists - Piece of Strange
11. Yo La Tengo - IANAOYAIWKYA (hope I got that right)
12. Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
13. Aloha - Some Echoes
14. South - Adventures in the Underground
15. The Knife - Silent Shout
16. Booka Shade - Movements
17. Brightblack Morning Light - s/t
18. Margot & the Nuclear So & So's - The Dust of Retreat
19. Herbert - Scale
20. Cadence Weapon - Breaking Kayfabe

As for the rest, non-scored portion of the list:

21. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
22. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
23. Bert Jansch - The Black Swan
24. Snowden - Anti-Anti
25. Howe Gelb - 'Sno Angel
26. Figurines - Skeleton
27. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
28. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
29. Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory - Tree Colored See
30. The Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love
31. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
32. Heartless Bastards - All This Time
33. Islands - Return to the Sea
34. M. Ward - Post-War
35. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
36. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
37. Daedelus - ...Denies the Day's Demise
38. Ester Drang - Rocinate
39. Beach House - s/t
40. The Linn Youki Project - #3
41. Danielson - Ships
42. Nelly Furtado - Loose
43. Shelley Short - Captain Wild Horse
44. Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
45. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYoYo
46. Cat Power - The Greatest
47. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
48. Calexico - Garden Ruin
49. Supreeme - Supremacy
50. Los Lobos - The Town and The City

Out of 135. Thank the Lord I have parents who neglect to check their credit balance regularly.

Hooray for '07!

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Originally posted by kendocubano:
Hi all. New to the forum.
1. The Crane Wife- The Decemberists
2. The Life Pursuit- Belle and Sebastian
3. Boys and Girls in America- The Hold Steady
4. Gulag Orkester- Beirut
5. Return to the Sea- Islands
6. Rabbit Fur Coat- Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins
7. And the Glass Handed Kites- Mew
8. Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
9. With Love and Squalor- We Are Scientists
10. The Body, The Blood and the Machine- The Thermals
Followed by new releases by Wilderness, Sunset Rubdown, Beast Moans, The Raconteurs, The Flaming Lips.
My question? Why no love (relatively) for the Decemberists, here, or in critics lists?

I think it's top 10 or so here... it was in my top 10 (pretty sure), but "Shankill Butchers", "When The War Came", "The Perfect Crime 2" and "Summersong" are geniunely bad songs. In my opinion, a top 5 record can't have that many bad songs...

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Originally posted by L. R. William Spencer:
I think it's top 15 or so here... it was in my top 10 (pretty sure), but "Shankill Butchers", "When The War Came", "The Perfect Crime 2" and "Summersong" are geniunely bad songs. A top 5 record can't have 4 bad songs...

Couldn't disagree with you more. I think that practically every single song on that album is amazing, especially the three-part "The Island..." I would have to say that they have matured nicely, the songwriting is incredibly good and they are getting better and better. I don't mean to put you down, but I really disagree with you on this.

By the way send me your write-ups for albums you would like to write about, check here.

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Originally posted by L. R. William Spencer:

I think it's top 10 or so here... it was in my top 10 (pretty sure), but "Shankill Butchers", "When The War Came", "The Perfect Crime 2" and "Summersong" are geniunely bad songs. In my opinion, a top 5 record can't have that many bad songs...

Four "genuinely bad" songs? And it was in your top 10? I don't think I thought anything in my top 20 had any "genuinely bad" songs—sure, a few I wasn't particularly impressed by, but not bad. If you're putting something you barely like in your top 10 you might want to consider some serious soul searching.

Alliteration! I win!

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Originally posted by CoCoCo:

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And the Malajube, by the way, is way impressive; even though I know no French, I try to sing along.

Heh, me too - it's always fun to sing random syllables. If I were to actually look at the lyrics, I would have a decent idea of what they're saying... but random syllables is not only much more fun, it's more annoying to those around me!

Well, I'm a french man and don't get all the meaning of those lyrics... and that's why I love these kids so much! This is quite modern poetry or some.
And you guys aren't the only two english men trying to sing along Malajube's song as they'll be touring a lot in the usa during spring time...

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Originally posted by m.leland:

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Originally posted by L. R. William Spencer:

I think it's top 10 or so here... it was in my top 10 (pretty sure), but "Shankill Butchers", "When The War Came", "The Perfect Crime 2" and "Summersong" are geniunely bad songs. In my opinion, a top 5 record can't have that many bad songs...

Four "genuinely bad" songs? And it was in your top 10? I don't think I thought anything in my top 20 had any "genuinely bad" songs—sure, a few I wasn't particularly impressed by, but not bad. If you're putting something you barely like in your top 10 you might want to consider some serious soul searching.

Alliteration! I win!

No, I see your point, but I'm sort of picky... the only albums in my top 20 that didn't have any songs I disliked were The Hold Steady, Beirut, Joanna Newsom, and Howe Gelb. The fact is, the remaining songs on The Crane Wife managed to hold the album up for me (I looked back and it was number 11). If I did my top 20 again, though, it would probably be knocked down a few spots by Sunset Rubdown (previously unlisted), Grizzly Bear (unlisted), Danielson (12), The Knife (13), and Liars (17). So, if I did my list again, The Crane Wife would be my number 16 album. I still feel that the other six songs are good enough to make it a good record.

Looking back on that, I realize how much some albums moved in about a month. I really should have waited to post my list...

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Originally posted by FragileKidA:

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Originally posted by L. R. William Spencer:
I think it's top 15 or so here... it was in my top 10 (pretty sure), but "Shankill Butchers", "When The War Came", "The Perfect Crime 2" and "Summersong" are geniunely bad songs. A top 5 record can't have 4 bad songs...

Couldn't disagree with you more. I think that practically every single song on that album is amazing, especially the three-part "The Island..." I would have to say that they have matured nicely, the songwriting is incredibly good and they are getting better and better. I don't mean to put you down, but I really disagree with you on this.

By the way send me your write-ups for albums you would like to write about, check here.

OK, FragileKidA, I just relistened to the four songs I mentioned, and this is what I came up with:

The Perfect Crime 2 sounds like a Bee Gees outcast with no falsetto.

During When The War Came, I half-expect Linkin Park to cut in.

Shankill Butchers is about a bunch of dudes with cleavers killing people...

Summersong, I've decided, isn't genuinely bad. It is genuinely nothing but fluff.

IMO, of coursse.