End Of Year - Top Music Lists

[troutman]

'Tis the season for end of year music lists. I'll let you know my top ten before the New Year, and who made the cut in my annual compilations.

For now:

The Top 100 Tracks of 2006
Staff List by Pitchfork Staff

http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/fe...Tracks_of_2006


Music Critics' Year-End Top Ten Lists

Look for more Top Ten lists coming throughout December and January!
Most recent updates: Playlouder and PopMatters (added 18 Dec); Spin (17 Dec); Billboard (15 Dec)

http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2006.shtml#topten

[looooob]

I'm impressed you can keep up with this stuff. I used to eat up new music and these lists, but since I've had kids my brain has just atrophied

now I consider myself 'hip' if I can just keep up with the new releases of the bands I liked in 1997

[troutman]

This site is a treasure trove if you like lists about music (like the John Cusack character in High Fidelity).

http://www.rocklist.net/

What's it all about? Want some ideas of what to fill that 60 Gb iPod up with?
At the end of each year, critics & readers of music publications select their favourite albums and singles of the year.

Lists from publications including: New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Select, Q, Mojo, Rolling Stone, Spin, & Village Voice, various European publications and several independent fanzines from around the globe plus the complete John Peel Festive 50's are included on this site.

There are critic single and album lists from 1974 to 2006, pop poll results from 1952 to 2006, personal lists from critics including Dave Marsh and Robert Christgau plus All Time Best Film Soundtrack and Banned recordings.

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by troutman

Music Critics' Year-End Top Ten Lists

Look for more Top Ten lists coming throughout December and January!
Most recent updates: Playlouder and PopMatters (added 18 Dec); Spin (17 Dec); Billboard (15 Dec)

http://www.metacritic.com/music/bests/2006.shtml#topten

After a few strong years, I thought it was kind of a weak year for music. TV on the Radio, and Arctic Monkeys stood out as good albums. Other than that, I don't really care for anything else on these people's lists. In fact, I can't stand most of the cds they listed.

As per that other thread, I have great hopes for 2007.

[North East Goon]

I have been thinking about getting The Greatest by Cat Power. Seems to have done real well on those lists, anyone a fan?

[troutman]

Originally Posted by North East Goon

I have been thinking about getting The Greatest by Cat Power. Seems to have done real well on those lists, anyone a fan?

I prefer the last one You are Free (more guitars and hooks). The new one is more like a country record.

http://www.metacritic.com/music/arti...?q=cat%20power

[Igottago]

Wait a minute..shouldn't the Killer's album have been #1 on all those lists?

Anyways, these lists mean pretty much nothing to me. Seems like most of them cater to the demographic that the magazine shoots for anyways. For example, Amazon includes stuff like John Mayer, and NME includes stuff like Kasabian. Big suprise. I'm not even gonna bother reading the wankers at Pitchfork.

That being said, here's the only list that matters. My top 5:

1. My Morning Jacket - Okonokos
2. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
3. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
4. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am, that's what I'm not
5. Tool - 10,000 Days

[kermitology]

My personal top 5 in no order..

Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country

[troutman]

Ok, my favorite 10 albums in alphabetical order:

Belle & Sebastian, The Life Pursuit
Built to Spill, You In Reverse
Destroyer, Destroyer's Rubies
Flaming Lips, At War With The Mystics
Islands, Return To The Sea
Los Lobos, The Town And The City
Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped
Tapes 'N' Tapes, The Loon
TV On The Radio, Return To Cookie Mountain
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Show Your Bones

Red = CANCON


How did I forget:

Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere

Guilty Pleasure:

Shakira, Hip's Don't Lie

[Cerebral]

I'm going to make up my list any day now. Joanna Newsom - Ys, The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America, Beirut - Gulag Orkestar, Califone - Roots & Crowns, Danielson - Ships and Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye are a few of the albums which will likely crack my top 10.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by troutman

Ok, my favorite 10 albums in alphabetical order:

Belle & Sebastian, The Life Pursuit
Built to Spill, You In Reverse
Destroyer, Destroyer's Rubies
Flaming Lips, At War With The Mystics
Islands, Return To The Sea
Los Lobos, The Town And The City
Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped
Tapes 'N' Tapes, The Loon
TV On The Radio, Return To Cookie Mountain
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Show Your Bones

Red = CANCON

you see, this is helpful to me. I own records by half the artists on the list....just not recent records...will search out a few of these

[troutman]

Stylus Magazine, top 50 albums:

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articl...ms-of-2006.htm

CMJ, Best of 2006:

http://www.cmj.com/bestof2006/

Exclaim! , Year in Review 2006

http://www.exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=22&csid1=5942

[Cerebral]

I'm just putting the finishing touches on my top 50. It will likely switch around a bit from today to tomorrow but I think it's pretty close to done:

• Joanna Newsom – Ys
• The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
• Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds
• Junior Boys – So This is Goodbye
• Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies
• TV on the Radio – Return to CookieMountain
• Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
• Ghostface Killah – Fishscale
• Rock Plaza Central – Are We Not Horses?
• Danielson – Ships
• Sunset Rubdown – Shut Up I am Dreaming
• Tapes ‘n Tapes – The Loon
• Califone – Roots & Crowns
• Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Lightyears in the Belly of a Mountain
• The Skygreen Leopards – Disciples of California
• Ellen Allien & Apparat – Orchestra of Bubbles
• The Appleseed Cast – Peregrine
• Max Richter - Songs From Before
• The Fiery Furnaces – Bitter Tea
• Hot Chip – The Warning
• Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
• The Liars – Drum’s Not Dead
• The Blow – Paper Television
• Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
• Mew – And the Glass Handed Kites
• The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
• Clipse – Hell Hath No Fury
• Swan Lake – Beast Moans
• MSTRKFRT – The Looks
• Mogwai - Mr. Beast
• Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
• Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
• Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
• The Knife – Silent Shout
• Ratatat – Classics
• Thom Yorke – The Eraser
• Girl Talk – Night Ripper
• Bonnie “Prince” Billy – The Letting Go
• M. Ward – Post-War
• The Mountain Goats – Get Lonely
• Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche
• Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
• Islands – Return to the Sea
• Benoit Pioulard - Precis
• Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
• Spank Rock- Yoyoyoyoyo
• Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope
• Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Etiquette
• The Radio Dept. – Pet Grief
• Peter Bjorn & John – Writer's Block

Those are supposed to be numbered by my numbers didn't show up for some reason.

[octothorp]

My top 10 (although there are still a few critically acclaimed ones that might make my list if I ever get around to hearing them:

Tom Waits - Brawlers, Bawlers, *******s
Yo La Tengo - I'm not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Destroyer - Rubies
Graham Coxon - Love at Illegal Speeds
Serena Maneesh
The Knife - Silent Shout
Mates of State - Bring it Back
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go

[kermitology]

I love Dan Bejars' words, but man, I cannot stand the sound of his singing.

Like that Yo La Tengo as well. And The Avalanche is good especially since it's out-takes from Illinois

[Dodsdomd]

Pretty weak music year for me. Not much inspiration in 2006.
Twilight Singers - Powders Burns was an amazing album though.

[Displaced Flames fan]

I wish I had the time and money to sample that much music. I'm jealous.

The one CD I bought this year that I felt was phenomenal was Tool's 10,000 days.

[RedHot25]

Originally Posted by Cerebral

• Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Lightyears in the Belly of a Mountain

Sparklehorse has something NEW out?!!! Why was I not aware of this...I kept pestering and pestering record stores between each cd of theirs...and finally gave up hope after a long time this time around.

But if that's the case, sweet, I'm definately going to have to pick it up.

How does it sound? Is it mellow like the last one, or more electic like some of the previous stuff, or...?

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

I wish I had the time and money to sample that much music. I'm jealous.

The one CD I bought this year that I felt was phenomenal was Tool's 10,000 days.

Do yourself a favour and just give Neko Case's album a listen. Download some tracks or something.. it's just amazing. Country sound, but still..

Agreed about the relatively weak music selection this year. But there were some really good things put out.

[Cerebral]

Originally Posted by RedHot25

Sparklehorse has something NEW out?!!! Why was I not aware of this...I kept pestering and pestering record stores between each cd of theirs...and finally gave up hope after a long time this time around.

But if that's the case, sweet, I'm definately going to have to pick it up.

How does it sound? Is it mellow like the last one, or more electic like some of the previous stuff, or...?

Same thing here man, it feels as though I waited a bloody decade for their new album to come out!

It's definitely the weakest of their efforts so far but I still feel it's a pretty damn good album. It's a pretty good mix of sounds overall, a few really quiet tracks along with a few fairly electric-driven tunes. I'm a huge fan of Good Morning Spider and Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot and this album doesn't come close to beating those two but it's still pretty decent (it cracked my top 15 of the year fairly easily).