Your Top Albums Of 2006 So Far?

[Shiri]

Matthew Good, obviously.

[shade]

Yes. Keep up the good work, your style of comedy is original and refreshing.

[saturnine]

AGAISNT FUCKING ME LIVE

i'm not against fucking you live.

[darynalexander]

AGAISNT FUCKING ME LIVE

i'm not against fucking you live.

Best poll ever.

[HoboFactory]

I haven't heard any exceptional albums from 2006 yet.

blasphemy.

You should know by now I hate most of everything.

What do you like?

Quite a few bands, but even bands that I like didn't release anything mind-blowing in 2006.

 

There's a scale by which I decide on the quality of any album.

 

If I like every single song on it, and there's not a single track that I would rather skip than listen to, it's a perfect album; of the hundreds of albums that I have, there's only one I can name off the op of my head that comes close to that (and it's not from 2006).

 

Then there are the great albums, on which there are between 1 and 3 songs I would rather skip than listen to.

 

If there are 4 songs to 1/2 of the album in total (rounding up for albums with an odd number of tracks) that I would skip rather than listen to, it's a good album.

 

Below that, reaching all the way down to 3 or 4 listable songs makes an album ok/mediocre.

 

If there are only 1 or 2 good songs, it's a poor album.

 

And if there aren't any good songs it obviously totally blows.

Edited November 9, 2006 by HoboFactory

[Dan #3]

My Top Five of 2006:

 

Tool - 10,000 Days

Wolfmother

The Dears - Gang of Losers

Alexisonfire - Crisis

Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist

[Computer]

Emily Haines - Knive's don't have your back

Feist- Open Season

Deftones- Saturday Night Wrist

Hawksley Workman- Treeful of Starling

I'm From Barcelona - Let me Introduce you to my friends

Melissa McClelland- Thumbalina's One Night Stand

[soundless_space]

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

The Stills - Without Feathers

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America

[Ryan44]

the light that guides you home-jim cuddy

[soundless_space]

Completely off-topic, but nice new avatar, Ryan. ;)

Edited November 11, 2006 by soundless_space

[Ryan44]

thank u. i thought it was hilarious.

Edited November 11, 2006 by Ryan44

[Some Random]

two more top albums from this year i heard today:

emily haines-knives don't have your back

elvis costello & allen toussaint - the river in reverse

[Shiri]

I'll get back to you in the end of the year.

[Some Random]

new top album of the year (so far): incubus-light grenades.

[Shortcut To Moncton]

new top album of the year (so far): incubus-light grenades.

Word to that (for the most part)--still give an edge to the mars volta.

[Ryan44]

Home - Collective Soul with the Atlanta Youth Symphony Orchestra.

 

all their hits with an orchestral twist. just like that metallica one. this cd is really good.

[Computer]

Until Death Comes- Frida Hyvonen, amazing Swedish painist/singer

[matrix]

John Mayer - Continuum

Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

Dashboard Confessional - Dusk & Summer

 

Honorable Mention to:

 

Muse - Blackholes & Revelations

Damien Rice - 9

[Muran]

John Mayer - Continuum

Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

haha I was going to say those two!

 

along with Hawksley Workman - Tree Full Of Starling and Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds

 

Which have already been mentioned XD Everyone here listens to such awesome music ;)

[matrix]

The five CD's I listed are the only ones I bought the entire year. Well, except for Nelly Furtado, but I was disappointed with that one. She went too club pop, ala Gwen Stefani and Fergie.

[Muran]

Yeah, I'm kinda grossed out at how much Nelly Furtado seemingly sold out. She went from this cute, boho sorta girl, with an interesting voice to

 

To someone with skanky vocals, clothes, crappy covers, who can't dance (Did you see the Maneater video? Can you say Elaine Dance? *shudder*)

[somnambulist]

Hybrid - I Choose Noise

The Mars Volta - Amputechture

Tool - 10,000 Days

 

Can't think of any more I bought that came out this year...

[MuttersomeTaxicab]

Hm. A fair few good calls on here.

 

Young Widows - Settle Down City

These Arms are Snakes - Easter

Converge - No Heroes

Jucifer - If Thine Enemy Hunger

Blood Brothers - Young Machetes

Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist

Isis - In the Absence of Truth

Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (Going on a limb on this one, since I haven't heard all of it, but the songs I HAVE heard are awesome)

Tool - 10,000 Days

World/Inferno Friendship Society - Red Eyed Soul

HORSE the Band - Pizza EP

(the) Melvins - (a) Senile Animal

Sarah Slean - Orphan Music

 

Jury's still out on the new Incubus, obviously, and whatever else might drop into my lap.

Definitely need to add:

dredg - Live at the Fillmore

 

to the above.

[somnambulist]

Oh yeah:

 

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

[Kumquat]

Supply and Demand - Amos Lee

The Guys - Live the Party

Atlantis - k-os

 

Hooray.