Best of 2006 - Music

[charliepanayi]

We're almost at the end of the year, so what have been peoples' favourite albums/singles etc of 2006 (by which I mean albums released in your country during 2006)? Give lists, give reasons if you want, give whatever you feel like.

I need some time to think of my favourites, so I won't post them yet but what do others think?

[escobert]

Well the realease I'm waiting for isn't out until December 19th and that's the new Nas album.

[Black Mage FF1]

Hmm my favorite albums this year are

A Change Of Pace - "Prepare The Masses"
As Blood Runs Black - "Allegiance"
All That Remains - "The Fall Of Ideals"
The Fall Of Troy - "The Fall Of Troy"
It Dies Today - "Sirens"
Senses Fail - "Still Searching"
Set Your Goals - "Mutiny"
Stick To Your Guns - "For What It's Worth"
The Warriors - "Beyond The Noise"

[Rye]

Um... the newest Dresden Dolls CD, I suppose. :)

[Crushed Hope]

Favorite Metal CDs.

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain [Folky Post-Rockish Metal]
2. Indesinence - Noctambulism [Death/Doom]
3. Architects - Nightmares [Metalcore]
4. Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die [Gothic Death/Doom]
5. Mirrorthrone - Carriers of Dust [Symphonic/Avant-garde Black]
6. Hellveto - Stos [Symphonic Folky Black]
7. Negative Plane -Et In Saecula Saeculorum [Black]
8. Negura Bunget - Om [Black]
9. Spawn Of Possession - Noctambulant [Technical Death]
10. Persefone - Core [Symphonic Death]
11. Forest of Fog - Abgrunde [Black]

I'll work on my favorite non-metal CDs later.

[Slothy]

Tool - 10,000 Days

I may never have to listen to another album ever again. Utterly mind blowing. In fact, I listened to it at least once (usually twice or more though) all the way through, everyday for a period of about 6 months or more straight. Still not sick of it either.

[Mythra]

I've started listening to a bunch of new music this year but as for albums that were released this year? I guess that would have to be:
Killswitch Engage: As Daylight Dies
Breaking Benjamin: Phobia
Bullet For My Valentine: The Poison (I think this one came out this year, not sure though)
Agalloch: Ashes Against the Grain
Trivium: The Crusade
In Flames: Come Clarity
Dir en grey: Ryoujoku no Ame (single)
thats about all the ones that I can think of right now

[White Raven]

The best album of 2006 IMO: Wolfmother - Wolfmother

A close 2nd: Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

Other awesome releases in 2006:

The Beatles - Love
David Gilmour - On an Island
Gorillaz - Demon Days Live
Sam Roberts - Chemical City
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Neil Young - Living with War
"Weird Al" Yankovic - Straight Outta Lynwood
The Who - Endless Wire

[Cankook]

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

[charliepanayi]

This are my provisional lists, in alphabetical order:

Albums of the Year:

At War With The Mystics - The Flaming Lips
Through the Windowpane - Guillemots
Awoo - The Hidden Cameras
Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
Mr Beast - Mogwai
Ys - Joanna Newsom
Taiga - OOIOO
Writers Block - Peter Bjorn and John
Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass - Yo La Tengo

Singles of the Year:

Cellphones Dead - Beck
The Blues Are Still Blue - Belle and Sebastian
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song - The Flaming Lips
L.Wells - Franz Ferdinand
Made Up Lovesong #43 - Guillemots
Trains To Brazil - Guillemots
Over and Over - Hot Chip
Friend of the Night - Mogwai
Starlight - Muse
Here It Goes Again - Ok Go (may have been 2005, also Video of the Year)

Reissues/Compilations of the Year:
The Complete BBC Peel Sessions - The Delgados
The Peel Sessions 1991-2004 - PJ Harvey
And I Feel Fine... The Best of the IRS Years 1982-1987 - R.E.M.
The Meadowlands (reissue) - The Wrens (argh what was I doing putting this in the disappointments section by mistake... 0_o)

Disappointments of the Year:
Those The Brokes - The Magic Numbers
The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living - The Streets
First Impressions of Earth - The Strokes

[Dreddz]

Birdman & Lil Wayne - Like Father Like Son

And...

Jay Z - Kingdom Come

[Captain Maxx Power]

I've only bought one album this year: Pearl Jam's Self Titled. Needless to say, it rocks. :cool:

[jrgen]

Great year for music. Here are some cool albums that were released this year:

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Anaal Nathrakh - Eschaton
Anata - The Conductor's Departure
Birdflesh - Mongo Musicale
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Cronian - Terra
Deicide - The Stench of Redemption
Deranged - Obscenities In B Flat
Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom
Dismember - The God that never was
Dornenreich - Durch den Traum
Exhale - Prototype
Folkearth - By The Sword Of My Father
God Among Insects - Zombienomicon
Grave - As Rapture comes
Kimaera - Ebony Veiled
Laibach - Volk
Lifelover - Pulver
Melechesh - Emissaries
Mono - You are there
Månegarm - Urminnes Hävd - The Forest Sessions
Negurã Bunget - Om
Runemagick - Invocation of Magick
Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
Spawn of Possession - Noctambulant
Tenhi - Maaäet
The Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra
Therion - Celebrators of Becoming
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah (only the promo is out)
Transilvanian Beat Club - Willkommen Im Club
UneXpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
Unleashed - Midvinterblot
Visceral Bleeding - Absorbing the Disarray
Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars

I think UneXpect - In a Flesh Aquarium wins the album of the year award. Though I probably forgot lots of good releases.

[Ryth]

Yes, Virgina - The Dresden Dolls
News And Tributes - The Futureheads
Under The Iron Sea - Keane
Wolfmother (self-titled)
Show Your Bones - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
My Brother's Blood Machine - The Prize Fighter Inferno


I guess that is all I can think of.

[Aurey]

Mmm, so many. I'll forget a lot, but oh well.

Albums:
Joanna Newsom - Ys (My favourite album of this year. Pure beauty.)
Prurient - Troubled Sleep
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
I Am Robot And Proud - The Electricity In Your House Wants To Sing
Glissandro 70 - s/t
The Blow - Paper Television
Sandro Perri - Plays Polmo Polpo
The Creeping Nobodies - Sound of Joy
Lullabye Arkestra - Ampgrave
Les Georges Leningrad - Sangue Puro
Animal Collective - Hollindagain
The Octopus Project and Black Moth Super Rainbow - The House of Apples and Eyeballs
Battles - EP B&C

Signles, eps, etc.
Panda Bear - Carrots & Bro's (both singles)
Animal Collective - People (EP)
Patrick Wolf - Accident and Emergency (single and guilty pleasure)
Made in Mexico - Yes, We Can! (single)
Excepter - KKKKK (single)
Feist - Open Season (remix and collab record)
Raccoo-oo-oon - Death at Prospect Peak (cassette)
Born Ruffians - Hedonistic Me & This Sentence Will Ruin/Save Your Life (singles)

[Bloodline666]

Slayer - Christ Illusion
Lamb Of God - Sacrament
Hatebreed - Supremacy
Cradle Of Filth - Thornography

[krissy]

http://docopenhagen.blogspot.com/2006/12/top-50-music-videos-of-2006.html

[Morningstar]

Jack's Mannequin - Everything in Transit
Something Corporate - Leaving Through The Window

:jess:

[The Captain]

They released music in 2006?



I'm never up on current music and more or less prefer it that way. Every once in a while, a new artist will catch my ear, but I'm completely happy to listen to what I consider the 'classics' and the latest work from those artists, at least until they completely jump the shark and I have to resort to only listening to their older stuff. I might give the latest Jay-Z a listen when I get the chance. That said, I did enjoy the latest offerings from Bruce, David Gilmour, Tony Bennett, Norah Jones, DMB and Pearl Jam, but I haven't really come across any newer artists this year other than Belle And Sebastian and DCFC, who are once again, not exactly new anyway.

Take care all.

[Slade]

'Stadium Arcadium' by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
'Light Grenades' by Incubus.

Both awesome.

Haven't bought any other albums from 2006. Apart from those two, there's been nothing else that's really interested me in new music. I mainly buy older albums.

[Spatvark]

Evanescence (http://www.last.fm/music/Evanescence/) - The Open Door (http://www.last.fm/music/Evanescence/The+Open+Door/)
HORSE the Band (http://www.last.fm/music/HORSE+the+Band/) - The Mechanical Hand (http://www.last.fm/music/HORSE+the+Band/The+Mechanical+Hand/)
NOFX (http://www.last.fm/music/NOFX/) - Wolves in Wolves' Clothing (http://www.last.fm/music/NOFX/Wolves+in+Wolves'+Clothing/)
Placebo (http://www.last.fm/music/Placebo/) - Meds (http://www.last.fm/music/Placebo/Meds/)
菅野よう子 (Yoko Kanno) (http://www.last.fm/music/%E8%8F%85%E9%87%8E%E3%82%88%E3%81%86%E5%AD%90/) - Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. Solid State Society O.S.T (Not on Last.FM yet)

Got a fair few other albums, but these have been the five I've listened to the most this year.

[musicsoccer]

Oh boy, so many songs throughout the year. Here are just a few:

Evanescence
Weird Al Yankovic(sp)
Coheed and Cambria
Lacuna Coil
AFI
Rhianna
Final Fantasy XII
Disturbed

Many more (sorry, i don't really know album titles but its obviously thier newer one)

[Chloe.]

Christina Aguilera ~ Back To Basics
Pussycat Dolls ~ PCD
Rihanna ~ A Girl Like Me
Beyonce ~ B'Day
P. Diddy ~ Press Play
Justin Timberlake ~ FutureSex LoveSounds. :heart:
Nelly Furtardo ~ Loose
Robbie Williams ~ Rudebox.

And I can't think of any more. :bigsmile:

[Wild0ne]

Well how about:

Land of Confusion - Disturbed
The Kill - 30 Seconds to Mars
Love Like Winter - AFI
The Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin
Lips Like Morphine - Kill Hannah
Ladies and Gentlemen - Saliva
Pain - Three Days Grace

Good Stuff!!

[Burtsplurt]

Joanna Newsom - Ys.

I was going to list a few others, but Ys is so awesome that I don't want to bring it down with merely "good" albums.

[Cz]

Not that much, actually. Whereas 2005 was chock-full of great albums, I can't think of a single brilliant record that came out in 2006. Guillemots' Through The Windowpane is perhaps the closest this year got to something spectacular, but even that seems to be a bit of an overstatement.

So yeah, try a little harder in 2007, please. :D

[Eiko Guy]

Christina aguilera back to basics I love her song hurt
Nelly furtado Loose I love say it right
beyonce b day to the left to the left much?
Evanescence call me when your sober kicks so mch booty
jessie mccartney right where you want me
Ciara OMG I love her song promise and get up One I can dance to and the other I can be sexy to ;)
Pussy cat dolls PCD I just love all of that
I'm so gay...but Im okay with that

[Moose Knight]

I THINK THE BEST ALBUM RELEASED THIS YEAR WAS KINGS OF METAL BY MANOWAR EXCEPT THAT WASN'T RELEASED THIS YEAR

[Renmiri]

Il Nino - One Nation Underground

[Elite Lord Sigma]

I'm not up into modern music, as I regard most of it as crap. Weird Al's new songs are the only thing that really caught my interest. Otherwise, it was mainly a bunch of songs that were either totally pathetic or rap/hip-hop (which I hate).

[Shine On...]

Mmm, so many. I'll forget a lot, but oh well.

Albums:
Joanna Newsom - Ys (My favourite album of this year. Pure beauty.)
Prurient - Troubled Sleep
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
I Am Robot And Proud - The Electricity In Your House Wants To Sing
Glissandro 70 - s/t
The Blow - Paper Television
Sandro Perri - Plays Polmo Polpo
The Creeping Nobodies - Sound of Joy
Lullabye Arkestra - Ampgrave
Les Georges Leningrad - Sangue Puro
Animal Collective - Hollindagain
The Octopus Project and Black Moth Super Rainbow - The House of Apples and Eyeballs
Battles - EP B&C

You've got a rather nice list there. I'd have to say that a couple of those stand out big for me and are listed below.

1. Ratatat - Classics
2. Battles - EP B&C
3. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
4. Les Georges Leningrad - Sangue Puro
5.Venetian Snares - Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms
6. The Fountain Soundtrack
7. ¡Forward, Russia! - Give Me A Wall
8. Joanna Newsom - Ys
9. The Octopus Project and Black Moth Super Rainbow - The House of Apples and Eyeballs
10. Test Icicles - For Screening Purposes Only
11. Cursive - Dorothy At Forty (Single)

That All I can think of right now.

(Those are in no particular order just numbered for ease)

[Timber Maniac]

Nice list Aurey person!

k, here's me copying and pasting a top ten list I made at another forum three weeks ago:


Well alright guys and gals (I'm the ultimate musical layman and I suck @ descriptions so bear with me):




10.) Pinetop Seven - Beneath Confederate Lake

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...though actually it's mostly B-Sides and unreleased material from 2005 (when the epic The Night's Bloom was released.) There are a few new songs though. Pinetop Seven blends the sounds of both American Folk and Country. They are also from Chicago, and many influences from other local artists are pretty evident here. Chi-Town rulessss

Listen to: The Western Ash, Hurry Home Dark Cloud, Beneath Confederate Lake


09.) The Blow - Paper Television

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Fun, catchy, glitchy pop album. Short and sweet as well clocking in at about half an hour. I prefer The Blow over The Microphones, but I'm not really much of a Microphones fan. Few boring tracks, but some really great ones as well. Good album.

Listen to: Parenthesis, Babay, Fists Up


08.) Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies

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My favorite member of the NP in his latest solo release. Really fun and charming album. Bejar has a really weird-ish but great voice.

Listen to: European Oils, Your Blood, Priests Kness


07.) Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

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Not as good as Sonic Nurse imo, but still a great effort by the Youth. One of
the shortest and most accessible SY albums as well.

Listen to: Incinerate, Jams Run Free, Lights Out


06.) Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

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Dunno whether to label this as "alt-country" or just standard country music without all of the mainstream CMT cheesiness. Whatever it is, it's good.
Neko Case has a fiery voice and Fox Confessor is really soulful.

Listen to: Star Witness, John Saw that Number, Margaret vs Pauline


05.) Magnolia Electric Co. - Fading Trails

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Same dreary, somber stylings of Jason Molina, but also one of his most accessible albums yet as well. "Magnolia Electric Co." by Songs Ohia was my favorite Molina project so far, but this comes pretty close.

Listen to: Don't Fade on Me, Montgomery, Lonesome Valley


04.) Fern Knight - Music for Witches and Alchemists

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The latest group to emerge from Philly's "Psychadelphia" movement, but unlike the rest of them, they're actually quite good and distinguishable. Recommending this if you're into Bunyan, etc..

Listen to: Lintworme Pt 1, The Dirty South, W. memphis


03.) Girl Talk - Night Ripper

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I had limited experience with mashup art prior to Girl Talk, but I loved this and I would say Night Ripper is a good way to intro yourself to the genre. Great selection of music mixed so well with one another. With Night Ripper, you don't get just a whole bunch of songs made by other people getting mashed up with one another, but unique individual tracks created by Greg Gillis in the process (ballin').

Listen to: Smash Your Head, Warm It Up, Double It Up


02.) My Latest Novel - Wolves

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Loving this. Very original and powerful album. Great blend of folk and post-rock sounds and I love the tribal chants scattered throughout. I think there is only one track I can say definitely sucks, but otherwise a masterpiece.

Listen to: Learning Lego, When We Were Wolves, The Reputation of Ross Francis


01.) Joanna Newsom - Ys (Ees)

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Yeah, so I bought into the hype machine. So what? It's a lovely album. Despite the extremely lengthy tracks, Joanna doesn't let up once and fails to bore you. Every individual song is it's own fairy tale. It feel's like you're carried off to a different place when listening to Ys. Just beautiful.

Listen to: Emily, Sawdust & Diamonds, Cosmia


Honorable Mentions: Pavement - Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition, Espers - II, Islands - Return to the Sea, Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of this Country, The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes.

Quite serious about those last two. Fun, catchy albums.

Well, see you guys next year.

[Mitch]

The Datsuns - Smoke and Mirrors/Stuck Here For Days
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia


Those are my favourites

[Xander]

02.) My Latest Novel - Wolves


Yessss <33

Thanks for the list, might check out some of those others.

[The Captain]

Just got the album for the holidays and it blew me away:

'The Crane Wife' - The Decemberists




Take care all.

[Jessweeee♪]

How to Save a Life~The Fray

[DK]

Most of the albums I got this year were from years past, and a couple of leaks that aren't officially out yet.

Two I can think of that I DID like from this year are Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death and The Mars Volta - Meccamputechture.

[Boney King]

My Playlist of 2006

Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Fear Before The March Of Flames - The Always Open Mouth
HORSE The Band - Pizza (worth the purchase solely for their fantastic rendition of the "T.M.N.T." theme song)
Tool - 10,000 Days
Alexisonfire - Crisis
This Is Hell - Sundowning
The Early November - The Mother, The Mechanic, And The Path
Thursday - A City By The Light Divided

[KaintheDragoon80]

I am really not a fan of today's music (My favorite genre being black metal, especially the first true black metal albums), but here is a list of albums this year I enjoyed:

An Albatross - Blessphemy (Of the Peace Beast Feastgiver and the Bear Warp Kumite)
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Cradle of Filth - Thornography
Darkthrone - The Cult is Alive
Enslaved - Ruun
Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
Himsa - Hail Horror
Horse the Band - Pizza
I - Between Two Worlds
Into Eternity - Scattering of Ashes
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Korpiklaani - Tales Along this Road
Mercenary - The Hours that Remain
Moonspell - Memorial
Rhapsody of Fire - Triumph or Agony
Sonata Arctica - For the Sake of Revenge
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
Summoning - Oath Bound
Zao - The Fear is what Keeps us Here

My overall favorite album of the year would have to be "Kill" by Cannibal Corpse.

A disappointing year for music in my opinion.