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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?
Well the realease I'm waiting for isn't out until December 19th and that's the new Nas album.
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"
Um... the newest Dresden Dolls CD, I suppose. :)
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.
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.
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
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
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
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
Birdman & Lil Wayne - Like Father Like Son
And...
Jay Z - Kingdom Come
I've only bought one album this year: Pearl Jam's Self Titled. Needless to say, it rocks. :cool:
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.
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.
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)