Best music of the year?

Ah..okay..

This year has been pretty good..

Ayumi Hamasaki - Missunderstood
Otsuka Ai - Love Cook

These were released in the beginning of 06 but I am still listening to them..some great music [if music is more to you than two guitars, drums, and a bass]

Fey - Faltan Lunas

This totally came out of left field, after Fey's excellent Vertigo double album [in English and Spanish] more than two years ago, this was the shocker of the year

Couple this with two new Yaiko singles in less than half a year [Go my way, Start Line, which are both very fun] and the rerelease of Pink Floyd's Pulse [DVD and concert CD, which are both excellent if you've never bother to check them out] and it's been a rather decent year

Plus the Xenosaga Episode III soundtrack is incredible, more on the level of Mitsuda's wonderful Xenogears [and it's not even Mitsuda!~]

[coughs, holds in a giggle] sorry for not discussing real music...
 
[quote name='The Don']Streetlight Manifesto's Keasby Knights.[/quote]

fuck YES fuck YES fuck YES. I can't believe that one escaped me. I've been listening to it at least once a day since it came out on my ride to school. Lately I've been pulling it back and trying to listen to other stuff, but I keep coming back to it.

Anyway, add to my list:

She Wants Revenge
Shiny Toy Guns
 
If the new Mos Def is anything like New Danger, it will be terrible. I love Mos and Talib both, but New Danger was not a good album and Beautiful Struggle was pretty mediocre. The one track I've heard off Eardrum is a banger though, and I haven't heard anything from the new Mos but I hope it's good. I really want both of those albums to do great. As to the question, I answer as follows:

Skrapz - 12 Step Program (you are doing a disservice to yourself if you enjoy hip hop and do not buy this album, I can't stress this enough)
Sol.iLLaquists of Sound - As If We Existed (picked this up yesterday on a whim and it's a great, varied rap/soul album...don't sleep on it)
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere (forget what other people say, there's only 1 bad track on here, the only other problem is it's too short)
Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange (though not as good as Southernunderground to me)
Pack FM - WhutduzFMstand4? (another QN5 artist with a fantastic debut lp)
The Roots - Game Theory (this is honestly the first studio album from them I've mostly enjoyed)

That's all I can come up with for now, however my biggest dissapointments are:

DJ Shadow - The Outsider (while not a terrible album by any means, only about half the tracks are really good which is not what you normally get from Shadow)
Jurassic 5 - Feedback (their worst album to date...same deal as Shadow, only half the cuts are any good)
 
[quote name='Scobie']The Hold Steady - "Boys and Girls in America"

Seriously, people, there is *NO* excuse not to be listening to the Hold Steady... these guys are absolutely phenomenal (killer live shows, too).

There are a couple of free mp3's at their web site:

http://theholdsteady.com/

And some more at the requisite MySpace page:

http://www.myspace.com/theholdsteady

Best damn rock-n-roll band in the world right now.[/QUOTE]

I guess I heard about original sin, I heard the dude blamed the chick, I heard the chick blamed the snake.
 
[quote name='Mr. Anderson']Mastodon - Blood Mountain
K-OS - Atlantis
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
The Hold Steady - Boy and Girls of America

2006 has been a great year.[/QUOTE]


Dammit, I was gunna be the first to say Mastodon's Blood Mountain!

Seriously, anyone who has ever liked the sound of a guitar should give this a listen. Their mastery of the instrument is uncanny.
 
[quote name='strayfoxx']I guess I heard about original sin, I heard the dude blamed the chick, I heard the chick blamed the snake.[/QUOTE]

Tramps like us and we like Tramps! Can't wait to see these guys at the end of Nov. New album is awesome.
 
[quote name='Blind the Thief']Dammit, I was gunna be the first to say Mastodon's Blood Mountain!

Seriously, anyone who has ever liked the sound of a guitar should give this a listen. Their mastery of the instrument is uncanny.[/QUOTE]

Their mastery of everything is impeccable. I've never heard anything quite like them.
 
Thought a few CDs were pretty good, including Editors, Thom Yorke, Goldfrapp, Killers and Prince's '3121'. I liked Jurassic 5's 'Feedback', but not as much as the two before it.

My favorite CD of the year has to be 'Ta-Dah' by Scissor Sisters. It's not for everybody, but easily one of the best pop albums I've heard in a long time. Not a bad song on it, great production, the whole thing's just an absolute blast.
 
Albums that I've played a lot this year:

Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing And A Curse
The Killers - Sam's Town
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Jars of Clay - Good Monsters

I think those are the only 4 albums that came out this year that I can listen all the way through and not skip songs.

Edit: Actually, there is one more album (my friend's solo album), but that's not getting released until 2007, so I guess I'll list it next year.
 
[quote name='raregamergirl']Tv On the radio- return to cookie mountain is the album of the year so far.[/QUOTE]

This is all anyone needs to know. Buy it... Download it and then buy it... I don't care. Just listen to it.
 
Andrew WK Close Calls with Brick Walls (Import)

great CD. Doesn't reach the level of I Get Wet (nothing really does though) though i like it more than The Wolf. Really really good cd.
 
Hmm... I always forget shit but here goes:

Pearl Jam - "Pearl Jam" Best rock CD of the year, IMO.
Beck - "The Information"
Arctic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
Tool - "10,000 Days"
Jurassic 5 - "Feedback"
OutKast - "Idlewild"
Thom Yorke - "The Eraser"
Tapes 'N Tapes - "The Loon"
 
[quote name='javeryh']Tool - "10,000 Days"[/QUOTE] Shit, that should definitely be on my list. I haven't listened to it much lately though, which I guess is my excuse for not including it earlier. :lol:
 
Panacea's Ink is My Drink is now my favorite so far this year.

The others on my list are:
Hi-Tek's Hi-Teknology 2: the Chip
Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor
Ryhmefest's Blue Collar

I'm predicting Talib Kweli's Eardrum and Mos Def's Tru3 Magic will also make the list when they drop.
 
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