After my last thread about possible forthcoming great albums for this year, I think it is highly apparent that most of us are ready to spew forth with our top five lists for 2006.

SOOOOO....

Here are my requests for everyone:


TOP 5 ALBUMS OF 2006

TOP 5 CONCERTS OF 2006

TOP 5 SONGS OF 2006 (can include 12" mixes, bootleg mixes, whatever ya like)



Now get to it!

do the albums and songs have to be from this year?

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

yes - hence 'best of 2006'

Anx said:

meh. i figured it'd be the best joints you've heard during the year, not strictly from it.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

i could add TOP 5 REISSUES if that would help.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

I'm guessing you won't get around to your 2006 picks until maybe 2026?

sextonseven said:

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Anx said:

i don't have any re-issues, so unfortunately it wouldn't.

*pops outta thread*

Top 5 Albums Of 2006:

1) The Eraser - Thom Yorke
2) The Avalanche - Sufjan Stevens
3) Idlewild - Outkast
4) The Information - Beck
5) 3121 - Prince

Top 5 Songs Of 2006

1) Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan
2) Cellphone's Dead - Beck
3) Ain't Talkin' - Bob Dylan
4) Pittsfield - Sufjan Stevens
5) Skip Divided - Thom Yorke

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

i'm sorry - was this thread ambiguous?

Anx said:

no way, friend of friends!

Before I get into my top 5...FYI...

http://www.prince.org/msg/8/206926

TOP 5 ALBUMS OF 2006

1. On The Jungle Floor, Van Hunt
2. St. Elsewhere, Gnarls Barkley
3. Corrine Bailey Rae, Corrine Bailey Rae
4. Donuts, J Dilla
5. The Information, Beck

TOP 5 CONCERTS OF 2006

1. Steely Dan
2. Van Hunt

TOP 5 SONGS OF 2006

1. Being A Girl, Van Hunt
2. Love, J Dilla feat. Pharaoh Monche
3. Monkey Suite, Madvillain
4. The Last Time, Gnarls Barkley
5. Crazy, Gnarls Barkley

I guess. subject to change.

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Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Albums:

1. Goldfrapp - Supernature
2. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
3. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
4. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
5. Hector Buitrago - Conector

Concerts:

1. Nine Inch Nails / Bauhaus / Peaches - June 17th at Jones Beach
2. Madonna - July 2nd at Madison Square Garden
3. Van Hunt - May 8th at the Canal Room
4. Goldfrapp - May 15th at Irving Plaza
5. Nellie McKay - June 4th at Joe's Pub
Honorable mention goes to The Bellrays - June 12th at Joes Pub. They are a must-see live. That's some great rock and soul right there.

Songs:

1. Pull Shapes - The Pipettes
2. Razor Love - Deadsy
3. If Looks Could Kill - Camera Obscura
4. Altisimo - Hector Buitrago
5. Black Sweat - Prince

Albums
1) Beck - The Information
2) Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
3) Massive Attack - Collected
4) Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords
5) Prince - 3121


Honourable mentions:
Depeche Mode - Violator, Music for The Masses + Songs of Faith & Devotion reissues
Scott Walker - Tilt


Concerts:
Morrissey - Leeds Town Hall, April 20th
Massive Attack - Harewood House, June 24th


Top 5 songs]
1)Morrissey - You Have Killed Me
2)Beck - New Round
3)Massive Attack - Live With Me
4)Prince - Black Sweat
5)Aphex Twin - Fenix Funk 5

Albums:

Wierd Al - Straight Outta Lynwood
Prince - 3121
Beck - The Information
Peaches - Impeach My Bush
Miho Hatori - Ecdysis

Songs:

Wierd Al - Trapped in the Drive Thru/Weasel Stomping Day
Pet Shop Boys - Psychological
Prince - Fury
Beck - We Dance Alone
Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians - No Dinero

Concerts:

Madonna
Edie Brickell
Goldfrapp
Nitzer Ebb
Peaches I am sure will be fantastic in Dec.

Top Albums:

Impeach My Bush - Peaches
Supernature - Goldfrapp (gets in on a technicality sice it was releases in US this year)
The Information - Beck
FutureSexLoveSounds - JT (I know I'm gonna get hell for this one)
The Eraser - Thom Yorke

Honorable mentions: Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast, Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom, Scissor Sisters - Tah-Da! (Bonus Disc, NOT the main disc)

Top Songs:

Hanky Code - Peaches
Rick Rubin - Spank Rock
3121 - Prince
Satin Chic - Goldfrapp
Making Ladies - Scissor Sisters

Honorable Mentions: Tent in Your Pants - Peaches, Fergalicious - Fregie, Pose - Justin Timberlake, The Horrible Fanfare... - Beck

Top Concerts:

Peaches w/ Eagles of Death Metal - The Vic, Chicago
Madonna - United Center, Chicago (The second night)*
Madonna - United Center, Chicago (The third night)*
Prince and Tamar - Congress Theater, Chicago
Madonna - United Center, Chicago (The first night)*

*Listed as seprate shows cuz some were just plain better than the others, not to mention I was close enough the second night to touch her glittered pumps!

I'm CERTAIN I am probably forgetting something and this is just how I feel today, but overall I think this year was mostly musically.

Albums:

Alice Smith - For Lovers, Dreamers and Me
The Roots - Game Theory
Beck - The Information
Van Hunt - On the Jungle Floor
Prince - 3121

Songs:
Alice Smith - Love Endeavor
Here I Come - The Roots
Game Theory - The Roots
Beck - Dark Star
Van Hunt - Hot Stage Lights

Concerts:
Lefties Soul Connection
Popa Chubby

...also the only two I've seen this year yet. Going to see Lychee Lassi on Thursday though (check this: http://www.youtube.com/wa...2STY&eurl= ) and The Roots in November.

Just gonna do albums for now,

1) Yo La Tengo
2) The Roots
3) Basement Jaxx
4) Gnarls Barkley
5) Hidden Cameras

albums

The Captain and the Kid- Elton John
Rockford- Cheap trick
3121-Prince
On the Jungle foor- Van Hunt
Ananda-Paulina Rubio

Singles

Cosy Prisons- a-Ha
Wouldnt have it any other way -Elton John
Love -Prince
Hoy- Paulina Rubio
Roni's Song- John Crawford

Concerts

a-ha (live in chile) i saw it on DVD
Rick Springfield
Prince (the butter show)
Bacon Brothers NYC
Air Supply BBkings
Mariah MSG

Honorable mentions

So Amazin (single)- Christina Milian (defjams biggest mistake letting her go)
Fired Up- Jessica Simpson (underrated album,thanks to Nick the pussy)
Vengo Con to (music video)- Mayra Veronica
12 Gardens Live- Billy Joel ( one of the best Live cds ever)
Little Willies- low key release from Norah
Hurt No more- Miss Issa (CD)


Looking forward too in late 2006 and early 2007

MYA (January)
Amerie (Febraury)
Duran Duran
a-Ha (summer 2007)
Norah Jones (march)
George Michael (November) cd+dvd
Mariah Carey Live cd+dvd ?
Girls Aloud- Best of ++ (out now, DVD november)
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albums

1. You in Reverse - Built To Spill
2. Supernature - Goldfrapp
3. Standing In the Way of Control - The Gossip
4. The Information - Beck
5. Ta-Dah! - The Scissor Sisters

concerts

Frank Black at The Clipper 09/09 - Solo Acoustic
The Twighlight Singer at Neumo's
John Wesley Harding with the Minus Five at the Tractor Tavern
Sleater-Kinney at the Showbox (This might've been Late Late December).

bc

Hmmm.....let me see now...what are five greatest hits collections that were released this year that I bought?

Albuns
01. St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley
02. Information - Beck
03. 3121 - Prince
04. Rudebox 74 - Robbie Williams
05. Future Sex/Love Sounds - Justin Timberlake

Songs
01. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
02. Think I'm In Love - Beck
03. Black Swan - Thom Yorke
04. Chronometrophobia - Outkast
05. Chop Me Up - Justin Timberlake feat. Timbaland & Three-6-Mafia

TOP 5 ALBUMS OF 2006
1. Prince- 3121
2. Goldfrapp- Supernature
3. Justin Timberlake- Future Sex/Love Sounds
4. Nelly Furtado- Loose
5. The Killers- Sam's Town

TOP 5 Songs OF 2006
1. My Love- Justin Timberlake ft. T.I.
2. Daybreak- Janet Jackson
3. Maneater- Nelly Furtado
4. When You Were Young- The Killers
5. Promiscuous- Nelly Furtado

lastdecember said:

Definitely

TOP FIVE ALBUMS

1. Peaches - Impeach My Bush
2. Beck - The Information
3. Eagles of Death Metal - Death By Sexy
4. Grey Gardens - Original Cast Recording
5. Sandra Bernhard - Everything Bad & Beautiful

(Honorable mention: Neil Young, Primal Scream, Sean Lennon, Basement Jaxx, The Decemberists, Goldfrapp)

TOP FIVE CONCERTS

1. Peaches - The Vic, Chicago
2. Sonic Youth - Lollapalooza
3. eels - Lollapalooza
4. Tamar w/ Prince - Congress Theatre, Chicago
5. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - The Vic, Chicago

(Honorable mention: The Go! Team, Raconteurs, Venus Hum (whose albums i still need to check out))

TOP FIVE SONGS

1. Peaches - Tent in Your Pants
2. Primal Scream - Country Girl
3. Eagles of Death Metal - I Want You So Hard
4. Prince - Love
5. Basement Jaxx - Hey U

(Honorable mention: Prince, "Black Sweat" - I love every remixed version I've heard of this song, though I'm still trying to make some kind of peace with the original version. Go know.)


Kind of a weird, patchy year full of skanky music, marked of course by me famming out over Peaches all year. Coulda been worse, I guess...
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Wait until my annual Pazz and Jop thread!

Peaches is certainly up there, though.

Top Five Albums

1) Scott Walker – The Drift
2) Bob Dylan - Modern Times
3) Bonnie Prince Billy – The Letting Go
4) Pernice Brothers – Live a Little
5) The Handsome Family – The Last Days of Wonder

Top Five Songs

1) Bob Dylan - Spirit on the Water
2) Destroyer - Your Blood
3) Mountain Goats - Half Dead
4) Drive-By Truckers - Space City
5) Bonnie Prince Billy - I Called You Back

in no order

Album

1. Donald Fagen - Morph the Cat
2. The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier
3. Arctic Monkeys - Some lame title
4. Rockford - Cheap Trick
5. Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio

Concerts

1. Radiohead - The Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA - 6.23.06
2. Fiona Apple - The Mountain Winery, Saratoga, CA - 6.30.06
3. Arctic Monkeys - Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA - 3.13.06
4. Ween - The Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA - 7.22.06
5. Tamar/Prince - The Fillmore Theater, San Francisco, CA - 1.30.06

Songs

1. Put Your Records On - Corrine Bailey Rae
2. Inaction - We Are Scientists
3. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley
4. White Gurl - E40
5. Ain't Got No, I Got Life (Groovefinder Remix) - Nina Simone

(kicking myself for not yet getting around to checking out Snow Patrol, Eagles of Death Metal, the new Thom Yorke album, the new Ali Farka Toure album, and the new one from the Roots. )