Top Ten New Releases of 2006

[E. Shaun]

Given that there aren't very many more new releases slated for this calendar year, it's high time for a "top ten" of the year, subjective as it is.

My faves of 2006:

1. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
2. Nina Nastasia - On Leaving
3. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
4. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
5. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - So Divided
6. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
7. Woven Hand - Mosiac
8. Ozric Tentacles - The Floor's Too Far Away
9. The Gathering - Home
10. Mogwai - Mr. Beast

Overall, I have found it to be a rather disappointing year for new releases, especially from some of the bands that I have liked for quite a few years. Of my top ten here, I've only been "impressed" by the top four...the rest were fine, in my opinion, as albums go, but not up to my expectations. This year's Tool release was probably my biggest disappointment, but the insipid Mogwai and Gathering releases were a bit of a downer as well.

Hopefully it's just an "off" year.

[Fulcrum]

I can really only nominate Milliontown by Frost* and the eponymously-titled Spock's Beard album. Prog lives!

[Johnny]

I liked the Tool album, but have only listened through a few times..it hasn't interested me enough to spend a lot of time with it.

Muse's record, OTOH, I can't get enough of. Fantastic. They keep zeroing in on their thing and doing it better each time out.

Haven't gotten the new Spock's but I sure liked Octane. I think they got better when Neal left.

[seagate]

1. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
2. Nina Nastasia - On Leaving
3. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
4. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
5. And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - So Divided
6. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
7. Woven Hand - Mosiac
8. Ozric Tentacles - The Floor's Too Far Away
9. The Gathering - Home
10. Mogwai - Mr. Beast

I'm embarrased to not have heard of any of these... :icon_eek:

However, the best release for 2006 has to be this little blues CD Blues At Chintas (http://myspace.com/seagate06)

:very happy:

[E. Shaun]

Bump!

Hey, it wasn't THAT bad a year for new releases!

[blackieC]

Whew...

It wasn't just me.


Maybe if I was into prog I would have something to get excited about, but I'm just, you know, not.

Let's pretend it's 2005 so we can rave about the New Pornographers some more.

[Thumper]

My Chemical Romance-Welcome to the Black Parade.
Christina Aguilera-Back To Basics (mainly for disc #2)
Fair-The Best Worst Case Scenario
The Raconteurs-Broken Boy Soldiers
The Roots-Game Theory
Wolfmother

[Azraphael]

My Chemical Romance-Welcome to the Black Parade.
Christina Aguilera-Back To Basics (mainly for disc #2)
Fair-The Best Worst Case Scenario
The Raconteurs-Broken Boy Soldiers
The Roots-Game Theory
Wolfmother

It scares me that Christina Aguilera gets on a "best of" anything list, other than "best of trashy pop starlets", but since I haven't heard the album in question, I'll remain content with my own confusion on this one...

I honestly don't think I bought 10 new releases this past year. There just hasn't been that much that interested me. That said, I think there should be mention (or reiteration) of the following:

Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
Tool - 10,000 Days

And, of course...

Various Artists - The CaPE III Charity Compilation (that came out this year, didn't it?) :)

Cheers,

Dave

[imagineaudio]

Im going to go ahead and second the "CaPE III compilation," mkay? Also, I'm going to need to second 10,000 days.

however, I'd also like to add, and this is only if you guys are cool with it, don't want to step on anyones toes here, just let me know if I'm over-stepping my boundries, I would like to add:

Amputechture: the mars volta
MuteMath: Mutemath (not a famously great album, but as it's their debut and they completely killed live....) Also as an interesting side note, I also nominate them for best new band featuring a keytar (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_I9LYOVpMto)

Dare I also add:

Light Grenades: incubus. as. awful. as. it. sounds.

:lol:

[Thumper]

Yeah... I just picked up the new Incubus record today.. It's pretty cool. They will never beat Morning View in my opinion though...

Oh... And I hate Christina Aguilera. BUT her new record has 2 discs. The first one is her typical pop stuff, but it's very very well done, with songs that are catchy as hell...

BUT... The 2nd disc is absolutly amazing!!! Real songs, a real band, and this girl can REALLY sing...

It's in my top 10, because it suprised the hell out of me. The first time I heard it I peed a little cause it scared me how good she is.

And... I just bought a lot of shitty records this year...

[seagate]

It's in my top 10, because it suprised the hell out of me. The first time I heard it I peed a little cause it scared me how good she is.

No doubt the girl can sing...

My top releases for this year not including my own...

Toto - Falling In Between
Kasey Chambers - Carnival
Clapton & JJ Cale - Whatever the hell it's called
John Mayer - Contiuum

[blackieC]

I haven't heard the new disc but a few years ago I saw/heard Christina sing "Beautiful" on the Letterman show with just piano and a string section and I have to admit that it was (Lord help me), moving.

I later listned to the album track and it was sqaushed flatter than Nebraska and otto'd to hell and gone.

Completely fucking ruined.



If left to her own devices she is just scary. Why couldn't the producer just let her be?


It's just sad, man.

[volthause]

Norma Jean - Redeemer
Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
He Is Legend - Suck Out The Poison
Muse - Black Holes And Revalations
Matchbook Romance - Voices

[Zoesch]

1) Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway
2) Battle of Mice - A Day Of Nights
3) Jesu - Silver
4) Callisto - Noir
5) Frontline Assembly - Artificial Soldier
6) Enslaved - Ruun
7) Intronaut - Void/Intronaut-Null
8) Kataklysm - In The Arms Of Devastation
9) Ignite - Our Darkest Days
10) Mouth Of The Architect - The Ties That Bind

Honorable mentions for

Khoma - The Second Wave
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Napalm Death - Smear Campaign
Anaal Nathrahk - Eschaton
Voivod - Katorz
Woven Hand - Mosaic (Although I still mourn the loss of 16 Horsepower)

And the biggest disappointment of the year goes to:

ISIS - In The Absence Of Truth (Special fuck you to Tool for polluting a once awesome band with their boring, insipid and uninspired view of all things prog)

[sirmillardmulch]

System of a Down
Hypnotize / Mesmerize

They brought back very raw, heavy CHUGGA guitar playing and also FUN. I listen over and over and over and over.

-Mulch.

[volthause]

System of a Down
Hypnotize / Mesmerize

They brought back very raw, heavy CHUGGA guitar playing and also FUN. I listen over and over and over and over.

-Mulch.

Those are definitely primo releases, however both were put out in '05.

[PJS]

How exiting! My first post on this forum.

I think that this has been a pretty good record year...lot's of good albums.

Top 10, not in any particular order tough:

1.Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
2.Thom Yorke - The Erase
3.Magyar Posse - Random Avenger
4.ISIS - In the absence of truth
5.The Flaming Lips - At war with the mystics
6.Scott walker - The Drift
7.Muse - Black holes and revelations
8.Mastodon - Blood mountain
9.Von Herzen Brothers - Approach
10.Magenta Scycode - IIIII

[rockdart]

MyCR - Black Parade
Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart

I'm really liking the production on the Stone Sour album

[myrtlebacker]

-Mulch.

Yeah Mulch is in my Top 10 list of records for this year too. :)



Mulch?!? by Mucopus
Get out of my Yard by Paul Gilbert
Billy Talent II by Billy Talent

[Zoesch]

Bumparooney!

Also to nominate Year Of No Light-Nord as one of the honorable mentions for this year.

[Fulcrum]

Bump...

And I completely forgot about Morph The Cat... I had a hard time moving on to other music after that found its way into my in-dash CD...

[bunnerabb]

Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart

In keeping with my tradition of never saying anything positive, I'd like to say that - while I've been a bit out of touch with this year's rock album fodder - that I firmly believe that the Von Bondies should be covered in StrypEze, rolled in rock salt and killed with pointy sticks for impersonation musicians.

[rexrode]

In keeping with my tradition of never saying anything positive, I'd like to say that - while I've been a bit out of touch with this year's rock album fodder - that I firmly believe that the Von Bondies should be covered in StrypEze, rolled in rock salt and killed with pointy sticks for impersonation musicians.

Jack White got a start on that for ya...

http://www.weekendance.com/IMG/VONBOND.jpg

[rexrode]

My favorites released in 2006:

8) Kasabian - Empire
7) The Killers - Sam's Town
6) The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
5) Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
4) Babyshambles - Down in Albion (released in US in 2006)
3) Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
1) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
1) Primal Scream - Riot City Blues

[tammikuu]

Don't forget these two:

- Celtic Frost: Monotheist
- Entombed: When in Sodom (EP)

[GeeWhoLeeo]

bob dylan - modern times
the man got his inspiration back!!

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of_Dead - So Divided
epic and wild!

[Zoesch]

So Divided was very good, but somehow I think they sorta lost if after Source tags and codes

[E. Shaun]

So Divided was very good, but somehow I think they sorta lost if after Source tags and codes

Funny...Worlds Apart is the one that really does it for me, though I like much of So Divided.

[jimmyjazz]

Pardon my French, but how fucking deef do you have to be to not realize that Xtina can really sing?

Yes, most of her pop catalog (read: "everything") is horribly overproduced and squished to hell and back, but man, that girl has pipes. She needs to gain some perspective on what it means to truly sing a song, but she has more raw talent than the vast majority of divas who have come along in the past two decades, including Mariah, Whitney, and Celine.

I think it's fucking criminal that these gals never seem to receive guidance early on from someone with anything more than $$$ in their eyes. All of them could have contributed something significant, and some still might (but probably not).

Babs Streisand has a dozen recorded performances which are more important than any one performance by any one of those gals I listed. Think about that.

[E. Shaun]

Pardon my French, but how fucking deef do you have to be to not realize that Xtina can really sing?

I've truly thought that from day one. For some reason, I've always had way more respect for her than any of her contemporaries, despite the periods of raunch and sleaze. Somehow the talent has an integrity all its own.

[David Aurora]

I've truly thought that from day one. For some reason, I've always had way more respect for her than any of her contemporaries, despite the periods of raunch and sleaze. Somehow the talent has an integrity all its own.

yeah add me to this list. she has a fucking incredible voice and even her songs are slightly more listenable than the usual pop shit.


now....i cant fucking think of 10. i got 4, but i think at least 2 of them actually came out in 2005 (although in a really small way).
* the grates- gravity wont get you high. the kind of record i would hate and vomit if i heard.....if it wasnt so damn good. not a style id usually be into, but i dunno, theres something infectious about the energy. love this fucking record.
* something for kate- desert lights. should be record of the year as far as im concerned. jesus fucking christ. these guys just keep outdoing themselves. desert lights got me through a really hard stage this year. the day of its release i listened to it 9 times.
* the deftones- saturday night wrist. i hate the deftones with a passion. a mate who loves the deftones told me he hated this record and the way he described it sounded like id dig it. i do. still wont be buying their back catalogue, but theyve done a great fucking record here
*giant drag- hearts and unicorns. dunno where to start. brilliant. love this fucking record. oh, and annie is a guest on that deftones record. "and that is why brittish people have bad teeth...."