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Yes, it's that time of year: Favourite album of 2006


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for me:

Tom Waits - Orphans

Adam Green - Jacket Full Of Danger

Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You blah blah blah

and not sure if it counts but,

The La's - BBC Sessions

<edit> i probably would put Modern Times in there actually.

it's been a strange year for albums, plenty of albums ive liked and enjoyed, but in 10 years time the only thing i can see me pulling out and listening to again is the above to be honest.

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I see we aren't sticking to a strict top ten format or anything so i'll just use my own.

Good

My Latest Novel - Wolves

Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Lightyears In the Belly of a Mountain

Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country

Howling Bells - Howling Bells

Peter Bjorn and John - Writers Block

TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

Guillemots - Through the Window Pane

Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas

Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis

Mystery Jets - Making Dens

Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors

Richard Hawley - Coles Corner

Roddy Woomble - My Secret Is My Silence

Dresden Dolls - Yeah, Virginia

Liars - Drums Not Dead

Band of Horses - Everything All of the Time

The Mediocre

Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital

Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics

Placebo - Meds

The Pure Crap

Hope of the States - Left

Best Compilation: Arab Strap - Ten Years of Tears

Best Re-Issue: Pulp - Different Class

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Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Lightyears In the Belly of a Mountain

Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country

Guillemots - Through the Window Pane

Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis

Best Compilation: Arab Strap - Ten Years of Tears

Best Re-Issue: Pulp - Different Class

Waiting on my copy of the Sparklehorse arriving - for some reason i've held of on buying it, though what i've heard would imply it will be straight on my list.

Camera Obscura album was good, but with the exception of "Lloyd..." i think i prefer 'Underachievers...".

Guillemots album was good, but i'd have to put it on my disappointments list - i'd been hoping for an out-and-out pop! album (ie a whole load of "Made Up Love Song" and "Trains To Brazil"), so it wasn't quite what i hoped for.

Not got Jarvis yet, but will.

Almost agree on Arab Strap but i kind of wish they'd gone for a more comprehensive double CD of EP/single/compilation tracks. The Broadcast compilation is also ace.

The Pulp re-issues look good, i'm waiting on 'This Is Hardcore' arriving. My re-issue of the year would, however, have to be Pavement's "Wowee Zowee: Sordid Sentinels Edition".

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tool - 10,000 days

army of flying robots-discography

cult of luna-somewhere along the highway

enablers-output negative space

Meshuggah-Nothing-Re-Release

nasum-grind finale

ostinato-chasing the form

pearl jam-pearl jam

rotten sound-consume to contaminate

Sick Of It All-Death To Tyrants

p j harvey - the peel sessions 1991 - 2004

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I got the new NFG album but its rubbish

As expected! I didn't really dare to hope they'd release something good. Pop punk and everything to do with it has felt a little tired this year. The new Sugarcult album's not bad though. The opening track "Lights Out" is also the title of a Letterkills song - the band T-Shirt Ryan swapped for with Airin. (But the Letterkills song is better)

Moving on...

Head Automatica's Popaganda was a solid pop album.

Dusk And Summer by Dashboard had some decent tracks.

The Banks O' The Dee by Bob Knight was fucking great. :p Haha.

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Sunn O)))/Boris ~ Altar (2 disc)

Red Sparowes ~ Every Red Heart Shines Toward the Red Sun

Muse ~ Black Holes and Revelations

ISIS ~ In The Absence Of Truth

Regina Spektor ~ Begin To Hope

Howling Bells ~ Howling Bells

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Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country

This one would definitely be very high on my list. Also the best gig I saw in Aberdeen this year, Razzle Dazzle Rose was incredible.

Regina Spektor ~ Begin To Hope

Another good choice, although I've probably listened more to Mary Ann Meets the Gravediggers this year, this is still an amazing album. A much 'bigger' sounding album than anything else she's done, but I do miss a bit of the more ragged sounding stuff on Soviet Kitsch.

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Can't pick one, so here's a buncha favourites:

If we're talkin' new material:

LOST CHERREES - Free To Speak..... But Not To Question

OI POLLOI - Ar Ceol Ar Canan Ar-a-mach

THE KING BLUES - Under The Fog

CHUMBAWAMBA - A Singsong And A Scrap

SUICIDE BID - The Rot Stops Here

SONIC BOOM SIX - The Ruff Guide To Genre-Terrorism

REFUSE/ALL - Have A Happy Holiday In Guantanamo Bay

And collections:

iCON A.D. ...Lest We Forget

THE CRAVATS - The Land Of The Giants: The Best Of Jazz Punk Colossals The Cravats

Anti-Society (Anarcho Punk Compilation Vol. 3)

Anti-Capitalism (Anarcho Punk Compliation Vol. 4)

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