so we're now halfway into the year and some pretty good albums have come out. some of my favorites so far are:

Islands- Return to the Sea
Murder By Death- In Bocco al Lupo
Ghostface Killah- Fishscale
I'm From Barcelona- Let Me Introduce My Friends
Final Fantasy- He Poos Clouds (nowhere near as good as Has a good home)


and i like the Gnarls Barkley and Raconteurs albums, i just wouldnt put them in my favorites category

6/5/2006 7:40:48 PM

stadium arcadium

yeah raconteurs is too short

[Edited on June 5, 2006 at 7:42 PM. Reason : fhds]

6/5/2006 7:42:23 PM

whenever these threads come up I can never remember what came out that I liked and reviewing cd's is pretty much my job.

That live Melvins cd was pretty bad ass.

6/5/2006 8:12:56 PM

can someone put some good rap cd's in here and more specifically like crunkish like memphis/houston type stuff

like good smoking music to just chill to

6/5/2006 8:15:16 PM

Slow Music - Live At The Croc
Adrian Belew - Side 3
OSI - Free
Devin Townsend - Synchestra
Tool - 10,000 Days
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime II

[Edited on June 5, 2006 at 8:31 PM. Reason : .]

6/5/2006 8:30:07 PM

^^ i think you're in the wrong thread

6/5/2006 9:21:56 PM

Tool - 10,000 Days

6/5/2006 10:11:19 PM

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
Islands - Return to the Sea
I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
Sunset Rubdown - Sunset Rubdown EP

Off the top of my head.

6/5/2006 10:12:18 PM

Oh, duh, and Fishscale.

6/5/2006 10:53:56 PM

Although it hasn't come out yet, The Eraser is bound to be good. And Detox.

[Edited on June 5, 2006 at 11:02 PM. Reason : poop]

6/5/2006 11:01:59 PM

new mastodon cd should be good whenever that comes out

6/5/2006 11:02:56 PM

what the fuck are these bands you people are naming

6/5/2006 11:05:22 PM

for some reason, i have reservations about the eraser

not that i didn't like amnesiac and its b-sides

6/5/2006 11:05:48 PM

Quote :

"what the fuck are these bands you people are naming"

You're not indie enough- get out!

6/5/2006 11:17:26 PM

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

[Edited on June 5, 2006 at 11:21 PM. Reason : .]

6/5/2006 11:21:21 PM

Busta Rhymes - The Big Bang

working its way into my favorites....12/15 ill tracks (i hate missy and Touch it and I love my bitch have been played to death)

6/5/2006 11:22:42 PM

I agree with some of the above, and will add:

Tilly & The Wall - Bottoms of Barrels
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

6/5/2006 11:25:30 PM

Thursday - A City By The Light Divided has really really grown on me.

6/5/2006 11:32:08 PM

Quote :

"You're not indie enough- get out!"

for serious

but im trying to find some good shit

i listen to 88.1 sometimes and when i hear a song i love i call their number and hit end on my cell

it saves the time so i can go home and see what song they were playing that i liked

IM TRYING

6/5/2006 11:36:39 PM

off the top of my head:

om - conference of the birds
destroyer - destroyer's rubies
belle and sebastian - the life pursuit
ghostface killah - fishscale
jesu - silver
the marked men - fix my brain
boris - pink
facedowninshit - npon
mono - you are there

there are more albums this year that i've really enjoyed, but they aren't coming to mind. so what. 2006 has been a pretty sweet year for music thus far.

6/5/2006 11:44:44 PM

that new belle and sebastian is so heavy in the streets right now!

i'll add:

built to spill - you in reverse
avett brothers - four thieves gone
margot and the nuclear so and so's - dust of retreat

6/5/2006 11:52:44 PM

avett brothers are from where i grew up.

i would agree its one of the best so far this year

6/5/2006 11:53:44 PM

yeah, i think they graduated from my highschool (mt pleasant).


oh, and that tapes n' tapes album, that's from 2006, right? it's rockin'.

6/6/2006 12:01:09 AM

ya im from concord and i think they lived there awhile. Who knows, close enough tho.

6/6/2006 12:27:53 AM

Murder By Death- In Bocco al Lupo
Boris - Pink


I completely agree with both of these. Quality stuff. I also enjoy the new Ignite album.

6/6/2006 1:54:46 AM

Trying to Think - Biopathic
Somewhere Forever - Hello Sunshine
Forget - Truth about Cats and Logs
Trampoline Taskmasters - Thirty Ways Inside
Paolo DiComenza - Infinity

6/6/2006 2:26:37 AM

yes Eraser is supposed to be good

6/6/2006 3:44:57 AM

Quasi "When the Going Gets Dark"
Scott Walker "The Drift"
Cat Power "The Greatest"
Aloha "Some Echoes"
Casey Dienel "Wind-Up Canary"
Howe Gelb "'Sno Angel Like You"
Mates of State "Bring it Back"

6/6/2006 3:55:49 AM

Quote :

"what the fuck are these bands you people are amazing"

[Edited on June 6, 2006 at 5:06 AM. Reason : rolf]

6/6/2006 5:06:34 AM

i'm such a music snob i don't think there are any good albums out this year

and there probably won't be, either

EAT IT PITCHFORK

[Edited on June 6, 2006 at 8:07 AM. Reason : ]

6/6/2006 8:07:22 AM

Quote :

"i'm such a music snob i don't think there are any good albums out this year "

agreed....but i dont think its because im a snob, i just havent heard anything i thought was halfway decent.

ive heard good stuff about stadium arcadium though, im gonna listen to it today.

6/6/2006 8:11:37 AM

aha i was just being tww pretentious

i did, however, get "The Essential Gene Autry" in the mail yesterday from Amazon and i'm about to cowboy up in hur

6/6/2006 8:28:32 AM

ahhh the irony


ps. it smells like hipster in this thread

6/6/2006 8:28:42 AM

6/6/2006 8:30:06 AM

i was being serious

6/6/2006 8:35:29 AM

too bad you said so far b/c i was going to name a bunch of albums that havent come out yet and that i havent heard yet

6/6/2006 9:32:14 AM

Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Baby Dayliner - Critics Pass Away
The Coup - Pick a Bigger Weapon

6/6/2006 11:25:13 AM

Spider Grybowski - Made in Missouri
Ernest Travers and Flip Collison - Live at the Hard Rock
Philippian Tubes - Music to Set on Fire
Trash Gordon - Plummet

6/6/2006 11:30:26 AM

Young Widows - "Settle Down City"

im going to add that to my list that really doesnt exist

6/6/2006 11:36:29 AM

The Darkness - One Way Ticket

6/6/2006 11:38:49 AM

Philly Phil - Feelin' Me
Harold and Ray - Do Like We Do
Stevie K - Comin Up in the Game
Blowhardz - Streetz iz Ill
God Knows Why - Greatest Hits Vol 2 Electric Boogaloo

6/6/2006 11:38:56 AM

Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
iForward Russia! - Give Me A Wall

these are the only albums i would consider good enough to include in a list. other albums just below these

thom yorke - the eraser
mates of state - bring it back
built to spill - you in reverse
sufjan stevens - avalanche

so far this year has sucked

[Edited on June 6, 2006 at 1:09 PM. Reason : eeeedd]

6/6/2006 1:08:44 PM

There are about five songs on Forward, Russia that I absolutely love.

The rest of it, I could take or leave it.

6/6/2006 1:11:05 PM

im still digging it, although ive taken time off from everything so far and listening to new albums. up next:

walkmen - hundred miles off
tilly and the walls - bottoms of barrels
they shoot horses don't they - boo hoo hoo boo
regina spektor - bring to hope
danielson - ships

6/6/2006 1:23:21 PM

Asobi Seksu
Grandaddy
Camera Obscura
Built to Spill
Sunset Rubdown

6/6/2006 1:24:46 PM

Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
Morningwood - morningwood

6/6/2006 1:27:06 PM

Islands - Return to Sea
I'm from Barcelona - Let me introduce my friends
His Name is Alive - Detrola

those are the only 3 I see in my top 10 at year end that I have listened to thus far

that BTS is meh, belle & sebastian is borderline, havent listened to a lot of other stuff enough to judge yet...i'm pretty backlogged with albums to listen to

6/6/2006 1:30:58 PM

^ Has Sufjan's the Avalanche been released yet?

6/6/2006 4:24:46 PM

fuck Sufjan

6/6/2006 4:26:45 PM

NO

6/6/2006 4:35:39 PM