Para?noid on 9/12/2006 at 17:31
Dunno about others they've got a new album coming out next year though should be awesome to the max Earth are an amazing band
ACT SMILEY on 9/12/2006 at 19:27
Adequate Seven - Here on Earth.
Fun, bouncy and rather catchy. With trumpets. Maybe not the most sophisticated of things, but one of those things that tends to involve a little too much dancing around like an idiot.
Monkey Swallows The Universe - The Bright Carvings.
Charming acoustic stuff.
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Ridiculous and all the better for it.
The rest of the stuff I listened to this year was either old or not really all that good, so listing some other stuff for the sake of it would be rather pointless.
David on 9/12/2006 at 19:59
We've got the Muse album at work, however I didn't buy it myself, so it's not on my list.
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
Chasing Cars, Hands Open, Fire to the Third Bar and You're All I Have are fantastic tracks. This is probably my album of the year based on the amount of time it's spent in my car.
BBC Radio 1 - Live Lounge
A compilation album of 40 live tracks, about half of which are covers, by 'current' groups playing on (in?) Jo Whiley's Live Lounge. Fantastic stuff from artists like Foo Fighters, Corrine Bailey Ray, Lily Allen & Lemar.
The Feeling - Twelve Stops and Home
Very different from most of the other current groups. Very easy to listen to and every one is horribly catchy.
Fratelis - Costello Music
Every single track on this album is fantastic. Also kudos at getting the word "cunts" into a song and not having in censored on the radio.
Elton John - The Captain and the Kid
My mother was a big Elton John fan and I grew up listening to quite a lot of his music, so I guess it's inevitable that I like this new album.
The follow up to Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is a great album with seemingly more emphasis on his piano than some of his previous albums, which I think is a good thing!
Razorlight's self-titled album and the Arctic Monkey's album were both good, but just didn't quite have that thing that turns an album from good to great.
I should have bought the Muse album, The Killer's Sam's Town and Lily Allen's Alright Still. Maybe I will get them for Christmas \o/
TheGreatGodPan on 9/12/2006 at 21:01
I'm kind of surprised Wolfmother has got so much attention. There are plenty of doom metal and stoner rock bands out there, and what I've heard of them doesn't make them seem all that distinctive. I'm not saying any of their success is undeserved, I just wish (for example) Pentagram could have been so fortunate.
ercles on 9/12/2006 at 22:14
Since when were Wolfmother doom metal or stoner rock? Although I don't know much about metal, after hearing stoner rock being associated with bands like Kyuss (who some people consider the kings of stoner rock) I see no connection here whatsoever.
I own the album (what a waste of money that was), and it just sounds to me like a band trying to sound like a mix of 70's rock bands, with an Ozzy wannabe at the head. The fact that the songs are pretty damn dull never really helped either.
Senath on 10/12/2006 at 00:15
Erm, I'd have to go with 10,000 Days, I guess, seeing how that's the sole album I've bought that actually came out in 2006, though I've been meaning to buy Drudkh's Blood in Our Wells for quite some time. I'm aware a lot of people despised it, or at least found it thoroughly disappointing, but I liked it quite a bit. I found the title track and the companion one to be thoroughly atmospheric and generally awesome. Same with most of the disc, actually, though "Rosetta Stoned" can be grating and "Right In Two" annoys me with the line about giving monkeys thumbs, given that monkeys already have them. Incidentally, I saw Tool in concert recently; their performance was astounding.
As far as Mastodon goes, I'll admit I haven't actually sat down and listened to an album. I did see them in concert, though (they opened for Tool), and I can't say I was terribly impressed. The vocals threw me, to an extent. I realize that sounds weird given that I've listened to, and liked, black metal screeching from the likes of Emperor and Satyricon.
With regards to albums that I've liked that I acquired during 2006 (not that anyone actually cares), I'd have to go for In The Nightside Eclipse by the aforementioned Emperor, Huldrafolk by Wyrd, and both albums by Darkspace. The latter two/three almost count as 2006 releases, given that they were reprinted from absurdly small initial print runs (1000 and 500, respectively) this year.
Tocky on 10/12/2006 at 07:27
Muse is just too theatrical for me I guess. I mean christ, spagetti western music on knights of cydonia? A shame since the techno dance/guitar thing almost worked on a few tracks. I guess I can see how some of you liked the over the top thing but the parody was hilarity for me.
Ercles nailed My Chemical Romance, as much as it shames me. I had such high hopes after Three Cheers. Also nailed was Stitches take on The Lips.
10,000 DAYS. Even the filler was on mood. Thier previous works had me waiting through the banal for the next track to begin. It is thier best and not just because it makes monkeysee cry.
Noid so help me if Earth turns out to be another godspeed my black ass....
suewan on 10/12/2006 at 09:40
Okay, I'm officially middle-aged. I think I haven't bought one album all year. I don't even know half the artists on this thread. *Hangs head in shame*
Tocky on 10/12/2006 at 18:57
Yes. Shame on you for getting old and having responsibilities. If you aren't an internet music bum you have wasted your life.
Anyway, another thing I agree with ercles about is that wolfmother is not metal. It is closer to The White Stripes than metal. Has that same choppy beat so much Brit music has. Not bad, just not metal. Disturbed is metal and nowhere near bad as some would lead you to believe. It has the metal sameness but there is a samness with the campy stuff a lot listen to here that they would never admit.
To hell with there being any "right music" to listen to.
Abysmal on 10/12/2006 at 19:15
2006 was slower for me; mostly I've been a big dork catching up on back-catalog stuff. In addition to the fabulous Muse album, Beck, etc (I'll also throw in Mogwai's Mr. Beast), the NOLF in me enjoyed Bitter:Sweet's sultry The Mating Game. I'm drawing a blank trying to think of others (well yeah that Espers album is tops, and seriously fuck Joanna Newsom).
