Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......2006!!

That should be:
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

Was a toss-up for me btw Drum's Not Dead and The Eraser, went w/ The Eraser (s/o to fgti, though; He Poos Clouds is in my honourable m's with The Letting Go, Silent Shout, Donuts, and 45:33)

Stronger for me than 2005. I could vote for B&S, The Knife, FInal Fantasy, Sonic Youth, hell even the Liars album. An overlooked year in my personal canon - I'm getting nostalgia looking at this one.

Notable ommissions: Strawberry Jam, Ys

It’s either gonna be Clipse or Sonic Youth

Of course Bey and Ghost and Mission of Berma were on it that year, too. A lot of good stuff here

xp Fair enough--both those albums have one track that really stuck with me ("Incinerate" and "Ride Around Shining", respectively)

j dilla kinda towers over everything here

my favorite from 2006 might be Hello Young Lovers by Sparks - that was right when I was really getting into them, I'd heard all the good albums and was slogging through the 80s stuff. then wham, arguably their best album yet

Notable ommissions: Strawberry Jam, Ys

― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Tuesday, March 5, 2024 11:49 AM (one hour ago)

I hate "Ys"

it is extremely marmitey and listening back to it the other day it struck me that 2006 was a very strange time for uh... taste

j dilla kinda towers over everything here

donuts for sure

Gotta be Agalloch

damn, 2006 was stacked

drums not dead

Last night, got an allergy shot, ate a big burrito and fell asleep listening to the Burial S/T which I'd just got from a record fair over the weekend. Pretty blissful! That's some heavy duty vinyl Hyperdub put into the thing.

Damn, at the time I listened to a ton of Clipse, Timberlake, Ghostface, and Thom Yorke (which is a great record!). Herbert was in there too, came later to Burial and Dilla and SY. But I'm tempted to vote for my favorite Sonic Youth record. ;)

donuts and silent shout stand out as the classics, though i also deeply loved the lindstrom, herbert, ellen allien and apparat, burial, and junior boys albums. at the moment, out of those, i'm most likely to listen to so this is goodbye. also loved hell hath no fury, drums not dead, and the booka shade album a lot but haven't returned to them, so they're very tied to that time

STANDING IN THE WAY OF THE REMOTE CONTROL

michael b, not a fan of tv on the radio?

strawberry jam was 2007 i think

michael b, not a fan of tv on the radio?

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They bore me to tears, sorry

the letting go vs van occupanther ...............

It’s Silent Shout for me, but I agree that this year felt fairly weak for albums - even at the time. It’s notable how many of these selections are from very established artists.

The 2005 list looked very ostentatiously 00s to me - the twin debuts of LCD Soundsystem and MIA at the beginning of the year kind of crystallised a certain notion of the decade - but then I feel like, immediately after that point, the mid-00s started to feel like a time of searching and uncertainty, as the big trends from earlier in the decade kinda just plateaued (not fizzled out) and any purportedly-shared sense of what contemporary music might/should be “about” fell apart - which sort of set the conditions for P4K indie to temporarily move into prime position critically by the end of the decade pretty much by default, like Steven Bradbury at the Olympics.

Was going to vote for Silent Shout but then I saw Blood Mountain.

(To argue against that, you could say that MIA and especially LCD in fact aesthetically “won” the decade, as the following couple of years would demonstrate, but I don’t think that felt apparent at the time)

pretty certain the Mission of Burma album was my #1 that year.

Harvey Milk's "Special Wishes" a personal 2006 highlight.

Voting Agalloch. Though among black metal all timers, I would have voted for OM by Negura Bunget if it was an option.

Voting Agalloch. Though among black metal all timers, I would have voted for OM by Negura Bunget if it was an option.

Oops sorry for double post

Damn, I forgot this one

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back_(Country_Teasers_album)

xp Holy crap that Harvey Milk album from this year sounds amazing, ty

Leaning towards Ghostface, but I do wish TV on the Radio was nominated. (That Sonic Youth album was a late discovery, I missed it when it came out and didn't hear it until after they split.)

I feel like I do that a lot with bands and artists who have been around for a long time then finally split or pass away. New R.E.M.? New Sonic Youth? New Prince album? Yeah whatever. Then the news hits and I console myself by going back to all the later stuff I ignored.

i remember when 45:33 came out with the Nike sponsorship or whatever brand it was and being completely skeptical but that is far and away their best release.

I agree that 45:33 is the best thing LCD ever did and that TV On The Radio were wildly overrated

"Golden Age" is a banger but everything else by TVOTR? Nah

Every time I've listened to that Liars album I've assumed I'm gonna be really into it, but it never quite seems to click. This includes today when I really hoped it might have grown on me. It's like, all the elements are there but there's no real substance or something

Fair enough--to me all these year, Drums Not Dead has sounded kind of exactly like 'what would an Animal Collective album produced and performed by Radiohead sound like?'; I respect more than enjoy it, but enough for it to still be on my short-list for this particular year.

(Plus, the booklet is v cool IMO, with pedal and mic illustrated diagrams of how they made every track, so in my books that's a righteous bonus point, too)

(I should take They Were Wrong So We Drowned for a test spin soon to compare, but alas the chronology moves inexorably on)

Right? Lovely artwork. And the Radiohead meets AC description is exactly the draw for me. It just doesn't have enough flesh on its bones to quite hit in the way I'd like it to

Weak year imo but I did have a deep deep connection with Midlake at the time so I voted for that.

I think this is a good year but not a lot of what I like is listed here. Of these I would go Destroyer followed by Fiery Furnaces and Lily Allen.

donuts

Donuts, to me, feels like it came out waaay before 2006, so much so my eyes glanced over it while choosing

White Bread, Black Beer. Cooking, Throw, Dr. Abernathy to After Six still one of my favourite song runs ever

I went with Scritti too. Sometimes I think it might be their best album.

Silent Shout is one of the best albums of all-time but that's no surprise as I have said it before.

donuts… I really didn’t listen to a lot of new music during 2002-207 that wasn’t minimal house or rap or hooky trancey/proggy stuff.. huge shoutout to silent shout, that was kind of an album that shot across all scenes iirc

orchestre of bubbles would be my number two

the mission of burma record is actually my favorite record of theirs... i'm a pretty big fan as well, so i went with that.

donuts probably the "best" of these records in terms of, like... all-time classic status

I will have to give this some thought...

The albums from 2006 that I still listen to the most are probably Let's Get Out Of The Country and Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain.

“Bring me a day full of honest work / and a roof that never leaks / I’ll be satisfied” popped into my head so often at work. Adding other earworms - Roscoe, Young Bride, We Gathered in Spring - and the general calm the album brings every listen, voted Midlake.

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Is "Donuts" one of those albums everyone came to a few years after its release? I don't remember much talk about it at the time

Its reputation definitely built up over time. It's interesting because he died just prior to its release, and usually knowing it's someone's last work will temporarily blow up its profile (see last albums from David Bowie or even ATCQ), but I think it took some time for it to get the broader acclaim it now has.

my memory was that it was properly rated as a classic upon release

It didn't place in ILM's Top 50 poll of that year

For me upon its release, I placed Donuts neck-and-neck with its Stones Throw instrumental hip-hop brother release at that time (and which I still rate super-highly), Madlib's Beat Konducta Vols. 1 & 2 CD, which came out just over a month later in March 2006: https://www.discogs.com/release/648722-Madlib-The-Beat-Konducta-Vol-1-2-Movie-Scenes

(Also, I should check out that Agalloch album)

(Sampling now fwiw, and not my bag o' metal--Celtic Frost's Monotheist would be my 2006 heavy/extreme pick)

donuts was an instant classic…

pretty sure it got lots of acclaim right away? Or at least a lot of music listeners going nuts over it right away…