Good Albums Left Out Of Most Year-End Lists

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What are some of your favorite albums from 2006 that hardly got any recognition?

I really liked the Semifinalists debut album, but hardly saw it mentioned anywhere....Also The Curtain's "Calamity" & Mahogany's "Connectivity" should have got more love

― el juan (el juan), Friday, 5 January 2007 07:51 (eighteen years ago)

Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
King Khan & BBQ - What's For Dinner?
The Vicious - Alienated

― Harpal (harpal), Friday, 5 January 2007 08:00 (eighteen years ago)

Had the privilege to see King Khan & BBQ this past October. Rock & roll at its finest.

― Harpal (harpal), Friday, 5 January 2007 08:01 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I missed the Jay Reatard album before making my picks. Rats!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 5 January 2007 08:27 (eighteen years ago)

P.O.S. should be super-famous in a fair and just world.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 5 January 2007 08:28 (eighteen years ago)

Mahogany's "Connectivity" should have got more love

massive understatement

the semifinalists album is pretty good, although i'm not hugely surprised it didn't feature all that much

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 5 January 2007 08:33 (eighteen years ago)

Was there a thread on Jarvis' solo album? Can't seem to find one in the search.

― Harpal (harpal), Friday, 5 January 2007 08:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, Miho Hatori's "Ecdysis"!

That album really grew on me, but I've always had a soft spot for her.

― el juan (el juan), Friday, 5 January 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

I really liked Helios's Eingya. It's not particularly original but it's still a brilliant version of the much maligned downtempo style.

― Treblekicker (treblekicker), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

If anyone can tell me some basic stuff about King Khan and BBQ I'd be so fuckin grateful, I have a feeling they're either something I'd love or an offshoot of something I already love and all I do these days is buy comics HELP HELP!

― 808 the Bassking (Andrew Thames), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Ne-Yo
John Legend (Not even after the, ahem, overappreciation of his debut)
Tego Calderon

― The Reverend Rodney J. Greene (R. J. Greene), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

Entrance - Prayer of Death.
Gothic album of the year, tho' it wasn't made for or by Goths. It was well blogged, but didn't to catch on like it should have. My witticism about this one is that it's like if Marc Bolan had fallen in with George Harrison rather than Ringo Starr. Full of hippy Hindu darkness, glam rock swagger, big 'ol Sabbathy drones.

― bendy (bendy), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:43 (eighteen years ago)

Harvey Milk - Special Wishes

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Mono - You Are There

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:47 (eighteen years ago)

Envy - Insomniac Doze

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Friday, 5 January 2007 10:48 (eighteen years ago)

El Perro del Mar

― DavidM* (unreal), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

Sparks - Hello Young Lovers !!!!

― snowballing (snowballing), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:27 (eighteen years ago)

tilly & the wall
dresden dolls
duels

plenty, now i think about it.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:28 (eighteen years ago)

Luke Haines - Off my rocker at the art school bop

― Neil Stewart (Neil Stewart), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:33 (eighteen years ago)

Thomas Schumacher - Home

― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

Baby Bird - Between My Ears There's Nothing But Music
Sol Seppy - Bells of 1 2
Khonnor - Handwriting
Brain Donor - Drain'd Boner

Alright I admit, the last one is pretty unlistenable but the first three are fabulous.

― Kim Tortoise (petergat), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

jenny wilson
adam green
king biscuit time

fiery furnaces!?

― Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen (arnart1802), Friday, 5 January 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

"Jay Reatard - Blood Visions"

this is not unrecognized if you are maximum rock & roll. it made almost all of their writer's lists.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Well obviously Tokyo Jihen's Adult. (Some others, but I'm going to wait until I finally post my list.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

The new Bleach album. Title is long and the English translation doesn't make a whole lot of sense...something to do with the head nodding from side to side and chewing the meat:http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E5%8F%B3%E3%82%82%E5%B7%A6%E3%82%82%E6%94%AF%E9%85%8D%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E9%A0%AD%E3%81%AF%E4%BB%8A%E6%97%A5%E3%82%82%E8%82%89%E3%82%92%E9%A3%9F%E3%81%84%E3%83%A8%E3%83%80%E3%83%AC%E3%82%92%E5%9E%82%E3%82%89%E3%81%99%E3%80%82-DVD%E4%BB%98-BLEACH/dp/B000EWBUZI/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_b/250-4563880-5463419

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

kultur shock - we came to take your jobs away

― mister the guanoman (mister the guanoman), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:24 (eighteen years ago)

Oakley Hall - Gypsum Strings
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - Keep Reachin' Up
Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up

― hank (hank s), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

The Sleepy Jackson – Personality
Sloan - Never Hear The End Of It
Mates Of State – Bring It Back

― zeus (zeus), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Second King Khan & BBQ, Jay Reatard and Harvey Milk. And thanks, Bendy, for making that Entrance thing sound like the BEST FUCKING RECORD IN THE UNIVERSE, like I don't have enough shit to spend my (non) money on already.

The King Khan & BBQ Show are a two-man garage band (sorta fratrock stylee) from Germany by way of Canada, or vice-versa, or something. Gtrs, drums, shouting, with Mark "BBQ" Sultan, once of accompanying an unhinged impersario of East Indian extraction whose nom-de-drunk seems to be King Khan. Both played in Montreal's semi-legendary Spaceshits.

I first heard of King Khan on a split LP his much larger band (King Khan and his Fabulous Shrines) did with the Dirtbombs, where they at least held their own with Collins & Co. That record came out on the German Sounds of Subterrania label -- totally worth watching; they've since put out excellent records by a Black Keys-ish duo called The Tigers of Doom (better than the Keys for my money) and BBQ solo. The recent KK & BBQ record came out on In the Red.

Live show is a fucking blast. A drunken, staggering, dance party shambles of the highest order. That's the place to start.

― Adam Beales (Pye Poudre), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

Second on the Sparks.

Also, Snowglobe's Oxytocin.

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

SRSLY, The Secret Machines' album wasn't on a SINGLE end-of-year list that I saw (except mine).

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Swami put out two really great records last year in the Marked Men's Fix My Brain and Dan Sartain's Join Dan Sartain - I never saw them get a lot of a attention but then again I wasn't really looking for it so who knows. Haven't seen em on any lists though.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

The Roots Game Theory
Man Man Six Demon Bag

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

OOIOO Taiga
Danielson Ships

― Eric Harvey (eric marathonpacks), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

2nd Danielson
2nd Tilly and the Wall (*blush)
LeToya - LeToya (Luckett not Jackson; Of early Destiny's Child fame)

― earinfections (Nick Twisp), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Pearls And Brass, Jazkamer, Mission of Burma, The Thermals and Fucked Up were all on my EOY list and pretty much no-one else's

― Feargal Hixxy (DJ Mencap), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

The Thermals were not left out, I think, they even made it to Pfork. I think Get Lonely was kind of underrated. &, kind of off topic, last year S's Puking & Crying was criminally underrated.

― mrcvndrhlst (marcdrums), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Last year's last year, that is.

― mrcvndrhlst (marcdrums), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Jerry Lee Lewis - Last Man Standing

Maybe the likes of Hilburn voted for it, but by and large I don't think it got much year-end love, which it deserves; it's one of the year's most purely exciting records.

― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

JLL doing "Rock and Roll" is good. the album isn't as good as the 1979 record he did on Elektra, though.

I second the above poster who mentioned Cortney Tidwell's "Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up." It made Nashville Scene's list of significant local acts, and I wrote about her at end of year. Saw her play here two days before Xmas and she was great. Her EP, also on Ever, is good too.

Darko Rudnek's "Mhm A-ha Da-Da," that is the title more or less, lent the thing out and don't have it in front of me, on Piranha, is pretty fine, Croatian langour, echoes of Pere Ubu and Beefheart and August Darnell! And Lone Official's "Tuckassee Take," another Nashville record, gets my vote for the best record of the year that is also the most neglected.

xps

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Takka Takka - We Feel Safer at Night

Pitchfork slammed this record calling it 'polite' or something but I still expected to see it on more lists, since it's really one of the better indie rock records of 2006. I did see it on one top ten list - the L Magazine.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Jugganots, Papa Reu, Vakill, Hi Tek (I guess Al doesn't count), Fat Joe, Dilla's "The Shining"

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't see Caetano's new one on any list. But I may not have been looking hard enough.

― jimn (jimnaseum), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

SRSLY, The Secret Machines' album wasn't on a SINGLE end-of-year list that I saw (except mine).

2005 wasn't it?

also:

jenny lewis & watson twins
helene
nightmare of you
joan as policewoman

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

any rap album not by clipse or ghostface

― and what (ooo), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

2005 wasn't it?

VERY much 2006, came out in about April...

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Pitbull, Yummy Bingham, P!nk

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

any rap album not by clipse or ghostface

What about that nice Lupe Ferrigno?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

there were a lot of 'rap alternatives' this year with rhymefest and lupe and j dilla.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

...and the roots.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

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any dance album not by The Knife excluding Movements

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 6 January 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

i take that back! i was just making a cheap shot.

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 6 January 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

> I love the Envelope's "Demon"! But isn't it actually a 2005 release?

Amazon says US release wasn't until March 21, 2006.

― Wub-Fur Internet Radio (wubfur), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

any dance album not by The Knife excluding Movements

ellen allien made a fair few lists didn't it? but surely the reason for this is the perennial "dance artists disappoint when it comes to albums" problem. i liked my my and fuckpony's efforts this year but neither were top 10 for me.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

barbara morgenstern "grass is always greener"
my favourite album of last year and completely ignored it seems.
i wish she'd come and play in the uk sometime :(

― zappi (joni), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

The Envelopes album came out in 2005 in Europe.

― zeus (zeus), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

I still haven't heard the Babs :'(

The Dresden Dolls didn't deserve to be wiped off the radar so completely, but I was personally rather let down by it.

― Bodyrox feat. Luciano Pavarotti (fandango), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Hidden Cameras, agreed.
also Birdman & Lil' Wayne was really good.

― Eric Harvey (eric marathonpacks), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm surprised that the Lilys album didn't even get a vote in Jackin' Pop. It was my favorite thing they've done since Eccsame The Photon Band.

Hidden Cameras thirded.

Anouar Braham seconded.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

I'm surprised that the Lilys album didn't even get a vote in Jackin' Pop. It was my favorite thing they've done since Eccsame The Photon Band.

really?

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 6 January 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

Cassie s/t
Diddy 'Press Play'

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Sickoakes - Seawards
Todd Edwards - Odyssey
Holy Shit - Stranded At Two Harbors

― hank (hank s), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

Zero 7 seconded. Also:

Seekonk - Pinkwood
Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have much faith in indiepop dinosaurs, but the new Tender Trap album is pretty decent. "Talking Backwards" may be Amelia's best song since the demise of Heavenly.

― King-a-Ling (King-a-Ling), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know, lex, lots of techno producers make good albums

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

The capacity for large amounts of modern indie & rock albums to bore, stick to formula, be all too damn long and contain numerous creative flat-spots is also much underrated!

― Bodyrox feat. Luciano Pavarotti (fandango), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

uh-uh! we all know how capacious they are in their bore-itude!

― friday on the porch (lfam), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

Dresden Dolls was better than the debut for me.

― Soukesian (Soukesian), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

do albums released after most lists were published count? ie Boris & Michio Kurihara's new collab, which may show up on a few 2007 lists

and Classic Erasmus Fusion seconded!

― lucas pine (Ignatius), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

Bluebottle Kiss - Doubt Seeds. Love this (double) record. My folks were in Australia last month and I asked them to see if they could buy me some of their older stuff. They went to 5 record stores and only one guy knew who they were - ignored in their own country too!

― erv (Abe Froman), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

black angels

― ()()()---()()() (internet), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:09 (eighteen years ago)

i voted for these on the idolator poll:

Valet: Blood Is Clean (Yarnlazer)
Nic Jones: Game Set Match (Topic)
Swan Lake: Beast Moans (Jagjaguwar)
Matt Valentine/ Erika Elder/ Alex Neilson/ Moses Jiggs (Qbico)
A Hawk And A Hacksaw: The Way the Wind Blows (Leaf)

and okay, two of those are limited edition type things (valet and mv/ee), i know i had to listen to swan lake a handful of times before i liked it, and if people are going to vote for a fake eastern european album they're more likely to go for beirut than hacksaw for some reason.

but i'm surprised that the nic jones release has gotten so little attention, at all. it *is* a record far less likely to be sent to writers for free seeing as it's on topic, and yeah it's just live recordings by a guy who doesn't/ can't make new music anymore, but this is the dude responsible for PENGUIN EGGS, which just might be the most perfect album of the entire british folk revival.

...of course i dig the b. jansch record, which i've seen on a number of lists. but it's not his best by a long shot. i've never been a fan of those records where an old/ cult type artist plays with a bunch of younger people in order to get new listeners -- they sound like records made by a committee so much of the time. like tribute albums, those things're a good idea, but so rarely actually sound any good.

― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:43 (eighteen years ago)

Dani Siciliano - Slappers
Clogs - Lantern
William Elliott Whitmore - Song Of The Blackbird
Califone - Roots and Crowns
Jeremy Warmsley - The Art Of Fiction
Candi Staton - His Hands
Erin McKeown - Sing You Sinners
Rock Plaza Central - Are We Not Horses?
Oriole - Migration
Benoit Pioulard - Precis
Patricia Barber - Mythologies
Subtle - For Hero: For Fool
Tortoise and Bonnie Prince Billy - The Brave and The Bold
Wilderness - Vessel States
Susanna and The Magical Orchestra - Melody Mountain
Glenn Kotche - Mobile
Boxcutter - Oneiric

― Daniel Paton (angriest dog), Sunday, 7 January 2007 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

El Perro del Mar

had that as one my fave 2005 rereleases...
(it collects all her singles up to that moment i thought).

The Blow - Paper Television

2nded. was expecting to see that on much more lists.

― (jg) ((jg)), Sunday, 7 January 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

I've seen El Perro del Mar in a lot of year-end lists.

― is anyone anticipating the new Baaderonixx? (baaderonixx), Sunday, 7 January 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

Boxcutter is a good call.

What about Mahogany's 'Connectivity'?

― reverto levidensis (blueski), Sunday, 7 January 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

dunno, it's still on my list of things to get :) sandwiched between "heat" by colder (you can kinda see where i was coming from in october, or whenever it was) and "the days of forty-nine" by isaac guillory. if, indeed, i can find that anywhere.

as for mine: "flyover" by the workhouse (shimmering post-rock beauty) and "violence and birdsong" by union of knives (po-faced synth misery). neither did anything particularly new; each did what they did so perfectly that i really don't understand why nobody - nobody! - else cared. i started threads about each and i think they had one reply.

between them.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 7 January 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

TVOTR was robbed. no justice!

― ()()()---()()() (internet), Sunday, 7 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Only 1 vote in Jackin Pop for the Casiotone for the Painfully Alone album, and I don't think I've seen it on any other lists. Does anyone else but me really like it?

― Maciej (Maciej), Sunday, 7 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

What about Mahogany's 'Connectivity'?

it was mentioned in the first post. it didn't really even receive many ecstatic reviews. weird reaction to it. i think it's perfect. i suppose others don't.

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 7 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Califone - Roots and Crowns

was on a bunch of lists actually inc. iirc Pitchfork

― Bodyrox feat. Luciano Pavarotti (fandango), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

I voted for the STNNNG record, and was really, really surprised that nobody else did (that I can see, excepting the post above.) You'd think that people would be all over them. I hope there's a cadre of people out there who (like me) look at the one-vote getters and check them out.

I also had no idea there was a new Baby Bird record. Must find.

― jodi, samurai photographer (burun), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - House Arrest
Nika Soup and Saya Source
Nikaido Kazumi's latest (I have an import with the title in Japanese)
BMX Bandits - My Chain
James Yorkston - a little serene sounding after the brilliant Just Beyond The River, but lovely none the less.
OOIOO seconded
Oshiri Penpenz
Scatter - The Mountain Announces
Nalle - er, what was it called again...
Bill Wells and Maher Shalal Hash Baz - Osaka Bridge
Hawk & A Hacksaw seconded - that Beruit record doesn't do it for me at all. It's the guys voice - like a teenage Rufus Wainwright/Morrissey wannabe. Not groovy.

― Stew (stew s), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

the playwrights 'english self storage'

― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 7 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

From my list:
04. Kassin +2 * Futurismo (Video Arts Japan)
12. Tony Allen * Lagos No Shaking (Honest Jon1s)
14. Cappablack * Facades and Skeletons (Scape Germany)
15. The Horror The Horror (Tapete Records)
20. Tokyo Jihen * Adult (EMI Japan)
21. Asa * Terveisiä Kaaoksesta (Julkaisuvuosi)
24. Barbara Morgenstern * The Grass Is Always Greener (Monika)
44. Miho Hatori * Ecdysis (Rykodisc)

― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

It says most lists, not all lists. Your list covers a lot more ground than most that I've seen. Yes, my favorite album of last year, Adult, got mentioned on a handful of other lists, but it's still pretty rare.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

I think your list is one of the more interesting ones around, FWIW.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

From my list:

Azaila Snail - Avec Amour
Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals
The Church - Uninvited Like The Clouds
The Rogers Sisters - The Invisible Deck
Languis - Other Desert Cities
Persephone's Bees - Notes From The Underworld
Psychic Ills - Dins
Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, I just realized you weren't saying, look, these are on my lists, why are you saying they aren't included on most lists. You were saying "Look these are some albums from my list left off of most year-end lists." Duh.

― R_S (RSLaRue), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Tek (I guess Al doesn't count)

well, it wouldn't have been on my list even if I had voted in any of the big polls, so nope, not really.

I just got the Jarvis Cocker album last week, and if I'd heard it during the calender year it definitely would've made my top 10, maybe top 5. the new Sloan album just came out in the U.S. I think this week, so I'm going to consider it 2007 as far as these things go.

albums in my top 25 that weren't on many other people's lists and haven't been mentioned in this thread yet (although I'm not necessarily bellyaching that they were all neglected by an unjust world):

Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid
Jon Auer - Songs From The Year Of Our Demise
Ray Cash - Cash On Delivery
Portastatic - Be Still Please
Young Dro - Best Thang Smokin'
Styles P. - Time Is Money
The Evens - Get Evens
Field Mob - Light Poles And Pine Trees
Carla Bozulich - Evangelista
Trick Daddy - Back By Thug Demand
Two Dollar Guitar - The Wear And Tear Of Fear: A Lover's Discourse

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

ones i liked that i didn't see a lot of year-end list love for:
so percussion: amid the noise - great, Reich-ean "post-rock"
robyn hitchcock - ole tarantula - not just one of his best recent records, one of his best records...ever--and i'm a big fan
tom verlaine - songs and other things - no big marquee moon epics or anything, but a lot of beautiful guitar work
bedroom walls - all good dreamers pass this way - probably the best "indie pop" style thing i've heard this year.

― Tyler W (tylerw), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

seems like a lot of people dislike this guy, but, as i've mentioned on another thread,I really like the new Prurient cd (pleasure ground)

Circle - Miljard is another good album that i've yet to see on a list.

― fffnnnsss (fffnnnsss), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

of Al's rap choices I'd say Young Dro is probably the one most deserving of better treatment

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, some good calls on here: no way would Candi Staton make most lists, alas, but where was the love or like or mention of The Brave And The Bold, or Tom Verlaine's two simultaneous releases (could prob fit all the keepers on one disc, but still)? Also, most of the sutff on my Idolator ballot, which I've reposted, with a tree of links to my reviews of many entries: http://thefreelancementalists.blogspot.com

― don (dow), Friday, 12 January 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to hear Miljard.

Another ignored album which I love from 2006 is:

Skoda Mluvit by Schneider TM

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 12 January 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

toby keith, "white trash with money," which did not make the jackin' pop top 100, which means the nation's critics consider it at least a little worse than rosanne cash's "black cadillac" and many many shitloads worse than neko case's and jenny lewis' albums. if that's not underrated, i don't know what is.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:41 (eighteen years ago)

I second Beth Orton's Comfort of Strangers.
Also:

Thursday - City By the Light Divided
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital (Especially the song Parade)
Gym Class Heroes - As Cruel as School Children.

The last two of these, I ignored myself. For shame. :(

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Friday, 12 January 2007 08:11 (eighteen years ago)

xiu xiu - the air force

― Chris Grasinger (gman59), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

I'm starting to think this is one of those threads where if it went on long enough, sooner or later someone would list every CD that came out last year. Or enough monkeys locked in a room with a high-speed internet connection for long enough. . . (Not that I have not gladly participated.)

― R_S (RSLaRue), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

"jenny lewis & watson twins"

Well, this was obviously just a joke.

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

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