We’re going to keep this train rolling along…
As we approach the last few years in this decade, my best of music from those years get easier and easier to post. Mostly because I was already blogging them on MySpace or sharing them via email with my friends, and for some reason I kept the documents on my computer. So while to some this is cheating, to me this is actually like opening a time capsule. There are things I disagree with now, of course, but I think this is a best way to capture a snapshot of what i really was listening to back then: from my own words, thoughts and writings from that year. So like 2005, I present a re-post of my favorite discs and tracks from 2006.
Let’s hop in the way back machine, Mr. Peabody…
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Jon’s Best of 2006
In a year saturated with so much, it was hard to narrow things down to a top 10, so I went with 15. Here is my best of the best.
Some of you will hate my decisions and my taste, so all I can say is… fuck off, I like what I like.
1. Scissor Sisters, Ta-Dah
2. Silversun Pickups, Carnavas
3. CSS, Cansei de ser Sexy
4. Thom York, The Eraser
5. Belle and Sebastian, The Life Pursuit
6. Band Of Horses, Everything All the Time
7. Keane, Under the Iron Sea
8. Mew, And the Glass Handed Kites
9. Yo La Tengo, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
10. I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, Fear is On Our Side
11. The Flaming Lips, At War With The Mystics
12. Goldfrapp, Supernature
13. Pink, I’m Not Dead
14. The Knife, Silent Shout
15. Junior Boys, So This Is Goodbye
The Honor Roll….
Best Reissue of the Year that you must own:
Chavez, Better Days Will Haunt You
Biggest Disappointment of the Year, or the WTF award:
the Killers, Sam’s Town
Cool disc that was so hyped and overexposed so I hate it now:
Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere
Best Bootleg of the Year that will be fierce IF and when it ever gets released:
Guns and Roses, Chinese Democracy (Here’s hoping the March 6, 2007 release date actually holds) (authors’ 2009 note: LMAO, we know what a bomb this ended up being!)
Best disc of the year… not from this year:
Mew, Frengers (from 2003- and it’s almost better
than And the Glass Handed Kites)
Jon’s Best songs of 2006:
So these don’t necessarily have to be singles, single the concept of radio friendly singles is bullshit. But these are songs that definitely grooved me this year:
1. CSS, Alala / Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
2. Scissor Sisters, I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’/ I Can’t Decide
3. Silversun Pickups, Lazy Eye
4. Madonna, Jump
5. Arty Fufkin, Atoms for Idols (Thom York vs. Kelly Clarkson mash up)
6. Band Of Horses, The Funeral
7. Lady Sovereign, Love Me or Hate Me
8. Keane, Nothing In My Way
9. Yo La Tengo, Mr. Tough
10. Belle and Sebastian, Act of the Apostle
11. Basement Jaxx, Hush Boy
12. Nelly Furtado, Maneater
13. Muse, Starlight
14. Goldfrapp, Ride a White Horse
15. Paul Oakenfold featuring Brittney Murphy, Faster Kill Pussycat (just because of Brittney)
Honorable mentions (Not really from this year but loved them anyway):
Chavez, the Guard Attacks
Mew, Comforting Sounds
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Noticably missing from my track list, and in hindsight would have been on it:
Amy Winehouse- Rehab
Gnarls Barkley- Crazy
Gossip- Standing in The Way of Control
Hard Fi- Hard to Beat
Thom York- Harrowdown Hill
Getting closer every time…
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