AllMusic Loves 2006
November 16th, 2009 | 10:20 am est |
Sure, it was only three years ago, but we are still crazy about 2006’s debuts (Lily Allen, Arctic Monkeys, Burial), breakouts (Amy Winehouse, Gnarls Barkley), bold makeovers (Christina Aguilera), and early farewells (J Dilla), not to mention the less eventful but nonetheless excellent releases from the established veterans (Ghostface Killah, Jarvis Cocker, Sonic Youth). Over a couple hundred favorite albums and singles of 2006 are listed by our editors. Maybe you’ll discover, or be reminded of, a few that you missed. The AllMusic Loves series will continue to roll through this first decade of the 2000s during the next few weeks, as we will revisit 2007 and 2008 prior to looking back at 2009.
Heather Phares
Li Alin - All In
Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold
Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
The Blow - Paper Television
Clinic - Visitations
Cornelius - Sensuous
The Futureheads - News and Tributes
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
His Name Is Alive - Detrola
Johann Johannsson - IBM 1401, A User’s Manual
The Knife - Silent Shout
Matmos - The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast
Metronomy - Pip Paine (Pay the £5000 You Owe)
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Benoît Pioulard - Precis
Planningtorock - Have It All
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Xela - The Dead Sea
Be Your Own Pet - “Adventure”
The Long Blondes - “Once and Never Again”
The Raconteurs - “Broken Boy Soldier” (YouTube)
Scissor Sisters - “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’”
Peaches - “Boys Wanna Be Her”
CSS - “Music Is My Hot Hot Sex”
Imitation Electric Piano - “I Mean Wow”
Giddy Motors - “East River Pipe”
Matmos - “Solo Buttons For Joe Meek”
Goldfrapp - “Satin Chic” (YouTube)
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Toby Keith - White Trash with Money
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics
Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Donald Fagen - Morph the Cat
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse
The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
Nelly Furtado - “Maneater”
Christina Aguilera - “Ain’t No Other Man”
Scissor Sisters - “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’”
Nelly Furtado - “Promiscuous”
Lily Allen - “Smile”
Lily Allen - “LDN”
Arctic Monkeys - “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”
Gnarls Barkley - “Crazy”
Rihanna - “SOS”
Taylor Hicks - “The Runaround”
John Bush
Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
Christina Aguilera - Back to Basics
Matthew Friedberger - Winter Women/Holy Ghost Language School
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Burial - Burial
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not
Robbie Williams - Rudebox
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Persephone’s Bees - Notes from the Underworld
The Knife - Silent Shout
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
Destroyer - Destroyer’s Rubies
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - The Letting Go
Razorlight - Razorlight
J Dilla - Donuts
The Sword - Age of Winters
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
The Beauty Room - The Beauty Room
Brightblack Morning Light - Brightblack Morning Light
Christina Aguilera - “Ain’t No Other Man”
Spank Rock - “Bump”
Gnarls Barkley - “Crazy”
Matthew Friedberger - “Up the River
Robbie Williams - “The 90’s”
Band of Horses - “The Funeral”
M. Ward - “Chinese Translation”
Joan as Policewoman - “I Defy”
Amy Winehouse - “Love Is a Losing Game”
Young and Sexy - “The Curious Organ”
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - “Cursed Sleep”
Regina Spektor - “Fidelity”
Arctic Monkeys - “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”
Persephone’s Bees - “Nice Day”
Destroyer - “European Oils”
Cat Power - “Could We”
OK Go - “Here It Goes Again”
Razorlight - “In the Morning”
Ray LaMontagne - “Barfly”
The Rakes - “Retreat”
Matt Collar
Aberfeldy - Do Whatever Turns You On
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Jon Auer - Songs from the Year of Our Demise
Camera Obscura - Let’s Get Out of This Country
Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
Graham Coxon - Love Travels at Illegal Speeds
Cut Off Your Hands - Shaky Hands
Earl Greyhound - Soft Targets
The Futureheads - News and Tributes
The Hot Chip - The Warning
James Hunter - People Gonna Talk
John Mayer - Continuum
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Pia Fraus - Nature Heart Software
The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That
Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off
Greg Heaney
The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine
SSM - SSM
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Amy Winehouse - Back to Black
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Jesu - Silver
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Converge - No Heroes
Murs and 9th Wonder - Murray’s Revenge
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Melvins - A Senile Animal
Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway
J Dilla - The Shining
Mouth of the Architect - Ties That Bind
Birdman & Lil Wayne - Like Father Like Son
Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
Isis - In the Absence of Truth
Burst - Origo
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Envy - Insomniac Doze
Andy Kellman
The Beauty Room - The Beauty Room
Beyoncé - B’day
Burial - Burial
Cassy - Panorama Bar 01
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Convextion - Convextion
Dabrye - Two/Three
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Herbert - Scale
Anders Ilar - Nightwidth
J Dilla - Donuts
Mathias Kaden & Onur Özer - Momentum
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Olesi: Fragments of an Earth
Ne-Yo - In My Own Words
The Roots - Game Theory
Henrik Schwarz - DJ-Kicks
Sleeparchive - Hospital Tracks
T.I. - King
Scott Walker - The Drift
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Christina Aguilera - “Ain’t No Other Man”
Yummy Bingham - “Come Get It”
The Black Dog - “Mental Ward Sleep Machine”
Bugz in the Attic - “Knocks Me Off My Feet”
Cassie - “Me & U”
Cassy - “Toyah”
Diddy f/ Keyshia Cole - “Last Night”
Escort - “Starlight”
Lupe Fiasco - “Kick, Push”
J Dilla - “Won’t Do”
Kelis - “Bossy”
Kode9 + the Space Ape - “Backward”
Justus Köhncke & Dirk Leyers - “An Ounce of Memories”
Lawrence - “Off the Line”
Omarion - “Ice Box”
Owusu & Hannibal - “Le Fox”
Pinch - “Qawwali”
Prince - “Black Sweat”
Alice Smith - “Love Endeavor (Maurice Fulton Remix)”
Robin Thicke - “Wanna Love U Girl”
Uncle Dave Lewis
2006 was a great year for piano players — the classical music industry had reached its nadir. Even in 1932 — the worst year ever for the record industry as a whole, when only 125,000 units shipped in the US — classical had remained strong, but in ‘06 there were hardly any releases of orchestral music or opera. One amazing exception was Fabio Biondi’s recording of Vivaldi’s ultra-rare Bajazet, featuring the astoundingly versatile soprano Vivica Genaux; also in opera, the year witnessed a genuine dud — Roger Waters’ Ça Ira. String quartets did well likewise; it seems that getting small is the best strategy when times are especially hard, and ever since 2006, classical has been gradually fighting its way back.
Toshiko Akiyoshi - Hope
Lera Auerbach plays her Preludes and Dreams
Fabio Biondi - Vivaldi: Bajazet
Del Sol String Quartet - George Antheil: The Complete Works for String Quartet
Florilegium - Telemann: Paris Quartets
Leon MacCawley - Hans Gál: The Complete Piano Works
Konrad Junghanel, Cantus Cölln - Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri
Sinae Lee - Karol Szymanowski: The Complete Works for Piano
Jenny Lin - The Eleventh Finger
Gabriela Montero - Bach and Beyond
Christopher O’Riley - Home to Oblivion: An Elliott Smith Tribute
Quartet San Francisco - Latigo
So Percussion - Amid the Noise
Jürgen Sonnentheil - Wilhelm Middelschulte: Goldberg Variations
Thomas Tirino - Ernesto Nazareth: Music for Solo Piano
Gerd Zacher: Orgelwerke
The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra - ‘Round the Christmas Tree
Jason Lymangrover
Boris - Pink
Built to Spill - You in Reverse
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
The Futureheads - News and Tributes
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Herbert - Scale
The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
J Dilla - Donuts
Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song
The Marked Men - Fix My Brain
Mission to Burma - The Obliterati
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Welcome - Sirs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
James Christopher Monger
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Danielson - Ships
Goldfrapp - Supernature
The Sword - Age of Winters
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
M. Ward - Post-War
The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea
Blind Guardian - A Twist in the Myth
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - The Letting Go
Jeremy Enigk - World Waits
The Hidden Cameras - Awoo
Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 - Olé! Tarantula
Espers - II
A Hawk and a Hacksaw - The Way the Wind Blows
Shearwater - Palo Santo
James Raynard - Strange Histories
Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
I - Between Two Worlds
Guillemots - “Trains to Brazil”
Neko Case - “Star Witness”
Augie March - “One Crowded Hour”
Lindsay Buckingham - “It Was You”
Clearlake - “No Kind of Life”
Destroyer - “Rubies”
The Hold Steady - “Stuck Between Stations”
Ron Sexsmith - “The Grim Trucker”
TV on the Radio - “Hours”
Josh Ritter - “Girl in the War”
The Futureheads - “Worry About It Later”
Susanna & the Magical Orchestra - “It’s a Long Way to the Top”
The Flaming Lips - “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song”
Korpiklaani - “Rise”
Jarvis Cocker - “Black Magic”
Charlotte Gainsbourg - “The Songs That We Sing”
Belle & Sebastian - “Act of the Apostle”
Beck - “Cellphone’s Dead”
Lily Allen - “Smile”
Devotchka - “Last Beat of My Heart”
Tim Sendra
Lullaby Baxter - Garden Cities of To-morrow
The Bicycles - The Good the Bad and the Cuddly
Camera Obscura - Let’s Get Out of This Country
J Dilla - Donuts
The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea
Hot Chip - The Warning
I’m from Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song
Madlib - The Beat Konducta, Vol. 1-2
Peter Bjorn and John - Writer’s Block
Previously
AllMusic Loves 1968
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AllMusic Loves 1993
AllMusic Loves 1999
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2006 in no particular order;
Final Fantasy-He Poos Clouds (Canada)
Great Aunt Ida-How They Fly (Canada)
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone-Etiquette (U.S.)
The Blow-Paper Television (U.S.)
Destroyer-Destroyer’s Rubies (Canada)
Belle and Sebastian-The Life Pursuit (Scotland)
TV-Resistori-Serkut Rakastaa Paremmin (Finland)
Peter Bjorn & John-Writer’s Block (Sweden)
Robin Holcomb-John Brown’s Body (U.S.)
Hot Chip-The Warning (U.K.)
The Knife-Silent Shout (Sweden)
John Southworth-The Pillowmaker (Canada)
The Curtains-Calamity (U.S.)
The Fits-Seize To Amaze (Canada)
I am indeed fortunate to live in this day, in this age with so many talented artists giving me aural pleasure. (Oops, it just came out that way, oh, wait, that too…)
Favorite 2006 Album: Joanna Newsom - Ys
Other Favorites (by artist):
Alela Diane - The Pirate’s Gospel
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say, That’s What I’m Not
Bat For Lashes - Fur & Gold
Beck - The Information
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
Beth Orton - Comfort Of Strangers
Beyoncé - B’Day
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Burial - Burial
Camera Obscura - Let’s Get Out Of This Country
Cat Power - The Greatest
Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae
Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing & A Curse
Enya - Amarantine
The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine (A 2005 album, but since allmusic included…)
The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
India.Arie - Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship
J Dilla - Donuts
Joanna Newsom - Ys
John Mayer - Continuum
Josephine Foster - A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing
The Killers - Sam’s Town
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Maria Taylor - Lynn Teeter Flower
Marisa Monte - Infinito Particular (Private Infinity)
Marisa Monte - Universo Ao Meu Redor (Universe Around Me)
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
PJ Harvey - The Peel Sessions
Prince - 3121
Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
The Roots - Game Theory
Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift*
*Note: Say whatever you want, i like it. A 15 year old writing her own (good) songs, a solid album, and i have 16 years old… i guess i deserve a little credit for listen to the kind of music on this list, forgive me for this “misstep”, although i don’t feel sorry.
Thom Yorke - Eraser
Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You & I Will Beat Your Ass
- HRS: You don’t have to feel sorry, liking Taylor Swift! That is also what I like about allmusic: that artist like her (you know, those ’serious’ music listeners are expected to avoid) get a fair objective review.
Thanks H-LO, i don’t! I was just trying to avoid some comments like:
“Ew! Taylor Swift” or “I Stop Reading After Taylor Swift”.
I like her and i’m glad i do, i also agree that this what i love more about allmusic too. That, people arguing about music without fights, and respecting other peoples taste! That is always cool!
James is on the ball again, my favorite of 2006 was Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Favorites from ‘06:
Camera Obscura’s Let’s Get Out Of This Country, Isobel Campbell’s Milk White Sheets and Cannibal Sea by The Essex Green (freakin’ love Sasha Bell).
-If only you could merge this three chicks into one- Any recommendations? that kind of monster might exist in the deeps of the pop realm.
Other favorites of mine from ‘06, listed in order of awesome:
The Format - Dog Problems
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
Benoît Pioulard - Précis
Clara Rockmore - Clara Rockmore’s Lost Theremin Album
Peter Bjorn And John - Writer’s Block
The Tiny - Starring: Someone Like You
Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
The Divine Comedy - Victory For The Comic Muse
Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
Ratatat - Classics (I’m kinda surprised this isn’t in anyone’s list)
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
Aberfeldy - Do Whatever Turns You On
Yann Tiersen - On Tour (Except that ugly “ma france à moi” with Diam’s)
Muse - Black Holes & Revelations (I know is fashionable to make fun of muse’s over the top uniqueness, but I strongly believe that Matt Bellamy would be a tremendous breath of fresh air if he decided to write a Musical, about space)
Various Artists - Monsieur Gainsbourg: Revisited (Until Brian Molko’s songs show their hideous face, that is)
Greetings.
the bird and the bee - the bird and the bee = brilliant through and through
One thing not mentioned I’ll throw in is Brand New’s ‘The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me’.
What an album cover.
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
J Dilla - Donuts
The Vines - Vision Valley
Taking Back Sunday - Louder Now
Thank you James……Brand New’s “Devil and God” is the best album since, since…………. “Deja Entendu”.
No mention of “10 000 Days” by Tool either, disappointed
A more varied mix than usual for my year-end lists.
1 Girl Talk - Night Ripper
2 Joanna Newsom - Ys
3 My Morning Jacket - Okonokos
4 Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - River in Reverse
5 Mogwai - Mr. Beast
6 Gregor Samsa - 55:12
7 Snowden - Anti-Anti
8 Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
9 Camera Obscura - Let’s Get Out of This Country
10 Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
11 Goldfrapp - Supernature
12 The Blow - Paper Television
13 Thom Yorke - The Eraser
14 Camille - Le Fil
15 Meshuggah - I
16 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
17 Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
18 Lil’ Wayne - DJ Drama Presents: Dedication 2
19 The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
20 Jenny Lewis - Rabbit Fur Coat
I think it’s notable to mention that in 2006, Ornette Coleman released an album that would eventually earn him a PULITZER. Man, how many people can make that claim?
2006 is also unique because Edward Wilkerson Jr. finally got around to recording something. And it’s pretty good too: Frequency, with Nicole Mitchell. That belongs in at least one 2006 list.
Another huge milestone: fans of the La’s finally had something new to listen to with “BBC in Session.”
Brad Mehldau’s “House on Hill” is really good. He also recorded with Pat Metheny that year.
Omer Avital finally released “Asking No Permission” ten years after it was recorded. That’s gotta count for something.
And why would anyone dar forget that 2006 was the year Andy Partridge packaged all of his demos together for American release? Didn’t anyone else get totally jazzed about that, or was it just me? C’mon, nine CDs!
And lastly, a heartbreaking reality that this flew so far under the radar, “Uninvited Like the Clouds” by the Church. Everyone, go and find a sample online and enjoy.
[HRS, don’t care much for that Morrissey album, but he put on a heck of a show supporting it!]
Oh also much love @ Heather Phares for plugging the blood brothers
I keep getting “moderated” and then nixed by AMG. Maybe they don’t like my shoes. Real brief this time:
Stone Favorite: Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint–The River In Reverse: Aching, defiant.
Others: Albums by Dr. John, Rory Block, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Rosanne Cash, Bob Dylan, Tom Verlaine (2), Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Neko Case, Alejandro Escovedo, Janiva Magness, Guy Clark, the BellRays, Yo La Tengo.
Singles/tracks: Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy,” Jim Page’s “Petroleum Bonaparte,” and Irma Thomas’ “Back Water Blues,” her contribution to “Our New Orleans 2005.”
@ Mario
i so need to check it out isobel’s album, heard great things about it
@ John Garratt
Yeah! it was a heck of a show! I was reading an article about him last week it was saying that he collapsed on a concert, it’s too bad, he’s a really good performer, and i like his albums a lot.
@J.J. Syrja
You have some good shoes, don’t care about AMG, you made a great list, with roseanne, bob, elvis & neko you can’t go wrong! This is the best part of the blog, when people come out with new names, new albums, the ones that allmusic forgets, because of you i’m checking out Tom Verlaine & the Elvis Costello everybody is talking about it and i didn’t heard it yet
If Fiona Apple’s “Extraordinary Machine” qualifies as a 2006 fave, then I guess “London Calling” makes my list of fave albums for every year from 1979 through 2009.
Most of my picks for 2006 have been mentioned above (including my top three: Arctic Monkeys, Gnarls Barkley and Rosanne Cash), but here are two more, both coincidentally released by Epitaph (FYI .. I am not in any way employed by the label): “Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys,” various artists (Anti/Epitaph) and “Pick a Bigger Weapon,” the Coup (Epitaph).
Thanks, AMG, for running these lists. Fun for debate … plus a good shopping list.
There’s a good reason why Stephen Thomas Erlewine included Extraordinary Machine on his list, and this reason was why i included on mine, despite being a 2005 release.
I guess the reason why Stephen decided to include Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine this time around was because it was released worldwide in January, i know that cause i live in Brazil and i brought that album home 14/01/06, still remember that day. It’s true allmusic is an american company and the album was released in America in 2005, but maybe he used his brain. When he delivered his Allmusic Loves 2005″ list maybe he decided to include a 100% 2005 album (with a 2005 american & international release), and keep Fiona’s out, so he could add this time around. Maybe some of you people won’t agree, but many british magazines named that album one of the best albums of 2006, while american critics named one of the best of 2005. In my opinion this information makes the album eligible for both years, and he picked one, nothing unfair. Bill O, you cited London Calling being you favorite since 1979, but that album also suffered what Fiona is suffering now. I saw plenty of magazines and web sites that considered that album one of the 80’s best, we all know it is a 1979 release. And Rolling Stone was one of that naming it one of the top 10 best albums of the 80’s. Many people called it unfair, i called it smart, it was released December 14, some countries only received their copies in 1980. The truth is Extraordinary machine has been one of my favorite of this decade since it leaked back in 2004, so if he included on his 2004 list, i would totally understand it. You might think is dumb or that he mistaken the year, but i guess mr. Stephen Thomas Erlewine was VERY smart saving it last time around, and adding it now. I’m pretty sure other critics like Heather Phares and Matt Collar wouldn’t let he make this kind of mistake.
Oops! the bird and the bee seem to have released their debut in Jan. ‘07. I now remember changing it to ‘06 in iTunes because, as I like to have my tunes organized “Album by Year” the program was insistent on placing it after their Sept. ‘07 EP - because “Please” comes before “the” innit? I rationalized that the album was recorded in ‘06, so it didn’t bother me at the time. However, in the process of listening to it Again and Again and Again and Again, I must have brainwashed myself that it was actually released in 2006. Sorry ’bout that. I really wish iTunes had a more sophisticated organization program…
Thanks, HRS!
Next time, full album titles from me. My entry kept disappearing, and it wasn’t longer than anyone else’s, but by the third try, I kept it REAL short. BTW, the DVD that goes with the Costello/Toussaint disc is moving and worthwhile.
Best hip-hop album in 06 it’s Clipse “Hell Hath No Fury”. No doubt, it’s true masterpiece.
@ J.J. Syrja
I heard the album samples, and it sounds really good! i looked for the album at Itunes, but unfortunate, they only have the digital version, without the DVD that you mentioned, so i’m going to look for the CD+DVD version at amazon or at my local record store, i’m pretty sure they have, i just didn’t want to wait a few days to listen, itunes never has the DVD’s they done the same with Liz Phair’s Exile In Guyville reissue, album available but not the DVD, and ironically with Fiona Apple’s Extraordinary Machine (i have been commenting about this album A LOT!).
I’ve always found Dog Problems, by The Format, to be an incredibly underrated album.
I’m also a massive fan of Joanna Newsom’s Ys.
I’m surprised that Sensuous by Cornelius was only mentioned once here. :(
What about Happy Hollow by Cursive? I love that album.
Hello, I’m just passing here because the Allmusic site is with some kind of bug, I don’t know exactly, but when I navigate here in some band pages for exemple it seem that it miss something like albums or biography, it’s a real mess over Allmusic site.
OF all the albums other people mentioned, I would include:
Pearl Jam; Pearl Jam
Tom Waits: Orphans: Brawlers, Balers and Bastards
Fiona Apple: Extraordinary Machine (like every one else I know that it was released in 2005, I also had a copy of it since ‘04)
and one album that no one else appeared to mention: Tool; 10,000 days.
Jarvis Cocker- Jarvis
Arctic Monkeys- Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
Bob Dylan- Modern Times
Morrissey- Ringleader Of The Tormentors
Graham Coxon- Love Travels At Illegal Speeds
The Black Keys- Magic Potion
Ray Davies- Other People’s Lives
Paul Simon- Surprise
Neil Young- Living With War
Jarvis Cocker- “Fat Children”
Jarvis Cocker- “(Cunts Are Still) Running The World”
Arctic Monkeys- “Fake Tales of San Francisco”
Arctic Monkeys- “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- “Gold Lion”
Morrissey- “On The Streets I Ran”
Ray Davies- “Stand Up Comic”
The Raconteurs- “Steady As She Goes”
The Strokes- “Juicebox”
Belle and Sebastian- “The Blues Are Still Blue”