It's a really good album, the best since Raygun Suitcase, which was the best since the '70s.

Cool to see a mention of Black Happy Day.
That is indeed a fine, fine album.
Timothy is a good friend of mine and I am constantly impressed with how great and greater each new project and release is.

Legendary Pink Dots' latest is undoubtedly great too, but I don't have that one yet. They are one of my very favorites.

i don't know if i would even call the new clipse album trill. it's.....FUCK! so damn good.

Well, you can point him to my show for constant play of his record, and it was a dj friend in Olympia who sent it to me in the first place.

New Pink Dots is indeed a smoker. They are honestly getting better and better with age. I finally saw them play for the first time on the tour for it, and Ka-spell really is some type of fucking shaman. From the first moment he speaks, it's impossible not to be hanging on his every word. I think he's got even more stage presence than Thurston or Buzz from the Melvins, which is totally massive.

Changed my opinion on it completely ;)

That's true about the Rather Ripped songs coming alive more on stage. Actually that was true about Nurse too, at least to a certain extent, as they added longer noise jams when I saw them. It's almost as if they're afraid to be Sonic Youth all the way in the studio now - at least on the major albums.

Hototogisu- Green (need to get more of this bands stuff and all their other projects, I need more money)
Jesu- Silver
Mammatus
Om- Conference of the Birds
Slugfuckers- Cacophony (two disc retrospective, 1979-81 I think, anyway essential shit.)
Starving Weirdos- Self Hypnosis, Séance at Luffenhulz [Sound and Fury Records] (haven't heard any of their other CD-Rs as they out of print in 5 seconds)
Wolf Eyes- Human Animal
Yellow Swans- Live st Sound and Fury [Sound and Fury Records]
V/A-Tropicalia (Again not new music but the first time I'd heard any of the artists)
Om/Current 93 Split (Still haven't bought Black Ships Ate the Sky but when a friend played it to me I enjoyed it)
Suishou no fune- Where the Spirits Are
Vincent Black Shadow (Cool US band that sound like The Stooges gone stoner-rock)
Xasthur- Subliminal Genocide (best Xasthur I've heard yet, the guitars are like MBV meets Burzum)

If your interested in the Live Yellow Swans or Starving Weirdos CD-Rs check out Sound and Fury Records. It's a label and was a record store in Sydney. They have released much quality noise/drone this year as well as my band Onani's best CD-R.

www.soundnandfury.com.au
(All items are in worthless Australian dollars)

i have rather ripped on vinyl and i think it sounds great.

here's some things i just picked up that i'm adding to my list

VAMPIRE CAN'T- key cutter (corsano/rylan)
that new PANDA BEAR record has not left my stereo since i bought it.
AFRIRAMPO baka ga kita (pygmies rule, this is a fun record.)
SQUAREPUSHER- hello everything (this album has been totally slept on)
the new Harvey Milk is tolerable, but somewhat dissapointing. maybe boris is making me expect too much from sludge rock.

i'm psyched about the new LPDs, what's the album called?

liars
pere ubu
flying luttenbachers
mogwai (zidane)
magik markers (road pussy)
acid mothers temple (have you seen...)
ooioo
six organs of admittance
red sparowes
don caballero
boris/sunn o)))
boris - veil
oliaibi
warlords of pez
si schroeder
sy rather ripped and destroyed room
windy and carl

there is many more and my favs keep changing

worst albums ive got this year
the flaming lips by a mile
wolf eyes

ones i should haver never forgot to mention....

ovo
thom yorke
coughs
vampire cant
the usa is a monster
beatles
xiu xiu

im gonna have to compile my definitve list ready for xmas. might actually do that tonite, there is a scientific process to go thru........................

Fucking Jesu...I really want to see them beacause they're playing in Ottawa next month WITH ISIS. But due to Ontario's retarded laws, you have to be 19 to get into bars.

I knew when I posted my list, I'd forget something I really loved.

Mission of Burma - Obliterati was one hell of a great record, as was the live show from the tour. They are sooo back in full force now.

i think i'm the only one who got disappointed with nightlife, i think it's bland and boring as hell.

that mammatus album, i was blown away the first time i heard it, then after a while of listening to it, the more i realize it's one giant, fancy jackoff.

my list will come...

I'm waiting for it (seriously!).

Don't worry too much about not being able to see Jesu - I saw them a few months ago and the music was okay but the stage presence was non-existent.

http://www.mediafire.com/?dmmy5jytwdo

this doesn't count (due to be released in February) but it's a good Christmas present for you nice boardies...

Edit* I'd like to add to the
Ashtray Navigations - Four More Raga Moods
Acid Mothers Temple - Have You Seen...

best release by far: Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals

These were all very good:
Comets On Fire - Avatar
Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
Magik Markers - A Panegyric To The Things I Do Not Understand
Animal Collective - People EP
be your own pet - be your own pet
Charalambides - A Vintage Burden
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped, The Destroyed Room
Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
Sunroof!/Double Leopards/Mouthus split


Idlewild dissapointed the fuck out of me too.

For me, this year was owned by Bardo Pond. It was the only release this year that totally blew me away. The other ones were just very good to decent.

That sucks.. I really liked Andre's new song

Rather Ripped
Altar-Sunn o)))/Boris
the Obliterati-Mission of Burma

than again those are the only records from this year that I own

I'm reprinting my playlist for my latest radioshow here, since it was a 2006 retrospective:

Playlist for What's This Called? with Ricardo Wang on KPSU for Saturday, Dec. 30th 2006 from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time

1450 AM in the Portland OR/Vancouver WA metro area
98.3 FM on the Portland State University campus

DOWNLOAD PROGRAM AS AN MP3 HERE!

A retrospective of 2006.

Artist - Track/Song - Album - Recording Label

Brunnen - "Shame" - The Beekeeper's Dream - Beta-Lactam Ring
Sonic Youth - "Pink Steam" - Rather Ripped - DGC
Tonehenge (feat. Rowena Moore) - "Lift Every Voice" - Oregone Compilation - Oregone
Mission of Burma - "The Mute Speaks Out" - The Obliterati - Matador
Gricer - "Trumpet" - s/t - Taut Recordings
Pere Ubu - "Flames Over Nebraska" - Why I Hate Women - Smog Veil
Legendary Pink Dots - "Stigmata (pt 4)" - Your Children Placate You from Premature Dreams - ROIR
Orbit Service - "Wolves" - Songs of Eta Carinae - Beta-Lactam Ring
Black Happy Day - "In the Garden of Ghostflowers" - In the Garden of Ghostflowers - Silber
Pasiflora - "Belly" - Women Take Back the Noise - Ubuibi
The Noisettes - "Showers & Baths" - Reek of Influence - Icky Recordings
Hunny - "Skin on My Bugs" - Synnesthesia - Icky Recordings
Childhood Friends (featuring Rollerball) - "I already Know" - Scars - indie

My brightest diamond - Bring me the work house
Thom Yorke - The eraser
Console - Mono
An Pierlé & White Velvet
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Dominique A - L'horizon

converge - no heros
cherry point - night of the bloody tapes
the new flesh feat. robert inhuman 7"
pulse emitter - fall
roman torment - worshipped wounds
roman torment - skin game
roman torment / feed the dragon split
the sunken - toasted victims
moribund - bloodied filth

alot i havent heard, meaning to hear, and WILL hear in the future.