i posted a bunch of my favorites with short descriptions here: http://deathbomb.livejournal.com/132945.html?nc=3

my list last year had a bunch of more mainstream stuff. this year ended up being more obscure, a bunch of tapes... prob cuz i spent most of the year living in my car that only has a cassette player.

in no particular order, this is my top 50 list; i also have a low 50 list of great albums i enjoy a great deal but didn't have that special something these have. i cheated a little though:

• Celtic Frost - Monotheist
• Six Organs Of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
• Thom Yorke - The Eraser
• Keiji Haino & Sitaar Tah! - Animamima
• Elf Power - Back To The Web
• Magik Markers - Road Pussy
• Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
• Charalambides - A Vintage Burden/Charalambides - Emerald Message
• Lilly Allen - Alright Still
• Leopard Leg - The Seven Sistered Sea-Secret Of Shh Shh Shh
• Liars - Drums Not Dead
• Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky
• Scott Walker - The Drift
• Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Satanhas Gloriam
• Boris - Pink/Boris - Vein/Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
• Decemberists - Crane Wife
• Daughters - Hell Songs
• OOIOO - Taiga
• Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
• various//California
• Hototogisu - Chimärendämmerung
• Double Leopards, Mouthus & Sunroof! - Crippled Rosebud Binding
• Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
• Jazkamer - Metal Music Machine
• Espers - II
• Mastodon - Blood Mountain
• Yo La Tengo - I'm Not Afraid Of You And Will Beat Your Ass
• Unexpect - In A Flesh Aquarium
• Ashtray Navigations - Four More Raga Moods
• Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession/Yellow Swans - Drift
• Isis - In The Absense Of Truth
• Avarus - Vesikansi
• Joanna Newsom - Ys
• Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
• Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
• Benighted - Identisick
• Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
• Mono - You Are There
• Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
• Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
• Suishou No Fune - Where The Spirits Are
• Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals/Bardo Pond - 4.3.06
• Be Your Own Pet
• Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Have You Seen The Other Side Of The Sky?/Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno - Starless & Bible Black Sabbath
• The Flying Luttenbachers - Cataclysm
• Cat Power - The Greatest
• Rose For Bohdan - Then Everybody Hugged, "Racism Is God"
• Vampire Can't - Key Cutter
• Atavist
• An Albatross - Blessphemy (Of the Peace Feast Yeastgiver And The Bear Warp Kumite)

Oh you know. I can't think of that extremely popular song that you would know. Crazy, I think?

people are dumb, that album sounds like the temptations or any doowop band from the 60's if they travelled 60 years into the future and were recorded on the moon; sure, "crazy" is super burnt, but the rest of the album is amazing.

I would agree, but I could not think of the name, mi amigo.

This bar I frequent is obsessed the album.

A collaberation between Cee-Lo Green and DJ Danger Mouse

also, i don't listen to the radio and stuff, so i wouldn't know how popular they became; i saw the video a few times and i saw them on letterman, so i guess they were played to death.

i also think, popularity has nothing to do with the quality of an album, lady sov's public warning didn't make it into my top 50 by a hair...in fact...

And where the fuck have you been anyway?

TOP 35 ALBUMS OF 2006
Battleship "Hearts Addendum" (On/On Switch)
Carla Bozulich "Evangelista" (Constellation)
The Carbonas "s/t" (Thee Raw Deluxe)
Coughs "Secret Passage" (Load)
Country Teasers "The Empire Strikes Back" (In the Red)
Danava "s/t" (Kemado)
Deaf Center "Pale Ravine" (Type)
Entrance "Prayer of Death" (self-released)
Erase Errata "Nightlife" (Kill Rock Stars)
Fat Worm of Error "Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies" (Load)
Goslings "Grandeur of Hair" (Archive)
Hank IV "Third Person Shooter" (Hook or Crook)
Harpoon Guns "s/t" (Square Wave)
Head "No Hugging No Learning" (Evil Clown)
Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones "Fait Accompli" (P.Trash)
Impractical Cockpit "To Be Treated" (Load)
Inca Ore with Lemon Bear's Orchestra "The Birds in the Bushes" (5RC)
Jay Reatard "Blood Visions" (In the Red)
JonnyX & the Groadies "s/t" (self-released)
Junkpile Jimmy "Alberhill" 2xLP (Cártel Ilustré)
Leprechaun Catering "Male Plumage" (White Denim)
Monarch "Speak of the Sea" (Throne)
New Flesh "Vessel" (Heart Break Beat)
Rose for Bohdan "And Then Everybody Hugged 'Racism Is God'" (Deathbomb Arc)
Self Destruct Button "Natural Selection of Accidents" (Tower Control)
Sic Alps "Reconnection Land" (Animal Disguise)
Switchblade "s/t" (Trust No One)
Who's Your Favorite Son, God? "Out of Body Diva" (KDVS Recordings)
...Worms "s/t" LP+CD (Marriage)
Yellow Swans "Psychic Secession" 2xLP (Weird Forest)
Zelienople "Ink" (Loose Thread)
v/a "L.A. Noisescape" (Bastardised)
v/a "Tête de Bébé" (Ss Records)
v/a "Why Is Anything Forbidden?" vol 2 (Deathbomb Arc)

TOP 16 CDR-only RELEASES OF 2006
Argumentix & Bird Costumes "Armageddon...Maybe Later" CDR (Below PDX)
Argumentix & Dead/Bird "Flip Off Hummers" tour 3x3" CDR (self-released)
Art Lessing "Plastic Couch" (Electric Eggplant)
Black Pus "Black Pus 3: Metamorpus" (DiareahRama)

Él-G & Charlene Darling "Au Grand Dam du Jour" (self-released)
Kites "Superior Moon" 3" (Mountain Collective)
KK Rampage "Lies, Deception, & Tall Tales" (Rampage)
Plants "Totem" (self-released)
Robedoor "Christ's Vipers" (Chocolate Monk)
Shearing Pinx "Poison Hands" 2x3" (Not Not Fun)
Snowsuit* "Consolation Prize" (No Format)
So So Many White White Tigers "The Greatest Hits of Acid" (self-released)
Switched-on Vultures "demo" (no label)
Thee Scarcity of Tanks "NZ Metals" (Slow Toe)
v/a "The Fruit Will Rot" vol 2 9x3" CDR's (Deathbomb Arc)
v/a "Sarcophagus 1-4" (Radius Waste)

TOP 25 EP's of 2006
Abe Vigoda/Child Pornography split 7" (Oms-B)
AIDS Wolf/Crack und Ultra Eczema/PRE/Dmonstrations 4-way split 2x7" (Lovepump United)
Anteenagers MC "Let's Not Have a Party" 7" (Plastic Idol)
Argumentix "Tarantula Downpour" 7"+DVDr (Trash Skull)
Battleship "To Give Not a Gift" (Double Negative)
Cheveu "Clara Vénus" 7" (SDZ/Polly Magoo)
Dead Western "s/t" 7" (Weird Forest)
Ear & Dark "There's No Such Thing as Dragons" 10" (Black Light)
Grey Skull/Haunted Castle split 10" (Not Not Fun)
Hibachi Stranglers "Our Town Doesn't Stink All the Time" 7" (Florida's Dying)
The Intelligence "I'm Your Taxi" 7" (Holy Cobra Society)
Le Chevalier de Rinchy "Mes Plus Belles Chansons d´Amour" (Le Vilain Chien)
My Little Red Toe/Foot Foot split 7" (Not Not Fun)
Nothing People "Problems" 7" (Ss Records)
Of Sex, Yr Body "s/t" lathe-cut 7" (Deer + Bird)
Pink Reason "s/t" 7" (Savage Quality)
Pissed Jeans "Don't Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear" 7" (Sub Pop)
Psychedelic Horseshit "Who Let the Dogs Out?" 7" (Columbus Discount)
Sapat "Tongue-Tied & Staid" 7" (Black Velvet Fuckere)
Shearing Pinx "Caves" 7" (DNT)
This Song Is a Mess But So Am I "Marblemouth EP" CD (Acuarela)
Tyvek "Mary Ellen Claims" 7" (X!)
the Wax Museums "Introducing..." 7" (Rehab)
Western Culture/Katsuya Nonaka split lathe-cut 10" (Deer + Bird)
Wooden Shjips "Shrinking Moon for You" 10" (self-released)

TOP 10 CASSETTE-ONLY RELEASES OF 2006
Aerosol Constellations/Bird Costumes split (Isolated Now Waves/Thankless)
Grey Daturas/Shearing Pinx split (Isolated Now Waves)
Hole Class "A Glimpse of Hole Class" (self-released)
Home Blitz/Friends & Family split (Leaf Leaf)
Non Horse "Rigor Lore" (Not Not Fun)
Pocahaunted "Moccasinging" (Not Not Fun)
Scream Baby, Scream!/Gang Wizard split (Pink Triforce Tapes)
Tent City/Wigwam split (Not Not Fun)
Torturing Nurse "Hate Human" (Hate State)
Unmono/Kate Hall & Elijah Forrest split (Deathbomb Arc Tape Club)

TOP 12 REISSUES & RETROSPECTIVES OF 2006
Bernard Bonnier "Casse Tête" (Creel Pone)
Crisis "Holocaust Hymns" (Apop)
Dead Moon "Echoes of the Past" (Sub Pop)
Ich Bin "Obéis!" (Poutré Apparente)
Jackwacker "...Things From Inside Your Body" (Black Velvet Fuckere)
Lake of Dracula "Skeletal Remains" (Savage Land)
Maypole "The Real" (Anopheles)
Ruth White "Flowers of Evil" (Creel Pone)
Smegma "Live 1991-1993" (Resipiscent)
v/a "Messthetics Greatest Hits: The Sounds of D.I.Y. 1977-80" (Hyped2Death)
v/a" "Messthetics # 101" (Hyped2Death)
v/a" "Messthetics # 102" (Hyped2Death)

I think this is/will be in mine but I haven't listened to it enough to decide. It's nice though.

like, why haven't i been posting?

special mention in mine to not not fun's bored fortress 7" series and deathbomb arc tape club year two; bored fortress was perfect, every side a mindblower, and dba's tape club always had something that took me by surprise (i'm still missing my last batch)

Yes.

that album is everything i ever expected of the markers, they are noisy and uncontrollable and unpredictable, but this time they are focused and lethal; they also have developed this riff rock to their noise that place them above anyone trying to make something similar to them. i was really surprised when i listened to it and was actually that good.

and i haven't posted here in a while because it had turned into dunce-central here, a lot of idiots trying to be idiots at the same time.

Several people have been hating on this particular Inca Ore album because it's more grating than anyone expected. The 2005 album "Brute Nature vs. Wild Magic" was a really beautiful album. "The Birds in the Bushes" is grating for me at moments, too, but I like a lot of grating stuff. And knowing the circumstances behind these recording sessions perhaps also slants my perspective. I just really enjoy how wild and free Inca Ore can be, and this album is a great example of that.

Exactly my sentiments pretty much. I bought it from her at a show and she told me that they rented a cabin together and recorded it. She described it as 'carnal' I think :)

Harvey Milk troubleman disc forget the name??
Nadja trembled CDR
Sunno)))/ Boris altar
Bardo Pond ticket

so what were the circumstances? i've only listened to it once, it really wasn't quite what i expected... but yeah, tell me more if you can.

did i say my faves yet? so difficult this year, but probably this one:

Doubts Seeds is one of the best albums ever written, and you all don't know it. Shame, shame, shame.