While magazines are starting to publish their lists, bloggers have also begun to share the fruits of their laborious iTunes playcounts tallying, blog post aggregating, and indie cred calculating (Yeti). Here’s a list of lists from a few of our friends in blogging:
Chromewaves – Top Albums
Gorilla Vs. Bear – Top Albums and Songs
My Old Kentucky Blog – Best EPs and Best Hip-Hop
Said The Gramophone – Best Songs and Albums
Yeti Don’t Dance – Top Albums and Top Albums (For Indie Cred)
Also, though not a blog, the folks at Refinery29 have put together their list for the Top 20 Albums of the year, featuring many a Stereogum-approved artist (and a free MP3 from each album!). If you have a year-end list we missed, feel free to let us know. And for a dynamic “master list,” updated daily and incredibly comprehensive, hit LHB. Love a particular blogger’s tastes? Vote ‘em for a Gummy!
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I like the Chromewaves the best, mostly because it has Shearwater on there, which made my Album of the Year list as well (http://recordsibuy.blogspot.com/2006/11/and-nominees-are.html).
This is an album that needs to be heard.
There’s a good one at http://superiortomeths.blogspot.com that has decent links.
There’s a good one at http://superiortomeths.blogspot.com that has decent links.
There’s a good one at http://superiortomeths.blogspot.com that has decent links.
no dylan on any of those!?
Am i the only one that liked “Favourite Sons” (Vice) “Down Beside Your Beauty”. Either their label did a shity job getting it out there, or it has to be one of the most overlooked records of 2006. It tops my list.
Pixel revolt, the last John Vanderslice’s album was released in 2005 or 2006? It’s a great album
Pixel Revolt was last year. It made my top 20.
Yeah, the Chromwaves one is definitely the most human. The other ones just look like they’re trying to outdo each other with obscurity. I’d like to see that Gramophone guy listen to that whole Swan Lake joke of an album from start to finish.
refinery29 list gets my vote
swan lake does indeed suck
thepunkguy’s isn’t too bad. 20 songs and some funny lists.
http://www.thepunkguy.com
Here’s mine.
Here’s my list for all it’s worth:
1 Grizzly Bear: Yellow House
2 Kaki King: Until We Felt Red
3 TV on the Radio: Return to Cookie Mountain
4 Joanna Newsom: ys
5 Peter Bjorn and John: Young Folks
6 El Perro del Mar: Self Titled
7 The Knife: Silent Shout
8 Mew: Mew and the Glass-Handed Kites
9 The Roots: Game Theory
10 The Format: Dog Problems
11 Camera Obscura: Let’s get Out of the Country
12 David Thomas Broughton: The Complete Guide to Insuffciency (Late Dec 05 Release)
13 Liars: Drum’s Not Dead
14 Band of Horses: Everything All the Time
15 The Decemberists: The Crain Wife
16 Destroyer: Destroyer’s Rubies
17 Yo La Tengo: Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
18 Herbert: Scale
19 Young and Sexy: Panic When You Find It
20 Guillemots: Through the Windowpane
21 Fujiya & Miyagi: Transparent Things
22 Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury
23 Sparklehorse: Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
24 Danielson: Ships
25 DFA: DFA REMIXES
26 The Beatles: Love
27 Bruce Springsteen: We Shall Overcome
28 Booka Shade: Movements
29 Islands: Return to the Sea
30 Bob Dylan: Modern Times
31 Bonnie Prince Billy: The Letting Go
32 I’m From Barcelona: Let Me Introduce My Friends
33 Ghostface Killah: Fishscale
34 Scott Walker: The Drift
35 Evangelicals: So Gone
36 The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
37 Keith Fullerton Whitman: Libson
38 Ellen Allien & Apparat: Orchestra of Bubbles
39 Girl Talk: Night Ripper
40 Mastodon: Blood Mountain
41 Russian Futurist: Me Myself and Rye
42 The Figurines: Skeleton
43 Be Your Own Pet: Self Titled
44 Asobi Seksu: Citrus
45 Beck: The Information
46 Boris: Pink
47 Tim Hecker: Harmony in Ultraviolet
48 Matmos: The Rose Has Teeth
49 Xiu Xiu: The Air Force
50 Howe Gelb: Sno Angel Like You
These not too many surprises in this list, although I would like to point out a few criminally overlooked albums of the year:
see Kaki King, The Format, David Thomas Broughton, Young and Sexy
I have to say I disagree with practically all the suggestions in everyone’s top 10, but its all opinion at the end of the day.
Nice to see some with a couple of unknowns.
the best i’ve seen BY FAR is
some velvet blog.. top 20
Correction to my list:
Peter Bjorn and John’s album should be titled “Writer’s Block”
I listened to the whole Swan Lake album. I liked it. Do I win the prize?
So, yesterday, in a very sick (literally) minded state I stated in my Gummy award form that I didn’t read any other blogs. Now, today, with medication coursing through my system, I gotta say Gorilla Vs. Bear.
Why?
The Knife.
Can I revote?
As for Chromewaves, whoever does that blog should have just posted the same album 10 times, because that is the indie narrowest(-minded) sampling of the last year’s albums that I ever could have conceived of. Best and favorite are not the same thing, ya know.
How did The Fratellis not make any of these lists???
animal collective – feels
yes. i am aware.
You asked for it…
nialler9′s top 20 albums
20 – 16
15 – 11
10 – 1
what kind of nerds make top 10 lists….
For a different spin, check my year end list:
http://www.indoorfireworks.blogspot.com
right here
Mine ! Mine !
Can i have my list too?
Ok, here it goes the post of my Best Of 2006
http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2006/12/11/best-of-2006-music/
With my first top 5:
1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Show Your Bones
2. CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy), Cansei de Ser Sexy
3. The Flaming Lips, At War With The Mystics
4. TV On The Radio, Return To Cookie Mountain
5. The Thermals, The Blood, The Blood, The Machine
Here’s my list: http://www.heresyourwater.com/blog/2006/12/music-faves-2006-edition.html
nice overview and great taste..
if you find some time take a look at my lists as well:
Top 50 Albums:
http://www.ottic.de/archives/1312-DJ-Ottics-Top-50-Best-ALBUMS-2006.html
Top 100 Songs:
http://www.ottic.de/archives/1311-DJ-Ottics-Top-100-Best-SONGS-2006.html
http://purgegeeks.blogspot.com
My Top 25 iPod Songs are here, along with discussion of each:
http://www.ericfolkerth.com/wheneftalks/files/topipodsongs2007.html
All good ones! As far as other aspects of the music industry go I really like http://blog.thedinermusic.com/
Talks about industry, licensing, etc…