2006 top tens

[matt]

what were your favourite albums and favourite tracks of 2006?

mine:

albums

1) the warning hot chip
2) writer's block peter bjorn & john
3) never been like that phoenix
4) so this is goodbye junior boys
5) with love & squalar we are scientists
6) how we operate gomez
7) IBM 1401 - a users manual johann johannsson
8) we are the pipettes the pipettes
9) standing in the way of control the gossip
10) raise the alarm the sunshine underground

tracks

1) standing in the way of control (soulwax nite version) the gossip
2) young folks peter bjorn & john
3) woman (mstrkrft remix) wolfmother
4) over & over hot chip
5) the great escape we are scientists
6) charley patton songs gomez
7) want you to know the freelance hellraiser
8) level the raconteurs
9) gravity's rainbow the klaxons
10) kick push lupe fiascao


probably quite a few tracks i've forgotten but fairly happy with the top 5 at least

what about yours..?

[Jafs]

I forgot the top I send you by PM the other day

[Leon]

1. Opgezwolle - Eigen Wereld
2. Isolee - Western Store
3. Trentemöller - The Last Resort
4. Burial - Burial
5. SCSI-9 - The Line Of Nine

[GreenPea]

1. The Goslings - Grandeur of Hair
2. Orthodox - Gran Poder
3. Serena-Maneesh s/t
4. KTL s/t
5. Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars

[gambit]

10. The Knife - Silent Shout
9. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
8. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
7. Underworld - I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse
6. Herbert - Scale
5. Basement Jaxx - Crazy Itch Radio
4. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
3. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYoYo
2. Daedelus - Daedelus Denies the Day's Demise
1. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

[Bargo]

1. Goldenboy - Underneath the Radio
2. The Necks - Chemist
3. Underworld and Gabriel Yared - Breaking and Entering OST
4. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
5. Ben Frost - Theory of Machines
6. Beck - The Information
7. The Beatles - Love
8. Cornelius - Sensuous
9. The Album Leaf - Into the Blue Again
10. Wolf and Cub - Vessels

[King of Snake]

Technasia - Popsoda
Jimmy van M - Balance 010
Underworld & Gabriel Yared - Breaking and Entering OST
Junior Boys - So this is Goodbye
Marshall Watson - Math and other World Problems (props to the prof! )
William Orbit - Hello Waveforms
Trentemoller - The Last Resort
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
Junkie XL - Today
Emmet - In/Out
Underworld - I'm a Big Sister.... (not really an album ok, but still good enough to be on my list)

[Jafs]

Originally Posted by gambit

3. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYoYo

2 months this one's in order, grrr

1)Burial - "Burial"
2)Trentemoller - "The Last Resort"
3)Clark - "Body Riddle"
4)Technasia - "Popsoda"
5)Gnarls Barkley - "St. Elsewhere"
6)Justin Timberlake - "FutureSex/LoveSounds"
7)Peter Von Poehl - "Going to where the tea trees are"
8)Sonic Youth - "Rather Ripped"
9)The Roots - "Game Theory"
10)Snoop Dogg - "Tha Blue Carpet Treatment"/Clipse - "Hell Hath No Fury"

...

Para One - "Epiphanie" (Para one is one of the beatmakers of the french hip-hop formation TTC)
T.I. - "King"
Ellen Allien & Apparat - "Orchestra of Bubbles"
Cat Power - "The Greatest"
Guillemots - "Through the windowpane"
Ochre - "Lemodie"

[patrick]

wow. i definatly forgot a few albumns when i sent my list to matt...

roots, and junior boys are glaring, although i might have sent them, i just don't have mee email here to check

[dubnobasswithme]

in no particular order:

the knife - silent shout
the gothsicles - NESferatu
trentemoller - the last resort
hot chip - the warning
pet shop boys - fundamental
seabound - double crosser
stochastic theory - opposite extremes
sensuous enemy - deadly sins
this morn' omina - les passages jumeaux
caustic - unicorns, kittens, and shit

there was some excellent local stuff that came out of madison, wi this year