Best Albums OBTAINED in 2006

[papayaninja]

While the "Best of 2006" thread is interesting, I find that a lot, if not the majority of the CDs I bought or received last year were, in fact, not from 2006. There isn't really a common thread for these previously released CDs, and I think some really good ones slide under the radar. With that said, what are some of the best albums you bought/received/found/whatever in 2006?

1. The Beach Boys - "Pet Sounds"
2. Simon And Garfunkel - Every major album sans "Wednesday Morning, 3 AM"
3. The Beatles - "Revolver"
4. Belle And Sebastian - "Tigermilk"
5. (The?)Pixies - "Doolittle"
6. Pavement - "Wowee Zowee"
7. De La Soul - "3 Feet High And Rising"
8. Beck - "Odelay"
9. The White Stripes - "White Blood Cells"
10. Phish - "Hoist"

[mizzle]

i could make a best of 06 from 05 list...there are so many releases i was a year behind on that i really find myself enjoying now...its hard to keep up with the massive amounts of quality music being put out

and i've have to make 'tigermilk' my next b&s album to look for

[bdb]

Well it wasn't a year for buying old classic rock or anything, and there wasn't a lot of old music that I discovered or bought. This is probably the best of it:

1. Tunng - This is Tunng... Mother's daughter and other songs (2005) - Not a lot different stylistically than the 2006 Comments of the inner chorus, which means just more of the same folktronic goodness!
2. The Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts (2002). I'd only downloaded a part of it before and finally got the rest lats year, and really enjoy it.
3. A Whisper In The Noise - Through the Ides of March (2003). A just-OK album overall, but "In The Dark" is on my shortlist of "best songs ever"!
4. Great Lake Swimmers - Great Lake Swimmers (2005). A quiet acoustic kick-back album recorded in a grain silo in rural Canada.
5. Beulah - The Coast Is Never Clear (2001) - These guys broke up a few years ago, but released a few really good indie pop albums.
6. Øystein Sevåg & Lakki Patey - Visual (1996). A completely different album, sort of new age stuff with synthesizers and guitar. Great background music for reading & working.

2006 was also the year I discovered Arab Strap, and picked up a bunch of their music (about the time they broke up).

[oobujoobu]

Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire (beautiful album)
The Beatles - Love
Crow Sit On Blood Tree - Graham Coxon
Bob Dylan Bootleg Series (All 7 of them)

[brownicha]

1- Dire Straits - Dire Straits
2- The Style Council - Café Bleu
3- The La's - The La's
4- Friends Again - Trapped and Unwrapped
5- The Who - Who's next

and some others, but these are the best for me.

[bdb]

So is all this really old stuff new to you guys, or are you just re-buying what you had in vinyl?

[a7dk]

I finally got around to getting Gillian Welch's "Revival" and love it. Other "obtained in 2006 faves" would have to include:

Bright Eyes - Lifted, or The Story is in the Soil....
Steve Goodman - Anthology
Aimee Mann - Bachelor #2

Good topic!

[RatherPlayHalo]

Great idea. I honestly only buy 10 or so CDs released in the present year.

In 2006, I picked up what would be my favorite album ever, The Cure's Disintigratino

[rockmyplimsoul]

Vinyl Replacements:
Cream - Disraeli Gears :cool:
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!, and King of America
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick, and Songs From the Wood
Johnny Winter - Second Winter
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I & II
Phil Collins - Face Value
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand the Weather, and Soul To Soul
The Tubes - The Tubes, Young and Rich, and The Completion Backward Principle

Pre-2006, But New To My Library:
Beatles - 1
Beck - Sea Change
Calexico - The Black Light :cool:
Dishwalla - Dishwalla, and Opaline
Jackson Browne - Solo Acoustic, Vol. 1
John Butler Trio - Three, and Sunrise Over Sea
Mary Wells - The Ultimate Collection
R.E.M. - Reckoning, and Fables of the Reconstruction
Radiohead - The Bends, and OK Computer
Stone Sour - Stone Sour
The White Stripes - De Stijl, White Blood Cells, and Elephant

[onlycodered]

Red - End of Silence
Fireflight - The Healing of Harms
Decyfer Down - End of Grey
Manafest - Glory
Berman - (3 albums) For the Better, Life in the Stars, Send Me to the End

[Step666]

Maxïmo Park - A Certain Trigger
Weezer - Weezer [Blue] and Weezer [Green]
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades and Battle of Los Angeles
Modest Mouse - Good News for People Who Love Bad News

There's a much longer list but these are the ones that stand out.

They're not necessarily bands that are new to me, just that I never had these albums before - I had some tracks but not the full albums.

[frazgoo]

goo goo dolls - let love in

[papayaninja]

They're not necessarily bands that are new to me, just that I never had these albums before - I had some tracks but not the full albums.

That's the purpose of the thread.

I don't know if you have any other Modest Mouse, but I think "The Moon And Antarctica" is much better than "Good News..."

[antiditz]

The National - Alligator: This was a 2005 release that I never got around to buying, picked it up in late March; it turned out to be a great listen, maybe one of my all-time favorites.
The Essex Green - Everything is Green [1999]
Morcheeba - Big Calm [1998]
Count Basie - Count Basie at Newport: This is a live recording of a 1957 concert. I was pretty new to the genre when I got the album. Great tunes, and the swinging energy (no pun intended) is infectious and unmatched.
The Allman Brothers Band - A Decade of Hits 1969-1979: Rounding out my classic rock collection.

[pohatu771]

Ringo Starr VH1 Storytellers (1998) I really like hearing people talk about their songs- and Ringo is a great storyteller. Of course, the great selection of songs doesn't hurt, everything from Love Me Do ("the only song I never drummed on") to La De Da, which was brand new at the time.

Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison (1969) Again, there's nothing like a live album. The energy from the audience is as important to the music as the guitars, bass, or drums, I think. I got San Quentin too, but I like Folsom better.

Walk The Line (2005) The soundtrack to that movie is really good. You have Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Pheonix, actors, not singers, who are really good. Then you have Waylon Payne as Jerry Lee Lewis, Jonathan Rice as Roy Orbison, Tyler Hilton as Elvis Presley, and of course, Shooter Jennings as his own father Waylon... it's good music.

[Glorybox3737]

Great Topic!

1)Bjork Live Box Set
2)Tori Amos Little Earthquakes
3)Nirvana Unplugged in New York
4)Cinematic Orchestra Everyday
5)Ani Difranco Not A Pretty Girl

Those are defiantly the best albums i got in 2006. I like every song on each of those albums. I can't say that for many albums

[Chalk1e]

1. Goo Goo Dolls - Let Love In
2. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
3. Razorlight - Razorlight
4. The Tender Box - The Score
5. Goo Goo Dolls - Dizzy Up The Girl
6. OK Go - Oh No
7. The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
8. The Magic Numbers - Those The Breaks
9. Stereo Fuse - All That Remains
10. Fono - Goesaroundcomesaround

[junaman]

The entire Flaming Lips Discography...
Freaking Awesome :)