In this order:

1)Sonic Youth Rather Ripped
2)Victory at Sea All Your Things are Gone
3)Cheer-Accident What Sequel?
4)Pajo 1968
5)Morrissey Ringleader of the Tormentors
6)Pit er Pat Pyramids
7)Aloha Some Echoes
Mogwai Mr. Beast
9)Dirty Pretty Things Waterloo to Anywhere
10)Loose Fur Born Again in the USA

I can only come up with two, by Jeremy's tyrannical rules:

1. Enablers - Output Negative Space
2. Young Widows - Settle Down City

Some honorable mentions that can't make the top 10:

1. Tubers - s/t (new band from 12 hour turn folks)
2. Sunn - Black One (simply not as good as the whites)
3. Blame Game - Ask Someone (I can't vote for my own fucking band)
4. OM - Conference of the Birds (cool for about 3 listens, and only side B. Not as good as the first one, and I would rather listen to Dopesmoker anyway)

Still, only six total. New Joanna Newsom chokes on some mule rod, the melvins are the melvins and never put out a consistently kick-ass record from start to finish, Harvey Milk's record is only good for that "crush them all" song, and its only good for about 5 minutes. God, please tell me why I've been so critical this year? Is it because I am poor? This year for me has been a year for opening up to much older music, and compared to Zuma, Harvest, Tonight's the Night, Tres Hombres, Easter Everywhere, Soft Machine 3/4/5, Vincebus Eruptus, and Kinda Kinks, everything in 06 sucks eggs.

and to fuck the rules:

highlights of 2006 in no particular order

harmony in ultraviolet - tim hecker
stella - uzeda
chris herbert - mezzotint
comets on fire - avatar
grouper - wide
andrew chalk - goldfall

reading back over some responses...

the chevreuil album is awesome. it's like hella but the drums aren't zach hill drums and the guitar sounds heavier.

the xela album is great, i heard it last week and liked it very, very much.

uzeda album is great, that tim hecker album is nice, too.

slowriot wrote:the chevreuil album is awesome. it's like hella but the drums aren't zach hill drums and the guitar sounds heavier.

the xela album is great, i heard it last week and liked it very, very much.

Acquiring these now so I can hear them.

Some records that will make my 2006 list:

Scott Walker "The Drift"
STNNNG "Fake Fake"
Boris "Pink"
Uzeda "Stella"

For the first time in a few years, it is going to be really difficult for me to narrow it down to 10.

ant man bee wrote:1. Harvey Milk – “Special wishes”
2. Fred Frith w/ Anthony Braxton – “Live at Victo”
3. Om – “Conference of the Birds”
4. Melvins – “Senile Animal”
5. No Neck Blues Band & Embryo – “Embrynnck”
6. John Zorn – “Filmworks XVII”
7. Blame Game – “Ask Someone”
8. Danielson – “Ships”
9. tie b/t Zeena Parkins - “Necklace” and Enablers - “Output Negative
Space”
10. Wayne Horovitz – “Whispers, Hymns, and a Murder”

Holy crap, I've actually heard of some of these artists! Salut Aunt Bee!

01. SCOTT WALKER - The Drift
02. JAY REATARD - Blood Visions
03. D.C. SNIPERS - Missile Sunset
04. LES AUS - Haranna Hanne
05. JOANNA NEWSOM - Ys
06. CAT POWER - The Greatest
07. DANIELSON - Ships
08. AMON AMARTH - With Oden on our Side
09. SONIC YOUTH - Rather Ripped
10. ROBERT POLLARD - Normal Happiness

Some great, great albums this year.

1. Holy Sons - Decline of the West (in my "for all time" top ten list)

2. Enablers - Output Negative Space

3. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go

4. Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble - The Messenger/Live at the Original Velvet Lounge


These are albums I know I will love and listen to many years from now. There are others I either haven't listened to enough to make a call, or they fell victim to brain-fog.

apl4eris wrote:1. Holy Sons - Decline of the West (in my "for all time" top ten list)

2. Enablers - Output Negative Space

3. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go

4. Ernest Dawkins' New Horizons Ensemble - The Messenger/Live at the Original Velvet Lounge


These are albums I know I will love and listen to many years from now. There are others I either haven't listened to enough to make a call, or they fell victim to brain-fog.

What label is this on/link?