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[Hans Christian Anderson]

This thread was done some time in 2005, but I feel like doing it now.

Heres my big ones:
Ted Leo / Pharmacists
Ryan Adams
Gillian Welch
The Strokes

I simply have not been able to get enough of these artists this year. Ted Leo and Ryan Adams are the really big ones, in that I had never heard a lick of their music until this year. I've also yet to hear anything that would deter me from thinking they're both absolutely fucking brilliant. In Gillian's case, I'd heard of her for a while and had even causally listened to her and enjoyed before. However, 2006 marked the first time I gave any of her records a fair and focused listen, and she too is one of my absolute favorites. And as for the Strokes, I had heard them before but they never really did anything for me until this spring. Anyhow, they are not brilliant but they do kick ass.

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let's see what I can remember Prefab Sprout The Make-Up Jorge Ben Disco Inferno Prince Sam and Dave Piebald

[pong]

Alice Cooper Definitely Iggy and Stooges. I have all their shit now. The Strokes T Rex, but really just the Slider, Electric Warrior and a bunch of weird acoustic shit, but BIG FAN. A lot of Pink Floyd I hadn't really paid attention to. I still don't get the Barrett shit. He sucked. Tons more I'll think about it and look at my itunes tomorrow...

[scarymuppet]

ELO (all about them now) Josef K New Musik The Undertones Magazine Gastr Del Sol

[The Luscious Phil]

Primal Scream (Xtrmntr, and Screamadelica) Orbital Aphex Twin those were pretty much the real big ones so far.

[Vivian Darkbloom]

[i]Tropicalia[u] - (in a comprehensive way, anyway...)
Ulrich Schnauss, "A Strangely Isolated Place" (h o l y $ h I T)h

[Bob Loblaw]

The Charlatans UK Tilly and the Wall Van Hunt Roseanna Cash Rilo Kiley OK GO Old Crow Medicine Show Girltalk CunninLynguists Appleseed Cast Mates Of State

[moofman]

Tim Hecker KF Whitman Sun Kil Moon Tod Dockstader Pole Steve Reich Heavy on the ambient and minimalism, this year...

[Miiilo]

The Muffs

[Midnite_Vulture]

Goldfrapp-Felt Mountain Main Source-Breaking Atoms Frank Sinatra-In The Wee Small Hours Primal Scream-Screamadelica XTC

[Andyroo]

Copeland This is Me Smiling Mates of State (older)

[Bruegel]

Jorge Ben
Prince

Same here.
It dont get much better than Comanche

Been big on Kevin Coyne and Moondog in 06 too

[feisty]

Swami Records and all the goodness it has to offer me Guitar Wolf The Gories/Mick Collins things Billy Bragg Love Jens Lekman MC5 The Modern Lovers The Replacements Woody Guthrie Wu Tang

[yancy]

[no magnets]

i think i've only bought/acquired maybe a dozen 2006 releases. most of what i get is non-2006 music, so this is difficult to pin because there's so much.

two recent albums that i had simply never given a chance before finding them in used bins earlier this year: supergrass - in it for the money & the jayhawks - hollywood town hall. everyone always talked about that one being supergrass' apex and i love i should coco, so i always thought people were crazy, but, yeah, it's really good. i still don't prefer it over i should coco, but i dig it a lot. and that jayhawks album is also really good, surprised i hadn't heard it in its entirety before purchasing it.

and then there're a lot of classics that i finally got around to this year. i'm still listening to some like astral weeks and loaded for what, i guess, is why they're considered such great albums, but i do like both. and then there're others that totally blew me away for various reasons, mostly being that i'd just really never heard anyone else talk them up. examples: paul kelly - stealing in the name of the lord, the impressions - this is my country, willie colon - cosa nuestra. and then there're the classics that everyone loves and i was like, "why haven't i owned this before?" examples: x - wild gift, psychedelic furs - talk talk talk, the replacements - let it be, and lô borges. it's been a good year.

[Nick]

Echo and the Bunnymen -- Ocean Rain and Crocodile

Wilco -- A Ghost is Born

[TJENZ]

Baby Huey New York Dolls

[no magnets]

Baby Huey

this is so good. that moment around 1:55 of "a change is gonna come" is unreal.

[Vivian Darkbloom]

Echo and the Bunnymen -- Ocean Rain and Crocodile

Join the party, kid...good times