Full Version: SOMB Top 100 Albums of 2006
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Wolves in the Throne Room at 90, that is unbelievable. Kudos to everyone who dug it.
#88.
Jesu - Silver
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "Silver's only shortcoming is its length. The layers on each track are so interesting-- no matter how closely you look, it's impossible to spot the shadowy bottom surface-- that fans of backlit ambiance, dark metal, and Flying Saucer Attack circa "My Dreaming Hill" will be left wanting for more. Of course, wanting more is a compliment, and Broadrick was wise to keep the collection so brief and engaging. Still, greedy fuck that I am, I'd like more of this metallic beauty thing. Hell, as indie kids launch into their boring Sabbath, its great witnessing bands like Isis, Sunn 0))), Mouth of the Architect, Ocean, and Jesu etching distinctively pretty crosshatches into otherwise rumbling seas. It's the new metal baroque: Come on, dudes, continue to get gorgeous." (7.9/10)
Ranked HIghest By: John the Cool Kid (#4) (also ranked #5 by St. Park)
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Jesu - Silver
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "Silver's only shortcoming is its length. The layers on each track are so interesting-- no matter how closely you look, it's impossible to spot the shadowy bottom surface-- that fans of backlit ambiance, dark metal, and Flying Saucer Attack circa "My Dreaming Hill" will be left wanting for more. Of course, wanting more is a compliment, and Broadrick was wise to keep the collection so brief and engaging. Still, greedy fuck that I am, I'd like more of this metallic beauty thing. Hell, as indie kids launch into their boring Sabbath, its great witnessing bands like Isis, Sunn 0))), Mouth of the Architect, Ocean, and Jesu etching distinctively pretty crosshatches into otherwise rumbling seas. It's the new metal baroque: Come on, dudes, continue to get gorgeous." (7.9/10)
Ranked HIghest By: John the Cool Kid (#4) (also ranked #5 by St. Park)
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This thread is not going to bump itself.
Great start off to the list so far. Except for Altar being at 100. What the crap?
#87.
Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
US Chart Position: #27
UK Chart Position: #1
Charting Singles: "You Have Killed Me" (#3 UK), "The Youngest Was the Most Loved" (#14 UK), "I Just Want to See the Boy Happy" (#16 UK), "In the Future When All's Well" (#17 UK)
Acclaimed Music Ranking: #39 (year), #347 (decade), #2885 (all-time)
Pitchfork Review: "Morrissey's poignancy, in his best solo work as in his vivid Smiths prime-- what critic Simon Reynolds once called "a piercing beauty, or a sweet ache"-- often inflames the exhilarating terror of loneliness just as it elevates the sensations of love through comparison with Moz's unrequitable romantic perfections. The complicated gender roles, the ubiquitous allusions, the games of irony, art, and style serve equally to ignite a listener's curiosity. Ringleader of the Tormentors is, rather than the now-anticipated letdown, another fitting heir to that legacy. The living sign again: "This one is different, because it's us.""
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: You are the Quarry (Would've been #77 in 2004)
Ranked Highest By: More Drama (#2) (also ranked #5 by Ash)
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Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
US Chart Position: #27
UK Chart Position: #1
Charting Singles: "You Have Killed Me" (#3 UK), "The Youngest Was the Most Loved" (#14 UK), "I Just Want to See the Boy Happy" (#16 UK), "In the Future When All's Well" (#17 UK)
Acclaimed Music Ranking: #39 (year), #347 (decade), #2885 (all-time)
Pitchfork Review: "Morrissey's poignancy, in his best solo work as in his vivid Smiths prime-- what critic Simon Reynolds once called "a piercing beauty, or a sweet ache"-- often inflames the exhilarating terror of loneliness just as it elevates the sensations of love through comparison with Moz's unrequitable romantic perfections. The complicated gender roles, the ubiquitous allusions, the games of irony, art, and style serve equally to ignite a listener's curiosity. Ringleader of the Tormentors is, rather than the now-anticipated letdown, another fitting heir to that legacy. The living sign again: "This one is different, because it's us.""
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: You are the Quarry (Would've been #77 in 2004)
Ranked Highest By: More Drama (#2) (also ranked #5 by Ash)
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good to see Morrissey, Pearl Jam and Mission of Burma so fucking low.
^Morrissey cracks me up. He's so intense.
Everything about that Jesu disc (right down to the cover) is pretty great.
Everything about that Jesu disc (right down to the cover) is pretty great.
I'm quite happy for Jesu to keep things to an EP... over the course of an album, I find they get tiring. I love the sound he achieves, but only in small doses.
#86.
Booka Shade - Movements
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "Booka Shade are perfectly placed to capitalize on this unexpected ubiquity, and while their 2004 debut Memento surprised many with its noirish, claustrophobic vibe, Movements is the gregarious corrective: not only the better record, but friendlier, larger, and more epochal in its survey of the varied delights of German house and techno. And at times it does feel like a survey, moving from rumbling Metro Area disco ("Night Falls") to fluttering Isol�e falter-funk ("The Birds and the Beats") to beautiful Kompakt techno-pop ("Wasting Time") with an unselfconscious grace the belies the album's range."
Ranked Highest By: The Good Dr. Bill (#1)
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Booka Shade - Movements
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "Booka Shade are perfectly placed to capitalize on this unexpected ubiquity, and while their 2004 debut Memento surprised many with its noirish, claustrophobic vibe, Movements is the gregarious corrective: not only the better record, but friendlier, larger, and more epochal in its survey of the varied delights of German house and techno. And at times it does feel like a survey, moving from rumbling Metro Area disco ("Night Falls") to fluttering Isol�e falter-funk ("The Birds and the Beats") to beautiful Kompakt techno-pop ("Wasting Time") with an unselfconscious grace the belies the album's range."
Ranked Highest By: The Good Dr. Bill (#1)
Amazon Link
QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 23 2006, 02:09 PM) [snapback]274170[/snapback]
#86. Booka Shade - Movements
Should be higher, imo.
#85.
Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
US Chart Position: #50
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: Bubbling Under
Pitchfork Review: "A Blessing and a Curse ends with "A World of Hurt", in which Hood delivers the verses in a sing-speak so confident and disarming it threatens to throw the whole album into new focus. Songs like this-- starkly stoic yet moving, drawing on influences that no one else in our little indie world is bothering with-- are why the Drive-By Truckers remain one of the best and most exciting bands to rise out of the South in a while. However, for the first time in the group's decade of existence, they've made an album that doesn't entirely live up to their reputation." (7.0/10)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: Dirty South (#10 of 2004)
Ranked Highest By: Dano (#3) (also ranked #5 by Northern Voice and Saskadelphia)
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Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
US Chart Position: #50
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: Bubbling Under
Pitchfork Review: "A Blessing and a Curse ends with "A World of Hurt", in which Hood delivers the verses in a sing-speak so confident and disarming it threatens to throw the whole album into new focus. Songs like this-- starkly stoic yet moving, drawing on influences that no one else in our little indie world is bothering with-- are why the Drive-By Truckers remain one of the best and most exciting bands to rise out of the South in a while. However, for the first time in the group's decade of existence, they've made an album that doesn't entirely live up to their reputation." (7.0/10)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: Dirty South (#10 of 2004)
Ranked Highest By: Dano (#3) (also ranked #5 by Northern Voice and Saskadelphia)
Amazon Link
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QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 23 2006, 02:09 PM) [snapback]274170[/snapback]
#86. Booka Shade - Movements
Should be higher, imo.
Yeah, definitely. In hindsight, it should've been higher in my list as well.
Last year, huh. Depressing.
I didn't say last year--I'll allow for the possibility that soul-crushing mid-20s boredom will send me back to the board with a vengeance. But definitely not next year.
have the drive by truckers put an album out every year???
whoa, whoa, dr. bill's no 1 album is booka shade?? wow. awesome.
(that morrissey record is really good; it's amazing that it wound up with so fewer critical hurrahs than Quarry, which benefited from two great singles and the 'best moz in x years' boost but is in no way better than Ringleader.)
(that morrissey record is really good; it's amazing that it wound up with so fewer critical hurrahs than Quarry, which benefited from two great singles and the 'best moz in x years' boost but is in no way better than Ringleader.)
Just got man man and already regretting not hearing it in time for this. I hope that places well if at all. I didnt look for it on lists previously.
QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 23 2006, 02:24 PM) [snapback]274178[/snapback]
I didn't say last year--I'll allow for the possibility that soul-crushing mid-20s boredom will send me back to the board with a vengeance. But definitely not next year.
So basically, this is like Rocky III, you'll run into some dude who posts lists better than you and then the stress kills your best friend/trainer, (coolrock, saskadelphia? help me out here) so you come out of retirement to post the greatest list ever after a series of montages and survivor pop anthems.
#84.
Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: #37
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: #39 (Year)
Pitchfork Review: "The comeback begins, inauspiciously, with a sketchy instrumental called "Loss Adjuster"-- the kind of thing that usually suggests a desperate pop musician touting around for a little soundtrack work. But in its title at least, it gives a hint of the record's concerns. Because it's not only his surname he's mislaid somewhere in the past five years: Jarvis is the record of someone losing hope, the sound of dejection turned up to 10. Cocker was always Britpop's poet laureate of anticipation, creaming himself at the thought of the next seedy shag, the glittering prospect of fame, the moonage daydream of buzzing around on jetpacks, or even the thought of a provincial shopping center fountain in the unimaginable year 2000. It was always likely to end in disappointment-- but how else were you to survive the monotonous mundanity without supercharging it with the promise of sex, death, and celebrity? Even the crashing hangover of This Is Hardcore took a sneaky, surreptitious thrill in just how sublimely low it could go."
Ranked Highest By: Sam (#3) (also ranked #4 by Useless Rocker)
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Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: #37
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: #39 (Year)
Pitchfork Review: "The comeback begins, inauspiciously, with a sketchy instrumental called "Loss Adjuster"-- the kind of thing that usually suggests a desperate pop musician touting around for a little soundtrack work. But in its title at least, it gives a hint of the record's concerns. Because it's not only his surname he's mislaid somewhere in the past five years: Jarvis is the record of someone losing hope, the sound of dejection turned up to 10. Cocker was always Britpop's poet laureate of anticipation, creaming himself at the thought of the next seedy shag, the glittering prospect of fame, the moonage daydream of buzzing around on jetpacks, or even the thought of a provincial shopping center fountain in the unimaginable year 2000. It was always likely to end in disappointment-- but how else were you to survive the monotonous mundanity without supercharging it with the promise of sex, death, and celebrity? Even the crashing hangover of This Is Hardcore took a sneaky, surreptitious thrill in just how sublimely low it could go."
Ranked Highest By: Sam (#3) (also ranked #4 by Useless Rocker)
Amazon Link
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QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 23 2006, 02:24 PM) [snapback]274178[/snapback]
I didn't say last year--I'll allow for the possibility that soul-crushing mid-20s boredom will send me back to the board with a vengeance. But definitely not next year.
So basically, this is like Rocky III, you'll run into some dude who posts lists better than you and then the stress kills your best friend/trainer, (coolrock, saskadelphia? help me out here) so you come out of retirement to post the greatest list ever after a series of montages and survivor pop anthems.
Don't worry, he'll be back
Gotta say, Jarvis is a pretty cool- lookin' ugly dude.
Jarvis auditions for Apocalypto
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Just got man man and already regretting not hearing it in time for this. I hope that places well if at all. I didnt look for it on lists previously.
yeah, that shit is great
ice dog is such a deceptively great song
oh c'est la vie please don't go and abandon me
when the bridge burns down and the bad blood tastes like wine
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QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 23 2006, 02:24 PM) [snapback]274178[/snapback]
I didn't say last year--I'll allow for the possibility that soul-crushing mid-20s boredom will send me back to the board with a vengeance. But definitely not next year.
So basically, this is like Rocky III, you'll run into some dude who posts lists better than you and then the stress kills your best friend/trainer, (coolrock, saskadelphia? help me out here) so you come out of retirement to post the greatest list ever after a series of montages and survivor pop anthems.
i would say this is rocky IV
nah, Rocky IV would be if he spent some time in Hipinion or something training his boarding ability, and this superior list maker got me or yancy banned or something, so he posts a better list purely out of vengeance.
just wait until the complaints start filing in
dr. bill will seek vengeance, with a vengeance
dr. bill will seek vengeance, with a vengeance
QUOTE(Undercooked Sausage @ Dec 23 2006, 02:47 PM) [snapback]274195[/snapback]
nah, Rocky IV would be if he spent some time in Hipinion or something training his boarding ability, and this superior list maker got me or yancy banned or something, so he posts a better list purely out of vengeance.
At Hipinion they use Soviet technology and steroids to craft super lists. Meanwhile we at the SOMB have to write our lists on bark, in Siberia, in 7 feet of snow.
EDIT: But this makes us tough and gives us heart.
#83.
CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" (#16 Dance US), "Alala" (#21 Dance US)
Acclaimed Music Ranking: #42 (Year),
Pitchfork Review: "Still, CSS has a few great little tricks in its arsenal. When they stop arching their eyebrows and put some work into doing time-tested pop stuff, they can be great. "Patins" has a nice buzzsaw guitar hook and a searingly desperate chorus hook: "Whenever I look at you/ I don't know what to do/ Whenever you talk to me/ I don't know what is true." "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" has an actual groove: a great ripply disco bassline and glassy keyboard tweets and a rock-guitar breakdown that actually sounds something like Death From Above. And "This Month, Day 10" is a nice retro new wave set-piece, restless but fun. There's a pattern here: CSS does its best work when it cuts its shtick with a few recognizable human emotions and maybe even a hint of vulnerability. After all, it's 2006, and we're running out of ways to say "Fuck you."" (6.0/10)
Ranked Highest By: Cpl-539h (#1) (also ranked #2 by Bottled Water and #4 by Kmac)
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CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above" (#16 Dance US), "Alala" (#21 Dance US)
Acclaimed Music Ranking: #42 (Year),
Pitchfork Review: "Still, CSS has a few great little tricks in its arsenal. When they stop arching their eyebrows and put some work into doing time-tested pop stuff, they can be great. "Patins" has a nice buzzsaw guitar hook and a searingly desperate chorus hook: "Whenever I look at you/ I don't know what to do/ Whenever you talk to me/ I don't know what is true." "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" has an actual groove: a great ripply disco bassline and glassy keyboard tweets and a rock-guitar breakdown that actually sounds something like Death From Above. And "This Month, Day 10" is a nice retro new wave set-piece, restless but fun. There's a pattern here: CSS does its best work when it cuts its shtick with a few recognizable human emotions and maybe even a hint of vulnerability. After all, it's 2006, and we're running out of ways to say "Fuck you."" (6.0/10)
Ranked Highest By: Cpl-539h (#1) (also ranked #2 by Bottled Water and #4 by Kmac)
Amazon Link
GOOD ALBUM, SHOULD BE HIGHER IMO
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QUOTE(Wolfgang @ Dec 24 2006, 09:12 AM) [snapback]274171[/snapback]
QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 23 2006, 02:09 PM) [snapback]274170[/snapback]
#86. Booka Shade - Movements
Should be higher, imo.
Yeah, definitely. In hindsight, it should've been higher in my list as well.
yeah, that's a real shame...i think if more people had heard it, the album would have done quite well, even among some of the rock fans.
Wow. Three of my top-tens already done and accounted for. Can't wait to see how this unfolds.
Well, handing in the hat for 2007. Bit of a shocker. Oh well, know that I'll offer to help out but there's no way I could organise the whole thing (Maybe one person could do singles the other albums). That's for another time though.
Really is a lot of competition this year. That Morrissey album is easily his best since Vauxhall and I The Jarvis Cocker record is pretty good but the not quite so stellar first half knocks points off. I really hope the apperance of Pearl Jam so low means that RHCP haven't made.
Clearly my #1 hasn't made it.
Really is a lot of competition this year. That Morrissey album is easily his best since Vauxhall and I The Jarvis Cocker record is pretty good but the not quite so stellar first half knocks points off. I really hope the apperance of Pearl Jam so low means that RHCP haven't made.
Clearly my #1 hasn't made it.
#82.
Neil Young - Living With War
US Chart Position: #15
UK Chart Position: #14
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: bubbling under
Pitchfork Review: "Alongside Bruce Springsteen's We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Living With War is the second album this spring on which an elder rock statesman makes an effective protest record with a raucously communal approach, reverently covering historically heavy anthems along the way ("America the Beautiful", in this case). As a political statement, however, Young's record may be more fleeting, with its topical references to steroids and New Orleans. But despite the press releases, the impulsive politics of Living With War are almost incidental to its success, mere fuel for Neil Young to return to the vicious sound he's neglected in recent times."
Ranked Highest By: Better By the Gram, RadioHitchcock and The Sheck (#1) (also ranked #2 by concertgoer and #5 by Tager and Tambourine)
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Neil Young - Living With War
US Chart Position: #15
UK Chart Position: #14
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: bubbling under
Pitchfork Review: "Alongside Bruce Springsteen's We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions, Living With War is the second album this spring on which an elder rock statesman makes an effective protest record with a raucously communal approach, reverently covering historically heavy anthems along the way ("America the Beautiful", in this case). As a political statement, however, Young's record may be more fleeting, with its topical references to steroids and New Orleans. But despite the press releases, the impulsive politics of Living With War are almost incidental to its success, mere fuel for Neil Young to return to the vicious sound he's neglected in recent times."
Ranked Highest By: Better By the Gram, RadioHitchcock and The Sheck (#1) (also ranked #2 by concertgoer and #5 by Tager and Tambourine)
Amazon Link
QUOTE(Undercooked Sausage @ Dec 23 2006, 02:55 PM) [snapback]274201[/snapback]
GOOD ALBUM, SHOULD BE HIGHER IMO
I'm in love with everything I've heard off of it. Think I'll have to give the whole thing a spin.
With the number of people voting and such low placements of albums with multiple top 5's, at least 3 of my top 5 won't make it....one of which is Lindsey Buckingham. Shame. It's really every bit the record M. Ward made this year, and very similar in sound.
ha ha, 6 top 5's including 3 number ones and it only makes #82. What has number one got, seventy-twelve?
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I really hope the apperance of Pearl Jam so low means that RHCP haven't made.
Got my fingers crossed.
QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 23 2006, 05:05 PM) [snapback]274209[/snapback]
#82.
Ranked Highest By: Better By the Gram, RadioHitchcock and The Sheck (#1) (also ranked #2 by concertgoer and #5 by Tager and Tambourine)
Three #1's and at 82, tough competition.
Right, It's Christmas Eve Eve and my curry is about ready so I'm going now. See you all in the early hours.
Sunset Rubdown for Top 30!
#81.
The Black Angels - Passover
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "Sluggishness is this sort of music's métier, but there has to be a nervous, jangled intensity beneath the sloth to make it work, and Passover ratchets up the sick with every clangorous chord. It's a long, darkly iridescent screw, glittering feverishly, boring deeper and deeper into the weirdly giddy wartime terror associated with the Doors and Apocalypse Now. Alex Maas' voice covers the sliver-sized range of emotion between apathetic anxiety and utter dread. "You send me overseas / And put the fear in me", he drones flatly over the flanged guitar meltdown of the hat-tippingly titled "The First Vietnam War". Far from trailblazing, Passover nevertheless implies that the Black Angels like to blaze until they see trails." (7.2)
Ranked Highest By: Bleach and Tweed (#2) (also ranked #4 by Kaosicism and #5 by Staple)
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The Black Angels - Passover
US Chart Position: n/a
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: n/a
Pitchfork Review: "Sluggishness is this sort of music's métier, but there has to be a nervous, jangled intensity beneath the sloth to make it work, and Passover ratchets up the sick with every clangorous chord. It's a long, darkly iridescent screw, glittering feverishly, boring deeper and deeper into the weirdly giddy wartime terror associated with the Doors and Apocalypse Now. Alex Maas' voice covers the sliver-sized range of emotion between apathetic anxiety and utter dread. "You send me overseas / And put the fear in me", he drones flatly over the flanged guitar meltdown of the hat-tippingly titled "The First Vietnam War". Far from trailblazing, Passover nevertheless implies that the Black Angels like to blaze until they see trails." (7.2)
Ranked Highest By: Bleach and Tweed (#2) (also ranked #4 by Kaosicism and #5 by Staple)
Amazon Link
QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 23 2006, 04:18 PM) [snapback]274173[/snapback]
#85.
Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
It's got balls and a southern accent! Vote it down!
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There goes the neighborhood.
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The Black Angels - Passover
never heard of this one
Alright, I'm totally interested in hearing that Black Angels. Cool cover, weird review, and Bleach really liked it.
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It's got balls and a southern accent! Vote it down!
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and that's my cue to exit
see you guys tomorrow
lol
psst. Think Montana will buy it? [/whisper]
I hate that this list is unfolding as I am in Indiana with limited dial-up access.
So far so good. Can't wait to check in later to see the rest.
The Black angels are great. I've seen them a few times and they put on a great live show too. I also have a huge crush on Alex, the singer and he knows it. We are pretty tight.
and that's my cue to exit
see you guys tomorrow
OK, check in tomorrow, I mean.
So far so good. Can't wait to check in later to see the rest.
The Black angels are great. I've seen them a few times and they put on a great live show too. I also have a huge crush on Alex, the singer and he knows it. We are pretty tight.
QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 23 2006, 03:21 PM) [snapback]274230[/snapback]
and that's my cue to exit
see you guys tomorrow
OK, check in tomorrow, I mean.
I really am pretty shocked by the placement of DBT's. There's not a bad song on the record and it might have the best song made all year on it.
QUOTE(The Good Dr Bill @ Dec 23 2006, 02:18 PM) [snapback]274173[/snapback]
#85.
Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
US Chart Position: #50
UK Chart Position: n/a
Charting Singles: n/a
Acclaimed Music Ranking: Bubbling Under
Pitchfork Review: "A Blessing and a Curse ends with "A World of Hurt", in which Hood delivers the verses in a sing-speak so confident and disarming it threatens to throw the whole album into new focus. Songs like this-- starkly stoic yet moving, drawing on influences that no one else in our little indie world is bothering with-- are why the Drive-By Truckers remain one of the best and most exciting bands to rise out of the South in a while. However, for the first time in the group's decade of existence, they've made an album that doesn't entirely live up to their reputation." (7.0/10)
Artist's Previous Rankings on Our Albums Lists: Dirty South (#10 of 2004)
Ranked Highest By: Dano (#3) (also ranked #5 by Northern Voice and Saskadelphia)
Amazon Link
Now that we got that out of the way.... I feel better bout the somb and look forward to the rest.
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