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12/1/2006 12:07 PM
    Lets keep it to five per person???

    1.The Decemberists - 'The Crane Wife'
    2.Lupe Fiasco - 'Food & Liquor'
    3.Cat Power - 'The Greatest'
    4.Final Fantasy - 'He Poos Clouds'
    5.Republic of Loose - 'Aarghh'

    ...In know RoL isn't the greatest but I enjoyed it and wanted to stick an Irish act in there. Although I have loved Beirut, Tv on the Radio and Joanna Newsom.
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    12/3/2006 1:32 PM
    1. The Immediate - In Towers and Clouds
    2. Islands - Return To The Sea
    3. Danielson Famile - Ships
    4. Jeremy Warmsley - The Art of Fiction
    5. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
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    12/3/2006 1:56 PM
    1. Ellen Allien + Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
    2. Hot Chip - The Warning
    3. The Pipettes - We are the Pipettes
    4. Schneider TM - Skoda Mluvit
    5. Peter Bjorn and John - Writers Block
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    12/3/2006 11:19 PM
    Hmmm... it's tricky this year. I believe there's been a lot of patchy, disappointing releases.

    My 5 best are (in no particular order):-

    1) The Trials of Occupanther - Midlake
    2) I Am Not Afraid of You - Yo La Tengo
    3) Alright - Lily Allen
    4) Corner of Miles and Gil - Shack
    5) Moo, Yo Bloody Choir - Augie March

    Disappointments of the year go on and on! The new Dylan (more of the same - the same could be said for Sparklehorse, Beck, Ed Harcourt, The Frames, Lambchop and others), Flaming Lips (too much going on, too harsh sounding)....
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    12/4/2006 2:23 AM
    1. a renewed interest in happiness - the frank and walters (by a country mile)
    2. in towers and clouds - the immediate
    3. the lemonheads - the lemonheads
    4. i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass - yo la tengo
    5. neosupervital - neosupervital
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    12/4/2006 3:25 AM
    it's difficult, isn't it?...

    ...but here's the first five that come to mind:

    joanna newsom - Ys
    the decemberists - the crane wife
    volcano! - beautiful seizure
    camera obscura - let's get out of this country
    charalambides - this vintage burden
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    12/4/2006 6:01 AM
    1 joanna newsom/ ys *
    2 nina nastasia/ on leaving
    3 the decemberists / the crane wife
    4 nalle / by chance upon waking
    5 sparklehorse/ dreamt for light years in the belly of a mountain


    with honourable mentions to james blackshaw and the six organs of admittance.




    * by a country mile
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    12/4/2006 6:16 AM
    must check out the joanna newsom album

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    12/4/2006 10:46 AM
    In no particular order:

    Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things (i know it's a collection of EPs but released this year to my ears)
    Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
    YLT - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
    Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
    Islands - Return to the Sea

    I reserve the right to completely change my mind :-]
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    12/4/2006 11:31 PM
    Tool - 10,000 Days
    Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time

    I'll leave the other spots open for now.
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    12/5/2006 4:04 AM
    Oh my God! Band of Horses. How could i have omitted them. How could I!!!!

    Sorry, Sunset Rubdown, you'd better make room i'm afraid and don't look at me with those cow eyes. Just cut it out................!!!!!!
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    12/5/2006 4:53 AM
    Posted By PeterQuaife on 04 Dec 2006 6:16 AM
    must check out the joanna newsom album

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    Well, I iTuned it on the strength of this thread ... only 5 tracks on the album.
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    12/5/2006 6:48 AM
    Posted By Mully on 05 Dec 2006 4:53 AM




    Well, I iTuned it on the strength of this thread ... only 5 tracks on the album.




    They're loooong tracks (one track runs at 17 minutes I think)
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    12/5/2006 11:14 AM
    Lots of good albums this year, I probably enjoyed these though more than most

    Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
    The Hidden Cameras - Awoo
    Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
    Islands - Return to Sea
    Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit


    Haven't had a chance to listen to The Crane Wife yet

    And what no Arctic Monkeys from anyone???
    and no Tapes n' Tapes or Clap Your Hands Say Yeah?
    or Yeahs Yeahs Yeahs?
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    12/5/2006 5:33 PM
    I think the Raconteurs- Broken Boy Soldiers merits a mention here.

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    12/6/2006 2:44 AM
    Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
    Asobi Seksu - Citrus
    Film School - Film School
    Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh
    The Beatles - Love
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    12/6/2006 4:10 AM
    Posted By comet on 05 Dec 2006 11:14 AM



    The Hidden Cameras - Awoo

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    I completely forgot that! Another very honourable mention.
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    12/6/2006 11:25 AM
    1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    2. Arctic Monkeys
    3. Joanna Newsom
    4. Howling Bells
    5. Various (Production)
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    12/6/2006 1:59 PM
    Yep, a tough one. In no particular order:

    The Panda Band - This Vital Chapter
    Dallas Crane - Factory Girls
    You Am I - Convicts
    Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing And A Curse
    The Sleepy Jackson - Personality: One Was A Spider. One Was A Bird

    A good year for the Aussies, 4 out of 5!
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    12/6/2006 9:27 PM
    Speaking of Aussie bands, Mixta.... have you heard the new Augie March?

    I loved Lovers by Sleepy Jackson, but I've found Personality very difficult indeed.
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    12/7/2006 4:22 AM
    In no particular order:
    (I probably only bought about 5 albums released in 2006 during 2006, but that's another story)

    Lou Rhodes - Beloved One. Ex Lamb vocalist's folky debut. Very fine indeed. Pity it didn't snag the Mercury.

    Bic Runga - Birds (was this year, right?). A real mood album, sounds fantastic, not as slick as Beautiful Collision.

    Luke Haines - Off my rocker at the art school bop. Auteurs front man, he's still got it.

    Cerys Matthews - Never said goodbye. A lot better than you might expect for someone who once fronted Catatonia.

    Arctic Monkeys - Whatever you say etc. Justifies the hype. I think it's a great debut, be very interested in where they go from here.

    Honourable mention: Scout Niblett - Kidnapped by Neptune. I got this this year but was it a 2005 release? Great album - Steve Albini at the desk, raw and heavy then tender and quiet. Veers unpredicatably...


    Will have to get round to checking out the Decemberists and Joanna Newsom, maybe in 2008 ;-) Nice to see Nina Nastasia get a mention, her other work is spell binding, check out Dogs today.
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    12/7/2006 4:43 AM
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    12/7/2006 5:07 AM
    Posted By bort on 07 Dec 2006 4:22 AM
    Honourable mention: Scout Niblett - Kidnapped by Neptune. I got this this year but was it a 2005 release? Great album - Steve Albini at the desk, raw and heavy then tender and quiet. Veers unpredicatably...


    Will have to get round to checking out the Decemberists and Joanna Newsom, maybe in 2008 ;-) Nice to see Nina Nastasia get a mention, her other work is spell binding, check out Dogs today.




    kidnapped by neptune is great indeed but is an early 2005 release indeed... as for nina nastasia, i've been listening to 'run to ruin' a lot lately and i absolutely loves it...

    ...oh, and yes, yes, yes to newsom and decemberists
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    12/7/2006 6:48 AM
    bort: Cerys Matthews - Never said goodbye.

    Yeah it was a very good album, i hope you've checked out Cockahoop cos its even better. I saw her live during the week, amazing one of the best gigs of the year and i tried to sell a ticket for her vicar street show here for a tener and no one was interested. And in general there doesn't seem to be that much interest in her, why i don't know cos she's got the best female voice out there today.
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    12/9/2006 6:44 AM
    simple kid - "SK2"
    peter bjorn and john - "writers block"
    emily loizeau - "l'autre bout du monde"
    vanessa and the o's - "la ballade d'o"
    midlake - "the trials of van occupanther"

    emily loizeau is an anglo-french piano-playing singer: her music is cabaret + pop + frenchness + black humour + catchy tunes - not too dissimilar to regina spector.

    vanessa and the o's: vanessa is a french singer, and she made this album with james iha of the smashing pumpkins. the album sounds like the velvet underground and nico.
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    12/11/2006 4:57 AM
    I find it very hard to decide on these lists but here's one:

    1. Sunset Rubdown - Shut up I'm Dreaming
    2. The Immediate - In Towers and Clouds
    3. Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldier (Just for the Olympia gig)
    4. Guillemots - Through the windowpane
    5. My Morning Jacket - Okonokos (Just because I can't nominate Z)

    Other albums of note: The Young Knives, YYY's, The Walkmen, TV on the radio, Pretty girls make graves, Tapes'n'Tapes, Joanna Newsom, Swan Lake etc.
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    12/13/2006 9:16 AM
    NPR's Listeners Top 10 2006.
    Another 10......
    You can also listen to a track from each album, which is nice....

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6557143
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    12/13/2006 9:47 AM
    The Guillemots - Through the Window Pane
    Sleepy Jackson - One was a Spider one was a Bird
    Band of Horses - Everything all the time
    TV on The Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
    Broken Social Scene - BSS
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    12/14/2006 10:04 AM
    The Frank And Walters - A Renewed Interest In Happiness (pure class)
    Camera Obscura - Lets Get Out Of This Country
    The Immediate - In Towers and Clouds
    Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
    Simple Kid - SK2
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    12/14/2006 10:57 AM
    The hold steady - boys and girls in america
    Lambchop - Damaged
    Gullimots - through the window pane
    simple kid - sk2
    broken social scene - bss
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    12/15/2006 7:17 AM
    Nothing that hasn't been mentioned already i think;

    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    Neil Young - Living With War
    Band Of Horses - Everything all the time
    Midlake - Trials Of Van Occupanther
    and lastest but not leastest and probably mostest
    Joanna Newsom

    speaking of which, big dissapointment to see she has announced UK gigs next year but no sign of a Dublin gig. Anybody hear anything?

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    12/17/2006 5:46 AM
    Posted By diego_maradona on 15 Dec 2006 7:17 AM
    Nothing that hasn't been mentioned already i think;

    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    Neil Young - Living With War
    Band Of Horses - Everything all the time
    Midlake - Trials Of Van Occupanther
    and lastest but not leastest and probably mostest
    Joanna Newsom

    speaking of which, big dissapointment to see she has announced UK gigs next year but no sign of a Dublin gig. Anybody hear anything?





    Its annoying but I think she is touring with a 40 piece orchestra (poss more) so she'd have to book a reasonably sized venue for it. She wouldnt pull big crowds here so thats why she didnt do a show here me thinks
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    12/17/2006 2:40 PM
    hey my top five albums of this year are
    1. Band of horses - everything all the time
    2. black angels - passover
    3.The decemberists - the crane wife
    4. Rock Central Plaza - We are not horses
    5.tHE Asteroid #4 - an amazing Dream

    I'm Looking forward to the new shins album next year, also the re issue of on avery island by the neutral milk hotel, there is gonna be a bonus disc of extra tracks!!
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    12/18/2006 7:24 PM
    Posted By The_Pen15 on 17 Dec 2006 5:46 AM

    Its annoying but I think she is touring with a 40 piece orchestra (poss more) so she'd have to book a reasonably sized venue for it. She wouldnt pull big crowds here so thats why she didnt do a show here me thinks



    She's been touring in the States with a 5-piece band, and she's doing a handful of shows with full orchestras in the UK next month but I think a full proper European tour is to follow later, maybe March or April.. presumably either on her own or with the band again. Did anyone notice that she was in the 'What's Hot' bit of the Irish Times Saturday magazine last weekend? I can imagine the majority of their readers scratching their heads somewhat at her unique style..
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    12/20/2006 4:43 AM
    Doing it for me this year:

    Arctic Monkeys - Is Alex Turner the best British songwriter since Morrissey ?

    Foo Fighters - In Your Honour

    The Killers - Sam's Town.
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    12/22/2006 8:57 AM
    Can't get my head around putting 'em in order yet, but here goes...

    Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
    Toumani Diabate - Boulevard de l'Independence
    Islands - Return To The Sea
    Tapes 'n' Tapes - The Loon
    M Ward - Post War

    Of course, tomorrow it'd be a different 5...! Love it!
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    1/25/2007 1:26 PM

    Sunset Rubdown - Shut up i am dreaming
    TV on The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
    Forward Russia - Give Me A Wall
    What Made Milwaukee Famous - Trying To Never Catch Up
    The Russian Futurists - Me, Myself and Rye
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    1/25/2007 3:01 PM
    howya Goat man,

    If you like Beirut n want to check out more balkan type stuff, check out taraf de haidouks (http://mintayyy.blogspot.com/2006/12/taraf-de-haidouks.html) or Bratsch, both really good. And the North Strand Klezmer Band here in Dublin.

    Theres a balkan music festival on in cork on paddys weekend too, but i knows nowt more about that so far.

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    1/26/2007 3:15 AM
    Nice one Daragh, will check those out!

    Got the Hawk And A Hacksaw album recently, sounds promising on the first couple of listens...


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