Thursday, December 07, 2006

Why break my back?

Normally, by this time of year I've compiled best of lists, and while I started the process, David over at Largeheartedboy has already done the work, so instead I'll just refer you to his list, as it has pretty much everything I was linking to (and more.)

While I'm almost ready to unleash my 100+ album list, I've also been compiling other year-end lists as playlist.

First one is from the post-punk pioneer label and record store - Rough Trade Records. Compiled by their employees, this has a lot of albums that haven't made it over here yet, so it's worth checking out. The playlist features those that have made it here (in some fasion.) And top of the list is Beirut's Gulag Orkestar.


Playlist: Rough Trade Records' Best Albums of 2006

Full list here

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1 comment:

Shawn Anderson said...

1. Postcards From Italy - Beirut
2. Standing In The Way Of Control - The Gossip
3. Let's Make Love and Listen Death From Above - CSS
4. Smile - Lily Allen
5. Over And Over - Hot Chip
6. (Do You Wanna) Come Walk With Me? - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
7. I Know No Pardon - Vetiver
8. Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
9. Yer Bounda Fara - Ali Farka Toure
10. Become The Enemy - The Lemonheads
11. Road To Peace - Tom Waits
12. Province - TV On The Radio
13. Cruising - Erase Errata
14. The Long Way Back Again - Barry Adamson
15. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
16. The Greatest - Cat Power
17. October, First Account - Be Your Own Pet
18. Circle Of Sorrow - Various
19. The Information - Beck
20. The Blues Are Still Blue - Belle and Sebastian
21. Get Away - 120 Days
22. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor - Arctic Monkeys
23. Bisbee Blue - Calexico
24. God Knows (You Gotta Give To Get) - El Perro Del Mar
25. The Sky Was Pink - Nathan Fake
26. Mi ConfesiĆ³n - Gotan Project
27. E Eleventh Nuts - Scritti Politti
28. What It Look Like - Spankrock
29. Put the Lights On the Tree - Sufjan Stevens
30. Mr. Ambulance Driver - The Flaming Lips
31. Intimate Secretary - The Raconteurs
32. Get Myself Into It (Album version) - The Rapture
33. Black Swan - Thom Yorke
34. Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
35. Diggin A Grave - Micah P. Hinson
36. Conventional Wisdom - Built To Spill
37. Insistor - Tapes 'n Tapes
38. Barfly - Ray Lamontagne
39. Chinese Translation - M. Ward
40. Chips Ahoy - The Hold Steady
41. Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan
42. Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan - Matmos
43. Collarbone - Fujiya & Miyagi
44. Spaceape - Burial
45. The Rise And Fall Of The Letter P - Lambchop
46. It'S A Long Way To The Top - Susanna And The Magical Orchestra
47. Lloyd, Im Ready to be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura
48. Springtime Can Kill You - Jolie Holland
49. Shade And Honey - Sparklehorse
50. Easy Love - Mstrkrft
51. Dart For My Sweetheart - Archie Bronson Outfit
52. What's The Altitude - Cut Chemist
53. Initiate - Calla
54. Sound Mirrors - Coldcut
55. Emily Snow - M. Craft
56. DownTown - Peaches
57. King Of You - Psapp
58. We Used To Vacation - Cold War Kids
59. Your Touch - Black Keys
60. Chosen One - The Concretes
61. We Share Our Mothers' Health - The Knife
62. Oh Mandy - The Spinto Band