Favorite albums/songs of the year

[Rickypt]

What are yours?

My favorite album is "Out of the Ashes" by Jessi Colter and favorite song is "Purple Rain" by Etta James.

[carrie721]

hmm. i think my favorite album is mark knopfler & emmylou harris's all the roadrunning. not sure about favorite song, tho.

[catinthedark]

hmm. i think my favorite album is mark knopfler & emmylou harris's all the roadrunning. not sure about favorite song, tho.

that was the first album that jumped into my head, too.

but then there's imogen heap's i, megaphone...

cat power's you are free...

tilly and the wall's bottoms of barrels...

i can't choose. :distress:

song: i'd have to say cat power's "maybe not."

[BlackWidow]

I am digging The Killers!!!

[Rickypt]

I am digging The Killers!!!

Yeah, Sam's Town is one of my favorites of the year.:nod:

[BombaySapphire3]

Rosanne Cash 's Black Cadillac is awesome .Carnavas by The Silersun Pickups is too ,as well as the over the top but highly listenable bombast of My Chemical Romances's The Black Parade.Under the Skin is very good and the Dixie Chick's Taking the Long Way should have sold better .I guess they paid the price for continuing to tell the truth.

[PsychCat]

I didn't realize anything new has come out. ;)
Lately, I've been listening to ol' classics like Fleetwood Mac, Genesis, The Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, etc....

I think the most recent stuff in my rotation now is a couple of years old releases by Bekka Bramlett, Bonnie Bramlett, Billy Burnette....
(is there some reason they all have to have double "B" initials??) :shrug: :laugh:

[Wild_Heart03]

We're talking albums that came out this year, right? 'Cause then I'd have to say Fundamental by the Pet Shop Boys. I couldn't even begin to list a favorite song, or I'd have a pretty long list.

[BombaySapphire3]

hmm. i think my favorite album is mark knopfler & emmylou harris's all the roadrunning. not sure about favorite song, tho.

I adore Emmylou but IMO this album is not up to the incredibly high standard of the trilogy of Wrecking Ball. Stumble into Grace and Red Dirt Girl ..but I guess for that matter very little is.

[Rickypt]

We're talking albums that came out this year, right? 'Cause then I'd have to say Fundamental by the Pet Shop Boys. I couldn't even begin to list a favorite song, or I'd have a pretty long list.

Yes, favorites from 2006.

[foxyluva]

Damn, I was gonna make this same thread :laugh:

Anyway, my top 5 releases of 2006 are as follows:

1. I'm Not Dead - Pink
2. All the Roadrunning - Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris
3. Under the Skin - Lindsey Buckingham
4. Goodbye Alice In Wonderland - Jewel
5. Highway Companion - Tom Petty

There are a few more that I loved, I just can't think of them at the moment :)

[GardenStateGirlie]

Yeah, Sam's Town is one of my favorites of the year.:nod:

am i the only one dissapointed with the album? i really dug when you were young and then heard the rest of album in advance and wasn't too keen on it -- not sure why.

cat, going to have to agree with you -- tilly's album is so incredibly innovative and fresh. i love it. imogen delivered another winner with i, megaphone. speaking of imogen, have you heard this? (http://www.myspace.com/awakenacappella)

[catinthedark]

cat, going to have to agree with you -- tilly's album is so incredibly innovative and fresh. i love it.

it's SO cool, eh? i saw them on letterman last week - i was sitting in the other room, and after listening for about a minute finally got up and went in to watch. they were THAT good. then i immediately went to itunes and downloaded "bad education." the next day, i downloaded the entire album. innovative and fresh is an understatement! :nod: so glad others know and love them!

imogen delivered another winner with i, megaphone. speaking of imogen, have you heard this? (http://www.myspace.com/awakenacappella)

how great is that? where did you hear of that group? (don't tell me - you're in it? i will bow down if you are) thanks for the link. "hide and seek" is one of my favourite imogen tunes (it was the song that started it all for me) - and the best thing? i'm going to see her this wednesday night! i saw her in may - and she's already back for another sold out show. :thumbsup:

[carrie721]

I adore Emmylou but IMO this album is not up to the incredibly high standard of the trilogy of Wrecking Ball. Stumble into Grace and Red Dirt Girl ..but I guess for that matter very little is.

i get what you're saying, but imo you can't really make an apples-to-apples comparison, since this is a collaboration. on the whole, i'd rather listen to RDG than ATR, but it's still a phenomenal album & my favorite from this year. :thumbsup:

[ontheEdgeof17]

Best Album: Go-Go Dolls/Let Love In

Best Song: The Fray/How To Save A Life

[Miss Vicky]

It's been a freakin' great year for music. :nod:

My top 3 albums of 2006:

1. Face the Promise - Bob Seger
2. Highway Companion - Tom Petty
3. Tie: Memphis in Manhattan - Billy Burnette & Under the Skin - Lindsey Buckingham


Favorite song of the year: toss up between Petty's "Saving Grace" and Burnette's "My Love Will Not Change"

[ryan8472]

My two favorite albums this year have been Sam's Town (by The Killers) and Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! (by Hellogoodbye). :nod:

I also hear that Cyndi's The Body Acoustic is supposed to be amazing. I still want to get that.

[carrie721]

I also hear that Cyndi's The Body Acoustic is supposed to be amazing. I still want to get that.

dis b the truth. for the record, that was 2005, but you should still totally get it. :D

[estranged4life]

Albums:
"Score-20th Anniversary World Tour-Live with the Octavarium Orchestra"-Dream Theater
"On An Island"-David Gilmour
"Sonic Firestorm"-DragonForce
"With Oden On Our Sides"-Amon Amarth
"Under the Skin"-Lindsey Buckingham
"Yeah"-Def Leppard
"Karmacode"-Lacuna Coil

Songs:
"Raise the Knife"-Dream Theater
"Through the Fire and Flames"-DragonForce
"Waterloo Sunset"-Def Leppard (Cover of the Kink's classic)
"I Am Waiting"-Lindsey Buckingham
"On An Island"-David Gilmour
"Enjoy the Silence"-Lacuna Coil

[rbs3676]

It's been a great year for music...

Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors
Camera Obscura - Lets Get Out Of This Country
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
The Vines - Vision Valley
Tom Petty - Highway Companion
Lindsey Buckingham - Under The Skin

rbs

[CreepingDeath]

Rammstein- "Rosenrot"
Tool- "10,000 Days"
Iron Maiden- "A Matter of Life and Death"
Dream Theater- "Score"
Lamb Of God- "Sacrament"
Mastodon- "Blood Mountain"
Amon Amarth- "With Oden on Our Side"
David Gilmour- "On An Island"
Lindsey Buckingham- "Under The Skin"

[GardenStateGirlie]

just noticed this now...

it's SO cool, eh? i saw them on letterman last week - i was sitting in the other room, and after listening for about a minute finally got up and went in to watch. they were THAT good. then i immediately went to itunes and downloaded "bad education." the next day, i downloaded the entire album. innovative and fresh is an understatement! :nod: so glad others know and love them!

merf [she's the one who got me into them] went to the tilly show in north carolina the night they were on letterman [they had filmed that show on monday] and met them [they work their own merchandise booth]. apparently, the entire band was stoked that they were going to be on national television.


how great is that? where did you hear of that group? (don't tell me - you're in it? i will bow down if you are) thanks for the link. "hide and seek" is one of my favourite imogen tunes (it was the song that started it all for me) - and the best thing? i'm going to see her this wednesday night! i saw her in may - and she's already back for another sold out show. :thumbsup:

it's amazing. unfortunately, i'm not in that capella group nor am i in one here on campus or else we'd be trying out that song as well [our group blows]. perez hilton had the song on his site a while back and i made someone else harmonize with me after i heard it -- sounds good but doesn't work as well with two people. they do a really badass job though -- not sure it can even be topped. i really want to see imogen when she comes to philly. unfortunately, i don't think it's going to work out.

another rec: i think you'd like esthero :nod:

[shackin'up]

Cracker - Greenland

Kevn Kinney's Sun Tangled Angel Revival -Comin' Round Again

Primal Scream - Riot City Blues

Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers

M. Ward - Post-War

Lindsey Buckingham - Under The Skin

Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam

Best songs: Primal Scream - Country Girl, Lindsey Buckingham - Shut Us Down