Let's revisit 2006

[zeb]

That TVOTR record is ace.

[Gods' Die]

That TVOTR record is ace.

It's one of my favorites from the past decade once I finally got around to listening to it...they're insanely talented in pretty much all departments.

[McParadigm]

[Gods' Die]

Between this and Cookie Mountain that's pretty much all I listened to for a large amount of 2010...I've always been a late-comer.

[nyquillyn]

Mr. Beast - Mogwai
Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain - Sparklehorse
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Show Your Bones - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
At War with the Mystics - The Flaming Lips
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
10,000 Days - Tool
Rather Ripped - Sonic Youth
Highway Companion - Tom Petty
Amputechture - TMV
The Information - Beck
The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
Sam's Town - The Killers
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards - Tom Waits
So Divided - Trail of the Dead
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse (Fuck you!)
The Greatest - Cat Power
The Eraser - Thom Yorke

[nyquillyn]

Mr. Beast - Mogwai
Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain - Sparklehorse
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Show Your Bones - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
At War with the Mystics - The Flaming Lips
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
10,000 Days - Tool
Rather Ripped - Sonic Youth
Highway Companion - Tom Petty
Amputechture - TMV
The Information - Beck
The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
Sam's Town - The Killers
Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards - Tom Waits
So Divided - Trail of the Dead
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse (Fuck you!)
The Greatest - Cat Power
The Eraser - Thom Yorke

Forgot: Veneer - José González

[washing machine]

The Greatest-Cat Power
The Life Pursuit-Belle and Sebastian
Rather Ripped-Sonic Youth
The Eraser-Thom Yorke
Yellow House-Grizzly Bear
Modern Times-Bob Dylan
Living With War-Neil Young

Funny thing is that I really didn't care for that Sonic Youth or Belle & Sebastian album in 2006.

[The Big So-So]

This was my list in 2006:
1. The Devin Townsed Band - Synchestra
2. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
3. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
4. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
5. Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
6. Hank Williams III - Straight to Hell
7. Witch - Witch
8. Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head
9. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
10. The Black Keys - Magic Potion
11. Motorhead - Kiss of Death
12. Neil Young - Living With War
13. Cat Power - The Greatest
14. Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
15. Julieta Venegas - Limon y Sal
16. The Gathering - Home
17. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
18. Quasi - When the Going Gets Dark
19. Tilly and the Wall - Bottoms of Barrels
20. Rob Zombie - Educated Horses

That list is pretty close to how I would rank them now. There are some glaring omissions, though:
Joanna Newsom - Ys - I heard this album in 2006, but it took a couple years for me to really get into it. Now it might very well top the list.
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side - I must have gotten this one in 2007. It would be near the top now.
Om - Conference of the Birds - Just got this one a couple years ago. Would be top ten for sure.

Albums I'm surprised I omitted:
Beck - The Information - I was a big Beck fan at the time. I guess this one disappointed me.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones - I suppose this album disappointed me at the time too.
The Roots - Game Theory - Pretty sure I liked this one at the time, don't know why it didn't make the list.
Tom Waits - Orphans - I probably skipped it because it contained some previously released material.

[Soma.]

There was once a post about Beck here. I brain farted and confused The Information for Modern Guilt, which is infinitely better. Whoops.

[Birds in Hell]

Tool just announced some April dates down here, god help me, I'm considering attending the Adelaide show. I saw them in 1998 and they were great

(That's right, I didn't want to be the guy who begins the Tool thread on the new RM.)

[Birds in Hell]

$130 tickets?

Okay, maybe not.

We'll see.