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By: avaleigh

avaleigh — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:59:35 +0000

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By: avaleigh

avaleigh — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:59:06 +0000

By: avaleigh

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By: AGBerg

AGBerg — Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:09:19 +0000

I have to agree with “scorpio” about M.Ward. Hell, even Cadillac used his song “Here Comes The Sun Again” in their SUV ads. Which, of course, might be a mixed blessing…as it instantly morphs any under-appreciated, alternative artist into a mainstream salesperson for toys for the older, stodgier set :>)

By: critical thought

critical thought — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:24:28 +0000

Ok. . .wow. just went through the previous lists.

anyone who references “too far to care” is worth taking advice from (financial or otherwise).

By: critical thought

critical thought — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 02:20:22 +0000

I will have to check out some of these, not familiar. . . I like the way you pitch the list . . .kind of a best of list for people with FT jobs.

anyway, I definitely like the Hold Steady “Boy and Girls in America”. Its getting a lot of hype, and the hype is probably ahead of the album, but, its still pretty good.

Where the hype is behind, and, I suspect that you will like is Band Of Horse “everything all the time” (or something like that, it is their only album). Tunes like “great salt lake”, and “funeral” are easily accesible. I think this album is great. . .

cheers.

By: scorpio

scorpio — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:46:33 +0000

may i recommend M. Ward’s “Post-War” as musical sensation of the year 2006. you’re welcome.

By: Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:22:35 +0000

Guys… I am not a music buff, and never heard of James Hunter (the artist).
Just remembered Amaranth and it’s homonym and thought this was a bad year to listen to him…

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:51:40 +0000

As an antidote to the wannabee hipster list of middle-aged financial types, here’s the indie list of a 24 fyear old, liberal policy wonk a couple of years out of Harvard (Matt Yglesias). I don’t know much of it, I’ll confess, except that my hipster senior-at-Wesleyan daughter listens to some of it.

The best thing about December is the year-end top whatever lists. Pitchfork’s Top Fifty Albums of 2006 list makes me realize that the time has come to stop complaining about the site and just recognize that Pitchfork and I have very different tastes and musical priorities. It’s gotten to the point (as with Scanners) where I can sometimes tell I’ll like a band just by reading Pitchfork slam them. At any rate, I hesitate to make transcendent aesthetic claims about music since tastes differ and so forth, but my ten favorite albums of an “indie rock” nature in 2006 were, in no particular order:

The Pipettes, “We Are The Pipettes”
The Decemberists, “The Crane Wife”
Belle and Sebastian, “The Life Pursuit”
Pretty Girls Make Graves, “Elan Vital”
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, “Show Your Bones”
Rainer Maria, “Catastrophe Keeps Us Together”
The Futureheads, “News and Tributes”
Arctic Monkeys, “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”
The Shins, “Wincing the Night Away”

One noteworthy trend in my listing habits is, as Tom Lee notes, the relative decline of Canada. Our neighbors to the north dominated in 2005 with releases by Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Metric, Feist, and Wolf Parade. For ‘06 I’m Canada-free with Malajube, Emily Haines, and Pony Up! all releasing albums I liked but didn’t top-ten like. We can also see that I’m getting old and set in my ways as only two of the albums I listen for ‘06 are from new bands. Last, I’m becoming increasingly un-cool, since as best I can tell the most widely-praised album of the sort of music I like was The Hold Steady’s Boys and Girls in America which I found okay, but not incredibly impressive.