[Introspective] My favourite albums of 2006

Gilles G. gilles.gen at gmail.com
Tue Jan 9 00:57:52 PST 2007


Hi all,

For everyone it's the time to sum up last year's music... As I have to
do so for a French mailing list on which I am, I thought it was a good
idea (as expressed in my comments to Wayne's last poll) to share this
with you, just to see which records we PSB fans like besides theirs.

I would dearly like to read some comments and advice from you and your
own list of favourite albums of last year.

I'm summing this up, the original version featured comments in French
about each of the first 20, I can of course send it to anyone
interested who reads French, ask me personnally...

1. PET SHOP BOYS - FUNDAMENTAL
2. KETTEL - MY DOGAN (Sending Orbs)
3. OIL 10 - BEYOND (Funkwelten)
4. BIOSPHERE - DROPSONDE (Touch)
5. BLAMSTRAIN - DISFOLD (Sending Orbs)
6. MIWON - PALE GLITTER (City Centre Offices)
7. ANTHONY ROTHER - SUPER SPACE MODEL (Datapunk)
8. ORLA WREN - BUTTERFLY WINGS MAKE (Expanding)
9. BARBARA MORGENSTERN - THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER (Monika Enterprise)
10. NATHAN FAKE - DROWNING IN A SEA OF LOVE (Border Community)

11. BOLA - SHAPES (Skam)
12. YAGYA - WILL I DREAM DURING THE PROCESS? (Sending Orbs)
13. ISAN - PLANS DRAWN IN PENCIL (Morr)
14. APPARAT & ELLEN ALLIEN - ORCHESTRA OF BUBBLES (BPitch Control)
15. HOT CHIP - THE WARNING (EMI)
16. GREETINGS FROM TUSKAN - LULLABIES FOR THE WARRIORS (Iwari)
17. ULTRE - ALL THE DARKNESS HAS GONE TO DETAILS (Audiobulb)
18. IMMUNE - SOUND INSIDE (Stilll)
19. B. FLEISCHMANN - THE HUMBUCKING COIL (Morr)
20. DIF:USE - FEBRILE (Thin Consolation)

21. NOVEL 23 - FLY THROUGH THE FEELINGS
22. COLDCUT - SOUND MIRRORS
23. NIGHTMARES ON WAX - IN A SPACE OUTTA SOUND
24. BROADCAST - THE FUTURE CRAYON
25. ALEXANDER KOWALSKI - CHANGES
26. JUNIOR BOYS - SO THIS IS GOODBYE
27. ELECTRIC PRESIDENT - S/T
28. SAINT ETIENNE - TALES FROM TURNPIKE HOUSE
29. CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE - ETIQUETTE
30. INFADELS - WE ARE NOT THE INFADELS
31. TIGA - SEXOR
32. THE ELECTED - SUN, SUN, SUN
33. HOLIDAY FOR STRINGS - CD
34. THE KOOKS - INSIDE IN, INSIDE OUT
35. MS. JOHN SODA - NOTES AND THE LIKE

As my favourite albums are as usual mostly electronic, I also wanted
to point out some nice pop-rock releases :
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say I am...
Calexico - Garden ruins
Film School - s/t
Graham Coxon - Love travels at illegal speeds
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Stereolab - Fab four suture
Strokes - First impressions of Earth
Telex - How do you dance?

The EP of the year would be Boards of Canada - Trans Canada Highway,
worth mentioning too are the EPs of the net labels Autres Directions
and Sutemos.

Live record of the year is of course Concrete.

Compilation of the year, by far : PopJustice.
And also Renaissance (Faithless), North by North West (from Liverpool
to Manchester, 1976-1984), Four Tet - Remixes / Remixed and Galaxy 2
Galaxy (Underground Resistance).

Labels compilations of the year :
Draumar um kalt sumar and Intelligent toys 3 (Sutemos)
Condition of Musak 2 (Expanding)
Bip-Hop Generation 8 (Bip-Hop)
Stylllism (Stilll)
Silva (Miasmah)
F Com essentials (F Com)

Greatest Hits of the year :
in front, because they really add something :
Jam & Spoon - Remixes & Club Classics
Laurent Garnier - Retrospective

and then :
Depeche Mode - The best of
Electronic - Get the Message
Mercury Rev - Stillness breathes
George Michael - Twenty Five
Moby - Go (the very best of)
Nitzer Ebb - Body of Work / Body Rework

And finally a list of albums that might well have ended in the front
places had I had the chance to listen to them enough (which I will of
course do now, and there are still quite a few lying around) :
Aqua Bassino - Rue de Paris
Booka Shade - Movements
Last Days - Sea
Leo Abrahams - Scene Memory
Manyfingers - Our Worn Shadow
Svalastog - Woodwork
Trentemöller - The Last Resort

Hope to read similar lists from you folks.

Cheers,
Gilles

-- 
"I pretend, I'm there again
I close my eyes and see you better than before
Then I feel you touch me and it's 1984"



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