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| 2006, the year in music by Zseni 01/14/2007, 11:16pm PST | ||||
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| I didn't listen to anything released in 2006 until 2007. Well almost.
Except The Sword. That's also the only thing Fussbett and I have agreed on since SB left. BIG NAME POP: not as uniformly sucky as I would prefer it to remain - Ayumi Hamasaki's "Secret" and Justin Timberlake's "Futuresex/Lovesounds/Prince Impression" were both giant catchy put-it-on-the-mixtape-even-though-you-wouldn't-be-caught-dead-with-this album/problems. I also had Kelis' "Bossy" on the same kind of permanent repeat as "Milkshake" was back when Milkshake was still hot. I was also that guy who thought "Dick In A Box" was fucking hilarious and I even got an mp3 which I would make you listen to in the car as I guffawed and sang along. THINGS I WILL HATE FOREVER: James Blunt, KT Tunstall, Shawn Mullins, and an endless string of whiny breathy women owned the adult contemporary airwaves, proving that everyone in Logan's Run was right except for Logan. "Shut up, James Blunt." = "learn 2 play" THINGS THAT WERE UNDERGROUND, THEN OVERPLAYED, WITHIN THREE WEEKS: the Baltimore sound, indierave. WHAT PISSED ME OFF ABOUT THE CRITICS THIS YEAR: over the years, my approach to music critcs has changed from awe to scepticism to, at last, the intense bitterness of the disillusioned. Those guys get paid to be so wrong. Time did a story on Pitchfork - TIME, the DINOSAUR - and basically called Pitchfork on being more inflammatory than critical, and the Pitchfork guys agreed, and nobody on Pitchfork thought that this had any relevance on their endless declamations of having the best taste ever. Anyway music critics suck a dick, and every last one of them put the Scott Walker album on their best-of-2006 lists. FUCK YOU, guys. That album was totally impenetrable. Even I can barely get through it. It has no place on your foo-foo I'm-so-cool lists full of Yo La Tengo-level skiffle pop. THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN: nobody mentioned the Lansing-Dreiden album at all. And I do mean absolutely nobody. ON THAT NOTE, PERMANENT CONTRIBUTIONS OF 2006 TO MY PERMANENT PLAYLIST: Lansing-Dreiden, "The Dividing Island"; Black Angels, "Passover"; The Sword, "Age Of Winters"; Blind Guardian, "A Twist In The Myth; Dragonforce, "Inhuman Rampage"; Spank Rock, multiple yos (no pun intended.) BUT ACTUALLY 2006 WAS: all about the 70's. This: the year I rampaged through Bootsy Collins' back catalog. I deleted more music than I downloaded in 2006, and my happiest discovery was a complete Bootsy discography that I had acquired god knows when and just filed away and never listened to. I've got the munchies for your love, Caltrops. Also: Minnie Riperton, who gave me a massive earboner with "Inside Your Love" and in whose slight discography are many delightful pleasures. Also: recapturing the Ohio Players, Slave, Tony Allen, and George McCrae. This was also the year I Gave Prog A Chance and went all apeshit on it. Yes! Genesis! Van Der Graaf Generator! Color! Anthony Phillips! Amazing Blondel! Locanda Della Fate! I deleted more music than I downloaded in a year when I was downloading Yes discographies. My grasp of the field is rudimentary. I made the mistake of sending my ELP/Pink Floyd fan father the supergroup DiMeola/Winwood/Yamashita album GO - the special edition one, with the live album and whatnot included - and he hated it so much he told me to never send him presents again. |
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2006, the year in music by 01/14/2007, 11:16pm PST  Oh I forgot Gae Bolg, and the magic of discovering a whole genre of music by 01/14/2007, 11:19pm PST Never heard of any of these. Doesn't sound like much of a year in music. NT by 01/15/2007, 11:49am PST You were visiting 1992 all year anyway. by 01/15/2007, 2:01pm PST 1992 was a great, year NT by 02/04/2007, 3:53pm PST A great.................... year. by 02/04/2007, 8:10pm PST |
