Oh Six

Ok, so, it's time for the Year End business and I am sure my mates are having just as hard a time as I am trying to find a Best Of list to compile in regards to any new albums. 2006 will be seen as the Year of the Disappointment, and I'm not just talking about various cunts. I'm talking about new music. Some of the fucking GREATS came back this year and delivered underwhelming albums. Dickie in particular started off good and then went to total snooze mode and Cerati did an album that, if you started off a Soda Stereo fan, you'd love it, but if you, like us, started at Bocanada, this new album made little sense. And while I didn't hate the Primals album like Brandt did, I think we deserved something cutting edge and and not a retread. I actually go back to that album more than I do the other two. I mention these three albums in particular because they were on last years most anticipated list. My personal biggest disappointment was Razorlight which was limp as many peoples excuses. All these albums fall into the "there are three or four REALLY good songs and the rest is whatever". I can't tell you how many times I said that this year.

In the meantime, Jarvis wins in the re-issue department. Everyone who EVER does some kind of re-issue needs to check out what Jarvis did for Pulp and what Hussey did for The Mish. THOSE are fucking reissues. Anyhow, I have decided not to to a most anticpiated in 07 list simply to not jinx anything. As always I pick the top choice of the year and then everything else is just listed in no particular order:

ALBUMS:

*KASABIAN: Empire is ALBUM OF THE YEAR*

Honestly, it was a very close call with Jarvis. I ended up with Empire for one very simple reason: I fucking love it. It's a great album, but needed a few more tunes to back up the band's hyping it up as a classic. It's not, but it could have been, and in the year when a lot of stuff sucked, this stands out. I've sorta scaled back hyping Kasabian on this blog, but they ARE my favourite band and the only new band in recent memory that I feel have a long future. The Japanese ep releases help.

JARVIS COCKER: Jarvis
THE TWILIGHT SINGERS: Powder Burns
MORRISSEY: Ringleader Of The Tormentors
SAINTFACE: Apartment Stories (technically came out this year, so it makes the list)
GUSTAVO LAMAS: Mareo
MUSE: Black Holes And Revelations
MIDLAKE: The Trials of Van Occupanther
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG: 5:55
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: Futuresex/Lovesounds
THE TWILIGHT SINGERS: A Stitch in Time EP
FLAVIUS E: Conjuncion EP

REISSUES:

*PULP: HIS N HERS, DIFFERENT CLASS, and THIS IS HARDCORE are REISSUES OF THE YEAR*

Everything from the packaging to the mastering to the bonus material to the liner notes is SICK SICK SICK. As I mentioned earlier, any band who EVER re-releases something needs to follow this. You can see why it took Jarvis 5 years to get a solo record out. He was doing this the whole time. Awesome.

THE MISSION: ANTHOLOGY
THE SISTERS OF MERCY: re-issues of the 3 albums
ELECTRONIC: Get the Message
TEARS FOR FEARS: Song From The Big Chair
MANIC STREET PREACHERS: Everything Must Go
JOHN CALE Paris 1919
OASIS: Stop the Clocks

GIGS:

*TWILIGHT SINGERS at Warsaw is GIG OF THE YEAR*
Just the best time I had with my mates all year.

KASABIAN at Webster Hall
EDITORS at Rothko
DICKIE at Webster
ELBOW at Webster
GORILLAZ at the Apollo
MASERATI at Northsix
MUSE at Hammerstien
GOLDFRAPP at Roseland


MOVIES:

*CASINO ROYALE is MOVIE OF THE YEAR*

It just rocked. All you idiot Daniel Craig haters who thought he would suck are morons. He owns your fat ass.

BORAT
THE DEPARTED
THE PROPOSITION
V FOR VENDETTA
EXILED
ELECTION 2
THE PRESTIGE
THE ILLUSIONIST
PAN'S LABRYNTH
BABEL
VOLVER


TV:

*24 is TV SHOW OF THE YEAR*

Oh come on motherfucker, like you werent jumping off the couch screaming.

HEROES
MY NAME IS EARL
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM
SMALLVILLE (When GREEN ARROW was on)
SOUTH PARK
BOSTON LEGAL
STUDIO 60
ENTOURAGE

NEW CATEGORY: COMICS:

*GREEN LANTERN is COMIC OF THE YEAR*

I'm biased, but really there's no better super-hero comic out there, unless it's written by the same guy. There's no comic that is as satsifying a read each month. It's epic and cinematic.

ALL STAR SUPERMAN
INFINITE CRISIS
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN
ASTONISHING X-MEN
BATMAN (both Robinson and Morrison runs)
ACTION COMICS
TEEN TITANS
JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA
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Extra:

Hero of the Year was Oh My Lord
Videogame of the year was BULLY
Wrestler of the Year is CM Punk
Director of The Year: Johnnie To
Trip of the Year was San Diego
Man of the Year was Frank
Woman of the Year was Pat
Kid of the Year was my Nephew
Dog of the Yeat was my nephew's dog
Villian of the Year was some cunts

See you in 07, asshole!

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