the only ilx year-end poll that i will be conducting

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Oh wait, Back in Denim was reissued. But I was listening to it a lot this year before I got the reissue.

― Richard C (avoid80), Sunday, 10 December 2006 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

2006 album jesu, "silver", by a country mile. if that doesn't count as a full-length album, then "violence and birdsong" by union of knives.
2006 track christ knows. i really can't think. rihanna, "sos"? kasabian, "empire"? (still an awesome track, despite their hatefulness and the shitness of the album.) the spinto band, "mandy"? the divine comedy, "a lady of a certain age"? one of them. rihanna probably edges it.

non-2006 album earl brutus, "your majesty … we are here", edges it over the last ladytron album (which i discovered right at the start of the year) and "pacific ocean blue".
non-2006 track the chameleons, "swamp thing".

it's been a funny old year.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Sunday, 10 December 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

1. either greg kelley/jason lescalleet - love me two times or sound grammar.
2. uhh i really didn't listen to many 06 tracks at all! maybe beyonce "ring the alarm" because of the video.
3. gilberto gil/jorge ben - gil e jorge
4. 4g - yellow cloud

― MAP (mattp), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:00 (seventeen years ago) link

1 love is all 'nine times the same song'
2 pas/cal 'c.a.u.'
3 the playwrights 'english self storage'
4 caterina valente 'if hearts could talk'

― keith (keithkeith), Monday, 11 December 2006 00:53 (seventeen years ago) link

According to my iTunes:

Most played 2006 album: Oneida - Happy New Year
Most played 2006 song: White Magic - The Light

I don't have a way of doing the other two questions via iTunes, so I'm going to guess

Most played non 2006 album: Steely Dan - Aja
non 2006 track: William Parker - Raining on the Moon

― Hurting (A-Ron Hubbard), Monday, 11 December 2006 01:06 (seventeen years ago) link

apparently someone on here has made me a katatonia obsessive...

2006 album: katatonia "the great cold distance"

2006 song: katatonia "my twin" opium mix

non-2006 album: katatonia "the black sessions"

non-2006 song: jesu "heart ache"

― william (drone/a/sore), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 04:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I've had to reinstall itunes a half dozen times and been through two ipods this year, so I have no way of telling for sure.
Total guess:

2006 album: Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela
2006 song: Prince - Black Sweat

non-2006 album: Ahmad Jamal - Jamal Plays Jamal
non-2006 song: Nice and Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow

― forksclovetofu (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I think this thread highlighted what I feel to be the greatest weakness of 2006: not one of my favourite 12-13 albums of the year made me obsessed for any length of time. I was aware of this fact before the thread began, and felt rather irritated about it subconsciously. But it took this thread to make me give any real thought.

Anyway, I've tried quite a few new (and old) things because of this thread and I gotta say you guys were right about the Knife "Silent Shout". Believe it or not, I heard that for the first time tonight right after hearing Ultravox's "Vienna" album for the first time in its entirety. Really speechless at both albums right now. So much of the time synthesizer new wave era music seems shallow, throwaway to me, like bubblegum pop too thin to even blow any bubbles in. These two sound so substantial next to all that. What a breath of fresh air! Thanks ILM.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Saturday, 16 December 2006 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

(recently, Half Man Half Biscuit's Back In The DHSS is making a late run for the old album of the year. Arab Strap's Shy Retirer similarly for the track)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Saturday, 16 December 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

guessin':

06 album: spankrock yoyoyoyoyo

06 single: jt - sexyback

non 06 album - stars - set yourself on fire

non '06 single - big star - thirteen

― johnny crunch (johnny crunch), Saturday, 16 December 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

06 album most played: Antena - Camino Del Sol (reissue)
06 single most played: Escort - Starlight

non 06 album: Leroy Hutson - Hutson
non 06 single: Cherrelle with Alexander O'Neal: Saturday Love

― jacob sanders (Jacobs), Saturday, 16 December 2006 23:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Half Man Half Biscuit's Back In The DHSS

God bless you for mentioning it!! Never known a single soul who appreciated this one. I still have it on vinyl, in fact, and will probably pull it out very soon here, just because of you. "Reasons To Be Miserable" was my favourite.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 17 December 2006 08:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, the only thing I myself can contribute to this poll with any certainty is the non-2006 song I played most this year: French singer Armande Altai's "Balance-toi Lola, seule sous la luna, nue dans les lilas" which despite the long title is actually very catchy. It comes from 1983 and was produced by MARTIN HANNETT and he makes the guitars sound exactly like Joy Division. But don't try to find it on vinyl unless you want to pay through the nose for what may be a scratchy LP.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 17 December 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not available on CD either unless you can get your hands on the her "Remembo" CD in which case I'll be your best friend for life.

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Sunday, 17 December 2006 09:06 (seventeen years ago) link

2006 Track: Prince - Black Sweat (Escort - Starlight close second)
2006 Album: Betty Botox - G4 Faggott

Non 2006 Track: Roxy Music - Angel Eyes
Non 2006 Album: The Sunday Manoa - Guava Jam

― grady (grady), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

2006:
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Herbert - "Harmonise"

non-2006:
Bettie Serveert - Log 22
Dead Prez - "Radio Frequency"

― john. a resident of chicago. (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 01:13 (seventeen years ago) link

2006 album: White Rainbow Box.

2006 track: Sonic Youth "Or".

non-2006 album: Homosexuals Astral Glamour.

non-2006 track: Homosexuals "Walk Before Imitate".

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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