I also have no idea if what i voted for in ‘reissues’ all count as ‘reissues’ or not.
Man, I was going to finish this last night, but it slipped my mind. So, there’s an unfinished matching game on my comments.
okay so who wants the results?
haha psyche
after all, i resisted the urge to sell the pitchfork results to idolator
oops
STOP SNITCHIN’
3. Mary J. Blige—The Breakthrough
Real curious to see where the ’05 rollover votes put this in Pazz & Jop.
5. Slum Village—Fantastic Vol. 1
It’s surprising how this passed by with little notice.
yeah i definitely didn’t hear the mary j (outside of the 1st single) til mid-Jan.
Albums
Charles Mingus, Music Written for Monterey 1965 Not Heard . . . Played in Its Entirety at UCLA
Van Hunt, On the Jungle Floor
Mary J. Blige, The Breakthrough
E-40, My Ghetto Report Card
Tom Ze, Estudando o Pagode
Andrew Hill, Time Lines
Kelis, Kelis Was Here
Ghostface Killah, Fishscale
Basement Jaxx, Crazy Itch Radio
Lily Allen, Alright, Still
Singles/Tracks
Arctic Monkeys, I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor
Lupe Fiasco, Kick, Push
Morrissey, Human Being
OK Go, A Million Ways
Pipettes, Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me
Prince, Black Sweat
Rihanna, S.O.S.
Spank Rock, Rick Rubin
Young Jeezy, My Hood
Neil Young, Let’s Impeach the President
Reissues
Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story
A Tom Moulton Mix
The Tommy Boy Story, Vol. 1
What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves
Jamaica to Toronto: Funk Soul & Reggae 1967–1974
Artists
Andrew Hill
Mary J. Blige
Tom Moulton
Os Mutantes
Jamie Lidell
it’s the weakest mary record ever though outside the remix albums. i love the girl like crazy but i’m not getting the love.
my idolator list:
beach house, beach house
girl talk, night ripper
liars, drums not dead
yyys, show yr bones
clipse, hhnf
blow, paper tv
rapture, pieces of the people
supersystem, million microphones
camp lo, fort apache: the mixtape
think about life, think about life
lcd soundsystem, 45:33
snowden, like bullets
delorean, time breaks off
t.i., what you know
beach house, master of none
the clipse, wamp wamp
fiery furnaces, benton harbor
gnarls barkley, crazy
justin timberlake, my love
midlake, roscoe
ray barreto, acid
karen dalton, in my own time
tortoise, a lazarus taxon
pavement, wowee zowee
willie colon, el malo
For one hopeful second there, I thought you wrote your ballot to the tune of “Vogue.”
1. Girl Talk—Night Ripper
2. Keith Fullerton Whitman—Lisbon
3. Ghostface Killah—Fishscale
4. T.I.—King
5. The Melvins—A Senile Animal
6. My Chemical Romance—The Black Parade
7. Young Dro—Best Thang Smokin-
8. Prurient—Pleasure Ground
9. Lavender Diamond—The Calvary Of Light
10. Ecstatic Sunshine—Freckle Wars
1. T.I.—“What You Know”
2. Grizzly Bear—“Knife”
3. Young Dro—“Shoulder Lean”
4. Fergie—“London Bridge”
5. E-40—“Tell Me When To Go”
6. The Pack—“Vans”
7. The Clipse ft. Pharell—“Mr Me Too”
8. Busta Rhymes ft. Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliot, Rah Digga, Lloyd Banks, Papoose and DMX—“Touch It (Remix)”
9. Shawnna—“Gettin’ Some”
10. Kill The Vultures—“Moonshine”
1. Tropicalia
2. Big Apple Rappin’: The Early Days Of Hip-Hop Culture In New York City 1979–1982
3. American Hardcore: The History Of American Punk Rock 1980–1986
4. Jean-Claude Vannier—L’Enfant Assassin des Mouches
5. Harvey Milk—Courtesy And Goodwill Towards Men
1. Prurient
2. T.I.
3. Grizzly Bear
4. P.O.S.
5. Ecstatic Sunshine
1. Girl Talk—Night Ripper
2. Sonic Youth—Rather Ripped
3. Final Fantasy—He Poos Cloud
4. Junior Boys—So This is Goodbye
5. Joanna Newsom—Ys
6. Destroyer—Rubies
7. Grizzly Bear—Yellow House
8. Kaki King—...Until We Felt Red
9. Herbert—Scale
10. Hot Chip—The Warning
1. Panic! At the Disco—I Write Sins Not Tragedies
2. Nelly Furtado ft. Timbaland—Promiscuous
3. T.I.—What You Know
4. Gnarls Barkley—Crazy
5. CSS—Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
6. Sonic Youth—Incinerate
7. Justin Timberlake—My Love
8. Hot Chip—Boy From School
9. The Killers—When You Were Young
10. Lupe Fiasco—Kick Push
[No votes for reissues: I only heard a couple and they didn’t seem worth voting for.]
1. Timbaland
2. Joanna Newsom
3. James Murphy
4. Owen Pallett
5. Gnarls Barkley
nuts, I had the Vannier on my reissues list and then thought it was a 2005 (which, I think it may have been overseas?)
ah well, I forgot Timbaland, too, so it’ll hardly be my biggest regret.
1. Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar
2. Girl Talk, Night Ripper
3. The Mountain Goats, Get Lonely
4. Sunroof!, Silver Bear Mist
5. Ghostface, Fishscale
6. Mossa, Some Eat It Raw
7. Amerie, Because I Love It Vol 1.
8. The Necks, Chemist
9. Liars, Drum’s Not Dead
10. Taylor Deupree, Northern
1. Amerie, That’s What U R
2. The Fray, Over My Head (Cable Car)
3. Justin Timberlake feat. Timbaland, SexyBack
4. Lily Allen, LDN
5. Erase Errata, Another Genius Idea From Our Government
6. LL Cool J feat. Jennifer Lopez, Control Myself
7. Gui Boratto, Like You (Supermayer Remix)
8. Mat Kearney, Nothing Left to Lose, Promiscuous
9. Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland,
10. Surkin, Radio Fireworks
1. V/A, American Primitive, Vol. 2
2. V/A, Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926–1937
3. V/A, The House That Trane Built: Story of Impulse Records
4. The Dead C., Vain, Erudite and Stupid: Selected Works 1987–2005
5. John Peel and Sheila, The Pig’s Big 78s—A Beginner’s Guide
1. Ornette Coleman
2. Timbaland
3. Justin Timberlake
4. Robert Christgau
5. Fergie
albums:
t.i. “king”
bob dylan “modern times”
kelis “kelis was here”
nina nastasia “on leaving”
ghostface killah “fishscale”
lady sovereign “public warning”
boris “pink”
ornette coleman “sound grammar”
nellie mckay “pretty little head”
ooioo “taiga”
singles:
the pipettes “pull shapes”
t.i. “what you know”
beyonce “irreplaceable”
lil jon “snap yo fingers”
my chemical romance “welcome to the black parade”
beyonce “ring the alarm”
amy winehouse “rehab”
webstar/young b. “chicken noodle soup”
basement jaxx “take me back to your house”
chamillionaire/krayzie bone “ridin”
(i guess i liked the kelis/nina n./nellie m. albums more than most people did. and i think lady sov’s very good album is being unduly overlooked just because we all heard the songs a year or two ago. or whatever. for reissues i put down all fania stuff; if i’d thought about it longer i would’ve included this heat and the pretenders. i also feel bad for leaving the dixie chicks off the singles list, cuz i did really like that single.)
How I woulda voted (with albums & singles 10 points each, listed in no particular order):
1. The Rapture, Pieces of the People We Love
2. Mastodon, Blood Mountain
3. Booka Shade, Movements
4. J Dilla, Donuts
5. Ghostface Killah, Fishscale
6. v/a, Mary Anne Hobbs Presents the Warrior Dubz
7. The Coup, Pick a Bigger Weapon
8. Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury
9. E-40, My Ghetto Report Card
10. Comets on Fire, Avatar
1. Escort, Starlight (Darshan Jesrani Parks Dept. Dub)
2. Justice, We Are Your Friends (Lee Cabrera’s Lower East Side Mix)
3. Dondolo, Dragon (Shit Robot “Fire Breathing” Mix)
4. Gnarls Barkley, Crazy
5. T.I., What You Know
6. Termanlogy, Watch How it Go Down
7. Too $hort, Blow the Whistle
8. Ne-Yo, Get Down Like That
9. Quiet Village Project, Circus of Horrors
10. P.O.S., Safety in Speed (Heavy Metal)
1. v/a, A Tom Moulton Mix
2. v/a, Big Apple Rappin’
3. v/a, Journey Into Paradise: the Larry Levan Story
4. v/a, What It Is!
5. v/a, Jamaica to Toronto
1. J Dilla
2. Timbaland
3. Ornette Coleman
4. Ghostface Killah
5. Oakland, CA
In reality, “Crazy” shoulda been my #10 now that I think about it.
i was torn between crazy and ridin’ for #10. seemed like crazy should be acknowledged, and it is a sort of readymade classic. but i like ridin’ better.
bout time somebody else was feeling ‘watch how it go down’
I SEE MYSELF AS THE HOLY RESURRECTION OF PUN
And gay bingo night.
A lot of Night Ripper love; think it’ll crack the top 10?
termanology track is great but i felt weird voting for two premier tracks in 2006.
whoa excuse me three premier tracks!
premier is ‘relevant’ as anybody nowadays—the ghostface/clipse voting bloc seems more out-of-touch to me, name the only 1 from those 3 who had a hit this year
of course ill probly eat my words when pusha t hops on next years odd nosdam-produced gorillaz album
I’m in the Ghost + Clipse = top 10 camp (or at least the one that doesn’t give half a shit about Joanna Newsom or TV on the Radio or the Arctic Monkeys) but I kinda wonder where the universal acclaim was for Supreme Clientele or Lord Willin’ (which were kinda better albums).
premier is ‘relevant’ as anybody nowadays—the ghostface/clipse voting bloc seems more out-of-touch to me, name the only 1 from those 3 who had a hit this year
i guess this is kinda true, between these and the Blaq Poet cd he’s bringing it right now.
at least the one that doesn’t give half a shit about Joanna Newsom or TV on the Radio or the Arctic Monkeys
FRIEND AND ALLY.
“had a hit” /= “relevant”
I kinda wonder where the universal acclaim was for Supreme Clientele or Lord Willin’ (which were kinda better albums)
That was when Clipse and Ghostface still had legitimate commercial upside and so didn’t need to aggressively market to the indie kidz and associated publications.
And Supreme Clientele made quite a few top 10 lists that year.
Wu Tang’s had this kind of support for a long time, I just wish the album was good enough to deserve it. I mean I think Pretty Toney is great and dude was past his prime on that shit too.
‘past his commercial prime,’ that is.
I think the Clipse album is pretty good but every review I read seems to have heard an entirely different album than I did—see the major WTF on pitchfork today where someone compares it to GREEK TRAGEDY
And Supreme Clientele made quite a few top 10 lists that year.
it did, yeah. but i’ll speak up for whatever minority of us there are (maybe just me) who thought that was the overrated ghost album. all my years of listening to supreme clientele never made me like it as much as i liked fishscale the first time through. i even held off buying fishscale because of my suspicion of ghost-hyping. so, you know. milage varies etc.
No, I agree. SC made my top 10 in 2000 but I fooled myself then into thinking it’s the song-by-song masterpiece that Fishscale obviously is.
Few songs for me have lived up to the promise that their titles, lead and guests suggest; one that has was Ghost’s ‘Tush’ with Missy Elliott.
Goodness me, it’s pleasant.
From what I’ve read, “Tush” is one of the most divisive rap songs of the last two years. I’m a disco-rap/Missy mark so I’m on the proponents’ side. Apparently it hit #1 on Billboard’s Dance Charts, too.
“had a hit” /= “relevant”
Quite true all around. Now let me tell you how great the new Cure album will be.
Hi, Don Allred here, with a message for today’s youth: yall know if you go to our future overlords’ http://www.paperthinwalls.com get the real Best Of 2006 right now, or anyway you get lists *and* reviews *and* free music.
Why I’m downloading it all right now! (You can thank Idolator for a mention there...)
No ‘Crazy’, no credibility.
I think the Clipse album is pretty good but every review I read seems to have heard an entirely different album than I did—see the major WTF on pitchfork today where someone compares it to GREEK TRAGEDY
I really enjoy [i]Hell Hath No Fury[/i] and I’ve yet to see a review that ain’t trippin balls (Ethan’s “Mobb Deep with more backpackerish lyrics” dis is actually the best description of why it’s great that I’ve read!)
My take on it is that they’re a little remorseful and fatalistic on occasion but nowhere near as much as everyone says; the overwhelming feeling I get is that they’re trying to go for the Miami Vice version of Jack Nicholson’s Joker. Which I can see as being potentially annoying as hell.
(At least to some folks. I like it ’cause I like me some self-aware outsize dudes acting ridiculuxe.)
Oedipuss
the Miami Vice version of Jack Nicholson’s Joker.
waht
i have no idea what that could possibly begin to mean.
plz to not go lex on me w/firecrotch &c
Post yer ballots, fules!
I forget mine. You’ll see it if you want to when everything goes live.
dear paperthinwalls,
thanks for the tunes. that’s a real cool idea. i’m digging the mixtapes.
I think the Clipse album is pretty good but every review I read seems to have heard an entirely different album than I did—see the major WTF on pitchfork today where someone compares it to GREEK TRAGEDY
— deej
