Like most music snobs (and journalists), I always make a year-end list of what I believe to be the top albums from each year. It's a tradition that I've been undertaking for the past six years; I love making preliminary lists, going through my reviews from earlier in the year, and getting back in touch with music that I might not have listened to for months.
I tend to make a gigantic list of all of my favorite albums and then work from there. This is not an easy process, as I'm a genuine music junkie (ask any of my friends and they'll confirm my sickness) and so I inevitably spend hours poring through my list, listening to entire albums, numbering and re-ordering the albums until I should be sick of it but I'm not because I love the process. My year-end Top Twenty Albums listing is something constant, one of the few habits I still carry along from my pre-Army days.
This post will be my working list of my favorite albums of 2006. They are in no particular order, and an album being placed higher on the list than another should not indicate that I enjoy it more. I'm just adding the albums to this list as I think of them, and I'll be ordering them starting around the middle of November or so.
This list might get a bit unwieldy, so I apologize if it causes the rest of my voxlog to load slower than usual.
The Working List
Bob Dylan -- Modern Times
Quickly Now -- Come And Listen
The Feeling -- Twelve Stops And Home
The Decemberists -- The Crane Wife
Sereenah Maneesh -- Sereenah Maneesh
Arctic Monkeys -- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
The Roots -- Game Theory
Lupe Fiasco -- Food & Liquor
The Hold Steady -- Boys And Girls In America
Andrew Osenga -- The Morning
TV On The Radio -- Return To Cookie Mountain
Dashboard Confessional -- Dusk And Summer
Beck -- The Information
Blue October -- Foiled
Comets On Fire -- Avatar
Cursive -- Happy Hollow
Ben Kweller -- Ben Kweller
John Mayer -- Continuum
Justin Timberlake -- FutureSex/LoveSounds
My Morning Jacket -- Okonokos
Outkast -- Idlewild
Yo La Tengo -- I'm Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Keane -- Under The Iron Sea
Snow Patrol -- Eyes Open
I tend to make a gigantic list of all of my favorite albums and then work from there. This is not an easy process, as I'm a genuine music junkie (ask any of my friends and they'll confirm my sickness) and so I inevitably spend hours poring through my list, listening to entire albums, numbering and re-ordering the albums until I should be sick of it but I'm not because I love the process. My year-end Top Twenty Albums listing is something constant, one of the few habits I still carry along from my pre-Army days.
This post will be my working list of my favorite albums of 2006. They are in no particular order, and an album being placed higher on the list than another should not indicate that I enjoy it more. I'm just adding the albums to this list as I think of them, and I'll be ordering them starting around the middle of November or so.
This list might get a bit unwieldy, so I apologize if it causes the rest of my voxlog to load slower than usual.
The Working List
Bob Dylan -- Modern Times
Quickly Now -- Come And Listen
The Feeling -- Twelve Stops And Home
The Decemberists -- The Crane Wife
Sereenah Maneesh -- Sereenah Maneesh
Arctic Monkeys -- Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
The Roots -- Game Theory
Lupe Fiasco -- Food & Liquor
The Hold Steady -- Boys And Girls In America
Andrew Osenga -- The Morning
TV On The Radio -- Return To Cookie Mountain
Dashboard Confessional -- Dusk And Summer
Beck -- The Information
Blue October -- Foiled
Comets On Fire -- Avatar
Cursive -- Happy Hollow
Ben Kweller -- Ben Kweller
John Mayer -- Continuum
Justin Timberlake -- FutureSex/LoveSounds
My Morning Jacket -- Okonokos
Outkast -- Idlewild
Yo La Tengo -- I'm Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Keane -- Under The Iron Sea
Snow Patrol -- Eyes Open
What's your sign? What do you think of astrology and horoscopes?
I'm a Scorpio, but that's about as much as I know. I actually had to look up my sign on Google, as I've never really looked at my horoscope or astrological sign with any interest. I guess that last sentence will answer the second part of the QOTD, won't it?
Horoscopes are silly and are nothing more than a meaningless diversion, something to read when you're bored. I don't think I've ever met anyone who takes them seriously, and there's a good chance that I will mock the first person I meet who does so.
