On sales, Gnarls with 800,000 Crazy's followed by Shakira (400,000), Sandi Thom (300,000), Nelly Furtado, Rihanna, Infernal and Orson.
But what do you think are the BEST records of the year so far?
Even if they didn't sell a copy.
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TRAINS TO BRAZIL
off the top of my head
direct to helmet
oh mandy
young folks
you have killed me
twelve
As in singles ?
Wolf like me - TVOTR
My favourite anyway.
And rudebox.
Seriously.
"dance like you just won at the special olympics".
Amazing.
Wolf Like Me
is also one of the best
truth
forgot about that.
Yes to 'Direct To Helmet'
I bought it on a whim, and found it to be great.
skin of my yellow country teeth is amazing
oh mandy also. agree with that.
Made Up Love Song
or Trains to Brazil.
Simply genius.
Or sexyback.
difficult to chose between...
Leichtmetall and Gregor Samsa.
i really like the new christina
song.
yup, it's some funky shit
Amusement Parks On Fire - Out Of The Angeles
Haven't really heard that much new stuff this year :-| just realised.
...
The Knife
Final Fantasy
Joanna Newsom
and
TV On The Radio
If we're talking albums...
Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
Through the Windowpane - Guillemots
At War With The Mystics - The Flaming Lips
The Meadowlands - The Wrens (OK that's a reissue of a 2003 album so doesn't really count)
As for singles, Made Up Lovesong #43, L. Wells, The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song, Starlight, Friend of the Night, The Blues are Still Blue...
best year in some time
I was gonna say it was a shit yr for singles
but
that just is not true
hardly any bar the first on these list were hits but whaddyexpect?
yeah yeah yeah song lips
gold lion yyys
young folks pb&j
the city the airport loney dear
please pass me my antirobotics damn arms
the new single by yummy bingham whose name escapes me, no wait: it's "come get it"
insistor t'n't
reckless tilly
funeral band of horses
roscoe midlake
the rhino quasi
harrowdown hill thom
we are your friends not exactly new mind
stopputtngbitsofeachotherineachotherforeachother hot club
i want you so hard eodm
atlantis to interzone klAXONS
feels good being somebody diosmalos
ssshhh put the shiv to your throat (black smoke mix) gay for johnny depp
let's make love css
be easy ghostface killah (was this a single yet?)
pulls hapes pipettes
we got bored 586
over and over hot chip
wolf like me tvotr
dance in my blood men, women and kids
hands raconteurs
fraud in thje 80s MoS
smiley smiles gnarls
we! are! your! friends!
even tho it's technically a million years old :)
What is that again?
I keep hearing it everywhere.
me too
but i don't think i've ever known what it is...
It's Simian "Never Be Alone"
but the version going round is the remix by Justice that's actually THREE YEARS OLD
I love that track
it gets my vote. It great to dance to with friends when you are out of it and everyone is singing and happy.
so is Jonathan King a 'DiSer' now he's made his own thread?
Let's hope so
Whooo
Wolf Like Me - TVOTR
Five Minute Wonder - William
My Favourite Hat - Xerox Teens
She Movs in her own way - The Kooks
Pull Shapes - Pipettes
Did i tell you - Spinto band
Twelve - Forward Rissia
Hopeless & Lazy - Blah Blah Blah
Young Folks - Peter, Bjorn & John
She's Attracted To - Young Knives
On A Neck, On A Spit
um...i'm rubbish at remembering stuff
Lets make love... - CSS
Wolf Like Me
Twelve
probably some others
Umm
Uffie-Pop the Glock
The Spinto Band-Oh Mandy
Dilated Peoples-Back Again
Pipettes-Pull Shapes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Gold Lion
Cat Power-The Moon
Are all these this year? I think so, but I forget.
Mine
Eleven - Forward Russia
Gravity's Rainbow - Klaxons
Computer Camp Love - Datarock
We're Here - Guillemots
Happy As Annie - Larrikin Love
How It All Went Wrong - Les Incompetents (if that counts as '06).
By the way Crazy by Gnarls Barkley is still top of the Last FM weekly charts.
3 perfect albums
grizzly bear- yellow house
the knife- silent shout
tv on the radio - return to bad album title
i will listen to grizzly bear now
album
album is fucking amazing. seen them twice live. can be patchy because their sound is tricky. once was incredible. once was not incredible.