The tabloids have been hounding me all week to find out which album DiSers have voted their favourite of 2006, now they have their answer:
1) Ys - Joanna Newsome
2) Return to Cookie Mountain - TV on the Radio
3) Return to the Sea - Islands
4) Silent Shout - The Knife
5) Drum's Not Dead - Liars
6) The Eraser - Thom Yorke
7) Young Machetes - Blood Brothers
8) Progress/Reform - iLiKETRAiNs
9) Black Holes and Revelations - Muse
10) Everything All the Time - Band of Horses
11) Gulag Orkestar - Beirut
12) Through the Windowpane - Guillemots
13) He Poos Clouds - Final Fantasy
14) Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
15) Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
16) The Art of Fiction - Jeremy Warmsley
17) Beautiful Seizure - Volcano!
18) Blood Mountain - Mastodon
19) Howling Bells - Howling Bells
20) The Trials of Van Occupanther - Midlake
21) The Drift - Scott Walker
22) Choose a Bright Morning - Jeniferever
23) We are the Pipettes - The Pipettes
24) Yellow House - Grizzly Bear
25) The Loon - Tapes n Tapes
26) Someone to Drive You Home - Long Blondes
27) The Warning - Hot Chip
28) Orphans - Tom Waits
29) The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me - Brand New
30) The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager - Get Cape Wear Cape Fly
31) Etiquette - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
32) Boys and Girls in America - The Hold Steady
33) EP C/B EP - Battles
34) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
35) I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass - Yo La Tengo
36) Saturday Night Wrist - Deftones
37) Shut Up I Am Dreaming - Sunset Rubdown
38) Mr Beast - Mogwai
39) Semifinalists - Semifinalists
40) For Hero: For Fool - Subtle
41) The Body, the Blood, the Machine - The Thermals
42) Show Your Bones - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
43) Wolves - My Latest Novel
44) Human Animal - Wolf Eyes
=45) CSS - CSS
=45) The Greatest - Cat Power
47) Begin to Hope - Regina Spector
48) Burial - Burial
49) In the Absence of Truth - Isis
50) A Senile Animal - Melvins
Apologies if I've spelt the title of anybody's fave album wrong. Also, congratulations to Broken Social Scene who have made the Top 50 two years running with the same album! Something to do with different release dates in the US and UK I'm guessing.
Once again, thanks to everybody who voted (all 131 of you). Obviously I'm going to be checking out some of these that I don't own. Hopefully I can find something as good as Alligator or The Mysterious Production of Eggs which I bought as a result of last years list. I'm already drawn to The Trials of van Occupanther but that just because of the title.
Ys was my choice...
However, I don't think any of my others were included.
Not really a surprising victor
but a good list.
Regina's so low down though!
p.s.
nice work JohnM x
It was always between Ys and Cookie Mountain
It was close enough for me to have a recount at the end just to make sure. #3 only had about a third of the votes of the top two.
i dont own nearly enough of these
serves me right for only discovering DiS a few months ago! I thank you all for your musical guidence
It's not the law or anything.
no
but nme is criminal at the moment
...
Nice one.
And, even though they came in at 44 and 50 at least two of my choices made the list.
Did better than me...
..only the CFTPA album made it in the top 50 that I picked.
Great work John.
DIS does good list
:D
well done that man.
Great!
I must check out the Islands album.
yup
i don't think it's amazing. but one of those thinks everyone likes enough for it to creep up lists.
3 out of 5 in top 10
nice
Nice work JohnM!1
Once again.
Number 50 is the best, right?
8 out of 50
pretty poor! will have to investigate some of these which ive been meaning to do for a while
...
Isis, Deftones, Brand New and Mastodon!
ACE.
The Hold Steady are really shit!
I only own 5 of these.
But they are all in the top 15.
i own 18
mainly in the top 30
yes!
#7!!!!!!!!!<33333
#33!!!!!!!<3333
etc
its pretty crazy that Rubies isnt on that list
but then again, i forgot to vote for it myself anyway.
But where is...
¡Forward Russia! ? How come they seem to be missed off loads of these lists?
Good work dude
I'm just happy the list includes the words 'The Thermals', even if it is only at 41.
Recognise this album's amazingness, you bunch of bastards!
My brother likes 'The Thermals'.
True story.
I don't own many of the albums on that list.
Well buy The Thermals album!
Or steal your brothers! Or something! I genuinely believe that album to be the only 10/10 rating of the last year. In my eyes, anyhow.
I don't talk to my brother because he is an actual gay.
I might try listening to them if you try out Eef Barzelay and his solo album, that gets my 10/10 rating for last year.
I do really talk to my brother.
Eeef Whom?
What sort of shizzle does this guy do?
He is from the band Clem Snide.
His solo album is all acoustic alt-country stuff. Lovely voice and lovely lyrics. He is actually supporting Ben Folds this month.
ACTUALLY supporting him?
Like, holding him off the floor?
And the piano.
Have you not been watching him in Worlds Strongest Man? Everyone has been chanting "EEF!" as he slings a fridge over his head.
Oh, THAT guy!
He was the master of 'putting an anchor on a stone plinth', if I recall.
What a lovely list that is
I only have 11 of those though, time to do some shopping I think.
Thank you for doing this.
The 'official' DiS albums of the year thing was a joke. One that got no lolz from me.
'ZACTLY
Grizzly Bear should be a LOT higher
apart from that I like it.
I thought
everyone writes stuff artist - album?
Confused me for a few seconds.
And how did the Gallows album slip from 4 on the official list to not even being on this one?
.
I did it that way because it was the album that was voted for rather than the artists so I thought that should go first. That's my story anyway and I'm sticking to it.
Don't think a single person voted for Gallows.
i actually
forgot to vote this year, but still, nice list and good work. I own 9 of them and will be checking out quite a few more. This pisses on the official list.
glad to see
the drift so high!
fantastic list, nice john.
all of mine have made it whihc pleases me. : )
i voted for
1,3,4,15,25
i <3 contributing to low standard deviation
this list is ace
JohnM, you're a good man
we are all pretty awesome.
I agree that Yellow House should have been lots higher. Grizzly Bear! <3
deffo
Not bad...
No Young Knives? I liked it if no-one else did.
GCWCF is shockingly bad, surprised that stil had any fans after the dust settled.
Nice list though.
I only a shockingly bad 6/50
Will definatly investigate a lot of them. (Well except Arctic Monkeys who are just terrible, generic and average)
Ownership
I physically own 14 of those, though I have dl'd a further 10 or so I think. I'll check out the rest in my leisure, but you'd better be fucking right, as time is money!
I own 23 of those
TWENTY-THREE!
Glad to see my vote for The Drift counted in a good way
My List
50 Islands - Return to the Sea
49 Elefant - Black Magic Show
48 The Longcut - A Call and Response
47Herbert - Scale
46 Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Melody Mountain
45 Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
44 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
43 Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
42 Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia
41 Tiga - Sexor
40 She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge
39 I'm from Barcelona - Let me introduce my friends
38 Red Sparrowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun
37 The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
36 Peter Bjorn & John - Writers Block
35 !Forward Russia! - Give me a wall
34 The Spinto Band - Nice And Nicely Done
33 Ms. John Soda - Notes and the Like
32 Cat Power - The Greatest
31 Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
30 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
29 Amy Milan - Honey From The Tombs
28 Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
27 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
26 Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
25 Califone - Roots & Crowns
24 B. Fleishmann - The Humbucking Coil
23 The Rapture - Pieces of the people we love
22 Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Hate
21 Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
20 Stereolab - Fab Four Suture
19 Mogwai - Mr Beast
18 Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
17 Electric President - Electric President
16 Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
15 LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
14 King Biscuit Time - Black Gold
13 Sodastream - Reservations
12 Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
11 Guillemots - Through the Windopane
10 Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
9 The Knife - Silent Shout
8 James Figurine - Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake
7 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
6 The Dears - Gang of Losers
5 Grandaddy - Just Like the Famply Cat
4 Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
3 Asobi Seksu - Citrus
2 The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
1 Hot Chip - The Warning
There are very few there I haven't heard.
Yay for me.
Nice list, good work.