I love Rolling Stone. Have forever, even more after “Almost Famous” but making Bob Dylan’s new album “Modern Times” the #1 album of the year? Ugh. Love the melodies and song crafting but the voice is gone and makes me want to hide. If you’re going to pick an old foggie as your #1 at least pick a decent album like Road to Escondido by JJ Cale and Eric Clapton – one of my new favs.
Anyhow here is the Rolling Stone Top 50 Albums of 2006 (for what it’s worth)
1. Modern Times – Bob Dylan
2. Stadium Arcadium – Red Hot Chili Peppers (great album)
3. Rather Ripped – Sonic Youth
4. Return to Cookie Mountain – TV on the Radio
5. Fishscale – Ghostfaced Killah
6. The Greatest – Cat Power
7. Hell Hath No Fury – Clipse
8. Boys and Girls in America – The Hold Steady
9. Blood Mountain – Mastodon
10. Orphans:Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards – Tom Waits (an american classic singer songwriter)
11. Continuum – John Mayer (he gets better and better)
12. One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This – The New York Dolls (they’srestill alive?)
13. Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam (good album, great show at the Gorge)
14. American V: A Hundred Highways – Johnny Cash (The man in black rules – even dead)
15. Wolfmother – Wolfmother
16. Food & Liquor – Lupe Fiasco (love the name)
17. Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not – Arctic Monkeys (get over yourself)
18. Game Theory – The Roots (love this album)
19. Taking the Long Way – The Chixie Dicks (great album – mediocre show)
20. The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance
21. Begin to Hope – Regina Spektor
22. Night Ripper – Girl Talk
23. The Crane Wife – The Decemberists
24. The Information – Beck
25. Blue Collar – Rhymefest
26. FuterSex/LoveSounds – Justin Timberlake (did he write the title while bopping Cameron?)
27. Pieces of the People We Love – The Rapture (I love the toe nail)
28. Broken Boy Soldiers – The Raconteurs (I love Jack White for Van Leer Rose)
29. We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions – Bruce Springsteen (where, oh where have you gone Bruce?)
30. Robbers & Cowards – Cold Ware Kids
31. Lik Father, Like Son – Birdman and Lil’ Wayne
32. Supernature – Goldfrapp (frappe?)
33. The Devil You Know – Todd Snider
34. The Eraser – Thom Yorke
35. Once Again – John Legend
36. I am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass – Yo La Tengo (I’ve just got to listen to this just because of the title)
37. Alive and Kickin’ – Fats Domino (he’s still alive? pt II)
38. 10,000 Days – Tool
39. The Tragic Treasury – The Gothic Arches
40. Make History – Thunderbirds are Now?
41. Friendly Fire – Sean Lennon (dreamy, but good)
42. Under the Skin – Lindsey Buckingham (great guitarist)
43. Tropicalia: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound (viva revolution!)
44. Show Your Bones – Yeah Yeah Yeahs (yeah!)
45. Fox Confessor Brings a Flood – Neko Case (love her – saw her this summer)
46. You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker – Willie Nelson (great)
47. Brighblack Morning Light – Brighblack MorningLight (zzzzz)
48. Public Warning – Lady Sovereign (brit girl rapper wanna be – please)
49. Pick a Bigger Weapon – The Coup ( the hair! the hair!)
50. It’s Never Been Like That – Phoenix
What’s your favorite?
