Wednesday, December 27, 2006

my 2006 picks..........

No.10 HOWLIN' RAIN - HOWLIN' RAIN
No. 9 THE BROKEN FAMILY BAND - BALLS
No. 8 THE BLACK ANGELS - PASSOVER
No. 7 CUT CHEMIST - THE AUDIENCE IS LISTENING
No. 6 HOT CHIP - THE WARNING
No. 5 BELLE & SEBASTIAN - THE LIFE PURSUIT
No. 4 VETIVER - TO FIND ME GONE
No. 3 MIDLAKE - THE TRIALS OF VON OCCUPANTHER
No. 2 THE TYDE - THREE'S CO
No. 1 ESPERS - ESPERS II


Top Ten Tracks - jeez this was hard - here is my current selection,
this will have changed by tomorrow

No 10. GRUFF RHYS & LISA JEN - candylion
No 9. HOWLIN RAIN - death prayer in heavens orchard
No 8. ESPERS - dead queen
No 7. VETIVER - been so long
No 6. THE EARLY YEARS - so far gone
No 5. HOT CHIP - boy from school
No 4. THE TYDE - brock landers
No 3. DAVE ALVIN - california bloodlines
No 2. MIDLAKE - roscoe
No 1. BELLE & SEBASTIAN - another sunny day

Top 5 Reissues - no problem with no. 1 here.......

No. 5 JOHN PHILLIPS - the wolf king of LA
No 4. JESUS & MARY CHAIN - entire back catalogue remastered
No 3. JOHN CALE - paris 1919
No 2. JOHNNY CASH - live at Folsom Prison
No 1. GRAM PARSONS - the complete reprise sessions

Top Book - shamefully i have read less than 10 books this year - some
of them have taken me months but i enjoyed these two:

John Peel - Margrave of the Marshes
Naomi Duguid - Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the
Great Subcontinent

Top Movie - hmmmm we don't have a cinema so bit tricky this one:

obvious choice - Borat.............but most enjoyable in a melancholy way
Be Here to Love Me - the story of Townes Van Zandt

Best dvd i watched - Two Lane Blacktop

No comments: