Wednesday, February 07, 2007

The Greatest?


Minus a couple possible holdouts (Matt Kelly, where are you?), the 2006 Best Ofs are in. Here's an overview of the favorites. I'll try to post mp3s for each soon.

Cat Power - The Greatest
Jed, Micah, Colby, Rick, Kevin R.

The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
Andy, Colby, Rick

Robert Pollard - From A Compound Eye, Normal Happiness
Andy, Micah, Colby

Mission Of Burma - Obliterati
Jed, Micah, Kevin W.

Yo La Tengo - I'm Not Afraid of You...
Kevin W., Colby, Rick

Lookyloos - You're Looking Very Beautiful Man
Jed, Micah, Kevin W.

Carquinez Straits
Micah, Kevin W., Rick

Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Andy, Micah, Colby

Other favorites:
11th Dream Day - Zeroes And...
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off
Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
The Futureheads - News & Tributes
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

And were it not for my own transparent false modesty, you could add my name to the CStraits pick...

Jed

9:16 AM  
Blogger Micah said...

Solid work Colby. I picked 6 of the year's greatest albums...hopefully that will bode well for my prognosticatin' skills in the upcoming tourney pool.

Nice with the Walkmen Mazarin cover.

Hey Mr. Tough sounds like the Jackson 5.

12:23 PM  

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