Remember, I'm a movie snob, not a music one, so my top picks are pretty much the only albums I listened to this past year. I'd rather be adventurous when I order out for Chinese, not when seekin out hot new artists that every other blogger cross the globe wastes their time leg humpin on. But why should I explain myself when I basically launched Lily Allen's US career, right?
Les Breastest Albums of 2006 To Hug Denim In Closets To (I just don't know hot to quit using this image)
1) Matthew Friedberger - Winter Women (but NOT Holy Ghost Language School)
2) Lily Allen - Alright, Still 3) Jean-Benoit Dunckel - Darkel
4) The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics 5) The Sounds - Dying to Say This to You
6) The Streets - The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living 7) The Who - Endless Wire 8) Kasabian - Empire
9) The Blue Safari - The Bluegrass Tribute To Air 10) Ghostface Killah - Fishscale 11) Keane - Under the Iron Sea
Concerts That Were More Procerts Than Concerts
Wu-Tang Clan @ Phil's Electric Factory - Feb 11 Gorillaz @ The Apollo - Apr 2 & 6 (Opening/Closing nights) The Sounds @ Irving Platz - Apr 12 Ladytron @ Irving/Webster Hall - Apr 14/Sep 28 Keane @ Bowery - Jun 23 The Streets/Lady Sov @ Webster Hall - Jun 27 The Raconteurs @ Lolla - Aug 4 Chris Isaak @ The Beacon - Aug 18 Roger Waters @ Jones Beach - Sep 15 The Who @ MSG - Sep 18 Lily Allen @ Hiro Ballroom - Oct 10
+ two mos painful shows I sat thru Charlatans UK @ Webster - May 16 Radiohead @ MSG Theatre - June 14
Tuneses For Toonces
Amy Winehouse - 'Rehab' [d] Beck - 'Think I'm In Love' [d] Beirut - 'Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)' [d] Charlatans UK - 'When The Lights Go Out In London' [d] Chris Cornell - 'You Know My Name' [d] Christina Aguilera - 'Candyman' [d] Darkel - 'TV Destory' [d] DMC w/ Sarah McLach 'Just Like Me' [d] Edie Brickell & The New Bos - 'I'll Wear You Down' [d] Fanfare Ciocarlia - 'Born To Be Wild' [d] Fiery Furnaces - 'I'm In No Mood' [d] Flaming Lips - 'It Overtakes Me' [d] Ghostface Killah & Ne-Yo - 'Back Like That' [d] Gnarls Barkley - 'Crazy' [d] Gnarls Barkley - 'Gone Daddy Gone' [d] Good, The Bad & The Queen - 'Herculean' [d] Jack White - 'What Goes Around' [d|vid] Jarvis Cocker - 'Cunts Are Still Running The World' [d] Justin Timberlake - 'My Love' [d] Kasabian - 'Shoot The Runner' [d] Keane - 'Is It Any Wonder?' [d] Leperchaun's Hot Dogs - 'Where The Gold At?' [d|vid] Lily Allen - 'Friday Night' [d] Lily Allen - 'Knock Em Out' [d] Lily Allen - 'LDN' [d] Matthew Friedberger - 'Her Chinese Typewriter' [d] Moby & Debbie Harry - 'New York, New York' (Armand Van Helden remix) [d] Paris Hilton - 'Stars Are Blind' [d] Raconteurs - 'Steady As She Goes' [d] Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Dani California' [d] Sean Lennon - 'Friendly Fire' [d] Sounds - 'Painted By Numbers' [d] Streets - 'Hotel Expressionism' [d] Who - 'Not Enough' [d] Wigwam - 'Wigwam' [d] Wolfmother - 'Woman' [d] Wu-Tang Clan - '9 Milli Bros' [d] Zutons - 'You've Got A Friend In Me' [d] think this year's blazzles blew burrito chunks? Czech out the '05, the '04, and the '03's moist choices!
and before we jet outta here, lettuce pay due respeck
Peace The Fork Out to the man who really needs no introduction other than bein the Godfather of Soul James Joseph Brown, Jr.
I was lucky to have seen the man perform twice in my life. The first time was the mos memorable, although I was 10 and I can't eggzactly prove that I was there. Anywho, the event was a six-hour Vietnam Vet tribute concert entitled Welcome Home, and was held at the now deceased Capital Centre, in Landover, MD. The bill was chock-loaded with the likes of Crosby Stills, & Nash, Richie Havens, Linda Ronstadt, et al, but one act stood above the rest: James Brown. I didn't understand why he kept on playing, even after endless pleas for him to stop came from a stagehand, but years later I found out that is was all a part of his act. What a true showman. A showman who's talents (and hair) will never equalled. Hopefully Papa's got a brand new bag and whatever else he desires in that big Apollo Theater in the sky
