[kj] The Only Poll That Matters - T.B.'s Favorite Albums of '06

[Steve Hackett]

how can you say that if you've not heard it - both great albums so splash 
yer cash!
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> Never got around to hearing the new Tool

>

> get the new Isis instead, if you don't have it already.

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> '06

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>>

>> That Raconteurs album bored me, sadly. And that Secret Machines album was

>> *SUCH* a let-down. I loved their previous album, NOW HERE IS NOWHERE.

>>

>> Never got around to hearing the new Tool.

>>

>> Alex in NYC

>>

>>

>>

>> -----Original Message-----

>>>From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

>>>Sent: Jan 4, 2007 10:28 PM

>>>To: TB <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com>, "A list about all things Killing Joke

>>>(the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>

>>>Subject: Re: [kj] The Only Poll That Matters - T.B.'s Favorite Albums of

>>>'06

>>>

>>>Tool, the Raconteurs, and Pearl Jam? Wow, that sucks.

>>>

>>>-Oliver

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>TB wrote:

>>>> IMO, kind of a so-so year for good albums. Nothing I can really say was

>>>> a

>>>> clear "Best Album" for '07. Still, I did and still do enjoy the

>>>> following in

>>>> no real order:

>>>>

>>>> Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadia

>>>> Raconteurs - The Raconteurs

>>>> Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam

>>>> Tool - 10,000 Days

>>>> The Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops

>>>> Wolfmother - Wolfmother

>>>> Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

>>>> Buckcherry - 15

>>>> Motorhead - Kiss Of Death (best Motorhead album in years)

>>>>

>>>> *These two following albums proved to be my biggest surprises of '07 -

>>>> highly recommended.....

>>>> The Glitterati - The Glitterati

>>>> Demolition Doll Rods - There Is  A  Difference

>>>>

>>>> Best reissues/remastered cds - the first two albums by The Pretenders

>>>>

>>>> Concerts I caught in '07, all in LA except where noted:

>>>>

>>>> Black Halos (Huntington Beach)

>>>> The Cult

>>>> Secret Machines

>>>> Pitbull Daycare / Revolting Cocks / Ministry

>>>> Peaches / Bauhaus / Nine Inch Nails (Irvine)

>>>> Raconteurs

>>>> The Glitterati / Circus Diablo

>>>> Groovie Ghoulies / Demolition Doll Rods / The Cramps

>>>> Guns n' Roses

>>>>

>>>> Best Show:

>>>> The Cramps and Demolition Doll Rods at the Hollywood House of Blues on

>>>> Halloween weekend followed closely by Peaches, Bauhaus and Nine Inch

>>>> Nails

>>>> in Irvine at the end of Summer make my best shows of 2006 list. I have

>>>> to

>>>> say I was very pleasantly surprised by the Guns n' Roses show I caught

>>>> at

>>>> the Universal aka Gibson Amphitheater a few weeks ago, the 2nd night of

>>>> a 3

>>>> show stand. Original Izzy Stradlin joined the band for most of the last

>>>> 3rd

>>>> of the show which was a solid 2 1/2 hours long. I was really expecting 

>>>> a

>>>> trainwreck featuring the Axl Rose Ego show and it turned out to be a

>>>> mostly

>>>> solid concert with Rose in top vocal form.

>>>>

>>>> Biggest letdowns:

>>>>

>>>> The Panic Channel's debut album. It was almost a given it was gonna be 

>>>> a

>>>> big

>>>> dud. Still, I've always been a huge Jane's Addiction fan and hoped

>>>> against

>>>> hope that this would be something decent. However, I was floored that a

>>>> band

>>>> that is essentially 50% Jane's Addiction (or 75% depending on what you

>>>> think

>>>> of the Jane's "Strays" lineup) with a new singer came up with such a

>>>> bland,

>>>> boring and musically unadventurous album. Killing Joke's HFTBOH turned

>>>> out

>>>> to be a really lazy, poorly produced album which was a huge letdown

>>>> compared

>>>> to what I consider was their best album of their career in '03's self

>>>> titled

>>>> album. Other letdowns included Bruce Springsteen's "Seeger Sessions"

>>>> cover

>>>> song album which was an unfortunate turn towards outright hillbilly

>>>> music.

>>>> This guy wrote some great albums in the past but man, has he lost the

>>>> plot.

>>>>

>>>> T.B.

>>>>

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