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

[Steve Hackett]

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>> splash yer cash!

>

> Is that like a money shot?

>

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> '06

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> 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

>>>

>>>

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>>> -----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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