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

[Alex Smith]

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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>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

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

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>-Oliver

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>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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