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

[Robert Mallett]

Never got around to hearing the new Tool

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