Top Albums of 2006

1. Anathallo - Floating World
2. The Appleseed Cast - Peregrine
3. Magnolia Electric Co - Fading Trails
4. David Bazan - Fewer Moving Pieces
5. Rainer Maria - Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
6. Fair - The Best Worst-Case Scenario
7. Rosie Thomas - These Friends of Mine
8. Tool - 10,000 days
9. Woven Hand - Mosaic
10. Cracker - Greenland
11. Cat Power - The Greatest
12. Now its Overhead - Dark Light Daybreak
13. Over The Rhine - Snow Angels
14. Viva Voce - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
15. Jeff Martin - Exile in the Kingdom
16. Jason Molina - Let Me Go, Let me Go, Let Me Go
17. Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don’t Have your Back
18. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
19. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
20. The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns/A stitch in time EP
21. Leonard Cohen/Various - Im Your Man Soundtrack
22. Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
23. Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas
24. Danielson - Ships
25. Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines toward the Red Sun
26. The Lemonheads - Self Titled
27. The Violet Burning - Drop Dead
28. Snowden - Anti-Anti
29. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
30. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

Homecoming

I finally got a chance to do something i had been wanting to do for years. I got to see the annual Over The Rhine homecoming show at the Taft Theatre in Cincinnati. It was great. They really know how to put on a show. They played 6 songs from thier new album out sometime in '07. They mentioned its name, but it escapes me.

There is something to be said for going to show that isnt in a bar. One that starts on time, and has an assigned seat, just for you. It was nice. I had kinda forgot.

I normally post my yearly cd list by this time, but i was holding off for one more release. Rosie Thomas' "These Friends of Mine" was released digitally last week, but i had to wait until today when my emusic reloaded for the month. This is the album Rosie recorded with Sufjan Stevens and Denison Witmer. It was worth the wait. Damn. I think it might crack my top 30 list =)

More Babel

We went to see "Babel" night before last. I enjoyed it a great deal. The movie takes place simultaniously in US, Mexico, Morroco, and Japan. At first i didnt like the music in the film, but then a realised it fit. The music all meshed with itself but alos fit all of the locales. Didnt matter which country the scene was in, the music still seemed fairly indiginous and fit. I was pretty impressed.

The movie itself kinda reminded me a cross between Crash, and A Reqiuem for a Dream, though i didnt find it nearly as sad as the latter.