[Heccubus]

Well, the year's about half over. Seems like as good a time as any for a rundown of our favourite music of 2006 so far. Rather than struggling to narrow down a concise list, I'm just throwing out a list of all the stuff I've picked up this year that I consider to be above average. Plus I honestly have nothing better to do at the moment.

• Aloha - Some Echoes
• Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords
• Asobi Seksu - Citrus
• Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
• Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
• Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
• Boards Of Canada - Trans Canada Highway
• Booka Shade - Movements
• Boris - Pink
• Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
• Cat Power - The Greatest
• Cities In Dust - Night Creatures
• Danielson - Ships
• Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
• The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
• Genghis Tron - Dead Mountain Mouth
• Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
• Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
• The Horror The Horror - The Horror The Horror
• I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear Is On Our Side
• Islands - Return To The Sea
• The Knife - Silent Shout
• The Ladies - They Mean Us
• Lady Sovereign - Blah Blah EP
• Liars - Drum's Not Dead
• Mates Of State - Bring It Back
• Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll (Reissue)
• Beth Orton - Comfort Of Strangers
• Phoenix - It's Never Been Like That
• Pink Mountaintops - Axis Of Evol
• Pretty Girls Make Graves - Elan Vital
• Shoplifting - Body Stories
• Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
• The Streets - The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living
• The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
• Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
• Tapes 'N Tapes - The Loon
• Various Artists - The DFA Remixes: Chapter One
• Scott Walker - The Drift
• We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor
• Wizardzz - Hidden City Of Taurmond
• Wolf Eyes - River Slaughter
• Wolfmother - Wolfmother
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
• Thom Yorke - The Eraser
• Zach Hill & Mick Barr - Shred Earthship

I think that about covers it. I might have missed a few things that I haven't given a real good listen to yet.
I am now noticing that there is pretty much only one metal album in that entire list (Boris - Pink). Someone reccommend me some decent (ie: not nu) metal.

[Gobbler]

I totally agree with Gnarls Barkley and The Streets, maybe even Ellen Allien. Don't know all the others though, I guess I've got an educational-gap to fill now.

Edit: Thought in HTML again.

This post has been edited by Gobbler: 08 June 2006 - 08:09 AM

[Wayne]

Decent metal... Can't recommend any current decent metal, pretty much the only "metal" I listen to is the Melvins and Fudge Tunnel. The genre is about 99.999% ridiculous and cheesy, by my estimation.