Favorite Albums of 2006

[ehh]

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So far, only:

Murs - Murrays Revenge
Ghostface - Fishscale

Those are the only two albums I've listened to in '06 so far, I haven't followed hip-hop at all the last three months. That or there just haven't been any good releases yet.

[Nivek]

Re: Favorite Albums of 2006

P.O.S. - The Audition
Soul Position (RJD2 + Blueprint) - Things go better with RJ and Al
Murs - Murray's Revenge
Army of The Pharoahs - The Torture Papers
GhostFace - Fishscales

[BGarrett7]

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Top 3 Studio Albums
1) Shawn Mullins: 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor
2) Edwin McCain: Lost In America
3) Rhett Miller: The Believer

Top 3 Non-Studio Albums
1) Mike Garrigan: Live At The Evening Muse
2) Collective Soul: Home
3) Stroke 9: Cafe Cuts

Should become an interesting year though. Still due out are two new albums from Butch Walker, Continuum from Mayer, and new albums from David Ryan Harris, Glen Phillips, Mat Kearney, Live, and Brooks Buford. So, definitely a lot to look forward to on my behalf. Things are going to be a lot more wide-open this year than they were last.

[greenegt]

Re: Favorite Albums of 2006

Ghostface and Prince-3121

Same here.

[NBASLAM2001]

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My top 3 at the moment.

[supremeslang]

Re: Favorite Albums of 2006

Ghostface

[ODogg]

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Although it's not out yet I know my pick will be Tool's new CD...

[dieselboy]

Re: Favorite Albums of 2006


Portugal. The Man - Waiter: "You Vultures!"

[Wazzup36]

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Faktion

Hurt - Vol 1

32 Leaves - Welcome to the Fall


Really all I've listened to this year.

[Thrasha]

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The Subways - Young For Eternity

So far....

This hasn't been a great year so far IMO. But I think it'll pickup as Audioslave, RHCP and Radiohead all release albums.

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: Favorite Albums of 2006

The Subways - Young For Eternity

So far....

This hasn't been a great year so far IMO. But I think it'll pickup as Audioslave, RHCP and Radiohead all release albums.

I would have to disagree with this year not being a great year for music, but it depends on what you like. I'm pretty sure Audioslave and RHCP will disappoint and Radiohead will most likely release their album next year.

[Kruza]

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Here are most of the albums I copped this year to date:



The last album from one of my personal favorite hip-hop groups of all time. I don't think Firewater is as good as their last album X.O. Experience, which is stil their best overall effort, but it's still a quality album worth listening to. I thought this was it for the group, and technically, it is. However, it turns out that they will be pursuing solo careers from this point on. Tash and J-Ro are rumored to be dropping something later this year and sometime next year for E-Swift.




Donuts is an instrumental album from J Dilla. With this album Dilla Dog toys with some of the sampled R&B soul records. On a sample he chopped, he'll speed it up, slow it down, bring in a breakbeat, take it out, etc. and play it out as a track. Pretty cool stuff that allows a listener to closely hear what he does on the mixing tip while he puts his touch on it. A nice laid back album one can sit back and lounge to.




Beat Konducta volumes 1&2 is an instrumental double album from Madlib. This double album is much in the vein as Donuts, but Madlib doesn't really display any of his mixing tricks. He just plays the track out after he applies his touch to the R&B grooves he sample and chops. Nevertheless, it's good stuff to chill out to.




This was my most anticipated album coming into the year since I didn't hear any of the tracks that were leaked over the last year or so. Poison Pen only further proves that Chino XL is one of the baddest lyricists on the planet. The beat on a few tracks in this album are a little slow for my liking, and it doesn't really blend well with Chino's usual rapid fire delivery. Other than that issue, I have no complaints about it.




Quite simply, Ghostface's best effort since Supreme Clientele. Hell, he even admitted it subtlely on "The Champ." Production overall is pretty good. I'm a big Pete Rock fan and like the beats he produced on the album. But I have to admit that MF DOOM's beats on this album are outstanding and the best on this album. I thought "9 Milli Brothers" sounded so much like a classic Wu-Tang beat that only the RZA can do. "Underwater" also sounds amazing. Only gripe I have with this album is that the instrumentals of Dilla's tracks in this album are already on Donuts. Not a big deal though. Very good album to listen to.


And finally...



After a string of average and boring albums from Public Enemy throughout the '90s and early part of this decade I wasn't sure if I can count on 'em to bring a great album anymore. But after listening to New Whirl Odor last November, it raised my eyebrow. It was best album I've heard from them since maybe Apocalypse '91, and worth copping in it's own right. But now, just a few months after NWO.. a few weeks after listening to Rebirth of A Nation over and over again, I can now say it with confidence: PE is back! I was going to type a long thread about why it is the best album I've heard this year, but I'm too lazy to do it. I'll put it this way: Lyrical conscious hip-hop at its finest, with beats that people can still dance to. You know... just like those classic PE records of the late '80s. One of my favorite MCs of all time, Chuck D still sounds hungry as ever. The Rhyme Animal simply brings it on the mic. Meanwhile, Paris handled the production beautifully with, and even spit flames on a few of the tracks. Every one of the featured guests on this album such as MC Ren, Kam, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, Conscious Daughters (remember them?) aside from Sistah Souljah didn't disappoint with their flow. Great, great album. Highly recommended.

And if you have the opportunity to do so, be sure to check out Guerrilla Funk Records website and check out Paris older albums from the early '90s and see why he calls himself "The Rebel." The brother did his thing back then and laid low for a while, but now he has resurfaced with a bang, forming a record label and dropping quality compliation albums that I'll talk about at a later time. I still have all of those albums from 10+ years ago and they still bump.

Kruza

[kuruption]

Re: Favorite Albums of 2006

Here are most of the albums I copped this year to date:



The last album from one of my personal favorite hip-hop groups of all time. I don't think Firewater is as good as their last album X.O. Experience, which is stil their best overall effort, but it's still a quality album worth listening to. I thought this was it for the group, and technically, it is. However, it turns out that they will be pursuing solo careers from this point on. Tash and J-Ro are rumored to be dropping something later this year and sometime next year for E-Swift.


[And finally...



After a string of average and boring albums from Public Enemy throughout the '90s and early part of this decade I wasn't sure if I can count on 'em to bring a great album anymore. But after listening to New Whirl Odor last November, it raised my eyebrow. It was best album I've heard from them since maybe Apocalypse '91, and worth copping in it's own right. But now, just a few months after NWO.. a few weeks after listening to Rebirth of A Nation over and over again, I can now say it with confidence: PE is back! I was going to type a long thread about why it is the best album I've heard this year, but I'm too lazy to do it. I'll put it this way: Lyrical conscious hip-hop at its finest, with beats that people can still dance to. You know... just like those classic PE records of the late '80s. One of my favorite MCs of all time, Chuck D still sounds hungry as ever. The Rhyme Animal simply brings it on the mic. Meanwhile, Paris handled the production beautifully with, and even spit flames on a few of the tracks. Every one of the featured guests on this album such as MC Ren, Kam, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, Conscious Daughters (remember them?) aside from Sistah Souljah didn't disappoint with their flow. Great, great album. Highly recommended.

And if you have the opportunity to do so, be sure to check out Guerrilla Funk Records website and check out Paris older albums from the early '90s and see why he calls himself "The Rebel." The brother did his thing back then and laid low for a while, but now he has resurfaced with a bang, forming a record label and dropping quality compliation albums that I'll talk about at a later time. I still have all of those albums from 10+ years ago and they still bump.

Kruza

wow- i cant believe someone actually liked this pe album. i thought it was garbage but obviously one mans trash is another mans gold. (im also a big pe fan - it takes and fear of a black planet are some of my fav. albums) i just feel they are quite irrelevent today and there new albums are wack.

i havent checked out that liks album yet , but i need to get around to it . liks are underrated.

[Kruza]

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wow- i cant believe someone actually liked this pe album. i thought it was garbage but obviously one mans trash is another mans gold. (im also a big pe fan - it takes and fear of a black planet are some of my fav. albums) i just feel they are quite irrelevent today and there new albums are wack.

I have no problem with you saying the new PE albums are wack. That's your opinion of them and I respect that. But to also say that PE is irrelevant? You've got to be kidding.

They couldn't be more relevant considering the current state of the rap industry in this day of age, where corporations that own those major record labels have a big stranglehold on what type of subject matter that they want put out to the mainstream. These corporations have been slowly but surely trying to shut conscious rap out completely over the years. It was in an already bad state during the late '80s to early '90s when it was virtually impossible to get this type of music to be played on the radio. But it's actually been far worse these days because most rap/hip-hop artists of today can't even get a fair record deal, which wasn't really too much of a problem back then. And if these artists luck out and do get a deal, they certainly don't have the creative freedom to do what they want or say everything what they want on their material. If there's still room for club/party/dance joints which are played on the radio and shown on TV all day everyday, then there's still room for this type of conscious rap music as well. It just turns out that this type of music has to be done on an indie label and without having the luxury of big-budget videos to push as lead singles these days.

Anyway, Dead Prez and Immortal Technique have been carrying the torch as of late when it comes to conscious rap, and they have done a good job of that. But don't ever forget the trailblazers. To witness PE and Paris come together to make a full-length album, then have the presence in mind to round up guys like DP, IT, Ren and Kam is great for me to hear. It's been long overdue for this collaboration.

Kruza

[Rback21]

Re: Favorite Albums of 2006

Murs- Murray's Revenge