Episode Six: Bonnaroo, Reunion Music and the Best of '06 (so far)
The Stage Banter team hears about Greg's trip to Bonnaroo, talk about the reunion craze in music, and discuss our Best of 06 mid-year lists. We spin a ton of new songs and outline what we expect greatness from in the next six months (anyone else excited about that new Dylan record coming out in 59 days?). Comment on this Podcast and let us know your own mid-year top ten — we're dying to know all about it.
Bonnaroo Music Festival – Official site
Snowglobe – Official site, Makeshift Music
Best Albums of 2006 (so far) – Metacritic best Albums of 2006
The Stage Banter team hears about Greg's trip to Bonnaroo, talk about the reunion craze in music, and discuss our Best of 06 mid-year lists. We spin a ton of new songs and outline what we expect greatness from in the next six months (anyone else excited about that new Dylan record coming out in 59 days?). Comment on this Podcast and let us know your own mid-year top ten — we're dying to know all about it.
Bonnaroo Music Festival – Official site
Snowglobe – Official site, Makeshift Music
Best Albums of 2006 (so far) – Metacritic best Albums of 2006
21 Comments:
By no means is this my top ten list of 2006, but this is stuff that I've bought over the last six months:
The Subways – "Young for Eternity"
Drive-By Truckers – "A Blessing and a Curse"
The Replacements – "Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?"
Ricky Gervais – "The Ricky Gervais Show"
Old 97's – "Live EP: As Featured in Live EP: As Featured In the Film 'The Breakup'"
You Am I – "Convicts"
The Legendary Trainhoppers – "Ramble On"
Neko Case – "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"
Here's a recap of my picks:
OVERALL
10 - Loose Fur; Born Again in the USA
9 - Warren Zanes; People That I'm Wrong For
8 - Vandolah; Walk It Off
7 - Josh Ritter; Animal Years
6 - Jenny Lewis; Rabbit Fur Coat
5 - Sarah Harmer; I'm a Mountain
4 - Bruce Springsteen; Seeger Sessions
3 - Avett Brothers; Fourt Thieves Gone
2 - You Am I; Convicts
1 - Todd Snider; The Devil You Know
LIVE
Go-Betweens; That Striped Sunlight Sound
Bruce Springsteen; Hammersmith Odeon 1975
LOCAL (no order)
Vandolah
Orange Opera
Trainhoppers
Left Lane Cruiser
Definitely Gary
DIGITAL RELEASE ONLY
Ike Reilly; The Last Demonstration of Kara Dean EP
Luna; Lunafied
Here's the Frank Black quote we talked about in regards to band reunions:
Billboard is reporting that Frank Black has scrapped a load of new songs he had written with the intent of releasing a new Pixies album. Black tells Billboard.com that about six months ago he wrote a batch of new songs for the band “in an attempt to convince one of the Pixies to make a Pixies record again. I can’t say who she is,” he adds with a laugh, referring, of course, to reticent bassist Kim Deal.
Ultimately, however, Black says that while he “liked how a few of [the songs] came out,” the exercise showed him that his heart wasn’t necessarily in it, either. “I tried to find my Pixies muse and write a so-called Pixies number,” he says, “but they just weren’t any good. They sounded a little contrived or something. That’s the problem with trying to repeat something you did a long time ago; if you go ‘Okay, I’m gonna try to recreate something, tap into some mood I used years ago,’ even if it’s the same songwriter, it’s kind of fakey.”
“What can I say? Sometimes I wish I could just spit out some Pixies-esque songs, but it doesn’t really work that way,” he continues. “You write the songs and they come out the way they come out. They might sound like the Pixies, but these days mostly … not.”
I kinda feel like you could substitute Pixies/Black/Deal with any three names, and this would still make sense (ie, Kinks/Davies/Davies, Mats/Westerberg/Deal, Dino/J/Lou, etc)...
The only reunions that are truly necessary are the ones that occur when you pull a dusty record off the shelf and relive the great feeling you got when you enjoyed it the first time. Those reunions are always personal, never business.
well said
However...if the New York Dolls are on the Three Rivers Festival bill, I'll be right down front. I'm just as flawed as the next guy.
david j is giving k richards a run for his money in the 'how many wrinkles can you fit on yer face?' contest
Join a band.
Play awesome shows for four years.
Dissolve band.
Let three years go by.
Run into old bandmates for the first time in months at daughter's birthday party.
And THEN tell me you don't feel like maybe getting the old car out on the track and seeing if she's still got it in her. Is that so wrong?
I was right with you, Matt, till you started droppin' all those metaphors.
winters wants to take the ol gdg out for walk after talkin it over at sweet ruby d's bday bash?
is that what im hearing?
btw ... my list (from memory ... forgive if i forget)
the grates_the ouch the touch ep
i love you but ive chosen darkness_fear is on our side
loose fur_born again in the usa
vandolah_walk it off
kris kristofferson_this old road
rocky votolato_makers
Greg failed to mention his boy Malkmus' appearance with SY for their encore. Did you sleep through this? If so, I understand. I went to Lollapalooza last year and it was brutal(and expensive).
he left before it took place
had to get home in time to get no sleep so he could be at work monday morning
it hurt, but i had to leave the second SM left the stage...we got home after 5 a.m., driving as fast as we could...i left for work that morning at 8 a.m. sorry, SY.
my top albums so far this year...
1. built to spill-you in reverse
2. jenny lewis-rabbit fur coat
3. neko case-fox confessor...
4. bruce springsteen-seeger sessions
5. loose fur-born again in the usa
6. strokes-first impressions...
7. danielson-ships
8.avett bros.-4 thieves gone
9. yeah yeah yeahs-show your bones
10. robert pollard-from a compound eye
11.islands-return to the sea
12. neil young-living with war
13. sonic youth-rather ripped
...I also forgot to mention that Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's upcoming album is one of my most anticipated for the remainder of 2006.
why do we have a picture of beck on this page?
rmichael - zachra - sara - others that may be lurking/reading this:
where are yer best of 2006 (so far) lists?
get crackin!!
Damn my lurking...
10. With Love and Squalor- We Are Scientists
9. Bitter Tea- The Fiery Furnaces
8. The Greatest- Cat Power
7. Return to the Sea- Islands
6. Destroyer's Rubies- Destroyer
5. Everything All the Time- Band of Horses
4. From a Compound Eye- Robert Pollard
3. Fox Confessor- Neko Case
And since we get to cheat...
2. Upcoming Radiohead
1. Return to Cookie Mountain- TV on the Radio
very well done, sara!!!
track list for the new mewithoutyou album 'brother, sister' available september twenty sixth
messes of men
the dryness and the rain
wolf am i (and shadow)
yellow spider
a glass can only spill what it contains
nice and blue (part two)
the sun and the moon
orange spider
c-minor
in a market dimly lit
o, porcupine
brownish spider
in a sweater poorly knit
bookend...
heres a link to watch.hear mewithoutyou perform 'in a sweater poorly knit'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tydyAo_f3WI&search=mewithoutyou%202006
sound is low at first while aaron introduces it - but the second they start playing it the sound is audible
i really cant wait now
i think bilgip even likes it
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