Turbo Friendship Writings

Turbo Friendship top ten's for winter 2006

By: various

Matt Masters

Albums: These are probably my favourite albums of the year 2006. It feels like a weird list. There are two Wolf Parade side projects represented, a squeaky-voiced harp player, a Justin Timberlake record, perhaps more surprisingly an Emily Haines record, and my favourite record is mostly falsetto singing over floor toms run through FX pedals… How will these stand up over time? Should I be disconcerted that Junior Boys sometimes make me feel like I am in a Mitsubishi ad? Will Henderson and I look back at our Joanna Newsom phase and cringe? Time will tell, but at this point I think especially the top 5 records are damn good albums that I will enjoy for some time to come… (in reverse order)

10) Knives Don’t Have Your Back – Emily Haines and Soft Skeleton
9) Beast Moans – Swan Lake
8) Eraser – Thom Yorke
7) Shut Up I Am Dreaming – Sunset Rubdown
6) Future Sex/Love Sounds – Justin Timberlake
5) So This Is Goodbye – Junior Boys
4) Ys – Joanna Newsom
3) Silent Shout – The Knife
2) Ships – Danielson
1) Drum’s Not Dead – Liars

Songs: I think this was a pretty good year for pop, which is reflected in my current 10 favourite songs of 2006. I think I have cheated a little by including an unreleased song I heard played live this year, but whatever… Special thanks to Matt Henderson for introducing me to Peter, Bjorn, and John’s song “Young Folks”- of all the great things Henderson has ever done this kind act probably ranks somewhere in the middle third. Not bad… My number one song won hands down. I enjoy it. (in reverse order, again)

10) Stadiums and Shrines II – Sunset Rubdown
9) All Fires – Swan Lake
8) Young Folks – Peter, Bjorn, and John
7) Promiscuous – Nelly Furtado
6) Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
5) We Share Our Mothers’ Health – The Knife
4) My Love – Justin Timberlake
3) Videotape – Radiohead
2) Ship the Majestic Suffix – Danielson
1) In the Morning – Junior Boys

Erik Backer

top 10 albums likely to be found in my backpack:

1) Stereolab - fab four suture
2) Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
3) Built to Spill - You in Reverse
4) the unicorns - who will cut our hair when we're gone
5) sigur ros - takk...
6) pavement - brighten the corners.
7) The Weading Present - seamonsters
8) Red House painters - Ocean Beach
9) The Magnetic Fields - Get lost
10) Modest Mouse - Good news for people who love bad news.

Robert Sim

top ten albums i have overlooked in previous top tens... as far as i can remember. and in no particular order:

1) tomorrow the green grass - the jayhawks - the nards suck but it is a
beautiful record.

2) computerworld - kraftwerk - at first a bit of a utility player but now a
dependable veteran and clutch member of my cd roster.

3) niun niggung - mouse on mars - the 'arkanoid' of electronic records -
better still the 'arkanoid -  revenge of doh' of electronic records.

4) marquee moon - television - it's good.
5) pink moon - nick drake - it's also good and also about moons.
6) chronic town - r.e.m. - the first, and quite possibly the best, r.e.m.
recording. my tape copy does not play properly from overuse.

7) waking life soundtrack - glover gill and the tosa tango orchestra - i
might receive some flak for choosing a movie soundtrack as a top ten - and
no less for the fact that it is all tango music but i can't deny the
pleasure it's given me over the past two or three years. and it's not as
though it's a compilation like most soundtrack albums, all but one song are
originals.

8) the best of - erik satie - hmmmm, might i receive more flak for choosing a
best of? mayhaps, but composers of this era did not release albums so what
am i to do? and it is still some of my favourite music. the gymnopédies and
gnossiennes are quite lovely.

9) bright flight - the silver jews - i regret not picking this for the
'spring 2006' top tens. i am trying to make ammends.

10) seamonsters - the wedding present - yeah, i've picked it before but it's a
motherfucker.

erin brown

Here's my top 10 list (defined as 'top 10 at this moment in time')....

1) Bad Moon Rising: The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival - CCR
2) World Reggae - Putumayo World Music
3) In Between Dreams - Jack Johnson
4) The Sound of White - Missy Higgins
5) Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man - Tribute album/documentary soundtrack
6) Everything in Boxes - The Road Dog Divas
7) Hello Love - The Be Good Tanyas
8) Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
9) Doolittle - Pixies
10) Youth - Matisyahu

chris stringer

Can I contribute a 'Top Four' list? That's all that I can think of right now. In no particular order....

1) Ohbijou - Swift Feet For Trying TImes
2) Mastodon - Blood Mountain
3) The Acorn - Tin Fist
4) Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death

kevan Brott

A list of albums that came out in 2006 that I am fond of (although for at least one it pains me to admit it). I am unfamiliar with this year's crop of records so I could only do half a list….but what a list!

1) Blood Mountain - Mastodon
2) Alright, Still - Lily Allen
3) The Crusades - The Plastic Constellations
4) Witch - Witch
5) Return of Doctor Octagon - Dr. Octagon

I will also submit a list for the open forum…Top Ten drinking beer by myself records:

1) Alien lanes - GBV
2) Brighten the Corners - Pavement
3) Automatic Midnight - Hot Snakes
4) Washing Machine - Sonic Youth
5) Here's Where the Strings Come in - Superchunk
6) In Utero - Nirvana
7) Pinkerton - Weezer
8) Meat is Murder - The Smiths
9) Black Elvis/Lost in Space - Kool Keith
10) Ten Rapid - Mogwai

kristina boka

1) Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have Your Back
2) The Nordic Beat - EP
3) Cat Power - The Greatest
4) Champion - Chill 'Em All
5) Feist - Open Season
6) Lady Sovereign - Public Warning (i admit,embarassing, but true.)
7) Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
8) Beck - The Information
9) k-os- Atlantis - Hymns for Disco
10) Caribou - Up in Flames

chris woolgar

So here it is. Top ten sophmore albums.

1) Nirvana -- Nevermind
2) Smashing Pumpkins -- Siamese Dream
3) Fleetwood Mac -- Rumours
4) Oasis -- Whats the Story (Morning Glory)?
5) Alanis Morisette -- Jagged Little Pill
6) Fugees -- The Score
7) I Mother Earth -- Scenery and Fish
8) Radiohead -- the Bends
9) Interpol -- Antics
10) Matthew Good Band -- Underdogs

honourable mentions to Third Eye Blind (Blue), Tragically Hip (Up to Here), Killers, Alice in Chains (Dirt), Placebo (Without You Im Nothing)

james shaw

Milk's Top Ten - 2006

1) sickoakes - seawards
2) motohiro nakashima - i dreamt constellation sang
3) Belong - October Language [2006]
4) Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
5) nathan fake drowning -in a sea of love
6) Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles
7) The Knife - Silent Shout
8) Clipse - Hell Hath no Fury
9) AFX - Chosen Lords
10) Jay Dee - The Shining

Matt Henderson

Best of 2006

The following are my favourite songs and albums of the past year. I feel that musically speaking the year was inconsistent at best; much like a Dears record (which is why they aren't on the list). As a result some of my choices feel forced. However, these lists show the sensitive side of Henderson probably more than any before. My goal was to be completely honest and as a result I found myself constantly battling two distinct urges: a) to make my choices were different from Masters, and b) to downplay the tender music (i.e. the sweeping harps of Joanna Newsom, the plaintive spirituality of Sufjan Stevens and the sappy synth-heavy sonnets of Justin Timberlake) and focus on more decidedly ruff tunes (i.e. Swan Lake, the Knife and Rhymefest, who says his dick could cause a 'damned eclipse,' which I believe despite a lack of any documented proof to support this claim). I feel I more or less succeeded and the results are two lists I feel more or less happy about, regardless of how similar they are to Poop's and whether or not they are labelled goode by the emotionally numb and sexually insecure members of this esteemed community.

Songs

1) Us Ones in Between - Sunset Rubdown
2) Only Skin - Joanna Newsom
3) My Love - Justin Timberlake
4) Videotape - Radiohead
5) Did I Step on Your Trumpet? - Danielson
6) Holy Holy Holy - Sufjan Stevens
7) Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
8) We Share Our Mothers Health - The Knife 
9) Game Theory - The Roots
10) Brand New - Rhymefest

Albums

1) Ys - Joanna Newsom
2) Ships - Danielson
3) Futuresexlovesounds - Justin Timberlake
4) Beast Moans - Swan Lake
5) Shut Up I am Dreaming - Sunset Rubdown
6) Silent Shout - The Knife
7) The Eraser - Thom Yorke
8) Knives Don't Have Your Back - Emily Haines
9) Game Theory - The Roots
10) St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley

2007-01-03