2006 97X Best Of Discussion Thread

[rocketman70]

So anyone care to venture a guess what will be the #1 song/album of the year?


Arctic Monkeys? TV on the Radio?

[hunta]

A great start. I loved this song Turnbull ACs - Ghost Town Land

Mike just said it will be determined by airplay...so you could figure this out if you had the data.

List complete.
(Note that this list if for best ALBUMS. The DJs had to pick a song from each to spin to represent it.)

1. Built To Spill - Goin' Against Your Mind [You In Reverse]
2. TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me [Return to Cookie Mountain]
3. Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Look Good On the Dancefloor [Whaatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not]
4. Silversun Pickups Lazy Eye - [Carnavas]
5. Band Of Horses - The Funeral [Everything All the Time]
6. Hot Chip - Over and Over [The Warning]
7. Thom Yorke - Black Swan [The Eraser]
8. The Flaming Lips - The W.A.N.D [At War With The Mystics]
9. Neko Case - Hold On, Hold On [Fox Confessor Brings the Flood]
10. Birdmonster - What's Wrong With Your Brain [No Midnight]
11. Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue
12. Bound Stems - Western Biographic [Appreciation Night]
13. Sonic Youth - Incinerate [Rather Ripped]
14. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy [St. Elsewhere]
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion [Show Your Bones]
16. The Black Angels - Manipulation [Passover]
** Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka - #1 from 1998 **
17. Aloha - Brace Your Face [Some Echoes]
18. The Twilight Singers - Bonnie Brae [Powder Burns]
19. Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Handle With Care [Rabbit Fur Coat]
20. Lily Allen - LDN [Alright, Still]
21. Midlake - Roscoe [The Trials of Van Occupanther]
22. Cat Power - Living Proof [The Greatest]
23. Heartless Bastards - Into The Open [All This Time]
24. Metal Hearts - Gentleman's Spell [Socialize]
25. Forget Cassettes - The Catch [Salt]
26. Tapes and Tapes - Insistor [The Loon]
27. Phoenix - Long Distance Call [It's Never Been Like That]
28. The Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes [Broken Boy Soldiers]
29. Gomez - How We Operate [How We Operate]
30. Dirty On Purpose - No Radio [Hallelujah Sirens]
31. Rainer Maria - Catastrophe [Catastrophe Keeps Us Together]
32. Mason Proper - A Chance Encounter [There Is a Moth in Your Chest]
33. Cold War Kids - Hospital Beds [Robbers & Cowards]
34. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ramblin' Man [Ballad of the Broken Seas]
35. Zero 7 - Throw It All Away [The Garden]
36. Secret Machines - Lightning Blue Eyes [Ten Silver Drops]
37. Drive-By Truckers - Easy On Yourself [A Blessing and a Curse]
38. The Strokes - You Only Live Once [First Impressions of Earth]
39. Camera Obscura - Lloyd, I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken [Let's Get Out of This Country]
40. Beck - Cellphone's Dead [The Information]
41. Asobi Seksu - Goodbye [Citrus]
42. The Long Winters - Pushover [Putting the Days to Bed]
43. Goldfrapp - Ooh La La [Supernature]
44. Yo La Tengo - Pass The Hatchet, I [I Am Not Afraid
45. The Gossip - Standing In The Way of Control [Standing In The Way of Control]
46. Wolfmother - Mind's Eye [Wolfmother]
47. Mates Of State - Fraud In The '80s [Bring It Back]
48. The Decemberists - Yankee Bayonet [The Crane Wife]
49. Irving - She's Not Shy [Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers]
50. The Fiery Furnaces - Waiting To Know You [Bitter Tea]
51. Clearlake - It's Getting Light Outside [Amber]
52. Say Hi To Your Mom - These Fangs [Impeccable Blahs]
53. The Futureheads - Skip To The End [News And Tributes]
54. Apollo Up! - Custom Critical [Chariots of Fire]
55. The Thermals - A Pillar Of Salt [The Body, The Blood, The Machine]
56. Robert Pollard - Love Is Stronger [From a Compound Eye]
57. The Teenage Prayers - Center Of The World [Ten Songs]
58. French Kicks - So Far We Are [Two Thousand]
59. Regina Spektor - Fidelity [Begin To Hope]
60. Destroyer - European Oils [Destroyer's Rubies]
61. Headlights - Put Us Back Together Right [Kill Them with Kindness]
62. The Black Heart Procession - The Fix [The Spell]
63. Staggering Statistics - Matter Of Time [All of This & More...]
** Gorillaz- Clint Eastwood - #1 from 2001 **
64. Snowden - Like Bullets - [Anti-Anti]
65. Beruit - Postcards From Italy [Gulag Orkestar]
66. Margot & The Nuclear So & So's - Quiet As A Mouse [The Dust Of Retreat]
67. South - A Place In Displacement [Adventures In The Underground Journey To The Stars]
68. The Elected - Not Going Home [Sun, Sun, Sun]
69. Grandaddy - Elevate Myself [Just Like The Fambly Cat]
70. Stereolab - Widow Weirdo [Fab Four Suture]
71. Cedars - The Great Escape [Another Season]
72. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - According to Plan [Fear Is On Our Side]
73. Mojave 3 - Breaking The Ice [Puzzles Like You]
74. Oh No! Oh My! - Jane Is Fat [Oh No! Oh My!]
75. The Radio Dept - The Worst Taste In Music [Pet Grief]
76. The Changes - When I Wake [Today Is Tonight]
77. Sparklehorse - Ghost In The Sky [Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain]
78. The Walkmen - Louisiana [A Hundred Miles Off]
79. The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy! [Boys & Girls In America]
80. The Long Blondes - Weekend Without Makeup [Someone To Drive You Home]
81. The Apparitions - God Monkey Robot [As This Is Futuristic]
** REM - Losing My Religion **
82. Archie Bronson Outfit - Cherry Lips [Dardang Derdang]
83. Cut Chemist - The Garden [The Audience Is Listening]
84. Tilly And The Wall - Bad Education [Bottoms of Barrels]
85. The Knife - Silent Shout [Silent Shout]
86. Junior Boys - In The Morning [So This Is Goodbye]
87. The Ms - Plan Of The Man [Future Women]
88. Sufjan Stevens - Dear Mr. Supercomputer [The Avalanche...]
89. Mew - The Zookeeper's Boy [And the Glass-Handed Kites]
90. The Dears - Hate Then Love [Gang Of Losers]
91. Figurines - The Wonder [Skeleton]
92. The Black Keys - Your Touch [Magic Potion]
93. White Whale - The Admiral [WWI]
94. The Roots - Don't Feel Right [Game Theory]
95. Guillemots - Trains To Brazil [Through The Windowpane]
96. The Little Ones - Lovers Who Uncover [Sing Song]
97. The Turnbull ACs - Ghost Town Land [The Turnbull ACs]

[humbucker]

My guess is either TV on the Radio or The Hold Steady. Those seemed to get alot of play.

[rocketman70]

Wow, I thought the Guillemots would be a little higher.

[hunta]

For #1, I am going with Built To Spill. They spun a bunch of songs off that record. Sentimentally I hope that they choose Silversun Pickups, but they should place high too.

[Patas]

Originally Posted by rocketman70

Wow, I thought the Guillemots would be a little higher.

yeah they played trains to brazil constantly

[VBA-Camel]

Originally Posted by hunta

Mike just said it will be determined by airplay...so you could figure this out if you had the data.

That doesn't seem very fair at 1st glance. I would think it would favor the January / February releases and penalize the November / December releases.

Is this the way it has been done in previous years?

[isosceles]

This is perfect...now I can replace all my (virtual) Sticky notes I lost when my hard drive crashed about a week ago. I'm at a loss on emusic without my trusty woxy.com guides.

[rocketman70]

Originally Posted by jfurnie

Wow. Thought Guillemots would be higher.

LOL. Psychic connections or something?

(see above your post)

Originally Posted by Patas

yeah they played trains to brazil constantly

Yeah it seemed like it. Wonderful song.

[Predot listener]

Originally Posted by VBA-Camel

That doesn't seem very fair at 1st glance. I would think it would favor the January / February releases and penalize the November / December releases.

Is this the way it has been done in previous years?

As far as I know, it's been determined by airplay for some time (though in the FM days, it was a combination of airplay, weeks on playlist and some count in the weekly Top 10).

I think it will have to be an album released earlier in the year, since the second-half releases will suffer a one-month off-air penalty (Sept. 15-Oct. 10).

[gwar469]

Originally Posted by Predot listener

As far as I know, it's been determined by airplay for some time (though in the FM days, it was a combination of airplay, weeks on playlist and some count in the weekly Top 10).

I think it will have to be an album released earlier in the year, since the second-half releases will suffer a one-month off-air penalty (Sept. 15-Oct. 10).

yeah, back in the past you could really get a feel for what the 97 best was going to be, if you paid attention to the Top 10 show every Monday night (the name of which is escaping me right now!...Modern Rock Countdown? GAAAAH!!!)

[hunta]

Originally Posted by VBA-Camel

That doesn't seem very fair at 1st glance. I would think it would favor the January / February releases and penalize the November / December releases.
years?

Perhaps they've got them one of those al-go-rithms to balance things out.

[mike]

Originally Posted by VBA-Camel

I would think it would favor the January / February releases and penalize the November / December releases.

Not necessarily. We projected additional airplay for late in the year releases, but we wanted to present a list that best represented what we played in 2006, so a late year release may be left off. That's been pretty standard on our Best Of countdowns from the get-go. Certainly, we're not exclusive to that train of thought.

Shiv, Joe and myself will also be posting a list of our own Top 20 lists of the year, so you can get the 'critical' angle from each of us personally, as well as what we feel provided 'the sound' of WOXY from the past year.

Originally Posted by VBA-Camel

Is this the way it has been done in previous years?

Not necessarily. Some secrets are best left alone.

MST

[rocketman70]

Originally Posted by gwar469

yeah, back in the past you could really get a feel for what the 97 best was going to be, if you paid attention to the Top 10 show every Monday night (the name of which is escaping me right now!...Modern Rock Countdown? GAAAAH!!!)

It was the People's Choice Countdown I believe. And I miss it terribly.

You're right: back then it was pretty easy to guess what would be #1.

[gwar469]

Originally Posted by rocketman70

It was the People's Choice Countdown I believe. And I miss it terribly.

You're right: back then it was pretty easy to guess what would be #1.

THAT'S IT!!! People's Choice Countdown. thanks for clearing my head, dude.

[gwar469]

Originally Posted by mike

Not necessarily. Some secrets are best left alone.

MST

didn't you spill the beans a few years ago that you used to have Sledge and Bake wrestle an army of ferrets in order to see who got to pick the #1 CD? i can't recall if that was it exactly, but it incorporated the same level of scientific scrutiny.

[ellis burks]

Gotta agree on the BTS sentiments ... if purely based off of spins, then 'Goin' Against your mind' is top 5. Personally, I always thought 'the wait' was more compelling/epic off of that album.

Btw, how's the rest of the white whale album? Really enjoy that song. On first listen, it sounds quite similar to Augie March.

Kyle

[Predot listener]

Originally Posted by mike

Not necessarily. We projected additional airplay for late in the year releases, but we wanted to present a list that best represented what we played in 2006, so a late year release may be left off. That's been pretty standard on our Best Of countdowns from the get-go. Certainly, we're not exclusive to that train of thought.



MST

The flip side of this is that some end-of-year albums would appear in back-to-back 97 Best countdowns. (U2, The Strokes and Coldplay all made back-to-back appearances earlier in the decade, IIRC).

[Patas]

This best of is really going to raise my blood pressure...Dears are so low on the list.

[ThomasC]

Aww...Mew's too low. Oh well, at least it made the list.