DrBeeper comments on the Top 10+
Best of 2005 Best of 2004 Best of 2003 Best of 2002 Best of 2001
Albums
Singles and EP’s
remixes, compilations and endless mixes
compendums and reissues
Live recordings
Too late for review
01 Twilight Singers – Powder Burns
02 Islands – Return To The Sea
03 Deadboy & the Elephantmen – We Are Night Sky
04 Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
05 Beck – The Information
06 The Little Killers – A Real Good One
07 Two Gallants – What The Toll Tells
08 The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
09 The Minders – It’s A Bright Guilty World
10 Soledad Brothers – The Hardest Walk
11 Flaming Lips – At War With the Mystics
12 Persephone’s Bees – Notes From The Underworld
13 Minus 5 – The Gun Album
14 Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Battle of the Broken Seas
15 Asobi Seksu – Citrus
16 Essex Green – Cannibal Sea
17 King Biscuit Time – Black Gold
18 TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
19 The Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
20 Black Keys – Magic Potion
21 The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
22 Eagles of Death Metal – Death by Sexy
23 Gotan Project – Lunatico
24 Howie Gelb – ‘Sno Angel Like You
25 Long Winters, the – Putting The Days To Bed
26 Phoenix – It’s Never Been Like That
27 Solomon Burke – Nashville
28 Screamin’ Eric – Shake It!
29 Starlight Mints – Drowaton
30 Camera Obscura – Let’s Get Out Of This Country
31 The Booby Traps – The Booby Traps
32 Nightmares On Wax – In a Space Outta Sound
33 The Soda Pop Kids – Write Home
34 Cat Power – The Greatest
35 Calexico – Garden Ruin
36 Mates of State – Bring It Back
37 SSM – SSM
38 The Tyde – Three’s Co
39 Danielson – Ships
40 Portastatic – Who Loves The Sun
41 The Album Leaf – Into The Blue Again
42 Johnny Cash – American V _ A Hundred Highways
43 Live – Black Mountain
44 Josh Rouse – Subtitulo
45 Giant Drag – Hearts and Unicorns
46 The Elected – Sun, Sun, Sun
47 Peaches – Impeach My Bush
48 Pink Spiders – Teenage Graffiti
49 Destroyer – Rubies
50 The Bobbyteens – Cruisin’ For A Bruisin’
51 – 75
The Aggrolites – The Aggrolites
Be Your Own Pet – Be Your Own Pet
Bellrays – Have A Little Faith
Built to Spill – You in Reverse
Eef Barzelay – Bitter Honey
Gomez – How We Operate
The Grates – Gravity Won’t Get You High
Hallelujah Chicken Run Band – Take One
Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat
Ladies – They Mean Us
Lemonheads – Lemonheads
The Living End – State of Emergency
Los Lobos – Town and the City
Marked Men – Fix My Brain
Mountain Goats – Get Lonely
Ms. John Soda – Notes and The Like
Mudhoney – Under a Billion Suns (+bonus cd)
Neurotic Swingers – Sexy & Mysterious
Robert Pollard – From a Compound Eye
Secret Machines – Ten Silver Drops
Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
The Stills – Without Feathers
The Walkmen – A Hundred Miles Off
The Witnesses – Black Eyes And White Lies
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
76 – 100
Andre Williams with Diplomats of Solid Sound – Aphrodisiac
As Fast As – Open Letter To The Damned
Audioslave – Revelations
Belle & Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian – Bill Frisell, Ron Carter, Paul Motian
Birdmonster – No Midnight
Bob Dylan – Modern Times
Brazilian Girls – Talk To La Bomb
Daniel Wylie – The High Cost Of Happiness
Film School – Film School
The Futureheads – News & Tributes
Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
Graham Coxon – Love Travels At Illegal Speeds
Head Like A Kite – Random Portraits Of The Home Movie
Juana Molina – Son
Kelley Stoltz – Below the Branches
Loose Fur – Born Again in the USA
The Milky Ways – The Milky Ways
Mind Controls – Mind Controls
Nelly McKay – Pretty Little Head
The Radio Dept. – Pet Grief
Tom Petty – Highway Companion
Ursula 1000 – Here Comes Tomorrow
Vetiver – To Find Me Gone
Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
101-151
Adam Green – Jacket Full of Danger
The Adored – A New Language
Angels and Airwaves – We Don’t Need to Whisper
Beth Orton – Comfort of Strangers
Boards of Canada – Trans Canada Highway
Boyracer – A Punch Up The Bracket
Brightblack Morning Light – Brightblack Morning Light
Buckcherry – 15
Comets On Fire – Avatar
The Divine Comedy – Victory For the Comic Muse
Duels – The Bright Lights And What I Should Have
Echo Helstrom – The Veil
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint – The River in Reverse
Fleeting Joys – Despondent Transponder
Gasoline Heart – You Know Who You Are
Gin Blossoms – Major Lodge Victory
Hawthorne Heights – If Only You Were Lonely
Iliketrains – Progress Reform
In Flight Radio – In Flight Radio
Jack Johnson – Curious George
Jerry Lee Lewis – Last Man Standing
Jhelisa – A Primitive Guide to Being There
Jon Langford – Gold Brick
Josh Ritter – The Animal Years
Keane – Under the Iron Sea
Hotel Lights – Hotel Lights
The Little Willies – The Little Willies
Lovely Feathers – Hind Hind Legs
Matthew Sweet & Suzanna Hoffs – Under The Covers
Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
Pete Yorn – Nightcrawler
Radio 4 – Enemies Like This
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
The Riverboat Gamblers – To the Confusion of My Enemies
Sam Roberts – Chemical City
Scotch Rocks – Scotch Rocks
Seafood – Paper Crown King
Sioux City Pete & the Beggars – Necro Blues
Snow Patrol – Eyes Open
Stardeath and White Dwarfs – Stardeath and White Dwarfs
Stars Of Track And Field – Centuries Before Love And War
Stereolab – Fab Four Suture
Tapes n’ Tapes – The Loop
The Terrible Twos – If You Ever See An Owl
Th’ Legendary ShackShakers – Pandelirium
Tom Verlaine – Around
Tosca – Souvenirs
U.S.Bombs – We Are The Problem
Yo La Tengo – Is Murdering the Classics
151+
Adored – A New Language
Black Heart Procession – The Spell
Blue October – Foiled
Boris – Pink
Captain – This Is Hazelville
Delays, the – You See Colours
ESG – Keep On Moving
Feeling, the – Twelve Stops And Home
Glen Phillips – Mr. Lemons
Holiday Parade – Two Cheers For Tuesday
Hot Chip – The Warning
Idle Sons – Sixteen Seasons
KT Tunstall – Eye to the Telescope
La Rocca – The Truth
Low Skies – All The Love I Could Find
Neil Young – Living With War
Nelly Furtado – Loose
Prince – 3121
Rainer Maria – Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
Sean Lennon – Friendly Fire
Shearwater – Palo Santo
Thom Yorke – The Eraser
The Vines – Vision Valley
01 The Mooney Suzuki – The Maximum Black EP
02 The Black Keys – Chulahoma EP
03 Arctic Monkeys – Who The Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys EP
04 Colin Meloy – Sings Shirley Collins
05 Flaming Lips, the – The W.A.N.D
Stereolab – Winter 2006 Tour Single
Michael Stipe & Friends – In The Sun EP
remixes, compilations and continuous mixes
01 Kleptones – 24 Hours
02 Alright, This Time Just the Girls, Vol. 2
03 The Sadies – In Concert, Volume 1
04 Putumayo Presents Brazilian Lounge
05 Cafe Lounge – Iced Lemon Tea
Silicon Summer 2006
Thievery Corporation – Versions
DFA Remixes, Chapter 1
Q-Magazine – Best of ’96 – ’06
Beastles, the – Let it Beast
Beachles, the – Sgt. Petsound’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
New York Noise Vol. 2
01 Matthew Sweet – Girlfriend (Legacy Edition)
02 Brian Eno & David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (remaster)
03 Spencer Dickinson – Spencer Dickinson
04 Massive Attack – Collected
Belle & Sebastian – Gideon Coe, BBC Radio 01-20
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Black Session 242 01-31
Deadboy & the Elephantmen – Smith’s Olde Bar, Atlanta GA 02-22
Fiery Furnaces – Smith’s Olde Bar, Atlanta GA 02-22
Robert Pollard – The Independent, SF CA 02-25
The Black Keys – Agora Theater, Cleveland OH 02-25
The Silver Jews – 40 Watt Club, Athens GA 03-10
Britt Daniel – SXSW, Austin TX 03-16
Britt Daniel – Swedish American Hall, SF CA 03-29 [matrix]
Rogue Wave – Bimbo’s 365 Club, SF CA 03-30 [matrix]
Calexico – Berlin, Germany – A living room 04-01
Neko Case – 9:30 Club, Washinton DC 04-09
The Flaming Lips – Circus, Stockholm SWE 05-02
Tilly & The Wall – Maria am Ufer, Berlin 05-08
Islands – Neumo’s, Seattle WA 05-10
Twilight Singers – The Paradise, Boston MA 05-29
Beck – Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz CA 05-30
dEUS – Pinkpop 2006, Landgraaf, Holland 06-04-06
The Raconteurs – Amoeba Records, SF CA 06-08
The Mountain Goats – Bottom of the Hill, SF CA 06-13
Calexico – Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz CA 06-15
Juana Molina – Bimbo’s, SF 06-17
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint – Paramount Theatre, Oakland, CA 06-20
Twilight Singers with Mark Lanegan – KEXP, Seattle WA 06-22
Neko Case – Bimbo’s 365 Club, SF 06-25
Radiohead – “LP7”, North America June 2006
Islands – Accelerator 2006 , Amiralen, Malmˆ, SWE 07-03
Belle & Sebastian – Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood CA 07-06
Asylum Street Spankers – Lafayette Tap Room, Buffalo NY 07-09
Tilly & The Wall – Paradox Theatre, Seattle WA 07-11
Lyle Lovett – Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA 07-12
Sonic Youth – Fillmore, SF CA 07-14
dEUS – Piazza Castello, Ferrara, ITA 07-16
Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint – House of Blues, NOLA 07-18
The Long Winters – KEXP, Seattle WA 07-21
The Mountain Goats – KEXP, Seattle WA 08-03
The Raconteurs – KCRW, LA CA 08-03
The Bellrays – Corner Hotel, Melbourne, AUS 08-04
Olivia Tremor Control – Orange Twin, Athens GA 08-05
The Long Winters – Mercury Lounge, NYC 08-08
Lambchop – Grosser Sendesaal des Radiokulturhaus, Vienna 08-08
63 Crayons – Little Kings, Athens GA 08-10
Sleater-Kinney – Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR 08-12 [final show]
Apples In Stereo – 40 Watt Club, Athens GA 08-12
Col. Knowledge & the Lickety-Splits – The 40 Watt, Atlanta GA 08-12
Of Montreal – 40 Watt Club, Athens GA 08-19
The Mountain Goats – Amoeba Records in-store, SF CA 08-22
TV on the Radio – Live on KCRW 09-22
The Decemberists – Live on KCRW 09-25
M Ward – Live On KCRW 09-28
Frank Black – Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA 09-29
The Sadies – The Earl, Atlanta GA 10-03
Heavy Trash – The Earl, Atlanta GA 10-03
Beck – Live on KCRW 10-04
David Barbe & the Quick Hooks – 40 Watt Club, Athens GA 10-05
Sufjan Stevens – Crystal Ballroom, Portland OR 10-13
The Elected – Paradox Theatre, Seattle WA 10-17
Detroit Cobras – The Casbah, San Diego CA 10-22
The Tyde – Neumo’s, Seattle WA 10-23
Twilight Singers – House of Blues, LA CA 10-25
The Raconteurs – Vegoose, Las Vegas NV 10-28
The Shins – Live on KEXP, NYNY 11-03
Islands – Crocodile CafÈ, Seattle WA 11-06
Music of Bob Dylan: A Benefit for Music For Youth – Avery Fisher Hall, NYC 11-06
Twilight Singers – The Loft, Atlanta GA 11-08
Twilight Singers – The Village, Dublin IRE 11-18
Twilight Singers – Melkweg, Amsterdam 11-28
Twilight Singers – Proxima, Warszawa POL 12-02
Calexico – Rialto Theatre, Tuscon AZ 12-02
Calexico – Fillmore, SF CA 12-08
Calexico – The Fillmore, SF CA 12-09
Still Small Voice and the Joyful Noise – Tasty World, Athens GA 12-13 (flac)
The Dirtbombs – Magic Stick, Detroit MI 12-31
Too late for review:
The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
Exploding Hearts – Shattered
50 Foot Wave – Free Music EP
Albert Hammond Jr – Yours To Keep
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – So Divided
Andrea Bocelli – Under the Desert Sky
Babyshambles – The Blinding EP
Ben Kweller – Ben Kweller
Blackpool Lights – This Town’s Disaster
Bonnie Prince Billy – The Letting Go
Feist – Open Season
The Format – Dog Problems
Greg Graffin – Cold As The Clay
Hem – Funnel Cloud
Holloways – So This Is Great Britain
Isles – Perfumed Lands
Jewel – Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
Joseph Arthur – Nuclear Daydream
Lambchop – Succulence (tour-only)
Lost Ocean – Night To Life EP
Love Arcade – Love Arcade
Loveninjas – The Secret Of the Loveninjas
Luna – Best of Lunafied (2cd)
Magic Numbers – Those The Brokes
Make Believe – Of Course
Mystery Jets – Making Dens
Oasis – Stop the Clock
Pernice Brothers – Live A Little
Plus/Minus – Let’s Build A Fire
REM – And I Feel Fine (2cd)
Sirens Sister – Echoes From The Ocean Floor
Sloan – Never Hear The End Of It
Static Age – Blank Screens
Submarines – Declare A New State
Sufjan Stevens – Songs for Christmas (5 cd)
Sunshine Underground – Raise The Alarm
The Beatles – Love
The Frames – Cost
The Thermals – The Body The Blood The Machine
Tom Waits – Orphans, Brawlers & Bastards (3cd)
Twilight Singers – A Stitch In Time EP
Twisted Sister – Christmas 2006
Who – Endless Wire
Black Stone Cherry – Black Stone Cherry
The Ditty Bops – Moon Over The Freeway
Elf Power – Back to the Web
The Ettes – Shake the Dust
Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds
Johnny Cash – Live at San Quentin/Folsom Prison (remastered)
Les Breastfeeders – Les Matins de Grands Soirs
Lily Allen – Alright Still
The New Lou Reeds – Top Billin’
Page France – Tomato Morning EP
Silversun Pickups – Carnavas
The Stabilizers – Wanna Do the Wild Plastic Brane Love Thing?
Tilly and the Wall – Bottoms of Barrels
Artrocker Unsigned compilation
Zombina and the Skeletones – Death Valley High
Little Miss Sunshine OST
Sonic Youth – Destroyed Room
Best of Bootie 2006
The Archie Bronson Outfit – Derdang Derdang
Beck – The Information – Bonus Tracks
The Black Angels – Passover
Bonobo – Days to Come
Cobra Starship – While the City Sleeps We Rule the Streets
Erase Errata – Nightlife
The Fratellis – Costello Music
Greg Kowalsky – Through the Cardinal Window
The Invisible Eyes – Laugh in the Dark
The Kooks – Inside-In Inside-Out
The Kooks – Inside-In Inside-Out Acoustic
The Lovely Feathers – Hind Hind Legs
MSTRKRFT – Looks
Mammatus – Mammatus
Matmos – The Rose Has Teeth In the Mouth Of A Beast
Mogwai – Mr. Beast
Mogwai – Soundtrack (Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait)
The New Pornographers – Live!
Paul Mooney – Analyzing White America
What Is It?: Funky Soul and Rare Grooves
White Whale – WWI
ZZ Top – Tres Hombres (remaster)
Take Care of Yourself: The Portland Indie Scene
April Wine – Roughly Speaking
The Arm – Call You Out
Bettie Serveert – Bare Stripped Naked
Cat Empire – Two Shoes
The Fray – How to Save A Life
Putomayo Kids – Folk Playground
Razorlight – Razorlight
Rockabye Baby – Lullaby Renditions Of the Beach Boys
The Sounds – Dying To Say This To You
Vieux Farka Toure – Vieux Farka Toure
Zero 7 – The Garden
Brakes – The Beautific Visions
The Lemon Sun – Tales of Uncertainty EP
The Sadies – Tales of the Ratfink OST
Thee Emergency – Can You Dig It?
The Hipshakes – Shake Their Hips
The Kill Devil Hills – The Drought
Lords – This Ain’t A Hate Thing, It’s A Love Thing
Petit Vodo – Paradise
A Hawk and a Hacksaw – The Way the Wind Blows
Brian Setzer – 13
Casper And The Cookies – The Optimist’s Club
Dirty Feel – Talk In the City EP
The Hot Puppies – Under the Crooked Moon
Karen O. – K. O. at Home
The Old Soul – She’s Got Party Davis Eyes
Polyphonic Spree – Wait EP
Paris Calling (comp)
Death From Above 1979 – Heads Up EP
The Frank and Walters – A Renewed Interest in Happiness
The Rifles – No Love Lost
Teddy Geiger – Underage Thinking
Tragically Hip – World Container
The Bird And The Bee – Agan and Again and Again and Again EP
Califone – Roots and Crowns
The Crayon Fields – Animal Bells
Kings Of Leon – Day Old Belgian Blues EP
Little Ones – Sing Song EP
Sly & the Family Stone (and Guests) – Different Strokes By Different Folks
The Strays – Le Futur Noir
Two Koreas – Altruists
Black Keys – The Live EP
Cold War Kids – Robbers and Cowards
Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Eddy Current Suppression Ring
Eldorado And The Ruckus – Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Late Night Tales: Air
Lee Baby Simms – Mystery Loves Company
Nelson – Revolving Doors
The Painkillers – Drunk on a Train
Twilight Sad – Twilight Sad EP
Two Tears – Little Tea
Henrik Schwarz – DJ Kicks
The Octopus Project + Black Moth Super Rainbow – The House of Apples and Eyeballs
Viva Voce – Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
Of Montreal – Satanic Twins
The Blakes – The Blakes
The Downbeat 5 – Victory Motel
The Hex Dispensers – The Hex Dispensers
Patrick Watson – Close to Paradise
The Drones – In Spaceland 11-15-06
Eskimo Joe – Black Fingernails Red Wine
The Pink Fits – Fuzzyard Gravebox