Shanghaiist: The best music of 2006 ... so far

David Pandt

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:43:24 +0800

Whereas my “ironical” mid-life crisis finds me light years out of touch with what the kids are listening to, I do know that Bob Pollard put out an album in January that deserves a little love. FROM A COMPOUND EYE is right there with the whole beautiful hodgepodge of Beatles-esque guitar pop and lyrical genius that is Robert Pollard/Guided by Voices. For those of you who like your indy rock without slick, hipster caricatures and glossy photo shoots, From a Compound Eye – and the whole Robert Pollard-slash-GBV experience – is worth some space on your hard drive.

smeg

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:15:28 +0800

what a load of pretentious crap (except for Dan)

Steph

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 23:10:43 +0800

Ooh. I just found out about Blue October a little while ago. I really loved their new single. The rest of the music is great too. They have fantastic, fantastic lyrics - sort of darkly poetic stream-of-consciousness nonsense that somehow makes perfect sense. Anyway, really awesome music.

Bob Holness

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 19:56:56 +0800

Could do with a list of favorite 5 Chinese albums of the year too, we are in China, after all, and aren't easily exposed to anything other than Chinapop. ;)

reiterater

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:21:30 +0800

yeah. Where'd you get that band of horses cd Dan? Where'd B6's Claude Von Stroke album come from? I'm guessing you didn't buy them here, but if you did, help me out. oh and my 2 cents: Chad Vangalen- infiniheart Destroyer- Rubies Trentmoeller- (his '06 work thus far)

Owen

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:54:37 +0800

Cool List. Makes me want to expand my music collection. Which brings me to, where? Real or fake no matter. Anyone got tips on good spots to buy music? I was taken to a place near Suzhou creek once (can't remember where) that had a pretty wide selection of music, supposedly including, according to my friend, real copies real cheap that weren't sold in Japan.