Bands you've grown to love in 2006
 

What bands have you heard for the first time in 2006 and grown to love?

Ufomammut
My Cat Is An Alien
Sunburned Hand Of The Man
Explosions In The Sky
Corsano/Flaherty

Comets on Fire (all thanks to you sonicl.)
TV on the Radio.

PRURIENT

Congratultions on growing to like Angels of Light, Johnny. It's a real shame that they still seem to be looked upon as Michael Gira's post-Swans band rather than as a bloody good band in their own right.

yeah, after seeing him live. haven't heard the records yet, though.

hEHE.While checking out the Delayed Sleep website,i've bumped into their name and i like what i've heard.Excellent name becuase it reminds me of 7 Year Bitch.

They are one of my many highlights of ATP...

animental
aids wolf
usa is a monster
bardo pond (i liked them but never loved them)
nurse with wound

to be honest there are so many i cant even begin.

I'd go for "How I Loved You" or one of the Michael Gira limited solo CDs that he has for sale on the Young God Records website. Or "Songs For A Dog" on Lumberton Trading (which features some highlights from the aforementioned solo CDs) if you fancy vinyl.

I'm with jon boy on this one. There are far too many i can't nearly to them all justice, but here's a few.
(I've known about and listened to all of these but I now love 'em)
Acid Mothers Temple
Charalambides
Deerhoof
M. Ward
MF Doom
Smog
Sunburned Hand of The Man
NNCK

The Carpenters went from something I enjoyed to one of my top 5 bands this year, accompanied by my new found ability to swoon dramatically at middle-8s.

Hank Wangford and Gene Autry have done a lot for me this year, where previously they haven't. Meatloaf also. I finally got into the Kelly Clarkson record. I found myself enjoying the Yeah yeah yeahs, Planes MFS and MCR a lot this year. Opera has taken an upswing in my tastes. I've enjoyed it for a while, but I've found listening to complete operas all the way through in one sitting difficult in the past. Wartime pop/ jazz is probably the biggest thing for me this year, it's the first time since I was about 13 that an entire era/ 'genre' has caught me so absolutely.

Nutbush City Limits by Ike and Tina Turner had been a revelation for me this year. I think I had previously only heard some later Tina only version which was shit. So I always thought it was a shit song but the original is really great. Either that or I just had a messed up memory of the original...

Nah, the Tina version's gash. You're right about the Ike and Tina one though. Patchy, patchy history that woman (musically speaking).

1 or 2? I like 2 more, as it's got Weasel Walter.:)

Coughs
Sightings
Six Organs of Admittance
Bardo Pond (finally)

Be Your Own Pet.

My Cat is An Alien
Kemillstat Ystatvat (sp???) and hell lot of Finnnish folk...
Yellow Swans
The USA is a Monster
Peter Walker
Tatuzi Akaiyami (mutilated another sp?)
Shawn McMillen

Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Just call me a late-blooming hipster.

Oh, also... a great Mpls band called STNNNG. I guess that also makes me a scenester.

kemialliset ystävät, oh yeah!!! the best finnish band!!

isis
red sparowes
burial
lady sovereign (thanks pormarras!)

Mastodon
Be Your Own Pet
Luscious Jackson
Polaris
Ween
Notekillers
Red House Painters
Jawbreaker

Windy & Carl
Erste Allgemeine Verunsicherung (hehe)
Marissa Nadler
Alasehir
The Incredible String Band
Gäa (!!)
Hototogisu
MF Grimm
Swell Maps
Stereolab
SNAP (I think they count, because the last time I was drooling over them at the same extent I do now was in '91 and '92)

And two bands I absolutely have to check out in the soonest future: The Godz, AMM.

To get this rly jokes i would have to google, i guess. I pass.

hotogisu
leviathan
striborg
nnck
new blockaders
mouthus
gate

Is that the electronic gate?sonicl sent me a cd by them that is most excellent.

I did two live videos of Kemialliset Ystävät vs. Mum.
They should go online at the FatCat website hopefully soon.

That was an amazing duo set they played. Reminded me somewhat of the electricity of the SYR series.

Black Lips
Be Your Own Pet
Deerhunter
http://www.myspace.com/deerhunter
Diet Cola
http://www.myspace.com/diedietcolala
Japanther

Japanther is rad.
Hey, "Richard." (Do you have a real name I can call you?)

Animal Collective
Six Organs of Admittance
Akron/Family
Parts & Labor
The Evens
Gang Gang Dance
Battles

Who the heck are these folks?! They're doing some vocals on do make say thinks upcoming "You, You're A History In Rust" album...

Rich... Seing my real name on here would be weird but whatever. Bari. Barry J. McColgan or Bari A Khan. Both are my name.

They're superstars of brooklyn. They play this perfect blend of folk, rock and noise. Fantastic. But their latest release..a bit of a letdown.

Alright, I guess I'll look forward to hearing them for a first time on dmst, then!
Hey, Bari!

coughs
sightings
corsano stuff
pretty much all of load records back catalogue
more nww more merzbow
more magik markers
sunburned hand of the man
prurient
hototogisu
the ubersexy 16 bitch pile up
riunhorse
axolotl
tonnes more shit that ive forgotten about....

Be Your Own Pet
Awesome Color
Jimi Hendrix
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Public Enemy

I feel really scene.

flying luttenbachers
ruins
ive reimerssed myself in the beatles again
byop and awesome color- good bands, not great, but good
tall firs
wooden wand and the vanishing voice
xiu motherfucking xiu
gary numan/tubeway army

BARDO POND
Bob Marley/The Wailers
Burning Spear... a lot of reggae...
outkast and a lot of rap/hip hop..

but mostly Bardo Pond, because they are flawless.