Right Up Top 2006 Music Postacular #1: Best Old Albums

Hey all! I ve decided to do something a bit different this year. I ve scribbled down a few (well, five) categories and made lists for each one.

Then, over the next week or so, I m gonna write a post for each category with my list. Here are the categories:

My Favorite Songs of the Year - tunes I couldn t get out of my head.

My Favorite Albums of the Year, Runners-Up (25-11, but in no particular order)

and finally, My Favorite Ten Albums of the Year

So, after the jump: the best old albums I discovered this year.

Click to see the list.
This is a category for old albums that I found this year. Hey, if you haven t heard it before, it s new to you!

Anyways, most of these albums are famous enough that anything I could say about them would be redundant, so instead of talking about the records, I ll explain how I came to listen to them. One thing I should point out in advance I download the entire set of Pitchfork s Top 100 Albums of the 70 s from a certain awesome (pink) download site that will remain unnamed, so many of the albums below can be found on that list.
After numerous conversations about records in which I realized my knowledge of 70 s pop was severely lacking, I asked Cody to send me an email with few albums that he thought I d like.

There was a lot of good stuff on the resulting list; Sparks, Todd Rundgren, Eno, but my far-and-away favorite was John Cale s Paris 1919.
I ve been putting off getting into Bowie for years; his catalogue is so huge and intimidating; not to mention, the Will Hunting for years because everyone hyped it up so much, although I m still glad i did that OVER-RATED). Anyways, after I got the aforementioned P-Fork Top 100 of the 70s list, I finally decided to give in.

Ziggy served as a perfect Bowie introductory album; very user-friendly. Top notch glam and great karaoke fodder.
That Sleater-Kinney gig still ranks as one of this year s stand-out shows for me (and SXSW provided a lot to choose from).

It was utterly, unreasonably loud and yeah, when O2 kicked in, I really started kicking myself for never having taken the time to listen to SK before.
I m all the more glad given that they retired a few months later.
My exposure to ELO is limited to Out of the Blue , which I remember my dad playing incessantly when I was a kid.

Never got into Dylan or Bowie despite repeated tries.
Damn you, Rosenberg. Now I m gonna have to go back and try all this stuff again

is a nice dude, and writes great folk music...

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