Critics' Week 2006: Your Choices
A week of critical picks and pans from Soundcheck
Thursday, December 21, 2006
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Critics Week
Every year, Soundcheck presents "Critics Week," a series highlighting the best and worst of music of the year. Host John Schaefer is joined by music critics to discuss the year’s best- and worst- albums in pop, hip-hop, classical, opera, rock, jazz, world and Latin.
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“ ANDREA BOCELLI..AMORE...EXCEPT FOR THE WARBLING FROM CHRISTINE AGUILERA, THE ALBUM IS JUST BEATIFUL. HIS VOICE SOARS....— Clara Galvano
See what fellow listeners enjoyed the most in 2006.
Your Choices: Most-Nominated Albums of 2006
1. Andrea Bocelli - Amore Under the Desert Sky - Pagliacci
2. Ben + Vesper - More Questions (Sounds Familarye)
3. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
4. Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope;
Other favorites:
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife;
My Chemical Romance – The Black Parade;
Teddy Thompson- Separate Ways ;
Mark Knopfler and Emmy Lou Harris – All Roads Running ;
Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome ;
Steven Mercurio – Many Voices ;
James Hunter – People Gonna Talk (2 votes)
(Results are un-scientific and based on listener responses to our questionnaire)
Name: siena
Neighborhood: east village
Favorite Albums of 2006: RADIO DEPT. - PET GRIEF is amazing. Hands down my favorite. I also liked: joanna newsome - Ys; tv on the radio - return to cookie mountain greg laswell -
Name: Jeff Douglas
Neighborhood: Sheepshead Bay
Favorite Albums of 2006: "Pretty Little Stranger" Joan Osborne "People Gonna Talk" James Hunter "Begin To Hope" Regina Spektor
Name: Erika
Neighborhood: Park Slope, Brooklyn
Your Favorite Albums of 2006: Teddy Thompson's Separate Ways Belle & Sebastian's The Life Pursuit Chris Kasper's Flyboy
Name: Ira Dunkel
Neighborhood: Upper East Side
Favorite Albums of 2006: Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope
Name: Stanton Green
Neighborhood: West Long Branch, NJ
Favorite Albums of 2006: Dylan, Modern Times PF Sloan, Retrospective The Decembrists
Name: Jody Price
Neighborhood: Long Valley, NJ
Favorite Albums of 2006: Yell Fire - Michael Franti and Spearhead Riverside Battle Songs - Ollabelle
Name: aaron sedivy
Neighborhood: sunset park
Favorite Albums of 2006: Nightmares on Wax: In A Space, Outta Sound; Joan Of Arc: Eventually All At Once; Evan Parker: Time Lapse; Brightblack Morning Light: s/t; Wilderness: Vessel States
Name: Daniel Caputi
Neighborhood: Long Island
Favorite Albums of 2006: Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris: All the Roadrunning. Paul Simon: Surprise. The Cardigans: Super Extra Gravity
Name: Richard Duffy
Neighborhood: Westchester
Favorite Albums of 2006: All the Road Running, Mark Knopfler and Emmy Lou Harris Bring it on Home, Aaron Neville
in shows/soundcheck/everybody_2006.html Name: cheryl
Neighborhood: manhattan valley
Favorite Albums of 2006: Gob Iron, Death Songs for the Living
Name: Lanny Fields
Neighborhood: Richmond, VA
Favorite Albums of 2006: Decemberists - The Crane Wife My Morning Jacket - Okonokos Chatham County Line - Speed of the Whipporwill Two Gallants - For Whom the Bell Tolls Foghorn Stringband - Weiser Sunrise Scott Amendola Band - Believe Old Crow Medicine Show - Big Iron World John Carty - I Will If I Can
Name: Eric Winick
Neighborhood: Prospect Heights
Favorite Albums of 2006: Teddy Thompson, SEPARATE WAYS; Mindy Smith, LONG ISLAND SHORES; Robert Pollard, FROM A COMPOUND EYE
Name: jorge arollyo
Neighborhood: LES
Favorite Albums of 2006: wonder wheel - klezmatics
Name: Dirk Digler
Neighborhood: Joisey
Favorite Albums of 2006: Any porn soundtrack will do.
Name: CLARA GALVANO
Neighborhood: WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
ANDREA BOCELLI..AMORE...EXCEPT FOR THE WARBLING FROM CHRISTINE AGUILERA, THE ALBUM IS JUST BEATIFUL. HIS VOICE SOARS....
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