First Annual Monaco Top Ten Award Ceremony
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1. Grizzly Bear Yellow House MP3 | On a Neck, On a Spit |
| Recipients of the Monaco Award for Best Overall Album of 2006. Writer: Rainer Maria Rilke |
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2. TV On The Radio Return To Cookie Mountain MP3 | Myspace |
| Recipients of the Monaco Award for Most Experimental Record Most Likely To Get Radio Play and the Monaco Award for Best Album with a David Bowie Appearance. Writer: Kurt Vonnegut |
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3. Junior Boys So This Is Goodbye MP3 | Myspace |
| Recipients of The Monaco Award for getting James to like an electronic band that isn’t Depeche Mode or Kraftwerk…okay so they’re a lot like both, that’s never a bad thing. Writer: George Orwell |
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4. Liars Drum’s Not Dead Video | A Visit from Drum (By Your Side) |
| Recipients of the Monaco Award for Best Album for Traveling Through Urban Decay in the Cold. Writer: Franz Kafka |
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5. Joanna Newsom Ys Stream | NPR Story |
| Recipient of the Monaco Award for Freakiest Voice on the Most Beautiful Album. Writer: Virginia Woolf |
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6. Danielson Ships MP3 | Did I Step On Your Trumpet? |
| Recipient of the Monaco Award for Most Likely to Hijack a Sailboat and Float About The Seven Seas Pretending to Be Friendly Pirates. Writer: Shel Silverstein |
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7. Swan Lake Beast Moans MP3 | All Fires |
| Recipient of the Monaco Award for Best Supergroup of 2006 (as Broken Social Scene didn’t release anything this year). Writer: Hunter S. Thompson Label: Jagjaguwar |
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8. Destroyer Destroyer’s Rubies MP3 | European Oils |
| Monaco Award for Most Accessible Elitist Album of 2006. Writer: F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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9. Xiu Xiu The Air Force MP3 | Myspace |
| Recipient of the Monaco Award for Most Adept at Jumping from Dancey Electro-Pop to Creepy/Disturbing Melancholy Noise Pop. Writer: Stephen Jesse Bernstein. |
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10. mewithoutYou Brother, Sister MP3 | Myspace |
| Recipients of the Monaco Award for Best Lyrics and the Monaco Award for the Only Arguably (loosely) Heavy Band On This List. Writer: C.S. Lewis |
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Disqualified But Incredibly Deserving: Tortoise A Lazarus Taxon MP3 | Preview Album |
| Disqualified as it’s a rarities collection and not an album, but if it were an album I would have made it number 3. Three cds and a dvd for 20 bucks? Monaco Award for Best Deal of the Year. |
Honorable Mentions: Final Fantasy, J Dilla, Yo La tengo, Owen, Astronautalis, Band of Horses, Gnarls Barkley, Thom Yorke, Clipse Mogwai, Beirut, Sonic Youth, Bonnie “Prince” Billy.
December 26th, 2006 at 9:45 pm
The writer thing was that I put a writer I associated with the band. I know, it’s lame, but I couldn’t think of a better schtick.
December 28th, 2006 at 10:38 am
not bad besides number 10 james.
December 28th, 2006 at 4:54 pm
gerber! i haven’t seen you in ages. I want to see you.
December 29th, 2006 at 12:20 am
You just have to keep rubbing it in that you’re smarter than me. Well, I’m going to pair each album in my top 10 to a different drug, I will then take said drug and listen to the album and write what I feel.
…… Night One: Boris w/ Michio Kurihara and acid.
peace.
December 31st, 2006 at 2:44 pm
hsd - where do you buy your acid?
james - yes, you are lame.
December 31st, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Texas.