Top 6's of 06
Best Album
1. Thursday - A City By The Light Divided
2. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
3. Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
4. Matisyahu - Youth
5. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
6. Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness
Honorable Mentions(in no order): A Static Lullaby, Cursive, The Killers, Saves The Day, Alexisonfire, New London Fire, Silversun Pickups, +44, Copeland, Bad Astronaut, Murder By Death, Anti-Flag, Fear Before The March Of Flames, Red Hot Chili Peppers
Best Song
1. Thursday - Autumn Leaves Revisited
2. My Chemical Romance - Famous Last Words
3. Brand New - You Won't Know
4. Alexisonfire - Rough Hands
5. The Killers - Why Do I Keep Counting?
6. Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
Best Song To Dance Like An Idiot To
1. Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
2. Matisyahu - Jerusalem (Out Of Darkness Comes Light)
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - (the majority of the cd)
4. The Killers - Bling
5. Brand New - Not The Sun
6. Reel Big Fish - So Much For Rock n’ Roll
Best Movie
1. The Departed
2. Lucky Number Slevin
3. Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
4. Borat: Cultural Learnings For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
5. Clerks 2
6. Crank
Game
1. The Legend Of Zelda : Twilight Princess
2. Hitman: Blood Money
3. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
4. Battlefield 2142
5. Half-Life 2: Episode One
6. Splinter Cell: Double Agent
TV:
1. 24
2. Prison Break
3. Heroes
4. Aqua Teen Hunger Force
5. Family Guy
6. South Park
Disappointments:
1. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
2. The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
3. Head Automatica - Popaganda (first few tracks are great, goes to shit after that)
4. Snakes On A Plane (it wasn’t bad enough)
5. Andrew W.K. - Close Calls With Brick Walls (not enough songs about partying)
6. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth (dull. Where did the funk go? WHERE DID IT GO!)
Best line (from any source of entertainment, including real people)
1. “I have had it with these MUTHA FUCKIN’ SNAKES, ON THIS MUTHA FUCKIN PLANE!!!!!” - Samuel L. Jackson
2. “You are going to tell me what I wanna know, it’s just a matter of how much you want it to hurt. “ - Jack Bauer
3. . “Hello beasty.” - Jack Sparrow
4. “ Oh WELL as long as you’re okay to coming home to find me tea-bagging the garbage disposal, then sure I’ll carry a cell phone.” - Cassandra “Roast Beef” Kazenzakis
5. *pulls up to a line of people outside of Radioshack on Black Friday and rolls his window down* “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” - Kevin Schiller
6. “Hey Frylock, what’s a handjob? Cuz I’m bout to get ooone! - Meatwad
Achewood of the year:
http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05222006 The Greatest Object Of All Time
Reel Big Fish - Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album CD/DVD set