Billy Jam's Top 10 of 2006

Billy Jam hosts Put The Needle on The Record every Friday afternoon at 3pm.  Here's his faves for 2006:

(all listen links are streaming realaudio from the WFMU archives)

1) "Best of the Bay" mixed by DJ Eleven (Wax Poetics)
2)  "My Sound Station" Teeko (4OneFunk) (hear it here | here | and here )
3) "Rip It Up And Start Again: Post Punk 1978-1984"  Simon Reynolds
(Penguin Books)
4) "Donuts" J-Dilla (Stones Throw) (hear it here | here | and here )
5) "Infamy: A Graffiti Film" by Doug Pray (Image Entertainment/DVD)
6)  "Burning New York" James T. and Karla L. Murray (Gingko Press)
7) "Pick A Bigger Weapon" The Coup (Epitaph) (hear it here )
8)  Chief Rocker Busy Bee, Jazzy Jay, Mix Master Ice, & Lord Finese in concert: Crotona Park, Bronx, NY, July 13 2006
9) "City Of Men - the complete series" 3-DVD set (PALM)
10) "Skateboards 2 Scrapers" The Pack (Up All Nite/Jive)

Check all the other Top Lists right here.

Comments

[Vic Perry]

I just sped-read the Reynolds book from my local library this weekend. I have never seen a rock crit book that was so dedicated to reproducing the mindset of a particular era (and what a particular era it was) and having lived thorough the time as a total nonentity, I'm amazed at how accurate this picture of that neurotic yet creative period was. How astoundingly worried about being correct so many of us were (even crazy Flipper expressed their aspirations in terms of avoidance of traps)! Yet surely there's a benefit to thinking you're making the future, not that I can remember what that would be at this point.