Jim Morgan, host of Colored Mind Drops (Friday Midnight-3am)

Colored Mind Drops: Favorites of 2006

Here's my favorite releases of the year as of 1/1/07, including reissues I haven't featured on the show before as well as mixes and compilations. I included some releases from 2005 and even earlier because I didn't buy them until 2006, so what the heck.

1.   The Cure, Pornography (re-issue with rarities CD, Atlantic)
2.   Choubi Choubi! Folk and Pop Sounds from Iraq (Sublime Frequencies)
3.   Coyle and Sharpe, These Two Men are Imposters (Sharpeworld)
4.   Bedemon, Child of Darkness (Black Widow)
5.   Aaron LaCrate, Science Faction: B'More Gutter Music (Breakbeat Science)
6.   Jason Creep (a.k.a. "Super Creep"), 1 to 6: The First 6 Unreleased Albums
   (Human Ear Music)
7.   Selda, Selda (Finders Keepers)
8.   Todd Tamanend Clark, Nova Psychedelia (Anopheles)
9.   Lubomyr Melnyk, Wave-Lox (Bandura)
10.   Olivier Dumas, Rutting Red Deers (Sittelle)
11.   The Happy Dragon-Band, The Happy Dragon-Band (Radioactive)
12.   Screamers, In a Better World (Extravertigo)
13.   This Heat, Out of Cold Storage (ReR)
14.   Tom Moulton, A Tom Moulton Mix (Soul Jazz)
15.   Sunn O))), Black One (Southern Lord)
16.   Hot Snakes, Thunder Down Under (Swami)
17.   16-17, Early Recordings (Savage Land)
18.   James Blackshaw, O True Believers (Important)
19.   Katharsis, VVorld VVithout End (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
20.   Moolah, Woe Ye Demons Possessed (Em)   

Notable Printed Matter: Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day: Two dark conjugates, "of some daylit fiction they had flown here" to reveal "the smell and uproar of flesh learning its mortality..." Yikes. Well, what can I say, with war and Greenland melting and whatnot it was a scary year. Try to eat some good food and get plenty of sleep and sunshine, that's my take on it.

2007 will hopefully be the year I buy a robot!

~Jim Morgan