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DEF LEPPARD
Latest release: "Yeah!" (Mercury)
JOE ELLIOTT
Lead singer
1. My Chemical Romance, "The Black Parade" (Reprise).
2. The Killers, "Sam's Town" (Island).
3. Sparks, "Hello Young Lovers" (In the Red).
4. Scissor Sisters, "Ta-Dah!" (Universal).
5. Elton John, "The Captain and the Kid" (Rocket/Interscope).
6. Tom Waits, "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards" (Anti-).
7. Ray Charles + the Count Basie Orchestra, "Ray Sings Basie Swings"
(Hear/Concord).
8. Arctic Monkeys, "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" (Domino).
9. Buckcherry, "15" (Atlantic).
10. Find of the year: Focus doing "Hocus Pocus" on YouTube.com from "The Gladys Knight Show" in 1973. Van Leer is a genius!
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PHIL COLLEN
Guitarist
1. Gnarls Barkley, "St. Elsewhere" (Downtown/Atlantic).
2. The Raconteurs, "Broken Boy Soldiers" (Third Man/V2).
3. Justin Timberlake, "FutureSex/LoveSounds" (Jive).
4. OK Go, "Million Ways Pt. 2" (Capitol).
5. Madonna, "I'm Going To Tell You a Secret" (Warner Bros.).
6. AFI, "Decemberunderground" (Interscope).
7. She Wants Revenge, "She Wants Revenge" (Geffen).
8. Morningwood, "Morningwood" (Capitol).
9. Fergie, "The Dutchess" (A&M).
10. Def Leppard, "Yeah!" (Mercury).
ROBERT POLLARD
Latest release: "Normal Happiness" (Merge).
I like this band the High Strung. Their last album was called "Moxy Bravo."
I just listened to the new Albert Hammond Jr. album ("Yours To Keep"), which I think is really good. I've been buying a lot of jazz. I found an album by this band Bulldog Breed from the '60s which is pretty kickass. You start running out of CDs. Is there anything left? Every time I come to New York, I go to Other Music. They always have the coolest records on the wall, but after I leave, they don't have the coolest records on the wall anymore. I clean them out every time. Last time, I bought three albums by this post-punk band called Five Or Six. It looks cool as hell, but it's not. I wasted like $90 on those. It looks cool, though. I'll keep them.
JOSH TURNER
Latest release: "Your Man" (MCA Nashville)
1. Waylon Jennings, "Nashville Rebel" (RCA).
2. Ralph Stanley, "A Distant Land To Roam: Songs of the Carter Family"
(DMZ/Columbia).
3. Johnny Cash, "American V: A Hundred Highways" (American Recordings/Lost Highway).
4. Bob Dylan, "Modern Times" (Columbia).
5. Anthony Hamilton, "Ain't Nobody Worryin'" (So So Def/Jive). It was a 2005 release, but in December, so I have to include it!
JOEY BURNS
Calexico vocalist/guitarist
Latest release: "Garden Ruin" (Quarterstick).
1. Bejy Ferree, "Leaving rhe Nest" (Domino).
2. Califone, "Roots and Crowns" (Thrill Jockey).
3. Vinicio Capossela, "Ovunque Proteggi" (Atlantic Italy).
4. A Hawk And A Hacksaw, "The Way the Wind blows" (The Leaf Label).
5. Euros Childs, "Chops" (Wichita).
6. Dominique A, "L'Horizon" (Olympic Discy).
7. Lambchop, "Damaged" (Merge).
8. Beirut, "Gulag Orkestar" (Ba Da Bing).
9. Charlotte Gainsbourg, "5:55" (Because).
10. Annuals, "Be He Me" (Ace Fu).
THE BAD PLUS
Latest release: "Suspicious Activity" (Columbia)
1. Keith Jarrett, "The Carnegie Hall Concert" (ECM).
2. Mark Andre-Hamelin/Andrew Litton/Dallas Symphony Orchestra, "Brahms:
Piano Concerto No. 2; Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119" (Hyperion).
3. Thom Yorke, "The Eraser (XL).
4. Zebulon Pike II, "The Deafening Twilight" (Unfortunate Music).
5. Ornette Coleman, "Sound Grammar" (Sound Grammar).
AUSTIN WINKLER
Hinder vocalist
In no particular order:
The Killers, "Hot Fuss" (Island).
Jet, "Get Born" (Elektra).
Snow Patrol, "Final Straw" (Interscope).
The Sounds, "Living in America" (New Line).
PATTERSON HOOD
Drive-By Truckers vocalist/guitarist
Latest release: "A Blessing and a Curse" (New West)
1. (tie) Bob Dylan, "Modern Times" (Columbia) and Neko Case, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" (Anti-).
2. Centro-Matic, "Fort Recovery" (Misra).
3. Glossary, "For What I Don't Become" (Undertow Music).
4. Will Kimbrough, "Americanitis" (Daphne).
5. Gnarls Barkley, "St. Elsewhere" (Downtown/Atlantic).
6. Solomon Burke, "Nashville" (Shout! Factory).
7. M. Ward, "Post War" (Merge).
8. Los Lobos, "The Town and the City" (Hollywood).
9. Thom Yorke, "The Eraser" (XL).
10. Sonic Youth, "Rather Ripped" (Geffen).
11. Alejandro Escovedo, "The Boxing Mirror" (Back Porch).
Best reissue or box: "Rockin' Bones" (Rhino). A compilation of 1950s punk and rockabilly.
Best movie: "Little Children" (directed by Todd Field). My favorite movie so far this century.
Best show: Tom Waits at the Tabernacle in Atlanta).
TRAVIS MORRISON
Upcoming release: "All Y'All" (Barsuk, 2007)
1. Erase Errata, "Nightlife" (Kill Rock Stars).
2. Fiery Furnaces, "Bitter Tea" (Fat Possum)
3. Justin Timberlake, "FutureSex/LoveSounds" (Jive).
4. Cex, "Actual F*cking" (Automation).
5. Lady Sovereign, "Public Warning" (Def Jam).
6. Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane, "At Carnegie Hall" (Blue Note/Thelonious Records).
7. Bob Dylan, "Modern Times" (Columbia).
8. Beyonce, "B'Day" (Columbia/Sony Urban).
UNCLE KRACKER
Upcoming release: "Happy Hour" (Atlantic, 2007)
In no particular order:
The Game, "Doctor's Advocate" (Geffen).
Gnarls Barkley, "St. Elsewhere" (Downtown/Atlantic).
Johnny Cash, "American V: A Hundred Highways" (American Recordings/Lost Highway).
Kid Rock, "Live Trucker" (Top Dog/Atlantic).
Tom Petty, "Highway Companion" (American Recordings/Warner Bros.).
Hinder, "Extreme Behavior" (Universal).
SONDRE LERCHE
Upcoming release: "Phantom Punch" (Astralwerks, March 20, 2007)
1. House Of Hiss, "Greatest Hiss" (New Records).
2. Loose Fur, "Born Again in the U.S.A." (Drag City).
3. Phoenix, "It's Never Been Like That" (Astralwerks).
4. Elvis Costello, "My Flame Burns Blue" (Deutsche Grammophon).
5. Neko Case, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" (Anti-).
6. Helen Eriksen, "Small Hall Classics" (New Records).
7. Donald Fagen, "Morph the Cat" (Reprise).
8. Robert Norman, "The Definitive Collection Vol. 5" (Normann Records).
9. M. Ward, "Post War" (Merge).
10. (tie) Thom Yorke, "The Eraser" (XL) and the Strokes, "First Impressions of Earth" (RCA).
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Jay-Z, Beck, Carrie Underwood, Josh Groban, members of Def Leppard and more share their faves of 2006.
The personal picks of the year's best from the Billboard staff and our worldwide freelance contributors.
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