Top 10 albums of 2006

[mellowfellow]

2006 is almost over. Here is my top 10 albums that i enjoy listening to the most. Most of them are indie pop, electronic and top 40 hits. What are yours?

01 The radio dept: Pet grief

02 Junior boys: so this is goodbye

03 Nouvelle Vague: bande de part

04 Hot chip: The Warning

05 Mew: and the glass handed kites

06 Pornopop: and the slow songs..

07 Jarvis: Jarvis cocker

08 Koop: Island blues

09 EPs: Professor murder + Voxtrot + Maps

10 Air: Late night finals

Top 40 hits singles

01 Ciara: Promise/Get up

02 Nelly Furtado: Promiscuous Girl/Say it right/Man Eater

03 Justin timberlake: Sexyback

04 Akon: Smack that/I wanna Luv U/Ghetto Story with cham

05 Clipse: Trill/Mr Me too

06 Lil John: Snap ya fingers

07 Busta Rhymes: Touch it

08 Young Yuc: Going down

09 Ludacris: Money maker/Girls gone wild

10 Cassie: Me and you

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[ahk1979]

hey Pet Grief and So this is Goodbye are my 1 and 2 albums of the year as well!! thats nuts!

3. Legends- Facts and Figures

4. Loveninjas- Secrets of the Loveninjas

5. Loveninjas- I wanna be like Johny C EP

6. Marry Onettes- Lost EP

7. Cats on Fire- Pull in the Reins EP

8. Camera Obscura- Lets get out of this Country

9. Sambassaduer- Costal Affairs EP

10. Le Sport- Euro Deluxe Dance Party

[Carl]

i was bad about music this year...i dont even know why either.

I cant even make a top 10 so ill just list the ones i enjoyed.

Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass

Pernice Brothers - Live A Little

Built To Spill - You In Reverse

Justin Timberlake - Justified

Neko Case - Foxconfessor Brings The Flood

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

i cant even do 10...how lame...i didnt search at all for new music this year

[youngluc]

in no particular order, but albums i definitely enjoyed a lot

deftones - saturday night wrist

the hope conspiracy - death knows your name

converge - no heroes

shook ones - facetious folly feat

crime in stereo - the troubled stateside

pale horse - amongst the flock

some girls - heavens pregnant teens

theres more but thats what came to my mind first

[swisloc]

a lot of those already listed would make up my list, but here's a few more i really liked.

Jens Lekman, "Oh You're So Silent, Jens" (but maybe that was really late last year, can't remeber...

The Hold Steady, "Boys and Girls in America"

Grizzly Bear, "Yellow House"

Islands, "Return to the Sea"

Ghostface, "Fishscale"

but i really can't stop listening to the Junior Boys album... it's so good for so many situations...i really like the Clipse album, too. "Trill" is excellent, and so is "New World"

[beefcake]

uhm...

tingsek - world of its own

sikth - death of a dead day

salem al fakir, hasn't released a full album yet but will in feb. - ep and singles kicking my ass so i list it.

the bronx - the bronx (II)

cant think of any more...

[ianpalermo]

1. Cursive "Happy Hollow"

2. Tilly and the Wall “Bottoms of Barrelsâ€

3. These Arms are Snakes "Easter"

4. The Loved Ones “Keep Your Heartâ€

5. Blood Brothers “Young Machetesâ€

6. The Hold Steady “Boys and Girls in Americaâ€

7. Hot Snakes “Thunder Down Underâ€

8. Ghostface Killah “Fishscaleâ€

9 Eagles of Death Metal “Death by Sexyâ€

What I still need to hear

Form of Rocket “Menâ€

Sonic Youth “Rather Rippedâ€

Don Cab. “Whatever the new one is titledâ€

[mwrenchd]

Already did this on another forum --

Here are my top 15 2006 releases based on # of listens & the fact that I purchased all but 2, in alphabetical order:

Akron/Family - Meek Warrior

Boris - Pink

Comets on Fire - Avatar

Detachment Kit - +

Giddy Motors - Do Easy

Indian Jewelry - Invasive Exotics

Jamie Saft - Trouble

John Zorn / Mark Feldman / Sylvie Courvoisier - Maplhas: Book of Angels, vol. 3

O'Death - Head Home

Raccoo-oo-oon - Is Night People

Scott Walker - The Drift

Sun O))) & Boris - Altar

Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet

William Elliott Whitmore - Song of the Blackbird

Witch - Witch

Honorable Mentions:

The Coughs - Secret Passage

John Zorn / Uri Caine - Moloch: Book of Angels, vol. 6

Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

There are probably 10 or so more that are worthy of mention but this list is already too long. It's been a good year.

[Kwing]

Razorlight - Razorlight

The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out

Babyshambles - The Blinding EP

Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo To Anywhere

Beck - The Information

The Rakes - Capture/Release

Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah

Hot Chip - The Warning

Jay-Z - Kingdom Come

Guillemots - Through The Windowpane

[cultpop 0217]

i did very little in the way of searching out new stuff this year. basically i just listened to whatever landed in my lap or my friends had around

liars-drums not dead

the horrors-sheena is a parasite ep

islands-return to the sea

css-tired of being sexy

mstrkrft-the looks

yeah yeah yeahs-show your bones

thom yorke- the eraser

lightning bolt-hypermagic mountain

ladytron-witching hour

byop-byop

wolf eyes-human animal (thanks tg)

[youngluc]

the bronx - the bronx (II)

add that to mine as well

[Carl]

Jens Lekman, "Oh You're So Silent, Jens" (but maybe that was really late last year, can't remeber...

Yeah, that was last year...but still, a fucking amazing album.

[swisloc]

Yeah, that was last year...but still, a fucking amazing album.

any idea when his next one is coming out? i feel like pitchfork posted a few months back that it was set to be released early 2007...

he's like a quirkier (if possible) scandanavian version of stephen merrit...

[polishmike]

in no particular order

Kompakt Total 7

SCSI-9 - The Line of Nine

Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra Of Bubbles

Betty Botox - Betty Botox Presents G4 Faggot

Max Richter - Songs From Before

Hot Chip - The Warning

Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye

Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer

Klimek - Music To Fall Asleep

Kaito - Hundred Million Love Years

[simsays]

In no order whatsoever...

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

The Futureheads - News & Tributes

Emily Haines - Knives Don't Have Your Back

Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo To Anywhere

The Stills - Without Feathers

The Grates - Gravity Won't Get You High

Ghostface - Fishscale

Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat

Dresden Dolls - Yes Virginia

Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

Not really 10 and not really from 2006..

Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites

The Cardigans - Super Extra Gravity

..but I listened to these probably more than anything else on my list and they did come out in North America in 2006.

[pugsfly]

At War With the Mystics by Flaming Lips

The Warning by Hot Chip

Show Your Bones by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

First Impressions Of Earth by The Strokes

Mr. Beast by Mogwai

Love Travels at Illegal Speeds by Graham Coxon

Wolfmother by Wolfmother

Magnificent City by Aceyalone with RJD2

Worm by Leslie Low (Singapore!)

Viceversa by Funkstorung (Not really 2006, but I just discovered this...)

[cultpop 0217]

In no order whatsoever...

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

Dresden Dolls - Yes Virginia

The Cardigans - Super Extra Gravity

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First Impressions Of Earth by The Strokes

Mr. Beast by Mogwai

Wolfmother by Wolfmother

cosign.....

[merzbot]

merzbow - houjoe box

keith rowe & toshimaru nakamura - between

aaron dilloway - asset stripping lp

government alpha - blast furnace

religious knives - s/t lp

incapacitants & sewer election - split lp

wolf eyes - human animal

the skaters & axolotl - split lp

ashtray navigations - strawberries and ice

afternoon penis - in the evening cs

incapacitants - Pariah Tapes box

choking in shit and decadence

[Sauce]

Pete Philly and Perquisite- Mind.state

[chrishilton]

ferry corsten: loud electronic ferocious.

the best.

[RedHeadedStranger]

Bob Dylan-Modern Times

Neko Case-Fox Confessor Brings The Flood

Tom Waits-Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards

The Wailin Jennys-Firecracker

Decemberists-The Crane Wife

[a_slew_of_mice]

Rough draft... It's a near coinflip for first. I think Justice might be too high for just a three song EP; but I'll be damned if I didn't listen to them 100 times a day.

1. Tanakh - Ardent Fevers

2. MSTRKRFT - The Looks

3. Max Richter - Songs From Before

4. Justice - Waters Of Nazereth

5. The Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again

6. Owen - At Home With

7. Besnyo - Look Alive

8. Aim - Flight 602

9. Para One - Epiphanie

10. Hypnolove - Eurolove

11. Jedi Mind Tricks - Servants In Heaven, Kings In Hell

12. Alden Tyrell - Times Like These

13. Mastodon - Blood Mountain

14. The Black Heart Procession - The Spell

15. Crime in Choir - Trumpery Meiter

16. The Human Abstract - Nocturne

17. Damien Rice - 9

18. Helms - Secret Doors

19. Citay - Citay

20. Tiga - Sexor

[sean_]

i thought jens went crazy and quit recording or something a while ago?

anyways no order

clipse - hell hath no fury

blood brothers - young machetes

hawksley workman - treeful of starling

i honestly dont know anything else i really liked that came out this year

maybe ill think harder later

[jo3 b]

i'd like to add john legend's once again to the list. but thats just me.

[shoreman1782]

Did this on sF. My standard mid-20s rockist list:

1. Hold Steady -- Boys and Girls in America. I loved Separation Sunday when it came out, and this drops some of the forced-theme of that one, which maybe tried too hard. Best song: Massive Nights.

2. Mountain Goats -- Baylon Springs (e.p.). Their album this year was kind of a downer, but this e.p. makes the list on the strength of "Alibi."

3. Thermals -- The Body, the Blood, the Machine. Rockin! Political! But not immature! Some of it is kind of same-y, but you could call that coherence!

4. Hot Chip -- The Warning. Though I admit I really didn't get it until I saw them live. Which means it's probably not a great album.

5. Man Man -- Six Demon Bag. Crazy good. As in crazy, and good.

Here's where I start betraying my objectivity with albums I wanted to like (and did! and did!)

6. Phoenix -- It's Never Been Like That. Not as good as I'd hoped, but still better than a lot of crap.

7. The Lemonheads -- The Lemonheads. Seriously. It's good. The band behind Dando is the guys from the Descendents, and J Mascis shreds on a few tracks. Liking it makes me feel old, not only because Evan Dando is old, but this really is an adult album alternative kind of album, and I'm sad that it appeals to me.

Hon mentions. Haven't really had a chance to sink my teeth into Tom Waits new one. Only recently, after listening to the Lon Gisland thing, did I start to get Beirut (only six months late on teh coolness!). I think the Long Winters album, Putting the Days to Bed, was really underrated. I thought the Rapture album was great. I really like the Elvis Perkins album I have, but I'm not sure when it came out/comes out. I have a soft spot for any Guster/Twilight Singers/Radiohead-related/ album. MMJ's Okonokos is pretty fricking amazing, but it's a live album. The reissue of Wowee Zowee is awesome, but similarly disqualified. I'm sure I've forgotten something.

Disappointments: Raconteurs (I like everything Brendan Benson and Jack White have done separately more than this). Pernice Brothers (meh). Tapes n' Tapes (everyone told me this was awesome). Decemberists (just wasn't in the mood). Beck (same). TVOTR (liked this a lot when it came out. Very fresh. But I haven't listened to it much lately). Rhett Miller (too treacly). No hip hop really grabbed me this year. Sorry. (I'll revise this last part--was lent the "white-guy-approved" hip hop discs of the year, Ghost and the Clipse, and they're both really strong, all the way through.)

[asuzano]

in no particular order...

1. liars - drums not dead

2. justice - waters of nazareth

3. girl talk - night ripper

4. the klaxons - xan valleys

5. soulwax - nite versions (maybe late 2005?)

6. akron family - meek warrior

7. thom yorke - the eraser

8. babyshambles - the blinding

9. mstrkrft - the looks

10. boys noize releases

[machineo]

not a full list, just shooting off the top of my head:

thom yorke- eraser

killers- sam's town

muse- black holes & revelations

strokes- first impressions of earth

arctic monkeys- whatever people

cat power- the greatest

realized i dont even get that many albums a year. totally forgot the flaming lips had a new one though.

[sean_]

i really and honestly forgot about return to cookie mountain, what a fucking great album

i think i like this 'be your own pet' band too

[mike lowrey]

The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth

Hot Chip - The Warning

Beck - The Information

Jay-Z - Kingdom Come

The Killers - Sams Town

The Zutons - Tired of hangin around

The Kooks - Inside In / Inside Out

Ghostface - More Fish

Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor

The Roots - Game Theory

[dystaind]

god, i seriously can't rank these things:

T.I. - King

MSTRKRFT - The Looks

Joanna Newsom - Ys

Trae - Restless

The Melvins - (a) Senile Animal

The Hope Conspiracy - Death Knows Your Name

Mouth of the Architect - The Ties That Bind

Girl Talk - Night Ripper

Wolves in the Throne Room - Diadem of 12 Stars

Rise and Fall - Into Oblivion