Best Albums of 2006

[Vas Deferens]

Cat Power - The Greatest
 Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
 Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of this Country
 Hot Chip - The Warning
 Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
 The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
 Pernice Brothers - Live a Little
 Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
 Neko Case - Fox Confessor...
 Herbert - Scale
 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
 Shearwater - Palo Santo
 Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
 
 Discovered in 06 but released in 05:
 
 Jamie Lidell - Multiply

[terry]

Mission of Burma - The Obliterati

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Too early for this category

[ggw]

I bet Joe M. bought his Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.

[nkotb]

I got mine on Thanksgiving Day.  Thank Santa for in-laws who have Christmas-tree-farm-owning parents.
 
 

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
  I bet Joe M. bought his Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving.

[vansmack]

I thought we alrady had  this thread?

[ggw]

I'm bagging the "Top XX of 2006" format and going for the vintage Robert Christgau "report card" style.
 
 This isn't everything I've gotten in 2006, but it is everything that I've listened to multiple times and feel is worthy of mention.
 
 A
 Black Angels
 Comets on Fire
 The Thermals
 Yo La Tengo
 
 B+
 Arctic Monkeys
 Beirut
 Black Keys â?? Chulahoma
 Clearlake
 Clinic
 The Hold Steady
 Silversun Pickups
 The Sword
 Tokyo Police Club
 TV on the Radio
 Voxtrot
 
 B
 Band of Horses
 Brakes
 Built to Spill
 Calexico
 Bob Dylan
 The Elected
 Essex Green
 Figurines
 Film School
 Love is All
 M. Ward
 Neko Case
 Neil Young â?? Living with War
 Oxford Collapse
 Secret Machines
 
 C+
 Belle & Sebastian
 Camera Obscura
 Decemberists
 Destroyer
 Mission of Burma
 The Sounds
 
 C
 Black Keys â?? Magic Potion
 Drive-By Truckers
 Human Television

[helicon1]

No paticular Order
 
 1. Juana Molina - Son
 2. David Gilmour - On an Island
 3. Imogen Heap - Speak for Yourself
 4. Ned Collette - Jokes and Trials
 5. Tool - 10,000 Days
 6. Mono - You are There
 7. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
 8. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
 9. The Knife - Silent Shout
 10. The Beatles - Love
 11. Mogwai - Zidane (A 20th Century Portrait)
 12. The Album Leaf - Into the Blue Again
 13. Wolfmother - Self Titled
 14. Dead Heart Bloom - Self Titled
 15. Cedars - Another Season EP

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by Glass Arm Shattering:
   
 10. The Beatles - Love
 

i'm officially on the 5.1 bandwagon after hearing the mix for this disc.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

My god, how many different ways can they rehash the Beatles?

[Jaguar]

It certainly beats another wank-ass McCartney release.

[kosmo vinyl]

Thanks GGW, you've just made it easier to compile my  list.  No one or two records stood out as a clear favorites and grading them makes it easier to organize the years releases.  
 
 I'm still hearing great stuff from the year like El Goodo, Sam Roberts Band, and The Bellrays.  
 
 I'd have to agree with the C+ given to Camera Obscura, fantastic single but the full length is lacking...

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by They call me Doctor Doom.:
  My god, how many different ways can they rehash the Beatles?

Have you heard it?  It's terrific.

[chaz]

Originally posted by SalParadise:
   

Originally posted by Glass Arm Shattering:
   
 10. The Beatles - Love
 

i'm officially on the 5.1 bandwagon after hearing the mix for this disc. [/b]

I'll have to check this out maybe....everytime I give multi-channel music a go I always go back to good old stereo for music.  Nothing like a good left and right speaker.
 
 I've also heard that the approach taken on this disk is pretty interesting...in the way that the tracks are sequenced ans segue into one another.
 
 Aside from the good 5.1 mix do you think it's worth a listen?  The beatles are a hard group to boil down to 20-odd tracks.

[Relaxer]

I like GGW's approach, as it's more revealing about what you think of each record. But I also like the spirit of competition, and that's how I've been thinking of my list. So here it is in order.
 
 Best.
 1. Howling Bells â?? S/T
 2. The Sword â?? Age of Winters
 3. Cat Power â?? The Greatest
 4. Priestess â?? Hello Master
 5. Heartless Bastards â?? All This Time
 6. Secret Machines â?? 10 Silver Drops
 7. Comets on Fire â?? Avatar
 8. TV on the Radio â?? Cookie Mountain
 9. Arctic Monkeys â?? Whatever People Say
 10. Radio Department â?? Pet Grief
 
 11. Slayer â?? Christ Illusion
 12. The Beatles â?? Love
 13. The Knife â?? Silent Shout
 14. Sleepy Jackson â?? Personalityâ?¦
 15. Middle Distance Runner â?? Plane in Flames
 16. Essex Green â?? Cannibal Sea
 17. Phoenix â?? Itâ??s Never Been Like That
 18. Radio 4 â?? Enemies Like This
 19. Belle & Sebastian â?? Life Pursuit
 20. Margot & the Nuclear So Sos â?? Dust of Retreat
 
 Disappointments:
 Muse â?? Black Holesâ?¦
 Hold Steady â?? Boys and Girls
 Mastodon â?? Blood Mountain
 Futureheads â?? News and Tributes
 Band of Horses â?? Everything All the Time
 The Dears â?? Gang of Losers
 Grandaddy â?? Just Like Fambly Cat (my opinion on this might change)
 Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
 T.I. - King