The Best of 2006

Everyone's doing it. So I am, too.

Here's another list to dump on the pile: The Top Ten Albums of 2006.

It's been a hell of a year.

Top Ten Albums of 2006

1. Califone ~ Roots and Crowns
2. Silversun Pickups ~ Carnavas
3. TV on the Radio ~ Return to Cookie Mountain
4. Cat Power ~ The Greatest
5. Band of Horses ~ Everything All the Time
6. Cut Chemist ~ The Audience’s Listening
7. Tapes n Tapes ~ The Loon
8. Electric President ~ Electric President
9. Yo La Tengo ~ I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
10. Gnarls Barkley ~ St. Elsewhere


Also, in pretty particular order:

Great stuff from old faves that just missed
The Flaming Lips ~ At War With the Mystics
Sonic Youth ~ Rather Ripped

Bright new big future stuff
Snowden ~ Anti Anti
The Black Angels ~ Passover
Art Brut ~ Bang Bang Rock and Roll

Big surprises--for me, anyway
Thom Yorke ~ The Eraser
Ms. John Soda ~ Notes and the Like

Women I love who should be on the list
Beth Orton ~ Comfort of Strangers
Neko Case ~ Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

How the hell did this not make it?
Built to Spill ~ You In Reverse
The Hold Steady ~ Boys and Girls in America

Also almost, but not quite, for one reason or another
The Evens ~ Get Evens
Ray LaMontagne ~ Til the Sun Turns Black
Psapp ~ The Only Thing I Ever Wanted
Yeah Yeah Yeahs ~ Show Your Bones
Brazilian Girls ~ Talk to La Bomb
Tom Waits ~ Orphans...