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Best Album of 2006
Three months late for 2006 but I've finally completed my annual Top Albums list. 2006 was a bit of an off year for music overall but I really enjoyed most of these albums. My finds of the year made number six and seven on the list. In the Pines are a folk / country string band from Kansas City. I attended their CD release party and was pretty well blown away. Ten Kens I found through MySpace and I love their debut CD. Good job guys. Feel free to comment on this list as I always enjoy hearing what others are listening to...
*****Top 100 Albums of 2006*****
| 1) | Beirut | The Gulag Orkestar |
| 2) | Islands | Return to the Sea |
| 3) | Joanna Newsom | Ys |
| 4) | Belle & Sebastian | The Life Pursuit |
| 5) | Man Man | Six Demon Bag |
| 6) | In the Pines | In the Pines |
| 7) | Ten Kens | Ten Kens |
| 8) | Hot Chip | The Warning |
| 9) | Yeah Yeah Yeah's | Show Your Bones |
| 10) | Peter Bjorn and John | Writer's Block |
| 11) | Built to Spill | You In Reverse |
| 12) | The Flaming Lips | At War With the Mystics |
| 13) | Junior Boys | So This is Goodbye |
| 14) | Sparklehorse | Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain |
| 15) | Cat Power | The Greatest |
| 16) | The Blow | Paper Television |
| 17) | The Black Heart Procession | The Spell |
| 18) | Regina Spektor | Begin to Hope |
| 19) | Gnarls Barkley | St. Elsewhere |
| 20) | Sonic Youth | Rather Ripped |
| 21) | Sunset Rubdown | Shut Up I Am Dreaming |
| 22) | Cansei de Ser Sexy | Cansei de Ser Sexy |
| 23) | Sufjan Stevens | The Avalanche |
| 24) | Beck | The Information |
| 25) | Phoenix | It's Never Been Like That |
| 26) | M. Ward | Post-War |
| 27) | The Raconteurs | Broken Boy Soldiers |
| 28) | Grandaddy | Just Like the Fambly Cat |
| 29) | Lady Sovereign | Public Warning! |
| 30) | Thom Yorke | The Eraser |
| 31) | Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton | Knives Don't Have Your Back |
| 32) | Stereolab | Fab Four Suture |
| 33) | Matmos | The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast |
| 34) | The Rapture | Pieces of the People We Love |
| 35) | Film School | Film School |
| 36) | Arab Strap | The Last Romance |
| 37) | Band of Horses | Everything All the Time |
| 38) | The Hold Steady | Boys and Girls In America |
| 39) | The Fiery Furnaces | Bitter Tea |
| 40) | Xiu Xiu | The Air Force |
| 41) | Yo La Tengo | I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass |
| 42) | Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | The Brave and the Bold |
| 43) | Danielson | Ships |
| 44) | Ellen Allien & Apparat | Orchestra of Bubbles |
| 45) | TV On the Radio | Return to Cookie Mountain |
| 46) | The Album Leaf | Into the Blue Again |
| 47) | Justin Timberlake | FutureSex/LoveSounds |
| 48) | Peaches | Impeach My Bush |
| 49) | Destroyer | Destroyer's Rubies |
| 50) | Lupe Fiasco | Food & Liquor |
| 51) | Eagles of Death Metal | Death By Sexy |
| 52) | Girl Talk | Night Ripper |
| 53) | Aloha | Some Echoes |
| 54) | Adrian Belew | Side Three |
| 55) | Spank Rock | YoYoYoYoYo |
| 56) | Calexico | Garden Ruins |
| 57) | Mogwai | Mr. Beast |
| 58) | Neko Case | Fox Confessor Brings the Flood |
| 59) | The Dears | Gang of Losers |
| 60) | Arctic Monkeys | Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| 61) | Outkast | Idlewild |
| 62) | Mates of State | Bring It Back |
| 63) | Squarepusher | Hello Everything |
| 64) | Camera Obscura | Let's Get Out of this Country |
| 65) | Be Your Own Pet | Be Your Own Pet |
| 66) | Mars Volta | Amputechture |
| 67) | Ray LaMontagne | Till the Sun Turns Black |
| 68) | The Essex Green | Cannibal Sea |
| 69) | The Decemberists | The Crane Wife |
| 70) | The Thermals | The Body, The Blood, The Machine |
| 71) | The Starlight Mints | Drowaton |
| 72) | Califone | Roots & Crowns |
| 73) | Cougars | Pillow Talk |
| 74) | Espers | II |
| 75) | Herbert | Scale |
| 76) | Frank Black | Fast Man Raider Man |
| 77) | Charlotte Gainsbourg | 5:55 |
| 78) | Beach House | Beach House |
| 79) | The Knife | Silent Shout |
| 80) | Lansing-Dreiden | The Dividing Island |
| 81) | El Perro Del Mar | El Perro Del Mar |
| 82) | Ghostface Killah | Fishscale |
| 83) | Muse | Black Holes and Revelations |
| 84) | Grizzly Bear | Yellow House |
| 85) | Solomon Burke | Nashville |
| 86) | Amy Millan | Honey From the Tombs |
| 87) | Chad VanGaalen | Skelliconnection |
| 88) | The Futureheads | News and Tributes |
| 89) | Clinic | Visitations |
| 90) | Drive-By Truckers | A Blessing and a Curse |
| 91) | My Brightest Diamond | Bring Me the Workhorse |
| 92) | Tim Hecker | Harmony In Ultraviolet |
| 93) | Mar | The Silence |
| 94) | Kimya Dawson | Remember That I Love You |
| 95) | Hammock | Raising Your Voice... Trying to Stop an Echo |
| 96) | Matisyahu | Youth / Youth Dub |
| 97) | Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins | Rabbit Fur Coat |
| 98) | Love Is All | Nine Times That Same Song |
| 99) | Oneida | Happy New Year |
| 100) | The Annuals | Be He Me |
*****Top EPs, Compilations, B-sides / Rarities, Collections, Live Albums, Box Sets for 2004*****
| Belle & Sebastian | Late Night Tales (DJ Mix Album) |
| Four Tet | Remixes |
| The Gothic Archies | The Tragic Treasure: Songs From a Series of Unfortunate Events |
| Johnny Cash | American V: A Hundred Highways |
| PJ Harvey | The Peel Sessions 1991-2004 |
| Hefner | Catfight (Rarities) |
| McLusky | McLuskyism (Singles Collection) |
| Stephin Merritt | Showtunes (Collection of show songs) |
| Small Sails | Don't Make Me EP / Hunter Gatherer EP |
| Sonic Youth | The Destroyed Room B-Sides and Rarities |
| This Heat | Out of Cold Storage (Box Set) |
| Tom Waits | Orphans (Rarities Set) |
| Various Artists | American Hardcore: The History of American Punk Rock |
| Wire | Pink Flag / Chairs Missing / 154 (Remasterings) |
| Yo La Tengo | Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics (Live Radio Perfornance) |
Here are my album lists from previous years:
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