2006 "Best Of" List

The end of 2006 is quickly approaching, and wow, what a year it’s been (musically speaking)! The following is a quick list of some of my favorite albums and singles from the past year. I know I’ve left some really great ones out, but it’s hard to listen to everything thoroughly enough to give it a fair rating. Anyway, it’s something!

Albums
1. Silversun Pickups – Carnavas
2. Tapes N’ Tapes - The Loon
3. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
4. Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
5. Apollo Up! - Chariots of Fire
6. Oh No! Oh My! – Oh No! Oh My!
7. Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s - The Dust of Retreat
8. The Black Keys – Magic Potion
9. Phoenix - It’s Never Been Like That
10. The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed
11. Band of Horses - Everything all the Time
12. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I am, That’s What I’m Not
13. Bound Stems – Appreciation Night
14. Snowden - Anti Anti
15. We Are Scientists – With Love and Squalor
16. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
17. The Blow – Paper Television
18. Annuals – Be He Me
19. Drive By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
20. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
21. Forget Cassettes - Salt
22. Thom Yorke – the Eraser
23. Chin Up Chin Up - This Harness Can’t Ride Anything
24. The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
25. The Black Angels - Passover
26. Heartless Bastards - All This Time
27. The Minus 5 - (The Gun Album)

Singles
1. TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me (Return to Cookie Mountain)
2. Midlake – Roscoe (The Trials of Van Occupanther)
3. Annuals – Brother (Be He Me)
4. Bound Stems – Western Biographic (Appreciation Night)
5. Forget Cassettes - The Catch (Salt)
6. The Blow – Parentheses (Paper Television)
7. Midlake – Young Bride (The Trials of Van Occupanther)
8. Bound Stems – Excellent News, Colonel (Appreciation Night)
9. Band of Horses - The Funeral (Everything All The Time)
10. Silversun Pickups - Common Reactor (Carnavas)
11. Phoenix - Long Distance Call (It’s Never Been Like That)
12. Drive-By Truckers – Easy On Yourself (A Blessing and a Curse)
13. Midlake – Head Home (The Trials of Van Occupanther)
14. The Thermals - Here’s Your Future (The Body, the Blood, the Machine)
15. Bound Stems – Refuse the Refuse (Appreciation Night)
16. Mew - The Zookeeper’s Boy (And the Glass Handed Kites)
17. The Pipettes - Pull Shapes (We Are the Pipettes)
18. Catfish Haven – Tell Me (Tell Me)