Top 50 of 2006

So it's that time of year again... top lists.

I have to say not being music director for this semester has cut me off from hearing everything I had hoped to, but I still think this is a decent list. Hopefully I'm going to have some more updated albums that I've been meaning to do a full review including the new Trail of Dead and Joanna Newsom's Ys.

So here ya go, my top 50 as of right now. A few got low beacuse I didn't focus on them enough but I still enjoyed them.


1. Hop Along Queen Ansleis – Freshmen Year
2. Joanna Newsom – Ys
3. Man Man – Six Demon Bag
4. Neko Case – Fox Confessors Brings the Flood
5. El Perro Del Mar – s/t
6. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
7. Loose Fur – Born in the USA 2006
8. Decemberists- The Crane Wife
9. Islands – Return to Sea
10. The Evens – Get Evens
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show your Bones
12. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
13. The Ladies – They Mean Us
14. Owen – At Home With
15. Supersystem – A Million Microphones
16. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
17. The Mountain Goats – Get Lonely
18. Tom Waits – Orphans
19. The Black Keys – Magic Potion
20. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
21. Yo La Tengo – I am not afaid of you and I will beat your ass
22. Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
23. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat
24. Dirty on Purpose – Hallelujah Sirens
25. The Album leaf – Into the Blue Again
26. The Thermals – The Body the Blood and the Machine
27. William Whitmore and Jenny Hoyston – Hallways of Always
28. Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche
29. Trtl Soup – E to the Eye Pie Equals One
30. Tv on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
31. Metal Hearts – Socialize
32. Comets on Fire – Avatar
33. Band of Horses – Everything all the Time
34. Xiu Xiu – The Air Force
35. Cat Power – the Greatest
36. Micah P Henson – Micah P Henson and the Opera Circuit
37. Pretty Girls Make Graves – Elan Vital
38. The Reciever - Decades
39. The Lovely Feathers – Hind Hind Legs
40. The Black Heart Procession – The Spell
41. Trail of Dead – So Divided
42. Cursive – Happy Hollow
43. Jeremy Enigk – World Waits
44. Thunderbirds are NOW! – Make History
45. Gnarls Barkley – st. Elsewhere
46. Sunset Rubdown – Shut Up I am Dreaming
47. Rainer Maria – Catastrophe keeps us together.
48. Built to Spill – You in Reverse
49. Oxford Collapse – Remember the Night Parties
50. Morrissey – Ring Leaders of the Torments