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the way i see it: the best 40 records i heard in 2006, and then some
12.19.2006
i haven't been around much as of late. i apologize. these are good folks here at the happy robot. i've been raisin' young'uns and birthin' babies, and it makes it hard on a man to find time to write.
anyway, how could i not post my yearly 'best of' list? i mean, how would people know what to buy themselves for christmas?
these are the best 40 records of 2006, that i heard, in order of appreciation.
1 The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
2 Califone - Roots & Crowns
3 Bob Dylan - Modern Times
4 Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
5 Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA
6 Camille - Le Fil
7 Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
8 Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
9 Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
10 Tom Waits - Orphans
11 Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
12 Joanna Newsom - Ys
13 Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
14 Centro-Matic - Fort Recovery
15 The Roots - Game Theory
16 Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
17 Beck - The Information
18 Neil Young - Living With War
19 Ghostface - Fishscale
20 Cat Power - The Greatest
21 Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
22 Tim O'Reagan - Tim O'Reagan
23 Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
24 Bobby Bare, Jr. - The Longest Meow
25 Bruce Springsteen - We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions
26 Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
27 Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
28 Golden Smog - Another Fine Day
29 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
30 Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
31 East River Pipe - What Are You On?
32 The Knife - Silent Shout
33 Robert Pollard - Normal Happiness
34 My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
35 The Beatles - Love
36 Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
37 Mastodon - Blood Mountain
38 The Who - Endless Wire
39 Melvins - A Senile Animal
40 Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
Honorable Mentions
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Mission of Burma - Obliterati
Solomon Burke - Nashville
Lambchop - Damaged
Futureheads - News and Tributes
Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
