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the way i see it: the best 40 records i heard in 2006, and then some
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
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