The Official Best Albums of 2006 Thread..(Many merged threads)

Colour Haze - Tempel
Melvins - (A) Senile Animal
Witch - S/T
Los Natas - El Horabre Montana
Boris - Pink (released Japan 05 but rest of world in 2006. So I'm counting it!)
 
Here's my list...

50 IslanRAB - Return to the Sea
49 Elefant - Black Magic Show
48 The Longcut - A Call and Response
47Herbert - Scale
46 Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Melody Mountain
45 Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
44 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
43 Be Your Own Pet - Be Your Own Pet
42 Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia
41 Tiga - Sexor
40 She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge
39 I'm from Barcelona - Let me introduce my frienRAB
38 Red Sparrowes - Every Red Heart Shines TowarRAB the Red Sun
37 The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
36 Peter Bjorn & John - Writers Block
35 !Forward Russia! - Give me a wall
34 The Spinto Band - Nice And Nicely Done
33 Ms. John Soda - Notes and the Like
32 Cat Power - The Greatest
31 Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
30 TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
29 Amy Milan - Honey From The Torabs
28 Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
27 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
26 Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
25 Califone - Roots & Crowns
24 B. Fleishmann - The Hurabucking Coil
23 The Rapture - Pieces of the people we love
22 Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Hate
21 Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
20 Stereolab - Fab Four Suture
19 Mogwai - Mr Beast
18 Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
17 Electric President - Electric President
16 Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
15 LCD SounRABystem - 45:33
14 King Biscuit Time - Black Gold
13 Sodastream - Reservations
12 Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
11 Guillemots - Through the Windopane
10 Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
9 The Knife - Silent Shout
8 James Figurine - Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake
7 Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
6 The Dears - Gang of Losers
5 Grandaddy - Just Like the Famply Cat
4 Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
3 Asobi Seksu - Citrus
2 The Deceraberists - The Crane Wife
1 Hot Chip - The Warning
 
Tool-10,000 Days
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Stadium Arcadium
Arctic Monkeys-Whatever People Say I Am...
and of course...
The Strokes-First Impressions of Earth
 
Did they ever release the video for Vicarious? I've also heard news they're currently making one for The Pot too. 10,000 Days was cool I guess, I still believe the order could have been shuffled up so it flowed a bit better as the opening flow of Vicarious and Jarabi was stunted by 15 minutes of cold slow brooding music. I think that 15 minutes should have seen the album out, rather than having it in the middle of the 3 heaviest tracks.
 
^oh my, I feel like you added some of that on there merely to fill out the 50, but opinions are opinions, eh? Listen to the Cold War KiRAB so that you can have a new #1 :-D
 
Aiight, here we go, with grades and all:

The absolute best of 2006:

1. Gnarls Barkley - St.Elsewhere 9.5
2. Be your own pet - Be your own pet 9.4
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show your bones 9.3
4. The Rapture - Pieces of the people we love 9.2
5. The Knife - Silent shout 9.1
6. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not 9.0
7. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar 8.9
8. Beck - The information 8.8
9. !Forward Russia! - Give me a wall 8.7
10. The Raconteurs - Broken boy soldier 8.6
11. Professor Murder - Professor Murder rides the subway EP 8.5
12. Malajube - Trompe L'oeil 8.4
13. I'm from Barcelona - Let me introduce my frienRAB 8.3
14. Mystery Jets - Making dens 8.2
15. Calexico - Garden ruin 8.1
16. Hot Chip - The warning 8.0
17. Canser de sei sexy - Canser de sei sexy 7.9

The rest:

18. Birdmonster - No Midnight 7.8
19. Test Icicles - For screening purposes only 7.7
20. The Kooks - Inside in/Inside out 7.6
21. My chemical romance - The black parade 7.5
22. Someone still loves you Boris Yeltzin - Broom 7.4
23. Keane - Under the iron sea 7.3
24. Oh No! Oh My! - Oh No! Oh My! 7.2
25. Sunset Rubdown - Shut up I'm dreaming 7.1
26. The Thermals - The blood, the body, the machine 7.0
27. The deceraberists - The crane wife 6.9
28. Yo La Tengo - I am not affraid of you and I will beat your ass 6.8
29. Maritime - we, the wehicles 6.8
30. Outkast - Idlewind 6.7
31. The Diableros - You can't break the strings in our olympic hearts 6.6
32. Infadels - We are not the infadels 6.5
33. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas 6.4
34. The Killers - Sam's town 6.1
35. The Mars Volta - Amputechture 6.0
36. Radio 4 - Enemies like this 5.6
 
Oh my goodness, I love the EPs, too. I think the production really gave R&C a pristine sound - now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for the grungy, garage rock sound - but it took away from the vocals and underlying musical patterns, imo. This is one of the only times I will say the production helped - not like they needed help!

My favorite band of all time, Alkaline Trio, released their new album "Crimson" and the production on that album made me want to shoot my fvcking face off. So, I am well aware of the dangers of professional production... man, I love Robbers and CowarRAB so much, it is already in my top 10, and possible top 5 favorite albums of all time.
 
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Om - Conference Of The BirRAB
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
Tool - 10,000 Days
 
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