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The Top 40 Albums of 2006
Yes, kids, it’s that time of year again. For 11 long months, you’ve been on the edge of your seats, waiting impatiently to be told which music is acceptable to like. It’s time for me to indulge in yet another exercise in pointless ego gratification, pontificating windily for the benefit of the five people who read this blog. Hot damn!
First, the Honorable Mentions. I enjoyed all of these cd’s, but for various reasons (weak tracks mixed in with the great ones, filler, suffering by comparison to a band’s previous releases, or just not enough listens to fully digest it) they didn’t quite make the cut. Were I to redo this list in a few months, several of these might, indeed, make the Top 40, bumping out discs currently in the list. (Time travel, however, is not an ability I possess at present.) In no particular order:
- The Knife, Silent Shout
- J Dilla, The Shining
- Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan, Ballad of the Broken Seas
- Slayer, Christ Illusion
- Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere
- Neil Young, Living With War
- Voivod, Katorz
- Muse, Black Holes and Revelations
- Lamb of God, Sacrament
- Beck, The Information
- Eagles of Death Metal, Death By Sexy
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, So Divided
Yeah, yeah, the hell with those losers. Without further ado, the albums that did make the cut:
- Dirty Pretty Things, Waterloo To Anywhere
- Converge, No Heroes
- Thom Yorke, The Eraser
- Comets on Fire, Avatar
- Celtic Frost, Monotheist
- The Decemberists, The Crane Wife
- Pink Mountaintops, Axis of Evol
- The Thermals, The Body The Blood The Machine
- Motorpsycho, Black Hole/Blank Canvas
- As Fast As, Open Letter to the Damned
- Boris, Pink
- Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury
- Tool, 10,000 Days
- Drive-By Truckers, A Blessing and a Curse
- Soledad Brothers, The Hardest Walk
- Gomez, How We Operate
- Johnny Cash, American V: A Hundred Highways
- The Coup, Pick a Bigger Weapon
- The Raconteurs, Broken Boy Soldiers
- My Morning Jacket, Okonokos
- Band of Horses, Everything all the Time
- Isis, In the Absence of Truth
- PJ Harvey, The Peel Sessions 1991-2004
- Les Claypool, Of Whales and Woe
- Hank Williams III, Straight to Hell
- The Black Keys, Magic Potion
- Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam
- Ghostface Killah, Fishscale
- The Melvins, A Senile Animal
- Misson of Burma, The Obliterati
