Album Redux....

Sorry Mason Jennings, you have been bounced from the top album list of 2006. Hold Steady - Boys and Girls In America you are in!!!!

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Songs......

And here are my songs of 2006. Make your mix tape folks cause this is it.

Paper Crown King - Seafood
Razorblade - The Strokes
I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor - The Arctic Monkeys
Biggest Star - The Elected
The Great Salt Lake - Band of Horses
Life Wasted - Pearl Jam
Someday Baby - Bob Dylan
In The Morning - Razorlight
Manitoba - Tapes 'N Tapes
Saint John - Cold War Kids
Carrboro Woman - Eric Bachmann
Ola kala - I'm From Barcelona
You Only Live Once - The Strokes
Closer - Joshua Radin
When You Were Young - The Killers
Hey Chicken - Loose Fur
Aw, Shit, Man - The Minus Five
In The Beginning - The Stills
Let's Get Of This Country - Camera Obscura
Parachutes - Pearl Jam
Signal Sparks - Seafood
Chips Ahoy - The Hold Steady

Records 2006....

Okay. so records 2006. This has been a somewhat down year in my opinion. Most of my top albums of 2006 probably would not hold a candle to 2005. I like to define bands by having two year cycles. Wilco, Hayden, Arcade Fire, Iron & Wine, Modest Mouse & Interpol slipped through without releasing an album (The Shins missed their three year cycle and Ryan Adams his three month!).

So, here they are.....my albums of 2006:

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever I Say I Am I Am Not
Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun
Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
Cold War Kids - Cold War Kids
Eric Bachmann - To The Races
I'm From Barcelona - Let Me Introduce My Friends
Mason Jennings - Boneclouds
Seafood - Paper Crown King
The Stills - Without Feathers
Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam

So despite the disappointment, 2007 is stacking up to be an awesome year if certain bands can live up to the hype. Due out are Bloc Party, Wilco, Bright Eyes, Radiohead, Polyphonic Spree, The National, Modest Mouse (with Johnny Marr!), Jesse Malin, Clap You Hands And Say Yeah.

Now, unfortunately there are certain records I have not been able to check you since they have not been released in the US:
The Veils
Magic Numbers
Ed Harcourt

And of course the disappointments of 2006:
Razorlight
The Killers
Elefant
The Strokes

Next up, songs of 2006!