Best Albums of 2006
I made a mix of all of my 2006 albums and it's actually a very good one. This mix has such a variety I actually have been listening to it quite a bit. A lot of unexpected things have come out this year and it was tough picking 10 best ones. Basically these are the albums that have been in my car cd player since I bought them. Constant rotation. I overlisten to songs I like too much! (to where I burn them out and get bored with them). These top ones are still great after many many listens (and all have improved with every listen). I feel they are all worth the purchase if you have liked anything about these artist in the past.
1) muse - black holes and revelations
2) wolfmother
3) arctic monkeys - whatever people say i am, that's what i'm not
4) outkast - idlewild
5) the raconteurs - broken boy soldiers
6) beck - the information
7) bobby previte - the coalition of the willing
8) lupe fiasco - lupe fiasco's food & liquor
9) gnarls barkley - st. elsewhere
10) the roots - game theory
These albums are my runner-ups. All of these are also pretty great albums.
* indicates top 10 list runner-up (if I had a top 20 list, these would be there)
ben harper - both sides of the gun
billy martin - solo live at tonic
billy martin - illyB Eats Vol. 3
built to spill - you in reverse
cut chemist - the audience is listening
dj logic - zen of logic (*)
dj shadow - the outsider
dj spooky - in fine style - 50,000 volts of trojan records (*)
don caballero - world class listening problem
the dresden dolls - yes, virginia (*)
eliades ochoa - best of buena vista
the flaming lips - at war with the mystics
hi-tek - hi-teknology
incubus - light grenades
jurassic 5 - feedback
the killers - sam's town
lcd soundsystem - 45:33
liars - drums not dead
madlib - beat konducta vol. 1-2:movie scenes (*)
the mars volta - amputechture (*)
mastodon - blood mountain
matisyahu - youth (*)
medeski scofield martin and wood - out louder
peeping tom
prefuse 73 - security screenings (*)
the red hot chili peppers - stadium arcadium
ruben gonzalez - best of buena vista
the secret machines - ten silver drops (*)
the strokes - first impressions of earth
sufjan stevens - the avalanche
tenacious D - the pick of destiny (*)
thom yorke - the eraser
tool - 10,000 days
we are scientists- with love and squalor (*)