Best Album of 2006

[Johan]

Sorry, should have added to above quote, that i'm looking forward to the 2006 album poll with baited breath.
Mint x

Ok, here it is. Like last years poll we will start with list of about 50 nominations. Please feel free to bring in some others that you feel would make your top 10 of 2006.

Voting will start next week!

Allright, Still – Lily Allen
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not – Arctic Monkeys
The Information – Beck
The Life Pursuit – Belle & Sebastian
The Letting Go – Bonnie Prince Billy
Let’s Get Out Of This Country – Camera Obscura
Ballad of the Broken Sea – Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
American V – Johnny Cash
Jarvis –Jarvis Cocker
Antidepressant – Lloyd Cole
The River In Reverse – Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
Other People’s Lives –Ray Davies
The Crane Wife – The Decemberists
Victory For the Comic Muse – Divine Comedy
Yes, Virginia – Dresden Dolls
Modern Times – Bob Dylan
At War With The Mystics – Flaming Lips
Western Skies – Roddy Frame
St. Elsewhere – Gnarls Barkley
Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop – Luke Haines
Drum’s Not Dead – Liars
Continuum – John Mayer
Amputechture – The Mars Volta
The Trials of Van Occupanther – Midlake
Ringleader of the Tormentors – Morrissey
The Black Parade – My Chemical Romance
Okonokos – My Morning Jacket
Black Holes and Revelations – Muse
Fox Confessor Brings The Flood – Neko Case
Ys – Joanna Newsom
One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This – New York Dolls
Fundamental – Pet Shop Boys
We Are The Pipettes – The Pipettes
Broken Boy Soldiers – The Raconteurs
9 – Damien Rice
Rather Ripped – Sonic Youth
 Hello Young Lovers – Sparks
Begin To Hope – Regina Spektor
We Shall Overcome, The Seeger Sessions – Bruce Springsteen
Stadium Arcadium – Red Hot Chili Peppers
White Bread, Black Beer – Scritti Politti
The Avalanche – Sufjan Stevens
10,000 Days – Tool
Nux Vomica – The Veils
The Drift – Scott Walker
Show Your Bones – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Living With War – Neil Young
The Eraser –Thom Yorke

[Eke]

Well done Johan - I've been looking forward to this.

Are there any rules though? Are compilations allowed? For example Tom Waits' Orphans features a huge amount of new material. And I guess reissues are out (separate poll maybe ).

[Johan]

No reissues, no.
We did compilations last year, so I guess they could be included, although I'm actually not in favour.
Maybe we should do a poll on whether to include compilations or not?

[lonesomesquare]

Maybe we should do a poll on whether to include compilations or not?

That is probably the best poll idea I ever have heard, Johan!

[gsalmon]

Nice job Johan, here are some more fine albums that IMO should be added to the list:

Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
Cat Power - The Greatest
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Howe Gelb - Sno Angel Like You
Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat
Albert Hammond Jr. - Yours to Keep
Hellwood - Chainsaw of life
Hot chip - The warning
Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit fur coat
Joan As Police Woman - Real life
Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells
Yo la tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

[kuba]

I'd add Junior Boys, Destroyer, The Format, The Futureheads and LCD Soundsystem if you count "45:33" as a full-length.

[Cassiel]

here's rough trade's top 100 - they've got a few things right for once (don't agree with it, but like the way they bung Lilly Allen in there - watch the weird electronica lads heads' boil  ).

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/content.lasso?page=top100_2006.html

Can I ask for these to be added, Johan?

Carrie Rodriguez - Seven Angels on a Bicycle
Chip Taylor - Unglorious Hallelujah
Paul Burch - East to West
Don McGlashan - Warm Hand
Tres Chicas - Bloom, Red and the Ordinary Girl
Gob Iron - Death Songs for the Living
Babybird - There's Nothing between my ears but music.
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar (as good as they tell you)

With Jenny Lewis, Neko Case and Midlake that pretty much makes up my top ten(ish). For me, it's been a year for the laydeeeeez: Carrie best album, Jenny second, Midlake and the Gob Iron lads interloping, but Neko at five. A great year for country/country-folk all round.

[Gerooki]

With Jenny Lewis, Neko Case and Midlake that pretty much makes up my top ten. For me, it's been a year for the laydeeeeez: Carrie best album, Jenny second, Midlake and the Gob Iron lads interloping, but Neko at five. A great year for country/country-folk all round.

What about the Carbon T-shirt Custard album you were raving about the other night?

[Cassiel]

What about the Carbon T-shirt Custard album you were raving about the other night?

Ssssh. First rule about being Carbon T-Short Custard fans: don't talk about Carbon T-Shirt Custard.

My tip for 2007 though. They will rule!

[SpikeyMikey65]

Hi Johan,

I'd like to add the following to the list as well:

The Pernice Brothers - Live A Little
HEM -  No Word From Tom

Thanks,
Michael

[mtrain]

Bobby Bare Jr.- The Longest Meow

[Gazza]

Haven't heard anything like enough of that main list for my liking, but of the ones I have heard, I know some to be truly, utterly, dreadful. C*m*ra Obsc*ura, for example, have no place on a list of the ten best albums with occasional mandolin and trumpet released by Glaswegian bands on 6 June 2006, never mind album of the year.

Perhaps we should have a two stage process, so that everything on Johan's original list has a week in which to find someone to second it, and if it doesn't then it's kicked off the list. Then we add our nominations and the real voting begins.

And how about negative votes? I might be happy for all ten of mine to count against the aforementioned twee, floppy, spineless bedwetters.

Otherwise, Johan, it's an impressive piece of work. Did you start with the Rate Your Music list again and edit out all the death metal?

[milton]

I would like to add the following;

Calexico - Garden Ruin
Alejandro Escovedo - The Boxing Mirror


Milton

[son of albert]

It's been a year of restored faith for some [the Lips, Costello, Mozzer, Yorke, Jarvis] and:

foburg - Cathal Coughlan
Ole Tarantual - Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3
Coal - Devastation [released here this year]

The jury being out on others

Dayvan Cowboy - Boards of Canada
Dark Orgasm - JC
Personality = Sleepy Jackson
The Lemonheads
Garden Ruin - Calexico

And a single digit to some former friends

Just Like the fambly Cat - Grandaddy

In terms of newbies, I'd add Tunng - Comments of the Inner Chorus to the big list.

[Johan]

Johan, it's an impressive piece of work. Did you start with the Rate Your Music list again and edit out all the death metal?

Yes, that's pretty much how I did it, the metal AND hiphop-albums were left out, and Christina Aguilera's album, which made the RYM's top 200 too. I just selected the ones that I thought some of us could like enough to make it into their top 10.

I'm not so sure about negative votes, as to how it could be done technically. Surely if no one likes a record it will get no votes anyway?