Best of 2006

Music

Best Albums of 2006

1. Man Man Six Demon Bag
2. Camera Obscura Let's Get Out of This Country
3. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere
4. The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
5. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Etiquette
6. Voxtrot Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives EP

Potent Notables

• Sunset Rubdown Shut Up I'm Dreaming
• Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
• Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat
• Dirty Pretty Things Waterloo to Anywhere

I have been in isolation and need to listen to these more...

• Built to Spill You in Reverse
• The Shins Wincing the Night Away
• Swan Lake Beast Means
• Beck The Information
• Annuals Be He Me
• the Decemberists Crane Wife
• The Flaming Lips At War with the Mystics
• I'm From Barcelona Let Me Introduce My Friends

Great Finds of 2006

1. Phosphorescent Aw Come Aw Wry
2. The Go! Team Thunder, Lightning, Strike
3. Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene
4. Sigur Rós Takk
5. The Flaming Lips Yoshimi Battles Pink Robots
6. Mountain Goats The Sunset Tree

Songs that got a lot of play this year (but by artists otherwise not mentioned above)...

• Annie Anniemal Chewing Gum
• Annie Anniemal Anniemal
• The Avalanches Since I Left You Since I Left You
• Cloud Cult Advice from the Happy Hippopotamus Happy Hippo
• The Cribs The New Fellas Mirror Kisses
• Editors Munich
• Elkland Golden Apart
• Forward Russia! Give Me a Wall Thirteen
• Hot Chip Warning Colours
• Hot Chip Warning Over and Over
• Ladytron Witching Hour Destroy Everything You Touch
• Mates of State Bring it Back Fraud in the '80s
• Metric Old World Underground... Dead Disco
• M.I.A. Arular Bucky Done Gun
• The Rapture Pieces of the People We Love Don Gon Do It
• The Rapture Pieces of the People We Love Whoo! Alright - Yeah...Uh Huh.
• Saturday Looks Good to Me Meet Me By the Water
• She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge Tear You Apart
• She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge Out of Control
• The Pipettes We Are the Pipettes You're Kisses Are Wasted On Me
• Polysics Neu Black Out Fall Out
• Supersystem Always Never Again Defcon
• The Walkman Bow Plus Arrows The Rat

Reads

1. Survior by Chuck Palahniuk
2. Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland
3. A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
4. Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
5. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious by Dave Eggers
6. Generation X by Douglas Coupland
7. 2001: A Space Odessey by Arthur C. Clarke
8. Cat's Craddle by Kurt Vonnegut
9. JPod by Douglas Coupland
10. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn
11. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
12. Rule by Secrecy by Jim Marrs