69 Gotta Love-Albums of 2006

These albums are just my taste in music, at least 2006's and if you don't like'em, don't talk about'em BRAT! 2006 was a good year and the things coming for 2007 will let us taste more than a sample, such as: Apples in Stereo's New Magnetic Wonder, The Shins' Wincing the Night Away, The Postmarks' Self-titled, Pelle Carlberg's In a Nutshell, Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's Some Loud Thunder, Calla's Strenght in Numbers, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists' Living with the Living, Of Montreal's Hissing Fauna are you the Destroyer?, amongst others...

So let the good times roll my hard rockin' amigo!!!

P.S.: There's no order so don't pay attention to the numbers.

1. Irene - Apple Bay (Labrador Records)


2. Mewithoutyou - Brother, Sister (Tooth and Nail)


3. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go (Drag City)


4. The Black Neon - Arts & Crafts (Memphis Industries)


5. CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy (Sub Pop)


6. The Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine (Sub Pop)


7. Carla Bozulich - Evangelista (Southern Records)


8. The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse (EMI/Parlophone)


9. Envelopes - Demon (Brille)


10. Girl Talk - Night Ripper (Illegal Art)


11. Guillemots - Through the Windowpane (Universal)


12. Home - Sexteen (Brah)


13. Half-Handed Cloud - Halos and Lassos (Asthmatic Kitty)


14. The Islands - Rough Gem (Rough Trade)


15. Irving - Death in the Garden, Blood on the Flowers (Eenie Meenie)


16. James Dean Bradfield - The Great Western (Sony BMG)


17. Joanna Newsom - YS (Drag City)


18. Seachange - On Fire With Love (A is for Artist)


19. The Legends - Facts and Figures (Labrador Records)


20. Micah P. Hinson - The Baby and the Satellite (Jade Tree)


21. Monster Movie - All Lost (Graveface)


22. Neil Young - Living With War (Reprise)


23. Nicky Wire - I Killed the Zeitgeist (Sony)


24. Beachwood Sparks - Once We Were Trees (Sub Pop)


25. Ratatat - Classics (XL)


26. Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire (Capitol/EMI)


27. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Sound On Sound (Redder)


28. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas (Dangerbird)


29. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (Capitol)


30. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming (Absolutely Kosher)


31. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis (Rough Trade)


32. The Submarines - Declare a New State! (Nettwerk)


33. Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)


34. The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief (Labrador Records)


35. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)


36. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country (Pastel Music)


37. Clearlake - Amber (Domino)


38. Cursive - Happy Hollow (Saddle Creek)


39. Danielson - Ships (Secretely Canadian)


40. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (Merge)


41. Eagles of Death Metal - Death by Sexy (Downtown)


42. Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton - Knives Don't Have your Back (Last Gang)


43. The Dears - Gang of Losers (Arts & Crafts)


44. The Hidden Cameras - Awoo (Arts & Crafts)


45. Love Is All - Nine Times that Same Song (What's your Rupture)


46. M. Ward - Post-War (Merge)


47. Ms. John Soda - Notes and the Like (Morr)


48. Readymade FC - Babilonia (Peacefrog)


49. The Robot Ate Me - Good World (5RC)


50. The Subways - Young For Eternity (WEA)


51. The Research - Breaking Up (EMI)


52. The Veils - Nux Vomica (Rough Trade)


53. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain (4AD)


54. Viva Voce - Get Yr Blood Sucked Out (Barsuk)


55. Young People - All at Once (Too Pure)


56. Lilys - Everything Wrong is Imaginary (Manifesto)


57. The Evens - Get Evens (Dischord)


58. [ingenting] - Mycket Väsen för Ingenting (Labrador)


59. The Bees (US) - High Society (Roar)


60. Oh No! Oh My! - Oh No! Oh My! (Self-Released)


61. Loveninjas - The Secret of Loveninjas (Labrador)


62. Bears - Bears (Self-Released)


63. Caroline - Murmurs (Temporary Residence)


64. Darren Hayman - Table for One (The Track and Field Organisation)


65. Dosh - The Lost Take (Anticon)


66. Montt Mardié - Drama (Hybris)


67. Swan Lake - Best Moans (Jagjaguwar)


68. The Charade - A Real Life Drama (Skipping Stones)


69. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (Capitol)