Friday, December 08, 2006

The Year in Music

Alright, kids, because everybody cares...and oh, this list is subject to change as there are still 23 more days in the year and new albums to purchase...

My top 10 favorite albums (for sake of diplomacy/indecisiveness these are in no particular order):
Built to Spill-You in Reverse
Mates of State-Bring it Back
The Decemberists-The Crane Wife
Lily Allen-Alright, Still
Cat Power-The Greatest
Ratatat-Classics
Swan Island-The Centre Will Hold
Regina Spektor-Begin to Hope
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins-Rabbit Fur Coat
Band of Horses-Everything All the Time

Honorable mentions:
The Elected-Sun, Sun, Sun
Metric-Live It Out
Yeah Yeah Yeahs-Show Your Bones
Islands-Return to the Sea
Silversun Pickups-Carnavas

The top 10 songs I had on repeat:
Funeral-Band of Horses
Rough Gem-Islands
Lived in Bars-Cat Power
The Charging Sky-Jenny Lewis & Watson Twins
O Valencia!-The Decemberists
Mess with Time-Built to Spill
The Rifle-Alela Diane
Heartbeats-Jose Gonzalez (fyi, the album wasn’t released in the US until 06)
Mr. November-The National
Tie: Punchlines and So Many Ways-Mates of State

3 comments:

skringle said...

Will try and get my list up too soon. But I too will hold off on ranking them until I get some albums that are still on my to-buy list.

David said...

Oh ah aah oh, ah aah oh ahhhhahh, NOTHING AND EVERYTHING! You all have inspired me to do my own list! If I could only get home to get started on it!

Anonymous said...

I'm so glad to see someone else who likes swan island. They are amazing!