The LIST 2006

This was a good year for rock 'n' roll - here are my picks for best albums of 2006, and also my favorite songs. There seems to be more local music in my list this year (Comrade, Centro-Matic, Midlake) and also more old guys than usual (Dylan, Simon, Springsteen) but it just worked out that way. These are the albums that made me take notice of the changing landscape of music and also made me dig deeper into some of the artists' older work. These are the musicians and bands that grabbed me and wouldn't let go.

Best Albums:

1. Bob Dylan Modern Times

2. Midlake The Trials of Van Occupanther

3. Paul Simon Surprise

4. The Flaming Lips At War With the Mystics

5. Built to Spill You in Reverse

6. Thom Yorke Eraser

7. Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit

8. Centro-Matic Fort Recovery

9. Sparklehorse Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain

10. Comrade There's Many A Slip Twixt the Cup & the Lip

11. My Morning Jacket Okonokos (Double Live Album)
12. Mars Volta Amputechture
13. Beck The Information
14. Gnarls Barkley St. Elsewhere
15. Sonic Youth Rather Ripped
16. Cat Power The Greatest
17. The Dears Gang of Losers
18. The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers
19. Bruce Springsteen We Shall Overcome - The Seeger Sessions
20. Cursive Happy Hollow

Best Songs:

1. I See Through You - Centro-Matic
2. Workingman's Blues #2 - Bob Dylan
3. Another Galaxy - Paul Simon
4. It Overtakes Me - The Flaming Lips
5. Ain't Talkin' - Bob Dylan
6. Black Swan - Thom Yorke
7. Liar - Built to Spill
8. Young Bride - Midlake
9. We Are the Sleepyheads - Belle and Sebastian
10. Sparklehorse - Don't Take My Sunshine Away
11. Goin' Against Your Mind - Built to Spill
12. Think I'm In Love - Beck
13. I Don't Believe - Paul Simon
14. Roscoe - Midlake
15. The Clock - Thom Yorke
16. Nettie Moore - Bob Dylan
17. Make / Break - Comrade
18. Pompeii Am Gotterdammerung - The Flaming Lips
19. Fear Made the World Go 'Round - The Dears
20. Day of the Baphomets - Mars Volta
21. Smiley Faces - Gnarls Barkley
22. Into the Fold - Cursive
23. Incinerate - Sonic Youth
24. Level - The Raconteurs
25. Lowdown (live) - My Morning Jacket