Best Albums of 2006 (So far)

[dazzak]

1. Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental
2. Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors
3. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
4. Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse
5. The Sleepy Jackson - Personality
6. Prince - 3121
7. Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
8. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
9. The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

Not a great year so far really. I'm probably forgetting something, though. This should hopefully be a good way of hearing about albums we might not have otherwise, so please post yours.

 

[wolve]

will get a mention at the end of '06:

morrissey - ringleader of the tormentors
pearl jam - pearl jam
belle & sebastian - the life pursuit
cat power - the greatest
the divine comedy - victory for the comic muse
twilight singers - powder burns
bruce springsteen - seeger sessions
mogwai - mr beast

still have to hear the new NYD and Murder By Death...Hope they're not a disappointement.
I agree, not a good year. I've got more "average" feelings than really a "blown off my socks"...

 

[Life_Is_A_Pigsty]

1) Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors
2) Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
3) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am
4) The Organ - Grab That Gun
5) The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
6) The Kooks - Inside In Inside Out
7) Camera Obscura - Lets Get Out Of This Country
8) Thom Yorke - The Eraser
9) Wolfmother - Wolfmother
10) Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo To Anywhere

 

[++++++]

In no order:

Cat Power - The Greatest
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Prince - 3121
Paul Simon - Surprise
Grandaddy - Just Like the Fambly Cat
Cities - Cities
Gary Numan - Jagged
Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors

 

[Sister]

1)Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
2)Cat Power - The Greatest
3)Aquarium (it's Russian and you don't know it anyway)

 

[dallow_bg]

All the Harry Nilsson re-issues.
And Scott Walker's The Drift.

 

[bagface]

add built to spill-you in reverse to those lists too

 

[Codreanu]

01) Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
02) Barzin - My Life in Rooms
03) Trespassers William - Having
**) Small Town Boredom - Autumn Might Have Hope*
04) Piano Magic - Incurable
05) Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
06) Lisa Germano - In the Maybe World
07) Jandek - Glasgow Monday: The Cell
08) Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
09) Voices and Organs - Orphanage
10) Pumice - Yeahnahvienna

*floating ordinal

Honourable mention:
William Basinski - The Garden of Brokenness
Belong - October Language
Painting Petals on Planet Ghost - s/t
Liz Durrett - The Mezzanine
Lambchop - Damaged
Fred Thomas - Sink Like a Symphony
W-S Burn - Birdsong in Stereo
El Perro del Mar - s/t (attn. dallow_bg!)
The Late Cord - Lights from the Wheelhouse
Xiu Xiu - Air Force
Scott Walker - The Drift
Thee More Shallows - Monkey vs. Shark
Jandek - What Else Does the Time Mean
Jessica Bailiff - Feels Like Home
Hush Arbors - Since we have Fallen

 

[Thewlis]

1) Morrissey - ROTT
2) Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
3) Roddy Frame - Western Skies
4) Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse
5) Belle and Sebastian -The Life Pursuit

Reissue of the Year:
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional

 

[Sharron Needles]

1) Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors
2) Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
3) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am
4) The Organ - Grab That Gun
5) The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth
6) The Kooks - Inside In Inside Out
7) Camera Obscura - Lets Get Out Of This Country
8) Thom Yorke - The Eraser
9) Wolfmother - Wolfmother
10) Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo To Anywhere

Oh! I dig The Organ. But that record came out a few years ago....?

 

[dazzak]

Codreanu, you're not allowed to make up entries.

 

[deathfornoreason]

1) Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors
2) Thom Yorke - The Eraser
3) Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
4) Divine Comedy - Victory For The Comic Muse
5) James Dean Bradfield - The Great Western
6) Plan B - Who Needs Actions When You Got Words
7) Colin Meloy - ... Sings Shirley Colins
8) Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
9) Roddy Woomble - My Secret Is My Silence
10) Lily Allen - Alright, Still

I predict The Decemberist's upcoming "The Crane Wife" will make it's way towards the top of the list when it's released in October!

 

[MetalPingu]

In no particular order:

Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors
Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental
The Flaming Lips - At War With The Mystics
Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
Frank Black - Fast Man Raider Man

Looking over what I've got actually, there haven't been that many cracking albums this year thus far, at least in my own collection. A fair few I'm looking forward to, though. The two that I keep returning to are the PSB one and the Frank Black one (played ROTT to death already I fear!) A lot of albums I'm interested in investigating have also popped up several times in this thread, so that's always a reassuring time too!

 

[egg]

faster pussycat - the power & the glory hole
mexican cheerleader - mexican mystery tour
smart brown handbag - harry larry
morrissey - ringleader of the tormentors
das kapital - denying the west
the streets - the hardest way to make an easy living
bullets and octane - in the mouth of the young
beth orton - comfort of strangers

looking forward to...

storybook funeral - debut

 

[Sparks fan]

Is everyone forgetting Hello Young Lovers?

 

[battersea]

Watch out for The Dears new album' ' Gang Of Losers' which is due for release in August.I've been listening to it for the last two weeks and I'm sure it will make it onto many peoples list of favourites

 

[9 x Fined]

Watch out for The Dears new album' ' Gang Of Losers' which is due for release in August.I've been listening to it for the last two weeks and I'm sure it will make it onto many peoples list of favourites

I have it also. I actually quite like it.

 

[dazzak]

Is everyone forgetting Hello Young Lovers?

That's what I forgot. Put it in at 6 and leave off Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

 

[spleenhead]

Also Graham Coxon - Love travels at Illegal Speeds is worth mentioning.