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Best "album" of 2006

I know we are only 6 weeks into 2006, but what are your best albums of 2006. I remember in the past, certain print magazines claiming Wilco YFH and Bright Eyes I'm wide awake ... were the best albums of those years as early as January. So, for fun ... what 2006 CD or LP is constantly rotating in your system.

For me, NME has finally got it right... the Arctic Monkeys are living up to their hype ... great CD ... between the 17 feet of new snow in Whistler during January and the Arctic Monkeys playing inside my Giro Fuse helmet, I couldn't erase the smile off my face.

Other good early albums:
Cat Power ... the greatest
Belle & Sebastian The Life Pursuit
Beth Orton Comfort of Strangers
Jenny Lewis with the Watson twins Rabbit Fur Coat

I need to slow down on my CD purchases ... THere is not enough time to listen to my older CD's from 2005.
thom_y

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dgarretson
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Forgot to add Foo Fighters "In Your Honor".

Most hilarious sonic miscarriage: Paul Simon with Brian Eno.

Dave
dgarretson
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Stretching a few mos. back '06 into '05, best 10 pop are:

Rosanne Cash- Black Cadillac
David Gilmour- On An Island
Tom Verlaine- Songs & Other Things
John Prine- Fair & Square
Pearl Jam
Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan- Ballad of the Broken Seas
Ray Davies- Other People's Lives
T-Bone Burnett- The True False Identity
Calexico- Garden Ruin

The most beautiful female voice and masterful understated guitar work in '05 is "Petra Hayden & Bill Frisell". You've just got to hear Frisell work over Coldplay's Yellow.

Dave
dgarretson
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Thom y, it's a decent list. I would add:

Ray LaMontagne: Till the Sun Turns Black
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3: Ole Tarantula
Ray Davies: Other Peoples Lives
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Ballad of the Broken Seas
Willie Nelson: Songbird
Pearl Jam
The Who: Endless Wire
Phil Manzanera: 50 Minutes Later
David Gilmour: On an Island
Foo Fighters: Skin & Bones
dgarretson
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& Tom Verlaine's "Songs & Other Things"
dgarretson
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I lately discovered Chris Whitley's posthumous 2006 release "Dislocation Blues." This together with "Soft Dangerous Shores"(2005) testify to the artist's compositional power & Hendrix-like guitar work, filtered through the electric steel National guitar. An amazing career arc since the early 90's (high points include "Living with the Law," "Din of Ecstasy", and "Rocket House"), cruelly cut short by filterless cigarettes.
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