Your Top 10 Albums Of 2006

[deathfornoreason]

What are your Top 10 albums of this year?

Mine are:

1) Morrissey - ROTT
2) The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
3) Jarvis - Jarvis
4) Minus 5 - Minus 5 (The Gun Album)
5) AFX - Chosen Lords
6) Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
7) Plan B - Who Needs Actions...
8) Guillemots - Through The Windowpane
9) Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
10) Lily Allen - Alright, Still

 

[davdavon]

10. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
9. Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah
8. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
7. Peter, Bjorn and John - Writer's Block
6. Tom Waits - Orphans
5. The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia
4. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
3. The Divine Comedy - Victory for the Comic Muse
2. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
1. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

 

[Come Back To Cavan]

1. Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer (also Gig Of The Year, or indeed of the last 26 years)
2. The Knife - Silent Shout
3. CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy
4. The Durutti Column - Keep Breathing
5. Hot Chip - The Warning
6. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
7. Luke Haines - Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop
8. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
9. Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental
10. Tiga - Sexor (I'm going to regret this one, I'm sure.)

 

[wolve]

Will wait for December 31 to post mine

 

[Johan de Witt]

Great idea, let's make our own Morrissey-Solo Forum Top 100 Albums of 2006.
10 points for a number 1 and so forth, one point for number 10 and then by the end of December we count all the votes.

My top 10:

1. Ringleader of the Tormentors - Morrissey
2. Antidepressant - Lloyd Cole
3. Let's Get Out Of This Country - Camera Obscura
4. Jarvis –Jarvis Cocker
5. The Trials of Van Occupanther - Midlake
6. The Life Pursuit – Belle & Sebastian
7. Off My Rocker At The Art School Bop – Luke Haines
8. We Are The Pipettes – The Pipettes
9. The Crane Wife – The Decemberists
10. Victory For the Comic Muse – Divine Comedy

 

[BillyBudd]

It's not easy to come up with 10 but:

JimBob (ex Carter USM): School
Belle&Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
Jarvis: Jarvis
Morrissey: Ringleader
Pet Shop Boys: Fundamental
Sparks: Hello young lovers
Melody Club: Scream
Robbie Williams: Rudebox
Nordstrøm: Nordstrøm

 

[Manic Rose]

1. morrissey - ROTT
2. my chemical romance - the black parade
3. muse - black holes and revelations
4. the long blondes - someone to drive you home
5. the futureheads - news and tributes
6. dirty pretty things - waterloo to anywhere
7. the raconteurs - broken boys soliders
8. jet - shine on
9. arctic monkeys - whatever people say i am, that's what i'm not
10. the fratellis - costello music

 

[Pervomartovtsi]

you've woke up the poll monster JOhan...X_x!

 

[mspendl828]

I'm may struggle to think of 10 good albums...

1) Moz - ROTT
2) Decemberists - The Crane Wife
3) Kristeen Young - The Orphans
4) Boyfriends - Boyfriends
5) James Dean Bradfield - The Great Weston
6) Nicky Wire - I Killed The Zeitgeist
7) ....


I think that's it from this year that I thought was any good.

 

[Uncle Liam]

Morrissey- Ringleader of the Tormentors
Pet Shop Boys- Fundamental
Liam Frost and the Slowdown Family- Show Me Where The Spectres Dance
The Young Knives- Voices of Animals and Young Men
Muse- Black Holes and Revelations
Placebo- Meds
Richard Ashcroft- Keys to the World
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
The Pipettes- We Are The Pipettes
Gary Numan- Jagged
Hot Chip- The Warning

 

[geisha_scarlet]

Comfort of Strangers - Beth Orton

Duets - Ane Brun

ROTT - Morrissey

9 - Damien Rice

Highway Companion - Tom Petty

The Information - Beck

The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers

Writer's Block - Peter Bjorn & John

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming

 

[Johan de Witt]

you've woke up the poll monster JOhan...X_x!

Yes, I can't help myself

It will be interesting to see though if the average M-solo forum member has better taste than, say, the average Q or NME reader.
In other words, will Muse and Arctic Monkeys be 2 and 3 in our end-of year-list or not?

BTW, Top 10's that aren't numbered will get 5 points for each album...

 

[Sooty]

A lot of the albums ive had this year have been pritty poor ive had a few good ones but there hasnt been a great album
1. Ringleader
2.The Back room, editors
3.Wilderness is paradise now, Morning Runner
4. Yours to keep, Albert Hammond Junior

 

[handsome devil]

In no order, the best nine of what I have heard:

The Loon - Tapes 'n Tapes
Fear Is On Our Side - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Hello Young Lovers - Sparks
Ringleader Of The Tormentors - Morrissey
Cast Away The Clouds - Rose Melberg
Damaged - Lambchop
Real Life - Joan As Policewoman
Subtitulo - Josh Rouse
First Impressions Of Earth - The Strokes

 

[Jose]

I didn't buy a lot of albums this year, but my top 10 would be:

1) Morrissey - ROTT
2) Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
3) Placebo - Meds
4) Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
5) Fratellis - Costello Music
6) Veils - Nux Vomica
7) Tool - 10,000 Days
8) Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
9) Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say...
10) Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam

 

[Sister]

With the help of Q

Brilliant:
1.Morrissey – Ringleader of TheTormentors
2. Cat Power – The Greatest


Good:


3.Babyshambles - The blinding EP (Can I include EP?)
4.Broken Social Scene – s/t
5.Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
6.The Dresden Dolls
7.The Long Blondes

8.The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics
9.Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat
10.Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways

 

[Chartres]

1) "Ditt Hjärta Är En Stjärna" - Mattias Alkberg BD
2) "Eternity Now" - The Bear Quartet
3) "Många Mil Att Gå" - Navid Modiri & Gudarna
4) "The Seeger Sessions" - Bruce Springsteen
5) "Ampetechture" - The Mars Volta
6) "Ringleader Of The Tormentors" - Morrissey
7) "Hund" - Bo Kaspers Orkester
8) "The Life Pursuit" - Belle And Sebastian

To be edited when I remember some more worthy albums (god it's hard to separate 2005 and 2006).

 

[Jo Jo70]

In addition to ROTT, and in no particular order:

Midlake- The Trials of Van Occupanther
Arab Strap- Ten Years of Tears (sob!)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Show Your Bones
Roddy Woomble- My Secret Is My Silence (Kept me company in Mull and Iona this year)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers- Stadium Arcadium
Howling Bells
Belle and Sebastian- The Life Pursuit
Roddy Frame- Western Skies
Muse- Black Holes And Revelations
Coldplay- X and Y (Don't care-I like them!)

 

[SybilVane]

1. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
2. Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental
3. Moz - ROTT
4. The Dresden Dolls - Yes, Virginia
5. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas
6. Graham Coxon - Love Travels At Illegal Speeds
7. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
8. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
9. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
10. Beck - The Information

 

[Codreanu]

01) Small Town Boredom - Autumn Might Have Hope
02) Barzin - My Life in Rooms
03) Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
04) Trespassers William - Having
05) Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Etiquette
06) Jason Molina - Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go
07) Jandek - Glasgow Monday: The Cell
08) Nick Grey - Thieves Among Thorns
09) Piano Magic - Incurable
10) Damien Jurado - And Now That I'm in your Shadow

Honourable mention:
Lisa Germano - In the Maybe World
Pumice - Yeahnahvienna / Spears
Voices and Organs - Orphanage
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Melody Mountain
Thomas Mery - A ship, Like a Ghost, Like a Cell
Rivulets - You Are my Home
Arab Strap - 10 Years of Tears
Simon Joyner - Skeleton Blues
Mark Kozelek - Little Drummer Boy (Live)
Johann Johnnsson - IBM 1441: A Users Manual
The Low Lows - Fire On the Bright Sky
Nina Nastasia - On Leaving
Morrissey - Ringleader of the Tormentors
Sepia Hours - Linear Smooth Changes
Sibylle Baier - Colour Green
Library Tapes - Feelings for Something Lost
The Boats - Tomorrow Time
William Basinski - The Garden of Brokenness
Belong - October Language
Part Timer - s/t
Grouper - Wide
Painting Petals on Planet Ghost - s/t
Liz Durrett - The Mezzanine
Flying Canyon - s/t
Lambchop - Damaged
Fred Thomas - Sink Like a Symphony
W-S Burn - Birdsong in Stereo
El Perro del Mar - s/t
The Late Cord - Lights from the Wheelhouse
Xiu Xiu - Air Force
Scott Walker - The Drift
Devics - Push the Heart
Thee More Shallows - Monkey vs. Shark
Jandek - What Else Does the Time Mean?
Jessica Bailiff - Feels Like Home
Hush Arbors - Since we have Fallen
Corrina Repp - The Absent and the Distant
July Skies - Where the Days Go
Derek Delano - Open Wide Your Eyes