Wednesday, January 3, 2001

McQ's Favorite Albums Of 2006

Last updated 09.11.2015

HIGHEST RECOMMENDS

1. 'Sno Angel Like You - Howe Gelb: Initially hailed and then quickly forgotten, this loose, joyous, little-heard country/gospel/blues-rocker has only come to sound better with the passage of time, and with its dynamic juxtaposition of soaring and earthbound moments, remains one of the most singular and impressive releases of the Aughts.





2. Alright, Still - Lily Allen


STRONG RECOMMENDS
3. Silent Shout - The Knife
4. Gulag Orkestra - Beirut
5. Destoyer's Rubies - Destroyer
6. Fishscale - Ghostface Killah
7. Black Cadillac - Rosanne Cash
8. Roots And Crowns - Califone
9. Hell Hath No Fury - Clipse
10. Tropicalia: A Revolution In Sound - Various Artists
11. Nashville - Solomon Burke
12. Ys - Joanna Newsom
13. Eyes Open - Snow Patrol
14. Boys And Girls In America - The Hold Steady
15. The Drift - Scott Walker
16. Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers

SOLID RECOMMENDS
17. The Warning - Hot Chip
18. I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass - Yo La Tengo
19. Back To Black - Amy Winehouse
20. We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - Bruce Springsteen
21. Modern Times - Bob Dylan
22. Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards - Tom Waits
23. Tiaga - OOIOO
24. You In Reverse - Built To Spill
25. The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
26. Transparent Things - Fujiya & Miyagi
27. Return To Cookie Mountain - TV On The Radio
28. At War With The Mystics - The Flaming Lips
29. We The Vehicles - Maritime
30. Death By Sexy - Eagles Of Death Metal
31. Begin To Hope - Regina Spektor
32. A Blessing And A Curse - The Dirty South
33. We Are The Pipettes
34. 10,000 Days - Tool
35. Through The Windowpanes - Guillermots
36. Scale - Matthew Herbert
37. Fox Confessor Brings The Flood - Neko Case
38. The Life Pursuit - Belle And Sebastian
39. A Vintage Burden - The Charlambides
40. Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys
41. Rather Ripped - Sonic Youth
42. Pieces Of The People We Love - The Rapture
43. Etiquette - Casiotones For The Painfully Alone
44. The Trails Of Van Occupanther - Midlake
45. Pearl Jam
46. Avatar - Comets Of Fire
47. The Obliterati - Mission Of Burma
48. The Greatest - Cat Power
49. Get Yr Blood Sucked Out - Viva Voce
50. The Rose Has Teeth In The Name Of The Beast - Matmos

MILD RECOMMENDS
51. Show Your Bones - The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs
52. Love Travels At Illegal Speeds - Graham Coxon
53. Nuclear Daydream - Joseph Arthur
54. Black Holes And Revelations - Muse
55. One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This - New York Dolls
56. Post War - M. Ward
57. How We Operate - Gomez
58. Broken Boy Soldiers - The Raconteurs
59. Jarvis - Jarvis Cocker
60. The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance
61. Magic Potion - The Black Keys
62. Happy New Year - Oneida
63. Espers II
64. Serena Meneesh
65. The Boxing Mirror - Alejandro Escovedo
66. Citrus - Asobi Sesku
67. The Body, The Blood, The Machine - The Thermals
68. For Hero: For Fool - Subtle
69. Ben Kweller
70. The Sun Awakens - Six Organs Of Admittance
71. The Eraser - Thom Yorke
72. Writers Block - Peter, Bjorn, & John
73. Mr. Beast - Mogwai
74. Return To The Sea - Islands
75. Living With War - Neil Young
76. Garden Ruin - Calexico
77. American Highway V - Johnny Cash
78. Everything All The Time - Band Of Horses
79. Notes For The Underworld - Persephone's Bee
80. Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco
81. Pretty Little Head - Nellie McKay
82. The City And The Town - Los Lobos
83. The Information - Beck
84. Meek Warrior - Akron/Family

YOU DECIDE
85. Ballad Of The Broken Seas - Isobell Campbell and Mark Lanegan
86. St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley
87. Game Theory - The Roots
88. Savanne - Ali Fourke Toure
89. The DFA Remixes Chapter One
90. Some Echoes - Aloha
91. Fort Recovery - Centro-matic
92. Get Lonely - The Mountain Goats
93. Damage - Lambchop
94. Chosen Lords - Aphex Twin
95. Radiodread - The Easy Star All-Stars
96. Black Bread, White Beer - Scritti Politti
97. Here's My Song - Nicolai Dunger
98. In Bocca Al Lupo - Murder By Death
99. Blood Mountain - Mastodon
100. Young Machetes - The Blood Brothers
101. Leaving Songs - Stuart Staples
102. The Letting Go - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
103. Under The Covers - Matthew Sweet And Susanna Hoffs
104. So This Is Goodbye - Junior Boys
105. Yellow House - Grizzly Bear
106. Ships - Danielson
107. Shut Up, I'm Dreaming - Sunset Rubdown
108. Estandue Da Pagode - Tom Ze
109. Donuts - J. Dilla
110. Lantern - The Cloggs
111. The Last Romance - The Arab Strap
112. News And Tributes - The Futureheads
113. Under The Iron Sea - Keane
114. Drums Not Dead - The Liars
115. A City By Light Divided - Thursday
116. Beast Moans - Swan Lake

2006 Albums Of Critical Note I've Yet To Process In Full
Burial
FutureSex/LoveSounds - Justin Timberlake
It's Never Been Like That - Phoenix
Let's Get Out Of This Country - Camera Obscura
Night Ripper - Girl Talk
Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis And The Watson Twins
Standing In The Way Of Control - The Gossip
West Coasts/Yearbook 1 - Studio

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