Tscott

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
3. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
4. Cat Power - The Greatest
5. The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes (import or download only in US)
6. Beck - The Information
7. Lisa Germano - in the maybe world
8. Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head
9. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
10. Tonya Donelly - This Hungry Life

11. White Whale - WWI
12. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
13. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Nothing But the Water
14. Allison Moorer - Getting Somewhere
15. Katie Medula - Piece By Piece
16. His Name is Alive - Detrola
17. Calexico - Garden Ruin
18. Heartless Bastards - All This Time
19. RobinElla - Solace for the Lonely
20. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat

21. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
22.Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afriad of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
23. Persephone's Bees - Notes From The Underworld
24. Kaki King - Until We Felt Red
25. Kasey Chambers - Carnival
26. Ani Difranco - Reprieve
27. Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords
28. Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris - All the Roadrunning
29. The Ditty Bops - Moon Over the Freeway
30. The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea

31. Stereolab - Fab Four Suture
32. Android Lust - Devour, Rise and Take Flight
33. The Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love
34. Johnny Cash - A Hundred Highways
35. The Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
36. Drive-By Truckers - A Blessing and A Curse
37. The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
38. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
39. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs - Under the Covers Vol. 1
40. Christina Aguilera - Back to basics

41. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
42. The Dresden Dolls - Yes Virginia...
43. Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Brave and the Bold
44. Shannon McNally - North American Ghost Music
45. Some Girls - Crushing Love
46. Finn's Motel - Escape Velocity
47. The Concretes - In Color
48. Pauline Scanlon - Hush
49. Rin' - Inland Sea
50. KT Tunstall - Eye to the Telescope

51. Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
52. Nina Gordon - Bleeding Heart Graffiti
53. Goldfrapp - Supernature
54. Mindy Smith - Long Island Shores
55. Jewel - Goodbye Alice in Wonderland
56. The Sounds - Dying to Say This to You
57. Nelly Furtado - Loose

Cosmic Bus

I considered going past 30 but that's veering into anal-retentive territory for me.

1. Trentemoller, Last Resort
2. Black Angels, Passover
3. Josh Ritter, Animal Years
4. Mystery Jets, Making Dens
5. M Craft, Silver and Fire
6. Greenmachine, Archives of Rotten Blues
7. Asobi Seksu, Citrus
8. Benoît Pioulard, Précis
9. Ryan Teague, Coins and Crosses
10. Catfish Haven, Please Come Back EP

11. Belong, October Language
12. Alex Smoke, Paradolia
13. Gojira, From Mars to Sirius
14. Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story
15. Augie March, Moo, You Bloody Choir
16. Xela, The Dead Sea
17. Mellowdrone, Box
18. Little Ones, Sing Song EP
19. Drive-By Truckers, A Blessing and a Curse
20. Isis, In the Absence of Truth

21. Comets On Fire, Avatar
22. Man Man, Six Demon Bag
23. Phelan Sheppard, Harps Old Master
24. Shearwater, Palo Santo
25. Fucked Up, Hidden World
26. Loka, Fire Shepherds
27. Nathan Fake, Drowning In the Sea of Love
28. Jeffrey Foucault, Ghost Repeater
29. Aereogramme, My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
30. The Sword, Age of Winters

glasschicken

My updates on page three. Might hear a few more before the year is over.

dork

Here's my list. I doubt I'll be updating it anymore. I have loads of other stuff, but I think I managed to list pretty much everything I was at all excited about and I don't know if it's worth it to me to start digging through stacks and shelves looking for anything with a 2006 date, considering how little Geoff pays per post.

KingFunk

Figured I'd get in on this for the final tally.

10. M. Ward - Post War
09. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
08. Josh Ritter - The Animal Years
07. Ray LaMontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black
06. The Black keys - Magic Potion
05. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
04. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
03. We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor
02. The Pipettes - Meet the Pipettes
01. The Hidden Cameras - Awoo

auto

Just a few more days to get your lists posted/updated. I'll start a new thread for next year soon. Happy Holidays to everybody!

dork

My top 10 for next year. Please add them to the new thread. Thanks!

10 North Dakota, Sufjan Stevens
9 Fargo: Outtakes from "North Dakota", Sufjan Stevens
8 The String Quartet Tribute to Sufjan Stevens's "North Dakota", Sufjan Stevens
7 Third Time's the Charm: Outtakes from "Fargo: Outtakes from 'North Dakota'", Sufjan Stevens
6 'N Da Kota (Timbaland Remixes), Timbaland (ft. Pharrell (ft. Sufjan Stevens))
5 A Sufjan Stevens Easter, Pt. 2 (box set, discs 6-10), Sufjan Stevens
4 Sufjan Stevens Sings the Ryan Adams Songbook (box set/string theory paradox), Sufjan Stevens
3 South Dakota, "Weird Al" Yankovic
2 A Sufjan Stevens Easter, Pt. 3 (box set, discs 11-18), Sufjan Stevens
1 Chinese Democracy, Sufjan Stevens

Bugg

I wonder what happened to alexcuse, He has ranked over 300 albums but hasn't updated since 09-07-06 at 06:43 PM. It would suck to see such a big list go incomplete.

Tscott

I just want to make sure on a point here. If an album was released in September of 2005 (I don't know how big a release it was) and then re-released with an extra track and a bigger push in 2006, that would make it ineligible for this list, right? That's what happened with Giant Drag's - Hearts and Unicorns which was easily my most listened to album this year. I'm fine with leaving it off my list (I had it at #5 at one point until I found out about the previous release date) but I enjoyed this album so much I hate to leave it off if I don't need to.

DJLinus

Finally gave my rankings one last update. I had to leave some albums unevaluated since I couldn't give them a good listen. I wanted my list to be included in the final tally, so them's the breaks.

auto

Unfortunately, that would be a Best of 2005 album. IMO, the re-release in 2006 was basically just a reissue. No different than releasing an album made in 1995 with bonus tracks.

auto

Agreed.....but it would be unfair to use his list if he hasn't taken into account any albums released in the last four months either. If we allowed lists that we're never updated, The Strokes would still be firmly implanted in the top ten simply because they released their album in January '06.

DrRingDing

I updated my list one last time. I will be changing it no more.

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showpost.ph...7&postcount=91

CreatureX

Final update!

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showpost.ph...2&postcount=98

alexcuse

After 300+ albums, I simply got too busy/lazy to update and then just lost track. Here's how I'd rank my top twenty right now (based on US release dates):

1. Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
2. The Strokes - First Impressions of Earth
3. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
4. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
5. Jay Chou - Still Fantasy
6. Hoobastank - Every Man for Himself
7. Mylo - Destroy Rock & Roll
8. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
9. Damien Rice - 9
10. The Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea
11. Plain White T's - Every Second Counts
12. The Knife - Silent Shout
13. She Wants Revenge - She Wants Revenge
14. Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
15. Jack Johnson & Friends - Sing-A-Longs & Lullabies for the Film Curious George
16. Action Action - An Army of Shapes Between Wars
17. Nelly Furtado - Loose
18. Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse
19. The Killers - Sam's Town
20. Incubus - Light Grenades