The Best Rock Albums of 2006

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Best of Rock 2006
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    8/10
  1. Joanna Newsom: Ys (Drag City)
    7.5/10
  2. Carla Bozulich: Evangelista (Constellation)
  3. TV On The Radio: Return To Cookie Mountain (4AD)
  4. Shit And Shine: Jealous of Shit and Shine (Riot Season)
  5. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon (Kranky)
    7/10
  6. Subtle: For Hero For Fool (Astralwerks)
  7. Liars: Drum's Not Dead (Mute)
  8. KTL: KTL (Editions Mego)
  9. Grails: Black Tar Prophecies Vol's 1, 2, & 3 (Important, 2006)
  10. Fred Frith: Impur (ReR)
  11. White Flight: White Flight (Range Life)
  12. Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
  13. Volcano The Bear: Classic Erasmus Fusion (Beta-Lactam Ring)
  14. Boxhead Ensemble: Nocturnes (Atavistic)
  15. Erdem Helvacioglu: Altered Realities (New Albion)
  16. Christina Carter: Electrice (Kranky)
  17. Man Man: Six Demon Bag (Ace Fu)
  18. Shogun Kunitoki: Tasankokaiku (Fonal)
  19. Loscil: Plume (Kranky)
  20. Beirut: Gulag Orkestar (BaDaBing)
  21. Angel: In Transmediale (Oral)
  22. Ooioo: Taiga (Thrill Jockey)
  23. Daniel Higgs: Ancestral Songs (Holy Mountain)
  24. Brightblack Morning Light: Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)
  25. Scott Walker: Drift (4AD)
  26. Alejandro Escovedo: The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)
  27. Tarentel: Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun (The Music Fellowship)
  28. Built To Spill: You In Reverse (Warner Bros)
  29. Clipse: Hell Hath No Fury (Star Trak)
  30. Burial: Burial (Hyperdub)
  31. Avarus: II (HP Cycle)
  32. Black Boned Angel: Bliss And Void Inseparable (20 Buck Spin)
  33. Machinefabriek: Marijn (Lampse)
  34. Ruins Of Beverast: Rain Upon The Impure (Van)
  35. Shearwater: Palo Santo (Misra)
Playlist
  1. Fiery Furnaces: The Vietnamese Telephone Ministry
  2. Beirut: Postcards From Italy
  3. Fiery Furnaces: Bitter Tea
  4. Black Heart Procession: The Spell
  5. Cursive: Dorothy at Forty
  6. Velvet Teen: Gyzmkid
  7. Fiery Furnaces: Nevers
  8. Cursive: At Conception
  9. Slow Learner: Martyr
  10. Yo La Tengo: Point and Shoot
  11. Woven Hand: Dirty Blue
  12. Comets On Fire: Holy Teeth
  13. Built To Spill: Wherever You Go
  14. Ooioo: Ioa
  15. Band Of Horses: The Funeral
  16. Dresden Dolls: Shores Of California
  17. Band Of Horses: Great Salt Lake
  18. M Ward: Right In The Head
  19. Sloan: Who Taught You to Live Like That
  20. Beach House: Apple Orchard

Extended tracks
  1. Joanna Newsom: Only Skin
  2. Shit And Shine: Practicing To Be A Doctor
  3. LCD Soundsystem: 45:33
  4. Angel: In Transmediale
  5. Joanna Newsom: Emily
  6. Carla Bozulich: Evangelista I
  7. Keith Fullerton Whitman: Lisbon
  8. Fred Frith: Impur
  9. Joanna Newsom: Sawdust & Diamonds
  10. KTL: Estranged
  11. Mono: Moonlight
  12. Ooioo: Sai
  13. Kayo Dot: On Limpid Form
  14. Built To Spill: Goin' Against Your Mind
  15. Sunn O))): Bathory Erzebet
  16. Black Boned Angel: Bliss And Void Inseparable
  17. Daevid Allen, Steve Hillage, etc: Glissando Orchestra
  18. Shit And Shine: Toilet Door Tits
  19. Boxhead Ensemble: Noctune 10
  20. KTL: Forest Floor
  21. Six Organs of Admittance: River Of Transfiguration
  22. Necks: Fatal
  23. Decemberists: The Mariner's Revenge Song
  24. Fred Frith: The Happy End Problem
  25. P.G. Six: The Book Of Rayguns
  26. Wolf Eyes: Rationed Rot
  27. Scott Walker: Cue
  28. Oneida: Up With People
  29. Town And Country: Up Above
  30. Jan Jelinek: Happening Tone
  31. Charalambides: Black Bed Blues
  32. Loscil: Charlie
  33. Scott Walker: Clara
Jazz
  1. Acoustic Ladyland: Skinny Grinn (Babel)
  2. Territory Band: Collide (Okkadisc)
  3. Kenny Garrett: Beyond the Wall
  4. Tomasz Stanko: Lontano
  5. Zeena Parkins: Necklace
  6. Andrew Hill: Time Lines
  7. Dave Holland: Critical Mass
  8. Paul Motian: Garden of Eden

By genre:

Songwriters

Post-rock
Psychedelia

Electronica

Progressive

Punk/hardcore

Dance
Heavy rock

Instrumental
  1. Erdem Helvacioglu: Altered Realities (New Albion)

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Britain

Germany
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Rest of Europe
Australia

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