Only for those who don't have time to read tonnes of comments & replies. Just list your favorites.

My list:

1. Subtle: for hero, for fool
2. Tom Waits: Orphans
2. Bonnie Prince Billy: the letting go
3. Mogwai: Zidane
4. TV on the radio: return to cookie mountain
5. The knife: silent shout
6. The Great Depression: preaching the fire
7. Mono: you are there
8. Catpower: the greatest
9. Thom Yorke: the eraser
10. Hot chip: the warning
11. Belle & Sebastian: the life pursuit
12. Arctic monkeys: Whatever people..."
13. Comets on fire: avatar
14. Yo la tengo: "I'm not afraid.."
15. Sonic Youth: rather ripped
16. Clark: body riddle
17. Tapes'n tapes: the loon
18. Beach house: s/t
19. Tim Hecker: harmony in ultra violet
20. iliketrains: progress reform

01. Feu Thérèse - Feu Thérèse
02. The Decemberists - The crane wife
03. Destroyer - Destroyer's rubies
04. M. Ward - Post-war
05. Sunn 0))) & Earth - Angel coma split
06. The Slits - Revenge of the killer slits EP
07. Built To Spill - You in reverse
08. Sonic Youth - Rather ripped
09. Grandaddy - What happened to the fambly cat?
10. Band Of Horses - Everything all the time
11. Amy Millan - Honey from the tombs
12. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for light years in the belly of a mountain
13. Clinic - Visitations
14. The Black Heart Procession - The spell
15. Lily Allen - Alright still

Here's another rough draft. Should be able to submit to the other board soon. Lists are not in order.

Top 20 -

Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way
The Corrs - Home
Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea
Neil Young - Living With War
Nina Gordon - Bleeding Heart Graffiti
Damone - Out Here All Night
Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
The Charade - A Real Life Drama
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Josh Ritter - Animal Years
The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America
Susan Cagle - The Subway Recordings
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Indigo Girls - Despite Our Differences
Barenaked Ladies - Barenaked Ladies Are Me
Hem - Funnel Cloud
Alison Ray - Downside Up
The Format - Dog Problems
Thea Gilmore - Harpo's Ghost

Numbers 21-40 -

Those Transatlantics - Knocked Out
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
Tilly and the Wall - Bottoms of Barrels
Lillix - Inside The Hollow
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go
Ellery - Lying Awake
The Weepies - Say I Am You
Veruca Salt - IV
The Wreckers - Stand Still, Look Pretty
Alexz Johnson - Songs From Instant Star 2
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Ripley - Outtasite!
The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
Gomez - How We Operate
Cat Power - The Greatest
Pete Yorn - Nightcrawler
Rosanne Cash - Black Cadillac
Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
Persephone's Bees - Notes From The Underworld
Slumber Party - Musik

And ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Dixie Chicks - Taking The Long Way. Some albums might equal it musically, but this was really a bold comeback.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: MattD,

Good number one choice, Matt.

There are already at least three 2006 best-of lists. Don't read the comments if you don't want to, but please don't start threads that are duplicates of existing one.

And, for the record, you won't ever get people to stop putting comments simply by saying 'no comments'. Several have tried, all have failed.

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