We've posted our Top 50 over at DOA and of course our individual writer's lists.

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1. Acid Mothers Temple - Starless & Bible Black Sabbath

2. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

3. Kayo Dot - Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue

4. The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed

5. Band of Horses - Everything All the Time

6. Decemberists - The Crane Wife

7. Liars - Drum's Not Dead

8. Owen - At Home With Owen

9. Joanna Newsom - Ys

10. Bob Dylan - Modern Times

11. Candy Bars - Cutting Tigers in Half and Understanding Narravation

12. TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

13. Ghostface Killah - Fish Scale

14. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass

15. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies

16. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar

17. Mahogany - Connectivity!

18. Now It's Overhead - Dark Light Daybreak

19. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

20. Old Crow Medicine Show - Big Iron World

21. The Brother Kite - Waiting For the Time to be Right

22. Calexico - Garden Ruin

23. Comets On Fire - Avatar

24. Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea

25. Hinkley - Estate Sale

26. The Knife - Silent Shout

27. Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - The Dust of Retreat

28. Moneen - The Red Tree

29. Om - Conference of the Birds

30. Paik - Monster of the Absolute

31. Portastatic - Be Still Please

32. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go

33. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit

34. Field Music - Write Your Own History

35. Grails - Black Tar Prophesies Vol. 1,2, & 3

36. Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America

37. Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways

38. Mastodon - Blood Mountain

39. Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid

40. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet

41. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

42. Cat Power - The Greatest

43. Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint - The River in Reverse

44. Johann Johannsson - IBM 1401: A User's Manual

45. Lambchop - Damaged

46. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming

47. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon

48. Man Man - Six Demon Bag

49. Nas - Hip Hop is Dead

50. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal



Happy New Year!

wow,have I got some bands to learn about!

I just bookmarked DoA purely on the strength of that list. Any list that tosses in Margot and the Nuclear So and So's is good in my book. I liked the inclusion of Lambchop, Field Music, Owen, and the Long Winters. That list also reminded me that the new Calexico record, which doesn't sound like the Calexico of old, was a really nice alt-country record.

I'll make visiting DoA a regular stop from now on.

I went through all the individual lists and got a few ideas for new stuff to check out. That's more than I can say for just about any other year-end list I've seen.

Awesome. That's the best thing I can say about a year end list, that it makes me go back and check out some records that I might have otherwise missed. Most of the sites or magazines that I read on a regular basis had at least one or two things that I ended up checking out after seeing their year end lists.

Interesting list. I love the inclusions of The Long Winters and Margot... They're two that are on my list, but ones I haven't really seen much on any others.

jb...

You write for DoA, right?

Which one is your list, out of curiosity? Your taste and mine are probably polar opposites, but I'm still interested in what you loves in 2006.

I'll venture a guess that JBrisby is Mike Tobey...just a hunch.

No, EDIT - JBrisby is Joe Davenport...mark my words.

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Originally posted by Il Mago:
I'll venture a guess that JBrisby is Mike Tobey...just a hunch.

No, EDIT - JBrisby is Joe Davenport...mark my words.

That seems right, given the things he says about Joanna Newsom. I'll wait for confirmation.

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No, EDIT - JBrisby is Joe Davenport...mark my words.

You are correct sir.

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Originally posted by jonathanbrisby:

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No, EDIT - JBrisby is Joe Davenport...mark my words.

You are correct sir.

What did I win?

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What did I win?

Nothing! Absolutely nothing! You so stupid!

Ouch, no Grizzly Bear? That pains me.

Yeah unfortunately no Grizzly Bear. Although I didn't have that record in my personal year end list either, I was expecting it to pop up somewhere on the overall staff list and there simply weren't enough votes. Great record though.

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What did I win?

Nothing! Absolutely nothing! You so stupid!

By the way, in case anyone thinks I'm being mean, that's a UHF reference.

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE!!!!
That's mad dope. I have a special bond with AMT. My first date with my year-and-a-half long girlfriend was at an Acid Mothers Temple concert. Plus, they're the only band I've seen to not only have XXL shirts, but to not charge extra for them (I'm 6'7, big shoulders).

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Originally posted by less_success:

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What did I win?

Nothing! Absolutely nothing! You so stupid!

By the way, in case anyone thinks I'm being mean, that's a UHF reference.

I got it.

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Originally posted by less_success:

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What did I win?

Nothing! Absolutely nothing! You so stupid!

By the way, in case anyone thinks I'm being mean, that's a UHF reference.

...so I can stop crying now??

Yes, I got it. Not the reference, but the joke. No worries home-fry.

Just wanted to say I enjoyed JGlass's review of Epo-555's album, Mafia. It intrigued me enough that I've hunted it down and will listen to it as soo as I get the chance.

Yay!

Hmmm?