Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2006 poll

ughhh not having the option to vote for The Thermals

omg b'day

Am I the only St. Elsewhere stan? It's spotty for sure, even ten years ago when it was in my rotation there were plenty of skips (I probably hate that Femmes cover as much as Austin does) but there is a great, great ~35min record hiding in there

xpost It took me ten years to finally realize that that album was named after something you wash your ass with, but it was worth the journey.

I have been waiting for this poll solely so I could vote Silent Shout.

St. Elsewhere: the best OutKast album of 2006.

PARIS HILTON - PARIS

I didn't know about the Silversun Pickups album right when it was released but over the next 4-5 years it probably became the '06 release I listened to most frequently.

C.S.S. was my AOTY as of 12/31/06.

Has it already been ten years since you had so many fine choices? ...the last half-decade-or-so hasn't seemed to produce nearly as much leftfield greatness -- at least 1/3 of the list ties for first place!

albums just missing getting my vote are Boys and Girls in America, The Life Pursuit. The Life Pursuit and Drum's Not Deadg.

one of those Life should have been Yellow House.

and So This Is Goodbye.

yknow Lupe Fiasco may not have released the best album of 2006 but it probably was the best cover art

i'm looking at albums from 2006 and *barfs* i guess that's why i mostly just bought a bunch of tech house singles that year

the knife is the clear winner here you degenerates

the other clear winners are cat power and beirut

pat cower

i really really hated that beirut album, it probably led me to postpone quitting tobacco

St. Elsewhere: the best OutKast album of 2006.

well, cee-lo is dungeon family after all..

grab your ticket! (tickeeeeeet)

I quite like "Smiley Faces" myself. I tend to think 2006 stands up better as a 'singles' year, but I've never listened to Ys either

yup! "smiley faces" is great! dunno why "crazy" got all the attention, it's good and all, but "smiley faces" could have used at least half of that heat. feel like "crazy" reached near "all-star" level ubiquity, which kind of spoiled everything I guess, but there are at least four tracks on that record that are as good or better.

even today, I was living in a studio apartment in Portland months ago and the only noise I heard from the neighbor was either very loud sex or a lady running thru her cover of "crazy".

but what about "feng shui"?

this really doesn't feel like 10 years ago...

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Burial, Ys and Van Occupanther. To be fair, and given what came after, even Midlake seem a little baffled by how transcendent Van Occupanther is.

The knife album might be my favorite from this last decade.

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i think this is the first time ever that a number one on this Acclaimed list that got zero votes, could be wrong though.

i need to investigate this Scott Walker album.

i missed this, i would have gone for the eraser. that's the kind of electronic music that touches me.

Acclaimed Music Top 30 Albums from 2007 poll

Just remembered last night that Yo La Tengo's I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU AND I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS was not included, would've voted for that. Amazing record, by far their best.