When I started compiling this list I thought I was going to struggle to get a top 25 list. I soon realized that it was going to be a much more difficult task to keep it under 50. It is amazing how much great music is out there that we just have to scratch the surface a little to find. Some of you may notice that Hinder is not on my list. This was a tough decision for me, but in the long run I decided that the world’s worst band might not belong on a top 50 albums list. I do apologize to all of you angst ridden teens who couldn’t have made it through your breakup without the moving lyrics of ‘Lips of an Angel.’

Logan has taken extended Holiday leave so his top album list should be available sometime toward the end of the week.

I present to you my official Top 50 Albums of 2006 List. Please feel free to provide feedback by commenting.

50. Ratatat – Classics
49. The Rapture – Pieces of People we Love
48. Wolfmother – Wolfmother
47. Joanna Newsom – Y’s
46. The Walkmen – A Hundred Miles Off
45. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
44. Silversun Pickups – Carnavas
43. The Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People say I am, that’s what I’m not
42. Granddaddy – Just like the Fambly Cat
41. The Knife – Silent Shout
40. Kunek – Flight of the Flynn’s
39. Islands – Return to the Sea
38. Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche
37. The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – Show Your Bones
36. Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s – The Dust of Retreat
35. Tom Petty – Highway Companion
34. Cat Power – The Greatest
33. The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
32. My Morning Jacket – Okonokos
31. Beck – The Information
30. Neil Young – Living with War
29. Two Gallants – What the Toll Tells
28. Yo La Tango – I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
27. The Secret Machines – Ten Silver Drops
26. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
25. The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
24. Hot Chip – The Warning
23. Belle and Sebastian – The Life Pursuit
22. Tom Waits – Orphans
21. Ben Kweller – Ben Kweller
20. Sparklehorse – Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
19. Electric President – s/t
18. Starlight Mints – Drowaton
17. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
16. The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth
15. Junior Boys – So this is Goodbye
14. Evangelicals – So Gone
13. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
12. The Decemberist – The Crane Wife
11. Grizzly Bear – Yellow House

10. The Black Angels – Passover

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09. Coldwar Kids – Robbers and Cowards

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08. Jenny Lewis W/ The Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat

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07. Ghostland Observatory – Paparazzi lightning

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06. Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther

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05. Band of Horses – Everything all the Time

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04. The Flaming Lips – At War With the Mystics

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03. Muse – Black Holes and Revelations

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02. T.V on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain

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01. Lindsey Buckingham – Under the Skin

Here are a few songs from ‘Under the Skin’

Select songs from most of these albums can be heard at The Hype Machine.

Feedback is welcome so please feel free to comment.