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2006

 

Belle & Sebastian – The Life Pursuit (Scottish indie pop)

Ben Folds - Supersunnyspeedgraphic, the LP (American alternative rock, remixed compilation of songs previously released on EP’s, singles and soundtrack albums)

Bennie Smith – All-Star Sessions (Live American electric blues)

Boards of Canada - Trans Canada Highway EP (Scottish electronic music, companion EP to their previous album The Campfire Headphase, featuring four new songs and two versions of the previously released single “Dayvan Cowboy”)


The Bottle Rockets – Zoysia (American alternative country)

Broadcast – The Future Crayon (English art rock, b-side and rarities compilation)

Comets On Fire – Avatar (American psychedelic rock, the band’s last album)

Damone – Out Here All Night (American power pop/hard rock)

Danileson – Ships (American art rock by the group previously known as Danielson Famile)

Dear Leader – The Alarmist (American indie rock/emo)

Disco Biscuits- Rocket 3 (Live album by American jam band)

Estradasphere – Palace Of Mirrors (American experimental rock, the band’s last album)

Flying Lotus – 1983 (American electronic music/trip hop, debut album)

Girl Talk – Night Ripper (American mashups)

The Handsome Family – Last Days Of Wonder (American alternative country)

The Hold Steady – Boys and Girls In America (American alternative rock)

Joanna Newsom – Ys (American progressive folk)

Johnny Cash – American V: A Hundred Highways (American folk/country)

Mastodon – Blood Mountain (American progressive metal)

Ratatat – Classics (American electronic rock)

Robby Roadsteamer – Postcards From The Den of Failure (American comedy rock)

The Roots – Game Theory (American Hip Hop)

Venetian Snares - Cavalcade Of Glee And Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms (Canadian electronic music)

Venetian Snares – Hospitality (Canadian electronic music, EP)

Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards (American rock, 3 disc rarity/outtake compilation where each disc has a loose theme – one disc of blues/rock songs, one of ballads, one of experimental pieces)

The Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics (American alternative rock)

Grails – Black Tar Prophecies Vol. 1, 2, and 3 (American post-rock)

The Mars Volta – Amputechture (American progressive rock)

Thom Yorke – The Eraser (English electronic rock, solo debut for Radiohead singer)

“Weird Al” Yankovic – Straight Outta Lynwood (American comedy music/parody)

J Dilla – Donuts (American instrumental hip-hop)

Taylor Swift – Taylor Swift (American country/pop rock, debut)

The Killers – Sam’s Town (American alternative rock)

Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (English alternative rock, debut album)

Justin Timberlake – FutureSex/LoveSounds (American pop/electro r and b)

The Beatles – Love (English rock remix/mashup album, soundtrack to a theatrical production by Cirque Du Soleil)

Ministry – Rio Grande Blood (American industrial metal, the second part of a trilogy of political protest albums)

Neil Young – Living With War (Canadian rock/”folk metal”)


Notes: I approached this one a little differently - around this same time I was working on backing up albums I had cd copies or downloads of; I therefore started by putting all the albums I had labeled as being from 2006 into one playlist and methodically going through them, usually 2 or more albums a day. After that point I started picking out a few albums on Spotify to round it off. 

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