i finally forced myself to do it. i just got a whole load of new 2006 stuff to listen to, but if i didnt force myself to do it now i probably wouldnt have done it. so, here it is.

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TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain

Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

The Roots - Game Theory

Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped

Boris - Pink

Beck - The Information

Hell Is For Heroes - Transmit Disrupt

Embrace - This New Day

Califone - Roots and Crowns

Alexisonfire - Crisis

Mono - You Are There

Silversun Pickups - Carnavas

Built To Spill - You In Reverse

Pilate - Sell Control For Life's Speed

Plan B - Who Needs Actions When You Got Words

Shack - The Corner Of Miles And Gill

AFX - Chosen Lords

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

The Hold Steady - Boys And Girls In America

Honourable Mentions
Eleventh Dream Day - Zeroes And Ones
The Kooks - Inside In Inside Out
Cat Power - The Greatest
Young And Sexy - Panic When You Find It
Under Byen - Samme Stof Som Stof
The Mystery Jets - Making Dens
The Blood Brothers - Young Machetes
Tara Jane O'Neil - In Circles
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
Mountains - Sewn
Los Lobos - The Town And The City
James Dean Bradfield - The Great Western
Belong - October Language

Only other mention of Los Lobos at all so far... and Grizzly Bear top 5.

Beck in the top ten!


*high five*

this has popped up in enough lists to make me think I should give it another shot...I dismissed it pretty quickly when it came out