1. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit (Rough Trade)
2. Liars - Drums Not Dead (Mute)
3. Junior Boys – So This Is Goodbye (Domino)
4. Robyn – Robyn (Konichiwa Records)
5. The Knife - Silent Shout (Rabid/Mute)
6. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (Domino)
7. Gomez - How We Operate (ATO)
8. LCD Soundsystem – 45:33 (iTunes)
9. Delays – You See Colours (Rough Trade UK)
10. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies (Merge)
11. The Fiery Furnaces – Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
12. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (Capitol)
13. Muse - Black Holes and Revelations (Warner Bros)
14. The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth (RCA)
15. Rachel Stevens - Come and Get It (Universal UK)
16. Built To Spill – You In Reverse (Warner Bros)
17. Thom Yorke – The Eraser (XL Recordings)
18. Dirty Pretty Things – Waterloo (Interscope)
19. Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops (Reprise)
20. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain (Astralwerks)
21. Comets On Fire - Avatar (Sub Pop)
22. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House (Warp)
23. Tool -10,000 Days (Tool/Volcano)
24. White Rose Movement - Kick (Independiente UK)
25. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time (Sub Pop)
26. Wolfmother – Wolfmother (Modular/Interscope)
27. Cold War Kids – Robbers & Cowards (Downtown)
28. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness – Fear Is On Our Side (Secretly Canadian)
29. Lemon Jelly – '64-'95 (XL Recordings)
30. Seafood - Paper Crown King (Cooking Vinyl)

I've lost my mind!

Been away and now I see all these lists with some tentative ones thrown in for good measure. So I threw something together but still have a lot of listening to do before I make it official. This year I might go all out on my list but will see if I actually have the time to put my full plan in motion. 2006 has been such a good year for music and will probably double this list by the time everything is said and done.

My self-imposed deadline is January 15, like it has been for the last ten or so years.

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Maybe it has to do with the "Uh, this might perhaps be my tentative top (maybe) 30...I think!"

Shit...that was this year? I like that one too, but I thought it was '05 and I just caught on a year later or something...

Secret Machines, Junior Boys, and Muse are all in my top 10. ILYBICD could have been so much more.

I actually like their comp album Five Men In A Hut better.

Oh, that is a list of albums from 2006. Your ordering is correct/incorrect/uninteresting.