I ranked all of the 2006 albums I listened to this year. First time I had made something other than a Top 20 list, and it was kinda cool. Will prob do it for the forseeable future.

1. TV on the Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
2. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
3. Tapes n Tapes - The Loon
4. Envy - Insomniac Daze
5. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
6. Band Of Horses - Everything All The Time
7. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
8. Mono - You Are There
9. The Brother Kite - Waiting For The Time To Be Right
10. Ladyhawk - Ladyhawk
11. Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
12. Xiu Xiu - The Air Force
13. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
14. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
15. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
16. Drive By Truckers - A Blessing and a Curse
17. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
18. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
19. Gregor Samsa - 55:12
20. Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block

21 Man Man - Six Demon Bag
22 Murder By Death - In Bocca Al Lupo
23 Girl Talk - Night Ripper
24 Masta Killa - Made in Brooklyn
25 Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
26 The Album Leaf - Into the Blue Again
27 Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
28 La Rocca - The Truth
29 Thom Yorke - The Eraser
30 Belong - October Language
31 Built to Spill - You In Reverse
32 Boris - Pink
33 Lucero - Rebels, Rogues, and Sworn Brothers
34 The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
35 Bobby Bare Jr’s Young Criminals Starvation League - The Longest Meow
36 Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - The Letting Go
37 Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
38 Damien Rice - 9
39 Islands - Return to the Sea
40 Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and Will Beat Your Ass

41 The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
42 Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
43 Solomon Burke - Nashville
44 Van Morrison - Pay the Devil
45 Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
46 Ghostface Killah - More Fish
47 Cat Power - The Greatest
48 Beck - The Information
49 The Strokes - First Impression of the Earth
50 Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence
51 Ratatat - Classics
52 Comets on Fire - Avatar
53 The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off
54 Espers - II
55 Placebo - Meds
56 Willie Nelson - Songbirds
57 Golden Smog - Another Fine Day
58 Editors - The Back Room
59 Zach Hill and Mick Barr - Shred Earthship
60 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

61 Eef Barzelay - Bitter Honey
62 Shearwater - Palo Santo
63 Jr. Ewing - Maelstrom
64 The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
65 Keane - Under the Iron Sea

What is Spankrock?

I think I need to hear the Clipse.

"dirty" indie hip hop.......

Lots of people here seem to like it lots (me included, obvi), but I'm not sure it would be your cup of tea, Timmy. You don't have a single hip hop or rap artist in your top 20.

I really liked this, but figured most people wouldn't.

Nice list. We've got some similarities, as usual, and some not. I still need to listen to Peter, Bjorn & John. Also would like to hear that KFW album.

What is Envy?

Yea, I don't like "the rap" so much.
I do like Blackalicious, and hip hop songs that get radio play.

I like Hella, but have started to grown tired of them and that type of music recently. I probably would have really been into this album (Shred Earthship) a few years ago in college.

PBJ (heh) was a latecomer, but really hit me hard. It might have climbed even higher if I had more of a chance to listen to it.

I could prob hook you up with the KFW if you are interested. It's pretty good and has moments of transcendence, but is somewhat hard to digest since its one long track 40+ minutes long.

Envy is a japanese post-rock/post-hardcore band signed to Temporary Residence. Pretty intense music, it can be really beautiful and then pummeling in a matter of moments. Screaming vox mostly, and all in japanese.

It's been widely verified that Tommy's got great taste and I'll be checking out a lot of these at some point soon.

I just got that Envy last week and haven't had enough chances to listen to it yet, but so far it's pretty great.

I'm surprised you've got Palo Santo ranked so low, Tommy.