Top 5 – 2006

Year-End Top 5

Emily Allen
1. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
2. Cat Power – The Greatest
3. Thom Yorke – Eraser
4. Tom Waits – Bawlers, Brawlers and Bastards
5. The Black Angels – Passover

James Bennett
1. Band of Annuals – Live Warehouse EP
2. Frank Black – Fast Man Raider Man
3. Vile Blue Shades – We’re Here, We’re High
4. Tom Waits – Orphans
5. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

Angela Brown
1. Blackhole – S/T
2. Entrance – Prayer of Death
3. The Cunted – S/T
4. The Black Angels – Passover
5. Death by Salt II

Mike Brown
1. Fuck The Informer – Fuck Off!
2. Fuck The Informer – Fuck Off
3. Fuck The Informer – Fuck Off
4. Fuck The Informer – Fuck Off
5. Vile Blue Shades – We’re Here, We’re High

Bucket
1. Bouncing Souls – The Gold Album
2. Street Dogs – Fading American Dream
3. Johnny Cash – One Hundred Highways
4. The Independents – Eternal Boys
5. Ice Cube – Last Now…

Paul Butterfield
1. The Wolfs – Self-Titled
2. Paper Cranes – Escape to Wicked Mountain
3. Jealous – Self-Titled
4. Form of Rocket – Men
5. The Cunted – Self-Titled

Tom Carbone
1. Built to Spill – You In Reverse
2. The Velvet Teen – Cum Laude
3. TV on the Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
4. Joanna Newsom – YS
5. Asobi Seksu – Citrus

Chris Carter
1. Sunn O))) – Black One
2. The Mountain Goats – Get Lonely
3. Anaal Nathrakh – Eschaton
4. Cursive – Happy Hollow
5. Jesu – Silver

Ruby Claire
1. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
2. Jarvis Cocker – Jarvis
3. Animal Collective – Hollinndagain
4. Vile Blue Shades – We’re Here, We’re High
5. The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth

Bill Cruea
1. Wolfmother – Self-Titled
2. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
3. Goldfrapp – Supernature
4. Eagles of Death Metal – Death By Sexy
5. Ice Cube – Laugh Now, Cry Later

Adam Dorobiala
1. 2-pac – Pac’s Life
2. Beck – The Information
3. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
4. Tom Waits – Orphans
5. Junta Deville – Gitmo

Sara Edge
1. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
2. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
3. Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
4. The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers
5. Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope

Mike Eichorn
1. Daughters – Hell Songs
2. The Sword – Age of Winters
3. Ampere – Ebullition
4. Converge – No Heroes
5. Kill Chearleader – All Hail

Peter Fryer
1. The Thermals – The Body, the Blood, the Machine
2. Hold Steady – Boys and Girls in America
3. Have Heart – The Things We Carry
4. This is Hell – Sundowning
5. The Knife – Silent Shout

Andrew Glassett
1. Shedding – What God Doesn’t Bless You Won’t Love What You Don’t Love The Child Won’t Know
2. nonnon – Unreleased
3. Prurient – Pleasure Ground
4. Wolf Eyes – Human Animal
5. The Tenants of Balthazar’s Castle – Terror In Twelve Parts

Meghann Griggs
1. Napalm Death – Smear Campaign
2. Mastodon – Blood Mountain
3. Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
4. Eagles of Death Metal – Death By Sexy
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones

Jeff Guay
1. Bonnie Prince Billy – The Letting Go
2. The Mars Volta – Amputecthure
3. Vetiver – To Find Me Gone
4. Cat Power – The Greatest
5. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins – Rabbit Fur Coat

Jesse Kennedy
1. Gears of War
2. Bully
3. Elder Scrolls IV, Oblivion
4. Half Life Two, Episode One
5. Syphon Filter, Dark Mirror

James Hadden
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
2. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
3. The Strokes – First Impressions of the Earth
4. Rise Against – The Sufferer and the Witness
5. Tenacious D – The Pick of Destiny

Carmen Harris
1. Silversun Pickups – Carnavas
2. Band of Horses – Everything All The Time
3. Secret Machines – Ten Silver Drops
4. Fiery Furnaces – Bitter Tea
5. Eagles of Death Metal – Death By Sexy

Ruby Johnson
1. Bob Dylan – Modern Times
2. Jarvis Cocker – Jarvis
3. Animal Collective – Hollinndagain
4. Vile Blue Shades – We’re Here We’re High
5. The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth

Erik Lopez
1. New Blockaders – Les Changez Blockaders 25th Anniversary Edition
2. Entrance – Prayer of Death
3. Circle – Andexelt
4. Tony Conrad – Joan of Arc
5. Six Organs of Admittance – Sun Awakens