2006-12-21 - 9:52 p.m. A year in the making! Its...My Musical Faves of 2006 List! (Commentary to follow) Top Ten: New Radiant Storm King - The Steady Hand Kelley Stoltz - Below the Branches Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit Tommy Keene - Crashing the Ether Oneida - Happy New Year Heartless Bastards - All This Time Cheap Trick - Rockford The Figgs - Follow Jean Through the Sea Robyn Hitchcock - Ole Tarantula Scritti Politti - White Bread Black beer Second-tier greats: Beck - The Information Bobby Bare Jr - The Longest Meow Hidden Cameras - Awoo Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers Tanya Donelly - This Hungry Life And these wonderful records are all honorable mention: Ray Davies - Other People's Lives Saint Low - Realistic Sparks - Hello Young Lovers Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off Paul Simon - Surprise Twilight Singers - Powder Burns The Brought Low - Right on Time Jurassic 5 - Feedback Loud Family & Anton Barbeau - What if it Works The Purrs - the Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of Tara Jane ONeil - In Circles Starflyer59 - My Island Mew - And The Glass Handed Kites Ecstatic Sunshine - Freckle Wars Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America Nikki Sudden - The Truth Doesn't Matter Annuals - Be He Me Great Lakes - Diamond Times Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer Pernice Brothers - Live a Little BellRays � Have a Little Faith Long Winters - Putting The Days To Bed Linda Ronstadt With Ann Savoy - Adieu False Heart Richard Buckner - Meadow The Ten 2006 Songs I Actually Listened to the Most, According to my iTunes: "Came a Long Way," Heartless Bastards "Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)," Beirut "Keep your Hands Off Her," The Black Keys "Museum Of Sex," Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 "The Suns Gliding!" Tom Verlaine "Blue Day," Heartless Bastards "Automation," Pernice Brothers "Borrow Your Cape," Bobby Bare, Jr. "Vernon Jackson," The Brought Low "Welcome To The World," Cheap Trick thoughts? (12 comments so far) previous - next blog archive contact