Year-End Redux
There's no real reason to post this again, but here's my definitive list. The first time I've ever done a Top 50! They're numbered, but the ranking is obviously pretty loose. It was a good year!

TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2006
1. Destoyer - rubies
2. Joanna Newsom - ys
3. Swan Lake - beast moans
4. Beach House - s/t
5. Clipse - hell hath no fury
6. Grizzly Bear - yellow house
7. Final Fantasy - he poos clouds
8. Akron/Family - meek warrior
9. The Knife - silent shout
10. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - the letting go
11. Subtle - for hero: for fool
12. Thom Yorke - the eraser
13. Ariel Pink - house arrest
14. White Magic - dat rosa mel apibus
15. Ladyhawk - s/t
16. Six Organs of Admittance - the sun awakens
17. Lindstrom - it's a feedelity affair/Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - s/t
18. Luomo - paper tigers
19. Psychic Ills - dins
20. Fiery Furnaces - bitter tea
21. Oneida - happy new year
22. Pink Mountaintops - axis of evol
23. The Skygreen Leopards - disciples of california
24. Wechsel Garland - easy
25. Euros Childs - chops
26. Vetiver - to find me gone
27. Wooden Wand and the Sky High Band - second attention
28. Excepter - alternation
29. Burial - s/t
30. Charalambides - a vintage burden
31. Kode9 + the Spaceape - memories of the future
32. Lady Sovereign - public warning
33. Gnarls Barkley - st. elsewhere
34. Brightblack Morning Light - s/t
35. TV on the Radio - return to cookie mountain
36. Young People - all at once
37. Om - conference of the birds
38. Eagles of Death Metal - death by sexy
39. Juana Molina - son
40. Josephine Foster - a wolf in sheep's clothing
41. Junior Boys - so this is goodbye
42. Growing - color wheel
43. Darkel - s/t
45. ESG - keep on moving
46. TV-Resistori – serkut rakastaa paremmin
47. Holy Shit - stranded at two harbours
48. Flying Canyon – s/t
49. Xiu Xiu - the air force
50. Liars - drum's not dead

SOME OTHER MENTIONS
Ekkehard Ehlers - a life without fear
Jan Jelinek - tierbeobachtungen
Tussle - telescope mind
Indian Jewelry - invasive exotics
Colleen - et les boites a musique
PG Six - music from the sherman box series and other works
Metallic Falcons - desert doughnuts
Chad Vangaalen - skelliconnection
The Rapture - pieces of the people we love
Cansei de Ser Sexy - CSS
Andrew WK - close calls with brick walls
Owusu & Hannibal - living with...
Ecstatic Sunshine - freckle wars
Ratatat - classics
Benoit Pioulard - precis

BEST REISSUES
Os Mutantes (not exactly reissued, but thank god their catalogue was finally made available in North America again)
Arthur Russell - another thought
Selda - s/t
John Phillips - the wolf king of LA
Karen Dalton - in my own time

TWO EPs
Chromatics - nite EP
Professor Murder - rides the subway

VINYL ONLY
Justice - waters of nazareth
Shit Robot - triumph b/w wrong galaxy
Pink Mountaintops - erected b/w the ones I love

TOP SONGS (probably the most random part of this round-up)
1. Clipse - ride around shining
2. Clipse - trill
3. Flaming Lips - yeah yeah yeah song
4. Wechsel Garland - swim
5. Euros Childs - my country girl
6. Luomo - really don't mind (radio edit)
7. Gnarls Barkley - smiley faces
8. Oneida - up with people
9. Ladyhawk - the dugout
10. Chad Vangaalen - flower gardens
11. The Rapture - pieces of the people we love
12. CSS - alala
13. Liars - it fit when I was a kid
14. The Pack - vans
15. Darkel - be my friend

BEST LIVE SHOWS
Joanna Newsom/Smog @ St. Andrews-Wesley Church
The Fiery Furnaces @ Richard's
Akron/Family @ The Media Club
Psychic Ills/Blood on the Wall @ The Media Club
Oneida @ Pat's Pub
Beach House @ Pat's Pub
Bonnie "Prince" Billy @ St. James Hall (2nd night)
Jazz Fest (various shows, including Nels Cline Singers, ROVA: Orkestrova, The Thing)
Juana Molina/Jose Gonzales @ Richard's
The Books @ Richard's
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum @ Richard's
Vetiver/Michael Hurley @ The Media Club
Low/Lavender Diamond @ Richard's
Sunset Rubdown/Frog Eyes @ Richard's
Eagles of Death Metal @ The Commodore

BEST WORK OF SATIRICAL LITERATURE BY A MUSICIAN
The Psychic Soviet, by Ian Svenonius