Top Ten Albums of 2006

Oh dear, this is like choosing one’s favorite child. Not that I have any children. In fact I didn’t purchase very many albums last year, but here are the best ones (from left to right, top to bottom in increasing order of awesomeness; click on the picture to see the album in iTunes):

V for Vendetta Soundtrack by Dario MarianelliHalf the Perfect World by Madeleine PeyrouxWhatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not by Arctic MonkeysThe Greatest by Cat PowerWith Love and Squalor by We Are ScientistsBegin to Hope by Regina SpektorThe Life Pursuit by Belle and SebastianThe Information by BeckThe Crane Wife by The DecemberistsThe Eraser by Thom Yorke

Honorable mentions include Guster’s Ganging Up on the Sun and Shawn Colvin’s These Four Walls.


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