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  • WXPN has begun their top 50 albums of 2006 countdown. This year they are playing the albums in their entirety. You can listen on-line. They'll probably play 5 per day until Monday and play the remainder on New Year's Day.

    So far:

    #50 - Rhett Miller - The Believer
    #49 - Alejandro Escovedo - The Boxing Mirror
    #48 - Joan Osbourne - Pretty Little Stranger
    #47 - M-Ward - Post War
    #46 - Elvis Costello & Allen Toussant - The River in Reverse
    #45 - Neil Young - Living with War
    #44 - Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam
    #43 - Los Lonely Boys - Sacred
    #42 - Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Live at the Fillmore East
    #41 - Slo Mo - My Buzz Comes Back
    #40 - Damien Rice - 9
    #39 - The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
    #38 - Beth Orton - Comfort of Strangers
    #37 - David Gilmour - On an Island
    #36 - The Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am. . . .
    #35 - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

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    • I listened to some of these albums and was pleasantly surprised. M Ward & Damien Rice I had yet to hear. Both sounded good. Hearing more of the Hold Steady confirmed what a good album it is.

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      • Thanks for sharing Steve...am listening now, I love when WXPN does this countdown..
        Eliminate distractions, create energy, fear nothing, and attack everything.

        -Andy Reid

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        • Originally posted by Vote for Kalas
          Thanks for sharing Steve...am listening now, I love when WXPN does this countdown..
          It's such a treat every year. This year to hear every album in its entirety is awesome. This RHCP CD just missed my top 10 (as I've added albums as the year has gone on).

          Have you listened much to the Hold Steady?

          My latest guilty pleasure is the Silversun Pickups.

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          • Originally posted by stevemc
            I listened to some of these albums and was pleasantly surprised. M Ward & Damien Rice I had yet to hear. Both sounded good. Hearing more of the Hold Steady confirmed what a good album it is.
            i like that m. ward quite a bit as well.

            speaking of top 50's, pitchfork just released theirs. pitchfork definitely turned me onto some great bands i may never had heard of before.
            http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/featu ... ms_of_2006

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            • Thanks betty for that list. I'm amazed that Thom Yorke & Beck are not on their list when they constantly write about both of them.

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              • i'm really not surprised by thom yorke not making the list. i thought that album was ok, but nothing spectacular.

                and pitchfork didn't give the new beck album a great review. they liked it, but didn't love it.

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                • betty - you and I are normally on the same page. I guess we don't see The Eraser the same way though. I thought it was brilliant.

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                  • don't be sad, steve, we still have some similarities in our lists. here is my list for the best albums of 2006:

                    *Band of Horses - Everything All the Time
                    *Beck - The Information
                    *Bobby Previte - Coalition of the Willing
                    *Easy Star All-Stars - Radiodread (believe it or not, it's a reggae band covering the entire OK Computer album. i cannot believe what an outstanding job they did covering this album)
                    * Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood - Out Louder
                    * The Minders - It's a Bright & Guilty World
                    * Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block
                    * Islands - Return to the Sea
                    * The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (i know, it's an album not yet released, but i listened to it in '06, so bug off)
                    * Tapes 'N Tapes - The Loon (i love, love, love this album!)
                    * TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
                    * Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You & Will Beat Your Ass (great title)

                    My biggest disappointments have to be The Flaming Lips, Badly Drawn Boy and the Secret Machines... all albums i was highly anticipating, most particularly the Lips who really let me down with a very commercial and bland album.

                    in '07 i am excited about the release of Clap Your Hands, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Ween (hopefully an '07 release), and Modest Mouse.

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                    • I'm a big fan of the Rhett Miller album.

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                      • added:

                        #34 - Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence
                        #33 - Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways
                        #32 - Madeleine Peyroux - Half the Perfect World
                        #31 - Paul Simon - Surprise
                        #30 - TV On the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
                        #29 - Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

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                        • Hadn't heard the Neko Case album until now. I had already had a problem remembering her roots vs. Jenny Lewis. Now they sound alike. Were they separated at birth or what?

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                          • they sound totally alike. Neko case is from the New Pornographers (although I think she was a solo artist first) and Jenny Lewis is from Rilo Kiley which is a really good band. Mostly just Jenny and some other dude.

                            I like the Jenny Lewis album more than the Neko Case.

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                            • betty - i'm not sure I want to hear a reggae version of OK Computer.

                              You guys have that Christopher O'Riley plays radiohead album? All piano? It's interesting at first but it feels like muzak.

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                              • Originally posted by sfphillyfan
                                betty - i'm not sure I want to hear a reggae version of OK Computer.

                                You guys have that Christopher O'Riley plays radiohead album? All piano? It's interesting at first but it feels like muzak.
                                believe me, i thought the same thing. but the album is very unique and blew me away. the way they turn the songs into reggae is really amazing. it's most definitely worth listening to.

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