Favorite Albums of 2006 (So Far)

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  • Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - The Arctic Monkeys
  • Other People's Lives - Ray Davies
  • My Flame Burns Blue - Elvis Costello
  • Fox Confessor Brings The Flood - Neko Case
  • Flat-Pack Philosophy - Buzzcocks
  • Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 - Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
  • The Gun Album - The Minus 5
  • Morph The Cat - Donald Fagen
  • People That I'm Wrong For - Warren Zanes
  • You Don't Know Me: The Songs Of Cindy Walker - Willie Nelson
  • Hello Young Lovers - Sparks
  • 3121 - Prince
  • At War With The Mystics - The Flaming Lips
  • We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions - Bruce Springsteen
  • Living With War - Neil Young
  • St. Elsewhere - Gnarls Barkley
  • The Obliterati - Mission Of Burma
  • Rockford - Cheap Trick
  • The River In Reverse - Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint
  • Rather Ripped - Sonic Youth
  • You In Reverse - Built To Spill
  • The Eraser - Thom Yorke
  • American V: A Hundred Highways - Johnny Cash
  • Ganging Up On The Sun - Guster
  • Songs From The Year Of Our Demise - Jon Auer
  • Dog Problems - The Format
  • One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This - New York Dolls
  • Straight To Hell - Hank Williams III
  • Highway Companion - Tom Petty
  • Putting The Days To Bed - The Long Winters
  • Modern Times - Bob Dylan
  • Post-War - M. Ward
  • I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass - Yo La Tengo
  • Return To Cookie Mountain - TV On The Radio
  • Bang Bang Rock & Roll - Art Brut
  • The Information - Beck
  • The Crane Wife - The Decemberists
  • Ole! Tarantula - Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3
  • Ys - Joanna Newsom
  • Never Hear The End Of It - Sloan
Author Comments: 

On the cusp:
First Impressions Of Earth - The Strokes
I Am The Resurrection: A Tribute To John Fahey - various artists
Rabbit Fur Coat - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
Back To The Web - Elf Power
Splurge - Puffy AmiYumi
The Land Of Pure Imagination - Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
Last Man Standing - Jerry Lee Lewis
Live A Little - The Pernice Brothers

I totally agree on the We Are Scientist but the Arctic Monkeys is derivitive crap. If I want to listen to English bands from the late 1990s, I'll just listen to English bands from the late 1990s.

Have you listen the Cassandra Wilson album? its pretty good.