31 December 2006 - 17:56My Top 10 Albums of 2006

I made a thread at Pabook.net, inviting my friends to post their 10 favorite albums of 2006, mostly so I could see what I’ve missed. Link to the thread can be found below. Here’s my list:

EDIT: I neglected to mention here that the list is in no particular order.

Lady Sovereign – Public Warning
I first heard Lady Sovereign on a compilation called Chocolate Swim (which you can get from adultswim.com, by the way). It had a remix of “Hoodie” and I heard it and thought, “What the hell is this?” but somehow I wound up with the album, and it’s cool.

Teddybears STHLM – Soft Machine
It includes a couple tracks from their 2004 album “Fresh”, and neither of them are “Hey Boy”, but it’s got some darn fine tracks.

Dragonforce – Inhuman Rampage
8 tracks of “Extreme Power Metal” will be enough to make you want to lie down afterward… or maybe punch through a concrete wall.

Futuristic Sex Robotz – Hotel Coral Essex
Finely-crafted rap songs about the internet, sci-fi, pornography and bit torrent.

mc chris – Dungeon Master of Ceremonies
DMOC marks the return of mc’s skit interlude comedy things, wherein Jesus asks mc about his myspace friends and talks about sex with mythical creatures.

Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope
This and Lady Sovereign surprised me the most this year, because I didn’t think that much of the Regina Spektor tracks I’d heard from her pevious albums, then I got hooked on “Fidelity”

Machinae Supremacy – Redeemer (Underground Edition)
This was the album I was most hyped about, I waited months for its release, then more time after that until I could get my hands on a copy, watching their little teaser trailer video and listening to the previews from the website over and over.

Matisyahu – Youth
This one came out early in the year and I forgot about it, I had to bump Spearhead’s “Yell Fire” off the list to include this one.

Basshunter – LOL <(^^')>
Weird and catchy Swedish dance music to listen to in your car and freak out the squares.

Ratatat – Classics
The guitar duo’s second full-length album. Not to be confused with their hiphop remixes, this album is purely instrumental. Excellent to listen to while studying or working.

I didn’t pick up every album I was interested in this year, but those are the albums I listened to the most and/or liked the most. Honorable mentions go to Gnarls Barkley – St Elsewhere for being very smart and harnessing the power of myspace (users) to promote the album, and for having the very-awesome “Just a Thought” on it. Also Jay-Z – Kingdom Come, which I just got for Christmas, and haven’t listened to enough yet.