Last Year's Music

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Yes, it's my annual post listing my favorite albums and concerts of the year! I'm sure you were all looking forward to that, weren't you? :P

Best new albums of 2006:

1. The Dresden Dolls: Yes, Virginia
2. The Ditty Bops: Moon Over the Freeway
3. Neko Case: Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
4. The Minus 5: The Gun Album
5. Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins: Rabbit Fur Coat
6. "Weird Al" Yankovic: Straight Outta Lynwood
7. Belle and Sebastian: The Life Pursuit
8. The Gothic Archies: The Tragic Treasury
9. Andy Partridge: Fuzzy Warbles Volumes 7 and 8
10. Sloan: Never Hear the End of It
11. Frank Black: Fastman Raiderman
12. The Decemberists: The Crane Wife
13. The Flaming Lips: At War with the Mystics
14. Cracker: Greenland


Older albums I heard for the first time in 2006:

1. Rilo Kiley: More Adventurous
2. The Mountain Goats: The Sunset Tree
3. Franz Ferdinand: You Could Have It So Much Better
4. Rilo Kiley: The Execution of All Things
5. The Magnetic Fields: Get Lost
6. Rilo Kiley: Take Offs & Landings
7. The Magnetic Fields: The Wayward Bus/Distant Plastic Trees
8. The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin
9. Erin McKeown: Monday Morning Cold
10. Future Bible Heroes: Memories of Love


Concerts:

1. The Decemberists at the Electric Factory, 11/1
2. The Dresden Dolls at the TLA, 10/28
3. The Minus 5 at World Cafe Live, 3/29
4. Neko Case at the TLA, 4/8
5. Laura Cantrell at the Tin Angel, 2/11
6. They Might Be Giants at the TLA, 5/12
7. Belle and Sebastian at the Electric Factory, 3/4
8. TMBG at Southpaw, 12/16
9. Elton John at Boardwalk Hall, 10/7
10. TMBG at the World Cafe Live, 12/9
11. Cracker at the House of Blues, 7/17
12. Jenny Lewis at the TLA, 10/10
13. Corn Mo at a burlesque show at the World Cafe Live, 2/19
14. TMBG at North Six, 1/1


And while I haven't heard enough new EP's this year to make a list, I feel I should point out that the debut EP by The Last Car kicks ass.