FRIEND'S TOP 10 Albums of 2006
(If you would like to add a list and you have good taste...e-mail your top 10 to zachatach@yahoo.com)


PHIL MERKOW

1) Beach House – Beach House
2) Fiery Furnaces- Bitter Tea
3) Brightblack Morning Light = ST
4) Liars – Drums Not Dead
5) Espers- II
6) Hot Chip: The Warning
7) Daft Punk- Live @ Coachella
8) Nobody & the Mystic Chords of Memory- Tree Colored See
9) Midlake-The Trials of VanOccupanther
10) Citay- S/T
11) Feathers– Synchromy
12) Comets on Fire - Avatar
13) Joanna Newsome – zzz$
14) Broadcast- Future Crayon
15) Flying Lotus - 1983
16) Cut Chemist - The Audience's Listening
17) Black Moth Super Rainbow + The Octopus Project - The House Of Apples & Eyeballs
18) Daedelus-Denies the Days Demise
19) Bibio – Hand Cranked
20) Dabrye-2/3 (Instrumentals)
21) Negativland - It's All In Your Head FM - Live On Stage
22) Four tet- DJ Kicks
23) Girl Talk – Night Ripper
24) Witch - Witch
25) Growing- Color Wheel
26) James Figurine: Mistakex3
27) M. Ward- Post War
28) Matthew Friedberger- Winter Woman
29) Metallic Falcons - Desert Doughnuts
30) Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
31) The Album Leaf - Into The Blue Again
32) Entrance - Prayer of Death
33) The Flaming Lips- At War With The Mystics


HANK WILLENBRINK

10. Tapes 'n Tapes - The Loon
9. Fire Don't Care - Be What You Are
8. Built to Spill - You in Reverse
7. Destroyer - Rubies
6. Mew - ...and the Glass Handed Kites
5. Boris - Pink
4. Sparklehorse - Dreamt of Light for Years in the Belly of the Mountain
3. Sunset Rubdown - Shut up I am Dreaming
2. Lupe Fiasco - Food & Liquor
1. (tie) The Hold Steady - Boys & Girls in America
1. Joanna Newsom - Ys





ARI ROSNER

1. Joanna Newsom - Ys
2. Marit Larsen - Under the Surface
3. Itibere Orquestra Familia - Calendario de Som
4. Destroyer - Rubies
5. Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer
6. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
7. Cibelle - The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves
8. Lil Wayne & DJ Drama - Dedication 2
9. Tom Ze - Estudando o Pagode
10. Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles



ANDREW HUANG (top 16)

jim noir - August 8, 2006 barsuk
james figurine - July 11, 2006 plug
kudu - March 14, 2006 nublu
peaches - July 11, 2006 xl
nightmares on wax - March 7, 2006 warp
spank rock - April 18, 2006 big dada
clipse - November 28, 2006 star trak
dabrye - June 13, 2006 ghostly
j dilla - August 22, 2006 bbe
subtle - October 3, 2006 astralwerks
120 days - October 10, 2006 vice
think about life - May 2, 2006 alien8
tv on the radio - September 12, 2006 interscope
the dears - October 3, 2006 arts & crafts
supersystem - August 22, 2006 touch & go
tokyo police club - October 10, 2006 paper bag


Pierce Gibson

10. Danielson- Ships
9.The Knife- Silent shout
8. Clipse- Hell Hath no Fury
7. Gothic Archies- Tragic Treasury
6. Tapes n Tapes
5. Peter Bjorn and John- Writers Block
4. Man Man- Six Demon Bag
3. Swan Lake- Beast Moans
2. Sunset Rubdown- Shutup I am Dreaming
1. Tap Tap- Lanzafame




Joel Meister

No particular order after the first 3:

1. mewithoutYou - Brother, Sister
2. Anathallo - Floating World
3. Converge - No Heroes
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Envy – Insomniac Doze
Woven Hand- Mosaic
Johnny Cash - American V
Sleeping at Last - Keep No Score
Norma Jean - Redeemer
Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist

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