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Just finished my Top 85 things of 2006 list. This is the top 85 of several hundred to maybe a few thousand things I heard this year...
TOP 25 ALBUMS OF 2006
Carla Bozulich "Evangelista" (Constellation)
Coughs "Secret Passage" (Load)
Country Teasers "The Empire Strikes Back" (In the Red)
Entrance "Prayer of Death" (self-released)
Erase Errata "Nightlife" (Kill Rock Stars)
Fat Worm of Error "Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies" (Load)
Goslings "Grandeur of Hair" (Archive)
Hank IV "Third Person Shooter" (Hook or Crook)
Hue Blanc's Joyless Ones "Fait Accompli" (P.Trash)
Impractical Cockpit "To Be Treated" (Load)
Inca Ore with Lemon Bear's Orchestra "Birds in the Bushes" (5RC)
Jay Reatard "Blood Visions" (In the Red)
Junkpile Jimmy "Alberhill" 2xLP (Cártel Ilustré)
Leprechaun Catering "Male Plumage" (White Denim)
Monarch "Speak of the Sea" (Throne)
New Flesh "Vessel" (Heart Break Beat)
Rose for Bohdan "And Then Everybody Hugged 'Racism Is God'" (Deathbomb Arc)
Sic Alps "Reconnection Land" (Animal Disguise)
Who's Your Favorite Son, God? "Out of Body Diva" (KDVS Recordings)
...Worms "s/t" LP+CD (Marriage)
Yellow Swans "Psychic Secession" 2xLP (Weird Forest)
v/a "L.A. Noisescape" (Bastardised)
v/a "Tête de Bébé" (Ss Records)
v/a "Why Is Anything Forbidden?" vol 2 (Deathbomb Arc)
TOP 15 CDR-only RELEASES OF 2006
Argumentix & Bird Costumes "Armageddon...Maybe Later" CDR (Below PDX)
Argumentix & Dead/Bird "Flip Off Hummers" tour 3x3" CDR (self-released)
Art Lessing "Plastic Couch" (Electric Eggplant)
Black Pus "Black Pus 3: Metamorpus" (DiareahRama)
Fortress of Amplitude "Loom of Doom" (self-released)
Kites "Superior Moon" 3" (Mountain Collective)
KK Rampage "Lies, Deception, & Tall Tales" (Rampage)
Plants "Totem" (self-released)
Robedoor "Christ's Vipers" (Chocolate Monk)
Shearing Pinx "Poison Hands" 2x3" (Not Not Fun)
Snowsuit* "Consolation Prize" (No Format)
So So Many White White Tigers "The Greatest Hits of Acid" (self-released)
Switched-on Vultures "demo" (no label)
v/a "The Fruit Will Rot" vol 2 9x3" CDR's (Deathbomb Arc)
v/a "Sarcophagus 1-4" (Radius Waste)
TOP 25 EP's of 2006
Abe Vigoda/Child Pornography split 7" (Oms-B)
AIDS Wolf/Crack und Ultra Eczema/PRE/Dmonstrations 4-way split 2x7" (Lovepump United)
Anteenagers MC "Let's Not Have a Party" 7" (Plastic Idol)
Argumentix "Tarantula Downpour" 7"+DVDr (Trash Skull)
Battleship "To Give Not a Gift" (Double Negative)
Billy Bao "Bilbo's Incinerator" 7" (W.M.O.)
Cheveu "Clara Vénus" 7" (SDZ/Polly Magoo)
Dead Western "s/t" 7" (Weird Forest)
Ear & Dark "There's No Such Thing as Dragons" 10" (Black Light)
Grey Skull/Haunted Castle split 10" (Not Not Fun)
The Intelligence "I'm Your Taxi" 7" (Holy Cobra Society)
Le Chevalier de Rinchy "Mes Plus Belles Chansons d´Amour" (Le Vilain Chien)
My Little Red Toe/Foot Foot split 7" (Not Not Fun)
Nothing People "Problems" 7" (Ss Records)
Of Sex, Yr Body "s/t" lathe-cut 7" (Deer + Bird)
Pink Reason "s/t" 7" (Savage Quality)
Pissed Jeans "Don't Need Smoke to Make Myself Disappear" 7" (Sub Pop)
Psychedelic Horseshit "Who Let the Dogs Out?" 7" (Columbus Discount)
Sapat "Tongue-Tied & Staid" 7" (Black Velvet Fuckere)
Shearing Pinx "Caves" 7" (DNT)
S.I.D.S. "Kandy Kane" 7" (Army of Bad Luck/Stickfigure)
This Song Is a Mess But So Am I "Marblemouth EP" CD (Acuarela)
Tyvek "Mary Ellen Claims" 7" (X!)
Western Culture/Katsuya Nonaka split lathe-cut 10" (Deer + Bird)
Wooden Shjips "Shrinking Moon for You" 10" (self-released)
TOP 10 CASSETTE-ONLY RELEASES OF 2006
Aerosol Constellations/Bird Costumes split (Isolated Now Waves/Thankless)
Grey Daturas/Shearing Pinx split (Isolated Now Waves)
Hole Class "A Glimpse of Hole Class" (self-released)
Home Blitz/Friends & Family split (Leaf Leaf)
Non Horse "Rigor Lore" (Not Not Fun)
Pocahaunted "Moccasinging" (Not Not Fun)
Scream Baby, Scream!/Gang Wizard split (Pink Triforce Tapes)
Tent City/Wigwam split (Not Not Fun)
Torturing Nurse "Hate Human" (Hate State)
Unmono/Kate Hall & Elijah Forrest split (Deathbomb Arc Tape Club)
TOP 10 REISSUES & RETROSPECTIVES OF 2006
Bernard Bonnier "Casse Tête" (Creel Pone)
Crisis "Holocaust Hymns" (Apop)
Dead Moon "Echoes of the Past" (Sub Pop)
Ich Bin "Obéis!" (Poutré Apparente)
Jackwacker "...Things From Inside Your Body" (Black Velvet Fuckere)
Lake of Dracula "Skeletal Remains" (Savage Land)
Maypole "The Real" (Anopheles)
Ruth White "Flowers of Evil" (Creel Pone)
Smegma "Live 1991-1993" (Resipiscent)
v/a "Messthetics Greatest Hits: The Sounds of D.I.Y. 1977-80" (Hyped2Death)
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