i think i got it, but i'll play it safe and say it's a draft, so here are the 50 top great albums for me; i didn't listen to some stuff this year so, unfortunately, some things didn't make it. i'll have a list of 50 bottom great albums of the year too; for now here are the very greats. also, i cheated on some places.
in no particular order:
- Ghost - In Stormy Nights
- Descartes A Kant - Paper Dolls
- Hot Cross - Risk Revival
- Sutcliffe Jügend - This Is The Truth
- Los Llamarada - The Exploding Now!
- The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
- Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
- Neurosis - Given To The Rising
- Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid In The Stars
- Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
- Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
- Astro - Astral Orange Sunshine/Galax - Never Ending Space Trackin'
- Lasse Marhaug - The Great Silence
- Smegma - 33 1/3
- Job For A Cowboy - Genesis
- Hentai Lacerator - Covered In Fun
- Jesu - Conqueror
- Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
- Circle - Panic/Circle - Katapult/Sunburned Circle - The Blaze Game/Pharaoh Overlord - Live In Suomi Finland
- Kousokuya - Echoes From Deep Underground/Ray Night, 2006.10.18.
- Heavy Winged - Feel Inside
- Xiu Xiu Larsen - ¿Spicchiology?
- Kemilliset Ystävät - Untitled
- Islaja - Ulual Yyy
- PJ Harvey - White Chalk
- Benighted - Icon
- Pharaohe Munch - Desire
- Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
- Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail (For 400 Guitars)
- James Blackshaw - The Cloud Of Unknowing
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen
- Bongripper - Hippie Killer
- Unsane - Visqueen
- Bloody Panda - Pheromone
- Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thuderbolt
- Baroness - Red Album
- Om - Pilgrimage
- Angels Of Light - We Are Him
- Oren Ambarchi - In The Pendulum's Embrace
- Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying
- Watain - Sworn To The Dark
- Original Silence - The First Original Silence
- Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
- Prurient - Adam Tied To Stone
- Bad Brains - Build A Nation
- Alcest - Souvenir D'un Autre Monde
- Lesbian - Power Hör
- Wold - Screeching Owl
- Mammal - Lonesome Drifter
- Boris with Merzbow - Rock Dream/Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow