Stranger Than Paradise

My Top 40 of 2006


Physical State: cold
Mental State: groovy
Music: RadioSteven on Live365
Fashion sense: black hoodie, blue sweats


After much deliberation, constant listening, fevered whittling down and many hours of rearranging I have finally posted my favourite albums of 2006 at Live 365 (link above). In this show you'll hear two tracks from each of my favourite 40 albums of 2006. This is followed by a seasonal compilation of Christmas tunes for y'all.

Here is a list of the albums that made a difference to me in 2006 (not the order that they appear on the playlist btw). In fact there is no distinct order in the playlist, just as I saw them going together sonically. Be sure to check out this show which will be up for a month at least for you all to enjoy. While you're checking it out perhaps you can email me some of you favourites that I should check out (nothing like that year end list when you realize you missed something crucial, ha ha).

01. Ms. John Soda - Notes and the Like
02. Broadcast - Future Crayon
03. Belle and Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
04. Gentlemen Losers - s/t
05. Boards of Canada - Trans Canada Highway
06. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls In America
07. Amy Millan - Honey From The Tombs
08. I'm Not A Gun - We Think As Instruments
09. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
10. Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
11. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
12. The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
13. 120 Days - s/t
14. Joanna Newsom - Ys
15. Au Revoir Simone - Verses of Comfort, Assurance and Salvation
16. James Figurine - Mistake, Mistake, Mistake, Mistake
17. Cat Power - The Greatest
18. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
19. The Rogers Sisters - The Invisible Deck
20. Audrey - Visible Forms
21. CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
22. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad of the Broken Seas
23. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
24. The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home
25. Hot Chip - The Warning
26. Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
27. Beirut - Gulag Orkester
28. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes
29. Chad Vangaalen - Skelliconnection
30. M. Ward - Post-War
31. The Rapture - Pieces of the People We Love
32. Delta 5 - Singles and Sessions 1979-1981
33. Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love
34. The Black Angels - Passover
35. Shout Out Out Out Out - Not Saying Just Saying
36. Isan - Plans Drawn In Pencil
37. The Pink Mountaintops - Axis of Evol
38. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
39. The Boyfriends - s/t
40. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of the Country

Thanks so much for listening. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! - Steven