Best Music of 2006

BAGeL Radio Top 10 Albums of 2006

1. Silversun Pickups - "Carnavas"
2. The Thermals - "The Body, The Blood, The Machine"
3. Tilly And The Wall - "Bottoms of Barrels"
4. Bound Stems - "Appreciation Night"
5. Micah P. Hinson - "Micah P. Hinson and the Opera Circuit"
6. Cold War Kids - "Up In Rags"
7. Birdmonster - "No Midnight"
8. TV on the Radio - "Return To Cookie Mountain"
9. The Grates - "Gravity Won't Get You High"
10. The Flaming Lips - "At War With the Mystics"

BAGeL Radio Top 50 Songs of 2006

1. "Hospitalbeds" - Cold War Kids
2. "Lazy Eye" - Silversun Pickups
3. "A Pillar Of Salt" - The Thermals
4. "Bad Education" - Tilly And The Wall
5. "Western Biographic" - Bound Stems
6. "'Cause You Can" - Birdmonster
7. "Be Less Rude" - Frightened Rabbit
8. "Gentleman" - Prototypes
9. "Stay" - Bears
10. "Ordinary World" - Get Set Go
11. "5 Verses" - Jeremy Warmsley
12. "Broken Boy Soldier" - The Raconteurs
13. "Playhouses" - TV On The Radio
14. "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" - Arctic Monkeys
15. "Dart For My Sweetheart" - Archie Bronson Outfit
16. "Holding The Pilots/Holding The Facts" - The Foundry Field Recordings
17. "To The Woods" - Division Day
18. "Rotten Love" - Levy
19. "When I Was A Young King" - [the] caseworker
20. "On My Way" - Tap Tap
21. "The Freest Man" - Tilly And The Wall
22. "Las Cruces Jail (radio edit)" - Two Gallants
23. "We Are The Ones" - The Coup
24. "Let’s Get Out Of This Country" - Camera Obscura
25. "Brazen" - Heartless Bastards
26. "Reena" - Sonic Youth
27. "Balcony" - Birdmonster
28. "Common Reactor" - Silversun Pickups
29. "Anti-Anti" - Snowden
30. "Hang Me Out To Dry" - Cold War Kids
31. "Sympathy" - Walking Bicycles
32. "Saturday Left Her On The Floor" - Latvian Radio
33. "End Up Like This" - Jurassic 5
34. "Steadfast Kickdrum" - Two Seconds
35. "Love Is A Number" - White Rose Movement
36. "Bratislava" - Beirut
37. "Sleepin' Around" - Sonic Youth
38. "Black Grease" - The Black Angels
39. "Volleyball Song" - The Herms
40. "Dirtywhirl" - TV On The Radio
41. "Tropical Pets" - The Diableros
42. "Turn Into" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
43. "Excellent News, Colonel" - Bound Stems
44. "Another Sunny Day" - Belle and Sebastian
45. "Summer Is Here" - Darker My Love
46. "Our Swords" - Band Of Horses
47. "Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" - The Flaming Lips
48. "My Time Wasted" - Micah P Hinson
49. "O Valencia" - The Decemberists
50. "Tell Me Leza" - The Living Blue

BAGeL Radio Top 10 Bay Area Songs of 2006

1. "'Cause You Can" - Birdmonster
2. "When I Was A Young King" - [the] caseworker
3. "Las Cruces Jail (radio edit)" - Two Gallants
4. "Volleyball Song" - The Herms
5. "We Are The Ones" - The Coup
6. "The Hemlock Three" - Elephone
7. "Monkey Vs Shark" - Thee More Shallows
8. "Balcony" - Birdmonster
9. "Steadfast Kickdrum" - Two Seconds
10. "Stranger" - Citizens Here & Abroad

Please leave your comments about these lists and/or your very own Best of 2006 lists as comments on this post. Thanks!

Also, click here to see last year's lists.

Addendum: Honorable mention to Ex-Boyfriends for their excellent debut album, "Dear John," which I had in 2005, but left off the 2005 chart because it was officially released by Absolutely Kosher Records in early 2006, but then when I was putting together my year-end lists some part of my brain lumped "Dear John" back in with 2005, hence the omission. My sincerest apologies for the oversight. As anyone who listened to the station this year (or came to half the shows I put on!) knows, I love that band. The song "Him For Me" definitely deserves to be amongst the top overall songs listed above, and the album is a collection of pop gems that invariably makes me pogo at their shows. While I'm sure I omitted other worthy bands/song/albums, this one could not be allowed to stand uncorrected.