Well here you have it, the highly anticipated SCD Top 20 Albums of 2006. Actually, I don't guess anyone is really anticipating it, since I didn't do it last year... was I even running the blog last year at this time? Don't really remember. Enjoy the list, I'm gonna try and get this up before Pitchfork releases there top 50. You may not agree with my list, but it doesn't really matter what you think. Sarcasm too subtle? Hope not.

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20. Islands - Return To The Sea
19. The Theater Fire - Everybody Has A Dark Side
18. Archie Bronson Outfit - Derdang Derdang
17. CSS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
16. Silversun Pickups - Carnavas
15. Jim Noir - Tower of Power
14. Sunset Rubdown - Shut Up I Am Dreaming
13. Hotel Lights - Hotel Lights
12. Annuals - Be He Me
11. Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope

10. TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
Suggested Track: Wolf Like Me, I Was A Lover
mp3: Wolf Like Me




9. The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
Suggested Tracks: Burning, Borders
mp3: Burning





8. Destroyer - Destroyer's Rubies
Suggested Tracks: Painter In Your Pocket, European Oils
mp3: European Oils




7. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Suggested Tracks: Bounce That, Once Again
mp3: Bounce That




6. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Suggested Tracks: Harrowdown Hill, Atoms For Peace
mp3: Black Swan




5. Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
Suggested Tracks: Funeral, The Great Salt Lake
mp3: The Great Salt Lake




4. Centro-matic - Fort Recovery
Suggested Tracks: Calling Thermatico, Triggers and Trash Heaps,
Covered Up in Mines
mp3: Patience For The Ride



3. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Suggested Tracks: O' Valencia, The Island, Yankee Bayonet
mp3: O' Valencia




2. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Suggested Tracks: Scenic World, The Canals of Our City,
Mount Wroclai (Idle Days)
mp3: Mount Wroclai



1. Midlake - The Trials of Van Occupanther
Suggested Tracks: Roscoe, Van Occupanter, Young Bride
mp3: Roscoe