Best of 2006

In no particular order, here are my "hot picks" for the year of 2006. Please post your "hot picks" in the comments section.

Watts Passage "Magnetic Demonstration"

Rib Bib "My Ioyey Ist Fuyuy"

Krisiun "Assassination"

Earl Greyhound “SOS” (song)

M1 "Confidential"

Justice "Waters of Nazareth"

Nas "Hip Hip Is Dead" (even though it's kinda bad)

Dragonforce "Inhuman Rampage" (even though 'Sonic Firestorm' is better)

Love is All "Nine Times That Same Song"

Belle & Sebastian "The Life Pursuit"

Decapitated "Organic Hallucinosis" (thanks Handi)

Order/Ultra Dolphins split 7” (thanks Westberg)

Buckcherry "15" (thanks, but no thanks, Fred)

Like what I've heard so far, waiting for Amazon to deliver the discs:

Ecstatic Sunshine "Freckle Wars," Destroyer "Destroyer’s Rubies," Enslaved "Ruun"

Live: Dead Prez at the Key Club, Jason Ajemian and Josephine Foster at Arthurball, Dragonforce at the Wiltern, although it didn't sound so great on the back row.

Book: the Psychic Soviet by Ian Svenonius

Best Band Name: Poser Disposer (songs are good too, haven't purchased the album, so I guess I can't "vote" for it)

Non 2006 enjoyables:

Uli Jon Roth era Scorpions, Orange Juice, Kiss, Immortal Technique, Pulp, New Pornographers, New Order

(pictured: Uli Jon Roth, present)