Regina Spektor: Begin to Hope
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Gomez - How We Operate
Elbow - Leaders of the Free World
This far without Gnarls Barkley’s St. Elsewhere being mentioned? “Crazy” has my vote for single of the year. I’m still not sick of this album, or that song.
The Yo La Tengo Album is the best I’ve heard (and there’s a lot I haven’t heard). I like Act Of The Apostle by Belle and Sebastian as my favorite song.
I’ll bet The Dixie Chicks clean up at the Grammies this year.
What’s the best-selling album of the year?
Iwas just on my way to offer that one up
From the billboard website and wikipedia, it seems to be the High School Musical soundtrack. I don’t actually know what that is. But Justin Timberlake’s FutureSex/LoveSounds might pass it by the end of the year.
High School Musical is some kind of Disney teenie-bopper thing.
[qoute=VCO3]the Gothic Archies - “The Tragic Treasury” - Stephin Merritt’s strongest songwriting since the Magnetic Fields’ “69 Love Songs,” and the sonics are a much-appreciated return to the dinky synthesizers and lo-fi drum machines of the earlier days.
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I am so there! It’s kind of embarrassing to admit the only reason I haven’t bought this album is because I haven’t found it really cheap on ebay or Overstock yet.
I am so there! It’s kind of embarrassing to admit the only reason I haven’t bought this album is because I haven’t found it really cheap on ebay or Overstock yet.
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Embarrassed? :o :dubious:
Why on earth would you be embarrassed.
Get some spine, Captain! 
mangeorge
**The Black Parade ** by My Chemical Romance
Is this the same album (soundtrack) that comes up when I search iTunes?
Hmmm. Maybe if I saw the movie? 
To be fair, I have an instinctive (tho mild) adversion to musicals. To much ZZ Top, I suspect.
mangeorge
Not much that hasn’t been mentioned already. My favorites so far (in no order):
Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will beat Your Ass
Asobi Seksu - Citrus
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Ole Tarantula!
Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
Oppenheimer - Oppenheimer
The Essex Green - Cannibal Sea
Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s - The Dust of Retreat
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Yay! More Pipettes love! If this album were drugs, it would be crack cocaine. It only takes one hit, and you will never. Get. Away.
The Killers - Sam’s Town
I’m not familiar with most of the Emo - indie pop offerings.
For what it’s worth, I think some of the weekest albums this year are by the various fragments of Blink 182 (who I like):
+44 - The better of the two, but basically a Blink 182 album.
and
Angels and Airwaves (AKA Blink 138) - A pretenteous effort by Tom DeLonge to try to be the next Pink Floyd or something…and failing miserably.
I second Regina Spektor’s Begin to Hope. Honerable mention: G Love & Special Sauce - Lemonade
For what its worth, I think one of the weakest suggestions put forth in this thread is that Angel’s and Airwaves made a bad album. In fact it was a significant improvement over any recent Blink 182 efforts, and had more than one catchy tracks on it.
K. T. Tunstall’s *Eye to the Telescope * (U.S. release February 2006)
Buckcherry’s 15
And as previously mentioned, The Raconteurs’ Broken Boy Soldiers.
Another vote for Neko Case’s “Fox Confessor Brings The Flood”
Another vote for Thom Yorke’s “The Eraser”
One vote for Sarah Slean’s “Orphan Music”
That’s probably the most fun album I’ve heard this year. I’m very happy with it.
Neko Case is also on my list for this year.
Haven’t heard the new Robyn Hitchcock record, but would love to give it a spin if it’s as good as people here seem to be saying.
I will additionally add my love for Gnarls Barkley, the Pipettes, and Asobi Seksu.
I cannot, for the life of me, get into TV on the Radio. I don’t know why.
If live albums count here, then My Morning Jacket’s Okonokos and PJ Harvey’s Peel Sessions collection are on my list. (Like I said in the other thread, I usually lump live albums, expanded reissues, and new compilations into a “Not Exactly New” category in my blog’s Year-End Music Spectacular.)
Playing with Fire- Kevin Federline.
Dust of Retreat by Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s