The Audities community has voted on their top 20 of 2006. Here it is, with where the disc placed in the Absolute Powerpop Top 100 of 2006:
1. The Nines – Calling Distance Stations (23)
2. Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. – Land Of Pure Imagination (N/E)
3. L.E.O. – Alpacas Orgling (4)
4. The Feeling – Twelve Stops And Home (56)
5. The Format – Dog Problems (5)
6. Cheap Trick – Rockford (14)
7. Chris Brown – Now That You’re Fed (8)
8. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs – Under The Covers, Vol. 1 (-)
9. Pernice Brothers – Live A Little (47)
10. Jon Auer – Songs From The Year Of Our Demise (79)
11. Belle And Sebastian – The Life Pursuit (-)
12. Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings The Flood (-)
13. Bob Dylan – Modern Times (-)
14. Sloan – Never Hear The End Of It (HM)
15. The Winnerys – Daily Urban Times (68)
16. Cloud Eleven – Sweet Happy Life (saved for 2007)
17. The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers (-)
18. Wisely – Parador (-)
19. Lindsey Buckingham – Under The Skin (-)
20. Josh Rouse – Subtitulo (-)
N/E-Not Eligible for my list; see original post. HM-Honorable Mention
A few comments: I like this list a lot better than 2005's, which had a high number of "indie rock" acts placing higher. With a list drawn from 113 entrants, there's going to be a bias toward bigger names, some not even power pop, hence the presence of luminaries such as Dylan, Neko Case, and Lindsey Buckingham. I still stand by my opinion that Subtitulo was Josh Rouse's weakest album in years, and would have made a great EP instead, and I thought The Raconteurs was a slog.
As for some of my favorites that weren't in the top 20, #1 Bob Evans landed in a tie for 40 with fellow Aussie Michael Carpenter. I have no doubt Suburban Songbook would have placed higher had it been widely available in the USA. #2 Supraluxe was shut out, although they did place #42 in David Bash's top 100 list. No love for Andrew LeDrew (technically 05), Copperdown or David William either. Rhett Miller, who I had at #7, was #21. And The Goldbergs, at #6, undoubtedly came out too late in the year as a relative unknown act to make a wide impact.
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