Kleeman's Last Word

The Best 25 CD's of 2006

1. JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE "Future Sex/Love Sounds"
2. DAUGHTRY "Daughtry"
3. LUDACRIS "Release Therapy"
4. PAPA ROACH "The Paramour Sessions"
5. JEWEL "Goodbye Alice in Wonderland"
6. TODD SNIDER "The Devil You Know"
7. ARCTIC MONKEYS "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
8. JOHN MAYER "Continuum"
9. CHRISTINA AGUILERA "Back to Basics"
10. ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO "The Boxing Mirror"
11. BREAKING BENJAMIN "Phobia"
12. T BONE BURNETT "The True False Identity"
13. KT TUNSTALL "Eye to the Telescope"
14. FERGIE "The Dutchess"
15. MARK KNOPFLER AND EMMYLOU HARRIS "All The Roadrunning"
16. EVANESCENCE "The Open Door"
17. YO LA TENGO "I am Not Afraid of You And I Will Beat Your Ass"
18. LYFE JENNINGS "The Phoenix"
19. RASCAL FLATTS "Me and My Gang"
20. PLACEBO "Meds"
21. BETH ORTON "Comfort of Strangers
22. THE ROOTS "Game Theory"
23. JULIETA VENEGAS "Limon y Sol"
24. ROSA PASSOS "Rosa"
25. AUDIOSLAVE "Revelations"
26. LUPE FIASCO "Food and Liquor"
27. GHOSTFACE KILLAH "Fishscale"
28. ALI FAKA TOURE "Savane"
29. JOHN LEGEND "Once Again"
30. RIHANNA "A Girl Like Me"
31. AZAM ALI "Elysium for the Brave"
32. ENIGMA "A Posteriori"
33. RICHARD WAGNER "Wagner: Siegfried"
34. ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER "Mozart: The Violin Sonatas"
35. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS "Stadium Arcadium"
36. RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT "I Stand Alone"
37. BILLY HART "Quartet"
38. BOB DYLAN "Modern Times"
39. ROSEANNE CASH "Black Cadillac"
40. ROBERT RANDOLPH "Colorblind"
41. AKON "Konvicted"
42. MADELINE PEYROUX "Half the Perfect World"
43. THE BEATLES "Love (Cirque du Soleil)"
44. DEFTONES "Saturday Night Wrist"
45. STONE SOUR "Come What(Ever) May"

THE MOST DEPLORABLE CD'S OF 2006
1. WOLFMOTHER "Wolfmother"
2. RUBEN STUDDARD "The Return"
3. THE RACONTEURS "Broken Boy Soldiers"
4. YEAH YEAH YEAHS "Show Your Bones"
5. BARRY MANILOW "The Greatest Songs of the 60's"
...more to come...

MOST DISSAPOINTING/MEDIOCRE OFFERING OF 2006
1. TOOL "10,000 Days"

BETTER THAN I ANTICIPATED
1. ROCKSTAR: SUPERNOVA "Rockstar: Supernova"
2. KEVIN FEDERLINE "Playing With Fire"--actually better than a drink coaster or piss on. This is not any worse than the dreck 50 Cent calls "rap."

posted by Robert Kleeman @ 10:00 PM