Top 5 albums of 2006

1: Surprise -- Paul Simon
2: Morph The Cat -- Donald Fagen
3: Living With War -- Neil Young
4: Modern Times -- Bob Dylan
5: Live At Town Hall -- Eels

Wow... That is a lot of old white men. In my defense, I haven't been able to buy as much music as I would have liked to this year. Nellie McKay's second album, for example, from what little I have heard, sounds at least 10 times better than her first one was. (So, I may update this list later on.)Surprise was surprising, I would have thought that the best would have been Dylan at the start of the year.

Most Disappointing:

A Mother's Gift -- Carnie Wilson

One song on this, Heaven, is one of the best records of the last ten years. The rest is crap. Such a waste of talent.

Hotel Lights -- Hotel Lights

This is the solo project of Darren Jessee, who was the drummer in Ben Folds Five, and thus, technically, counts as 1.67 people. He wrote Magic and co-wrote Brick, so he is much more capable than this.