January 02, 2007

The Fingerprints "Employee Picks" Top 50 of 2006

Here they are, the Top 50 releases of 2006 according to all those smiling faces that greet you when you walk into the store (or at least based up on the combined tally of everyone's individual Top 10 lists). It's just a glimpse at what caught the collective ears of the folks behind the counters. And if you haven't already found 'em on the site, be sure to click on over to our Staff Picks page for a complete listing of each employee's "Best of 2006" list. It's definitely an interesting read. Oh, and Happy New Year!

1. J. Dilla - Donuts
   
2. Extra Golden - Ok-Oyot System
   
3. Comets on Fire - Avatar
   
4. Camera Obscura - Lets Get Out of This Country
   
5. The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
   
6. Belle & Sebastian - Life Pursuit
   
7. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid Of You…
   
8. Joanna Newsome - Ys
   
9. Neko Case - Fox Confessor
   
10. Band of Horses - Everything All at Once
    
11. Mars Volta - Amputecture
    
12. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
    
13. Built To Spill - You In Reverse
    
14. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
    
15. James Hunter - People Gonna Talk
    
16. Bright Black Morning Light - Bright Black Morning Light
    
17. Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams
    
18. Boris - Pink
    
19. Espers - II
    
20. Hot Snakes - Thunder Down Under
    
21. Josh Ritter - Animal Years
    
22. M. Ward - Post War
    
23. Metallic Falcons - Desert Doughnuts
    
24. Sunn 0))) / Boris - Altar
    
25. Liars - Drums Not Dead
    
26. Stereolab - Serene Velocity
    
27. Marked Men - Fix My Brain
    
28. Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory - Tree Colored See
    
29. Alexi Murdoch - Time Without Consequence
    
30. Charlambides - A Vintage Burden
    
31. Indian Jewelry - Invasive Exotics
    
32. The Bronx - Shitty Future
    
33. Cat Power - The Greatest
    
34. Dan Sartain - Join Dan Sartain
    
35. Avishai Cohen - Continuo
    
36. Bonnie “Prince” Billy - The Letting Go
    
37. Georgia Anne Muldrew - Olesi – Fragments of an Earth
    
38. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
    
39. Nobody - Revisions Revisions
    
40. Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
    
41. Sibylle Baier - The Colour Green
    
42. Various - Congotronics 2
    
43. Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals
    
44. Drive-by Truckers - Blessing & a Curse
    
45. Islands - Return of the Sea
    
46. Joseph Arthur - Nuclear Daydream
    
47. Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA
    
48. Make Believe - Of Course
    
49. The Evens - Get Evens
    
50. Mastodon - Blood Mountain