Filter's Top 10 of 2006, Day Thirteen: Filter's Picks
by Staff | 00.00.0000

After much scratching of heads, frantic listening to records and some extremely heated e-mail chains, we are very proud to present Filter’s Top Ten favorite records of the year! Yes, these are the ones that have rocked our collective world and become mainstays on the ever-changing office stereos. Some of these records were slow burners that seeped into the consciousness over a matter of months, some aggressively grabbed our ears and refused to let go, but all of these albums are the ones that just wouldn’t quit. As well as the Official Filter Top Ten, you’ll be able to see our individual staff picks, so you can find out what each one of us enjoyed this year while creating your favorite magazine/website.

So without further ado…


Filter's Top 10 Albums of the Year:

1. Band of Horses, Everything All The Time
2. TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain
3. Built to Spill, You In Reverse
4. Silversun Pickups, Carnavas
5. Cold War Kids Robbers & Cowards
6. Cat Power, The Greatest
7. Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere
8. Belle & Sebastian, The Life Pursuit
9. Jeremy Enigk, World Waits
10. Brightblack Morning Light, Brightblack Morning Light

Honorable Mentions: Sound Team, The Decemberists, Aterciopelados, Dirty on Purpose, Fields,Gilles Peterson and Patric Forge, Mew, Mogwai, Mojave 3, Morrissey, My Brightest Diamond, Pearl Jam, Swan Lake, T.I., The Black Keys, The Flaming Lips, The Hold Steady, and Tom Waits.


Alan Miller (Co- Publisher)

1. Band of Horses, Everything All The Time (Sub Pop)
2. Cat Power, The Greatest (Matador)
3. Gomez, How We Operate (ATO)
4. La Rocca, The Truth (Dangerbird)
5. Built to Spill, You In Reverse (Warner Bros)
6. Morrissey, Ringleader of the Tormentors(Attack/Sanctuary)
7. The Subways, Young for Eternity (WEA)
8. Mohair, Small Talk (Grunion)
9. Silversun Pickups, Carnavas (Dangerbird)
10.Pilot Speed, Into the West (Wind-Up)


Alan Sartirana (Co- Publisher)

1. Tom Waits, Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards (Anti)
2. Band of Horses, Everything All The Time (Sub Pop)
3. Jenny Lewis, Rabbit Fur Coat (Team Love)
4. Cold War Kids Robbers & Cowards (Downtown Records)
5. Nine Black Alps, Everything Is (Interscope)
6. V/A, Marie Antoinette Soundtrack (Verve)
7. Dustin O’Halloran, Piano Solos Vol. 2 (Filter US Recordings)
8. Cat Power, The Greatest (Matador)
9. Silversun Pickups, Carnavas (Dangerbird)
10. Magnet, The Tourniquet (Filter)


Chris Martins (Editor)

1. TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope)
2. Subtle For Hero:For Fool (Lex)
3. Grizzly Bear, Yellow House (Warp)
4. Madlib the Beat Konducta, Vol. 1-2: Movie Scenes (Stones Throw)
5. Brightblack Morning Light Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)
6. Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra, Boulevard de l'independence (Nonesuch)
7. Darc Mind, Symptomatic of a Greater Ill (Anticon)
8. Archie Bronson Outfit, Derdang Derdang (Domino)
9. Ellen Allian + Apparat, Orchestra of Bubbles (BPitch Control)
10. CX KiDTRONiK, KraK attack (Sound Ink)


Pat McGuire (Editor)

1. TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope)
2. Built To Spill, You in Reverse (Warner)
3. Bonnie "Prince" Billy, The Letting Go (Drag City)
4. Band of Horses, Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
5. Brightblack Morning Light, Brightblack Morning Light (Matador)
6. Ratatat, Classics (XL)
7. Bob Dylan, Modern Times (Columbia)
8. Beirut, Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing)
9. The Black Keys, Magic Potion (Nonesuch)
10. Dead Moon, Echoes From the Past (Sub Pop)


Eric Almendral (Art)

1. TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope)
2. The Decemberists, The Crane Wife (Capitol)
3. Cat Power, The Greatest (Matador)
4. Band of Horses Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
5. Built to Spill, You In Reverse (Warner Bros)
6. Belle & Sebastian, The Life Pursuit (Matador)
7. Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
8. The Flaming Lips, At War With the Mystics (Warner Bros.)
9. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Ballad of the Broken Seas (V2)
10. Jason Collett, Idols of Exile (Arts & Crafts)


Samantha Feld (Marketing)

1. Cold War Kids Robbers & Cowards (Downtown Records)
2. The Album Leaf, Into the Blue Again (Universal)
3. Silversun Pickups, Carnavas (Dangerbird)
4. The Rapture, Pieces of the People We Love (Universal)
5. Hot Chip, The Warning (Astralwerks)
6. Built to Spill, You In Reverse (Warner Bros)
7. Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere (Downtown Records)
8. Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped (DFA/EMI)
9. Fields, 7 From the Village (Black Lab/Atlantic)
10. The Velvet Teen, Cum Laude (Slowdance)


Gur Rashal (filter-mag.com)

1. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam (J Records)
2. Fields, 7 From the Village (Black Lab/Atlantic)
3. Band of Horses, Everything All The Time (Sub Pop)
4. Cold War Kids Robbers & Cowards (Downtown Records)
5. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, Knives Don’t Have Your Back (Last Gang Records)
6. Sound Team, Movie Monster (Capitol)
7. Built to Spill, You In Reverse (Warner Bros)
8. Albert Hammond Jr., Yours To Keep (Rough Trade)
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium (Warner)
10. The Decemberists, The Crane Wife (Capitol)


Beth Carmellini (Sales)

1. My Brightest Diamond, Bring Me The Workhorse (Asthmatic Kitty)
2. TV On The Radio, Return To Cookie Mountain (Return to Cookie Mountain)
3. Mogwai, Mr. Beast (Matador)
4. Hammock, Raising Your Voice…Trying to Stop an Echo (Darla)
5. Scanners, Violence Is Golden (Dim Mak)
6. Camera Obscura, Let’s Get Out of This Country (Merge)
7. The Decemberists, The Crane Wife (Capitol)
8. Cat Power, The Greatest (Matador)
9. Yo La Tengo, I’m Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass (Matador)
10. Frida Hyvonen, Until Death Comes (Secretly Canadian)


Torr Leonard (blog.filter-mag.com)

1. Mojave 3, Puzzles Like You (4AD)
2. Keane, Under The Iron Sea (Interscope)
3. The Hourly Radio, History Will Never Hold Me (Kirtland)
4. Boy Kill Boy, Civil Sin (Island)
5. Midlake, Trials of Van Occupanther (Bella Union)
6. Mew, And The Glass Handed Kites (Sony)
7. Sean Lennon, Friendly Fire (Capitol/EMI)
8.Morrissey, Ringleader of the Tormentors (Attack/Sanctuary)
9. Jeremy Enigk, World Waits (Reincarnate)
10. Margot & The Nuclear So And So's, Dust Of Retreat (Standard Recording Co.)


Jose Vargas (Circulation)

1. Aterciopelados, Oye (Nacional Records)
2. The Black Keys, Magic Potion (Nonesuch)
3. As Tall as Lions, As Tall As Lions (Triple Crown / East West)
4. The Mars Volta, Amputechture (Universal)
5. Los Bunkers, Vida de Perros (Nacional Records)
6. Wolfmother, Dimensions (Modular Records)
7. We are Scientists, With Love and Squalor (Virgin)
8. Porter, Donde Los Pony’s Pastan (Tercer Piso Records)
9. Soundteam, Movie Monster (Capitol)
10. Mellowdrone, Box (3e/Columbia/Sony BMG)


Mike Bell (Marketing)

1. Dirty On Purpose, Hallelujah Sirens (North Street Records)
2. The Big Sleep, Son of the Tiger (French Kiss)
3. Silversun Pickups, Carnavas (Dangerbird)
4. Band of Horses Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
5. The Flaming Lips, At War With the Mystics (Warner)
6. Belle & Sebastian, The Life Pursuit (Matador)
7. Mew And the Glass Handed Kites (Sony/BMG)
8. Sean Lennon, Friendly Fire (Capitol)
9. Morrissey, Ringleader of the Tormentors (Sanctuary)
10. Sound Team Movie Monster (Capitol)


Ewan Anderson (filter-mag.com)

1. The Hold Steady, Boys And Girls In America (Vagrant)
2. Final Fantasy, He Poos Clouds (Tomlab)
3. Belle and Sebastian, The Life Pursuit (Matador)
4. Raising The Fawn, The Maginot Line (Sonic Unyon)
5. Fiery Furnaces, Bitter Tea (Fat Possum)
6. Mew, And the Glass Handed Kites (Sony)
7. Silversun Pickups, Carnavas (Dangerbird)
8. Mogwai, Mr Beast (Matador)
9. The Lemonheads, The Lemonheads (Vagrant)
10. Girl Talk, Night Ripper (Illegal Art)


E. Vizion Jones (Marketing)

1. Gilles Peterson and Patric Forge, Sunday Afternoon at Dingwalls (Ether)
2. T.I., King (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)
3. Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere (Downtown Records)
4. Charlie Mingus, Take The 'A' Train (Back Up)
5. Bitter:Sweet, The Mating Game (Quango Music Group)
6. John Legend, Once Again (G.O.O.D./Sony)
7. V/A, Chrome Children (Stones Throw)
8. Doctor Who Dat?, Beat Journey (Lex)
9. Lisa Shaw, Cherry (Naked Music NYC)
10. TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope)


Penny Hewson (filter-mag.com)

1. Jeremy Enigk, World Waits (Reincarnate)
2. The Lovely Feathers , Hind Hind Legs (Equator)
3. The Duke Spirit, Cuts Across The Land (Universal/Polydor)
4. Band of Horses Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
5. Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere (Downtown Records)
6. Wolfmother, Wolfmother (Modular)
7. Mellowdrone, Box (Red Ink)
8. Sam Roberts Band, Chemical City (Universal Music Canada)
9. Silversun Pickups, Carnavas (Dangerbird)
10. The Roots, Game Theory (Def Jam)


Samantha Barnes (filter-mag.com)

1. Swan Lake, Beast Moans (Jagjaguwar)
2. TV On The Radio, Return To Cookie Mountain (Interscope)
3. Band Of Horses, Everything All The Time (Sub Pop)
4. The Format, Dog Problems (Nettwerk)
5. Malajube, Trompe L'Oeil (Ninja Tune)
6. Sunset Rubdown, Shut Up I Am Dreaming (Absolutely Kosher)
7. Silversun Pickups, Carnavas (Dangerbird)
8. Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere (Downtown)
9. Built To Spill, You In Reverse (Warner Bros.)
10. Sound Team, Movie Monster (Capitol)