Here we go, the definitive list post. You know you like them really. Post your best and worst whatevers to do with all things music from 2006. A lolly to the first inevitable stupid list.

Albums
01 Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
02 Band of Horses – Everything all the Time
03 Joanna Newsom – Ys
04 Mastodon – Blood Mountain
05 Sepultura – Dante XXI
06 Tool – 10,000 Days
07 Jesu – Silver EP
08 Billy Talent – Billy Talent II
09 TV On The Radio – Return to Cookie Mountain
10 Muse – Black Holes and Revelations

Just Missing out
Neko Case – Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Russian Circles – Enter
Thom Yorke – The Eraser
Micah P Hinson - …and the Opera Circuit

Honourable Mentions
Scott Matthews – Passing Stranger
Mogwai – Mr Beast
Futureheads – News & Tributes
Calexico – Garden Ruin
Islands – Return to the Sea
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
Sufjan Stevens – The Avalanche
Therapy? – One Cure Fits All
Una Corda – Proper Position for Floating
Brand New – The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
Deftones – Saturday Night Wrist
Seafood – Paper Crown King
Mars Volta – Amputechture
Joan As Police Woman – Real Life
Boris – Pink
Nina Nastasia – on Leaving

Disappointments
Cat Power – The Greatest
Hope of The States – Left
The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers

Gigs
01 Tool (Hammersmith Apollo)
02 Tool (Nottingham Arena)
03 Sufjan Stevens (Barbican)
04 Muse (NEC)
05 Midlake (Barfly)
06 Sepultura (Academy)
07 Metric (Barfly)
08 Coheed & Cambria (Academy)
09 The Wrens (Bar Academy)
10 The Like (Academy 2)