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2006 Individual Votes

Here are the individual lists of each contributor that voted. The final top tens were worked out using a points system, not by the number of people voting. These are the lists as submitted and so include some items which were disallowed for various reasons.

Albums (read article)

Marceline Smith
1. Joanna Newsom – Ys
2. Mogwai – Mr Beast
3. Pet Shop Boys – Fundamental
4. CSS – Cansei de Ser Sexy
5. The Pipettes – We are the Pipettes
6. Trail of Dead – So Divided
7. Sonic Youth – Rather Ripped
8. Lords – This Ain’t a Hate Thing
9. Isobel Campbell/Mark Lanegan – Ballad of the Broken Seas
10. West End Girls – West End Girls

Rebecca McChesney
1. Mastadon – Blood Mountain
2. Zombi – Surface to Air
3. Micah P Hinson – The Opera Circuit
4. Joanna Newsom – Ys
5. Yo La Tengo – I am not afraid of you and I will kick your ass
6. Cat Power – The Greatest
7. Boards of Canada – Trans Canada Highway
8. Midlake – The Trials of Van Occupanther
9. Circle – Prospekt
10. Willie Nelson – Cindy Walker tribute

Stuart Fowkes
1. Bat For Lashes – Fur & Gold
2. Liars – Drum’s Not Dead
3. M Ward – Post-War
4. Volcano! – Beautiful Seizure
5. Mr Lif – Mo Mega
6. Princess – Superstrcuture of An Era
7. Sennen – Widows
8. Secret Machines – Ten Silver Drops
9. Hunting Lodge – Energy Czar
10. Spank Rock – Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo

Jon Goodwin
1. ‘Stella’ by Uzeda
2. ‘Hate Thing / Love Thing’ by Lords
3. ‘On Leaving’ by Nina Nastasia
4. ‘Rather Ripped’ by Sonic Youth
5. ‘Get Evens’ by The Evens
6. Erase Errata
7. Quack Quack mini album
8. ‘Polaris’ by Polaris
9. ‘Song of The Blackbird’ by William E Whitmore
10. The Static Waves

Simon Minter
1. Keiji Haino & Sitar Tah! – Animamima
2. Smokers Die Younger – X Wants The Meat
3. Sennen – Widows
4. Steven R Smith – The Anchorite
5. Boris – Vein
6. Various Artists – Psychedelica Volume One
7. Volumen – Science Faction
8. Boyracer – Punker than you since ’92
9. The Telescopes – Auditory Illusions
10. Jack Rose – Raag Manifesto

Simon Proffitt
1. aufgehoben: messidor
2. scott walker: the drift
3. toshimaru nakamura/keith rowe: between
4. paul flaherty/chris corsano: the beloved music
5. zach hill & mick barr: shred earthship
6. tim hecker: harmony in ultraviolet
7. uzeda: stella
8. om: conference of the birds
9. MoHa!: raus aus stavanger
10. keiji haino & sitaar tah! – animamima

Joe Luna
1. Vodka Soap – Un Chand Pyramdelier
2. HS. – For Guitar
3. James Ferraro – Pan Als Allgott Saturnia 1977
4. The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
5. Magik Markers – For Sada Jane LP
6. Solonese Gamelan: A Garland of Moods
7. Arvo Pärt – Da Pacem
8. Lanterns – Once
9. Keiji Haino – Yaranaiga Dekinaikotoni Natteyuku
10. Axolotl – Chemical Theatre LP

Ollie Simpson
1. Lords – This Ain’t a Hate Thing, It’s a Love Thing
2. Comets on Fire – Avatar
3. Meneguar – I Was Born at Night (reissue)
4. Om – Conference of the Birds
5. Growing – Color Wheel
6. Raccoo-oo-oon – Is Night People
7. Woods – How to Survive In/In The Woods
8. Raccoo-oo-oon – Cave of Spirits Forever
9. Charalambides – A Vintage Burden
10. Awesome Color – Awesome Color

Andrew Bryers
1. The Knife – Silent Shout
2. Tom Waits – Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards
3. Howling Bells – Howling Bells
4. The Guillemots – Through the Windowpane
5. Mono – You Are There
6. The Decemberists – The Crane Wife
7. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
8. Mogwai – Mr Beast
9. Uncle John and Whitelock – There is Nothing Else
10. iLiKETRAiNS – Progress and Reform

David Stockwell
1. Lords – This Ain’t A Hate Thing, This Is A Love Thing
2. Andrew Chalk – Blue Eyes of the March/Goldfall
3. Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano – The Beloved Music
4. Chris Herbert – Mezzotint
5. Charalambides – A Vintage Burden
6. MV & EE with the Bummer Road – Mother of Thousands
7. Tim Hecker – Harmony in Ultraviolet
8. Yo La Tengo – I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
9. Magik Markers – For Sada Jane
10. Steven R. Smith – The Anchorite

Chris Summerlin
1 Comets On Fire – Avatar
2 Erase Errata – Night Life
3 loren connors – night through (collected works)
4 daniel higgs – interdimensional song seamstress
5 carla bozulich – evagelista
6 Bonnie Prince Billy – The Letting Go
7 Awesome Color – S/T
8 The Unit Ama – S/T (reissued this year)
9 Chris Corsano – The Young Cricketer CDR
10 Uzeda – Stella

Maxwell Williams
1. Destroyer – Destroyer’s Rubies
2. Television Personalities – My Dark Places
3. Comet Gain – City Fallen Leaves
4. Flin Flon – Dixie
5. Love Is All – Nine Times That Same Song
6. Pants Yell! – Recent Drama
7. Tv-resistori – Serkut rakastaa paremmin
8. (smog) – A River Ain’t Too Much To Love
9. Jamaica to Toronto: Soul Funk and Reggae 1967-1974
10. Susanna & the Magical Orchestra – List of Lights and Buoys

Pascal Ansell
1. Battles – EP C/B EP
2. That Fucking Tank – Day of Death by Bono Adrenalin Shot
3. Squarepusher – Hello Everything
4. The Ladies – They Mean Us
5. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
6. Don Caballero – World Class Listening Problem
7. Kieron Hebden and Steve Reid – The Exchange Session Volume 2
8. Plan B – Who Needs Action When You’ve Got Words
9. Melvins – A Senile Animal
10. Muse – Black Holes & Revelations

Anna Chapman
1. Someone Sill Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Broom
2. volcano! – Beautiful Seizure
3. Magik Markers
4. Cat Power
5. Jarvis Cocker

Alasdair Rothin
1. Cansei De Ser Sexy – CSS
2. Amy Winehouse – Back To Black
3. Battles – EP C/B – EP
4. Final Fantasy – He Poos Clouds
5. Jamelia – Walk With Me

Jason Graham
1. Ricky Gervais – The Ricky Gervais Show
2. Cat Power – The Greatest
3. Giant Drag – Hearts And Unicorns
4. Peeping Tom – Peeping Tom
5. Mission Of Burma – The Oblierati
6. Eugene Mirman – En Garde, Society!
7. Woman – Das Hexer
8. Joe Lally – There To Here
9. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
10. CSS – Cansei De Ser Sexy

Ian Scanlon
1. Lords – this ain’t a hate thing it’s a love thing
2. My latest Novel -wolves
3. Semifinalists – s/t
4. Joanna Newsom -Ys
5. Field Music – s/t
6. Broken Family band – balls
7. Yo La tengo – I am tougher than you and I will beat your ass
8. Neko Case – Fox confessor brings the flood
9. Wire reissues!

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Films (read article)

Marceline Smith
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Tony Takitani

Tom Coogan
1.The Squid And The Whale
2.Transamerica
3. Brokeback Mountain
4. Volver
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. Pan’s Labyrinth
7. A Scanner Darkly
8. Neil Young – Heart of Gold
9. The Devil and Daniel Johnston
10. The Prestige

Rebecca McChesney
1. Red Road
2. Zidane
3. Manderlay
4. Junebug
5. Metal:A Headbanger’s Journey
6. Volver

Stuart Fowkes
1. Hidden (Cache)
2. Primer
3. A Cock & Bull Story
4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
5. Kidulthood
6. The Beat That My Heart Skipped
7.You & Me & Everyone We Know
8. Red Road
9. Snakes on a Plane
10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysVlvoKBcdA

Jon Goodwin
1. Good Night and Good Luck
2. The Squid and The Whale
3. Volver
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Superman Returns
6. The Notorious Bettie Page
7. Walk The Line

Simon Minter
1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Jarhead
3. A Cock And Bull Story
4. Wal-Mart: The High Cost Of Low Price
5. Glastonbury
6. Hostel

Joe Luna
1. Tideland
2. A Scanner Darkly
3. The Host

Andrew Bryers
1. Brick
2. The Prestige
3. The Proposition
4. Children of Men
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. Marie Antoinette
7. Junebug
8. Hidden (Cache)
9. A Scanner Darkly
10. Slither

David Stockwell
1. The New World
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. Capote
4. The Departed
5. A Scanner Darkly
6. Inside Man
7. Pan’s Labyrinth
8. Shopgirl
9. Cache (Hidden)
10. Clerks 2

Maxwell Williams
1. A Scanner Darkly
2. Following Sean
3. I Love Swatting Flies
4. The Departed
5. Junebug
6. Who Killed the Electric Car?
7. Manderlay
8. The Lake House
9. Stranger Than Fiction
10. The Science of Slee

Alasdair Rothin
1. Brick
2. Transamerica
3. Red Road
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Lemming
6. Romance and Cigarettes
7. X-Men 3

Jason Graham
1. Stranger Than Fiction
2. Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
3. Children Of Men
4. Squid And The Whale
5. Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
6. For Your Consideration
7. Little Miss Sunshine
8. Talladegga Nights
9. V For Vendetta
10. The Host

Chris Haikney
1 Pan’s Labyrinth
2 Red Road

Ian Scanlon
1. Snakes on a Plane
2. Superman Returns