Zzz Records' Best Sellers of 2006

(Local artists noted in red print)

DECEMBER 2006

  1. Joanna Newsom "Ys"
  2. The Envy Corps "I Will Write You Love Letters If You Tell Me To"
  3. TomWaits "Orphans"
  4. William E. Whitmore "Song of the Blackbird"
  5. Yo La Tengo "I Am Not Afraid of You & I Will Beat Your Ass"
  6. Sufjan Stevens "Songs For Christmas"
  7. The Decemberists "The Crane Wife"
  8. TV on the Radio "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes"
  9. Sonic Youth "The Destroyed Room"
  10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Show Your Bones"

NOVEMBER 2006

  1. Joanna Newsom "Ys"
  2. The Envy Corps "I Will Write You Love Letters If You Tell Me To"
  3. Bright Eyes "Noise Floor"
  4. Tom Waits "Orphans"
  5. Sparklehorse "Dreamt For Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain"
  6. The Decemberists "The Crane Wife"
  7. Beck "The Information"
  8. Isis "In the Absence of Truth"
  9. DJ Shadow "The Outsider"
  10. Isobell Campbell "Milk White Sheets"

OCTOBER 2006

  1. The Decemberists "The Crane Wife"
  2. Beck "The Information"
  3. The Killers "Sam's Town"
  4. The Hold Steady "Boys & Girls in America"
  5. The Envy Corps "I Will Write You Love Letters If You Tell Me To"
  6. The Black Keys "Magic Potion"
  7. TV on the Radio "Return to Cookie Mountain"
  8. Yo La Tengo "I Am Not Afraid of You & I Will Beat Your Ass"
  9. Akron/Family "Meek Warrior"
  10. Blood Brothers "Young Machetes"

SEPTEMBER 2006

  1. Bob Dylan "Modern Times"
  2. Bonnie Prince Billy "The Letting Go"
  3. Yo La Tengo "I Am Not Afraid of You & I Will Beat Your Ass"
  4. TV on the Radio "Return to Cookie Mountain"
  5. Cursive "Happy Hollow"
  6. The Envy Corps "I Will Write You Love Letters If You Tell Me To"
  7. The Mountain Goats "Get Lonely"
  8. The Flaming Lips "At War With the Mystics"
  9. Mono/ World's End Girlfriend "Palmless Prayer"
  10. Junior Boys "So This is Goodbye"

AUGUST 2006

  1. William E. Whitmore "Song of the Blackbird"
  2. Thom Yorke "The Eraser"
  3. The Envy Corps "I Will Write You Love Letters If You Tell Me To"
  4. The Mountain Goats "Get Lonely"
  5. Ani DiFranco "Reprieve"
  6. Todd Snider "The Devil You Know"
  7. Slayer "Christ Illusion"
  8. Stone Sour "Come What(ever) May"
  9. Devendra Banhart "Cripple Crow"
  10. The Autumn Project "A Burning Light"

JULY 2006

  1. Thom Yorke "The Eraser"
  2. Johnny Cash "American V: A Hundred Highways"
  3. The Envy Corps "I Will Write You Love Letters If You Tell Me To"
  4. Sufjan Stevens "The Avalanche"
  5. Gnarls Barkley "St. Elsewhere"
  6. The Raconteurs "Broken Boy Soldiers"
  7. Built to Spill "You in Reverse"
  8. Flaming Lips "At War With the Mystics"
  9. Liars "Drum's Not Dead"
  10. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah"

JUNE 2006

  1. The Mountain Goats "Babylon Springs"
  2. Sonic Youth "Rather Ripped"
  3. Camera Obscura "Let's Get Out of This Country"
  4. Gnarls Barkley "St. Elsewhere"
  5. The Raconteurs "Broken Boy Soldiers"
  6. Sufjan Stevens "Michigan"
  7. Aeon Grey "Primate Cirriculum"
  8. Band of Horses "Everything All the Time"
  9. Tilly & the Wall "Bottoms of Barrels"
  10. Gorillaz "Demon Days"

MAY 2006

  1. The Envy Corps "I Will Write You Love Letters If You Tell Me To"
  2. Tool "10,000 Days"
  3. Gnarls Barkley "St. Elsewhere"
  4. The Raconteurs "Broken Boy Soldiers"
  5. Black Heart Procession "The Spell"
  6. The Black Keys "Chulahoma"
  7. The Mountain Goats "Babylon Springs"
  8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Show Your Bones"
  9. Neil Young "Living With War"
  10. Tilly & the Wall "Bottoms of Barrels"

APRIL 2006

  1. The Envy Corps "I Will Write You Love Letters If You Tell Me To"
  2. The Flaming Lips "At War With the Mystics"
  3. Built to Spill "You in Reverse"
  4. Morrissey "Ringleader of the Tormentors"
  5. Calexico "Garden Ruin"
  6. Mono "You Are There"
  7. Pretty Girls Make Graves "Elan Vital"
  8. Matisyahu "Youth"
  9. Ciccone Youth "The Whitey Album"
  10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Show Your Bones"

MARCH 2006

  1. Mogwai "Mr. Beast"
  2. Loose Fur "Born Again in the U.S.A."
  3. Liars "Drum's Not Dead"
  4. Neko Case "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"
  5. Arctic Monkeys "Whatever People say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
  6. Mates of State "Bring it Back"
  7. Goldfrapp "Supernature"
  8. Stereolab "Fab Four Suture"
  9. Jenny Lewis / Watson Twins "Rabbit Fur Coat"
  10. Sufjan Stevens "Illinois"

FEBRUARY 2006

  1. Belle & Sebastian "The Life Pursuit"
  2. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah"
  3. Arctic Monkeys "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
  4. Cat Power "The Greatest"
  5. Jenny Lewis / Watson Twins "Rabbit Fur Coat"
  6. Sufjan Stevens "Illinois"
  7. Neutral Milk Hotel "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea"
  8. The Arcade Fire "Funeral"
  9. The Strokes "First Impressions of Earth"
  10. Poison Control Center "Kennedy"

JANUARY 2006

  1. Cat Power "The Greatest"
  2. The Strokes "First Impressions of Earth"
  3. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah"
  4. Sufjan Stevens "Illinois"
  5. The Gossip "Standing in the Way of Control"
  6. Ryan Adams "29"
  7. The Envy Corps "Soviet Reunion"
  8. Robert Pollard "From a Compound Eye"
  9. The Decemberists "Picaresque"
  10. Rogue Wave "Descended Like Vultures"