LOCAL TOP 5

1. Mom - Little Brite
2. The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
3. Salim Nourallah - Snowing In My Heart
4. Shock of Pleasure - This is a Test
5. The Happy Bullets - The Vice & Virtue Ministry

OVERALL TOP 20

1. Mom - Little Brite
2. Liars - Liars
3. M.I.A. - Kala
4. Okkervil River - Stage Names
5. Blockhead - Uncle Tony's Coloring Book
6. Caribou - Andorra
7. The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
8. Flaming Lips - U.F.O.s at the Zoo
9. Odd Nosdam - Level Live Wires
10. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
11. Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals - Lifeline
12. Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
13. Architecture in Helsinki - Places Like This
14. New Pornographers - Challengers
15. Josh Rouse - Country Mouse City House
16. Brunettes - Structure & Cosmetics
17. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
18. Salim Nourallah - Snowing In My Heart
19. Eisley - Combinations
20. Justice - Cross

The new Caribou is off the chain if you know what I mean.

Shock of Pleasure has a song that appeared during an abc family tv show. They play mostly in Plano and Addison.

totally separate.

Maybe I should know this, but who is Shock of Pleasure?

haha

quiet down, little hater.
good records has no personal financial stake in any of these records. good records recordings is totally separate from the store.
pancakes for mattie records has absolutely nothing to do with good records. the guy that runs it just works there.

just remove the spree and the rest would stay the same.

of everything is subject to personal taste but here are a few suggests:

Holy Fuck - Holy Fuck ep
Adult. - Why Bother
Celebration - The Modern Tribe
Boredoms - Super Roots 9
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of The Rings
Child Abuse -S/T
Digitalism - Idealism
Do May Say Think - You,You're a History in rust
Liars - Liars
The Field - From here we go Sublime
Von Sudenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions
Apparat - Walls
Thomas_Fehlmann-Honigpumpe
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
Kaman Leung - lacrimal
Calvin Harris - I Created Disco
Justice - †
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
*Alan Vega - Station
Pole - schoner land
Kalabrese - Rumpelzirkus
Battles - Mirrored
The Sonics - Busy Body!!! Live in Tacoma 1964
Black Dice - Load Blown
Jesu and Eluvium - split LP
Clark - Ted ep
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Scott Walker - And Who Shall Go To The Ball And What Shall Go To The Ball
Otto Von Schirach - Spine Serpents of Sperm Island
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
The Nels Cline Singers - Draw Breath
The Tuss - Rushup Edge
GRAILS - Burning Off Impurities
A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers
Mary Weiss with the Reigning Sound - Dangerous Game
Grinderman - S/T
Efterklang - Under Giant Trees
Venetian Snares - Pink + Green

and much much more......

This is not a namedrop list(you know who I am talking to). Just a few records that have come out(or will come out) this year that are a pretty damn good listen and possibly worthy of a top ten list. I hope this helps. Some of this stuff has received press, but not too much around here.

i would not spend $$ on any of those records in the top 20 peoples taste in music FUCKING SUCKS!!!!

Can we run a 2nd version, records that Good has no personal financial stake in?

Melt-Banana's Bambi's Dilemma is awesome, but it hasn't gotten much coverage anywhere. Travesty!

no age 'weirdo rippers' is good. album of the year so far is 'lucas' by skeletons & the kings of all cities.

you know, it was about this time last year when people were calling 2006 a lame year for music. I have to say that is how I'm feeling this year. There are a couple ok albums, but I'd be hard pressed to do a top ten. I'm just hoping there are a few sleeper albums out there that will pop up later. any suggestions for albums that haven't had much press yet this year?