D-Tour: Something Other Than Diabetes

A few work friends and I traditionally share our "best of" CDs at the year's end. I thought I'd also share this with my new D-Blog friends and any other stragglers that may stumble upon Up High ... Down Low. I'm sure we don't all share the same musical taste, but this year's list is somewhat eclectic. A little something for everyone if you care to look into these artists a little further.

Charlie is partial to British pop and he would likely have gone with Keane's Under the Iron Sea. But then Gnarls Barkley came along with this ....

A string section of imperial officers? Stormtroopers on guitars? Chewy on the drums? Are you kidding me? Charlie went frickin' nuts.

I got Maeve her first real CD for Christmas. By real, I mean one that doesn't have princesses on the cover. I got her the Beatles' Red Album. Figured a great place to start. Susanne called me up at work my first day back after the holiday and told me that Maeve was sitting all alone on her bed with her little CD player, bopping her head up and down and coming in on the choruses of "Eight Days a Week." I admit I got a bit teary. She seems to have also inherited my father's knack for mangling song lyrics as much as song lyrics can be mangled. Obviously not a new release, but new to Maeve and a favorite of 2006.

Baby Ben hasn't expressed his fave of 2006, but the nipper likes to shake it to just about anything. I could have an asthma attack and he'd promptly do the robot.

So, that's what the kids are listening to. Here's what I liked in 2006.

My Top 10 CDs of 2006

1. Jon Auer - Songs From the Year of Our Demise

2. The Decemberists - The Crane Wife

3. Calexico - Garden Ruin

4. Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela

5. Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed

6. Easy Star All-Stars - Radiodread

7. Josh Rouse - Subtitulo

8. M. Ward - Post-War

9. Snow Patrol - Eyes Open

10. Thom Yorke - The Eraser