Best Music of 2006 Albums 1) Black Holes & Revelations - Muse All the self restraint of Pink Floyd on an unlimited budget. 2) Gypsy Punk Underdog World Strike - Gogol Bordello Paaaarty! 3) Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - Arctic Monkeys Britain's best punk band ? 4) Costello Music - The Fratellis The very essence of infectious pop-rock. 5) Blood Mountain - Mastodon The kings of sludge metal give it some woaaaaargh! 6) Birthing The Giant - Cancer Bats Its like a gonzo cross of Black Sabbath and Lynyrd Skynyrd with a dollop of Sepultura. 7) Valor Del Corazon - Ginger So it's Wildhearts lite. 8) A Matter Of Life And Death - Iron Maiden The oldest metalheads in town put out a decent album. 9) Care In The Community - Babar Luck Brit Asian new wave indy folk punk whatever. 10) Liberation Transmission - Lostprophets The boyos hit the big time. Albums That sucked 2006 1) Mindcrime 2 - Queensryche 2) Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living - The Streets Best Live Bands 2006 1) Muse "it's nice to be blown away by the sheer majesty of it all." 2) Coheed & Cambria "Sanchez has exactly the vocal range and control that you hear on the album, high pitched, soaring operatic vocal styling with clarity" 3) Gogol Bordello "On cd the Gogols are great, live they are a phenomenon" 4) The Damned "So we stay for the encores and miss the last train" 5) Dragonforce "It really is all about fretwank tonight" 6) Cotheria "Cotheria also draw the best response from the Faversham crowd" 7) JinZena "I would have told you a couple of song titles if drunk girl Robyn hadn't nicked my free cd." Worst Live Bands 2006 1) Trivium "Matt Heafy meanwhile grinds to a halt, tharn, rabbit in the headlights, lost the plot. " 2) Razorlight "After seeing this shower live I can't think of a single good thing to say about them" 3) The Voom Blooms "they sound pretty much like TheStrokesTheBraveryBlocPartyInterpolThePostalServiceTheKillersTheAutomaticBabyshambles with hints of SnowPatrolTestIciclesWeAreScientistsRazorlight."