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Billboard Notables & Top Indie Albums

Posted by Archive Bot on Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 10:25 AM

After missing last week's top albums (I was getting drunk, poolside in the Florida sun), here's this week's Billboard Top Albums custom fitted to our little genre and the top 25 independent albums.

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Stadium Arcadium. It's only a matter of time until I hate the Chili Peppers again after hearing them eight times an hour on the radio.
3. Tool -- 10,000 Days. One of the sickest, most insane live bands I've ever seen.
35. Taking Back Sunday -- Louder Now. Haven't heard this yet and while I liked their previous two albums, I'm in no rush to hear this one. Strange huh?
42. Panic At The Disco -- A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. I refuse to use the exclamation point after Panic.
56. All-American Rejects -- Move Along. I think all the punk-ish bands on the chart this week dropped spots. This one dropped 10.
76. Fall Out Boy -- From Under the Cork Tree. This one dropped 20 spots.
80. Thursday -- A City By The Light Divided. This one is down 60 spots. Ouch. What the fuck does that title mean anyway?


Top 25 Independent Albums
1. Little Big Town "The Road to Here"
2. Jason Aldean s/t
3. Hawthorne Heights "If Only You Were Lonely"
4. Rebel Meets Rebel s/t
5. Arctic Monkeys "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not"
6. Dane Cook "Retaliation"
7. Juanita Bynum "A Piece Of My Passion"
8. Atreyu "A Death Grip on Yesterday"
9. Mormon Tabernacle Choir "Then Sings My Soul"
10. Grandaddy "Just Like the Fambly Cat"
11. Gomez "How We Operate"
12. Lacuna Coil "Karmacode"
13. B.G. "The Heart Of Tha Streetz, Vol. 2 (I Am What I Am)"
14. Lewis Black "The Carnegie Hall Performance"
15. Various "Punk Goes '90s"
16. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony "Greatest Hits"
17. Soundtrack "Hoot"
18. The Stills "Without Feathers"
19. NOFX "Wolves In Wolves' Clothing"
20. Aaron Shust "Anything Worth Saying"
21. Sonya Kitchell "Words Came Back To Me"
22. Ying Yang Twins "U.S.A. Still United"
23. Drive By Truckers "A Blessing and A Curse"
24. Tiesto "In Search of Sunrise 5: Los Angeles"
25. The Streets "The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living"